Abstract: A patient table for diagnostic equipment includes at least one self-reinforced plastic.

Abstract: In accordance with the method of the invention, flat workpieces of brittle material, e.g., sapphire, glass ceramic, or glass, can be severed by inducing thermomechanical stresses, particularly along severing lines of the same direction, with a laser beam having a beam spot with asymmetric radiation density distribution on the workpiece by a relative movement in different directions in that a mirror-symmetric change in radiation density is brought about exclusively by changing the method parameters.

Abstract: A method for the improvement of welding properties of galvanized steel panels by pretreatment of the surface in the joint zone provided for the welding connection in which a stream of an atmospheric low-temperature plasma is directed onto the surface.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide positioning and mounting options with improved handling characteristics even at places that are difficult to access or in other difficult conditions. Said aim is achieved by using functional elements comprising at least one area that can be foamed by supply energy. At least one of said areas is used as a positioning element for positioning an object or for stiffening flexible or easily bendable materials in a shape-stabilizing manner.

Abstract: A process and an arrangement for continuously carrying out photoreactions cloudy, colored or UV-absorbing media. The object of providing a possibility for increasing the photon yield while continuously carrying out photoreactions in liquid substances is met in that the liquid dripping down a vertical inner wall of a pipe is wiped vertically to the dripping direction by means of distributor rollers which rotate on the rods of a cage-shaped rotor and is exposed proceeding from the center of the pipe by a rod-shaped photolamp. In this way, a liquid film of defined thickness is produced on the pipe wall and this liquid film is acted upon by immobilized catalyst layers at the pipe wall or at the distributor rollers or by gases introduced into the interior of the pipe to assist the reaction.The process and arrangement are used for photochemical cleaning of media containing chlorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons and fluorocarbons and for preparing drinking water and highly purified water.

Abstract: Curable mixtures comprising(a) an epoxy compound having on average more than one epoxy group per molecule,(b) a metal complex salt of formula IM(L).sub.a X'.sub.b X".sub.c .cndot.dY (I),whereinM is a cation of a transition metal,L is a Lewis base,a is a number from 2 to 6,X' is an anion of an acid radical,X" is an cation of an acid radical differing from X'b is 0 or a number which, together with the number c, which is greater than 0, corresponds to the valency of the cation of the transition metal,Y is a solvent molecule, andd is 0 or a number from 0 to 5, and,as optional component(c) a hardener for epoxy resins,are distinguished by good solubility of the metal salt in the epoxy resin and achieve uniform crosslinking during the curing of the epoxy resin.