Abstract: A lowerable rear window in a folding top has a window which, during opening of the folding top, can be lowered about a horizontal axis into a depositing space of the vehicle. Lateral steering levers which are guided corresponding to the movement of the folding top during opening and closing are used for guiding the rear window. The rear window reaches directly under a vehicle body element without the need for a connection made of a folding top cover between the vehicle body element and the rear window.

Abstract: A device for the attachment of a scale component of a length measuring system to a mounting surface of a first body, wherein a second body is arranged to be displaceable in relation to the first body in a measuring direction, wherein an adhesive layer is provided between the scale component and the mounting surface. The device includes at least one spacer that holds the scale component and supports the scale component at a distance from the mounting surface and is displaceably mounted on the mounting surface for alignment; and wherein the at least one spacer is actuated to remove the support and to make the holding force of the adhesive layer between the scale component and the mounting surface effective.

Abstract: A device for detecting six components of the relative motion of two bodies during a primarily two-dimensional translatory basic motion is described. The device has a plate which is provided with a two-dimensional, optical grating, and which is equipped with a plurality of vertically arranged devices for distance measuring. A second element which is composed of an arrangement of two or three optical gratings, and a plane surface which is parallel to the gratings is included. The optical gratings permit a detection of the relative displacements in X- and Y- directions parallel to the lower plate via an evaluation of the variations in intensity of the reflected light.

Abstract: A cooling device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, particularly of a passenger car, has at least one radiator, through which cooling water is flowing. The radiator is disposed in a cooling cycle and connected over a supplying pipeline and a returning pipeline with the internal combustion engine. Moreover, a heat exchanger, with which the oil of a transmission is cooled, is provided in the cooling cycle. For spatial and functional reasons, a flow resistance is connected in the supplying pipeline before the internal combustion engine. A branching pipeline, which is connected with the heat exchanger of the transmission and downstream, behind the heat exchanger, with the flow resistance, leads away from the supplying pipeline.

Abstract: In order to prevent squealing of a disk brake, the disk brake has a brake disk with friction rings having locally weakening section moduli which detune corresponding to the natural oscillation mode. As a result, the natural oscillation mode of the brake disk is changed to such an extent that brake squealing is avoided.

Abstract: A suction system has an arrangement for utilizing resonance effects and is suitable for an internal-combustion engine having opposed cylinder banks. The suction system has a resonance container which has boundary walls. On the one hand, the resonance container is connected with the atmosphere and, on the other hand, it is connected with cylinders of the internal-combustion engine, the arrangement being provided in the resonance container as a control device which can vary the resonance cross-section, and the resonance container is connected with a feeding device having separate feeding pipes. For optimizing the torque behavior of the internal-combustion engine, the control device is fixed from the idling to a medium rotational speed range in a first end position and, together with the feeding pipes of the feeding device, forms two guiding channels which supply the cylinders the two cylinder banks with air.

Abstract: A roof for a motor vehicle with a stationary, continuous roof element, particularly with at least one movable roof section, which is held movably on a guide rail and the guide rail is connected with a roof pillar and sealed with respect to the latter. The guide rail of the roof or of a roof module in each case is disposed on the inside of the side roof pillar forming the boundary of a roof opening and is connected with the latter. In a recessed channel, longitudinally extending between the side roof spar and the guide rail, a holding rail for a roof-transporting system is disposed.

Abstract: A header for milking units comprising: a bell (15) for the collection of the milk closed by an upper wall (4); milked milk arrival ducts (9) with associated peripheral mouths (8) located on the upper wall (4); a discharge duct (17) fixed to the bell (15) and a flow adjuster (1) that accumulates the individual milk flows into a single and uniform circumferential flow that regularly discharge towards the discharge duct (17). The flow adjuster (1) comprises an upside-down mushroom-profiled body (2) provided with a device (3) for fastening to the header, and comprising a circular upper edge (7) and a dished bottom (12) connected to the upper edge (7); the circular upper edge (7) having a diameter smaller than the internal diameter of bell (15) and such as to align with mouths (8) of milk arrival ducts (9) and to form, with its external surface, one only continuous annular passage (14) with the internal surface of the bell.

