Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting system for fitting fixing elements on a wall. The aim of the invention is to allow easy mounting of fixing elements, in a cost-effective manner and with simple means, especially in rooms provided with tiles or similar wall coverings. For that purpose, the inventive mounting system comprises a base body constituting a fixing element and having at least one filling opening for introducing a bonding and fixing agent between the wall and the fixing element. The base body also has openings for penetration and distribution of the bonding and fixing agent. The base body and/or its back side oriented towards the wall are designed so as to be fluid- and gas permeable.

Abstract: A scanning head of the measuring type for a coordinate measurement system, has a fixed part, at least one part that is displaceable relative to the fixed part, and at least one damping device for damping vibrations that occur. The at least one damping device is configured as an electric motor, which is connected with at least one negative ohmic resistor.

Abstract: Method and a device for identifying species of plants and/or animals and/or types of minerals, as well as parts of them or products made from them, as well as the location of their occurrence, in each instance. Proceeding from database systems already known from the state of the art, for identifying specific species of animals and/or plants, the invention creates a method and a device for identification, with which identification of species of animals and/or plants is made possible by means of mobile data display terminals (2), such as mobile telephones that communicate via the UMTS, GPRS, or word protocol, for a user (1) in the field, in that the characteristics necessary for identification of a concrete outward appearance are offered for selection, one after another, by way of a matrix of characteristics from a central database (5). The method for identification is optimized by means of a system of error correction.

Abstract: In a floating connector (101) including a fitting portion (20) and a fixed portion (40), a supporting mechanism (1) is connected to the fitting portion and the fixed portion to support the fitting portion to the fixed portion so that the fitting portion may float in a fitting direction (26) of a mating connector (102). A floating control mechanism (22, 25) is arranged between the fitting portion and the fixed portion. When the mating connector is not fitted to the floating connector, the floating control mechanism locks or inhibits the floating of the fitting portion. However, the floating control mechanism enables the floating of the fitting portion in response to a fitting operation of the mating connector to the floating connecter. Use of the mating connector causes motion of a slide plate (22) and rotation of a stopper (25) about an axis (25a, 13) and results in release of the fitting portion (20) to enable it to float in a selected direction.

Abstract: The invention describes a HF-reducing green roof. This green roof comprises a support construction consisting of a layer of textile fibers and/or a substrate (12), a vegetation layer (14) of low plants, and a flat or three-dimensional structure of electrically conductive filaments. This structure supplements the support construction or forms part thereof. The intermediate spaces between adjacent electrically conductive filaments (10) are smaller than one quarter of the wavelength of the electromagnetic HF-radiation to be shielded.

Abstract: In a fixing tool for fixing a fiber holding member to an optical fiber, a tool body receives the optical fiber and the fiber holding member. In this event, the fiber holding member is disposed on a first specific part of the optical fiber. A positioning device fixes a second specific part of the optical fiber to the tool body in the state where the optical fiber and the fiber holding member are received in the tool body. The second specific part is a portion between the first specific part and a longitudinal end face of the optical fiber.

Abstract: The method has a first material of lesser hardness acting as a rod-shaped carrier for a second material of greater hardness, each materials formed within a respective extrusion press tool and the plastic mass flow of the greater hardness material fed to the extrusion press tool for the lesser hardness material for providing a common plastic mass flow in the form of a rod-shaped body with a core and an outer region. An Independent claim for a device for manufacture of a hard metal workpiece is also included.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for forging a workpiece (3) with an intermittently drivable clamping head (4) for the workpiece (3) and with a counter-holder (5) for receiving the end of the workpiece (3) averted from the clamping head (4), which counter-holder is rotatably held in a frame (12). In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is proposed that the counter-holder (5) is connected with an intermittent rotational drive (13) which can be triggered synchronously to the clamping head (4).

Abstract: A transponder label includes an antenna coil, a semiconductor chip, and a single layer film, which acts both as a carrier film and as a shield against the induction of counter magnetic fields in the metallic base layer. The semiconductor chip acts both as a capacitor element of the transponder resonant circuit and as a memory component. The film is a flexible matrix including embedded ferrite particles, which give the film soft magnetic characteristics. The permeability value of the film is adapted to its thickness and the material of the base layer, the value being higher for a reduced thickness. The resonant frequency of the transponder resonant circuit formed from the antenna coil and semiconductor chip lies within a narrow target frequency range, once the label has adhered.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the production of tuneable light impulses in a visible spectral range, comprising a laser system (LS) which emits femtosecond light impulses in the infrared spectral range, and an optical frequency converter (FC) for converting the wave lengths of the light impulses into the visible spectral range. According to the invention, the wave length of the light impulse emitted by the laser system can be tuned in order to provide said type of device which can be used as a light source for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Said device also comprises an optical stretcher which enables the duration of the impulse of the frequency converted light impulse to be increased to at least 1 ps.

Abstract: In a device for clamping the rim of a vehicle wheel, in particular for mounting tires, comprising a shelf (35), onto which the rim may be deposited by one side, and comprising clamping jaws (12 to 15), which may be moved radially relative to the rim, for clamping the rim edge adjacent to the shelf (35), two pairs of clamping jaws (12 to 15), of which the paths of movement intersect at right angles, are provided. The movement of the clamping jaws (12 to 15) is generated by a cylinder (22) and is synchronized by means of a gear unit (27).

