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An aerosol-generating system may include a capsule and a releasably connectable vaporizer or vaporizing unit. The capsule comprises a distal end and defines a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol-generating substrate. The vaporizing unit comprises a housing and a heating element and a transfer element disposed in the housing. The heating element is configured to heat the transfer element to vaporize the aerosol-generating substrate. The housing of the vaporizing unit has a proximal end. A portion of the transfer element extends beyond the proximal end of the housing. The vaporizing unit is configured such that the transfer element is the initial part of the vaporizing unit to penetrate into the reservoir of the capsule as the distal end of the capsule is moved towards the proximal end of the vaporizing unit.

A process for the production of highly purified water 44 from Fischer-Tropsch reaction water 12 includes distillation 14 as a primary treatment stage, biological treatment including anaerobic digestion 20 and aerobic digestion 22 as a secondary treatment stage, solid-liquid separation 32 as a tertiary treatment stage and a dissolved salt and organic removal stage 40 as final treatment stage.

A process for the production of highly purified water 44 from Fischer-Tropsch reaction water 12 includes distillation 14 as a primary treatment stage, biological treatment including anaerobic digestion 20 and aerobic digestion 22 as a secondary treatment stage, solid-liquid separation 32 as a tertiary treatment stage and a dissolved salt and organic removal stage 40 as final treatment stage.

The compressor comprises a valve plate, to be affixed to a compressor block, and a suction valve (V) formed by a spacer body, having a median opening and a flexible vane, which has a fixing end portion provided with a contour, symmetrical or asymmetrical, in relation to a longitudinal axis (X) of the flexible vane and which presents peripheral edge portions to be seated against respective inner edge portions of the median opening for restricting coplanar, linear and angular displacements of the flexible vane in relation to the spacer body upon seating the flexible vane against the valve plate, in the interior of the median opening.

A process for the production of purified water from Fischer-Tropsch reaction water wherein the purified water is an aqueous stream having a COD of between 20 and 500 mg / l, a pH of between 6.0 and 9.0, a suspended solids content of less than 250 mg / l and a total dissolved solids content of less than 600 mg / l, and wherein the process includes at least the steps of a primary treatment stage comprising an equilibrium staged separation process having at least one stage for removing at least a fraction of non-acid oxygenated hydrocarbons from the Fischer-Tropsch reaction water to produce a primary water enriched stream, a secondary treatment stage comprising liquid-liquid extraction for removing at least a fraction of organic acids from at least a portion of the primary water enriched stream to produce a secondary water enriched stream, a tertiary treatment stage comprising biological treatment for removing at least a fraction of acidic oxygenated hydrocarbons from at least a portion of the secondary water enriched stream to produce a tertiary water enriched stream and a quartic treatment stage comprising solid-liquid separation for removing at least some solids from at least a portion of the tertiary water enriched stream.

The present invention relates to a container-type system booth for an indoor / outdoor exhibition or event. According to the container-type system booth of the present invention, facilities used for exhibitions or various events are installed in an event module consisting of a single unit. Then, the event module unit may be installed at a desired place to reduce installation costs and time in installing facilities, and simplify the installation work processes. The event module consisting of a single unit may be produced in the form of various system booths such as a stage system booth, a radial system booth, a blooming system booth, a cubic system booth, a stack system booth, a parallel system booth, and a pinwheel system booth as the exhibition or event progresses. Thus, various stages for exhibitions or events may be optimally created.

The vapor chamber includes a casing, wick structure, working fluid and filling / degassing tube. The casing is composed of two plates and has a chamber therein. The wick structure and working fluid are disposed in the chamber. The filling / degassing tube is connected with the casing to form a passage communicating with the chamber. A portion of the plates which overlaps the filling / degassing tube is pressed to deform for making the passage closed. And the outer end of the filling / degassing tube is flush with the side of the casing.

A microfluidic cartridge for isolating biological molecules having a capture chamber containing functionalized solid supports maintained in a fluidized state provides reduced pressure drops and bubble formation during microfluidic extraction. The cartridge may include an electric field lysis chamber and / or a chemical lysis chamber. The electric-field lysis chamber may comprise an electrically insulating structure arranged between two opposing planar electrodes.

A distributed architecture system for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals includes a receiving unit receiving a plurality of RF signals. The receiving unit includes means for combining the plurality of RF signals into a multiplexed signal. A head unit receives and separates the multiplexed signal into a plurality of information signals. The head unit prepares the information signals for presentation to a user. The head unit is disposed remotely from the receiving unit. A multiplexed link carries the multiplexed signal from the receiving unit to the head unit.

The invention relates to a quality control process for an adhesive joint of two sub-components of a structure comprising the following steps: a) Providing the structure of composite material to be controlled; b) Providing at least one premanufactured testing device (1) representative of one of the sub-components of the structure; c) Bonding said at least one premanufactured testing device (1) to the other sub-component (7) of the structure in conditions similar to those of the real adhesive joint of said sub-components; d) Carrying out at least one mechanical test on said at least one premanufactured testing device (1) which allows assessing the quality of said adhesive joint.

