Abstract: The invention relates to a system for charging and for holding a battery-powered vehicle (20, 30).

Abstract: A de-stacking device for layer de-stacking stacking layers from standard transport pallets which include a multi-layer stack of stacking layers arranged on top of each other, wherein an optional bending stiff spacer is arranged under each of the stacking layers, wherein the stacking layers are formed by a plurality of stable standing transport goods that are stackable and arranged adjacent to each other, the de-stacking device including a placement and separation table for a respective stacking layer that is removed from the stack of the transport pallet and includes or does not include the optional spacer; a transfer device for transferring the respective stacking layer that includes or does not include the optional spacer from the stack of the transport pallet onto the placement and separation table, wherein the placement and separation table includes a fixation device for the optional spacer.

Abstract: A de-stacking device for layer de-stacking stacking layers from standard transport pallets which include a multi-layer stack of stacking layers arranged on top of each other, wherein an optional bending stiff spacer is arranged under each of the stacking layers, wherein the stacking layers are formed by a plurality of stable standing transport goods that are stackable and arranged adjacent to each other, the de-stacking device including a placement and separation table for a respective stacking layer that is removed from the stack of the transport pallet and includes or does not include the optional spacer; a transfer device for transferring the respective stacking layer that includes or does not include the optional spacer from the stack of the transport pallet onto the placement and separation table, wherein the placement and separation table includes a fixation device for the optional spacer.

Abstract: An arrangement for closing a filling opening in a base of a beverage container that is open on top, the arrangement including a magazine which includes closures for the filling opening; an emptying device which unloads the closures individually from the magazine; and the beverage container, wherein the beverage container is arranged so that an upper opening of the beverage container is positioned under the emptying device so that the beverage container is in contact with the emptying device so that the emptying device is displaceable together with the beverage container so that the emptying device unloads an individual closure from the closures from the magazine and the individual closure drops into the beverage container under the emptying device.

Abstract: The implant is intended for introduction into an alveolar space. It is configured as an absorbable composite body made of at least a first and a second part body. The first part body is configured as a cone, truncated cone or cylinder having a body base face. The second part body is configured as a cover membrane with a membrane face, which is larger than the body base face. The cover membrane is placed on the body base face, so it projects laterally everywhere over the body base face. The first and second part body are rigidly connected to one another in the region of the mutually adjacent body base face and membrane face.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controllably moving a plurality of antennae in a wireless communications system. The method comprises activating a first and second actuator associated with a first and second one of the plurality of antennae to move the first and second antennae to a desired position. The power delivered to the first and second actuators is measured, and at least one parameter of at least one of the first and second actuators is reduced in response to the measured power being greater than a setpoint.

Abstract: A method and system to reduce fuel consumption and environmental impact in a two-stroke engine. Fresh system oil having a TBN less than 10 is provided and used in the two-stroke engine to produce partially used system oil. The partially used system oil is withdrawn from the two stroke engine and at least one friction modifier is added to at least some of the withdrawn partially used system oil, wherein the addition of the at least one friction modifier reduces the friction coefficient of the withdrawn system oil, resulting in a system oil having reduced friction. The system oil with reduced friction is combined with partially used system oil remaining in said two-stroke and the combined system oil is used to lubricate pistons of said two-stroke engine.

Abstract: A method and system to reduce fuel consumption and environmental impact in a two-stroke engine. Fresh system oil having a TBN less than 10 is provided and used in the two-stroke engine to produce partially used system oil. The partially used system oil is withdrawn from the two stroke engine and at least one friction modifier is added to at least some of the withdrawn partially used system oil, wherein the addition of the at least one friction modifier reduces the friction coefficient of the withdrawn system oil, resulting in a system oil having reduced friction. The system oil with reduced friction is combined with partially used system oil remaining in said two-stroke and the combined system oil is used to lubricate pistons of said two-stroke engine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for controllably moving a plurality of antennae in a wireless communications system. The method comprises activating a first and second actuator associated with a first and second one of the plurality of antennae to move the first and second antennae to a desired position. The power delivered to the first and second actuators is measured, and at least one parameter of at least one of the first and second actuators is reduced in response to the measured power being greater than a setpoint.

Abstract: A method and system of creating a cylinder oil having a target TBN ranging from 40 to 70 for use in a two-stroke en line. Fresh system oil having a TBN less than 10 is provided. The fresh system oil is used in the two-stroke engine to product partially used system oil. An initial fluid containing at least some partially used system oil is provided. A first TBN of the initial fluid is determined. Cylinder oil having the target TBN is created by blending the initial fluid having the first TBN with at least one suited additive. The cylinder oil is provided to the two-stroke engine.

Abstract: Multicolored ice convections are a popular consumer product and are often sold in tubs. A multicolored marbled effect is obtained in an ice convection by mixing the streams of different colors in a paddle extruder.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to make it possible to vary independently of each other, i.e. better and more freely, the basic parameters in the design of a squeegee used as a flexible-plate doctor blade in a coating-material spreading device. These parameters may include the length of the chamfered surface in contact with the surface to be coated, the resistance to bending strain parallel to the spreading edge of the blade and the resistance to bending strain at right angles to the spreading edge of the blade. This aim is achieved by virtue of the fact that the flexible-blade doctor blade (squeegee) proposed does not have a constant thickness but is made up of two or more different cross-sections with steps parallel to the dosing edge, thus giving the flat sides of the doctor blade a substantially terrace-like structure. The blade may also have grooves parallel to the dosing edge.

Abstract: A process for operating a coating device provides for capturing variations of the angle of the coating edge of a doctor element, for instance in relation to the horizontal, directly by a signal generator attached to the doctor element in the vicinity of its coating edge. This signal generator may work on electromagnetic basis so that the signal will be transmitted to a receiver without any line. Preferably a tilt switch is provided which determines slight variations of a set angle of the coating edge relative to, for example, the horizontal by means of displacement of a mercury pearl and two electrodes which will be short-circuited by the mercury pearl. Other embodiments can include a laser or LED as a signal source and a CCD camera as a receiver, or an ultrasound source can be used as a signal generator.

Abstract: An element for receiving a condom is proposed, which receives the roll of rolled up condom in an annular hollow profile. The front end of the condom projects out of an annular clearance and is protected against unintentional damage by means of two protective disks. The element greatly facilitates handling and requires no additional packing.