Abstract: A button cell includes a housing cup and a housing top separated from one another by an insulating seal and which form a housing with a flat bottom and a flat top parallel to it, and an electrode-separator assembly within the housing including flat layer positive and negative electrodes and connected to one another by a flat separator, wherein the layers are aligned essentially at right angles to the flat bottom and the flat top and the electrode-separator assembly is a spiral winding having end faces defining side surfaces of the spiral winding facing in an axial direction relative to the flat bottom and the flat top, and one of the electrodes connects to the flat bottom or the flat top via an output conductor including a thin film resting flat between an end face of the spiral winding and the flat top or the flat bottom.

Abstract: A button cell includes a housing cup and a housing top separated from one another by an electrically insulating seal and which form a housing with a flat bottom area and a flat top area parallel to it and an electrode-separator assembly within the housing including at least one positive and at least one negative electrode in the form of flat layers and connected to one another by at least one flat separator, wherein the electrode layers are aligned essentially at right angles to the flat bottom and top areas and the button cell is closed without being beaded over.

Abstract: An electrochemical element has a housing having an inside surface, a first electrode resting adjacent an inside surface of the housing and defining a cavity, the first electrode including at least two individual segments adjacent one another in a 2-dimensional manner via first contact surfaces and rest via further contact surfaces adjacent the inside surface, a second electrode of opposite polarity arranged inside the cavity, a separator arranged between the first and second electrodes, and at least one connector arranged between the first contact surfaces which connects the segments electrically conductively and which is annular or ring-shaped and includes at least one strip-shaped projection formed on an outside portion thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fiberglass spool comprising a self-supporting roll (12) having layers of windings (20) located one above the other of an optical fiber (13) for transmitting data that may be unwound from the interior of the roll outwards, wherein the windings (20) are fixed to one another by means of an adhesive bonding agent. In order to realize a sufficiently stable, self-supporting roll (12) that may be reliably unwound from the inside outwards without loops being pulled out of the roll (12), the roll (12) is structured as a cross-winding and a hydrocarbon-based, salt water-resistant, chemically inert impregnating material that may be liquefied by heating is used as the bonding agent.

Abstract: In the case of an electroacoustic underwater antenna, which has a reflector (11) and spring elements which fix the reflector (11) on an antenna mount (10), in particular on the hull of a submarine, in order to produce an underwater antenna which can be produced at low cost from only a small number of components, and in which the reflector (11) to which electroacoustic transducers are fitted is at an adequate distance from the antenna mount (10), is acoustically well decoupled from the antenna mount (10) and is largely resistant to shock loading, the spring elements have an upper and a lower resilient rocker (19, 20), wherein each rocker (19, 20) extends over the horizontal extent of the reflector (11) in the fitted position. Each rocker (19, 20) has a rear contact limb (192, 202), for making contact with and fixing on the antenna mount (10), and a front contact limb (191, 201), for making contact with and fixing on the reflector (11).

Abstract: An electrochemical element has a housing having an inside surface, a first electrode resting adjacent an inside surface of the housing and defining a cavity, the first electrode including at least two individual segments adjacent one another in a 2-dimensional manner via first contact surfaces and rest via further contact surfaces adjacent the inside surface, a second electrode of opposite polarity arranged inside the cavity, a separator arranged between the first and second electrodes, and at least one connector arranged between the first contact surfaces which connects the segments electrically conductively and which is annular or ring-shaped and includes at least one strip-shaped projection formed on an outside portion thereof

Abstract: A button cell includes a housing cup and a housing top separated from one another by an electrically insulating seal and which form a housing with a flat bottom area and a flat top area parallel to it and an electrode-separator assembly within the housing including at least one positive and at least one negative electrode in the form of flat layers and connected to one another by at least one flat separator, wherein the electrode layers are aligned essentially at right angles to the flat bottom and top areas and the button cell is closed without being beaded over.

Abstract: A submarine antenna, in particular for assembly on the hull of a submarine, comprising a number of adjacently arranged electroacoustic converters each with a number of hydrophones arranged one below the other and a reflector arranged behind the converters in the direction of incidence of the sound. According to the invention, hull noise decoupling of the converter can be achieved at the connection to the reflector wherein the hydrophones arranged one beneath the other of each converter are moulded into a converter bar by an acoustically transparent moulded mass and the converter bars are provided with sprung retainer elements at the bar ends which are held by retainer devices made on the reflector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fiberglass spool comprising a self-supporting roll (12) having layers of windings (20) located one above the other of an optical fiber (13) for transmitting data that may be unwound from the interior of the roll outwards, wherein the windings (20) are fixed to one another by means of an adhesive bonding agent. In order to realize a sufficiently stable, self-supporting roll (12) that may be reliably unwound from the inside outwards without loops being pulled out of the roll (12), the roll (12) is structured as a cross-winding and a hydrocarbon-based, salt water-resistant, chemically inert impregnating material that may be liquefied by heating is used as the bonding agent.

Abstract: In the case of an electroacoustic underwater antenna, which has a reflector (11) and spring elements which fix the reflector (11) on an antenna mount (10), in particular on the hull of a submarine, in order to produce an underwater antenna which can be produced at low cost from only a small number of components, and in which the reflector (11) to which electroacoustic transducers are fitted is at an adequate distance from the antenna mount (10), is acoustically well decoupled from the antenna mount (10) and is largely resistant to shock loading, the spring elements have an upper and a lower resilient rocker (19, 20), wherein each rocker (19, 20) extends over the horizontal extent of the reflector (11) in the fitted position. Each rocker (19, 20) has a rear contact limb (192, 202), for making contact with and fixing on the antenna mount (10), and a front contact limb (191, 201), for making contact with and fixing on the reflector (11).

