Abstract: The invention relates to the use of the disaccharide derivatives 3′-aminosucrose, sucrose-C6-acid and palatinose-C6′-acid and/or of an amide or alkyl ester thereof for the prevention or treatment of hyperglycemias.

Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine occupies a small amount of space and is suited for efficient manufacturing. For this purpose, the ignition device has an ignition coil which is designed as a bar ignition coil having a coil former arranged concentrically to a longitudinal axis of the ignition coil, an insulation carrier being coaxially attached to the coil former. The coil former is provided with a winding set, the winding wire of which is continued to the insulation carrier. At this point, an interference suppression element in the form of an inductor is implemented in a continued winding. The ignition device is preferably utilized in motor vehicles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for fastening components on a hollow shaft (1), during which process the components (21, 22, 23), exhibiting an opening, are put into specified positions on the hollow shaft (1) and for the purpose of fastening components (21, 22, 23) the hollow shaft (1) is expanded by introducing a pressure medium. Support matrices (3) are arranged only between the components (21, 22, 23) for the purpose of bracing the regions of the hollow shaft (1) between the components (21, 22, 23) during the expansion operation.

Abstract: An inductive ignition device for spark plugs of an internal combustion engine is having at least one activation circuit for at least one ignition coil and having at least one spark plug. A high-voltage switch associated with the at least one spark plug is brought by a first activation signal of the activation circuit into a conductive, switched-on state. In the switched-on state, the high-voltage switch has passing through it the spark current (I.sub.2) of the at least one spark plug (3; 3a to 3n), and which is designed so that without further activation it remains in the conductive state until the spark current falls below a certain value (holding current).

Abstract: A spark plug having a tube-shaped, metal housing, an insulator which is retained by the housing, and an inner conductor arrangement embedded in the insulator, the inner conductor arrangement comprising one connection bolt, one burn-off resistor, one contact pin, and one platinum central electrode, and four ground electrodes, which are bent towards the central electrode and protrude beyond the insulator by the width of their thickness, being secured to the housing, the contact pin being coated and being shortened in its length such that the burn-off resistor is forward-positioned as far as possible towards the spark gap, and the platinum central electrode having a nail shape, whose rear part has a smaller diameter than its front part, which extends out of the insulator.

Abstract: An arrangement for switching a high-voltage switch by optical energy is proposed. The high-voltage switch comprises a number of controllable semiconductor elements, which switch through when illuminated with light. The light energy is transmitted via a light guide or optical fiber rod, and the angle between the light guide or optical fiber rod and the high-voltage switch is from 5.degree. to 20.degree., and the light guide or optical fiber rod is cut obliquely on its end toward the high-voltage switch, producing an elliptical cross section.

Abstract: An ignition device for internal combustion engines with stationary high-voltage distribution, having at least one ignition coil (11), wherein a controllable switch (12) is disposed in series with the primary winding (10) and is triggerable by a control unit (13), wherein at least one high-voltage break-over diode (HKD), which comprises a plurality of break-over diode chips, is disposed in each secondary-side ignition branch between the high-voltage-side end of the secondary winding (14) and a spark plug (ZK1, ZK2, . . . , ZKn). A switch triggered by the control unit during the ignition coil charging operation makes a conditioning flow possible through the high-voltage break-over diode (HKD), which current in the high-voltage break-over diode floods the blocking region with charge carriers (38) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A spark plug (10), for example for an internal combustion engine, having at least one center electrode (11) (high-voltage electrode) and at least one earth electrode (12), and an insulating spark plug insulator (13) and a creepage spark gap (14) between the center electrode (11) and the earth electrode (12). The creepage spark gap (14) has a pattern of islands comprising electrically-conductive material (16) which are insulated with respect to one another and are located on the outer surface zone of the spark plug insulator (13) or on the surface zone of an insulating material wafer (17) attached to outer surface of the insulator (13) of the spark plug (10).

Abstract: A high-voltage breakover diode is proposed, which takes on the function of an ignition voltage distributor of an internal combustion engine having solid-state highvoltage distribution. The high-voltage breakover diode comprises a cascade of breakover diode chips, a polyimide layer having recesses in the region of the cathode connection being provided between the individual breakover diode chips produced using planar technology, in each case on the top of the breakover diode chips, and the mechanical and electrical connection of the individual breakover diode chips being effected by means of a conductive adhesive (FIG. 3).

Abstract: The pressure sensor for a combustion chamber includes a housing; a membrane closing the housing on its combustion chamber side; a monocrystalline silicon chip inside the housing and including a sensor circuit device provided with a bridge circuit device including a piezoresistor producing an electrical signal in response to applied pressure and a plunger positioned between the membrane and the silicon chip to transmit a pressure in the combustion chamber to the piezoresistor. The bridge circuit device is connected to an amplifier circuit located on the silicon chip. The amplifier circuit includes amplifier resistors having resistance values determinative of the offset of the signal and sensor sensitivity. A network circuit for offset and sensitivity adjustments is provided on the silicon chip and includes four adjusting circuits for offset, sensor sensitivity, temperature compensation of offset and for temperature compensation of sensor sensitivity.

