Abstract: A seat usage prevention device is disclosed. The seat usage prevention deice includes at least one device component being configured to interact with one or more seat components of a first seat. The device component is configured to prevent usage of at least one of a seat pan or seatback of the first seat. The device component further separates a second seat from at least a third seat, wherein the third seat is proximate to at least one of the first seat or the second seat. The seat usage prevention device may include a device component that further includes a cushion, a base, an amenity console, or a vertical separator, or combination thereof.

Abstract: This relates to an aqueous dispersion comprising mustard bran and water in which a high pressure homogenisation treatment has been applied to alter the sugar moiety ratio of the mustard bran particles. Thus mustard bran is in the form of particles. This aqueous dispersion can be used to structure an emulsion.

Abstract: A method for controlling a touchless lavatory is disclosed herein. The method includes forming one or more groups of sensors from a plurality of sensors, determining that a trigger event is detected from the first sensor, and identifying a first group of sensors of the one or more groups of sensors to which the first sensor belongs. The method further includes requesting an ambient light measurement from each of the plurality of sensor. The method further includes computing an average ambient light value based on the ambient light measurement, comparing the ambient light measurement of the first sensor to the average ambient light value of all the sensors, determining that the ambient light measurement of the first sensor is less than the average ambient light value of all the sensors, and determining that the first sensor trigger event is valid.

Abstract: An aircraft cabin equipment system is provided. The aircraft cabin equipment system comprises a light fitting for illuminating an aircraft cabin by emitting visible light. The light fitting is configured to broadcast a time signal by modulating an intensity of the emitted visible light. The aircraft cabin equipment system comprises an aircraft cabin device configured to detect visible light emitted by the light fitting and to determine the time signal from the detected visible light.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for testing printed circuit boards. The system is configured to test the simultaneously test a multiplicity of printed circuit boards. The system examines the electrical characteristics of a printed circuit board and is operable to identify if a printed circuit board meets a desired characteristic.

Abstract: A packaged laundry product comprising packaging and perfume particles contained in said packaging; wherein the packaging comprises a cylindrical receptacle formed from a material comprising cellulosic fibres, wherein the receptacle comprises a mechanism for impeding a child's access to the container; and wherein the perfume particles comprise carrier material and perfume components.

Abstract: The current disclosure provides chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that bind a natural killer (NK) cell surface marker, resulting in destruction of the bound NK cell. The NK cell surface markers include an activating NK cell receptor, and an inhibitory NK cell receptor. Cells that are genetically modified to express these CARs and uses of the CAR modified cells are also described.

Abstract: An aircraft lavatory trash compactor is disclosed herein. The aircraft lavatory trash compactor includes a water source, a valve actuator connected to the water source, a trash can disposed below the valve actuator, and a controller configured to activate the valve actuator to spray water into the trash can.

Abstract: A passenger seat rear-mounted meal tray assembly with a low-profile inline latch includes a meal tray substantially contoured to the seatback surface and a latch pin assembly mounted within the meal tray beneath the seatback surface, the latch assembly including a latch pin for engaging with the seatback to hold the meal tray in the stowed configuration. The meal tray includes a handle likewise contoured to the exterior surface of the tray, the handle having an outer face articulable by a passenger to pivot the handle and disengage the latch pin from the seatback. Disengaging the latch pin via the handle releases the meal tray by the handle into the hand of the passenger, who may manually pivot the tray into a substantially horizontal deployed configuration. The meal tray may similarly be restowed to the seatback (e.g., by pushing the tray back into stowed position) without engaging the handle.

Abstract: A method for controlling a touchless lavatory is disclosed herein. The method includes collecting, by a processor, sensor data from a sensor, the sensor data including an ambient light measurement and an indication of motion, aggregating, by the processor, the collected sensor data for a time window, extracting, by the processor, features from the aggregated sensor data, and determining, by the processor, a probability of an activity occurring based on the extracted features. The method further includes activating, by the processor, a motor based on the determining that the activity has a high probability of occurring.

