Abstract: A steam treatment appliance includes a steam treatment space, a fixed water connection, and a receiving container fillable with fresh water via the fixed water connection and having a discharge opening. Arranged outside the steam treatment space is a steam generator having a water inlet for fluidic connection to the discharge opening of the receiving container and a water outlet for fluidic connection to the receiving container. A cleaning product inlet is fluidically connected to the receiving container. A valve system is switchable between a first switch position in which a closed liquid circuit is formed with at least the receiving container, the steam generator, and a pump while bypassing the steam treatment space, and a second switch position in which the liquid circuit is opened to connect the water outlet of the steam generator to a temporary waste water connection.

Abstract: A steam treatment appliance includes a steam generation facility, a water tank for providing liquid for the steam generation facility, a first pump for pumping liquid out of the water tank and to the steam generation facility, an accommodating container, a second pump for pumping liquid out of the steam generation facility and to the accommodating container, and a third pump for pumping liquid out of the accommodating container and into the water tank.

Abstract: A method for automatically configuring telematic data transmissions of a motor vehicle may include: selecting telematic data to be transmitted from the motor vehicle, creating a configuration profile for configuring a processor apparatus of the motor vehicle on a central computer in order to transmit the selected telematic data, transmitting the created configuration profile from the central computer to the processor apparatus, configuring the processor apparatus on the basis of the configuration profile in order to read in the selected telematic data, reading in the selected telematic data acquired by suitable sensors on the motor vehicle, and transmitting the telematic data which have been read in from the processor apparatus to at least one receiver via a radio connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanical support for a drainage device of a filter unit for microbiological testing of liquid substances. Said filter unit is provided with a membrane and adapted to be mounted on said mechanical support so that said membrane faces a reception surface of said mechanical support. The mechanical support comprises: a passage one end of which discharges externally of said reception surface and the other end of which discharges internally said reception surface; and selectively operable means for closing said passage, movable between a first position in which they close said passage and a second position in which they open said passage.

Abstract: The peristaltic pump (1) comprises a rotor with rollers, a mobile jaw having an open position and a closed position, and further comprises, on each side of the rotor, a locating member for said tube adapted to receive it when it is pressed in and to allow it to slide in the longitudinal direction in which the locating member extends, said locating members being disposed in a line between the rotor and the mobile jaw in the open position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drainage device for a filter unit for microbiological testing of liquids, said drainage device including a mechanical support (10), which is adapted to receive a filter unit (16), and an suction pump (22) connected to said mechanical support to aspirate a liquid substance contained in said filter unit. The device comprises: a weight sensor (18) on which said mechanical support is mounted; a user interface (26) for entering data relating to drainage and/or said liquid substance; and a control unit (24) connected to said suction pump (22), the weight sensor (18) and said user interface (26), said control unit (24) being adapted to determine, from said data, at least a first weight corresponding to a first representative signal; and, when said weight sensor (18) supplies a signal corresponding to said first signal, said control unit (24) starts operation of said suction pump (22) so as to aspirate said liquid substance contained in said filter unit (16).

Abstract: This concerns a device whose filtering membrane (4) is gripped annularly at the periphery between an annular transverse wall (32) forming part of a drainage body and an axially oriented cylindrical wall (9) of an intake body, which lateral wall has an elastomer seal (13) which forms the edge thereof and by means of which this wall comes into contact with the membrane (4), this device being provided with a second seal (55) which has an arched profile, the external annular end (61) of which bears against said annular transverse wall (32) radially beyond said membrane (4), and the internal end (57) of which is connected to said seal (13) on the lateral wall (9) of said reservoir (5), hereinafter referred to as the first seal.