Abstract: A preparation comprising a compound which essentially prevents the enterohepatic circulation of nucleotide synthesis inhibitors or antagonizes the action of the nucleotide synthesis inhibitors with a displacement in time, and a nucleotide synthesis inhibitor such as brequinar, mycophenolatemofetil (2-morpholinoethyl (E)-6-(1,3-dihydro-4-hydroxy-6-methoxy-7-methyl-3-oxoisobenzofuran-5-yl)-4-methyl-4-hexenoate), methotrexate, mizoribine and compounds of formulae (I) and (II) is suitable for the treatment of immunological disorders, cancer, or in transplantations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for finding nucleotide synthesis inhibitors which have a better therapeutic window. An efficacious dose of a nucleotide synthesis inhibitor is administered to a mammal. The concentration of the nucleotide synthesis inhibitor in the blood of the mammal is observed and it is determined whether the nucleotide synthesis inhibitor has a half-life which is shorter than that of N-(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-2-cyano-3-hydroxycrotonamide. The invention also relates to a method of using nucleotide synthesis inhibitors in the treatment of immunological diseases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for finding nucleotide synthesis inhibitors which have a better therapeutic window. An efficacious dose of a nucleotide synthesis inhibitor is administered to a mammal. The concentration of the nucleotide synthesis inhibitor in the blood of the mammal is observed and it is determined whether the nucleotide synthesis inhibitor has a half-life which is shorter than that of N-(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-2-cyano-3-hydroxycrotonamide. The invention also relates to a method of using nucleotide synthesis inhibitors in the treatment of immunological diseases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rechargeable button cell, which contains negative and positive electrodes in the form of tablets separated by a separator and an alkaline electrolyte in a casing which is formed from a lower part in the form of a cup and an upper part in the form of a lid which fits therein, the casing parts being sealed in a gas-tight manner by swaging or crimping with the interposition of a sealing ring. The button cells according to the invention have a sealing ring (4) which has on the edge pointing into the button cell at least 3 retaining tabs (9) which hold and center the electrode tablet (3) located in the casing upper part (1). The method according to the invention for manufacturing the button cell is distinguished by separate prior assembly of the casing lower part with the positive electrode and the casing upper part with the negative electrode.

Abstract: An electrode set (i.e., a separator between two electrodes) is placed within an electrically nonconductive mounting cage prior to sealing the mounting cage/electrode set assembly within a battery container having a cup-shaped lower part and a lid-shaped upper part. In a preferred embodiment, the mounting cage has a ring from which extend retaining arms with a projection at the end. The retaining arms are interconnected by curved-rib connections positioned near the separator. The mounting cage enables the electrode set to be accurately assembled before being sealed within the battery container. The ring of the mounting cage forms a sealing ring between the battery container (which acts as one electrical contact for the battery) and a contact spring that is placed within the mounting cage before the electrode set and acts as the other electrical contact. The retaining arms and projections hold the components of the electrode set accurately in place during battery assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sampling kit for obtaining, in a rapid and gentle manner, a defined volume of lacrimal fluid for the purpose of reproducibly determining components of the lacrimal fluid.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed for treatment of hyperreactive inflammatory diseases of humans and animals comprising administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of deoxyspergualin to a human or an animal.

Abstract: A gastight, sealed metal oxide/metal hydride storage battery, in particular, a nickel/metal hydride button cell, includes an auxiliary electrode with an active material composed of the same hydrogen storage alloy as that of the negative electrode with which the auxiliary electrode is electrically associated. As a result, the auxiliary electrode can maintain both oxygen consumption as well as hydrogen consumption (in the event of overcharging or polarity reversal of the cell). High gas consumption rates in the event of overcharging and polarity reversal are achieved with a strongly hydrophobic adjustment of the auxiliary electrode and a relatively weakly hydrophobic or hydrophilic adjustment of the negative electrode (by means of hydrophobic or hydrophilic binder additions, respectively), and by adding a highly conductive metal powder (Cu or Ni) to the mass of the negative electrode. Also achieved is a good discharge capacity, even at high currents of up to 2 CA.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method of measuring the rough frequency deviation in digital communication transmissions with echo propagation, particularly in the short-wave domain. A repeatedly transmitted PN sequence serves as the preamble of a data block. This PN sequence is compressed at the receiving end in matched filters provided in each one of a plurality of simultaneous, frequency offset Doppler channels. The Doppler channel having the greatest amplitude in the quadrature signal is selected for a determination of the rough frequency deviation. To detect a pattern in the preamble, the quadrature signals are examined for similarities by an amplitude comparison or in a cross-correlation process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a collating machine with several successively arranged feeders for the conveyance of sheets of paper on a conveyor line and with control devices at each feed station to monitor the formation of book blocks from which machine cycle-dependent error signals are output in the event of missed or duplicate feeding. It is the object of the invention to alter the operational flow of a conveyor line in such a way that in the event of defective book blocks, a manual separation of the book blocks and sorting of the individual sheets or sheet layers into the magazines at the feed stations can be eliminated. According to the invention, this is achieved by using a micro-computer to control a sliding rejection device with a station number indicator, located at the end of the conveyor line for the book blocks.