Abstract: A beverage capsule (100) comprises a substantially cup-shaped body (102) enclosed by an injection wall (108) and defining a cavity (104), a partition (112) dividing said cavity (104) into a first chamber (114) and a second chamber (116), and a channel (122) extending from the partition (112) which opens at a first end (124) into the first chamber (114) at the partition (112), and at a second end (126) into the second chamber (116) at a predetermined distance from said partition (112).

Abstract: A computer processor employs an instruction processing pipeline that processes a sequence of wide instructions each including a plurality of encoding slots that contain a plurality of different operations. The plurality of encoding slots and the operations contained therein for each wide instruction are statically assigned to different phases of execution belonging to an ordered set of phases of execution. The ordered set of phases of execution can have a predefined order that allows data produced by execution of an operation in an earlier phase of execution to be consumed by execution of at least one other operation in a later phase of execution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of molybdenum and vanadium mixed oxides, optionally iron doped, as catalysts for the oxidation of unsaturated alcohols, in particular allyl alcohol, and also to a process for the production of unsaturated carboxylic acids, in particular acrylic acid, in the gas phase, in the presence of such a catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of rhenium-containing supported heterogeneous catalysts for the deoxydehydration of glycerol to allyl alcohol, as well as to a process for the production of allyl alcohol from glycerol, in the presence of such heterogeneous catalysts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for production of hydrogen at low temperature starting from alcohols without formation of carbon using an oxyhydride material based on cerium and nickel and to the use of such a material as catalyst for transformation of alcohols to hydrogen.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a capsule (11) containing a beverage ingredient, adapted to be functionally inserted in a food preparation machine (1), said capsule comprising walls (12) that define a cavity wherein said beverage is prepared by mixing said ingredient with a fluid injected therein under pressure by said machine, said capsule further comprising a dispensing opening (13), and opening means that open upon effect of the rise of pressure within said cavity, characterized in that said opening means comprise a flow-conducting channel (14) able to connect the capsule cavity to the dispensing opening (13) and a spring-mounted piston plug (15) that is movable in said channel between: (i) a closed position where said cavity pressure is below a first predetermined pressure Pc, the piston spring (16) is at rest, and the piston plug (15) seals against a sealing portion (19) of the channel walls, (ii) a dispensing position where said cavity pressure is equal or superior to Pc, the piston spring (16) is elasti

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the production of a 3D printed object (100), wherein the method comprises (i) a 3D printing stage, the 3D printing stage comprising 3D printing a 3D printable material (110) to provide the 3D printed object (100), wherein the 3D printing stage further comprises forming during 3D printing a channel (200) in the 3D printed object (100) under construction, wherein the method further comprises (ii) a filling stage comprising filling the channel (200) with a flowable material (140), wherein the flowable material (140) comprises a functional material (140a), wherein the functional material (140a) has one or more of electrically conductive properties, thermally conductive properties, light transmissive properties, and magnetic properties, and immobilizing said functional material (140a).

Abstract: A light source assembly comprising: a solid state lighting device; a wavelength converting element arranged to receive light emitted by the solid state lighting device and adapted to convert some of the received light to a different wavelength; and a scattering layer applied to a light emitting surface of the wavelength converting element. The scattering layer is adapted to scatter light back to the wavelength converting element, and a backscattering strength of the scattering layer varies over said light emitting surface so as to reduce variations in the color of the light emitted from the light emitting surface.

Abstract: A LED grid device comprising a LED grid and a plate-shaped member at which the LED grid has been arranged. The LED grid has several electrically conducting wires arranged side by side, and several LED modules, each LED module having a LED package, wherein each LED package is coupled to at least two wires of the electrically conducting wires. Each LED module further has a thermally conducting element positioned between two adjacent wires of the wires that the LED package is coupled to. The thermally conducting element carries the LED package, and protrudes from the LED package, and the thermally conducting element is attached to the plate-shaped member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of haloapatites as catalysts of the dehydration reaction of ?-hydroxylated carboxylic acids or acid esters, in particular of lactic acid or of methyl lactate, and also to a process for producing unsaturated carboxylic acids or acid esters, in particular acrylic acid or methyl acrylate, in the gas phase in a stainless steel reactor, in the presence of such a catalyst.

Abstract: A computer processor including a first memory structure that operates over multiple cycles to temporarily store operands referenced by at least one instruction. A plurality of functional units performs operations that produce and access operands stored in the first memory structure. A second memory structure is provided, separate from the first memory structure. The second memory structure is configured as a dedicated memory for storage of operands copied from the first memory structure. The second memory structure is organized with a byte-addressable memory space and each operand stored in the second memory structure is accessed by a given byte address into the byte-addressable memory space.

