Abstract: This disclosure relates to a capsule (1) for making a beverage, containing a powdered food substance (8) which enables a beverage to be made by passing water through it. The capsule (1) comprises a cup-shaped containment body (2), in turn comprising a tubular lateral wall (21) and a bottom portion (22), and a closing element (29) that closes the top of the containment body (2). The bottom portion (22) has a dispensing hole (26) and the containment body (2) defines a containment chamber (20) inside itself. A filtering element (3) is mounted in the containment chamber (20) and is positioned between the powdered food substance (8) and the bottom portion (22). A dispensing element (5) is mounted in the containment chamber (20) and is positioned between the filtering element (3) and the bottom portion (22).

Abstract: A capsule for making beverages, containing a powdered food substance (2) and comprising a cup-shaped containment body (3) that has a bottom portion (5) equipped with a dispensing hole (9), a lower filtering element (14) mounted in the containment chamber (6) and positioned between the powdered food substance (2) and the bottom portion (5), and a sheet of flexible material (19), impermeable to oxygen, mounted in the containment body (3) between the powdered food substance (2) and the dispensing hole (9), and comprising a first layer (20) made of plastic material and a second layer (21) made of aluminium, which are coupled to each other, wherein the first layer (20) comprises one or more through cuts (25), each surrounded by a dispensing zone (26), the first layer (20) being locally detached from the second layer (21) at each dispensing zone (26).

Abstract: A roof assembly for a vehicle cabin, particularly for the cabin of an agricultural machine, comprising a housing of plastic material and an air conditioning unit housed within the housing, and at least one air inlet fluidically connected to the air conditioning unit and arranged at a periphery of the housing, and a filter arranged downstream of the air inlet. An air inlet shield is arranged at the air inlet, said air inlet shield being mounted to the periphery of the housing and sealingly mounted to the air inlet, the air inlet shield comprising a pair of shaped plates of plastic material, peripherally welded to each other, between which a chamber fluidically communicating with the filter and with the outside of the roof assembly is defined.

Abstract: A wound component having a ferromagnetic support, at least one electrically conductive winding wound around the ferromagnetic support and adapted to conduct at least one induction current, and a temperature sensor interposed between the ferromagnetic support and the winding.

Abstract: The electronic power apparatus (1) for electric or hybrid cars comprises an external container (2), an electronic power circuit (3) housed inside the container (2) and configured for the conversion of an input current/voltage into a predefined output current/voltage, a liquid cooling circuit (4) made at a portion of the container (2) for cooling the electronic power circuit (3), wherein the container (2) comprises a housing body (5) of the electronic power circuit (3) in a polymeric material and comprises at least one portion provided with the liquid cooling circuit (4).

Abstract: A battery charger for vehicles comprises one outer container, one electronic appliance housed inside the container, operatively connectable to an electric battery of a vehicle and configured for the recharge of the battery, and one cooling circuit of the electronic appliance, wherein the electronic appliance comprises one electronic board provided with an insulated metal substrate associated with the cooling circuit, with a layer of electrically insulating material made on one portion of the insulated metal substrate, and with one electronic circuit made on the layer of electrically insulating material, in which the electronic board comprises one conductive metal bar for the transport and the distribution of current, electrically connected to the electronic circuit and provided with one portion arranged in direct contact with one surface portion of the electronic board, for the cooling of the conductive metal bar by the cooling circuit.

Abstract: A battery charger for electric or hybrid motor vehicles having one container body installable on a motor vehicle and defining one housing compartment, one electronic appliance housed inside the housing compartment, connectable to one electric battery of the motor vehicle and configured to recharge the battery, one closing body of the container body associated in a removable manner with the latter to close the housing compartment, and the closing body being adapted to protect the electronic appliance housed inside the housing compartment whereby the closing body includes a reinforcing device/structure/component which are shaped and arranged so as to prevent the deformation of the closing body itself.

Abstract: A battery charger for vehicles comprises one outer container, an electronic board housed inside the container, operatively connectable to an electric battery of a vehicle and configured for the recharge of the battery, at least an electric component connected to the electronic board, and at least a support for housing the electric component, in which the support comprises an electric connection device/unit/component between the electric component and the electronic board.

Abstract: A battery charger for electric or hybrid motor vehicles including one container body installable on a motor vehicle and defining one housing compartment, the container body comprises one grounding connector to be connected to one grounding electrical potential by one electrical grounding cable, and one electronic appliance housed inside the housing compartment, connectable to one electric battery of the motor vehicle and configured to recharge the battery, wherein the connector comprises a retaining device/structure/unit/component of the electrical grounding cable adapted to block the position thereof.

Abstract: An active discharge system for electric or hybrid motor vehicles including an active discharge circuit operatively connected in parallel to a charge circuit, which is supplied by a high voltage power source and defines an electrically-charged equivalent capacitance of an electric charge, wherein the active discharge circuit is configured to discharge the electric charge accumulated by the equivalent capacitance in the event of the high voltage power source being disconnected from the charge circuit; a control circuit/device/unit/component of the active discharge circuit which are configured to receive an activation signal, suitable to activating the active discharge circuit in case of receiving the activation signal, so as to discharge the equivalent capacitance.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a capsule (1) for making a beverage, containing a powdered food substance (8) which enables a beverage to be made by passing water through it. The capsule (1) comprises a cup-shaped containment body (2), in turn comprising a tubular lateral wall (21) and a bottom portion (22), and a closing element (29) that closes the top of the containment body (2). The bottom portion (22) has a dispensing hole (26) and the containment body (2) defines a containment chamber (20) inside itself. A filtering element (3) is mounted in the containment chamber (20) and is positioned between the powdered food substance (8) and the bottom portion (22). A dispensing element (5) is mounted in the containment chamber (20) and is positioned between the filtering element (3) and the bottom portion (22). The dispensing element (5) is intended to create a tortuous path for the beverage that flows towards the dispensing hole (26).

