1. A sealing arrangement comprising at least one container (1) andor at least one container part, such as a closure cap that is placed on the container (1), wherein the inside of the container (1) is used to accommodate a medium, in particular in the form of a fluid that is bottled in a sterile manner, which can be removed from the container (1) by means of a removal device such as a syringe needle, to which end said removal device penetrates at least one sealing material (9). which sealing material is connected to the container (1) andor parts thereof, characterized in that the respective sealing material (9) is disposed on the outside (7) of the container (1) andor on container parts thereof facing the environment, and in that the respective sealing material (9) is fixedly connected to the outside (7) of the container (1) andor to parts thereof facing the environment by means of a welded andor adhesively bonded connection.
2. The sealing arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the respective sealing material (9) is welded to the outer wall (7) of the container (1) and or the container parts thereof without filler material and preferably free of adhesives.
3. The sealing arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the respective sealing material (9) rests directly on the outer wall (7), to which it can be assigned, with no spacing, and with the entire contact surface of said sealing material that faces the container (1) or container part resting against the outer wall (7), to which it can be assigned.
4. The sealing arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that elastomers or plastics that can be bonded or welded are used as a sealing material (9), and in that a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) is preferably used as a sealing material (9).
5. The sealing arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the container (9) is produced by means of a blow, fill and seal process, and in that the sealing material (9) is preferably applied to the container (1) after the production of said container is complete.
6. A container (1) associated with a sealing arrangement according to claim 1, said container being made out of plastic, and being produced, filled and sealed in a sterile manner in a blow molding process, and it being possible to pierce the container wall (7) of said container by means of a cannula or a mandrel in order to remove product, wherein the sealing arrangement has a sealing material (9) in order to seal a puncture site that is formed in the container wall (7) during a removal process, characterized in that the sealing material (9) is disposed on the outside (7) of the container (1) or on a part thereof facing the environment, and in that the respective sealing material (9) is fixedly connected to the outside (7) of the container (1) andor to parts thereof facing the environment by means of a welded andor adhesively bonded connection.
7. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the sealing material, in the form of a disk-like body (9), is connected to the container wall (7) in a materially integrated bond.
8. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that said container is provided with a container head (5), which is connected to a main part of a container (1) by means of a neck part (3), said container head having a wall section (7) which can be pierced for a removal procedure, and in that the sealing material (9) is provided on the container head (5).
9. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that a removable protective film (11) is provided on the outside of the sealing arrangement, said protective film resting detachably on the body (9) of the sealing material.
10. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the wall section (7) of the container head (5), which is connected to the body (9) of the sealing material, has a curvature that extends from the interior of the container directed outward, and in that the outside of the body (9) of the sealing material has a similar curvature.
11. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the outside of the body (9) of the sealing material has at least one recess (19).
12. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the recess of the body (9) has the form of an annular space (19), which extends concentrically to a central, non-recessed region.
13. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that a plastic ring (23) that laterally encloses the body (9) of the sealing material is provided, which ring is connected to the container head (5) andor to the main part of the container (1).
14. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the plastic ring (23) engages behind a radially projecting edge region (15) on the container head (5).
15. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that said container forms a shoulder (29) at the transition between the main part of the container (1) and the container head (5), and in that the plastic ring (23) overlaps over the container head (5) in the manner of a cap, and is connected to the shoulder (29).
16. The container according to claim 6, characterized in that the cap-like plastic ring (23) forms an enclosure for the body (9) of the sealing material in the form of a cylinder (27), which projects axially outward beyond the body (9).
17. A sealing material for a sealing arrangement according to claims 1, characterized in that it is made out of an elastomer or plastic that can be bonded or welded.
18. The sealing material according to claim 17, characterized in that said material is composed of a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE).
19. The sealing material according to claim 17, characterized in that said material is formed by a block-shaped or disk-shaped body (9).
20. A method for producing a container according to claim 6, in which a non-detachable, form-fitting connection between a region (7) of the container wall, which has been provided as a puncture site for a removal procedure, and a sealing material (9) made out of a plastic that can be welded, preferably a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), is formed by a joining process, in which the contact surface on at least one of the joining elements (7, 9) is heated at least to the sterilization temperature before the joining elements (7, 9) are pressed against one another to form a welded joint.