Abstract: A low-calorie, non-cariogenic sweetener suitable for diabetics comprising (fructosyl).sub.n mannitol and/or (fructosyl).sub.n sorbitol, where n=1-6, or a mixture of these compounds, and a process for the preparation thereof by hydrogenation of homooligomeric fructooligosaccharides.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a sweetener, in which sucrose is converted enzymatically into a saccharide mixture which is called "isomerized sucrose" and has a disaccharide content of more than 85% by weight, then non-isomerized remaining sucrose is removed from the latter by enzymatic and/or H.sup.+ ion-catalyzed cleavage, and this product is catalytically hydrogenated. Preferably either before or after the catalytic hydrogenation, the resulting mixture is subjected to a chromatographic separation. The sweeteners prepared by this process contain either a mixture of 10 to 50% by weight of 6-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; 2 to 20% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; and 30 to 70% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-mannitol or of 5 to 10% by weight of 6-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; 30 to 40% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol; and 45 to 60% by weight of 1-O-.alpha.-D-glucopyranosyl-D-mannitol.

Abstract: A device for operating a gas-discharge lamp includes a starting member and a power member for supplying energy to the lamp. A switch is arranged between the lamp and the power member and connects the power member with the lamp subsequent to the initiation of the starting process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of rhamnose from rhamnolipids, for which an acidic emulsion of the rhamnolipid is hydrolyzed at 100.degree. to 200.degree. and subsequently cooled, the aqueous phase of the resulting hydrolysate is separated from the lipid phase, its pH is raised by the addition of a basic compound, any precipitate formed is removed, the remaining solution is concentrated and either processed further directly or chromatographed on ion exchange resin, rhamnose-containing fractions being obtained as eluate, which are processed further as such or worked up into crystalline rhamnose monohydrate.

Abstract: A high voltage switch can be used in an internal combustion engine ignition system to switch a high voltage through to a spark plug upon illumination of a light-sensitive portion of the switch. The high voltage switch includes two sub-stacks of break-over diodes, with the diodes of the two sub-stacks having different properties. The break-over diodes of a first, illuminated sub-stack of the high voltage switch have a break-over voltage with a low dependence on temperature, whereas the break-over diodes of a second, unilluminated sub-stack have a low break-over current with tight tolerances.

Abstract: In a pressure sensor, the force is introduced onto a piezoresistive measuring element via a diaphragm and a punch. Since no exact mechanical adjustment between the diaphragm and the measuring element is necessary, various relatively inexpensive forms of diaphragm with different measuring sensitivity can be used. The punch and the piezoresistive measuring element can be pushed through an opening in the housing and pressed onto the diaphragm so as to provide an interlocking frictional connection between the punch and the measuring element.

Abstract: The high-voltage semiconductor device includes a single chip having a plurality of semiconductor elements connected in series with each other which includes an insulating substrate (2); a monocrystalline semiconductor carrier (1) of a first conductivity type applied to the insulating substrate (2); at least two terminals (5,6) located on opposite sides of the chip; strip-like areas (3) of a second conductivity type formed in the monocrystalline semiconductor carrier (1), the strip-like areas (3) each extending across the semiconductor carrier (1) at right angles to a longitudinal direction between the at least two terminals, forming pn junctions in the semiconductor carrier (1), being spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction over the single chip and penetrating an entire thickness of the semiconductor carrier; at least one doped region (7) in the strip-like areas (3) forming an at least four layered component in the single chip; and a light responsive device for reducing a switching voltage of the

Abstract: A process for the preparation of long-chain inulin having an average chain length greater than 20 monomer units while simultaneously obtaining glucose and fructose is performed. An aqueous crude inulin suspension with a crude inulin concentration of 20-70% by weight is subjected to enzymatic treatment with inulinase at temperatures of 30.degree.-70.degree. C. During the process the short-chain components are degraded to mono- and disaccharides, and the long-chain inulins are then separated off from the mono- and disaccharides and converted into dry form. The long chain inulins may be separated from the mono- and disaccharides by crystallization by cooling and centrifugation or chromatographically using a strongly acidic cation exchange resin loaded with calcium ions.

Abstract: An ignition system for internal combustion engines, has a plurality of spark plugs, an ignition coil provided for the spark plugs and having a secondary circuit, at least one trigger diode cascade formed as a high voltage semiconductor switch and connected in the secondary circuit of the ignition coil prior to each of the spark plugs so as to change suddenly from a blocking state to a conducting state at a preselected voltage for generating ignition sparks, and a capacitor connected parallel to the secondary winding of the ignition coil between the ignition coil and the trigger diode cascade.

Abstract: A connection part for an ignition device, arranged between an ignition coil and a spark plug for incorporating in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, has an isolation housing, a high voltage switching element located in the isolation housing and during application of a trigger voltage is transferred reversibly in an electrically jump-like fashion to an electrically conductive condition, a first junction element located at one end of the high voltage switching element and connected with one pole of the latter and also connectable with a high voltage terminal of the ignition coil which leads to an output voltage of the ignition coil, a second junction element provided at another end of the high voltage switching element and connected with another pole of the latter and provided for receiving a terminal pin of the spark plug, and an element associated with the isolation housing for increasing a capacity region between the high voltage switching element and the first junction element.