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus (1) for making a beverage, comprising an infusion chamber (21) for a capsule containing a food substance, a transfer channel (32) which connects a capsule insertion opening (31) to the infusion chamber (21), an It image acquisition device (4) for acquiring at least one image of a portion of the capsule. The image acquisition device (4) includes an optical sensor (42) facing towards an image capture zone (40) which is a stretch of the transfer channel (32). A viewing window (45), made of transparent material, is interposed between the optical sensor (42) and the image capture zone (40), the viewing window (45) having a first face (451) and a second face (452). The apparatus also comprises a heating device (6, 22), which is positioned in a first region (11) which is at a height lower than a second region (12) in which the viewing window (45) is positioned. The first region (11) and the second region (12) are in communication with each other.

Abstract: The invention herein disclosed and claimed is a process for refining fiber from lignocellulosic biomass. The process provides refined fiber and agriculturally amenable co-products, with a virtually waste-free systems design.

Abstract: A laser device for the selective treatment of acne comprising: a laser source (1) terminating in an optical collimator (2), which supplies a laser beam; said laser source (1) comprises a switch (13) which allows impulses of said laser beam with pre-defined duration to be transmitted; an opto-mechanical interface (3) comprising a lens (4) focusing the laser beam received from the optical collimator (2); an optical fibre (5) connected to said opto-mechanical interface (3); characterized in that said optical fibre (5) has a length greater than 15 m; and said device comprises a handpiece (10) connected to said optical fibre (5) where said handpiece (10) comprises an optical zoom system (11) which allows the diameter of the laser beam emerging from said handpiece (10) to be varied from 0.5 mm to 5 mm.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for providing marks on extruded films, in particular on stretched films, which are exiting an extrusion lip of a film extruder and a respective method. The apparatus comprises at least one nozzle means for directing a gas stream, preferably an air stream to a surface of the film exiting the extrusion lip of the film extruder, wherein the nozzle means are configured and arranged in such a manner that the gas stream locally causes a cooling of the extruded film to create a local mark (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The invention is a composite yarn construction whose structure provides more fiber-shedding resistance while preserving the look-and-feel characteristics of the underlying core structure.

Abstract: Surgical assemblies for ocular surgery are provided. Such assemblies include direct measuring devices of intraocular pressure, surgical accessories utilisable in conjunction with a surgical instrument suitable for performing eye surgery, such surgical accessories being insertable in an ocular cavity through an accessory ocular incision. Direct measuring devices of intraocular pressure may be coupled to the surgical accessories so as to be insertable in the ocular cavity along with said surgical accessories through said accessory ocular incision.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for automatically analyzing extruded films, in particular stretched films, wherein a neck-in portion is formed at each of both edges of the film at a specific distance from an extrusion lip of a film extruder along the longitudinal transport direction of the film, and a respective method. The apparatus comprises two edge detectors being arranged along a first line substantially transversal to the longitudinal direction and being spaced from each other by a specific distance, wherein each one edge detector is configured to detect, preferably to continuously detect the lateral position of one respective edge of the neck-in portion of the film, a calculation means for determining the spatial relation between at least one lateral position at the extrusion lip and a respective lateral position at the neck-in portion on the basis of the two lateral positions of the edges of the neck-in portion of the film.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing unit (1; 13; 15; 17) for an apparatus for supplying a beverage (in particular, coffee) which comprises an infeed section (21) and a dispensing section (23), which comprises three dispensing spouts (31, 32, 33). Two ducts (41, 42) are interposed in parallel between the infeed section and the dispensing section. Each duct receives a respective part of the beverage and has an outfeed (44). A movable member (5; 53; 7) is shiftable to change a liquid transfer path between the outfeeds of the two ducts and the dispensing section: when the movable member is in a first position, the respective parts of beverage are introduced into a same first dispensing spout (31); when the movable member is in a second position, the respective part of beverage of one duct (41) is introduced into a second dispensing spout (32) and the respective part of beverage of the other duct (42) is introduced into a third dispensing spout (33).

Abstract: An apparatus for making beverages using capsules (2) containing a food substance, including an extraction unit (3) in which an openable extraction chamber (4) is made, an infeed section (9) for a capsule (2), a feed path (10) for the capsule (2) in the apparatus (1) from the infeed section (9), and at least one image acquisition device (12) operating in the range of visible light, positioned along the feed path (10) outside the extraction chamber (4), and designed, in use, when the capsule (2) is positioned in an image capture zone (13) located along the feed path (10), to capture images of at least an identification portion (14) of the capsule (2) on which a graphical element (15) is present and visible; the image acquisition device (12); an electronic processing unit (20) is connected to the image acquisition device (12) and is programmed to selectively enable or not enable the making of a beverage by performing the following operating steps based on a comparison between a first image detected by the image