Abstract: A computer processor including a plurality of functional units that performs operations that produce result operands at different characteristic latencies over multiple cycles. An interconnect network provides data paths for transfer of operand data between functional units. The interconnect network includes first and second crossbar parts. The first crossbar part is configured to route result operands produced with the lowest characteristic latency to any other functional unit. The second crossbar part is configured to route result operands with higher characteristic latency relative to the lowest characteristic latency to the first crossbar part where such result operands are in turn routed to any functional unit. In another aspect, the functional units can be organized as multiple slots where each slot can produce multiple result operands of different characteristic latencies in the same cycle, and wherein each slot employs separate result registers for each characteristic latency present on the slot.

Abstract: A lighting device comprising a support panel located between two outer sheets, which support panel is provided with at least one light emitting module, while at least one of the outer sheets is translucent. The outer sheets are movable with respect to each other at least from a folded state in which the support panel and the outer sheets extend substantially parallel to each other and an unfolded state in which the outer sheets are at least partly further spaced apart than in the folded state.

Abstract: A method for synthesising a second ester from a first ester, the method including the following steps: a) placing a first ester and a catalyst in the presence of dihydrogen such as to obtain a first alcohol and a second alcohol; b) extracting the second alcohol from the reaction medium; c) reacting the first alcohol with the catalyst of step a) in order to obtain a second ester and dihydrogen; and d) recirculating the dihydrogen obtained in step c) by injecting same into step a).

Abstract: A computer processor and corresponding method of operation employs execution logic that includes at least one functional unit and operand storage that stores data that is produced and consumed by the at least one functional unit. The at least one functional unit is configured to execute a deferred operation whose execution produces result data. The execution logic further includes a retire station that is configured to store and retire the result data of the deferred operation in order to store such result data in the operand storage, wherein the retire of such result data occurs at a machine cycle following issue of the deferred operation as controlled by statically-assigned parameter data included in the encoding of the deferred operation.

Abstract: A compound of the formula SbxFe1Oy (I) in which x varies from 0.4 to 1 inclusive and y varies from 1.6 to 4 inclusive, may be used as a catalyst for catalyzing the ammoxidation reaction of an alcohol of following formula (II) CH2?C(R1)—CH2—OH (II) in which R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical, to give nitrile of following formula (III) CH2?C(R1)—C?N (III) in which R1 has the same meaning as in above formula (II), the said reaction being carried out in the gas phase, the said gas phase comprising at least oxygen and ammonia. The present invention also relates to the process for the ammoxidation of an alcohol of formula (II) employing a compound of formula (I) as catalyst.

Abstract: Disclosed is method of manufacturing a lighting arrangement (100) comprising a plurality of conductive wires (110) organized in a flexible grid comprising a plurality of grid nodes (115), each grid node comprising a first one of said conductive wires and a second one of said conductive wires, at least some of the grid nodes further comprising a solid state lighting element (120) conductively coupled to the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires, wherein each grid node comprises a mechanical support member (130, 134) including a polymer portion (130) embedding the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a capsule (1) for use in a beverage preparation machine, said capsule comprising: (i) lateral walls (2), a pierceable injection wall (3) adapted to be pierced by fluid injection means (4) of the machine, and a dispensing wall (5) adapted to dispense said beverage, that delimit a closed internal volume, (ii) a flexible fluid distributor wall (7), that is located inside the closed volume of the capsule, at a distance below the pierceable wall (3) so as to separate:—a headspace compartment (8) between the pierceable wall (3) and said fluid distributor wall (7) which is able to accommodate the injection means during injection of the fluid, and—an ingredient compartment (9) located between said fluid distributor wall (7) and said dispensing wall (5), containing a bed of non-soluble beverage ingredient particles, characterized in that the head-space compartment (8) contains a superabsorbent polymer (10) able to absorb a quantity of the injected fluid, and swell so as to fill the

Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for the production of an aldehyde compound by an oxidation reaction of an alcohol compound in the presence of a mesostructured vanadium phosphorus mixed oxide catalyst, at a temperature comprised between 50° C. and 200° C., in presence of an oxidant. The reaction medium may also comprise a solvent.

Abstract: A computer processor including a plurality of storage elements logically organized as a fixed length queue referenced by logical temporal addresses. The fixed length queue operates over multiple cycles to temporarily store operands referenced by at least one instruction utilizing the logical temporal addresses. A plurality of functional units performs operations over the multiple cycles, wherein the operations produce and access operands stored in the logical fixed length queue. Operands can be added to the front of the logical fixed length queue according to the temporal order that operands are produced by the functional units, and operands can drop from the end of the logical fixed length queue as operands are added to the front of the fixed length queue. A plurality of operands produced by the plurality of functional units (possibly with different latencies in producing such operands) can be added to the logical fixed length queue in a single cycle.