Abstract: The method includes the step of selecting a reagent adapted to reveal the presence of ATP by luminescence, the step of depositing said reagent on a support adapted to retain microorganisms and the step of detecting the response of said support to said reagent; said detection step includes the step (90) of recording the quantity of light emitted by said support as a function of time from a time t1 before a time t0 at which said deposition step is carried out to a time t2 after said time t0, the step (91) of extrapolating, from said recorded quantity of light, to the quantity of light as a function of time that would have been emitted by said support without the deposition of said reagent, and the step (92) of determining from said recorded quantity of light and from said extrapolated quantity of light a set of values representative of the quantity of light emitted only as a result of bringing said reagent into contact with the ATP.

Abstract: The method of fast microbiological analysis of a support adapted to retain microorganisms includes the step of selecting a reagent adapted to reveal the presence of ATP, the step of acting on said microorganisms to render the ATP of said microorganisms accessible to said reagent, then the step of depositing on said support said reagent adapted to reveal the presence of ATP, and the step of detecting the response of said support to said reagent, said method including, prior to the step of acting on said microorganisms, a preprocessing step including a step of selecting a reagent adapted to consume unwanted ATP present on said support, and, successively, the step of depositing said reagent adapted to consume ATP on said support and the step of eliminating said reagent adapted to consume ATP when the unwanted ATP has been consumed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drainage device for a filter unit for microbiological testing of liquids, said drainage device including a mechanical support (10), which is adapted to receive a filter unit (16), and an suction pump (22) connected to said mechanical support to aspirate a liquid substance contained in said filter unit. The device comprises: a weight sensor (18) on which said mechanical support is mounted; a user interface (26) for entering data relating to drainage and/or said liquid substance; and a control unit (24) connected to said suction pump (22), the weight sensor (18) and said user interface (26), said control unit (24) being adapted to determine, from said data, at least a first weight corresponding to a first representative signal; and, when said weight sensor (18) supplies a signal corresponding to said first signal, said control unit (24) starts operation of said suction pump (22) so as to aspirate said liquid substance contained in said filter unit (16).

Abstract: The method includes the step of positioning the device on a sheath (94) having, for each latching tab (7), a portion adapted to be housed between this tab and a cylindrical wall of the device; the step of making the sheath enter between each tab and the cylindrical wall until means preventing the withdrawal of the tabs are released; and the step of moving the two bodies (2,3) away from each other. The instrument has, in addition to the sheath (94), a guidance slide (77).

Abstract: The peristaltic pump (1) comprises a rotor with rollers, a mobile jaw having an open position and a closed position, and further comprises, on each side of the rotor, a locating member for said tube adapted to receive it when it is pressed in and to allow it to slide in the longitudinal direction in which the locating member extends, said locating members being disposed in a line between the rotor and the mobile jaw in the open position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanical support for a drainage device of a filter unit for microbiological testing of liquid substances. Said filter unit is provided with a membrane and adapted to be mounted on said mechanical support so that said membrane faces a reception surface of said mechanical support. The mechanical support comprises: a passage one end of which discharges externally of said reception surface and the other end of which discharges internally said reception surface; and selectively operable means for closing said passage, movable between a first position in which they close said passage and a second position in which they open said passage.

Abstract: The method includes the step of positioning the device on a sheath (94) having, for each latching tab (7), a portion adapted to be housed between this tab and a cylindrical wall of the device; the step of making the sheath enter between each tab and the cylindrical wall until means preventing the withdrawal of the tabs are released; and the step of moving the two bodies (2,3) away from each other. The instrument has, in addition to the sheath (94), a guidance slide (77).

Abstract: This concerns a device whose filtering membrane (4) is gripped annularly at the periphery between an annular transverse wall (32) forming part of a drainage body and an axially oriented cylindrical wall (9) of an intake body, which lateral wall has an elastomer seal (13) which forms the edge thereof and by means of which this wall comes into contact with the membrane (4), this device being provided with a second seal (55) which has an arched profile, the external annular end (61) of which bears against said annular transverse wall (32) radially beyond said membrane (4), and the internal end (57) of which is connected to said seal (13) on the lateral wall (9) of said reservoir (5), hereinafter referred to as the first seal.