Abstract: A method for smear-ripening a cheese is disclosed. The method includes a step of applying an envelope on a freshly brined cheese which is in direct physical contact with the surface of the cheese and which is permeable for metabolites produced by microorganisms and for microorganisms themselves and for components of the cheese and for gaseous elements, in particular surrounding air, followed by ripening the cheese within the envelope. A cheese obtained by the method is less susceptible to develop an off-odour after storage in a packaging material, in particular an air-tight packaging material, than a comparable cheese that was not produced according to the above method. Furthermore, such cheese typically contains a residual smear layer of not more than 10% of a comparable cheese.

Abstract: A filter housing can support filter media for a fan arrangement. The filter housing can include a filter body with a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end. A bell portion can be disposed between the air inlet opening and the air outlet opening and can define a cavity within the housing body. An air-permeable filter support can extend into the cavity to support the filter media within the cavity, with the filter media spaced apart from at least one of the first and second openings.

Abstract: Component connector for connecting cylindrical components includes an elastic sleeve which surrounds the components, the elastic sleeve can be braced, a radially deformable fixing sleeve is provided which encloses elastic sleeve. Elastic sleeve is braced via radial deformation of fixing sleeve in a perpendicular direction to a longitudinal axis of fixing sleeve, and at least one clamping ring is provided for radially deforming fixing sleeve. Fixing sleeve has a profiled outer wall and clamping ring has an oppositely profiled inner wall so clamping ring can be pushed concentrically onto fixing sleeve in an accurately fitting manner, during a relative rotation of clamping ring, placed in an accurately fitting manner, in a closing direction, the fixing sleeve can be deformed radially inwardly by the surface profiling; and, during a relative rotation of clamping ring counter to the closing direction, the surface profiling prevents any rotation.

Abstract: A filter housing can support filter media for a fan arrangement. The filter housing can include a filter body with a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end. A bell portion can be disposed between the air inlet opening and the air outlet opening and can define a cavity within the housing body. An air-permeable filter support can extend into the cavity to support the filter media within the cavity, with the filter media spaced apart from at least one of the first and second openings.

Abstract: Component connector for connecting cylindrical components includes an elastic sleeve which surrounds the components, the elastic sleeve can be braced, a radially deformable fixing sleeve is provided which encloses elastic sleeve. Elastic sleeve is braced via radial deformation of fixing sleeve in a perpendicular direction to a longitudinal axis of fixing sleeve, and at least one clamping ring is provided for radially deforming fixing sleeve. Fixing sleeve has a profiled outer wall and clamping ring has an oppositely profiled inner wall so clamping ring can be pushed concentrically onto fixing sleeve in an accurately fitting manner, during a relative rotation of clamping ring, placed in an accurately fitting manner, in a closing direction, the fixing sleeve can be deformed radially inwardly by the surface profiling; and, during a relative rotation of clamping ring counter to the closing direction, the surface profiling prevents any rotation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of composites or compositions of diamond/non-diamond material, e.g. diamond/non-diamond carbon material for chemical or biological analysis. The invention further relates to the use of this material in separation adherence and detection of chemical of biological samples. Applications of either structurized substrates or mixed phase particles of this material include but are not limited to processes which involve desorption-ionization of a sample, more specifically mass spectroscopy.

Abstract: In an electronic device comprising a protective barrier layer stack comprising a first barrier layer of a first amorphous carbon modification and a second barrier layer of a second amorphous carbon modification, the protective barrier layer stack has higher densities, better adhesion, and more flexibility than a single barrier layer of comparable thickness and composition.

Abstract: A closing body is mounted in an axially displaceable manner in a bore of a fluidic valve to control a pressure medium flowing via the valve. The closing body has a sealing section, interacting with a seating edge of valve, and a guide section which serves to guide the valve cone in the bore. The guide section is provided with recesses which allow an overflow of pressure medium between the two sides of the closing body. To reduce costs of production, the guide section of the closing body is of cylindrical form and its surface is provided with at least one helical groove which leads from one side of the guide section to its other side. The closing body is useful in particular in constant pressure valves for controlling fluid pressure medium. The sealing section of the closing body is normally of conical form.

Abstract: A device for adjusting rotation angles, e.g. an electrical rotary switch (1), has a stator (2) and a rotator (3) mounted on the stator (2). The rotator (3) rotates between at least two rotational angle positions. The device has a magnet (4), e.g. a permanent magnet, which can be moved by the rotor (3), and a magnet field sensor (5), e.g. a Hall sensor, which together with the magnet (4) produces a signal which corresponds to the rotational angle position. The stator (2) has a receptacle (8) open on one side and shaped like a pot, with the receptacle (8) forming a rotating bearing for the rotator (3). The magnetic field sensor (5) is arranged in the receptacle (8) on the stator (2) and/or on a part which is mounted on the stator (2), such that the stator is a mount for the magnet field sensor (5).

