Abstract: An electric machine includes a shaft and a rotor core mounted onto the shaft and formed of a plurality of stacked laminations. The rotor core has opposite end surfaces for attachment of a plate in such a manner as to allow an axial deflection of the laminations in the area of the plate.

Abstract: A process for producing thin absorbent planar structures which may be used in hygiene products such as diapers, incontinence products, wound contact materials or sanitary napkins to absorb body fluids, comprises the steps of: A) producing a mixture of an adhesive in dispersion form and a particulate absorbent by fluidizing the components, B) applying the mixture of adhesive and absorbent uniformly to the surface of one side of a first planar backing material, C) one side of a second planar backing material is applied to the mixture of adhesive and absorbent that is present on the surface of one side of the first planar backing material, so producing a sandwichlike intermediate, and D) the sandwichlike intermediate is processed to the end product at a temperature of at least 90° C., a pressure of from 4 to 50 bar, and a pressing time of from 0.5 to 5 min.

Abstract: A piston, which has a piston rod, is guided with freedom of axial movement in a cylindrical pressure tube. At one end of the pressure tube, the piston rod passes through an opening in an end wall, which closes off the end of the pressure tube. The pressure tube is surrounded by a heat-shrink sleeve, which, at the exit end of the piston rod, extends more-or-less radially inward and has a pass-through opening through which the piston rod extends. The ring-shaped end surface at the piston rod exit end of the pressure tube is enclosed by the heat-shrink sleeve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for ordering and performing printing services and mailing services in a system in which a user can generate an order for an individual piece of mail that is to be sent on an order component of the system in a way that involves little effort on the part of the user, and the user has a great deal of freedom in selecting the design of the mail.

Abstract: In a radio communication system with at least one radio network control device, at least one base station is connected to at least one user station by a radio communication interface. The base station(s) and the radio network control device are components of a base station subsystem. The radio network control device is connected to an access device for a core network. The radio network control device and the user station(s) have a service specific key that is preferably valid for several user stations, or in other words, the service specific key is not user specific.

Abstract: A method and system for ordering and performing printing services and mailing services are provided in which a user is location-independent and, in a way that involves little effort on his part, can generate an order for an individual piece of mail that is to be printed and sent, and the user has a great deal of freedom in selecting the design of the mail.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for increasing the precision during the determination of system parameters dependent on the propagation delay, e.g. for a positional determination, in a mobile communications system with emission diversity, according to which a subscriber data signal and a reference signal are assigned to a subscriber. The subscriber data signal is emitted by at least two antenna devices on the emission side, whereas the reference signal is emitted exclusively by one antenna device on the emission side. The reference signal is used to precisely determine signal propagation delays, upon which the system parameters depend.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the automatic generation of printable files from data in a database. The system includes a printing system having at least one print processing component, the print processing component having means for the printing and/or the further processing of the files. The printing system includes a print job generation element, which is connected to a server via an interface, the server being connected to the database via an additional interface. The invention also relates to a method for the automatic generation of printable files from the data in a database, according to which the files are generated, printed and/or further processed by a printing system having at least one print processing component and a print job generation element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing solid active ingredient-containing forms from an active ingredient-containing formulation which comprises at least one polymeric binder. The apparatus according to the invention has at least one extruder 1 for continuous plastication of the formulation and at least two injection units 2 which are provided separate from one another, each of which is connected to the extruder 1, and through which the formulation can be injected into at least one mold 3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixing apparatus at least composed of a screw-based machine S1 and a screw-based machine S2, where S1 has heating equipment, at least in the plasticizing and homogenizing zone, and where the outlet from S2 has been connected to the screw-containing barrel of S1, within the plasticizing or homogenizing zone of S1, a substantive feature of which is that the connection between S1 and S2 is brought about by a connector which has cooling equipment effective as far as the inner wall of the screw-containing barrel of S1, and to a process for preparing thermoplastically processable molding compositions, in particular additive masterbatches, from at least one thermoplastic component C1 and at least one component C2, where the melting point or decomposition temperature TMC2 of C2 is lower, by at least about 50° C., than the temperature THC1, which is the lower limit of the thermoforming range of C1, and where most of C2 is melted only after contact with C1.

Abstract: A process for producing thin absorbent planar structures which may be used in hygiene products such as diapers, incontinence products, wound contact materials or sanitary napkins to absorb body fluids, comprises the steps of: A) producing a mixture of an adhesive in dispersion form and a particulate absorbent by fluidizing the components, B) applying the mixture of adhesive and absorbent uniformly to the surface of one side of a first planar backing material, C) one side of a second planar backing material is applied to the mixture of adhesive and absorbent that is present on the surface of one side of the first planar backing material, so producing a sandwichlike intermediate, and D) the sandwichlike intermediate is processed to the end product at a temperature of at least 90° C., a pressure of from 4 to 50 bar, and a pressing time of from 0.5 to 5 min.

