Abstract: The present device is configured for mounting on and movement around the outside surface of a pipe to be processed, and includes a clamping device- and a flexible composite carriage including at least two pivotally connected component parts capable of pivoting about a pin of a hinged connection lying parallel to the axis of the, wherein each part comprises a group of at least two coaxial supporting rollers, the axis of which is situated at a distance from the hinged connection that is less than or equal to ? of the distance between the hinges of the component part and is parallel to the axis of the pipe to be processed. The component parts are connected in succession such that each part bears on two groups of supporting rollers, one of which is mounted on the component part, and the other of which on an adjacent component part.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of drilling. A packed-hole assembly comprises a drill bit, and a positive displacement motor having a bending unit for deviation by a tilt angle f, and further comprises a rotation module and a hinge module which are rigidly connected to one another, to drill pipes and to the motor by threaded connections. The rotation module consists of a fixed shaft with a central channel and axial openings for drilling fluid, and a rotating body with radial channels which is mounted on cageless rolling contact bearings such as to be capable of circular movement as a result of the reactive force of drilling fluid flowing into the annulus of the borehole through the axial openings in the shaft, the space between the shaft and the rotating body, and the radial channels in turn.

Abstract: A film comprises an outer heat sealable layer mainly made of a (co)polyolefin with the Vicat softening temperature not exceeding 130° C., at least one heat resistant layer mainly made of at least one polar (co)polymer selected from the group including predominantly aliphatic (co)polyamides and aromatic (co)polyesters, and at least one core adhesive layer from a material capable of adhering both to (co)polyolefins and to polar (co)polymers. The heat resistant layer comprises not less than 15% of at least one predominantly aliphatic copolyamide with the melting temperature not exceeding 205° C. A method comprises the stages of coextrusion, biaxial stretching, annealing and winding up of the resulting film into a roll.

Abstract: A film comprises an outer heat sealable layer mainly made of a (co)polyolefin with the Vicat softening temperature not exceeding 130° C., at least one heat resistant layer mainly made of at least one polar (co)polymer selected from the group including predominantly aliphatic (co)polyamides and aromatic (co)polyesters, and at least one core adhesive layer from a material capable of adhering both to (co)polyolefins and to polar (co)polymers. The heat resistant layer comprises not less than 15% of at least one predominantly aliphatic copolyamide with the melting temperature not exceeding 205° C. A method comprises the stages of coextrusion, biaxial stretching, thermosetting and winding up of the resulting film into a roll.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of aviation, particularly to designs for vertical take-off and landing aircraft. A convertiplane comprises a fuselage, a pair of wings (a fore wing and an aft wing), propulsion systems comprising engines and propellers, a vertical stabilizer, a landing gear, and rotatable pylons. Two lifting propulsion systems are disposed on pylons having two degrees of freedom relative to the yaw and pitch angle on each side of the fuselage so as to be capable of being fixed in position and of retracting forward or backward into fuselage niches during horizontal flight. A marching propulsion system is installed on a pylon having one degree of freedom relative to the pitch angle so as to be capable of being fixed in position, or is completely fixed, and is capable of being disposed in either the nose part or the tail part of the fuselage, and likewise on the leading edge or the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer.

Abstract: The claimed invention relates to the data processing industry, in particular, to the methods and systems of searching and analyzing data for finding an object in a video stream. The technical result is enhancing the precision of determining the sought object in a video stream, as well as increasing the speed of locating the object by means of performing a classification of objects and determining their features present on the video stream frames.

Abstract: The present device is configured for mounting on and movement around the outside surface of a pipe to be processed, and comprises a clamping device and a flexible composite carriage consisting of at least two pivotally connected component parts capable of pivoting about a pin of a hinged connection lying parallel to the axis of the pipe to be processed, wherein each part comprises a group of at least two coaxial supporting rollers, the axis of which is situated at a distance from the hinged connection that is less than or equal to ? of the distance between the hinges of the component part and is parallel to the axis of the pipe to be processed. The component parts are connected in succession in such a way that each part bears on two groups of supporting rollers, one of which is mounted on the component part, and the other of which is mounted on an adjacent component part. One of the component parts of the carriage is mounted such as to rest on an additional group of supporting rollers.

