Abstract: The invention relates to a press, a rotary press in particular, comprising a press housing in which several operating components of the press are arranged, further comprising power-related components, which provide the operating components with electric energy for the operation, and comprising control components which exchange control- and/or measurement signals with the operating components and control signals with the power-related components, characterised in that the power-related components are arranged separately from the control components in a power element box which can be arranged at option on or within the press housing, or outside of the press housing and separately from the same.

Abstract: A setting apparatus configured for setting and/or adjusting an attachment position of an attachment element for attaching a housing cover of a magnetic resonance apparatus in relation to a magnetic center of a magnet unit is provided. The setting apparatus includes a base plate unit, an attachment unit for attaching the base plate unit to the magnet unit and a setting unit. The setting unit includes at least two laser beam units for marking the attachment position of the attachment element for attaching the housing cover to the magnet unit.

Abstract: Multilayer colour change material, comprising a transparent or translucent top layer, five colour layers, each colour layer comprising 2 flexible foils, whereby the first to the fourth colour layer are each connected with a fluid reservoir device which allows the reversible influx of a colour fluid or a black fluid from a fluid reservoir into a space between two flexible foils of a colour layer, and whereby the fifth colour layer is connected with a transparent fluid reservoir device which allows the reversible influx of a transparent fluid from the transparent fluid reservoir device into a space between the two flexible foils, and a back layer.

Abstract: Device for calibrating and balancing a measuring device of a tablet press, in particular a rotary tablet press, comprising at least one reference measuring device and at least one control device, wherein interfaces of the control device are connected with interfaces of the measuring device and the reference measuring device, wherein the control device is designed to generate a plurality of reference measurement results and to record the associated measurement values of the measuring device and the reference measuring device, wherein the control device further comprises a comparing device, with which the recorded measurement values of the measuring device and the reference measuring device can be compared with each other, and wherein the control device is designed to balance the measuring device if an impermissible deviation is present between the compared measurement values. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: An arrangement with a multiplicity of optical semiconductor elements is disclosed. The semiconductor elements are respectively clamped against a semiconductor element carrier by way of a spring element. Additionally lying against the spring element is an optical element assigned to a respective semiconductor element, the spring element in this case being configured in such a way that it defines a fixed distance between the semiconductor element and the optical element.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions for the treatment of cancer, in particular for the treatment of myeloma, lymphoma and leukaemia. The present invention is further directed to the use of said compositions for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of cancer and for the use of said compositions in a medicament for treating cancers in animals and humans.

Abstract: A method for quality surveillance of powdered press material for a rotary press, in which the press material is fed from a reservoir via a preferably vertical feed channel to a filling device, which continuously fills dies of a rotor with press material wherein to the feed channel and/or the filling device is assigned a microwave resonator with an analysis unit, which measures the moisture and/or the density and/or the size of the granules of the press material, and at least one press variable of the microwave resonator is used for changing a control variable of the rotary press.

Abstract: The present invention is directed a method for the generation and/or expansion of CIK cell and/or NK cells by culturing peripheral blood cells in the presents of cytokines. The cytokines used in the method comprise interleukin 15 (IL-15) and interleukin 7 (IL-7), possibly in combination with further cytokines like interleukin 2 (IL-2) stem cell factor (SCF) and Fms-related tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (FLT3 ligand).

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for test pressing tablets with at least two layers.

Abstract: A method for operating a rotary press, comprising a rotor rotatably driven about a vertical axis that has a die-plate and upper and lower rams which, while being guided vertically in guides of the rotor, interact with holes of dies in the die-plate wherein at least one compression station is provided and has an upper and a lower pressing roller past which the presser rams run along and by which they are moved towards the die-bore for the purpose of compacting the material in the die-hole, wherein the upper and lower rams are lifted subsequent to the compression procedure, causing the lower ram to eject a compact from the die and the compact to be stripped by a stripper in the direction of a discharge chute, characterized in that while an compact ejection procedure is under way the upper ram stands upright on top of the compact and is lifted therewith and the stripper seizes the compact laterally while the upper ram is still standing upright on top of the compact.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for test pressing tablets with at least two lavers.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to peptides having affinity for tumor cells. The peptides are useful in pharmaceutical compositions in particular for the treatment of cancer. Further, the peptides are useful in diagnostic compositions, in particular for the diagnosis and imaging of cancer. The peptides according to the present invention are peptides selected from the group consisting of: Z1-KLAKLAKKLAKLAK-Z2-LTVXPWY-Z3, Z1-KLAKLAKKLAKLAK-Z2-LTVXP-Z3, Z1-KLAKLAKKLAKLAK-Z2-TVXPW-Z3, Z1-KLAKLAKKLAKLAK-Z2-VXPWY-Z3, Z1-KLAKLAKKLA KLAK-Z2-XPWY-Z3, Z1-KLAKLAKKLAKLAK-Z2-LTVXPW-Z3, di-, tri-, or multimers of the above sequences, wherein each Z1, Z2 and Z3 independently of one another represents any amino acid sequence of n amino acids, n varying from 0 to 50 and n being identical or different in Z1, Z2, and Z3, and wherein X represents any amino acid, whereby each of the amino acid residues in the above sequences may be independently in either L-form or D-form.