21. The method according to claim 20, characterized in that a sealing material (9) is used which contains an antimicrobial additive.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A computer system comprising the following:
one or more processors;
system memory;
one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for generating feature values for one or more selectable features using feature recombination, the method comprising the following:
an act of accessing a set of selectable features, each feature including one or more feature values;
an act of encoding the accessed set of selectable features, such that the feature values are mapped into one or more recombinable values and which are presented to a plurality of users for selection;
an act of generating a first population of feature values from the encoded set of selectable features;
an act of ranking each feature value in the first population of feature values based on which feature values are selected by the plurality of users; and
an act of generating a second population of feature values by recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking, wherein generating the second population of feature values includes at least one of:
proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of a genetic algorithm crossover recombination, or
inserting one or more random mutations in the second population of feature values.
2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the second population of feature values is recombined across multiple iterations of expression of preference by the plurality of users.
3. The computer system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of users selects their preferred candidate feature values at each population of feature values.
4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein the feature values converge on a subset of preferred feature values.
5. The computer system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the subset of preferred feature values is selected as being representative of the plurality of users’ selection.
6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the act of generating a first population of feature values from the encoded set of selectable features comprises pruning one or more candidate feature values to reduce the number of available candidate feature values.
7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the candidate feature values are pruned randomly.
8. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the candidate feature values are pruned using domain-specific knowledge about user-preferred feature values.
9. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the second population of feature values is recombined across multiple iterations of expression of preference by the plurality of users.
10. The computer system of claim 4, wherein at least one of the subset of preferred feature values is selected by each of a plurality of different groups of users.
11. The computer system of claim 1, wherein recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking comprises proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of the genetic algorithm crossover recombination.
12. The computer system of claim 1, wherein recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking further comprises proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of a weighted averaging algorithm.
13. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the act of generating a second population of feature values by recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking further comprises inserting the one or more random mutations in the second population of feature values.
14. The computer system of claim 1, wherein at least one combination of features is kept together in the second population of feature values.
15. The computer system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of subsequent populations are generated by recombining the selected feature values of each population proportional to the feature’s ranking in each generation.
16. The computer system of claim 1, wherein user preference for one or more identified feature values is gathered at least one of directly and indirectly.
17-20. (canceled)
21. A computer-implemented method for generating feature values for one or more selectable features using feature recombination, the method being implemented by a computing system that includes at least one processor, the method comprising the following:
an act of accessing a set of selectable features, each feature including one or more feature values;
an act of encoding the accessed set of selectable features, such that the feature values are mapped into one or more recombinable values and which are presented to a plurality of users for selection;
an act of generating a first population of feature values from the encoded set of selectable features;
an act of ranking each feature value in the first population of feature values based on which feature values are selected by the plurality of users; and
an act of generating a second population of feature values by recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking, wherein generating the second population of feature values includes at least one of:
proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of a genetic algorithm crossover recombination, or
inserting one or more random mutations in the second population of feature values.
22. A computer storage device comprising stored computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, implement a method for generating feature values for one or more selectable features using feature recombination, wherein the method includes the computing system causing the performance of:
an act of accessing a set of selectable features, each feature including one or more feature values;
an act of encoding the accessed set of selectable features, such that the feature values are mapped into one or more recombinable values and which are presented to a plurality of users for selection;
an act of generating a first population of feature values from the encoded set of selectable features;
an act of ranking each feature value in the first population of feature values based on which feature values are selected by the plurality of users; and
an act of generating a second population of feature values by recombining the feature values proportional to the ranking, wherein generating the second population of feature values includes at least one of:
proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of a genetic algorithm crossover recombination, or
inserting one or more random mutations in the second population of feature values.
23. The computer storage device of claim 22, wherein generating the second population of feature values comprises said proportionally selecting feature values from the first population of feature values as part of the genetic algorithm crossover recombination.
24. The computer storage device of claim 22, wherein generating the second population of feature values comprises said inserting the one or more random mutations in the second population of feature values.