Abstract: There is discloses an iris-lens diaphragm made of elastic material in the form of a colored ring. The iris0lens diaphragm comprises peripheral arc-shaped and open-ended support elements for one-point contact that are capable of bending in the plane of the colored ring, wherein a thickness of support elements exceeds a thickness of the colored ring.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoelectric power generating devices using thermoelectric elements and thereby generating electricity realizing direct conversion of heat to electric power due to difference in temperature. The present invention is targeted on improving thermoelectric efficiency of a thermoelectric device. According to the first variant of the present invention, technical result is achieved by that a) in thermoelectric element consisting of p-type leg and n-type leg jointed in serial electrical circuit, p-type leg is made of polycrystalline textured semiconductor Bi2Te3—Sb2Te3 alloy with high thermoelectric efficiency in the operating temperature range T>100° C. and b) in p-type leg, heat flux is directed from the hot end to the cold end parallel the crystallographic axis C.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of aviation, and more particularly to designs for vertical take-off and landing aircraft. A convertiplane comprising a fuselage, a pair of wings: fore and aft, propulsion systems comprising engines and propellers, a keel, a landing gear, and pylons designed so as to be rotatable. Two lift propulsion systems are arranged on the pylons with one degree of freedom with respect to the yaw angle along the sides of the fuselage so as to be fixable in position and retractable during horizontal flight forward or back in fuselage niches. A basic propulsion system is mounted on a pylon with two degrees of freedom with respect to the angle of bank and pitch so as to be fixable in position, and is arranged either in the nose section of the fuselage or in the keel, on the leading edge or the trailing edge thereof. This provides improved reliability and safety, increased flight range and reduced cost of the convertiplane.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of drilling. A packed-hole assembly comprises a drill bit, and a positive displacement motor having a bending unit for deviation by a tilt angle f, and further comprises a rotation module and a hinge module which are rigidly connected to one another, to drill pipes and to the motor by threaded connections. The rotation module consists of a fixed shaft with a central channel and axial openings for drilling fluid, and a rotating body with radial channels which is mounted on cageless rolling contact bearings such as to be capable of circular movement as a result of the reactive force of drilling fluid flowing into the annulus of the borehole through the axial openings in the shaft, the space between the shaft and the rotating body, and the radial channels in turn.

Abstract: The invention describes the method allowing for efficient predictive ranking of clinical efficiencies of the existing targeted medicinal products for individual patient with proliferative or oncology disease. The method makes it possible to use a wide range of experimental data received from the patients' pathological tissue samples and relevant control samples: information on gene mutations, transcription factor binding profile, protein (considering harmonization), mRNA (considering harmonization) and microRNA expression strength. The method also uses information on molecular targets of the medicinal products. This method can be automated to prevent potential errors associated with manual calculation and makes it possible to consider patient-specific changes in hundreds and thousands molecular pathways which include tens and hundreds of gene products. This method also considers the features and mode of action of various classes of target drugs.

Abstract: In the invention, a method for using a dynamic virtual articulator for simulating occlusion during a change in the initial position of the lower jaw or fragments thereof, and for modeling the position of the teeth in relation to one another and the position and shape of false teeth is described, said method being carried out with a computer. The method includes the following steps: providing a virtual articulator comprising a virtual three-dimensional model of the upper jaw and dental arch and a virtual three-dimensional model of the lower jaw and dental arch, resembling the upper jaw and upper teeth and the lower jaw and lower teeth, respectively, of the patient; and providing simulated movements of the virtual upper jaw and the virtual lower jaw in relation to one another for simulating dynamic occlusion, during which penetrating and non-penetrating contact may occur between teeth in the virtual upper and virtual lower jaw.

