May 28 08:22
4 days ago
French term
Spain
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Native in: English 
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boudin
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
In a photobioreactor tank.
Chaque bordure flexible peut consister en une succession de segments rigides raccordés entre eux par des liaisons pivot permettant à chaque segment de pivoter autour d’un axe de la liaison pivot relativement à l’un au moins des segments qui lui sont adjacents.
Ceci permet de recourber l’extrémité du dispositif d’éclairage pour le conformer à la géométrie du photo-bioréacteur. En variante, chaque bordure flexible peut consister en un boudin réalisé dans le même matériau que la plaque.
I'm afraid the term doesn't appear again so there is no further context. My best guess is some sort of tubular structure?
Chaque bordure flexible peut consister en une succession de segments rigides raccordés entre eux par des liaisons pivot permettant à chaque segment de pivoter autour d’un axe de la liaison pivot relativement à l’un au moins des segments qui lui sont adjacents.
Ceci permet de recourber l’extrémité du dispositif d’éclairage pour le conformer à la géométrie du photo-bioréacteur. En variante, chaque bordure flexible peut consister en un boudin réalisé dans le même matériau que la plaque.
I'm afraid the term doesn't appear again so there is no further context. My best guess is some sort of tubular structure?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | Bead |
Andrew Bramhall
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| 4 | tubular bladder/ inflatable tube |
mbako wilson
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| 3 | Flexible tube |
Sue Davis
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| 1 | tube / noodle |
Bourth
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Proposed translations
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Andrew Bramhall
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Bead
Alternatively, each flexible edge (on the lighting device) can consist of a bead made of the same material as the plate.
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Note added at 1 hr (2025-05-28 09:53:51 GMT)
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Ceci permet de recourber l’extrémité du dispositif d’éclairage pour le conformer à la géométrie du photo-bioréacteur. En variante, chaque bordure flexible peut consister en un boudin réalisé dans le même matériau que la plaque.
This allows the end of the lighting device to be bent to conform to the geometry of the photo-bioreactor. Alternatively, each flexible edge can consist of a bead made of the same material as the plate.
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Note added at 1 hr (2025-05-28 09:53:51 GMT)
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Ceci permet de recourber l’extrémité du dispositif d’éclairage pour le conformer à la géométrie du photo-bioréacteur. En variante, chaque bordure flexible peut consister en un boudin réalisé dans le même matériau que la plaque.
This allows the end of the lighting device to be bent to conform to the geometry of the photo-bioreactor. Alternatively, each flexible edge can consist of a bead made of the same material as the plate.
1 hr
mbako wilson
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English
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tubular bladder/ inflatable tube
US Patent US20190367856A1:
Excerpt: "The inflatable bladder 34 may take the shape of a segmented torus... The bladder 34 is selectively inflatable and deflatable to vary the shape, geometry and volume of the flexible bag 20..."
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190367856A1/en
SCHOTT Photobioreactors:
Excerpt: "Tubes made of glass or polymer are arranged vertically or horizontally... Tubular PBRs allow to plan production reliably... They are also relatively easy to clean."
https://www.schott.com/en-nl/expertise/applications/photobio...
US Patent US20210062124A1:
Excerpt: "FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate an air bladder 81... These changes lift and disturb the cells settled on the bottom 26... for better and more uniform cell growth throughout the tube 20."
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210062124A1/en
Still open to better suggestions if others have come across a more domain-specific equivalent!
Excerpt: "The inflatable bladder 34 may take the shape of a segmented torus... The bladder 34 is selectively inflatable and deflatable to vary the shape, geometry and volume of the flexible bag 20..."
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190367856A1/en
SCHOTT Photobioreactors:
Excerpt: "Tubes made of glass or polymer are arranged vertically or horizontally... Tubular PBRs allow to plan production reliably... They are also relatively easy to clean."
https://www.schott.com/en-nl/expertise/applications/photobio...
US Patent US20210062124A1:
Excerpt: "FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate an air bladder 81... These changes lift and disturb the cells settled on the bottom 26... for better and more uniform cell growth throughout the tube 20."
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210062124A1/en
Still open to better suggestions if others have come across a more domain-specific equivalent!
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Isabelle Villancher
: flexible bag might be closer? "The flexible bag-like reactor is formed of two rectangular plastic films attached together along their edges" (like sausages = boudin) https://www.oilgae.com/ref/downloads/materials_used_in_PBR_c...
1 day 3 hrs
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5 hrs
tube / noodle
It is le même matériau que la plaque, but what is the plaque made of?
For the moment I can think of two possibilities: 1) some sort of plastic sheet, in which case the boudin could be an inflatable tube, like the boudin rimming the top of some above-ground swimming pools; 2) some sort of foam plastic, in which case it could be like the 'noodles' (frites) used as flotation devices in said pools.
For the moment I can think of two possibilities: 1) some sort of plastic sheet, in which case the boudin could be an inflatable tube, like the boudin rimming the top of some above-ground swimming pools; 2) some sort of foam plastic, in which case it could be like the 'noodles' (frites) used as flotation devices in said pools.
1 day 9 hrs
Flexible tube
I think boudin =tube see the following images -
https://www.google.com/search?q=boudin flexible tube&sca_esv...
I think flexible makes sense in the context of the text: i.e. a flexible tube is an alternative to rigid tubes connected by connecting elements that enable their flexibility.
https://fr.made-in-china.com/co_milesun/product_Food-Grade-R...
https://www.jungheinrich-profishop.fr/p/boudins-absorbants-p...
https://www.google.com/search?q=boudin flexible tube&sca_esv...
I think flexible makes sense in the context of the text: i.e. a flexible tube is an alternative to rigid tubes connected by connecting elements that enable their flexibility.
https://fr.made-in-china.com/co_milesun/product_Food-Grade-R...
https://www.jungheinrich-profishop.fr/p/boudins-absorbants-p...
Discussion
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