Abstract: A motor vehicle, in particular a passenger car, comprises an interior, a door and a scenting device with a scent. The scenting device is arranged and designed in such a way that the scenting device emits the scent only when the door is open. As a result, the user of the motor vehicle only perceives the scent when getting in and out of the vehicle and does not become accustomed to the scent while driving.

Abstract: A scenting device is provided for scenting an interior of a vehicle. The scenting device comprises a housing and a scent container arranged in the housing. In addition, the scenting device comprises a holding device for attaching the scenting device to a ventilation in the interior of the vehicle. The holding device has a holding element with an opening and the opening is designed in the form of a through hole or a blind hole. Protrusions are arranged on the edge or on the walls of the opening, wherein the protrusions extend along the depth to different extents into the interior of the opening.

Abstract: A scenting device is provided for scenting an interior of a vehicle. The scenting device comprises a housing and a scent container arranged in the housing. The housing comprises a holding device for attaching the scent container.

Abstract: A scenting device is provided for scenting the interior of a vehicle. The scenting device comprises a housing, a scent container arranged in the housing and at least one coupling device arranged on the housing. At least one holding device can be coupled to the coupling device. By means of the holding device, the scenting device can be attached to a ventilation in the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A deodorizing device for a vehicle comprises at least one deodorizing body and at least one spreader clamp fixed in or at the deodorizing body. The spreader clamp is intended for mounting the deodorizing body to a grid or to one or more slats/lamellae of an air outlet in the interior of a vehicle. The spreader clamp has two elastically deformable clamping members that extend in longitudinal direction of the spreader clamp and away from the deodorizing body and that are opposite one another transverse to the longitudinal direction. The clamping members are made of a first plastic material. Portions of the clamping members that are directly opposite one another, however, are of a second, softer plastic material than the first plastic material. This effects a good fixation at the air outlet and in addition prevents its scratching.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for switching the generation of light emissions using charge separation in a gain medium to manipulate carrier lifetimes. For a given output pulse energy, extended carrier lifetimes may allow carrier generation powers to be reduced and/or carrier generation times to be extended. L-switching of light output from a gain medium may be combined with other switching schemes utilizing different approaches to control lasing, such as Q-switching.

Abstract: Provided is a flood protection system for protecting an area from flooding water, wherein the area includes a trench defined at least along a portion of the boundaries thereof and a at least one depression on the side of the trench facing away from the area to be protected. The system comprising a barrier, configured for being at least partially fitted in the trench; and a float coupled to the barrier and being configured for at least partially is disposed in the depression. The float is configured for rising in response to a rise in the water level inside the depression and about the boundaries of the area. The float is further configured for lifting the barrier out of the trench therewith, thereby blocking the waters from entering the area.

Abstract: Provided is a flood protection system for protecting an area from flooding water, wherein the area includes a trench defined at least along a portion of the boundaries thereof and a at least one depression on the side of the trench facing away from the area to be protected. The system comprising a barrier, configured for being at least partially fitted in the trench; and a float coupled to the barrier and being configured for at least partially is disposed in the depression. The float is configured for rising in response to a rise in the water level inside the depression and about the boundaries of the area. The float is further configured for lifting the barrier out of the trench therewith, thereby blocking the waters from entering the area.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of breaking a substrate of a brittle material, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate (1) of a brittle material, heating the substrate with a laser beam (3) to create a heated spot on the substrate, moving the laser beam and the substrate with respect to each other to create a line of heated spots on the substrate (2), cooling the heated spots on the substrate by locally applying a cooling medium (4) behind the heated spots such that a micro-crack is propagated in the line of heated spots, and breaking the substrate along the line of the propagated micro-cracks by applying a mechanical force on the substrate wherein, the cooling medium comprises an aqueous surfactant solution. The surfactants will connect to the broken siloxane bonds inside the surface cracks. Then recombination and healing of the broken siloxane bonds will not occur and the required breaking load will remain constant over time.

Abstract: A shaving head comprises a cutting member a hair manipulator. The cutting member has a cutting edge which extends in a direction perpendicular to a shaving direction of the shaving head. The hair manipulator is arranged in front of the cutting edge, seen in the shaving direction, and can be driven in a direction parallel to the cutting edge. Hairs trapped by the hair manipulator are moved along the cutting edge while being cut, so that the cutting forces in the shaving direction are reduced. The cutting member can also be driven in a direction parallel to the cutting edge such that, seen in this direction, the cutting member and the hair manipulator move in opposite directions for a longer period of time than in equal directions. In this manner the cutting member has a stretching effect on the skin present immediately in front of the cutting edge, and said stretching effect of the cutting member intensifies a similar stretching effect of the hair manipulator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing organopolysiloxane terminated with alkoxy groups, wherein A) organopolysiloxane terminated with HO is reacted with B) alkoxysilane having at least three alkoxy groups and/or whose partial hydrolysate is made to react in the presence of C) acid phosphoric acid ester of general formula (I): (HO)aOP(—O—[(CR12)b—O]c[(CR22)d]e—L—M)(3−a), wherein a=1 or 2; R1 and R2=a hydrogen, methyl or hydroxyl radical; b and d=2 or 3; c=integral values from 2 to 15; e=0 or 1; L=a radical from the group —O—, —COO—, —OOC—, —CONR3—, —NR4CO— and —CO—; R3 and R4=a hydrogen or a C1-C10-alkyl radical and M=a monovalent, optionally a hydroxyl, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, C1-C10-alkoxylalkyl or cyano group substituted C1- to C20-hydrocarbon radical, provided that the radicals R1 and R2 can only be at one give

