Abstract: A seizing head for objects is described that includes a support frame adapted to be coupled to a manipulator robot, and a plurality of picking apparatuses arranged mutually flanked according to a predefined flanking direction and individually adapted to take and withhold at least one object, wherein each picking apparatus is installed on a respective mobile frame, which is slidably coupled to the support frame according to a sliding direction parallel to the flanking direction, and wherein the seizing head further includes a plurality of functionally independent activation devices, each of which is adapted to activate a respective mobile frame along said sliding direction.

Abstract: A machine for stabilising palletised loads including an apparatus having a reel of covering tape, a gripping device to take a first end of the tape of the reel and make it integral with the load, a first movement apparatus to generate relative revolution of the apparatus around the load about a predetermined revolution axis, a second movement apparatus to generate relative translation motion of the apparatus with respect to the load in a direction parallel to the revolution direction, a cutting device placed in the apparatus to separate the tape from the reel, and a fixing device to fix a second end of the tape to the load.

Abstract: Methods and surgical devices for performing an anastomosis of a living tissue. More particularly the methods and devices relate to anastomosis of tissue performed through tissue fusion performed by delivering energy to the tissue.

Abstract: Electronic apparatus includes functional circuitry configured to respond to requests from a plurality of client devices, data storage circuitry configured as a plurality of client queues in which each respective client queue is configured to store pending requests from a respective client device, priority determination circuitry configured to assign a respective priority level to each respective client queue based at least in part on requests stored in the respective client queues, and arbiter circuitry configured to control access to the functional circuitry by the plurality of client devices. The arbiter circuitry is configured to monitor the priority level of each respective client queue, and control passage of requests from client queues to the functional circuitry based at least in part on a respective priority level assigned to each respective client queue. The priority determination circuitry includes fill level detector circuitry configured to determine a fill level of each client queue.

Abstract: A band-shaped medical device (10) for narrowing a body channel (30) of a patient, the device (10) being placeable around the body tissue surrounding the body channel (30), and the device including: a first section (1) composed of a first silicone composition (1a), and a second section (2) composed of a second silicone composition (2a) having a lower Shore A hardness compared to the first silicone composition (1a), and a connecting section (4) which integrally bonds the first section to the second section. The first section and the second section having a first locking part (11) and a second locking part (12), respectively, by which the device (10) is closable to form a ring which encircles a passage opening (16) for the body tissue surrounding the body channel (30), the connecting section (4) consisting of a mixture of the first silicone composition (1a) and the second silicone composition (2a).

Abstract: A network device includes a rate measurement circuit that is configured to measure respective egress rates at which respective data is being transmitted via respective ports associated with the network device. A marking ratio determination circuit is configured to select respective marking ratios based on respective measured egress rates, the marking ratios for marking packets to be transmitted via the respective ports to indicate respective levels of congestion corresponding to the respective ports. Different marking ratios correspond to different measured egress rates. A packet editor circuit is configured to mark selected packets to be transmitted via respective ports according to the respective selected marking ratios. The respective selected marking ratios indicate to other communication devices that respective network paths via which the selected packets travelled experienced congestion, and the respective marking ratios indicate respective levels of congestion.

Abstract: The patient-specific hemivertebral surgical guide has a body with an aiming passage for guiding an instrument and a coupling face, arranged on a distal side of the body and specific to a patient so as to be applied in bespoke contact with the bone material of only one half, either left or right, of the vertebra. The coupling face has a morphology-adapted surface congruent with the posterior face of the lamina of the half of the vertebra and including peripheral portions located respectively in anteroposterior line with the lower edge of the lamina and the lateral edge of the isthmus of the half of the vertebra, and positioning studs protruding correspondingly from the peripheral portions. The morphology-adapted surface and the positioning studs are shaped so as to cooperate by matching shapes with the posterior face of the lamina, the lower edge of the lamina and the lateral edge of the isthmus, respectively, so as to maintain the body in a unique position.

Abstract: A first solid state drive (SSD) includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via a network fabric, and a second SSD includes a built-in network interface device configured to communicate via the network fabric. A connection is opened between the first SSD and the second SSD over the network fabric, where the first SSD is further communicatively coupled to the second SSD further over an interconnect associated with a host computer. The first SSD encapsulates a non-volatile memory over fabric (NVMe-oF) command to transfer data between the first SSD and the second SSD in a capsule and sends the capsule to the second SSD over the connection. The second SSD executes the NVMe command to transfer the data between the first SSD and the second SSD over the connection according to an NVMe-oF communication protocol and without transferring any of the data to the host computer.

Abstract: A network device comprises a network interface configured to transmit packets via a network link, and timestamp circuitry configured to modify a packet that is to be transmitted by the network interface circuitry by embedding a future timestamp in the packet. The future timestamp corresponds to a transmit time at which the packet is to be transmitted by the network interface circuitry, and the transmit time occurs after the timestamp circuitry embeds the timestamp in the packet. Time gating circuitry is configured to i) receive the packet, ii) determine when a current time indicated by a clock circuit reaches the transmit time, iii) hold the packet from proceeding to the network interface circuitry prior to the current time reaching the transmit time, and iv) release the packet in response to the current time reaching the transmit time.

Abstract: A security container cassette for banknotes or values for Cash machines, ATM, and the like is provided, defining an internal volume and including: a first container arranged in the internal volume and close to an external portion of the security container cassette and banknotes and values, the first container having an internal volume separated from the external portion of the security container cassette by at least one separating wall, including passage windows or weakened upper portions, the first container being designed to contain marking fluid.