Abstract: A powder press, with a press frame, which comprises an upper and lower frame section, an upper linear drive attached to the upper frame section and a lower linear drive attached to the lower frame section, wherein the drives are connected to an upper and lower punch plate or a die table, respectively, wherein the punch plates have a clamping system for an upper or a lower punch, a die clamping system on a die table with a die, and at least one force measuring device for measuring the pressing force on at least one punch, characterized in that at least one force measuring device is disposed between a punch plate and the associated clamping system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for test pressing tablets with at least two layers.

Abstract: The present invention describes a Composition, comprising one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a) compound (I) which is ethacrynic acid bezafibrate, fenofibrate, and/or griseofulvin, b) compound (II), which is ciclopirox ciclopirox olamine, octopirox, and/or cinnarizine, c) mixtures of compound (I) and compound (II), or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof for the treatment of cancer. The present invention is further directed to the use of said compounds or a mixture of compounds for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of cancer and to the use of said compound in a method for treating cancers in animals and humans.

Abstract: System for the production of preforms made of a powder material, in particular tablets, with a rotary tablet press, which is arranged in a housing supported by a frame in the housing, wherein an electric drive motor is integrated into the rotor of the tablet press and the rotor is swivel-mounted on a middle column of the frame, and a control cabinet for the tablet press, which contains among other things a machine computer for the operation of the tablet press, wherein the middle column is supported on a horizontal load-bearing element, which is arranged at a distance above a base plate placed on the floor and the control cabinet is arranged in the interim space between the horizontal load-bearing element and the base plate.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an apparatus and a method for the measurement of the vertical position of upper and lower punches, pairwisely associated to a rotatably driven rotor of a rotary tablet press and rotating synchronously with the rotor, which perform a vertical movement in certain regions along the circumference of their rotational movement during a rotation of the rotor. The apparatus features at least one scale arranged on at least one of the upper and/or lower punches, running in parallel to the vertical movement direction of the respective upper and/or lower punch, and at least one reading device associated to the scale, also rotating synchronously with the rotor, by means of which a vertical position of the respective upper and/or lower punch can be measured by reading out the scale. The inventions is furthermore related to a corresponding rotary tablet press and a corresponding method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tablet press comprising: a rotatingly drivable rotor, having a die plate comprising die holes and assigned to the die holes upper and lower punches, rotating synchronously with the die plate, whose axial movement is controlled by upper and lower control cams, having at least one filling station comprising at least one filling device for filling the die holes with material to be pressed, having at least one compression station disposed downstream of the filling station in the rotational direction of the rotor, comprising at least one pressing device which presses the upper and/or lower punches into the die holes when passing through the compression station in order to press the filled material in the die holes, and having at least one ejector station, disposed downstream of the compression station in the rotational direction of the rotor, comprising an ejector device for ejecting the pressed tablets in the die holes, characterized in that at least one vibration generator is pr

Abstract: A method for quality surveillance in manufacturing tablets in a rotary tablet press which, in a compression chamber, has a rotor with upper and lower rams, a die-plate, a cam system for the rams, at least one compressing station, and a charging system for the powdered material requiring compression wherein the tablets are checked for chemical and/or mechanical properties, wherein at least some chemical and/or mechanical data of the tablets is obtained by means of a NIR or LIF sensor in the compression chamber after the upper rams have left the dies, after a measuring procedure has been initiated by a machine computer in response to the die positions determined by a position generator relative to the NIR or LIF sensor.

Abstract: A cooling system for a rotary tablet press with which a rotor is driven by an electrical drive motor and the rotor and drive motor are arranged in a closed housing, and a control cabinet for the drive motor and further units in the housing, wherein arranged within the housing is a cooling machine whose evaporator is part of a first heat exchanger, whose other part is arranged in a coolant circuit for the drive motor, a fan is arranged in a channel in the housing closed relative to the housing interior, where the fan draws cool air in via an air inlet of the housing and gives it off via an air outlet of the housing, wherein the cool air is engaged in heat exchange with a condenser of the cooling machine.