Abstract: A smart speaker power controller may be configured to receive power conforming to one of a plurality of power modes from an input power source. The power controller may be further configured to communicate the power mode to at least one component of a processing system or at least one component of an audio system for operating the smart speaker according to the received power mode, including determining a current limit of a power converter; determining a shutdown voltage threshold and safely shutting down the smart speaker if the input voltage falls below the threshold, and/or modifying audio operation of the smart speaker in response to the power mode. The smart speaker can further include an audio power supply controller configured to monitor energy required to reproduce an audio signal and to servo a power supply voltage provided to an audio amplifier in response to this energy level.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blocked polyisocyanate having an NCO functionality of from 2.2 to 4.5 and an average molecular weight of 800 to 25,000 and containing (1) blocked isocyanate groups corresponding to an NCO content of 5 to 20 wt. % calculated as free NCO, relative to unblocked polyisocyanate, (2) 1 to 75 meq of ionic groups per 100 g of blocked polyisocyanate, and (3) 3 to 40 wt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blocked polyisocyanate having an NCO functionality of from 2.2 to 4.5 and an average molecular weight of 800 to 25,000 and containing (1) blocked isocyanate groups corresponding to an NCO content of 5 to 20 wt. % calculated as free NCO, relative to unblocked polyisocyanate, (2) 1 to 75 meq of ionic groups per 100 g of blocked polyisocyanate, and (3) 3 to 40 wt.

Abstract: Phobicity effects of high quality and permanence are obtained on textile materials of the most diverse types if these are finished with combinations ofA) a polymer containing perfluoroalkyl groups andB) a cationically modified polyurethane.The new compositions are also distinguished by a comparatively low content of expensive fluorine compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to water-dispersible polyetherester-modified polyurethane ionomers containing 10 to 100 milliequivalents of ionic, preferably cationic, groups per 100 g of ionomer; 2 to 40% by weight of polyetherester groups; and 1 to 35% by weight of ethylene oxide units, in which the percentages are based on the weight of the polyetherester-modified polyurethane ionomer.The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these polyetherester-modified polyurethane ionomers and to aqueous compositions containing these polyetherester-modified polyurethane ionomers and polymers containing perfluoralkyl groups.

Abstract: An ambulance has two stretcher support stages placed one over the other next to one side wall of the ambulance for taking up stretchers and near the side wall there is a single guiding upright or two spaced guiding uprights, on which runners are guided and on which they may be locked at different heights. On the runners or sleeves, brackets are fixed, more specially by way of horizontal bearings, the stretcher stages being supported on the brackets. Rails running in the length-direction of the ambulance, and designed for supporting the stages, may be changed in length so that the separate runners may undergo separate adjustment in height. The front upright or a support with the same effect is fixed to the side wall of the ambulance or to the ambulance's floor, while the back guiding upright is supported by way of a floor wheel on the ambulance floor, such wheel being fixed directly to the lower end of the upright or to a post on which the upright is supported.