The number of reporting periods that may extend across for multiple delivery dates relating to customer contracts.

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- Definition

The percentage of net sales recognized over time.

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- Definition

Period in which nearly all of the remaining performance obligations are expected to be recognized as revenue, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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- Definition

Period in which a substantial portion of the remaining performance obligations is expected to be recognized as revenue, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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- Definition

Indicates (true false) whether optional exemption was applied not to disclose amount of transaction price allocated to and explanation of expected timing of revenue recognition for remaining performance obligation, when contract has expected duration of one year or less or right to consideration corresponds directly to performance completed.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123351226&loc=SL49130558-203045

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Revenue Recognition (Details) - item	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
Revenue Recognition (Details) - item	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2021	Sep. 30, 2020
Revenue recognition
Remaining performance obligation, expected timing for substantial portion of performance obligations			3 months
Practical expedient, performance obligation			true
Minimum
Revenue recognition
Number of reporting periods that may be extended across for multiple delivery dates			1
Maximum
Revenue recognition
Percentage of net sales recognized over time	5.00%	5.00%	5.00%	5.00%
Remaining performance obligation, expected timing for nearly all performance obligations			1 year