A difficult sentence to understand from a canadian standard

katochan pe · 14 Nov 2009

A specimen shall be conditioned by flexing it 5 times
so that the midpoint of the board is displaced the line
joining the two shortest edges of the board
a distance equal to 5 percent of the length of the printed circuit board.

And my question:
Could someone kindly explain to me, what the sentence above is all about?
I.e. how does 'the line joining the two shortest edges of the board' look like?
I thank you all who'll help me.

GreenCat · 14 Nov 2009

katochan pe said:
A specimen shall be conditioned by flexing it 5 times
so that the midpoint of the board is displaced the line
joining the two shortest edges of the board
a distance equal to 5 percent of the length of the printed circuit board.
And my question:
Could someone kindly explain to me, what the sentence above is all about?
I.e. how does 'the line joining the two shortest edges of the board' look like?
I thank you all who'll help me.

No idea
The sentences seem rather fragmented?

1) flex the specimen 5 times
2) if the mid point of the board is moved, it is ready

The line, joining the two shortest edges of the board
A line joining edges of one board?
Origami?
The edges of the board is glued together and the seam, where the edges are joined, is visible?

Gave it a try but I can't ...
Who wrote it and where did you find it?
Because you posted here, the original is in Japanese?

undrentide · 15 Nov 2009

It sounds like from an instruction manual for a machine or device.
What are these sentences are supposed to explain about?
It will be easier for others to help you if you can give us more background.

epigene · 15 Nov 2009

katochan pe said:
A specimen shall be conditioned by flexing it 5 times so that the midpoint of the board is displaced the line joining the two shortest edges of the board a distance equal to 5 percent of the length of the printed circuit board.
And my question:
Could someone kindly explain to me, what the sentence above is all about?
I.e. how does 'the line joining the two shortest edges of the board' look like?
I thank you all who'll help me.

Assuming that "displacement" means deviation from the midpoint of the hypothetical straight line that connects two end points (i.e., corners of one of the shorter edge of the circuit board), displacement must be a distance that is equivalent to 5% of the length of that line.

Just a wild guess here. I've seen many national standards, including ISO standards, that are totally incomprehensible to the laymen.

Mockingbird0 · 15 Nov 2009

katochan pe said:
A specimen shall be conditioned by flexing it 5 times so that the midpoint of the board is displaced the line joining the two shortest edges of the board a distance equal to 5 percent of the length of the printed circuit board.
And my question:
Could someone kindly explain to me, what the sentence above is all about? I.e. how does 'the line joining the two shortest edges of the board' look like? I thank you all who'll help me.

Some words may be missing.
The phrase "displaced the line joining the two shortest edges of the board" should probably be something like "displaced ALONG the line joining the two shortest edges of the board" or something to that effect. But it might also be "displaced PERPENDICULAR TO the line joining the two shortest edges of the board." The meaning may differ depending on the words that are missing. Might you check the standard again and make sure there are no missing words?
If the board is rectangular, the line connecting the two shortest edges of the board is a line running longways across, that is, a line parallel to the long edges. If the board has some other shape, then the interpretation of "the line connecting the two shortest edges of the board" depends on the shape.

katochan pe · 17 Nov 2009

People, I thank you all very much for your advice.
Best regards.

bakaKanadajin · 23 Nov 2009

Canada has a lot of non-native speakers.
It could have been written by.. I dunno, a Chinese person or something.
Keep in mind not all native level speakers are native speakers.
There's my Canadian perspective.

Either that or you've typed it wrong, broken the sentences at the wrong points

It could be for example

A specimen shall be conditioned by flexing it 5 times
so that the midpoint of the board is displaced,
the line joining the two shortest edges of the board
a distance equal to 5 percent of the length of the printed circuit board.

bubblerei · 7 Dec 2009

I'm Canadian, and to be honest, I have absolutely no clue what the heck that means.

Red5 · 13 Jan 2010

No idea, but there is something wrong with the structure

Yukiko chan · 24 Jan 2010

The sentence sounds weird indeed. And like people said already, either it was written by a non native, by a semi-educated native, or we're missing something...

A difficult sentence to understand from a canadian standard

katochan pe

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undrentide

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