Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seat back with a top edge. A cover mount is attached to the seat back adjacent to the top edge. An outlet trim is attached to the cover mount. The cover mount includes a belt guide that is configured to accommodate a shoulder belt. The outlet trim includes a trim belt outlet that is aligned with the belt guide and is configured to allow the shoulder belt to pass through the outlet trim.

Abstract: A method operates an industrial control system, which includes at least one stationary control device and at least one control-technology-based manual operator-control instrument, which can be carried by an operator-control person. In at least one of the manual operator-control instruments, at least one data-technology-based identifier is resident, which represents at least the respective hardware version and the respective software status of the respective manual operator-control instrument.

Abstract: A method for optically determining the temperature of a molten metal with a measuring device, including calibrating a replacement measuring chain by a measuring chain as a system-internal measuring standard. The measuring device includes an optical waveguide, to guide electromagnetic radiation emitted from the metal or from the tip of the optical waveguide to an optical detector, at least one replacement optical waveguide, an optical detector for determining the temperature of the metal from an analysis of the electromagnetic radiation, a measuring chain, in which the optical waveguide is the measurement recorder, and at least one replacement measuring chain, in which a replacement optical waveguide is the measurement recorder. A reeling device includes a conveying device for successive reeling of the optical waveguide from a stock and of the replacement optical waveguide from a replacement stock, a receiving device for a stock and at least one replacement stock.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stent for transluminal implantation in hollow organs, particularly in blood vessels, the ureter, the esophagus, the colon, the duodenum or bile ducts. The stent comprises a first section comprising a substantially tubular first body which extends along a first longitudinal axis and comprises a first lateral end and a first central end; a second section comprising a substantially tubular second body which extends along a second longitudinal axis and comprises a second lateral end and a second central end, wherein the first and second stent sections are connected to each other in the region of the central ends by means of a coupling section, the stent comprising a plurality of cells which are defined by bordering elements formed by the tubular bodies, and wherein the first central end of the first stent section is embodied in a sloping manner.

Abstract: A method for achieving reliable information transmission in a communications network includes using a signal conditioning unit to receive a primary signal over at least one transmission channel, using the signal conditioning unit to generate a secondary signal from the primary signal and using the signal conditioning unit to transmit the secondary signal to a signal processing unit via two different protocol layers. A communications network includes a signal conditioning unit and a signal processing unit. The signal conditioning unit is configured to receive a primary signal over at least one transmission channel, to generate a secondary signal from the primary signal and to transmit the secondary signal to the signal processing unit via two different protocol layers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stent for transluminal implantation in hollow organs, in particular in blood vessels, ureters, esophagi, colons, duodena, or bile ducts, comprising a substantially tubular body, which can be transferred from a compressed state having a first cross-sectional diameter into an expanded state having an enlarged second cross-sectional diameter, wherein the stent comprises a plurality of cells, which are defined by bordering elements formed by the tubular body. The stent is distinguished in that some of the cells are extended in the longitudinal direction of the stent in comparison with the remaining cells in order to form a slanted end face of the stent.

Abstract: A control arrangement for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes an operational control system which has at least one central control unit, a set of decentralized sub-system controllers and a control network to which the control unit and the sub-system controllers are connected. In order to ensure that the control satisfies high safety requirements, the control arrangement has an operational control module which is different from the control unit, is connected to the control network and has a data connection unit which is different from the control network and by which the operational control module is connected by data technology to the sub-system controllers. A vehicle having the control arrangement and an operational control module forming the control arrangement in cooperation with an operational control system, are also provided.

Abstract: A rail vehicle includes a vehicle unit having operating device subsystems and a guide system including a first guide system level in which operating device subsystems are networked with one another by using a digital data bus structure, and at least one second guide system level having at least one line set associated with the analog handling of processes in the operating device subsystems. In order to provide a generic rail vehicle in which a high level of safety can be achieved with little outlay on wiring, the vehicle unit includes a guide system interface device having a first interface unit associated with the data bus structure, at least one second interface unit associated with the line set, and a control unit which, in at least one operating mode, is provided for handling the processes through the second interface unit.

Abstract: A method for carrying out a test process relating to a rail vehicle achieves a fast-working, flexible, and in the event of a misdetection, precise monitoring environment, in particular without complex system or architectural adjustments to the rail vehicle. A stationary control unit and a simulation unit are provided on the land side. A data connection is established between the stationary control unit and the rail vehicle. A data connection is established between the stationary control unit and the simulation unit. The test process includes providing data traffic between the stationary control unit and the rail vehicle and the simulation unit. A device for carrying out a test process relating to a rail vehicle is also provided.

Abstract: A method for establishing communication and for transmitting data between sensor units in a rail vehicle uses a communication network which has multiple network nodes. An advantageous communication network and/or an advantageous data transmission can be achieved if the sensor units independently form an ad hoc network with a network topology for transmitting data in the rail vehicle, configure the network, and change the network topology over the course of the data transmission and/or if the communication network is an ad hoc network and the network nodes are sensor units. A rail vehicle including a communication network which has multiple network nodes is also provided.