Abstract: An optical signal processing device equipped with a source of electromagnetic radiation of variable intensity, a non-linear optical component, which comprises at least one photoluminescent carbon nanotube, and with a means of detecting electromagnetic radiation utilizes the non-linearity of the photoluminescence of carbon nanotubes for optical signal processing. The invention also relates to a non-linear optical component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a light source (1) with a discharge vessel (2) which is filled with a filling gas, and with an electron beam source (4) arranged in vacuum or in a region of low pressure, which source (4) generates electrons (12) and propels them through an inlet foil (8) into the discharge vessel (2). According to the invention, the inlet foil (8) comprises a diamond layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting rotation angles, in particular to an electrical rotary switch (1). The device has a stator (2) and a rotor (3) which is mounted on the stator (2) such that it can rotate, such that the rotor (3) can be moved between at least two rotation angle positions. Furthermore, the device has a magnet (4), in particular a permanent magnet, which can be moved by means of the rotor (3), and a magnetic field sensor (5), in particular a Hall sensor, which is associated with the magnet (4), in order to produce a signal which corresponds to the rotation angle position. The stator (2) has a receptacle (8) which is open on one side and is in particular approximately in the form of a pot, with the receptacle (8) forming a rotating bearing for the rotor (3). The magnetic field sensor (5) is arranged in the receptacle (8) on the stator (2) and/or on a part which is mounted in the stator (2), such that the stator (2) is used as a mount for the magnetic field sensor (5).

Abstract: A system for supplying electricity to a motor vehicle using a capacitor having a maximum value greater than the maximum value of a rechargeable battery. A transformer provides discharging of the capacitor from its maximum voltage down to the maximum voltage of the battery in order to provide excess energy in a short period of time to effectively charge the battery and simultaneously increase the service life of the chargeable battery.

Abstract: A scanner, in which the contents of an film frame (1) are converted into a video signal by opto-electronic converters (4), this video signal being post-processed in a video processing stage (12). The operation of post-processing the video signal may be monitored by an oscilloscope (25). In order that this monitoring can be carried out in a simple manner, a scaling signal is inserted into the video signal before the video processing stage (12) so that the video signal to be monitored and a scaling signal line are simultaneously displayed on the screen of, for example, the oscilloscope (25).

Abstract: In an electron-emitting component with a cold cathode comprising a substrate and a cover layer with a diamond-containing material consisting of nano-crystalline diamond having a Raman spectrum with three lines, i.e. at K=1334.+-.4 cm.sup.-1 with a half-width value of 12.+-.6 cm.sup.-1, at K=1140.+-.20 cm.sup.-1 and at K=1470.+-.20 cm.sup.-1, the cold cathode exhibits a low extraction field strength, a stable emission at pressures below 10.sup.-4 mbar, a steep current-voltage characteristic and stable emission currents in excess of 1 microampere/mm.sup.2. The electron emission of the component demonstrates a long-time stability, and a constant intensity of the electron beam across its cross-section.

Abstract: Memories are provided for correction signal values respectively for a hue signal, a saturation signal and a luminance signal derived from a digital color television signal. Each of the memories consists of two memory units which are alternately used for storing new correction signal values and for reading out previously stored correction signal values. The corrected signal values are modified by a key signal, if present, in each case and are then supplied to calculation circuits to each of which a signal derived from the saturation signal is applied. The resulting fully corrected hue and saturation signals are converted back into color difference signals, but the finally corrected luminance signal requires no conversion. The raw correction signal values are supplied from a computer into which control magnitudes can be entered to produce them. These control magnitudes can be used to define corner points of a deflected line function from which the correction signals are derived.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antifriction body (3), in particular for a magnetic head (1), whose antifriction surface (4) is provided with an antifriction layer (4) which contains diamond crystals and which is provided by means of a CVD process. Damage to the elements sliding past the antifriction layer is precluded in that the antifriction layer (4) contains hexagonal lonsdaleite crystals.

Abstract: Memories are provided for correction signal values respectively for a hue signal, a saturation signal and a luminance signal derived from a digital color television signal. Each of the memories consists of two memory units which are alternately used for storing new correction signal values and for reading out previously stored correction signal values. The corrected signal values are modified by a key signal, if present, in each case and are then supplied to calculation circuits to each of which a signal derived from the saturation signal is applied. The resulting fully corrected hue and saturation signals are converted back into color difference signals, but the finally corrected luminance signal requires no conversion. The correction signal values are supplied from a computer into which control magnitudes can be entered to produce them. These control magnitudes can be used to define corner points of a deflected line function from which the raw correction signals are derived.