Abstract: Rack-mountable, tiltable surge protector housings for power surge protector accessibility are disclosed. Related assemblies, methods, and base station equipment are also disclosed. The surge protector housings may be installed in an equipment rack to support the surge protector housing for use. The surge protector housings support one or more surge protectors for receiving input power through the surge protector housing. The surge protector housing is configured to provide surge protected output power from the received input power. The surge protector housings include a front section having surge protectors supported therein. The front section can be tilted to provide convenient access to the surge protectors, such as during installation and replacement of surge protectors, and connecting power to and disconnecting power from the surge protectors.

Abstract: A folded diaphragm loudspeaker of the type used in the manufacture of audio equipment, includes a first magnetic circuit board having at least one magnet and two pole parts (7) formed from a flexible printed circuit board, where between a folded diaphragm (1) is housed, having folds with a greater cross-section in its most external part with respect to the internal folds, characterised in that the diaphragm (1) is fixed in its entirety to a frame (4), except in one of its ends, where the diaphragm (1) is joined to a rigid support (3) associated with a bowed steel strip or band (2) that tenses the folded diaphragm (1) in the direction of its folds.

Abstract: The device of the invention consists in a telescopic element with two arms, one of them movable within the other, having in its corresponding ends attachment means (3), so that the shorter arm (2) has means with an axial groove (5) which in the normal working situation is operatively opposite in respect to an axial chamber (6) of the internal portion of the longer arm (1), so that in said chamber a blocking element is movable vertically in respect to the groove, preferably a cylinder (7) opposing the effort of an elastic element located within the corresponding housing (11) which is encased in said groove (5) blocking the device and permitting its unblocking once the effort of the elastic means on the cylinder is exceeded. The device is reusable and it is easily adjustable to different levels of effort for its unblocking.

Abstract: A method is provided to produce a constraint information for use to implement a routing process used to generate routing signal lines in an integrated circuit design comprising: producing a net topology pattern structure that corresponds to a logical net that is associated with at least two instance item structures of at least one functional design, wherein the net topology pattern structure is associated with the at least two instance item structures and includes multiple constituent structures that indicate at least one constraint upon physical implementation of the logical net structure.

Abstract: A base for packaging for a household appliance comprises: a tray with a first surface and a second surface substantially perpendicular to the first surface and four corners; first and second laminates, each laminate comprising a first part with an inclination; a second part with an inverse inclination to the first part; a center between the first and the second part which is substantially plane; a brace in an opposite extreme to said center; the referred to laminates are placed transversally to each other on the tray, overlapped in the center and supported on the corners of the referred to tray by means of braces; and a support over each brace of the referred to first and second laminate.

Abstract: Provided herein are thickened compositions produced upon assembling a first sub-formulation having a hydroxide, and at least one second sub -formulation having an alkaline material, wherein at least one sub-formulation is thickened by lightly-to moderately-crosslinked PVP. Unlike other compositions not having the lightly-to moderately-crosslinked PVP, those described herein maintain or even build viscosity when the first and second sub -formulations are blended. The compositions may be utilized in the formulation of personal care and performance chemicals, such as hair relaxers, hair straighteners, depilators, degreasers, paint strippers, and cleaners. Methods for enhancing product handling and performance are also described.

Abstract: Described herein are beneficial hair color mixes comprising lightly- to moderately-crosslinked PVP. The color mix may be derived from one, two, or more parts, and the color mix exhibits satisfactory viscosity, stability, and formulation compatibility.

Abstract: Apparatus for the continuous processing and solids handling in first near-critical and supercritical fluids. The present invention also allows for treatment of the starting material with the first near-critical or supercritical fluid. The remaining raffinate is then continuously transferred and may be collected in a second fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical security mark that can be applied to an object, said mark comprising a structure made of a metamaterial that generates a magnetic response to incident radiation having a wavelength (?) corresponding to a specific code of formula ?r(?) where ?r is the relative magnetic permeability of the metamaterial and ? is a wavelength of the incident radiation having a value of between 15 nm and 1100 nm, or a specific code of formula ?(?r) or combinations of said codes. Said mark has a first tranverse dimension bx in a first transverse extension of the metamaterial and a second transverse dimension by in a second transverse extension of the metamaterial, different from the first transversal dimension, the first transverse dimension and the second transverse dimension each being at least equal to the wavelength (?) of the incident radiation.

Abstract: An active power regulation process and system of a wind farm comprising an array of aerogenerators (AI), a communications network (RS), and a monitoring and control system (ST). The system of the invention comprises: means for connecting to said monitoring and control system (ST), means for receiving data relative to the apparent power Pout put out by the farm at all times, and data relative to variables and states of the aerogenerators (Ai) from said monitoring and control system (ST), means for comparing said output apparent power Pout with a preset apparent power set-point Pcons of the farm, means for continuously adjusting said output apparent power Pout, such that this output apparent power Pout approaches at all times the preset power set-point Pcons.

Abstract: Systems and methods to determine locations for dual touch operations performed on a four-wire resistive touch screen. The systems and methods may include measuring signals from pairs of electrodes on each of a first and second resistive sheet of the resistive touch screen in two phases of operation. The systems and methods may further include determining touch screen segment resistances from the signal measurements. The systems and methods may determine locations corresponding to the dual touch operations from the resistances. The systems and methods may also determine locations from the signal measurements.

Abstract: Described herein are beneficial hair color mixes comprising lightly- to moderately-crosslinked PVP. The color mix may be derived from one, two, or more parts, and the color mix exhibits satisfactory viscosity, stability, and formulation compatibility.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of biotechnology and medicine. The invention specifically relates to a compound comprising a liposome covered or decorated at least with the extracellular domain of the APO2L/TRAIL protein, and to the use thereof far developing a medicament preferably for the treatment of a cancer or inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Abstract: This invention describes a photonic sensing method and device based on the periodic dielectric structures of photonic forbidden band, in which the sensing process is carried out through the measurement of variation in signal amplitude as it exits the device. The variation in amplitude is due to a variation in the refraction index of the structure, as a consequence of the presence of the substances that are the object of the sensing. Among the advantages provided by the invention, it is worth mentioning its simplicity in the sensing process; its high level of integration, allowing for a design of reduced proportions; and its adaptability to dielectric structures of one, two or three dimensions.

Abstract: A system and method for classifying touches input into a four-wire resistive touch screen is presented. A voltage may be applied to electrodes in a layer making it the active layer. A first set of four voltages may be measured by a voltage sensing circuit from electrodes in the active layer of a touch screen and a passive layer of a touch screen. The voltage may be switched from electrodes of the first layer to the electrodes of the second layer. A voltage sensing circuit may measure a second set of four voltages nearly simultaneously from electrodes in the active layer and the passive layer of a touch screen. Each set of measured voltages from the passive layer and or the active may be processed. A rule set may be applied to the processing results. An indication of the type of touch that was applied to the touch screen may be provided and optionally including quantitative results.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical security mark that can be applied to an object, said mark comprising a structure made of a metamaterial that generates a magnetic response to incident radiation having a wavelength (?) corresponding to a specific code of formula ?r(?) where ?r is the relative magnetic permeability of the metamaterial and ? is a wavelength of the incident radiation having a value of between 15 nm and 1100 nm, or a specific code of formula ?(?r) or combinations of said codes. Said mark has a first tranverse dimension bx in a first transverse extension of the metamaterial and a second transverse dimension by in a second transverse extension of the metamaterial, different from the first transversal dimension, the first transverse dimension and the second transverse dimension each being at least equal to the wavelength (?) of the incident radiation.