Abstract: A curtain wall structure that can provide a continuous sealing plane through the use of a dual density gasket and that offers improved sealing and thermal insulation properties. The curtain wall structure also provides a structural reinforcement element assembly that is integrated into a mullion of the curtain wall structure to provide a better load bearing capacity. A curtain wall water drainage cross element assembly is also provided to prevent water from flowing vertically inside the curtain wall system. An expansion joint assembly is also provided and designed as two movable parts allowing provides a sound free vertical displacement of components by means of no direct metal to metal contact between sliding parts.

Abstract: An adjustable mounting system for mounting solar panels on roofs is disclosed. The system allows a user to mount the solar panels either with or without rails. The mounting assemblies are adjustable to allow the user to mount a base plate in a chosen location (either on a roof joist or other structural member or not) and to adjust the mounting location for the panel in as many as three axis of adjustment from the location of the base plate. A system for mounting and grounding the panels at the same time is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods of placing real-world wagers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through location-based reveals to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user location even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers. The system may associate certain locations with a reveal such that when a user enters, is determined to be at, and/or leaves a reveal location, a reveal opportunity may be presented to the user. For example, the system may invite the user to make a purchase at a nearby partner retailer for a chance to win a payout or be guaranteed to win a payout and/or may simply obtain a particular payout (e.g., via cash, item, etc.) when a user enters a particular location.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fast charging method, a power adapter, and a mobile terminal. The method includes: transmitting, by the power adapter, clock signal to the mobile terminal via a first data line of the USB interface during a process of that the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal, wherein the clock signal is used for indicating a communication sequence between the power adapter and the mobile terminal; conducting, by the power adapter, a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the fast charging mode; and adjusting, by the power adapter, charging current to the charging current corresponding to the fast charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A method for determining color characteristics reflected by an interference filter, a method for depositing such an interference filter, and an assembly of an interference filter and an object, the method including: determining color coordinates of an object; and determining at least one color characteristic reflected by the interference filter according to the determined color coordinates, respecting an isoperception law.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-human Notch4 antibody or a Notch4 binding fragment thereof that may have neutralizing activity against human Notch4, as well as a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same as the active ingredient. The present inventors obtained a mouse anti-human Notch4 antibody that has high neutralizing activity and binding affinity towards human Notch4 and determined the complementarity determining region (CDR) sequence of said mouse anti-human Notch4 antibody. This enabled the production of a humanized antibody comprising the variable region of heavy and light chains as well as the CDR sequence of said mouse anti-human Notch4 antibody.

Abstract: The present invention relates to axial flow chromatography columns, methods for separating one or more analytes in a liquid by the use of such columns, and systems employing such columns. The column comprises a first port and a second port, the first port and said second port being at essentially the same level or elevation above the level of the bed space on the chromatography column.

Abstract: A tube pump and a fluid delivery method, the tube pump including a plurality of pressing portions and a tube that delivers fluid. The pressing portions is spaced apart from each other in a rotational direction and provided for a rotation body turned by a drive unit and the tube is provided on an outer circumferential side of the rotation body. The tube pump includes a control unit that turns the rotation body opposite to a delivery direction until the rotation body reaches a predetermined angle so as to restore an area of the tube, pressed by the pressing portion on a most upstream side in the delivery direction, by an increase in pressure within the tube accompanied with a movement opposite to the delivery direction of the pressing portion adjacent to a downstream side in the delivery direction.

Abstract: An air treatment apparatus and method are disclosed in the present invention, wherein, at least one air treatment unit is included. The unit comprises air inlet, air outlet, air treatment devices and connecting components. The air treatment device is located between the air inlet and the air outlet. The air treatment device comprises at least one of the following components: component for air purification and filtering, blow-through fan, draw-through fan, pump, component for heating, component for dehumidifying, component for humidifying, component for air-cooling. The air treatment unit can be used alone for improving the air quality of the environment. When more than one unit are connected together with the connecting components, the units are teamed up and work together, and an air treatment system is formed.

