Abstract: A seating unit includes a chair with a backrest and a hook assembly. The backrest includes a rear surface having an outwardly protruding rim. The hook assembly comprises a cover plate and a weldment, and the cover plate may include a hook being integrally formed on an exterior face. The hook assembly is configured to be securely coupled on or within the outwardly protruding rim of the backrest, and a secure coupling between the hook assembly and the backrest is formed via insertion of a fastening member, which is inserted through an apertures on a bottom surface of the cover plate, such that the fastener is aligned substantially parallel to the rear surface.

Abstract: Polynucleotides, such as aptamers, comprising at least first one 5-position modified pyrimidine and at least one second 5-position modified pyrimidine are provided, wherein the first and second 5-position modified pyrimidines are different. Methods of selecting and using such polynucleotides, such as aptamers, are also provided.

Abstract: An outsole for a shoe including first and second sole segments that overlap at least partially. The first sole segment can include at least one stud and be arranged at least in a mid-foot portion of the outsole. The second sole segment can include at least one stud and be arranged at least in a toe portion of the outsole. In some embodiments, the outsole can include a first cushion element arranged between the first sole segment and the second sole segment and overlapping with at least one first stud of the first or second sole segment. In some embodiments, the outsole can include a second cushion element being arranged between the first sole segment and the second sole segment and overlapping with at least one second stud of the first or second sole segment. In some embodiments, the outsole may be an outsole for a football shoe.

Abstract: Provided is a method for checking the integrity of user data by a processor, which includes a method step for a first check value for the user data to be computed during a security-protected mode of operation. The method includes a further method step for the first check value to be stored in a security-protected memory module of the processor during the security protected mode of operation. The method includes a further method step for a second check value for the user data to be computed during a runtime mode. The method includes a further method step for the first check value to be compared with the second check value by the processor during the runtime mode. The method includes a further method step for a piece of control information to be provided by the processor during the runtime mode, wherein the control information includes a result of the comparing.

Abstract: A method is provided comprising: obtaining a counterparty contract, the counterparty contract including a contract that is being proposed by a counterparty to a user; performing a segmentation of the counterparty contract to identify a plurality of sentence clusters, each of the sentence clusters corresponding to a different provision in the counterparty contract; generating a plurality of counterparty provision vectors based on the counterparty contract, each of the counterparty provision vectors being generated based on a different one of the plurality of sentence clusters; retrieving a user provision vector, the user provision vector corresponding to a user provision; calculating a plurality of similarity scores for the user provision vector; detecting whether the plurality of similarity scores satisfies a condition that is associated with the user provision; and outputting a notification associated with the user provision when the condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a solid state material that functions as an electrolyte and a separator within the electrode assembly. The solid state material is a mixture of a polymer that is interspersed with an ionically conductive ceramic material.

Abstract: An injection device for the self-administration of an injection of solution that includes a body portion/handle configured for engagement with a cartridge containing the solution and an injection needle. The injection device includes a safety mechanism whereby ejection of solution from the injection device cannot be done unless the safety mechanism is released. The injection device further involves two-stage deployment whereby a needle may be inserted upon release of the safety mechanism and solution is injected upon full insertion of the needle.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an integrity monitoring system for runtime integrity monitoring of a control device connected to sensors and/or actuators and comprising an automation device for collecting operating state data of the control device. The system may include an integrity monitoring unit detachably connectable directly to the control device to monitor the integrity status of the control device on the basis of operating state data transferred from the automation device to the integrity monitoring unit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are thermal interface materials (TIM) composition comprising: a) a non-reactive polyurethane prepolymer; b) about 70-95 wt % of aluminum trihydroxide (ATH); c) about 0.15-1.5 wt % of at least one silane terminated urethane prepolymer; and d) about 1-20 wt % of at least one plasticizer, with the total weight of the thermal interface material totaling to 100 wt %.

Abstract: A dynamic control valve assembly for use in filling a liquid carbon dioxide storage and gas delivery system is provided, the assembly comprising: a valve body; an end nut with an inlet port for receiving liquid carbon dioxide; a chamber; an inlet cavity; a liquid port; a gas port; and a dynamic compound valve stem assembly for blocking the gas port while liquid carbon dioxide is delivered through the inlet port and allowing the liquid carbon dioxide to flow through the liquid port for storage in a liquid cylinder, and open the gas port and block the inlet port in order to allow carbon dioxide gasses from boiling liquid carbon dioxide within the liquid cylinder to pass through the gas port for storage in a gas cylinder until system pressure and temperature equilibrium is reached. The dynamic compound valve stem assembly comprises: a stem body having an inlet port poppet and a gas port poppet; an inlet cavity collar; and in some embodiments a collar biasing spring.

