Woodwelding Ag

Boehringer Ingelheim International Gmbh

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC

Multimaterial-welding Ag

Stryker European Holdings I LLC

Bernafon Ag

Antonino Lanci

Laurent Torriani

Marcel Aeschlimann

Jörg Mayer

Elmar Mock

Philipp Bernhard

Johannes Geser

Samuel Malzach

Martin Sigrist

Joakim Kvist

Mario Weiss

Michael Spallek

Herbert Wachtel

Burkhard Metzger

Andre Klopfenstein

Hubert Kunze

Yves Stephane Crozet

Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr

Matthias Hausmann

Adam John Edelhauser

Florian Witte

Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik

Laurent Manca

Patrick Charles Silvestrini

Irene Taurino

Frederic Lavanchy

Holger Holakovsky

Martin Meisenheimer

Keethan Dasnavis Fernando

Dani Ruscio

Dieter Hochrainer

Jens Besseler

Heinrich Kladders

Gilbert Wuttke

Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg

Ralf Thoemmes

Onur Dayioglu

Hannes Merz

Achim Moser

Christoph Dworzak

Markus Mast

Michael Krueger

Sergey Krasiev

Gerald Mathe

Guido Schmiedel

Mario Tronza

Göran Dahl

Joachim Bjurenheim

Nicholas Aldersley

Boris Mahler

Fabiana Spadaro

Loïc Sottas

André Klopfenstein

Luc Amgwerd

Gustav Levander

Burkhard P Metzger

Carsten Henning

Josef Eckert

Jean-Claude Frély

Frédéric Lavanchy

Jürg Clavadetscher

Herbert Kunze

Naomi Bitmead

Kiflay Mengestabe

Johannnes Geser

Joerg Mayer

Samuel Melzach

Elmar Peter Mock

Naomi Jan Bitmead

A method of mechanically securing a first object to a second object, wherein the first object has a thermoplastic material in a solid state, the second object has a generally flat sheet portion having a second object edge. A third object is provided and arranged to provide an assembly including the first, second and third objects, in which assembly the second object edge is in contact with the thermoplastic material. Mechanical vibration energy is coupled into the assembly by means of a vibrating tool until a flow portion of the thermoplastic material due to friction heat generated between the second object edge and the thermoplastic material becomes flowable and flows around the second object edge to at least partially embed the second object edge in the thermoplastic material and the third object is caused to be embedded at least partially in the thermoplastic material of the first object.

Method for securing a second object to a first object

An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device having a heating chamber configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, the heating chamber including a first end having an opening, a second end having a base, and a side wall extending between the opening and the base; and a residue collector removably insertable into the heating chamber and positionable at or near the second end, the heating chamber further including a first side opening in the side wall and a second side opening in the side wall, opposite the first side opening, and the residue collector being insertable into the heating chamber and removable from the heating chamber through the first and the second side openings.

Aerosol-generating device with a removably-insertable residue collector

A tool for implementing a correction plan in an external fixation frame having a plurality of adjustment elements or screws, for example, generally includes a driver, a motor, a controller, and a processor. The driver is adapted to engage and rotate each of the screws. The motor is coupled the driver and adapted to rotate the driver. The controller is connected to the motor and configured to control operation of the motor. The processor adapted configured to: receive correction plan data; receive identification data including information for identifying at least one of the plurality of screws; determine movement of at least one of the plurality of the screws based on the correction plan data and the identification data; and send signals indicative of the determined movement to the controller in order to rotate at least one of the plurality of screws according to a predetermined correction plan.

Methods and systems for adjusting an external fixation frame

A method of mechanically securing a first object including a thermoplastic material in a solid state to a second object with a generally flat sheet portion, with a perforation of the sheet portion, and with the sheet portion having an edge along the perforation is provided, wherein the first object is positioned relative to the second object so that the edge is in contact with the thermoplastic material and wherein mechanical vibration energy is coupled into the assembly including the first and second objects until a flow portion of the thermoplastic material due to friction heat generated between the edge and the thermoplastic material becomes flowable and flows around the edge to at least partially embed the edge in the thermoplastic material. After the mechanical vibration stops, the thermoplastic material is caused to re-solidify, whereby the re-solidified thermoplastic material at least partially embedding the edge anchors the first object in the second object.

Securing a second object to a first object

A reclosable cartridge assembly () for use in an aerosol-generating system comprises: a cartridge () extending longitudinally between end walls (); a housing () enclosing the cartridge () and comprising: an upstream portion with an end wall () comprising an opening (); and a downstream housing portion () with an end wall comprising an opening (). One of the housing portions () is rotatably fitted onto the cartridge (). One of the cartridge end walls () comprises a rupturable portion () separable from the remainder of the end wall to expose an opening () in the end wall. The rotatable housing portion () is adapted to engage the rupturable portion () such that, upon rotation from a storage position to a dispensing position, the housing portion () breaks off the rupturable portion () and exposes the opening () in the end wall. When the housing portion () is in the dispensing position, the opening () in the housing portion () is in fluid communication with the exposed opening () in the cartridge (). The housing portion () is further reversibly rotatable between the dispensing position and a closed position. When in the closed position, the end wall of the housing portion () obstructs the exposed opening () in the cartridge.

