Abstract: A device and a method for influencing the flow of a flowable medium through a flow-through reactor are described. The flow-through reactor has at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening, through each of which a flowable medium can flow in or out. By means of at least one energy source for changing at least one property of the flowable medium flowing through the flow-through reactor, energy can be introduced whose intensity is non-uniformly distributed in the volume of the flow-through reactor. According to the invention, the flow of the flowable medium flowing through the flow-through reactor is influenced by at least one mechanical component positioned in the flow-through reactor in such a way that a majority of the flowable medium flowing through the flow-through reactor flows through the zones of high energy intensity generated by means of the energy source.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for building a closed current circuit A, in which electric charge carriers move at least through a metal conductor, a flowable medium and a resonantly mechanically vibrating metal conductor C, which is mechanically connected to elements which generate mechanical vibrations. The device is characterized in that the current circuit B generating the previously mentioned resonant mechanical vibrations is decoupled from the previously mentioned current circuit A and from the components transmitting mechanical vibrations between the elements generating vibrations and the resonantly mechanically vibrating metal conductor C, which is in contact with the flowable medium, by means of electrically non-conductive coupling elements on two sides of the vibration-generating elements.

Abstract: Systems and methods define adjustment of the level of a flowable medium in a hollow body. The systems and methods have a tank that is suitable for filling with a flowable medium, a hollow body with one or more openings, and one or more channels that each with a channel inlet and a channel outlet. The channels are disposable such that after placing the hollow body in the filled tank, in those regions of the hollow body in which imprisoned volumes of gas are situated between the wall of the hollow body and the flowable medium, at least one respective channel inlet is situated and is connected through the one channel to a channel outlet that is situated outside the hollow body and outside the flowable medium.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for at least one low-frequency electric tank circuit, in which at least one electric conductor is an influencing component of the tank circuit due to its properties.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device and to a method for generating an oscillatory motion of a mass, wherein an oscillating electrical signal and/or an operation power is wirelessly transmitted in order to facilitate retrofitting the device.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for treating fluids with ultrasound are provided. In order to achieve a desired effect of the treatment as efficiently as possible, the apparatus has a plurality of inlet openings for the fluids and the fluids to be brought into contact with one another while being exposed to ultrasound.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a device for at least one low-frequency electric tank circuit, in which at least one electric conductor is an influencing component of the tank circuit due to its properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a screwing device (1) with two tools (2, 3) for producing or releasing a screw connection between two fastening elements (10, 11). For a simple and compact structure of the screwing device (1), the invention provides that the tools (2, 3) are during the operation of the screwing device (1) connected to one another for rotation about common rotation axes (D1, D2).

Abstract: The invention relates to a sonotrode (1) for an apparatus (40) for generating low-frequency high-power ultrasound. To be able to manufacture and permanently operate the sonotrode even with elements (2, 3) made of brittle materials, the sonotrode (1) is constructed with at least two materially interconnected elements (2, 3).

Abstract: Method and device for changing the properties of at least one liquid medium, in which method the liquid medium is exposed in at least one container to vibrations in the low-frequency power ultrasonic range and, to regulate the flow speed of the liquid material in the container in which the liquid medium is present for ultrasonic irradiation and/or to regulate the internal pressure of the container, the cross-section inside a line upstream of an inlet of the container in the direction of flow and/or downstream of an outlet of the container in the direction of flow is varied by means of at least one pinch valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a resonator for the distribution and partial transformation of longitudinal vibrations and to a method for treating at least one fluid by means of a resonator according to the invention. The resonator is designed for the distribution of longitudinal vibrations and the partial transformation thereof into longitudinal vibrations that are superimposed by vibrations oriented towards the center of gravity or approximately towards the center of gravity of a cross-sectional surface of at least one opening of the resonator. The resonator comprises a natural number of parallel elements of at least lambda/2 or a natural multiple thereof, at least one of the lambda/2 elements comprising at least one opening suitable for transmitting the transformed vibrations to a fluid located inside the opening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for generating electromechanical composite high-frequency oscillations includes, with a composite high-frequency oscillation system having at least one oscillation-generating element and at least one bracing element for applying pressure to the oscillation-generating element, wherein the bracing element is positioned outside of the material cross-section of at least one oscillation-generating element.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic generator (1) with a resonator (3) for transmitting ultrasonic sound to a medium (6) arranged in a receptacle (5). In order to efficiently transmit the ultrasonic sound from the resonator (3) to the medium (6) via the receptacle (5) the resonator (3) comprises a clamping opening (4) for clampingly receiving the receptacle (5).

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating particles are provided. The method may be a method for generating particles from a flowable medium, the method involving forming drops from the flowable medium, arranging the drops on a particle forming surface and solidifying the drops, thereby forming the particles. The apparatus may be an apparatus for generating particles from a flowable medium with a drop generator and a particle forming surface, the drop generator being formed to arrange drops on the particle forming surface and the particle forming surface may be adapted to contact the drops when the particles are being formed.

Abstract: A method and devices comprise a low frequency high energy ultrasound system having at least one sonotrode projecting into a reactor vessel through which the liquid passes via at least one inlet orifice and at least one outlet orifice. To avoid cavitation at the sonotrode, in a close region of the oscillation-transducing sonotrode surface a pressure/amplitude combination close to or above the pressure-amplitude characteristic line is generated at which considerably reduced or no cavitation occurs and in the adjacent region in the vessel at least in a region and at least at times a pressure/amplitude combination is maintained below the pressure-amplitude characteristic line at which cavitation is generated. A device has an inlet orifice arranged such that the liquid impacts directly onto the oscillation-transducing sonotrode surface, and is shaped that in the close region of the oscillation-transducing sonotrode surface a pressure close to or above the pressure-amplitude characteristic line prevails.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for generating ultrasound oscillations. In order to be able to excite with the device oscillations in a vessel simultaneously and uniformly from several sides, the device includes a resonator which oscillates radially in several directions during operation of the device.

Abstract: An ultrasound system for the generation of low-frequency high-power ultrasound includes a resonator for transmitting the ultrasound to a medium. To safely handle the ultrasound system, the ultrasound system has a light source illuminating a workspace of the ultrasound system.

Abstract: Method and device for changing the properties of at least one liquid medium, in which method the liquid medium is exposed in at least one container to vibrations in the low-frequency power ultrasonic range and, to regulate the flow speed of the liquid material in the container in which the liquid medium is present for ultrasonic irradiation and/or to regulate the internal pressure of the container, the cross-section inside a line upstream of an inlet of the container in the direction of flow and/or downstream of an outlet of the container in the direction of flow is varied by means of at least one pinch valve.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for generating ultrasound oscillations. In order to be able to excite with the device oscillations in a vessel simultaneously and uniformly from several sides, the device includes a resonator which oscillates radially in several directions during operation of the device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for generating electromechanical composite high-frequency oscillations includes, with a composite high-frequency oscillation system having at least one oscillation-generating element and at least one bracing element for applying pressure to the oscillation-generating element, wherein the bracing element is positioned outside of the material cross-section of at least one oscillation-generating element.