Abstract: A particle therapy system is provided. The particle therapy system includes an imaging unit and a rotatable gantry with an irradiation unit. The irradiation unit projects into an irradiation room delimited by a wall. The imaging unit is arranged on a C-arm. The C-arm is operable to be moved between a retracted parking position and an extended diagnostic position for imaging purposes.
Abstract: Aqueous polymer dispersions which are obtainable by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of free radical polymerization initiators and stabilizers, amphiphilic polymers which comprise one or more hydrophobic units (A) and one or more hydrophilic units (B) being used as the stabilizer before, during or after the polymerization, and the hydrophobic units (A) being formed from a polyisobutene block, at least 50 mol % of whose polyisobutene macromolecules have terminally arranged doubled bonds, processes for the preparation of the aqueous polymer dispersions by polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free radical initiators and said amphiphilic polymers, which are used before, during or after the polymerization, and the use of the resulting aqueous polymer dispersions as associative thickeners in paper coating slips, in textile production, as thickeners for textile print pastes, in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sector, for
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 8, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Reinhold J. Leyrer, Ingolf Kuehn, Darijo Mijolovic
Abstract: A conduit pipe for conveying media, having a core pipe made of a copper alloy and a jacketing made of a plastic material from the group of the polyolefins having functional groups. The ratio between the thickness of the jacketing wall and the thickness of the core pipe wall ranges between 2:1 and 14:1, while the ratio between the thickness (D) of the core pipe wall and its inside diameter (ID) ranges between 0.01 and 0.05.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
KM Europa Metal Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Walter Melcher, Ulrich Reiter, Christoph Geyer, Christian Triquet, Matthias Konczalla
Abstract: A web-fed rotary printing press includes a printing unit which has a specific width for printing a web with six adjacent vertical printed pages in a first newspaper format. A longitudinal cutting device is used to divide the web into three partial webs, each of which having a width corresponding to two of the newspaper pages. A folding assembly includes a group of three fold formers which are located next to each other on a machine plane. The three formers are disposed in the web-fed rotary press in such a that the two distances between the folding planes of two of the formers, which are placed next to each other in pairs, can be modified.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 29, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Günther Oskar Eckert, Burkard Otto Herbert, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Bernd Kurt Masuch, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
Abstract: The aim of the invention is to create an inspection system (1) for rolled products (2) of a milling station, which is to reliably prevent the texture of the substrate from being impressed and/or pressing through during processing of the rolled product (2), especially during grinding. Said aim is achieved by disposing a number of vertically adjustable rolled product clamps (6, 8) on a conveyor belt (4) for rolled products (2) in the inspection system (1).
Abstract: A rotating member of a printing press is typically a cylinder that is provided with a circumferential area. A securement channel or a flow channel, which is at least partly open toward the circumferential area of the cylinder, is formed in the cylinder. A profiled member, which at least partly covers the securement channel or flow channel, with respect to its circumferential area, is inserted into the cylinder to form an integrated joint with the cylinder.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Martin Becker, Wolfgang Robert Josef Felgenhauer, Karl Robert Schäfer, Georg Schneider
Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing and/or processing a data stream description. According to said method, the data stream description is used to write and/or reference and/or classify sections of a data stream and the data stream description can be transformed by means of a processor using a transformation, the transformed data stream description allowing an adaptation of the data stream. The inventive method is characterized in that one or more sections of a data stream description are marked as processing units, a processing unit containing all information from the data stream description that is required for the transformation of the processing unit by means of the processor into a transformed processing unit. An access to sections of the data stream description outside the processing unit is not required for transformation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 26, 2004
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Jörg Heuer, Andreas Hutter, Gabriel Panis, Christian Timmerer
Abstract: Process for production of polymer blends which are suitable as filter aids and are composed of polystyrene and of crosslinked water-insoluble polyvinylpyrrolidones via processing of the two components in an extruder, which comprises melting polystyrene in an extruder and then treating it with the polyvinylpyrrolidone, and adding, to the mixture of the components, from 0.1 to 10% by weight of water, based on the total amount of polystyrene and popcorn polymer, and extruding and comminuting the mixture.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Klemens Mathauer, Marianna Pierobon, Tobias Petsch, Simone Schillo, Michael Kerber, Frank Müller
Abstract: A displacer unit with a valve plate body is disclosed. The displacer unit having at least one displacer space which is arranged in a cylindrical drum rotating about an axis of rotation and which can be connected to an inlet connection and an outlet connection by a control surface. The control surface is formed on a valve plate body which is provided with a first control opening, which is connected to the inlet connection, and with a second control opening, which is connected to the outlet connection. The first control opening and the second control opening are spaced apart radially, where the displacer space can be connected to the first control opening by a first connecting passage and to the second control opening by a second connecting passage. The connecting passages are provided with a respective mechanical face seal for sealing relative to the control openings.
Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for establishing a communication link between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal. According to the inventive method, the communication link is achieved by means of interconnected network elements, selected network elements being authorized to trigger releasing of the communication link.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 13, 2004
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Mark Beckmann, Achim Luft, Holger Schmidt
Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific phthalocyanines which bear substituents on the basic phthalocyanine structure bonded via methylene groups as markers for liquids, especially mineral oils, to liquids, especially mineral oils which comprise at least one such phthalocyanine as a marker, and also to novel specific phthalocyanines which bear substituents on the basic phthalocyanine structure bonded via methylene groups.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Sophia Ebert, Thomas Gessner, Ruediger Sens, Christos Vamvakaris
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heating a steam turbine comprising a high-pressure turbine section and a medium-pressure turbine section and/or a low-pressure turbine section. Said method is characterized by the essential aspect that the high-pressure turbine section is impinged upon by steam having relatively great conductivity while the medium-pressure turbine section or the low-pressure turbine section remains closed during said impingement following a cold start. As soon as the conductivity drops below a certain value, the medium-pressure turbine section or the low-pressure turbine section is also impinged upon by steam.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Henri Diesterbeck, Edwin Gobrecht, Karsten Peters, Rainer Quinkertz
Abstract: Process for preparing aminodihalophosphines, diaminohalophosphines, triaminophosphines, phosphorous ester diamides, aminophosphines, diaminophosphines, phosphorous ester amide halides and aminophosphine halides with elimination of an acid in the presence of an auxiliary base, wherein the auxiliary base b) and the acid form a salt which is liquid at temperatures at which the desired product is not significantly decomposed during the process of separating off the liquid salt and c) the salt of the auxiliary base forms two immiscible liquid phases with the desired product or the solution of the desired product in a suitable solvent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 21, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Martin Volland, Verena Seitz, Matthias Maase, Miguel Flores, Rainer Papp, Klemens Massonne, Veit Stegmann, Klaus Halbritter, Ralf Noe, Michael Bartsch, Wolfgang Siegel, Michael Becker, Oliver Huttenloch
Abstract: For a uniform image quality of digital X-ray records, a solid-state detector is provided. The detector includes light-sensitive pixel elements arranged in an active matrix, and a reset light source arranged behind them in the radiation direction of X-ray radiation, with the reset light source being in the form of an arrangement with light-emitting diodes and with the light-emitting diodes being designed such that can be driven individually and their intensity can be controlled individually. At least one of a failed and malfunctioning light-emitting diode is detectable. The intensities of the serviceable light-emitting diodes are driven and controlled in the event of a failure or a malfunction of at least one light-emitting diode in such a manner that the intensity and/or the homogeneity of the reset light source remains the same.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting real time-critical data using data messages in a data network. The data messages have an identification, useful data and a transfer status. According to the inventive method, data messages comprising errors are replaced by replacement messages that have the same structure as the data messages. The replacement message has the same identification as the data message to be replaced and is thus forwarded via the switching node, which would have been used to route the error-free data message. The replacement message can contain details of the type of transmission error.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2002
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Dieter Brückner, Dieter Klotz, Karl-Heinz Krause, Jürgen Schimmer
Abstract: Disclosed are 3-heterocyclyl substituted benzoic acid derivatives of general formula (I), in which the variables R1 to R8 and X have the meanings indicated in claim 1, and the use thereof as herbicides or for desiccating/defoliating plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 22, 2003
Date of Patent:
August 3, 2010
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Michael Puhl, Gerhard Hamprecht, Robert Reinhard, Ingo Sagasser, Werner Seitz, Cyrill Zagar, Matthias Witschel, Andreas Landes