Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: A message management facility is described herein that is hosted by a networked node, in a process control network environment, that is separate from a control processor. The message management facility routes a stream of messages received from the control processor to a set of destinations on a supervisory network. By interposing the message management facility on a node that is interposed, in a message steam, between alarm message sources (control processors) and alarm message sinks (workstations, printers, historians), a number of additional functions can be implemented to carry out a number of advanced functions.

Abstract: Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.

Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.

Abstract: Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.

Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.

Abstract: A message management facility is described herein that is hosted by a networked node, in a process control network environment, that is separate from a control processor. The message management facility routes a stream of messages received from the control processor to a set of destinations on a supervisory network. By interposing the message management facility on a node that is interposed, in a message steam, between alarm message sources (control processors) and alarm message sinks (workstations, printers, historians), a number of additional functions can be implemented to carry out a number of advanced functions.

Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). A transport arrangement handles lenses (6) during hard coating in a dip trough. The transport arrangement includes a dip frame with receptacles for holding devices for lenses (6). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). A transport arrangement handles lenses (6) during hard coating in a dip trough. The transport arrangement includes a dip frame with receptacles for holding devices for lenses (6). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: A holding device (1) holds a lens (6) at its lens edge (5) with the aid of an adhesive connection (16, 17). The adhesive connection (16, 17) is applied only at one adhesive point or only at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17). A transport arrangement handles lenses (6) during hard coating in a dip trough. The transport arrangement includes a dip frame with receptacles for holding devices for lenses (6). Each holding device (1) provided with a lens (6) is positioned on the dip frame in such a manner that the lens (6) is positioned above its holding device (1). A method is provided for finishing lenses (6) wherein the lenses (6) are subjected to various sequential finishing steps of a finishing process and the lenses (6) are cemented to the same holding device during finishing. The application of adhesive is only at one adhesive point or at two spaced apart adhesive points (16, 17).

Abstract: A vehicle with an engine, especially a diesel engine, is provided and includes: an intake tract, via which air is supplied to the engine, an exhaust gas tract, via which exhaust gas emitted by the diesel engine is discharged towards an exhaust gas tailpipe and through the exhaust gas tailpipe to the environment, a branch-off valve, disposed in the exhaust gas tract and having an inlet, a first outlet, connected to the exhaust gas tailpipe, and a second outlet, connected to the intake tract. The branch-off valve has a first and second flap that are kinematically interconnected. The first flap is provided for at least partially closing the first outlet and the second flap is provided for at least partially closing the second outlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for damping the kinetic energy of ions in ion cells filled with collision gas and with an exit aperture to drain the ions out of the cell. The invention uses a conditioning cell with an adjustable DC potential which decreases towards the exit aperture to compress the phase volume of the ions by damping their kinetic energies, collecting the ions after thermalization in the spatial potential minimum thus created and letting them drain away relatively slowly through a central potential minimum in the exit aperture system. This facilitates the production of very fine, highly parallel ion beams which consist of almost monoenergetic ions. In particular, the method can also be coupled with a fragmentation of the ions.

Abstract: The invention relates to time-of-flight mass spectrometers, equipped with ion reflector and ion detector, with orthogonal ion injection and outpulsing of a segment of the ion beam perpendicular to the direction of injection in a pulser. The invention is directed to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer in which a reflector and an ion detector each have an angular offset about an axis that is perpendicular to the respective directions of injection and deflection. This allows a large distance to be used between the pulser and detector with the highest possible utilization of ions.

Abstract: The invention relates to two-dimensional quadrupole systems along whose axis an axial DC field is superimposed. The invention involves coating the hyperbolic or cylindrical surfaces of quadrupole systems with thin insulating layers and metal films thereupon and generating axial potential gradients or saddle ramps using appropriate electrical supply of DC potentials and superimposed RF voltages to the metal films. Systems of this type can be used in a plurality of ways, ranging from mass filters with high transmission to fragmentation cells with extremely low ion losses.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing, from any previously configured ion beams, precisely localized small packages of ions which all fly at the same velocity. The invention consists of damping the ions in a damping-gas filled series of apertured diaphragms (which are firstly subjected alternately to the two phases of an RF voltage and secondly to a multiphase low-frequency travelling field voltage) into the axis of the apertured diaphragm arrangement and packaging the ions in bundles which are propelled axially at the same velocity for ions of different specific masses. These ion packages, which are restricted both in an axial and a radial direction, can be used to advantage for injection into different types of mass spectrometer, both storage ion-trap mass spectrometers, such as cyclotron resonance mass spectrometers or quadrupole ion traps and, especially, for time-of-flight mass spectrometers with orthogonal injection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a braking apparatus for a vehicle, having a first braking control device (6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 27) and a second braking control device (7, 16, 17, 18), in which case the vehicle can be braked both by operation of the first braking control device and by operation of the second braking control device. In order to carry out an automatic emergency braking process for the vehicle, the first braking control device interacts with a first evaluation unit (19), and the second braking control device interacts with a second evaluation unit (21), with the first evaluation unit (19) and the second evaluation unit (21) determining independently of one another whether the automatic emergency braking process should be carried out by operation of the respective braking control device, and the second evaluation unit (21) initiating the automatic emergency braking process when the first evaluation unit (19) and/or the first braking control device have/has a malfunction during operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for damping the kinetic energy of ions in ion cells filled with collision gas and with an exit aperture to drain the ions out of the cell. The invention uses a conditioning cell with an adjustable DC potential which decreases towards the exit aperture to compress the phase volume of the ions by damping their kinetic energies, collecting the ions after thermalization in the spatial potential minimum thus created and letting them drain away relatively slowly through a central potential minimum in the exit aperture system. This facilitates the production of very fine, highly parallel ion beams which consist of almost monoenergetic ions. In particular, the method can also be coupled with a fragmentation of the ions.

Abstract: The invention relates to two-dimensional quadrupole systems along whose axis an axial DC field is superimposed. The invention involves coating the hyperbolic or cylindrical surfaces of quadrupole systems with thin insulating layers and metal films thereupon and generating axial potential gradients or saddle ramps using appropriate electrical supply of DC potentials and superimposed RF voltages to the metal films. Systems of this type can be used in a plurality of ways, ranging from mass filters with high transmission to fragmentation cells with extremely low ion losses.