A blow molding device for a rotary bottle blowing machine includes: a support base including a power-input shaft and a mold-insert control shaft which are pivotally disposed on the support base and extend along an axial direction; a drive source for driving the power-input shaft and the mold-insert control shaft to rotate; and a mold assembly with a first and second movable mold inserts pivotally disposed on the support base. The mold assembly makes the first and second movable mold inserts pivot toward or away from each other, rotation of the power-input shaft makes a bottom mold unit move in the axial direction, and can lock the first and second movable mold inserts. A method for using the blow molding device includes steps of mold opening or closing, mold lifting, and mold locking, and these steps are performed by using a single drive source.

A stand-alone platform and a method for the multi-dimensional rendering, display, manipulation, and analysis of full high resolution volumetric data sets. The systems and methods provide the ability to volumetrically render images with extremely high resolution in applications such as medical imaging procedures, digital microscopy such as in use of a confocal microscope, and other areas where extremely large data sets are produced from the imaging process. Certain embodiments of the system and methods produce left and right eye images of the rendered data, for viewing in parallax via a synchronized headset, and the ability to manipulate the data and display of image data easily and in real time.

A hydraulic vehicle seat adjustment system for providing positional adjustment of at least two seat adjustments of a vehicle seat. The system comprises a common source of hydraulic fluid, and a control unit which selectively controls and directs hydraulic fluid from the common source of hydraulic fluid to respective first and second actuators to adjust the respective different seat adjustments, for example fore and aft position of the seat, and seat back angle. The system may further also comprise a seat position determining unit connected to the control unit and to a common fluid flow sensor to determine the flow of hydraulic fluid from the common source of hydraulic fluid to the respective first and second actuators and to thereby determine the adjusted position of the respective actuators and so of the respective seat adjustment.

The invention provides systems, methods and a node accessing and anchoring device, comprising an elongated shaft, a tissue cutting member, at least one anchoring element extending from a position at or near the distal end of the shaft; and a radiation detector. The radiation detector is effective to locate and identify sentinel lymph nodes following injection of radioactive material into a primary lesion site within a patient. The tissue cutting member, which may be activated with radio frequency energy, is effective to allow access of the elongated shaft to a sentinel lymph node. The anchoring elements are effective to anchor the device to or adjacent a sentinel lymph node accessed by the device. Anchoring elements may assume radially, longitudinally, or mixed radially and longitudinally curved or coiled configurations when deployed.

A rotary valve is provided with an elliptical valve disc that seats against a seal element operatively mounted in an elliptically shaped depression formed in the rigid annular portion of a seal cartridge structure carried by the valve body. Due to the elliptical shapes of the disc and corresponding seating structure, and a conical configuration of the disc periphery, sealing of the valve disc, the integrity of the seal, and the ability of the seal to completely stop the flow of fluid through the valve body are desirably improved. The centering of valve disc relative to the seal cartridge is facilitated by a specially designed disc mounting structure that eliminates any necessity of adjusting the disc along its rotational axis, and a one-piece actuator bracket is removably mounted to the valve body to substantially simplify and reduce the expense of operatively associating an actuator with the valve.

An aerosol-generating system may comprise a releasably connectable capsule and vaporizing unit. The capsule may comprise a reservoir for containing an aerosol-generating substrate, an opening in fluidic communication with the reservoir, and a valve configured to control a flow of the aerosol-generating substrate from the reservoir through the opening. The valve may comprise one or more resilient closing members biased towards a closed position. The vaporizing unit may comprise a transfer element and a heating element disposed in a housing. The heating element is configured to heat the aerosol-generating substrate in the transfer element. The vaporizing unit may also comprise an elongate element configured to engage with the valve to deflect the one or more resilient closing members from the closed position to an open position so as place the transfer element in fluidic connection with the reservoir when the capsule is connected to the vaporizing unit.

The invention relates to a flush-mounted flashing light for approach guidance of aircraft, having a housing which has a housing pot (10) which can be inserted below ground level (F) and a housing cover (12) which covers this approximately at ground level (F) and having an optical system, which is arranged in the housing for controlled production and directed emission of light flashes, which comprises a light source (20) for production of light flashes and a prism (40) for varying the direction of the beam direction of the light flashes, with at least one light outlet opening (13) being provided in the housing cover (12) for light flashes to emerge from in a predetermined emission direction. The external dimensions as well as the total weight of the flashing light can be reduced considerably because the light source (20) is elongated and designed to emit a light over a length (L) of less than 100 mm, and because a lens (42) for focusing the light which is emitted from the light source (20) is arranged on a light inlet surface (41) of the prism (40).

A modular center plate for a cover that bridges the expansion gap and is supported by frame members of an expansion joint cover is made up of a plurality of formed members, each formed member being rectangular in plan and of uniform cross-section along an axis and having side edges parallel to the axis. The formed members are arranged with their side edges adjacent each other and with their ends overlying the support surfaces of the frame members of the expansion joint cover. End frame members are attached to the end edges of the formed members.

