Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable training a federated machine learning model. More specifically, data is received from one or more sensors associated with an edge device. In response to the data exceeding a pre-determined threshold, a hazardous condition is identified. The hazardous condition is classified as valid or invalid, and in response to the hazardous condition being classified as valid, the hazardous condition and the data from one or more sensors are applied to the federated machine learning model.

Abstract: An arrangement for infeeding and outfeeding documents, such as banknotes, cheques, etc., having a command system for externally controlling the functions thereof, and a storage system for storing the documents fed into the arrangement between mutually coacting belts. The storage system has allocated, well-defined and registered document storage positions for incoming documents. A detector system functions to identify incoming documents prior to storage of the documents in the well-defined and unoccupied positions.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing fiber-reinforced composites from a fibrous material, includes the steps of infiltrating the fibrous material with material from which a matrix is built up; preforming the infiltrated fibrous material into a green body against as shape-imparting body; encapsulating the preformed green body and shape-imparting body; consolidating and sintering the encapsulated green body by means of isostatic pressure sintering into an essentially dense composite body while preventing deformation of the green body with the shape-imparting body; and removing the encapsulated green body and shape-imparting body after isostatic pressure sintering.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method of manufacturing a compound body having at least one, partly covering layer on a porous body, whose pore system is evacuate by means of a subpressure which is applied on the porous body by a suction cup or the like and the body is dipped in a slurry of powdery components of the layer. The compound body is densified by sintering or other heat treatment, e.g., post-HIP.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of objects from powdered material by isostatic or pseudo-isostatic pressing. A porous body (10), with open pores in contact with the external surface(s), is preformed from a powdered material, whereupon at least one layer (11, 12) of a powdered material is applied onto the external surface of the preformed porous body by dipping. The preformed porous body is covered with a casing (13) of glass, or a material which forms glass upon heating, arranged outside the intermediate layer (12). The casing is made impenetrable to the pressure medium by heating, whereupon the preformed body is compacted to an essentially dense body. The pore system of the preformed porous body is evacuated by applying a sub-atmospheric pressure by means of at least one suction cup (21) which is applied on the external surface to be coated in connection with and during the dipping of the body in a slurry (20) of powdered materials included in the layer (11, 12).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for high-rate charging of batteries with sealed cells, whereby through supplied charging current the efficiency the single battery cell is actively influenced such that the charging time and temperature rise of the cell is minimized such that in a first step the battery is discharged to a voltage U.sub.B slightly higher than a first reference voltage (U.sub.o) whereafter in a first recharging step the supplied charging current I.sub.B is controlled progressively increasing according to the function I.sub.B =k(U.sub.B -U.sub.o) where k is an adjusted constant, until the pole voltage has reached a second reference voltage U.sub.B -u where u is maximum batter voltage and in a second charging step the charging current I.sub.B is controlled through voltage feedback such that U.sub.B .apprxeq.u whereby the amount of the supplied charging current is determine by the charging state of the battery cells.

Abstract: An object is manufactured from a powdered ceramic material while using isostatic pressing. The powdered material is thereby supplied with a temporary organic binder and is formed into a preformed powder body (10). A major part of the binder is removed from the preformed powder body by driving off under heating, whereas a minor part of the binder, required for keeping the powder body together, is retained in the powder body. The powder body is provided with a gas-permeable embedding material (14) of glass, the retained minor part of the binder then being removed by additional driving off under heating and preferably by also treating the powder body with the surrounding gas-permeable embedding material with an oxidizing gas. The gas-permeable embedding material is then made gas-impermeable by heating and the preformed powder body, freed from binder, with the surrounding gas-impermeable embedding material is subjected to isostatic pressing.

Abstract: When manufacturing an object of powdered material by isostatic pressing of a body (10), preformed from the powdered material, with a gaseous pressure medium, the preformed body is provided with a casing (19) of glass which is made gas-impermeable by heating before carrying out the isostatic pressing. Inside the glass casing there is arranged on the preformed body a barrier layer (11) which counteracts the penetration of melted glass from the enclosure in the preformed body. The barrier layer is built up of at least two layers, of which one layer (12) at least substantially consists of powdered boron nitride and one layer (13) of a mixture of powdered boron nitride and a powdered material with the ability, upon contact with glass from the casing in melted form, to make a layer containing boron nitride tighter.

Abstract: In the manufacture of an article of ceramic material, for example a bladed turbine wheel of silicon nitride, there is first formed a plurality of article parts, at least one of which is a shaped powder body formed from powder of ceramic material mixed with a plasticizer, after which the plasticizer is driven off by a suitable heating operation. The article parts are then assembled together into a configuration conforming to that of the article to be manufactured, and the assembled article parts are surrounded with a gas-impermeable layer, for example a layer of glass. Finally, the assembled parts are isostatically pressed at elevated temperature to form the assembled article parts into a dense, homogeneous article.

Abstract: An object is manufactured from a powdered material by isostatic pressing of a body, preformed from the powdered material, with a pressure medium, whereby the preformed body, in which at least the surface layer consists of a ceramic material in the form of a nitride, is surrounded by a casing which is rendered impenetrable to the pressure medium, before the isostatic pressing is carried out and the powder sintered. As the material in the casing there is used boron oxide or a glass containing boron oxide or a material forming glass while being heated, in which the content of boron oxide is sufficiently high for the glass--or the glass formed during heating--to be removable by water. The preformed body surrounded by the casing is subjected to a heat treatment for the formation of boron nitride on the surface of the preformed body, before the isostatic pressing is carried out. The casing is removed from the finished product by means of water or water vapor.

Abstract: An object of ceramic or metallic material is manufactured by isostatic pressing of a body preformed from a powder of the metallic or ceramic material, the preformed body (10) then being embedded in glass, for example in a mass of glass particles (16) in a vessel (15) which is resistant to the temperature at which the sintering of the metallic or ceramic material is carried out, the material embedding the preformed body being transferred to a melt having a surface limited by the walls of the vessel, below which surface the preformed body is located, and a pressure necessary for the isostatic pressing of the preformed body then being applied on the melt by a gaseous pressure medium.

Abstract: An object of ceramic or metallic material is manufactured by isostatic pressing of a body preformed from a powder of the metallic or ceramic material, the preformed body (10) then being embedded in glass, for example in a mass of glass particles (16) in a vessel (15) which is resistant to the temperature at which the sintering of the metallic or ceramic material is carried out, the material embedding the preformed body being transferred to a melt having a surface limited by the walls of the vessel, below which surface the preformed body is located, and a pressure necessary for the isostatic pressing of the preformed body then being applied on the melt by a gaseous pressure medium.

Abstract: A furnace for firing with optional fuels and where the substantial heat transfer takes place from air to air, whereby the furnace (1) is provided with double shells, which in the space therebetween present partition members (10) which subdivide the space in at least two zones (2,3) through which air is forced by at least one blower (6) from an inlet at one end of the furnace, via a first one of said zones and thereupon via the second one of said zones to an outlet (5) at the same one end of the furnace, whereby the air is brought carefully to flow around the combustion chamber shell.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mandrel for a high pressure tube extrusion press. The mandrel comprises a tip member providing a tip adapted to be positioned in the die opening of the press to present an annular gap for tube extrusion, and a carrier for the tip member. The carrier has a threaded central tip member receiving bore for threadably receiving a threaded segment of the tip member therein. A divided ring shaped element is disposed between a flange on the tip member and the carrier in an annular space provided at the mouth of the bore to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of the mandrel and prevent inadvertent separation of the tip member from the carrier.