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An electrically-driven mobile body which can be given a boosting charge with electric power supplied by a single power supply apparatus together with other electrically-driven mobile bodies having different charging conditions and which can cool a charging system thereof without any coolant from the outside, as well as a boosting charge method for an electrically-driven mobile body for the same purpose.An electrically-driven mobile body (50) which includes a power storing means (85) storing DC power supplied by an external power supply apparatus (10) and is driven with DC power stored in the power storing means (85), includes: a charge controlling means (80) for controlling DC power supplied by the power supply apparatus (10) in such a way that the DC power has a voltage and an electric current suitable for giving the power storing means (85) a boosting charge; and a cooling means (60) for cooling a charging system of the power storing means (85) forcedly with DC power supplied by the power supply apparatus (10).

A travelling cable of an elevator, more particularly of a passenger transport elevator and / or freight transport elevator, includes a protective envelope, conductors for transmitting electrical energy and data between the elevator car and the elevator hoistway, and one or more load-bearing bearer parts of essentially the length of the travelling cable for fixing the travelling cable at its first end to the elevator car and at its second end to the elevator hoistway, and which bearer part includes glass-fiber reinforcements and / or aramid-fiber reinforcements and / or carbon-fiber reinforcements and / or polybenzoxazole-fiber reinforcements and / or polyethylene-fiber reinforcements and / or nylon-fiber reinforcements in a polymer matrix material. An elevator includes the travelling cable.

The invention relates to a rolling bearing arrangement for an electromotor having a rotationally symmetrical rotor arranged rotatably inside a stator, there being provided for rotationally bearing the rotor. At least one standard rolling bearing that has an outer race which is arranged in a bearing seat in a fixed position relative to the stator and which cooperates via a rolling body arrangement with an inner race arranged on a shaft of the rotor. The bearing seat is lined with an insulation arrangement in order to avoid a flow of current between stator and rotor, the insulation arrangement having a thin, sheet-type semifinished product having insulation material resistant to the radial pressure force of the bearing.

In an AC / DC converter including an autotransformer having a primary winding connected to an AC power supply network and two secondary windings connected to two rectifier circuits operating in parallel to deliver a DC voltage to a load, the two same-polarity outputs of the two rectifier circuits being connected to respective first ends of a first coil and of a second coil whose second ends are connected together to form a first output of the converter, and the two outputs of the two rectifier circuits having the same other polarity being connected respectively to the first ends of a third coil and of a fourth coil whose second ends are connected together to form a second output of the converter, provision is made for the first, second, third, and fourth coils are wound on a common magnetic core. The invention is applicable to converters for use on board aircraft.

A mold form fryer utilizing a top conveyor that transports snack pieces through a constant velocity oil stream without the need of a bottom mating mold or conveyor. Herein, the form fryer is provided with a top conveyor disposed above a fryer oil pan positioned longitudinally through the fryer. Uncooked snack pieces are provided to the fryer oil pan by a bottom entrance conveyor. Snack pieces, once in oil within the fryer, meet with molding surfaces on the top conveyor. At the exit portion of the fryer, a bottom exit conveyor receives the cooked snack pieces from the top conveyor. As no continuous bottom conveyor is utilized, the fryer oil pan may be provided with a reduced volume segment situated between the bottom entrance and exit conveyors. Additionally, the molding surfaces may be selected to produce uniformly shaped snack pieces that are either convexly or concavely shaped when viewed upon the bottom exit conveyor.

An adapter for use in mounting a cutting tooth onto a mounting block. The adapter has two opposed sides with a first groove on one side for receiving a leading portion of the mounting block and a second groove on the other side opposite the one side for receiving a portion of the cutting tooth. The first and second grooves are aligned. The adapter has a fastening hole there through in the grooves, the hole transverse to the sides of the adapter. The fastening hole is used in fastening the tooth to the mounting block with the adapter sandwiched between the tooth and mounting block.

A mold form fryer utilizing a top conveyor that transports snack pieces through a constant velocity oil stream without the need of a bottom mating mold or conveyor. Herein, the form fryer is provided with a top conveyor disposed above a fryer oil pan positioned longitudinally through the fryer. Uncooked snack pieces are provided to the fryer oil pan by a bottom entrance conveyor. Snack pieces, once in oil within the fryer, meet with a top conveyor having convex molding surfaces with product-centering elements. At the exit portion of the fryer, a bottom exit conveyor receives the cooked snack pieces from the top conveyor. As no continuous bottom conveyor is utilized, the fryer oil pan may be provided with a reduced volume segment situated between the bottom entrance and exit conveyors.