Abstract: A display device displays device information in a navigation tree, whose nodes are each assigned to apparatus parts, apparatuses and/or apparatus groups, such that the apparatus information with a node that is superordinate both to the node which is assigned to a source of the apparatus information, and to a currently selected node.

Abstract: A method for operating a medical diagnostic system that is configured to use a system component of the diagnostic system to generate examination data of a person under examination during an examination procedure is provided. The examination procedure with control of the system component is controlled by a piece of control software, and a component driver exchanges control commands of the control software with the system component in order to control the system component. The method includes providing an event driver that communicates with the control software via an interface of the control software. Via the event driver, a first event is detected in the examination procedure and reported to the event driver. When the first event is detected in the examination procedure, the use of the system component in the examination procedure is modified to a first type defined by the event driver.

Abstract: A method for detecting an attack, in particular a cyber-attack, on a control device of a vehicle, with the step of: checking communication data that is transmitted via at least one communication channel of the vehicle that is connected to the control device, wherein the checking of the communication data that is transmitted via the at least one communication channel of the vehicle that is connected to the control device includes the examination of whether the communication data transmitted via the at least one communication channel of the vehicle fulfils data requirements that are defined by one or a plurality of changeable rules.

Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system has a user control by which a user positions the user's selection of a heart chamber border in relation to two myocardial boundaries identified by a deformable heart model. The user's border is positioned by a single degree of freedom control which positions the border as a function of a single user-determined value. This overcomes the vagaries of machine-drawn borders and their mixed acceptance by clinicians, who can now create repeatably-drawn borders and exchange the control value for use by others to obtain the same results.

Abstract: A seating unit includes a chair with a backrest and a hook assembly. The backrest includes a rear surface having an outwardly protruding rim. The hook assembly comprises a cover plate and a weldment, and the cover plate may include a hook being integrally formed on an exterior face. The hook assembly is configured to be securely coupled on or within the outwardly protruding rim of the backrest, and a secure coupling between the hook assembly and the backrest is formed via insertion of a fastening member, which is inserted through an apertures on a bottom surface of the cover plate, such that the fastener is aligned substantially parallel to the rear surface.

Abstract: An endoscopic instrument is disclosed that includes an elongate shaft and an instrument insert releasably connected to a distal end portion of the shaft, the distal end portion of the shaft being in the form of a sleeve and a proximal end region of a base of the instrument insert being in the form of a coupling shaft, or the distal end portion of the shaft being in the form of a coupling shaft and a proximal end region of a base of the instrument insert being in the form of a sleeve, with the coupling shaft being releasably held in the sleeve and the sleeve and/or the coupling shaft at least in portions having a cross-sectional profile which is reversibly changeable for detaching the coupling shaft from the sleeve. The invention also relates to a shaft for an endoscopic instrument, and to an instrument insert for an endoscopic instrument.

Abstract: A dynamic control valve assembly for use in filling a liquid carbon dioxide storage and gas delivery system is provided, the assembly comprising: a valve body; an end nut with an inlet port for receiving liquid carbon dioxide; a chamber; an inlet cavity; a liquid port; a gas port; and a dynamic compound valve stem assembly for blocking the gas port while liquid carbon dioxide is delivered through the inlet port and allowing the liquid carbon dioxide to flow through the liquid port for storage in a liquid cylinder, and open the gas port and block the inlet port in order to allow carbon dioxide gasses from boiling liquid carbon dioxide within the liquid cylinder to pass through the gas port for storage in a gas cylinder until system pressure and temperature equilibrium is reached. The dynamic compound valve stem assembly comprises: a stem body having an inlet port poppet and a gas port poppet; an inlet cavity collar; and in some embodiments a collar biasing spring.

Abstract: A heading determination device comprises data input circuitry configured to obtain magnetic field sensor data sensed by a magnetic field sensor in sensor coordinates, position input circuitry configured to obtain a position estimate of the magnetic field sensor, and estimation circuitry configured to derive, from a magnetic map, a local azimuth distortion value in a reference coordinate system at the current position of the magnetic field sensor indicated by the obtained position estimate and to estimate the heading of the magnetic field sensor in the reference coordinate system based on the obtained magnetic field sensor data and the derived local azimuth distortion value.

Abstract: An expansion valve operable by a stepper motor, the expansion valve including a housing; a hollow shaft arranged in the housing; a valve base that supports the hollow shaft and closes the housing; a rotor that is drivable by a stator of the stepper motor; a center spool arranged within the hollow shaft and drivable by the rotor so that a rotation of the center spool is transferrable by a threaded connection into an axial movement of the center spool that opens or closes the expansion valve; and a spiral body that includes a thread turn and that is arranged about an enveloping surface of the hollow shaft and that is drivable by the rotor, wherein a stop body is arranged at the hollow shaft and movable in the thread turn of the spiral body.