Activatable and reclosable cartridge assembly for an aerosol-generating system

There is provided a cartridge assembly () for use in an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge assembly comprising: a cartridge () comprising at least a first compartment () extending along a longitudinal axis, the first compartment comprising an aerosol-generating compound and being sealed at a first end by a first frangible barrier () extending in respective planes transverse to the longitudinal axis; and at least a first piercing member () configured to rupture the first frangible barrier (). The first piercing member () comprises: a first piercing body () having a cross-sectional surface area at least about 40 percent of a cross-sectional area of the at least one compartment (); and a first channel () extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cartridge through the first piercing body (), the first channel () having an inlet and an outlet. The first piercing member () is movable along the longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, wherein, when the first piercing member () is in the first position, the first piercing body () is retracted from the plane of the first frangible barrier (); and wherein, when the first piercing member () is in the second position, the first piercing body () extends into the at least one compartment () through the plane of the first frangible barrier (), and the at least one compartment () is in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet of the first channel (). The at least one compartment () is sealed at an end opposite the first end by a second frangible barrier (), the cartridge assembly () further comprising a second piercing member () configured to rupture the second frangible barrier ().

Cartridge assembly with activating piercing members for an aerosol-generating system

A tool for implementing a correction plan in an external fixation frame having a plurality of adjustment elements or screws, for example, generally includes a driver, a motor, a controller, and a processor. The driver is adapted to engage and rotate each of the screws. The motor is coupled the driver and adapted to rotate the driver. The controller is connected to the motor and configured to control operation of the motor. The a processor adapted configured to: receive correction plan data; receive identification data including information for identifying at least one of the plurality of screws; determine movement of at least one of the plurality of the screws based on the correction plan data and the identification data; and send signals indicative of the determined movement to the controller in order to rotate at least one of the plurality of screws according to a predetermined correction plan.

Method of securing a fastener to an object

There is provided a portable extinguisher for extinguishing a single smoking article at a time, the extinguisher including defining a reservoir, a chamber, and an opening configured to receive a smoking article into the chamber, the chamber being sized to receive at least part of the smoking article and being isolated from the reservoir such that there is no fluid communication between the chamber and the reservoir, wherein the reservoir and the chamber are thermally coupled.

Extinguisher for a smoking article

An adaptor for securing a second object includes an anchoring part and an adjustment part, wherein the anchoring part includes a distally facing anchoring surface and a proximally facing first control surface. The adjustment part has a distally facing second control surface positioned to abut against the first control surface. The anchoring part and the adjustment part define a common axis that is not perpendicular to the z direction, wherein the first control surface and possibly also the second control surface is/are helical with respect to the axis. Thereby a relative z position of the adjustment part with respect to the anchoring part is defined by the relative orientation of the adjustment part with respect to the common axis while the second control surface abuts against the first control surface.

Adaptor for securing objects to each other

The present disclosure relates to a hollow body configured to attach to a container for a liquid food product, the hollow body comprising a first piece and a second piece. At least a portion of a periphery of the first piece is attached to at least a portion of a periphery of the second piece in order to form the hollow body. Further, it is presented related methods for producing a package comprising a container and a hollow body.

Hollow body to be attached to a package and a method for producing said hollow body

The present disclosure relates to a package for a liquid food product, the package comprising a container and a hollow body for transporting the liquid food product from the container. The hollow body comprises a first part fixedly attached to a first section of the container and a second part releasably attached to a second section of the container, such that when the second part is released from the second section the second part is pivotable around an intersection point between the first part and the second part. Further, the present disclosure includes methods for producing a package comprising a container and a hollow body, and for producing a hollow body arranged to be attached to a container.

Package comprising a drinking device restricted to move in a pre-determined plane

An adaptor is secured to a first object. The adaptor includes an anchoring part and an adjustment part. The anchoring part includes a distally facing anchoring surface and a proximally facing first control surface. The adjustment part has a distally facing second control surface positioned to abut against the first control surface. The first control surface or the second control surface or both is/are helical. Thereby a relative z position of the adjustment part with respect to the anchoring part is defined by the relative orientation of the adjustment part with respect to the common axis while the second control surface abuts against the first control surface. This is used to adjust the z position of the adjustment part relative to the first object, in connection with the orientation of the adjustment part being defined and possibly fixed by the function of the adaptor/the adjustment part.

There is provided a portable extinguisher for extinguishing a single smoking article at a time. The extinguisher includes an outer vessel, an inner sleeve, an opening, and a lid. The opening is sized to receive a single smoking article into the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve is within the outer vessel and is at least partially separated from the outer vessel. The inner sleeve includes at least one aperture allowing fluid communication between the inner sleeve and the outer vessel. The lid is for closing the extinguisher. When the lid is closed, escape of fluid from the extinguisher is prevented.

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Bern, Switzerland

Antonino Lanci