Author: claimsbot

1. A dispenser for dispensing sheets of web material from a stack of sheets of web material, comprising:
a housing;
a dispensing opening;
a web material reservoir for the stack arranged in the housing;
a biasing arrangement arranged to bias the stack towards the dispensing opening; and
a stopper element associated with the dispensing opening, the stopper element being adapted to prevent the stack from being ejected through the dispensing opening by the biasing arrangement,
wherein the web material reservoir defines a stack space arranged to house the stack, the stack space being at least partially delimited between a first plane and a second plane, substantially parallel to and spaced a first distance from the first plane,
wherein near the dispensing opening, the first plane extends in a first plane direction directed towards the dispensing opening and the second plane extends in a second plane direction directed towards the dispensing opening, and
wherein the dispensing opening comprises an opening portion having an opening width corresponding to the first distance, the opening portion being substantially aligned with the stack space such that the first and second plane directions extend uninterruptedly through the opening portion.
2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the dispensing opening extends in an opening plane and a normal of the opening plane extends in a direction substantially parallel with the first and second plane directions.
3. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein the web material reservoir is arranged to house the stack with edge portions of the sheets of web material in the stack extending in parallel with the first and second planes, and with planes of the sheets extending substantially perpendicularly to the first and second planes and in parallel with the opening plane.
4. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the stopper element is arranged in a middle portion of the dispensing opening and extends substantially perpendicularly to the first and second planes.
5. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the stopper element comprises two stopper element portions extending substantially perpendicularly to the first and second planes, each stopper element portion being arranged at opposed ends of the dispensing opening.
6. The dispenser according to claim 4, wherein the stopper element comprises a fixed surface arranged to abut against the stack.
7. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein the stopper element comprises at least one roller arranged to abut against an outer sheet of web material of the stack of web material, the roller being arranged to rotate about a rotation axis, wherein the rotation axis extends parallel to the opening plane.
8. The dispenser according to claim 7, wherein the at least one roller has a substantially cylindrical shape.
9. The dispenser according to claim 7, wherein the at least one roller has a substantially spherical shape.
10. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein the stopper element extends in the opening plane with an abutment surface portion of the stopper element arranged substantially in the opening plane.
11. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the web material reservoir has a rectangular inner cross-section.
12. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the web material reservoir comprises a first delimiting element extending at least partially in the first plane and a second delimiting element extending at least partially in the second plane.
13. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the web material reservoir is adapted to house a stack comprising a plurality of bundles, wherein each bundle comprises at least two substantially coextensive sheets of web material, and wherein in the stack, the bundles of said plurality of bundles are alternatingly offset in relation to each other.
14. The dispenser according to claim 13, wherein the opening portion of the dispensing opening is arranged to expose an edge portion of an outermost bundle of sheets of web material in the stack, for a user to grasp around the edge portion of the outermost bundle of sheets of web material.
15. The dispenser according to claim 13, wherein each sheet of web material has an extension along a first direction, and wherein the bundles are alternatingly offset along the first direction.
16. The dispenser according to claim 13, wherein each bundle of said plurality of bundles comprises sheets of web material.
17. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein each sheet of web material forms a napkin.
18. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein each sheet of web material comprises a cellulose material comprising new andor recycled cellulose fibers.
19. A method of dispensing a bundle comprising at least two sheets of web material from a dispenser comprising a stack of sheets of web material, the stack comprising a plurality of bundles, each bundle comprising at least two coextensive sheets of web material, wherein the bundles of said plurality of bundles are alternatingly offset in relation to each other, the method comprising:
biasing the stack towards a dispensing opening of the dispenser;
biasing the stack against a stopper element arranged in connection with the dispensing opening;
exposing an edge portion of an outermost bundle in the dispensing opening;
grasping the outermost bundle about the edge portion; and
removing the outermost bundle from the dispensing opening and the stopper element.