Abstract: An optical lens includes: (i) a temporary coating for protection against degradation at least partially covering a surface of the lens, the temporary protective coating including an outermost layer mechanically degradable through friction and/or contact, and (ii) a removable film having a first side and a second side, which adheres to the outermost layer of the temporary protective coating through its first side, the first side of the removable film including at least one surface portion, which, when applied to the outermost layer of the temporary protective coating, includes at least one adherent zone and at least one non-adherent zone distributed across the surface portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for supporting a pair of wiper blades (12, 26; 13, 27), comprising first and second supporting grooves (14, 28), each of which is provided with a means for retaining at least one laterally extending structural element (22; 54) of two respective blades (12, 26; 13, 27) by resilient nesting. According to the invention, the supporting grooves (14, 28) are arranged side by side with a common wall, the supporting grooves having two respective openings leading into parallel and offset planes (R1, R2), the second supporting groove (28) being arranged above the first supporting groove (14) and having a substantially flared shape, wherein said openings belong to a single side of the supporting device. The present invention also relates to a supporting assembly comprising a plurality of supporting devices, and to a corresponding mounting method.

Abstract: As a weighing device which can not only make water and dust less likely to reach the sensor unit, but also simply discharge water having reached that position if any, and which further can improve the maintenance workability of water-washing of the sensor unit, an electronic balance includes a weighing pan, a load cell that measures a load of a measuring object placed on the weighing pan, and a scale main body case that supports the load cell. The load cell is disposed outside and over the scale main body case, a cylindrical transparent cover that covers the whole side face of the load cell is integrally provided for the weighing pan, and the lower end of the transparent cover is disposed with a clearance over an upper face of the scale main body case.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are A2B receptor antagonists: Wherein R1 is optionally substituted aryl or an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring; R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl-(C1-C6)-alkyl, aryl-(C1-C6)-alkyl optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, a 5- or 6-membered monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally linked via a C1-C6 alkylene chain and optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, benzimidazol-2-yl-methyl, pyrid-3-yl-carbonyl, or (1-methyl-piperidin-4-yl)-carbonyl-methyl; or R2 and R3 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered ring; R4 is C1-C3 alkyl, C2-C3 alkenyl, —(—R5)—R6, or optionally substituted heteroarylmethylamino; and R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl; or R5 and R6 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 4- to 6-membered saturated ring

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of treating pain comprising the administering the following 1-indansulfamide compounds: N-[(1S)-2,2,5,7-tetrafluoro-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl]sulfamide, (?)-N-(7-chloro-2,2,5-trifluoro-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)sulfamide, N-[(1S)-2,2-difluoro-7-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl]sulfamide, and N-[(1S)-2,2,5-trifluoro-7-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl]sulfamide.

Abstract: According to one aspect, the invention relates to a frequency conversion cell (10) comprising: a birefringent nonlinear crystal (12) characterized by a first phase-matching wavelength, having an input face (121A) for receiving at least one incident beam, an output face (121B) for emitting at least one frequency-converted beam, and at least two parallel faces (120A, 120B) different from the input and output faces; means (14, 14A) for applying an external mechanical force to at least one of said parallel faces (120A), called a force application face, resulting in a variation in the birefringence of the nonlinear crystal, the value of the applied external mechanical force being determined so as to obtain phase matching in the nonlinear crystal at a second phase-matching wavelength different from the first phase-matching wavelength.

Abstract: The invention relates methods for detecting antibody-secreting B-cells specific for at least an HLA in a subject. The invention also relates to kits for developing said methods and to the use of said methods for determining the risk of a subject having humoral rejection against an allogeneic transplant, for determining the risk of a subject of suffering endarteritis associated with post-transplant humoral rejection after allogeneic organ or tissue transplant, for selecting a subject to receive a transplant, and for determining the presence of humoral sensitization against HLA.

Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: where R1, R2, R3, X, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds have neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.

Abstract: A system for monitoring field devices operating in process plants includes a remote terminal unit (RTU) coupled to several field devices, each configured to perform a respective function in a process plant, and a host disposed remotely from the RTU and coupled to the RTU via a communication network. The RTU includes (i) a first interface module configured to communicate according to a digital industrial automation protocol, via which the RTU receives data indicative of respective statuses of the field devices, (ii) a memory to store the received data, and (iii) a second interface module configured to communicate with remote hosts via a communication network. The host is configured to (i) request the statutes of the field devices and (ii) receive, from the RTU, indications of the status based on the data stored in the memory of the RTU.

Abstract: An elliptical exercise device includes a frame supporting guide links which provide for a horizontal component of motion of associated foot support links. A mechanical coupling couples the foot support links to a crank system and intermediate links couple the crank system to the guide links such that a foot receiving area of each foot support link moves in a closed generally elliptical path when the crank system rotates.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) that are capable of acting as purine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of making the compounds, are. disclosed. The compounds and compositions can be used in treating or preventing disorders related to purine receptor hyperfunctioning.