Abstract: A sales rack for accommodating goods such as foods presented in open containers, such as fruits, vegetables, etc. The sales rack has a base and a goods support surface that is adjustable relative to the base. The goods support surface is equipped with at least one holder element which can be optionally affixed, and over which the goods, i.e. the containers can pass when they are put into place, to fix the goods in place in the slanted position of the goods support surface.

Abstract: A sifting device including a sieve box (1), which is caused to oscillate using a drive (4), as a fundamental oscillation system having essentially horizontal first transverse carriers (1.3) and a supplementary oscillation system (2), attached to the sieve box (1), having essentially horizontal second transverse carriers (2.3), positioned essentially parallel to the first transverse carriers, which are each positioned between two first transverse carriers (1.3) and are connected thereto by stretchable sieve liner strips (3), with, for two sequential transverse carriers, the transverse carrier closer to the feeding side (A) being higher than the subsequent transverse carrier, which is closer to the discharge side (B), with the sifting device having at least two sections, in which the height difference between the centers of gravity of two sequential transverse carriers (1.3, 2.3) is greater in the particular feeding-side section than in the discharge-side section.

Abstract: The invention relates to a homoserine transsuccinylase, which exhibits reduced sensitivity towards L-methionine or SAM in comparison with a homoserine transsuccinylase wild-type enzyme, whereby the latter comprises an amino acid sequence containing a TyrGlnXaaThrPro sub-sequence, the Thr of said sub-sequence lying between positions 285 and 310 of the amino acid sequence and position 1 being filled by the starter methionine. The inventive homoserine transsuccinylase is characterized in that in comparison with the wild-type enzyme at least 2 amino acids are modified, said modification taking place in the Thr of the sub-sequence or in the C-terminal.

Abstract: A portal covering such as door or window having a handle that rotates as the door or window rotates. The handle rotatably mounted onto the portal covering and drives the covering around an axis associated with a frame or wall. As the handle is rotated on its axis on the covering, the covering rotates on its axis on the frame. This allows a user to always have contact with the handle at all angles of rotation of the covering. The rotation is accomplished through a direct drive or a gearing system which in this case could be in the form of a miter gear, or other bevel gears linking two shafts together. Other embodiments are also possible such as drive mechanisms associated with a push plate, cables and pulleys, or gear boxes.

Abstract: A link chain has multiple individual chain links arranged in a repeating sequence. A first chain link has two shank portions connected by two arc portions which define an interior space. One or more dividing elements project inwardly from an inside surface of a shank portion and divide the interior space into two movement spaces. A second chain link has two shank portions connected by two arc portions which define a movement space within its interior. The second link is linked to the first link and movable within one of its two movement spaces. When a longitudinal axis of the second chain link is moved from an intended, substantially aligned position by less than 90 degrees, an outside of an arc portions of the second chain link that engages a movement space of the first chain link contacts the dividing element, and an inside of a shank portion of the second chain link contacts an arc portion of the first chain link.

Abstract: In the production of an internal contour with an internal arbor acting on the inner wall of a cup-shaped or annular rotationally symmetrical workpiece, expansion and length change of the workpiece are avoided during cold forming. Thus, gear components with internal teeth are produced that have greater symmetry and higher accuracy. A workpiece provided with a press fit on the outside or a prefabricated workpiece is inserted into the die, and during the cold forming is pressed tightly by friction and rotationally fixed with the rotationally driven internal arbor against the inner wall of the die. After completion of the rolling process of the profile, the workpiece is ejected with an axial ram. The internal arbor is provided with outside profiling and is cantilever-mounted and is fed axially and radially during the rolling.

Abstract: A turbomachine for low-temperature applications, has a rotor shaft; at least one rotor disk that is arranged in overhung manner at one shaft end of the rotor shaft; an electric machine having a stator having windings, and an electric rotor arranged on the rotor shaft; a stage housing that surrounds the rotor disk and has connections for a cold gas that flows through the stage housing; and a machine housing in which the electric machine and shaft bearings for the rotor shaft are arranged. The machine housing is connected with the stage housing. A partition made of insulating material is arranged between the stage housing and the machine housing, which thermally separates the stage housing from the machine housing. A line provided with a flow-through regulation fitting is connected to the flow path of the cold gas, for branching off an amount-regulated cooling stream, which is passed to the electric machine within the machine housing.

Abstract: In a method of loading several like coupled storage cars with bulk material, a first storage car is first filled with the bulk material by reducing the conveying speed mode of a bottom conveyor band in the first storage car to a bulk material storing speed mode while a transfer conveyor band of the adjacent storage car fills the first storage car, the storing speed mode of the bottom conveyor band in the first storage car is automatically adjusted in response to a measured amount of the bulk material accumulating in a pile so that the first storage car is filled to a maximal height, and after the accumulated pile has reached a forward end position, the conveying speed mode of the bottom conveyor band in the storage car adjacent to, and rearwardly of, the first storage car in the conveying direction is automatically reduced to the storing speed mode.