Abstract: A method for optically determining the temperature of a molten metal with a measuring device, including calibrating a replacement measuring chain by a measuring chain as a system-internal measuring standard. The measuring device includes an optical waveguide, to guide electromagnetic radiation emitted from the metal or from the tip of the optical waveguide to an optical detector, at least one replacement optical waveguide, an optical detector for determining the temperature of the metal from an analysis of the electromagnetic radiation, a measuring chain, in which the optical waveguide is the measurement recorder, and at least one replacement measuring chain, in which a replacement optical waveguide is the measurement recorder. A reeling device includes a conveying device for successive reeling of the optical waveguide from a stock and of the replacement optical waveguide from a replacement stock, a receiving device for a stock and at least one replacement stock.

Abstract: A stent for percutaneous vertebroplasty is described having a substantially tubular body that can be transitioned from a compressed state into an expanded state. The wall of the tubular body has a plurality of openings ensuring the expansion both in the longitudinal direction and in the peripheral direction of the stent. The stent has a cross-sectional shape deviating from the circular shape at least in the expanded state.

Abstract: A rail vehicle includes a vehicle unit having operating device subsystems and a guide system including a first guide system level in which operating device subsystems are networked with one another by using a digital data bus structure, and at least one second guide system level having at least one line set associated with the analog handling of processes in the operating device subsystems. In order to provide a generic rail vehicle in which a high level of safety can be achieved with little outlay on wiring, the vehicle unit includes a guide system interface device having a first interface unit associated with the data bus structure, at least one second interface unit associated with the line set, and a control unit which, in at least one operating mode, is provided for handling the processes through the second interface unit.

Abstract: The disclosed stent comprises at least two support portions and at least one connecting portion which follow one another in the longitudinal direction of the stent. Each support portion has multiple openings in the wall of the tubular body and border elements which are formed by the tubular body and which surround the openings and together with said openings form support portion cells in the expanded state. Two support portions which are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction are connected via a connecting portion lying between said support portions, and each of the mutually facing end faces of the adjacent support portions are formed by a row of end-face cells of the respective support portion. The connecting portion comprises connecting elements which are formed by the tubular body and which connect the mutually facing end faces of the two adjacent support portions.

Abstract: A flight data memory module (1) has a data memory device (2) for storing data, a data receiver device (3, 4) for receiving the data and a sheath (8) enclosing the data memory device (2). The sheath (8) has a spherical, ellipsoid, ovoid and/or rounded convex wall. A flight data memory device (11) has a plurality of flight data memory modules (1), a receptacle for arranging the plurality of flight data memory modules (1) in and/or on an aircraft and an ejector device (12) for mechanically ejecting the flight data memory modules (1). A flight data storage system (10) has a flight data memory device (11), a data-collecting device (16) for collecting data in a flight data system (17) and a data-transmitting device (15) for transmitting the data collected by the data-collecting device (16) to at least one of the flight data memory modules (1).

Abstract: A device replaces roller sets on pylons of cable cars. The device contains a replacing vehicle which can be moved along a cable of the cable car and at least two winches having cables by which the roller set to be replaced can be lowered and a new roller set can be raised. The replacing vehicle contains at least two interconnected vehicles which by way of clamps are connected to the cable.

Abstract: The disclosed stent comprises at least two support portions and at least one connecting portion which follow one another in the longitudinal direction of the stent. Each support portion has multiple openings in the wall of the tubular body and border elements which are formed by the tubular body and which surround the openings and together with said openings form support portion cells in the expanded state. Two support portions which are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction are connected via a connecting portion lying between said support portions, and each of the mutually facing end faces of the adjacent support portions are formed by a row of end-face cells of the respective support portion. The connecting portion comprises connecting elements which are formed by the tubular body and which connect the mutually facing end faces of the two adjacent support portions.

Abstract: An instrument for the surgical removal of a defective heart valve. The instrument has elements that can be collapsed, in which the instrument cutting elements are collapsed when the instrument is introduced into the surgical field and are covered by means of contact protective sheaths. The instrument cutting elements are formed as cutting ring halves that can fold in around a hinge axis, these cutting ring halves being elastically deformable during the folding-in process, whereby their deformation is achieved by fish joints that also serve to aid in mutually moving the contact protective sheaths onto each of two body members.

Abstract: A method for controlling a transformation process in which the conversion of charge materials to a product takes place along a transformation interface from the crystal and/or grain and/or phase and/or pore surface into the charge material, wherein one or more chemical elements in the charge materials is released and/or incorporated and/or rearranged and wherein the conversion of the charge materials takes place along advancing transformation interfaces. The charge materials are identified on the basis of at least one optical, in particular microscopic, analysis with respect to their phases and/or phase components and/or their phase morphology, structure, texture and/or their chemical composition. On the basis of these variables, reference functions for the charge materials, which describe the conversion of the charge materials in the process, are assigned and used for establishing the process parameters of the transformation process.

Abstract: In a medical clip consisting of a platelet of an elastic bio-compatible material, the platelet is provided with a central H-shaped cut-out so as to form a frame structure with tongues extending from the frame structure toward each other and having adjacent front edges forming grasping elements, and the frame structure is curved and elastically biases the front edges toward each other.