A microfluidic cartridge for isolating biological molecules having a capture chamber containing functionalized solid supports maintained in a fluidized state provides reduced pressure drops and bubble formation during microfluidic extraction. The cartridge may include an electric field lysis chamber and / or a chemical lysis chamber. The electric-field lysis chamber may comprise an electrically insulating structure arranged between two opposing planar electrodes.

The invention relates to a flush-mounted flashing light for approach guidance of aircraft, having a housing which has a housing pot (10) which can be inserted below ground level (F) and a housing cover (12) which covers this approximately at ground level (F) and having an optical system, which is arranged in the housing for controlled production and directed emission of light flashes, which comprises a light source (20) for production of light flashes and a prism (40) for varying the direction of the beam direction of the light flashes, with at least one light outlet opening (13) being provided in the housing cover (12) for light flashes to emerge from in a predetermined emission direction. The external dimensions as well as the total weight of the flashing light can be reduced considerably because the light source (20) is elongated and designed to emit a light over a length (L) of less than 100 mm, and because a lens (42) for focusing the light which is emitted from the light source (20) is arranged on a light inlet surface (41) of the prism (40).

Using fabrication-time variation predicting means that predicts this fact, the variation is predicted beforehand at the design stage prior to fabrication and is stored in variation prediction storage means. Rather than measuring a delay, testing an operation is performed (by a pass / fail determination) by actual-speed logic operation testing means for checking, after fabrication, whether a flip-flop (FF) operates at a specified operation frequency. As a result, the variation is estimated using the non-operation flip-flop (FF) information and the predicted value of the variation from the fabrication-time variation predicting means, and a delay value which corrects for the variation is inserted into a fabricated semiconductor integrated circuit by post-fabrication delay insertion position / value determining means using the variation value that has been estimated.

A system and method for providing cost estimation in performing a work project on communications infrastructure may include accessing a first data record generated by a first software tool, where the first data record includes data that specifies a work project on communications infrastructure. A second data record utilized by a second software tool may be populated utilizing the data of the first data record. A data set that is related to a combination of a first data element and a second data element of the first data record may be accessed. Using the second software tool, the data set may be presented to a user in a selectable format to enable the user to select a third data element from the presented data set, where the third data element may be used to estimate a cost for performing the work project. A cost estimate based on the third data element may be generated and presented to the user using the second software tool.

The optical branching-coupling device having a self-written optical waveguide core is formed without using half mirrors. In the optical branching-coupling device, three POFs are inserted into a housing having an approximately D-shaped sidewall. An approximately semi-columnar region V in the housing was filled with an uncured liquid light-curing acrylic resin. A laser beam was introduced from one of the POFs, and a cured material was formed of the end face of the POF. The diameter was equal to the core diameter of the POF. The cured material grew, resulting in the cured material reaching the end face of another one of the POFs, thereby forming an optical waveguide core. Next, a laser beam was introduced from the end face of the last one of the POFs. The cured material grew, resulting in a connection with the optical waveguide core, thereby forming the optical waveguide core.

The invention relates to a quality control process for an adhesive joint of two sub-components of a structure comprising the following steps: a) Providing the structure of composite material to be controlled; b) Providing at least one premanufactured testing device (1) representative of one of the sub-components of the structure; c) Bonding the at least one premanufactured testing device (1) to the other sub-component (7) of the structure in conditions similar to those of the real adhesive joint of the sub-components; d) Carrying out at least one mechanical test on the at least one premanufactured testing device (1) which allows assessing the quality of the adhesive joint.

Remotely-controlled system for the in-situ treatment of infectious healthcare waste produced by small waste producers, comprising:infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment devices intended to be installed at small-medium waste producers' premises to collect and treat infectious healthcare waste and designed to be compliant with use in venues intended for residential purposes, practicing a profession or providing a service, such as domestic venues, offices, medical, dental and veterinary practices, clinics, or the like, anda remote control centre in communication with the infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment devices via a long-range communication system;each infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment device comprises:a sensory system to monitor operation of the infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment device; andan electronic control unit connected to the sensory system and in communication with the remote control centre to transmit thereto data indicating operation of the infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment device and to receive therefrom and execute commands relating to operation of the infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment device;the remote control centre is configured to receive and process data from the infectious healthcare waste collection and treatment devices and to monitor, control and report on the operation thereof based on the specific applications and / or users' needs.

The compressor comprises a valve plate, to be affixed to a compressor block, and a suction valve (V) formed by a spacer body, having a median opening and a flexible vane, which has a fixing end portion provided with a contour, symmetrical or asymmetrical, in relation to a longitudinal axis (X) of the flexible vane and which presents peripheral edge portions to be seated against respective inner edge portions of the median opening for restricting coplanar, linear and angular displacements of the flexible vane in relation to the spacer body upon seating the flexible vane against the valve plate, in the interior of the median opening.