Abstract: Methods for preparing 2-(4-(4-(4,5-dichloro-2-methylimidazol-1yl)butyl)-1-piperazinyl)-5-fluoropyrimidine and its physiologically acceptable salts are disclosed.

Abstract: The drive assembly is formed by an internal-combustion engine which is installed in a passenger car. By means of bearings, supports or the like, the internal-combustion engine is held in position in an assembly space. By means of a wall of a vehicle body, the assembly space is separated from a vehicle occupant compartment. For achieving favorable psycho-acoustic effects, a sound support is provided between the internal-combustion engine and the wall of the vehicle body, by which sound support the engine-mechanical structure-borne sound is transmitted into the vehicle body, specifically for a targeted perception by occupants in the vehicle occupant compartment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel anticancer agents, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The present invention more particularly relates to novel derivatives of andrographolide, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The novel derivatives of andrographolide have the general formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel anticancer agents, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The present invention more particularly relates to novel derivatives of andrographolide, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and their pharmaceutically acceptable solvates. The novel derivatives of andrographolide have the general formula (I).

Abstract: Internal combustion engine having a device for the valve timing, the valve timing periods and the valve lifts being continuously changeable and being definable as a function of the operating parameters of the internal combustion engine, characterized in that the switching thresholds for changing the valve timing periods and the valve lifts, which are obtained from a characteristic diagram extending over the rotational speed and the load, are weighted as a function of the gear and/or of the temperature.

Abstract: A guide device for linear guidance of elongated objects, particularly for positioning wires passing a nondestructive eddy current test device, can be the inlet nozzle or outlet nozzle, and has a brush arrangement integrated into a guide sleeve. The brush arrangement damps vibration of the wires or other elongated objects transiting the test device. A wire guided by the guide device is protected at its surface and subjected to little or no transverse vibration in the vicinity of the test probe of the test device, resulting in improved measurement accuracy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to modified amino acids of general formula wherein A, Z, X, n, m, R, R2, R3, R4 and R11 are defined as in claims 1 to 5, their tautomers, their diastereomers, their enantiomers, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof with inorganic or organic acids or bases, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, the use thereof and processes for preparing them as well as their use for the production and purification of antibodies and as labelled compounds in RIA- and ELISA assays and as diagnostic or analytical aids in neurotransmitter research.

Abstract: A passenger car has at least one large-surface movable roof part which is guided on elongated guide rails arranged laterally of a roof opening. The guide rails extend adjacent to laterally exterior roof members, and the roof members as well as the guide rails are covered by a covering in the direction of the vehicle occupant compartment. In the event of a lateral impact of a vehicle occupant's head, the risk of injury is significantly reduced by the provision of a covering assigned at least in areas to an intermediately disposed deformation element which can be fixed in the guide rail.

Abstract: A device (1) for closing a canal-shaped anastomosis (2), between the aorta (3) and the pulmonary artery (4), which remained open after the birth of a person (6). It is formed by a closing element (8) that can be inserted using a catheter (7) and that has two seals (10) and (11) spaced apart from each other and connected via an elastic tension element (9). The two seals have a certain elasticity and in the usage position, cover or fill up the two mouths or ends of the anastomosis (2), located between the aorta (3) and the pulmonary artery (4). The seals (10) and (11) can be folded, so that they on the one hand fit into the catheter (7) and on the other hand, can be introduced through the anastomosis (2) and brought to the respective application position.

Abstract: A reamer for the fine machining of surfaces of drilled holes in metal workpieces has a reamer body and at that body has at least one main blade and at least one auxiliary blade, a chip surface adjoining the blades at one side and a chip deflector step limiting the chip surface. That deflector step falls away in the zone of the auxiliary blade, exhibiting an increasing distance from the auxiliary blade. The chip deflector step rises in the zone of the main blade, exhibiting a decreasing distance from the main blade. The blades, chip surface and deflector step may be on a cutter plate attached to the reamer body or be part of the body itself. The invention also concerns that cutter plate.