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the dispenser comprises:
a housing;
a dispensing opening;
a web material reservoir for the stack arranged in the housing;
a biasing arrangement arranged to bias the stack towards the dispensing opening; and
a stopper element associated with the dispensing opening, the stopper element being adapted to prevent the stack from being ejected through the dispensing opening by the biasing arrangement,
wherein the web material reservoir defines a stack space arranged to house the stack, the stack space being at least partially delimited between a first plane and a second plane, substantially parallel to and spaced a first distance from the first plane,
wherein near the dispensing opening, the first plane extends in a first plane direction directed towards the dispensing opening and the second plane extends in a second plane direction directed towards the dispensing opening, and
wherein the dispensing opening comprises an opening portion having an opening width corresponding to the first distance, the opening portion being substantially aligned with the stack space such that the first and second plane directions extend uninterruptedly through the opening portion.

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 pump adapted to be attached between a fluid reservoir and an inflatable penile cylinder of an inflatable penile prosthesis, the pump comprising:
a pump bulb connected to a pump body, the pump body including a deflate valve chamber communicating with an actuator chamber, the actuator chamber including a restriction ring;
an inlet valve disposed within the pump body;
an exhaust valve disposed within the pump body and in fluid communication with the inlet valve; and
a deflate valve disposed within the pump body between the inlet valve and the exhaust valve, the deflate valve including an end surface movable inside the deflate valve chamber and a base surface movable inside the actuator chamber, the base surface of the deflate valve including a ring engagement surface;
wherein compression of the pump bulb increases fluid pressure in the actuator chamber to displace the base surface of the deflate valve away from the exhaust valve toward the inlet valve to position the deflate valve for inflation of the inflatable penile cylinder; and
wherein the restriction ring of the actuator chamber is sized to engage the ring engagement surface of the deflate valve to maintain the deflate valve in a deflate mode when the base surface of the deflate valve is moved away from the inlet valve toward the exhaust valve to thus allow fluid in the inflatable penile cylinder to bypass the pump bulb and flow from the inflatable penile cylinder to the fluid reservoir.
2. A pump adapted to be attached between a fluid reservoir and an inflatable penile cylinder of an inflatable penile prosthesis, the pump comprising:
a pump bulb connected to a pump body, the pump body including a deflate valve chamber communicating with an actuator chamber, a deflate cap attached to the deflate valve chamber, and the actuator chamber including a restriction ring;
an inlet valve disposed within the pump body between the pump bulb and the deflate valve chamber;
an exhaust valve disposed within the pump body between the pump bulb and the actuator chamber; and
a deflate valve disposed within the pump body between the inlet valve and the exhaust valve, the deflate valve including an end surface movable inside the deflate valve chamber and a base surface movable inside the actuator chamber, the base surface of the deflate valve including a ring engagement surface;
wherein movement of the base surface of the deflate valve away from the inlet valve toward the exhaust valve provides a deflate mode that allows fluid in the inflatable penile cylinder to bypass the pump bulb and flow from the inflatable penile cylinder to the fluid reservoir, and the restriction ring of the actuator chamber is sized to engage the ring engagement surface of the deflate valve to maintain the deflate valve in the deflate mode.
3. The pump of claim 2, wherein the deflate valve is a one-touch release valve adapted to provide user-activated bypass of fluid from the inflatable penile cylinder directly to the fluid reservoir without sustained activation of the deflate valve by the user.
4. The pump of claim 2, wherein the restriction ring of the actuator chamber and the ring engagement surface of the deflate valve combine to provide a fluid seal.
5. The pump of claim 2, further comprising a valve spring located in the pump body between the end surface and the base surface of the deflate valve.
6. The pump of claim 5, wherein the valve spring is adapted to bias the deflate valve to maintain an unactuated state until force is applied to activate the deflate valve.
7. The pump of claim 2, wherein the deflate valve is disposed within the pump body transverse relative to a flow path between the pump bulb and the fluid reservoir.