Abstract: The present invention pertains to the preparation of organopolysiloxanes containing organyloxy groups by reacting organopolysiloxane(s) bearing terminal hydroxyl groups with an alkoxysilane having at least two alkoxy groups and a radical which contains at least one secondary or tertiary amino group bonded to silicon by a divalent C1-2 hydrocarbon radical, the reaction being catalyzed by an acidic ester of phosphoric acid having the formula (HO)aOP—(O—R7)3−a Where R7 is an oxyalkylated active hydrogen component, preferably an oxyalkylated fatty alcohol. RTV-1 compositions containing the reaction product exhibit extended storage life.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaving head (5) comprising a cutting member (17) and a hair manipulator (23). The cutting member comprises a cutting edge (19) which extends in a direction (X) perpendicular to a shaving direction (Y) of the shaving head. The hair manipulator is arranged in front of the cutting edge, seen in the shaving direction, and can be driven in a direction parallel to the cutting edge. Hairs trapped by the hair manipulator are moved along the cutting edge while being cut, so that the cutting forces in the shaving direction are reduced.

Abstract: When herbicides are applied, surfactants can affect the wettability of leaves of the plants and the effectiveness of the herbicides. According to the invention, a particular intensification of action is achieved when surfactants from the group comprising the C.sub.10 -C.sub.18 -alkyl polyglycol ether sulfates and their physiologically acceptable salts together with leaf-acting selective herbicides or the leaf-acting non-selective herbicides glyphosate, paraquat or diquat are applied.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid herbicidal agents in the form of emulsifiable concentrates (EC) or concentrated emulsions (EW), which, in addition to 1-40% by weight of the active compound diclofop-methyl (I), fenoxaprop-ethyl (II) or the optically active isomer (D+) thereof fenoxaprop-P-ethyl (III), contain, as surfactants, 0.5-30% by weight of (C.sub.10 -C.sub.18)-fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers or (C.sub.8 -C.sub.9)-alkylphenyl polyglycol ethers which are ethoxylated with 6-10 mol of ethylene oxide, and in the case of EC formulations 0.5-7% by weight of calcium (C.sub.8 -C.sub.14)-alkylbenzenesulfonate, and in the case of EW formulations, as a dispersing agent, 0.5-7% by weight of an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-ethylene oxide block copolymer phosphorylated in the alpha- and omega-position, or a salt thereof, in addition to the customary formulation constituents.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel herbicidal compositions which comprise herbicidal active substances from the class of the phenoxyphenoxy- and heteroaryloxyphenoxy-carboxylic acid derivatives, a dispersant from the class of the fatty alcohol polyoxypropylene-polyoxyethylene ethers and/or the polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymers, emulsifier or wetting agent from the group comprising calcium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, fatty acid polyglycol esters, the ethoxylated nonylphenols and the alkanol polyglycol ethers, organic solvents and water, in the form of microemulsions which have low viscosity and are stable chemically and with regard to their technical properties in use.The invention furthermore relates to a process for preparing these microemulsions by stirring, shaking or static mixing. Prior to the biological application of these formulations, they are mixed with water and thus give spray mixtures which are perfect with regard to their technical properties in use.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-emulsifiable granules of crop protection agents composed of the pesticidal active substance in liquid or dissolved form and an at least partially water-soluble shell-forming structural material, to the use of these granules as novel, advantageous formulations of crop protection agents, and to processes for their preparation. It furthermore relates to the general use of polyvinyl alcohols as shell-forming structural materials in the preparation of water-emulsifiable granules which contain organic compounds dissolved in a high-boiling solvent or solvent mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-emulsifiable granules of crop protection agents composed of the pesticidal active substance in liquid or dissolved form and an at least partially water-soluble shell-forming structural material, to the use of these granules as novel, advantageous formulations of crop protection agents, and to processes for their preparation. It furthermore relates to the general use of polyvinyl alcohols as shell-forming structural materials in the preparation of water-emulsifiable granules which contain organic compounds dissolved in a high-boiling solvent or solvent mixture.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously making a multilayered, flat workpiece includes a press having with two press belts which are spaced from each other to define a reaction zone for passage of a workpiece in a conveying direction. A pressure element comprised of a pressure plate and a pressure pad defining at least one pressure compartment acts on at least one press belt for exerting pressure onto the workpiece. In order to completely seal the pressure compartment off from the pressure plate and the press belt, the pressure pad is formed by an elastically deformable material such as elastic hoses arranged side-by-side and communicating with each other, or an elastic membrane which extends at a distance to the pressure plate and is tightly secured on its free edge to the pressure plate. Suitably, a slip sheet is disposed between the pressure pad and the press belt.

Abstract: The herbicidal agents containing a compound of the formula (A) ##STR1## in which R denotes ##STR2## in which X denotes chlorine or bromine and Y denotes H or chlorine, and R.sub.1 denotes H, alkyl, alkinyl or one equivalent of a cation, in combination with a compound of the formula (B) ##STR3## in which R.sub.2 denotes bromine or iodine and R.sub.3 denotes H, NH.sub.4, an alkali metal cation or (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8)-alkyl, or with a compound of the formula (C) ##STR4## in which R.sub.4 denotes H, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8)-alkyl or one equivalent of a cation, with the condition that if, in formula (A), R denotes ##STR5## combinations of the compound of the formula (A) with compounds of the formula (B) are excluded.