Abstract: A method for hot filling of liquids uses a flash pasteurizer including a first heat exchanger, a filling station and a cooling tunnel including a plurality of cooling cells. The liquids are filled into containers in the filling station. The filled containers are cooled in the cooling tunnel using a cooling liquid. The liquids are heated before being filled into the containers, by feeding thermal energy from the cooling liquid that was heated during the cooling of the filled containers to the flash pasteurizer using a separate heat pump.

Abstract: A road building machine for road surface paving is provided.

Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas probe, in particular a lambda probe, in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, where at least one heating element for achieving the operating temperature in the exhaust gas probe and determination of the temperature of the exhaust gas probe is performed by measuring the internal resistance. Measurement of the internal resistance occurs by the superimposition of discrete bipolar test pulses that include a pulse and a counter pulse, and by acquisition of the Nernst voltage.

Abstract: A vibration exciter is provided. The vibration exciter includes a shaft and at least two unbalanced weights arranged on the shaft, in which the radial distance of the common center of gravity of the unbalanced weights from the rotational axis of the shaft is adjustable in an infinitely variable way by means of a gear. The vibration exciter comprises a gear which is a spatial coupling gear, e.g. a spatial vibration slider gear. A simple and compact configuration of the vibration exciter is thus proposed, in which the required adjusting forces for changing the imbalance are very low.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the articulated connection of two vehicle frames, a front and a rear frame, of a construction machine, especially a vibration roller. The apparatus comprises a pivot joint with a vertical pivot axis and a crab-steering joint with a vertical rotational axis. It further comprises a connection support which connects the pivot joint and the crab-steering joint with one another, and a connecting rod which is linked on one side to the vehicle frame and on the other side to the connection support. It further comprises a steering drive for relative pivoting of the front and rear frame about the pivot axis, the steering drive being linked on the one side to one of the vehicle frames and on the other side to the connection support, and a crab-steering drive for setting a lateral offset between the front and the rear frame, the crab-steering drive being linked on one side to one of the vehicle frames and on the other to the connection support.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of fuel injectors, each for injecting fuel into one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, comprising the following steps: activating the fuel injectors in order to supply a first target total fuel quantity using a first injection strategy, ascertaining a first actual total fuel quantity injected during the activation using the first injection strategy, activating the fuel injectors in order to supply a second target total fuel quantity using a second injection strategy, wherein at least one of said fuel injectors being activated differently from said first injection strategy during said second injection strategy, ascertaining a second actual total fuel quantity injected during the activation using the second injection strategy, and determining an operating behavior of at least one of the fuel injectors as a function of the first actual total fuel quantity and the second actual total fuel quantity.

Abstract: An electrical stepper motor comprises a magnetical rotor and at least two electromagnetical driving coils for causing rotation of the rotator. A method of detecting an operating condition of the as e.g. a stall state of the electrical stepper motor comprises the steps of connecting one contact pin (P, M) of at least one of the electromagnetical driving coils via a high-impedance resistor (R1, R2) to a defined voltage source during a non-activated state of the driving coil, detecting a voltage induced at the driving coil during the non-activated state and converting the detected voltage into a digital signal, and digitally analyzing the digital signal and deriving an operating condition of the rotor by evaluation of the signal waveform including positive and negative components of the signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (E). The present invention also relates to a compound represented by the formula (E) for use in the treatment or prevention of diseases linked to protein aggregation and/or neurodegenerative diseases. Moreover, the present invention relates to pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions comprising the compound of the invention as well as to a kit. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method of imaging deposits of aggregated protein. A kit for preparing a detectably labelled compound of the present invention is also disclosed. Formula (E) wherein X, Y and L are independently nondirectionally selected from —C(R1)(R2)—, —C(R3)?, —N(R4)—, —N?, —N+(R5)?, —O— and —S—; M and Z are independently nondirectionally selected from formula (I) and formula (II).

Abstract: A road building machine for road surface paving is provided.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a module whose operation is dependent upon a module clock signal, the method comprising: over each calibration period of a plurality of such periods, obtaining a measure of the frequency of an observed signal, the observed signal being the module clock signal or a clock signal generated based upon the module clock signal; influencing operation of the module in dependence upon the obtained measures so as to calibrate the module; and for each said calibration period, taking account of a position in time of the end of that calibration period relative to a particular feature of the observed signal and delaying the start of the following calibration period relative to a subsequent said particular feature of the observed signal in dependence upon that position.

Abstract: A vehicle transmission parking lock system comprising a parking lock for locking or releasing the transmission, an operating device of the vehicle which is electrically connected to the parking lock, a spring for engaging the parking lock, a pressure-controlled release device for disengaging the parking lock, a holding device for securing the parking lock in a released and/or engaged condition, and an emergency release device of the parking lock. When the vehicle drive assembly is static due to the occurrence of a defined event, the emergency release device actuates a device to release the parking lock under pressure control. The holding device retains the parking lock in the released condition for as long as the emergency release device is activated, and the defined event which triggers actuation of the pressure-controlled release device of the parking lock occurs when at least two operating devices are actuated in a defined manner.

Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas probe, in particular a lambda probe, in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, where at least one heating element for achieving the operating temperature in the exhaust gas probe and determination of the temperature of the exhaust gas probe is performed by measuring the internal resistance. Measurement of the internal resistance occurs by the superimposition of discrete bipolar test pulses that include a pulse and a counter pulse, and by acquisition of the Nernst voltage.

Abstract: A method for determining an oil condition, namely, an oil condition corresponding to the oil age or oil damage, with the following steps: a) measuring a temperature of the oil or of the part through which the oil flows, coordinating each temperature measured with one temperature range defined by an upper limit and/or a lower limit; b) as soon as the measured temperature exceeds or falls below a limit of a temperature range, measuring the period of time during which the measured temperature dwells in this range; c) in addition, integrating an oil flow running during this time over the time period measured in step b); d) from the time period measured in step b) and the integral of the oil flow determined in step c), determining an oil age or oil damage characteristic for the current temperature range.

Abstract: A method for heating up a catalytic converter in internal combustion engines having gasoline direct injection is presented and has the steps: shifting the ignition toward retard; checking whether the charge of the cylinders with air exceeds a pregiven threshold; and, dividing the fuel injection into two component quantities which are injected in advance of the ignition when the air charge exceeds the threshold.

Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine and a device for implementing the method may allow a catalytic converter diagnosis with a high degree of accuracy. At least one catalytic converter is positioned in the exhaust-gas region of the internal combustion engine, and a lambda sensor, which is configured as broadband lambda sensor, is positioned downstream from the catalytic converter or downstream from a section of the catalytic converter. The catalytic converter diagnosis is based on the evaluation of a measure for the oxygen storage capacity of the catalytic converter/within the catalytic converter. An at least approximately empty/filled oxygen reservoir of the catalytic converter is assumed. A change in the lambda setpoint value of the internal combustion engine to an excess air factor lambda that is greater than 1/less than 1 follows. Subsequently, a first change of the lambda signal is detected initially.

Abstract: A method for determining an oil condition, namely, an oil condition corresponding to the oil age or oil damage, with the following steps: a) measuring a temperature of the oil or of the part through which the oil flows, coordinating each temperature measured with one temperature range defined by an upper limit and/or a lower limit; b) as soon as the measured temperature exceeds or falls below a limit of a temperature range, measuring the period of time during which the measured temperature dwells in this range; c) in addition, integrating an oil flow running during this time over the time period measured in step b); d) from the time period measured in step b) and the integral of the oil flow determined in step c), determining an oil age or oil damage characteristic for the current temperature range.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine, especially for motor vehicles, the engine having a catalytic converter; in the method, for heating up the catalytic converter, there is a switchover between a homogeneous operating mode with a one-time injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine and an operating mode with subdivided injection of fuel at at least two injection time points into the combustion chamber of the engine; wherein, for subdivided injections, both injection time points lie ahead of an ignition of an air/fuel mixture, the first injection time point essentially corresponds to the injection time point of the homogeneous operating mode during the switchover operation from the homogeneous operating mode to the operating mode with subdivided injection, and the second injection time point of the subdivided injection takes place at first so early that the mixture arising during operation with subdivided injection corresponds approximately to a homogeneo

Abstract: A method for influencing the exhaust gas temperature of an internal combustion engine is described in which measures can be carried out for increasing, lowering and limiting exhaust gas temperature. Depending on temperature requirements, and in which method these temperature requirements are prioritized, the temperature limitation having the highest priority for ensuring protection of the component parts, the resulting temperature requirement may be achieved by heating measures or cooling measures in such a way that heating measures and cooling measures are not applied at the same time.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to reduce exhaust emission during the staring phase of a direct-injection internal combustion engine. For this purpose, at least one first injection per working cycle takes place when the internal combustion engine is cold, especially during the starting and/or warm-up phase, thereby producing a substantially homogeneous, combustible fuel/air mixture (56) in the combustion chamber (12). In the same working cycle at least one further injection is supposed to take place which produces a substantially rich fuel/air mixture (64) in the zone of the ignition device (34). The lambda value of the fuel/air mixture (64) produced by the second injection in the zone of the ignition device (34) is smaller than the lambda value of the fuel/air mixture (56) present in the remaining combustion chamber.

Abstract: A method for compensating for mismatches of the precontrol of a fuel metering for an internal combustion engine. A regulation being superimposed on the precontrol. At least one correction quantity being formed, from the behavior of the regulation at high temperatures of the internal combustion engine, which influences the fuel metering even at low temperatures of the internal combustion engine in a supplementing manner to the superimposed regulation for compensating for the mismatches. At low temperatures a further correction quantity is formed which acts upon the fuel metering, whose effect at low temperatures of the internal combustion engine is greater than at high temperatures.