A control system for a wind turbine is provided. The control system includes a local terminal for locally generating wind turbine control commands, a control arrangement for generating control signals for the wind turbine on the basis of wind turbine control commands, and a switching arrangement for switching between a remote mode of operation over a main communication network, and a local mode of operation over a local communication network between the local terminal and the control arrangement such that a message passed between the local terminal and the control arrangement does not travel beyond the local communication network in the wind turbine. A method of locally controlling a wind turbine, and a wind park including a number of wind turbines, wherein each wind turbine comprises such a control system are also provided.

Elevator, which comprises at least an elevator car and means for moving the elevator car, preferably along guide rails, and an overspeed governor arrangement, which comprises an overspeed governor rope, which moves according to the movement of the elevator car, and which overspeed governor rope is connected to a brake arrangement that is in connection with the elevator car such that with the overspeed governor rope force can be transmitted to the brake arrangement for shifting the brake comprised in the brake arrangement into a braking position. The rope comprises a power transmission part or a plurality of power transmission parts, for transmitting force in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which power transmission part is essentially fully of non-metallic material.

A method of mixing at least two chemicals or additives into a process liquid flow flowing in a process liquid flow duct including: feeding a liquid jet to the process liquid flow in the process liquid flow duct, wherein the liquid jet is formed in a feeding device and the liquid jet flows in a transverse direction to a flow direction of the process liquid flow through the process liquid flow duct; mixing the at least two chemicals or additives together to form a mixture; feeding the mixture of the at least two chemicals or additives into the process liquid flow duct with the feeding liquid jet, and mixing the at least two chemicals or additives with the feeding liquid jet in the process liquid flow duct.

The invention relates to a device and to a method for promoting the growth of plants (8), comprising a conveyor belt (2) which can be moved along a conveyor path (1) for transporting, at least in sections, plants (8) which are at least temporarily supplied with nutrients by a nutrient supply (9) and illuminated by an illumination unit (10) during movement along the conveyor path (1). The conveyor path (1) is at least approximately horizontal in at least one first section (7), and is at least approximately vertical in at least one second section (6). The technical solution described is characterized in that the plants (8) are at least temporarily fixed relative to the conveyor belt (2) during transport along the conveyor path (1) such that at least parts of roots of the plants (8) protrude into a region (19) located below a lower surface of the conveyor belt (2), while at least parts of leaves and / or fruits of the plants (8) protrude into a region (20) located above an upper surface of the conveyor belt which opposes the lower surface. As a result of the use of modularly constructed conveyor belt ribbons, growing periods of an arbitrary length are adjusted or an adapted required space of the plant assembly is ensured.

A mold form fryer utilizing a top conveyor that transports snack pieces through a constant velocity oil stream without the need of a bottom mating mold or conveyor. Herein, the form fryer is provided with a top conveyor disposed above a fryer oil pan positioned longitudinally through the fryer. Uncooked snack pieces are provided to the fryer oil pan by a bottom entrance conveyor. Snack pieces, once in oil within the fryer, meet with a top conveyor having convex molding surfaces with product-centering elements. At the exit portion of the fryer, a bottom exit conveyor receives the cooked snack pieces from the top conveyor. As no continuous bottom conveyor is utilized, the fryer oil pan may be provided with a reduced volume segment situated between the bottom entrance and exit conveyors.

A method of moulding a wind turbine blade in a mould is provided. The method includes applying a film to an inside surface of a mould, assembling component layers for the wind turbine blade on the film, performing curing to harden the component layers, and subsequently removing the cured wind turbine blade from the mould. Also provided is a film suitable for use in a wind turbine blade moulding process and a mould suitable for moulding a wind turbine blade.

A hand-operated piston pump includes a drive shaft and a rotor mounted in a housing case, the rotor having axial compression chambers, a piston biased by an elastic member sliding in each compression chamber and having a projecting end that engages a cam track; a fluid reservoir in the housing case; a valve plate downstream of the rotor having conduits for a pressurized fluid that communicate with conduits in walls of the compression chambers, the valve plate being non-rotatably mounted below the housing case and communicating with conduits that carry the pressurized fluid to and from a consuming unit through an interposed check valve inserted in a corresponding valve body, the valve body having an upper flange with fluid supply and return channels communicating with the fluid conduits of the valve plate. The valve plate floats relative to the upper flange and is separated therefrom by a separating member.

