Abstract: Described herein are a method for transferring an embossed structure, which includes at least the steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii), where steps (1-i) and (2-i) or (1-ii) and (2-ii) are carried out using an embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1), where the embossing die (p1) of the embossing tool (P1) is pretreated, before the implementation of step (2-i) or before the implementation of step (1-ii), with at least one organic solvent and/or at least one reactive diluent, and also a method of using a corresponding pretreated embossing tool (P1) including at least one embossing die (p1) for the purpose of transferring an embossed structure in such a way.

Abstract: A method for producing vaporizer units as a component of inhalers includes the steps: a) providing a flexible circuit board material with sites for individual vaporizer units, the material optionally prestructured with conductor paths and/or pre-punched areas predetermined in terms of position/course for each site; b) providing and placing a heating element which may be electrically connected to the conductor paths; and c) at least partial covering each site with a sealing material for the formation of a partial sheathing for each vaporizer unit. The sealing material is applied such that the sheathing covers an edge region of the heating element while keeping open a heating surface on an upper side of the circuit board material. At least the outer surfaces of the sheathing pointing away from the circuit board material form sealing surfaces. Vaporizer units, vaporizer assemblies, vaporizer cartridges and inhalers with such vaporizer units are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rod- or pipe-shaped connecting element (100, 100?) having an end face (106) from a semi-finished connecting element (102) made of metal, in particular of a drill or chisel insertion end which is secured in an axially movable manner in a chuck of a hammer drill, a semi-finished connecting element (102) is provided, characterized in that at least one radially movable forming body (206) guided in the recesses (204) of a die (202) for forming at least one longitudinal groove (122, 124) closed on both sides in the semi-finished connecting element (102) has a smaller longitudinal extension (LR) than a planned length (L) of the longitudinal groove (122, 124) and that the forming of the at least one longitudinal groove (122, 124) closed on both sides in the semi-finished connecting element (102) is performed by radially applying the at least one forming body (206) and by subsequently axially shifting the semi-finished connecting element (102) in a longitudinal die ope

Abstract: A vaporiser system for vaporising a composition includes a first element with at least one radiation source connected to an electrical energy source which is adapted to emit electromagnetic radiation, and a second element with at least one reservoir for holding the composition and at least one absorber. The first and the second element are reversibly and detachably connectable to each other in a non-destructive manner. A radiation conductor is arranged such that a radiation-conducting connection is formed between the radiation source and the absorber when the first element and the second element are connected to each other. The vaporiser system is adapted to vaporise the composition by the thermal energy obtained from the electromagnetic radiation by the absorber via conversion and/or by the electromagnetic radiation with increased wavelength compared to the absorbed electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by the absorber.

Abstract: An inhaler vaporizer cartridge includes a housing body with a flow channel, a liquid storage tank, and a vaporizer unit. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and heating member and is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed from the tank through the vaporizer unit to the flow channel. The housing body has a cavity forming the tank and a wick member receiving chamber, and housing is divided by an intermediate wall and a flow channel section. An access opening from the receiving chamber to the flow channel is formed in the intermediate wall and covered by the heating member. Granular grains in the receiving chamber form the wick member and bear against the heating member. The grains form microchannels and are retained by a cover element. An access opening, covered with a liquid-permeable grid structure, establishes a liquid connection from the tank to receiving chamber in the intermediate wall.

Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge of an inhaler has a liquid storage tank and a hollow body with a continuous air flow channel. The storage tank has an access opening to the air flow channel. A vaporizer unit extends over the entire access opening and is arranged in the region of the access opening. The vaporizer unit has a wick member towards the storage tank and a heating member towards the air flow channel. The vaporizer unit is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed at least initially from the tank through the vaporizer unit to the channel in a capillary manner. The interior of the tank is structurally divided into fluidically coupled main and auxiliary volume. Only the auxiliary volume is in direct contact with the vaporizer unit, such that the liquid from the main volume contacts the wick member solely via the auxiliary volume. An inhaler may include the vaporizer cartridge.

Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge, as a component of an inhaler, has a hollow body with a continuous flow channel and a storage tank for storing liquid. The storage tank has at least one access opening to the flow channel and a vaporizer unit arranged in the region of the access opening and extending over the entire access opening. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and a heating member. The vaporizer unit is formed to be liquid-permeable such that liquid can be conveyed at least initially in a capillary manner out of the storage tank through the vaporizer unit in the direction of the flow channel. The wick member is formed from a plurality of granular grains which form microchannels as a result of their fill and/or formation. An inhaler is also provided.

Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge for an inhaler has a hollow body with a continuous flow channel and liquid storage tank. The tank has an access opening to the channel and a vaporizer unit extending over the entire access opening. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and a heating member. The vaporizer unit is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed at least initially in a capillary manner from the storage tank through the vaporizer unit in the direction of the flow channel. The wick member is formed from a plurality of granular grains which, as a result of their fill and/or formation, form microchannels which establish a fluid connection between the storage tank and the flow channel, continuously from an entry side to an exit side of the wick member. An additional securing means is provided which is holds the granular wick member in position. A corresponding inhaler is also provided.

Abstract: A consumption unit for an inhaler comprises a liquid reservoir, a vaporizer device arranged in the liquid reservoir, and a vent having a flow channel extending in the liquid reservoir to a flow connection of the flow channel to the environment. The liquid reservoir comprises a filling opening, which is closed by means of a first closure part.