Abstract: A plug connection for hoses or pipes as for connecting washing fluid conduits in a motor vehicle comprises a plug receiving member for receiving a connecting plug portion. The connecting plug portion can be latched in the plug receiving member in such a way as to be secured against forces acting axially thereon. The plug receiving member has resilient or spring-loaded latching portions. A securing sleeve is arranged axially slidably on the outside of the plug receiving member. In a first position of the securing sleeve the latching portions are held in a receiving and latching position in which a connecting plug portion can be inserted into and latched in the plug receiving member. In a second position of the securing sleeve it permits the latching portions to move resiliently into a retracted open position for disengagement of an inserted connecting plug portion from the plug receiving member.

Abstract: In a coupling for the connection of a washing-liquid pipe in a motor vehicle to another component, a catching element (3) designed for connecting two coupling parts (1, 2) has a shell (9) of C-shaped cross section intended for gripping. Catching noses (6) project radially inwardly from the shell (9). By this, mounting and demounting of the catching element (3) are especially simple.

Abstract: A locking-mechanism control means having a push rod which controls the adjustment of door-mounted catches, it being possible for the catches to be locked in relation to the door frame, having a first and a second adjustable blocking device arranged in the door. It is further possible for said blocking devices to be adjusted in dependence on the door movement, and one of the blocking devices arresting the push rod in the open position when the door is open. A driver is provided on the push rod and can be coupled to a rod which executes a movement corresponding to the push rod in order for an arresting unit, which engages with the door in the closed state of the latter, to be displaced out of engagement with the door in the open position of the latter.

Abstract: An arc quenching configuration for an electrical switching device has an arcing chamber in which an arc is produced between a stationary contact piece and a moving contact piece during a switching operation. An arc splitter stack is provided and has a number of arc splitter plates and into which the arc is passed via guide rails. At least one plate composed of an insulating material is disposed in or adjacent to the arc splitter stack, an external circumference of the plate does not project beyond the external circumference of the arc splitter plates, and the plate has an internal recess.

Abstract: A process for continuous production of crosslinked fine particles of polymer gel by copolymerizing a) water-soluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers, b) from 0.001 to 5 mol % based on the monomers (a) of monomers containing at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds, and c) from 0 to 20 mol % based on the monomers (a) of water-insoluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in from 20 to 80% by weight aqueous solution in the presence of an initiator at from 0 to 140° C.

Abstract: In the case of a fluidic nozzle (12) a nozzle body (13) is fixed in a housing (17) by a form-locking latching connection (18). For this purpose, an elastically deformable latching body (14) engages in a recess (16) of the housing (17). The operational position of the nozzle body (13) is thereby defined with high accuracy, with the result that an undesirable escape of the liquid between the nozzle body (13) and the housing (17) is prevented. Furthermore, at the same time the contact surface can be reduced here to a section (20) which is inclined toward an outlet opening (19) of the fluidic nozzle (12) and has a correspondingly improved sealing.

Abstract: A plug connection for hoses or pipes as for connecting washing fluid conduits in a motor vehicle comprises a plug receiving member for receiving a connecting plug portion. The connecting plug portion can be latched in the plug receiving member in such a way as to be secured against forces acting axially thereon. The plug receiving member has resilient or spring-loaded latching portions. A securing sleeve is arranged axially slidably on the outside of the plug receiving member. In a first position of the securing sleeve the latching portions are held in a receiving and latching position in which a connecting plug portion can be inserted into and latched in the plug receiving member. In a second position of the securing sleeve it permits the latching portions to move resiliently into a retracted open position for disengagement of an inserted connecting plug portion from the plug receiving member.

Abstract: Shear forces are used for essentially salt-free coagulation of plastics dispersions or rubber dispersions. For this, method of use is made of an apparatus with at least one shearing module which has a stator and a rotor arranged within the stator, where the surfaces facing toward one another in the stator and in the rotor are in each case smooth, or at least the rotor exhibits a structure formed on its surface and facing from this in the direction of the stator, and between the stator and the rotor there is a gap of predetermined gap width. The process is carried out by passing the dispersion to be coagulated through the gap between stator and rotor and precipitating the dispersion by rotation of the rotor with predetermined shear rate and shear deformation.

Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus and method for injecting an additive directly into a polymer melt stream. The method comprises supplying a melt flow of a polymeric host material to a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly and injecting at least one additive into at least one predetermined location in a cross-section of the melt flow of the polymeric host material while the melt flow passes through the die assembly. The method achieves uniform dosing of the one or more additives in the extrusion direction in the polymeric host material without homogeneously mixing the one or more additives and the polymeric host material. The apparatus for directly injecting one or more additives into a polymer melt stream comprises a pumping system, a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly, and a distribution line.