Abstract: A palm vein imaging device includes a housing, a light sensitive element and an optical imaging system, at least one imaging sensor for capturing images of palm veins, and a controller, wherein the palm vein imaging device contains an infrared transmission filter and a scattering filter installed above the light emitting elements and the light emitting elements are infrared light-emitting diodes emitting light of wavelength of 850 nm and 940 nm. The technical result of the utility model is increased quality of the obtained image of palm vein vascular pattern, reducing the amount of noises and distortions while imaging and as a result increased reliability of personal identification by means of the claimed device.

Abstract: The non-limiting embodiments of the present technology relate to the data transmission technology in packet-switched Software Defined Networks (SDN), comprising switches with Ethernet ports and controlled by software controllers. The aim of this technical solution is to increase network switches' resource efficiency by establishing frame transport path in the network with MPLS transport tags set by the network controller as well as to reduce software functional requirements for OpenFlow switches and controllers by supporting standard frame fields processing. Method for forming an Ethernet frame and methods for transferring the Ethernet frame are disclosed.

Abstract: A method for multicast packet transmission, executable in a software defined network having at least one input port, at least two output ports, and at least one network node. Switching rules are generated for transmitting at least one packet of a multicast group from an input port to an output port. For a given external traffic consumer, which is the first to request the multicast group, a shortest path from a given input port to a given output port, associated with the given external traffic consumer, is determined. For a subsequent external traffic consumer requesting the at least one multicast group, a shortest path from a network node closest to an output port of the subsequent external traffic consumer, where the switching rules for the multicast group are set, is determined.

Abstract: This invention relates to a measurement equipment and can be used to create means of measuring coordinates and angular values of an object freely moving in space with six degrees of freedom. The invention can be applied in human-machine interfaces as a coordinate input device, particularly, in training systems, in robotics, in augmented, virtual reality and mixed reality systems. The technical result is to increase the measurement accuracy by eliminating the measurement error of the gravity vector direction caused by the movement of the platform with sensors.

Abstract: The invention relates to chemical engineering processes, and more particularly to liquid-phase catalytic methods for producing, in the presence of hydrogen, alkylated para-anisidine for use as a chemical substance or as a gasoline additive for increasing the octane rating of a gasoline. The technical result of the claimed group of inventions is an increase in the yield of N-methyl-para-anisidine and a decrease in the yield of a dimethyl derivative. A method for producing N-methyl-para-anisidine in a liquid phase includes alkylating para-anisidine with formalin as they are separately, simultaneously fed into a mixer disposed in a reactor, directly upstream of a catalytic reduction zone, thus producing an intermediate azomethine, and subsequently reducing same on a hydrogenation catalyst at a temperature of 20-120° C. in an environment of hydrogen at elevated pressure, and then isolating the target product, N-methyl-para-anisidine.

Abstract: A single- or multilayer film is disclosed, the film made on the basis of a blend of (co)polyamide and polyvinyl alcohol, soluble in at least one solvent A, comprising more than 50% water, at that said film comprising polyvinyl alcohol—PVAs, soluble in the same solvent A, and bonded polyvinyl alcohol—PVAB, which (i) is virtually insoluble in the same solvent A at temperatures from 18° C. to the initial boiling point at normal pressure, (ii) is soluble in at least one of the solvents, capable of dissolving (co)polyamide, (iii) gives the typical for PVA color reaction with iodine, and (iv) reacts with at least one primary amine, with formation of water-soluble PVA, wherein the CB/CS ratio, where CB is the film content for PVAB, that becomes water-soluble after its treatment with said primary amine, and Cs is the content of PVAs in the film, is not less than 0.05.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dome- or sphere-shaped multipurpose building, which is a prefabricated quickly erected structure and can be used for erecting the buildings of various functional purpose, of different number of storeys, both warm and cold, including residential buildings, cottages, industrial, administrative, sport, agricultural, warehouse, temporary portable buildings, arch structures, atrium roof, atrium room, located above the top floor of a building. Technical result of the claimed invention is to reduce the material consumption, installation time, increase the strength and stability of the building, including under conditions of asymmetrical and dynamic loads, and to increase energy efficiency and translucence of the building.