Abstract: A vaporizer tank unit for an inhaler, preferably an electronic cigarette product comprises at least an electric vaporizer for vaporizing liquid fed to the vaporizer, a liquid reservoir for storing liquid, and a capillary wick structure, wherein the liquid is feedable by capillary forces from the liquid reservoir to an inlet side of the vaporizer. The wick structure is one-piece and contacts and/or forms the liquid reservoir over at least one circumferential section.

Abstract: A method for producing vaporizer units as a component of inhalers includes the steps: a) providing a flexible circuit board material with sites for individual vaporizer units, the material optionally prestructured with conductor paths and/or pre-punched areas predetermined in terms of position/course for each site; b) providing and placing a heating element which may be electrically connected to the conductor paths; and c) at least partial covering each site with a sealing material for the formation of a partial sheathing for each vaporizer unit. The sealing material is applied such that the sheathing covers an edge region of the heating element while keeping open a heating surface on an upper side of the circuit board material. At least the outer surfaces of the sheathing pointing away from the circuit board material form sealing surfaces. Vaporizer units, vaporizer assemblies, vaporizer cartridges and inhalers with such vaporizer units are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing a rod- or pipe-shaped intermediate product provided with an end face (106) from a semi-finished connecting element (102) made of metal, in particular an insertion end of a drill or chisel attached in an axially movable manner in the chuck of a hammer drill, the connecting element (100?) having at least one rotary entrainment surface (162, 164) and at least one locking depression (122, 124), the locking depression (122, 124) being preferably embodied as a locking groove, a semi-finished connecting element (102) being provided, the at least one rotary entrainment surface (162, 164) being formed in the semi-finished connecting element (102) by axially forcing the semi-finished connecting element (102) in the direction of the longitudinal axis (136) of the semi-finished connecting element (102) into a longitudinal die opening (204) of a die (202), or being embossed in the semi-finished connecting element (102) by radially applying at least one movab

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the detection of the presence or absence of at least one nucleic acid sequence specific for the sex of chicken using polymerase chain reaction in a high-throughput manner, a kit for conducting the method of the present invention and a pair of oligonucleotides.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing a rod- or pipe-shaped intermediate product provided with an end face (106) from a semi-finished connecting element (102) made of metal, in particular an insertion end of a drill or chisel attached in an axially movable manner in the chuck of a hammer drill, the connecting element (100?) having at least one rotary entrainment surface (162, 164) and at least one locking depression (122, 124), the locking depression (122, 124) being preferably embodied as a locking groove, a semi-finished connecting element (102) being provided, the at least one rotary entrainment surface (162, 164) being formed in the semi-finished connecting element (102) by axially forcing the semi-finished connecting element (102) in the direction of the longitudinal axis (136) of the semi-finished connecting element (102) into a longitudinal die opening (204) of a die (202), or being embossed in the semi-finished connecting element (102) by radially applying at least one movab

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rod- or pipe-shaped connecting element (100, 100?) having an end face (106) from a semi-finished connecting element (102) made of metal, in particular of a drill or chisel insertion end which is secured in an axially movable manner in a chuck of a hammer drill, a semi-finished connecting element (102) is provided, characterized in that at least one radially movable forming body (206) guided in the recesses (204) of a die (202) for forming at least one longitudinal groove (122, 124) closed on both sides in the semi-finished connecting element (102) has a smaller longitudinal extension (LR) than a planned length (L) of the longitudinal groove (122, 124) and that the forming of the at least one longitudinal groove (122, 124) closed on both sides in the semi-finished connecting element (102) is performed by radially applying the at least one forming body (206) and by subsequently axially shifting the semi-finished connecting element (102) in a longitudinal die ope

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the detection of the presence or absence of at least one nucleic acid sequence specific for the sex of chicken using polymerase chain reaction in a high-throughput manner, a kit for conducting the method of the present invention and a pair of oligonucleotides.

Abstract: A medical device having a silane surface comprising an antimicrobial peptide exhibiting a complex tertiary structure, wherein the antimicrobial peptide is attached to the silane surface via reversible interaction.

Abstract: Blanks for conversion into hinged-lid packets for block-shaped arrays of cigarettes in metal foil envelopes are supplied by a first turntable to an assembling station where successive blanks are overlapped by successive arrays furnished by a second turntable. Each blank is draped around the envelope of the respective array in part at the assembling station and in part at a further station downstream of the assembling station, as seen in the direction of joint advancement of the arrays and the corresponding blanks toward an evacuating station. Each array is moved at the assembling station vertically downwardly from a pocket of the second turntable into a pocket of the first turntable; the latter thereupon advances the arrays and the blanks jointly to the further station, and the finished packets—with the arrays confined therein—to the evacuating station.

Abstract: A one-piece paper or cardboard blank is converted into a hinged-lid cigarette pack wherein a box-shaped housing has a rear wall connected to the rear wall of a cover pivotable to and from a closed position in which it closes an opening at the top of the housing. The cover and the housing include sections which are respectively connected to the main portions of the housing and cover by weakened portions and are adjacent each other in the closed position of the cover. An adhesive revenue label or coupon is bonded to the outer sides of the sections and is manually or mechanically removed from the cigarette pack, with or relative to the sections, if a visual or automatic inspection of the freshly made cigarette pack reveals that its condition does not meet a predetermined standard.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting successive at least partially wrapped blocks of cigarettes or the like, e.g., in a packing machine, employs a mobile block supplying member which advances successive blocks of a series of blocks on top of an opening in a bottom wall at a level below a turntable indexible about a vertical axis and carrying several open-bottom receptacles which are movable radially of the axis. An empty receptacle is located above the opening of the bottom wall in response to completion of each indexing step. At such time, a pusher is moved upwardly through the opening of the bottom wall to raise a block into the registering receptacle.