Abstract: An evacuation guidance system may comprise a plurality of floor guidance lights, a plurality of seat guidance lights, a plurality of exit signs, and a controller in communication with the plurality of floor guidance lights, the plurality of seat guidance lights, and the plurality of exit signs. The plurality of floor guidance lights may include a plurality of fore-aft floor lights and a plurality of port-starboard floor lights. The controller may be configured to determine a closest exit door to each floor guidance light, each seat guidance light, and each exit sign. The controller may command each floor guidance light, each seat guidance light, and each exit sign to indicate a direction of the closest exit door.

Abstract: A system may include a heating element configured to heat a fluid, the fluid configured to heat a food or drink product. The system may include one or more fluid temperature monitoring components configured to monitor a temperature of the fluid while the fluid is heated by the heating element and configured to control the fluid temperature by controlling the heating element. The system may include one or more control units configured to control operation of an aircraft galley insert via one or more control signals. The system may include one or more heating element temperature rise slope limiters configured to maintain a heating temperature rise speed below a select heating temperature rise speed limit. The system may include one or more heating element temperature monitoring components configured to provide information of a heating element temperature to the one or more heating element temperature rise slope limiters.

Abstract: A lifting devices can include a tube with a first slot and a second slot. The devices also include an insert with a first insert projection connected to a second insert projection by a central portion. The first insert projection extends through the first slot and the second insert projection extends through the second slot. A first plate and a second plate are each connected to the central portion of the insert. The lifting devices can be used in a method of lifting a tanker truck or other structures.

Abstract: A direct fixation fastener comprising: a top plate; a bottom plate made of metal structural channel providing two spaced-apart side walls, wherein the bottom plate has a first end and a second end and wherein each of the first and second ends terminate in a first flat edge section and a second flat edge section, respectively, without spaced-apart side walls; first and second angle bars, wherein the first angle bar is attached to the first flat edge section and the second angle bar is attached to the second flat edge section; and an elastomeric layer disposed between the top plate and the bottom plate, between the top plate and angle bars and between the angle bars and the spaced-apart side walls.

Abstract: A packaged laundry product comprising packaging and perfume particles contained in said packaging, wherein the packaging comprises: a) receptacle formed from a material comprising cellulosic fibres; and b) 1 to 5 wt. % of the packaging a perfume barrier layer; wherein the perfume particles comprise: i) carrier material; and ii) perfume components.

Abstract: A pellicle membrane for use in a lithographic apparatus, the pellicle membrane characterized by in plane variation in composition is described. A method of manufacturing a pellicle membrane, the method including: providing a first material layer on a sacrificial layer on a substrate; providing a photoresist layer on the first material layer; patterning the photoresist layer; etching the first material layer to form a patterned surface; and either i) depositing a layer of a second material on the patterned surface and subsequently lifting off the portion of the second material deposited on the patterned photoresist layer, or ii) removing the remaining photoresist layer, depositing a layer of a second material on the patterned surface, and subsequently planarizing the surface.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of antiperspirant compositions, in particular, compositions comprising antiperspirant actives. Disclosed is an aqueous antiperspirant composition comprising: (i) nanocrystalline cellulose with a length from 1 run to 300 nm and a diameter from 1 nm to 20 nm; and (ii) a cosmetically acceptable carrier, wherein the ionic strength of the composition is lower than 0.016; wherein said composition is not a pickering emulsion; wherein surface of said nanocrystalline cellulose comprises hydroxyl and sulfate groups, wherein said composition comprises from 1 to 20 wt % of said nanocrystalline cellulose based on total weight of the composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care composition for protection of skin against undesirable bacteria. The present invention is especially useful in formulating compositions which ensure growth of skin commensal bacteria like S. epidermidis while inhibiting growth of harmful bacteria like E. coli, S. aureus among others. The present invention which comprises a mixture of very select amino acids thus provides for microbiome balancing on the skin.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a naturally derived surfactant system and an end use composition comprising the surfactant system. The naturally derived surfactant system comprises an anionic and nonionic surfactant that is stable in an end use composition having a pH from 4.8 to 6.5. Such end use compositions are mild, have excellent lathering characteristics, and do not require glycinates, polyglycosides, betaines, sultaines and sulfates.