Abstract: A device including a liquid balloon (1), a pump unit (5) connected to the liquid balloon (1) via a first connection line (3) for pumping liquid into the liquid balloon (1) and for pumping liquid out of the liquid balloon (1), an electric motor (6) for driving the pump unit (5), a battery (7) for supplying energy to the electric motor (6) and an electronic control unit (8) for controlling the electric motor (6). The device further includes a manual actuating unit (51) for removing liquid from the liquid balloon (1) and for pumping liquid back into the liquid balloon (1), the manual actuating unit (51) having a flexible pump body (30) which is connected to the liquid balloon (1) via a second connection line (31).

Abstract: A method for setting a fill level of a liquid balloon (1) is provided, in which the volume of a liquid-filled receiving space (10) of a pump unit (5) is changed by moving an actuating part (11) of the pump unit (5) by an electric motor (6) which is fed by a battery (7). An actuating process of the actuating part (11) is carried out by a control unit (8) which controls the electric motor (6). The actuating process includes travel control of the actuating part (11) for approaching a target position of the actuating part (11) and after this travel control a check as to whether the pressure of the liquid in the receiving space (10) lies within a permissible filling pressure range around the second filling pressure. If necessary, the position of the actuating part (11) is adjusted.

Abstract: The proposed ATM comprises a microcontroller for controlling a banknote dispenser and a computer for managing the ATM, which are arranged inside and outside, respectively, a safe. The computer is provided with one or more ports for interfacing with it; all the ports are occupied by corresponding connectors. A motion sensor is associated with each single connector for detecting any tampering or movements indicative of its removal from the corresponding port; in this case, the dispensing of the banknotes is inhibited, for example, by interrupting an electrical power supply of the microcontroller and/or of the banknote dispenser. A corresponding operation method of the ATM is proposed. A program product for controlling the ATM are also proposed.

Abstract: A system for separating components from a slurry of drilling fluid and drill cuttings on a shaker screen having an upper side and a lower side within a shaker. The system also has a pressure differential generator to pull an effective volume of air through a section of the shaker screen to enhance the flow of drilling fluid through the section of the shaker screen and the separation of drilling fluid from drill cuttings and further maintain an effective flow of drill cuttings off the shaker. A method of separating components of a slurry of drilling fluids and solids has the steps of delivering the slurry to a shaker, flowing the slurry over a first screen and applying an effective amount of vacuum to a first portion of the first screen to remove the drilling fluids from the slurry without stalling the solids on the first screen.

Abstract: In a switching system that comprises a central switching device an at least one port extender device, the central switching device includes at least one port configured to interface with the port extender device, and the port extender device includes a plurality of front ports for interfacing with one or more networks. The central switching device includes a processor that processes packets received from the at least one port extender device, and a plurality of egress queues for storing processed packets that are to be forwarded to the at least one port extender device for transmission via ones of the front ports. The central switching device also includes a flow control processor configured to, responsively to flow control messages received from the at least one port extender device, control transmission of packets to the at least one port extender device to prevent overflow of egress queues of the port extender device.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) system includes a first printed circuit board (PCB), an integrated circuit (IC) package, and a memory module. The IC package includes i) a package substrate, ii) a main IC chip that is electrically coupled to a top surface of the package substrate, iii) first contact structures that are disposed on a bottom surface of the package substrate and that are electrically coupled to the first PCB, and iv) second contact structures that are disposed on a top surface of the package substrate. The memory module includes i) a second PCB, ii) one or more memory IC chips that are disposed on the second PCB, and iii) third contact structures that are disposed on a bottom surface of the second PCB. An interposer electrically couples the second contact structures of the IC package with the third contact structures of the memory module.

Abstract: A media access control (MAC) processor of a network device receives a timing packet to be transmitted by the network device. The MAC processor generates one or more indicators to be used by a PHY device of the network device for embedding timing information into the timing packet. The one or more indicators include at least an indicator indicating that the timing packet is a type of packet into which timing information is to be embedded, an indicator of a location of a field in the timing packet at which the timing information is to be embedded, and an indicator of whether timing information in the timing packet needs to be updated. The MAC processor transfers the timing packet and the one or more indicators to the PHY device for further processing of the timing packet and subsequent transmission of the timing packet from the network device.

Abstract: A network device includes first, second, and third processors. The first processor detects congestion in a packet flow. The packet flow is i) one packet flow among a plurality of packet flows and ii) is formed of a plurality of packets of a same type received from a first device in a network via a first network connection. The packets in the packet flow are destined for a second device in the network. When congestion notification packet generation is enabled for the packet flow, the second processor generates a congestion notification packet by replicating a packet from the packet flow and sends the congestion notification packet to the first device via the first network connection. The congestion notification packet identifies the packet flow for which congestion is detected. The third processor forwards the plurality of packets in the packet flow to the second device via a second network connection.

Abstract: A security container cassette for banknotes or values for Cash machines, ATM, and the like is provided, defining an internal volume and including: a first container arranged in the internal volume and close to an external portion of the security container cassette and banknotes and values, the first container having an internal volume separated from the external portion of the security container cassette by at least one separating wall, including passage windows or weakened upper portions, the first container being designed to contain marking fluid.

Abstract: Packets received by a network switch device from upstream network devices, coupled to respective ones of a plurality of ports of the network switch device, are temporarily stored in an internal memory of the network switch device. In response to detecting congestion in the internal memory of the network switch device, a flow control engine triggers, during respective timeslots of a timing schedule and while the flow control engine continues to monitor congestion in the internal memory of the network switch device, transmission of respective flow control messages via different subsets of ports, among the plurality of ports, to control flow of packets from different subsets of upstream network device, among the plurality of upstream network devices, to the network switch device so that flow control is distributed over time among upstream network devices of the plurality of upstream network devices.