Abstract: The application relates to a method and apparatus for producing a solid foam continuously. A homogeneous suspension is formed from a raw material in which the suspension comprises a solidifying agent, and a foam mixture which comprises bubbles is formed by mixing air bubbles into the suspension. The foam mixture is injected via at least one nozzle to form a foam pattern and the foam pattern is laid on a moving surface and the foam mixture of the foam pattern is solidified in order to form a solid foam such that the bubbles of the foam mixture shrink in off-length directions to form the shaped bubbles. Further, the application relates to the product and the use of the method.

Abstract: A stereolitography apparatus comprises a fixed vat (401) or a holder for receiving a removable vat for holding resin during stereolithographic 3D printing, and a radiation source (501) for generating radiation capable of polymerizing portions of said resin in said vat. (401). The apparatus comprises a shutter (502) between said radiation source (501) and said vat (401) for allowing only selected portions of the generated radiation to reach said resin, and a cooling channel (503) between said radiation source (501) and said shutter (502). The apparatus comprises a blower (504) configured to force coolant gas through said cooling channel (503).

Abstract: There is provided a system comprising an artificial intelligence engine trained to determine a presence of a set of reference contaminants from first spectral imaging data generated on the basis of spectral imaging performed in a training environment. The system comprises at least one communications interface for receiving second spectral imaging data from at least one spectral imaging device deployed in an operating environment remote from the system. The system is configured to determine a reliability level for the presence of contaminants in the second spectral imaging data and to control the at least one spectral imaging device deployed in the operating environment, when the reliability level is insufficient.

Abstract: A stereolithography apparatus comprises a fixed vat (401) or a holder for receiving a removable vat for holding resin during stereolithographic 3D printing, and a radiation source (501) for generating radiation capable of polymerizing portions of said resin in said vat. (401). The apparatus comprises a shutter (502) between said radiation source (501) and said vat (401) for allowing only selected portions of the generated radiation to reach said resin, and a cooling channel (503) between said radiation source (501) and said shutter (502). The apparatus comprises a blower (504) configured to force coolant gas through said cooling channel (503).

Abstract: A stereolithography apparatus (100) has an exposure arrangement (110), comprising a radiative element (120); a masking element (130), having a substantially rectangular masking area (132); an optical path (140) between the radiative element (120) and the masking area (132), having a linear segment (145); and an intensity-unifying arrangement (150), having a first, a second, a third, and a fourth reflective surface (1521, 1522, 1523, 1524) The first and second reflective surfaces (1521, 1522,) are arranged on opposite sides of the linear segment (145), and the third and fourth reflective surfaces (1523, 1524) are arranged on opposite sides of the linear segment (145). In a cross section of the intensity-unifying arrangement (150) along any plane, perpendicularly intersecting the linear segment (145), the reflective surfaces (1521, 1522, 1523, 1524) follow a boundary (156) of a rectangle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one color camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one color camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one color camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one colour camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one colour camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one colour camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one color camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one color camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one color camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one colour camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one colour camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one colour camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one color camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one color camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one color camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental computed tomography apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one color camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus from different directions and at least one laser or a corresponding lighting arrangement, which is fitted to direct a light pattern at different locations on the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means arranged into functional connection with said at least one color camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional surface model from the light-pattern information directed at different locations on the face of the patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means for combining said face image information detected by said at least color camera to said surface model of the patient's face to create a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental imaging apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one colour camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus, which at least one colour camera is arranged to image the patient's face positioned at the patient support station from different directions, and means arranged into functional connection with said at least one colour camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental computed tomography apparatus which includes an x-ray imaging means and at least one colour camera for photographing the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station of the apparatus from different directions and at least one laser or a corresponding lighting arrangement, which is fitted to direct a light pattern at different locations on the face of a patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means arranged into functional connection with said at least one colour camera for creating a virtual three-dimensional surface model from the light-pattern information directed at different locations on the face of the patient positioned at the imaging station, and a means for combining said face image information detected by said at least colour camera to said surface model of the patient's face to create a virtual three-dimensional texture model of the patient's face.

Abstract: The invention relates to an operation light, comprising at least one light-emitting component (9) and at least one light-reflecting surface Mn and in which the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting component (9) is so arranged in the operation light that all or substantially all of the light produced by the operation light consists of light reflected from the reflecting surface, and for each light-emitting component (9) at least one substantially planar light-reflecting surface Mn is provided so that the dimensions of the light-emitting surface of each light-emitting component (9), the direction of the normal to the surface and the distance of the surface in relation to the size of the reflecting surface Mn arranged for the light-emitting component (9) in question, to the direction of the normal to the surface and to the distance of the surface from the surface (11) to be illuminated have been so arranged that the operation light produces on the surface to be illuminated a light pattern of a given shap

Abstract: The invention allows modifying a user's configuration of a remote on-line service application in accordance with accumulated physical activity data of the user. User's physical activity sensor data is accumulated in a mobile device from a physical activity sensor. In response to a predetermined event, physical activity information based on the accumulated physical activity sensor data is transferred from the mobile device to a networked computing device. The user's configuration of a remote on-line service application is then modified based on the transferred physical activity information.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging means (10) suitable for recording images from the teeth and the mouth region. The imaging means (10) comprise an image-recording device such as a video camera, the optical components of an object illumination system, an instrument connection cable and a connector. The invention further concerns a dental unit (30) having one or more instrument connectors (C) onto which the control system of said dental unit (30) switches the physical variables required for the use of the instrument attached to said instrument connector. The invention also concerns a method of connecting an imaging means to a dental unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the adjustment of imaging values in a panoramic x-ray imaging apparatus. The imaging device comprises a CCD detector which is manipulated in such a manner that the domains to be imaged in an examined object are the first to fall in line with a serial register included in the edge of the CCD detector. The measuring information received from the serial register is used as preliminary information about an intensity received on the image field and this information is used as a basis for the adjustment of imaging values for optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio of the CCD detector.

Abstract: The invention is related to a system of identification of the location of a matrix-like sample tray on a plane (2) in an equipment for the treatment of the samples. The sample tray is placed in a frame having an L-shaped electrically conductive piece (8). The equipment for the treatment comprises a number, corresponding to the number of vertical lines of the tray, electrically conductive strips (9), a number, corresponding to the number of horizontal lines, electrically conductive strips (10), and means for transmitting an electric signal to the strips of the vertical line and for receiving from the strips of the horizontal lines.

Abstract: Dosage equipment, which includes a peristaltic pump for the dosage of liquid. The set of hoses (17) of the peristaltic pump includes an upper piece (18) and a lower piece (19). The body of the pump includes an attaching piece (13), to which the upper piece and the lower piece can be attached.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pipette in which a piston is reciprocated in a cylinder by means of an electric motor. The pipette is preferably provided with a volume adjustment nut comprising locking mechanism to prevent accidental volume adjustment. According to another preferable embodiment the pipette is provided with contact switches for automatically stopping the motor. According to a third preferable embodiment the pipette comprises a cylinder assembly comprising a mechanism for ejecting a tip reservoir of the cylinder.