Devices and methods for promoting the growth of plants, which transport the plants using a conveyor belt where roots of the plants protrude into a region located below a lower surface of the conveyor belt and at least parts of leaves and / or fruits of the plants protrude into a region located above an upper surface of the conveyor belt which opposes the lower surface. The conveyor path moves along a closed circular or oval path such that a deflection occurs in the region of an upper deflection point and in the region of a lower deflection point, which interconnect vertical sections.

A low loss cable system adapted for use as a cable landfall system. The cable system comprises a cable having a plurality of cores. Each core comprises a conductor, a first insulating layer, a second electrically conductive layer and a third layer. The cable comprises two sections, connected at a connection point CP. A first section of the cable is arranged to be exposed to a landfall area and a second section of the cable is arranged to be exposed to a submarine area. The cable is arranged such that circulating currents are prevented or reduced in the second conductive layers of the cable in the section exposed to the landfall area, thus assisting in maintaining the ampacity of the cable in this section without, or by reducing, the need to increase the cross sectional area of the cable in the landfall area. This is accomplished by electrically connecting the second conductive layers of the cores to each other at the connection point. At a distal end of the first section of the cable, the second layers are arranged to leave an open ended termination, thus avoiding a closed circuit that would otherwise create circulating currents in the second layers of the first section, thus maintaining ampacity.

Spray arrangement and method for operating a spray arrangement The invention relates to a spray arrangement having at least one return flow nozzle for injecting liquid into a process environment, having a storage tank for the liquid to be injected, at least one return flow nozzle, at least one feed line from the storage tank to the at least one return flow nozzle, at least one pump in the feed line, at least one return line from the return flow nozzle to the storage tank and at least one regulating valve for regulating a liquid quantity injected by the at least one return flow nozzle, wherein at least one further nozzle is provided, which is connected to the feed line by means of a controllable valve for enabling and shutting off a liquid feed.

Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a purified fusion protein comprising all or part of F1 antigen of Yersinia pestis fused to the amino terminus of all of V antigen of Yersinia pestis, Yersinia enterocolitica, or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis that is isolated from its expression vector.

A low loss cable system adapted for use as a cable landfall system. The cable system comprises a cable having a plurality of cores. Each core comprises a conductor, a first insulating layer, a second electrically conductive layer and a third layer. The cable comprises two sections, connected at a connection point CP. A first section of the cable is arranged to be exposed to a landfall area and a second section of the cable is arranged to be exposed to a submarine area. The cable is arranged such that circulating currents are prevented or reduced in the second conductive layers of the cable in the section exposed to the landfall area, thus assisting in maintaining the ampacity of the cable in this section without, or by reducing, the need to increase the cross sectional area of the cable in the landfall area. This is accomplished by electrically connecting the second conductive layers of the cores to each other at the connection point. At a distal end of the first section of the cable, the second layers are arranged to leave an open ended termination, thus avoiding a closed circuit that would otherwise create circulating currents in the second layers of the first section, thus maintaining ampacity.

Temporary sizing agent for natural and / or artificial individualized textile fibers comprises a water-soluble homopolymer or copolymer of at least one acrylamide monomer having a molecular weight not less than one million, advantageously more than three millions.

A system is provided herein for supporting a lid for a pool cover box that includes (a) an elongated mounting element extending along substantially at least one wall of the pool cover box, and (b) a plurality of bracket assemblies, each adapted for connecting to the mounting element at multiple positions along the mounting element to support the lid.

The invention relates to a method and arrangement for placing end shields on the ends of paper, pulp, or board reels (1) in connection with packing. The arrangement comprises at least one first conveyor (1) for transporting the reels (3) in a direction parallel to their axes and at least one station (4) for placing at least one inner end shield on the end of a reel (5). Next to the first conveyor (1) there are elements (8, 9) for placing an inner end shield and after the station there are elements (1) for changing the direction of the axis of the reel (5), relative to the first direction of travel, after the placing of the inner end shields, and elements for placing at least one outer end shield on the end of the reel. Further, the arrangement comprises elements (11) for making the direction of travel of the reel to deviate from the first direction of travel prior to the placing of the outer end shield, and end-shield collection stations, which are located within the operating area of one element placing the end shields, so that this element can transfer both inner and outer end shields for placing.