8. The pump of claim 2, wherein the deflate valve is longer than the deflate valve is wide.

1. An insulation blanket configured to be connected at an inside surface of an aircraft fuselage and to allow the passage of a structural element, comprising:
at least one opening that allows passage of the structural element; and
a sealing device configured to be installed as a single unit, the sealing device comprising first and second parallel rectilinear portions and including a core that is combined with a body that extends over a closed contour delimiting the at least one opening, the core having a spring action adapted to flatten the body against the through element over at least a part of a circumference of the opening.
2. The insulation blanket according to claim 1, wherein the core extends over the entire circumference of the opening.
3. The insulation blanket according to claim 2, wherein the core forms a loop whose profile is essentially identical to that of a cross-section of the through element.
4. The insulation blanket according to claim 2, wherein the core is a metal wire that is made of a piano-wire material.
5. The insulation blanket according to claim 4, wherein the wire has a sinusoidal profile over at least one portion to increase a pressure of contact on the through element.
6. The insulation blanket according to claim 1, wherein the core is made of a material with shape memory.
7. The insulation blanket according to claim 1, wherein the body is made from a silicone-based material that covers the core.
8. The insulation blanket according to claim 7, wherein the body comprises:
a part into which the core, that extends over the entire circumference of the opening, is inserted; and
a layer that extends on the periphery and outside of the part.
9. The insulation blanket according to claim 8, further comprising edges that overlap with the layer of the sealing device, whereby said edges and said layer are made integral with a peripheral junction line.
10. An aircraft fuselage that comprises the insulation blanket according to claim 1, wherein the through element is configured for holding the sealing device.
11. The aircraft fuselage according to claim 10, wherein the aircraft fuselage comprises a through element that comprises:
an edge that is oriented toward an outside of the aircraft, the edge being formed from an excess thickness on one face of the through element.
12. The aircraft fuselage according to claim 11, wherein the through element further comprises:
two base plates;
a yoke connecting the two base plates, the yoke comprising a through opening that forms an anchoring point; and
two excess thicknesses of the yoke, each offering an edge with a cylindrical portion that is centered relative to the opening.
13. The aircraft fuselage according to claim 12, wherein the core comprises:
the first and second parallel rectilinear portions of which the first rectilinear portion has a length that is approximately equal to or slightly less than a sum of thicknesses of the yoke and excess thicknesses and of which the second portion has a length that is approximately equal to or slightly less than the thickness of the yoke; and
two long sides that connect said two rectilinear portions, each side comprising two curved portions.
14. The aircraft fuselage according to claim 13, wherein the curved portions are arranged in planes that are perpendicular to the rectilinear portions and have curvature radii that are essentially identical to a cylindrical portion of the edge of the excess thicknesses, with the portions of the two long sides being arranged in parallel planes that are separated by a distance that is slightly less than or equal to the sum of the thicknesses of the yoke and the excess thicknesses, and with the portions of the two long sides being arranged in parallel planes that are separated by a distance that is slightly less than or equal to the thickness of the yoke.
15. The insulation blanket according to claim 3, wherein the core is a metal wire that is made of a piano-wire material.
16. The insulation blanket according to claim 2, wherein the core is made of a material with shape memory.
17. The insulation blanket according to claim 2, wherein the body is made from a silicone-based material that covers the core.
18. An insulation blanket configured to be connected at an inside surface of an aircraft fuselage, comprising:
at least one opening that allows passage of a fuselage structural element; and
a sealing device comprising a wire core that is combined with a body that extends over a closed contour delimiting the at least one opening, the core being a loop with a sinusoidal profile and having a spring action adapted to flatten the body against the fuselage structural element over at least a part of a circumference of the opening.
19. An aircraft fuselage comprising:
a fuselage structural element;
an insulation blanket having at least one opening that allows passage of the fuselage structural element; and
a sealing device comprising a wire core that is combined with a body that extends over a closed contour delimiting the at least one opening, the core being a loop with a sinusoidal profile and having a spring action adapted to flatten the body against the fuselage structural element over at least a part of a circumference of the opening,
wherein the fuselage structural element comprises:
two base plates;
a yoke connecting the two base plates, the yoke comprising a through opening that forms an anchoring point; and
two excess thicknesses of the yoke, each offering an edge with a cylindrical portion that is centered relative to the opening.

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 method for driving a plasma display panel in which discharge cells are formed by first, second, and third electrodes, a frame is divided into a plurality of subfields each of which includes a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, the method comprising:
in the reset period,
modifying a voltage at said first electrode from a first voltage to a second voltage;
floating said first electrode; and
gradually reducing the voltage at said first electrode to a third voltage.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, before modifying the voltage at said first electrode from the first voltage to the second voltage, gradually increasing the voltage at the first electrode from a fourth voltage to a fifth voltage.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first voltage substantially corresponds to the fifth voltage.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: alternately applying a sustain discharge voltage to said first electrode and said second electrode in a sustain period of a previous subfield, the first voltage corresponding to the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second voltage is lower than the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode in the sustain period.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second voltage is a ground voltage.
7. A plasma display comprising:
a plasma display panel forming discharge cells between first, second, and third electrodes; and
a driving circuit including a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, and applying driving signals to said first, second, and third electrodes, said driving circuit modifies a voltage at said first electrode from a first voltage to a second voltage, floats said first electrode, and gradually reduces the voltage at said first electrode to the third voltage in the reset period.
8. The plasma display of claim 7, wherein said driving circuit gradually increases the voltage at said first electrode from a fourth voltage to a fifth voltage in the reset period, and the fifth voltage corresponds to the first voltage.
9. The plasma display of claim 7, wherein said driving circuit alternately applies a sustain discharge voltage to said first electrode and said second electrode in the sustain period of a previous subfield, and the first voltage corresponds to the sustain discharge voltage.
10. The plasma display of claim 7, wherein the second voltage is lower than the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode in the sustain period.
11. The plasma display of claim 8, wherein the second voltage is lower than the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode in the sustain period.
12. The plasma display of claim 9, wherein the second voltage is lower than the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode in the sustain period.
13. A method for driving a plasma display panel, comprising:
modifying a voltage at a first electrode from a first voltage to a second voltage during a reset period, with the reset period being when wall charges formed by a previous sustain discharge are erased, and wall charges are set up in order to perform a stable next address discharge, with at least said first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode forming discharge cells;
floating said first electrode during the reset period; and
regularly step by step reducing the voltage at said first electrode to a third voltage during the reset period.
14. The method of claim 13, with the regular step by step reduction of the voltage at said first electrode to the third voltage during the reset period being a negative voltage applied to said first electrode during an initial period of a falling ramp period of the reset period in which no discharge is generated, the difference of the final voltages applied to said first and second electrodes being maintained at firing voltage, the voltage at said second electrode being further reduced as the negative voltage at said first electrode is further reduced.
15. The method of claim 13, with the floating of said first electrode being for a predetermined time during the reset period while voltage at said second electrode being maintained at a certain voltage, and a voltage waveform regularly reducing step by step being reduced to a certain negative voltage from the reference voltage is then applied to said first electrode.
16. The method of claim 13, further comprising a regular step by step rising of the voltage applied to said first electrode directly before the step by step reduction of the voltage at said first electrode and directly after a sustain period where a sustain discharge for displaying images on addressed cells is performed.
17. The method of claim 13, with the regular step by step rising of the voltage and the regular step by step reduction of the voltage being applied during a first reset period and only the regular step by step reduction of the voltage without the regular step by step rising of the voltage being applied in the next reset period.
18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:
before modifying the voltage at said first electrode from the first voltage to the second voltage, gradually increasing the voltage at the first electrode from a fourth voltage to a fifth voltage, the first voltage substantially corresponding to the fifth voltage; and
alternately applying a sustain discharge voltage to said first electrode and said second electrode in a sustain period of a previous subfield, the first voltage corresponding to the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode, the second voltage being lower than the sustain discharge voltage applied to said first electrode in the sustain period, the second voltage being a ground voltage.