Abstract: Novel crosslinkable mixtures having improved room temperature stability comprising platinum compounds or an elemental platinum, and at least one sterically complicated substituted triaryl phosphite.

Abstract: A coupling serves for leakproof connection of two shaft-like medical instruments (10, 90) along their shaft axis (53, 97), in particular for connection of an arthroscope shaft to an optical system. A coupling element (80) is provided, arranged on a first instrument (10) and having a contact surface (66), against whose contact surface (66) a contact surface (106) of a coupling element (92) of the second instrument (90) can be applied. Also provided is an interlock system for releasable interlocking of the two coupling elements (80, 92), the contact surfaces (64, 106) resting against one another in leakproof fashion.

Abstract: A process for reducing the loading of wastewaters produced in the preparation of hydroxyl and carbonyl compounds from hydroperoxides by the Hock process, which may be acidic, by treating the wastewaters with an oxygen-containing gas at a pressure greater than 25 bar absolute and at a temperature of 150-250° C. Surprisingly, improved degradation rates are achieved under these conditions.

Abstract: A fiber processing machine includes a generally vertically oriented feed chute having an upper portion and a lower portion; a device for introducing fiber material into the upper chute portion; a clothed fiber opening roll supported for rotation in the lower chute portion; a withdrawing roll adjoining the opening roll and supported for rotation for drawing fiber material in the feed chute and for forwarding the fiber material to the opening roll; an optical sensor system supported above the opening roll laterally of the feed chute for detecting foreign material carried on the clothing of the opening roll along with the fiber material; an air stream generating device for directing an air blast to the clothing of the opening roll; and a control-and-regulating device for operating the air stream generating device upon detecting foreign material by the optical sensor system to remove and carry away the foreign material from the clothing of the opening roll by an air blast.

Abstract: A process for producing activated carbon granules in which (a) a mixture of distillation residues from isocyanate production, a carbon-containing processing auxiliary substance, and optionally one or more other additives is shaped into flowable granules; (b) the resulting granules are then carbonized at low temperatures, and (c) the carbonized product is activated. The activated carbon granules produced in this way can be used to manufacture adsorbent substrate structures loaded with this product, in particular adsorption filters, filter mats, odor filters, surface filters for protective suits against chemical poisons, and ambient air purifying filters.

Abstract: An impacting device is capable of being used in an impact hammer and/or a drill for releasing by impact tools blocked in rocks. An impact impetus supplied by an impact piston is modified via an impact-deflecting device having a sliding lever and a deflecting lever, such that the impact is carried out in a releasing impact direction opposite the normal impact direction and is transmitted to a tool by a slide and a locking lever. The tool is released after a few strokes produced by the impact piston. The impact device is suitable for both unilateral air springs and double air springs.

Abstract: A handle for a medical instrument which has two jaw parts movable independently of one another has a handle body on which two handle elements, movable independently of one another, for selectable actuation of the jaw parts are arranged. Arranged at the proximal end of the handle body is a thumb handle element which has a thumb ring. The movable handle elements are arranged in a manner spaced distally away from the thumb handle element on the handle body, and protrude laterally therefrom. The thumb handle element is rotatable about a longitudinal handle axis relative to the movable handle elements, so that the one and the other movable handle element are movable alternately into a position forming in each case with the thumb handle element a handle arrangement operable in scissor fashion.

Abstract: A machine for mowing and chopping corn and similar stalk-like harvested crops has a number of drawing-in and mowing drums which rotate about a vertical axis and which are provided with protruding driver gear rims. The drawing-in and mowing drums are disposed in the transverse direction on either side of the vertical longitudinal center plane of the machine centrally ahead of a chopper which has an insertion duct which takes up the cut, harvested crops. The insertion duct is bounded above and below by two insertion rollers disposed at a height from one another and laterally by two conveying drums which are at a transverse distance from one another. The conveying drums transport the cut, harvested crops along and rotate about vertical axes.

Abstract: A tensioner for a safety belt has a piston/cylinder unit, which comprises a cylinder and a piston arranged in its interior, a compressed gas source, on the activation of which the piston is displaced, a belt engagement device which engages the safety belt, a traction cable which connects the piston to the belt engagement device, and at least one dampener for the absorption of energy on deceleration of the movement of the belt engagement device. The cylinder has a first end nearer to the belt engagement device and a second end further away therefrom. The piston consists of at least two piston parts, namely of a first, radially outer piston part and a second, radially inner piston part, the second piston part being uncoupled from the first piston part on deceleration of the piston at the end of the tensioning process.

Abstract: The invention consists in a method of setting up a machine for sealing closure clips between a stamp and a bottom tool, which for coaling the clip are first of all moved towards each other up to a sealing distance and are then moved away from each other, and where the sealing distance between stamp and bottom tool is detected by means of a sensor. The invention also consists in a device for sealing closure clips between a stamp and a bottom tool, where the device includes a sensor for detecting a sealing distance between stamp and bottom tool.

Abstract: An endoscope having a distally disposed lens and an optical transmission system which transmits the image of the lens to the proximal end of the endoscope is provided. The transmission system includes at least one reversing system, which includes two elements in mutual mirror-inverted arrangement. Each element includes a rod lens with planar faces and at least one optically thin lens having a planar surface. The rod lenses consist of an inhomogeneous material having a positive dispersion and an inhomogeneous refractive index in the radial direction, while the thin lenses are plano-convex lenses.

Abstract: A film packing for a pasty substance comprises a film tube bag (12) having a peripheral wall (14) and two ends (16), and a cover portion (22) fastened to one of the two ends (16) of the film tube bag (12). The cover portion (22) comprises an end face (24) having a passage opening (32) for the passage of pasty substance from the opened film tube bag (12), a peripheral face (26) joining the end face (24), and a sealing element (52) abutting to a receiving headpiece (36) attachable to the end (16) of the film tube bag (12) carrying the cover portion (22). The receiving headpiece (36) surrounds at least the end face (24) and the peripheral face (26) of the cover portion (22) and comprises an outlet piece (44) which is in fluid connection with the passage opening (32) of the cover portion (22) when the receiving headpiece is attached (36).

Abstract: An interior rearview mirror for a vehicle has a mirror base and a mirror head connected to the mirror base. A rain sensor is arranged in the mirror base. The mirror base is connected to a base plate glued to the windshield of the vehicle by clamping and securing elements engaging depressions in the base plate. The rain sensor is pressed against the windshield by the pulling force of the clamping and securing elements acting on the mirror base.

Abstract: A handle for a medical instrument comprises a first connecting means for connecting a shaft of said instrument of said handle, said shaft defining a longitudinal axis of said instrument. The handle further comprises a second connecting means for connecting a force transmission element of said instrument to said handle, said second connecting means being movable relative to said first connecting means for moving said force transmission element relative to said shaft for moving at least one tool disposed at the distal end of said shaft. The handle further comprises a first grip element and a second grip element, said first grip element and said second grip element being movable relative to each other, at least one of said first grip element and said second grip element being operatively connected with said second connecting means.

Abstract: Proposed is a process for the production of activated carbon, in which the characteristics of the activated carbon are specifically controllable by way of adjustment of the parameters of the process.

Abstract: In an adjusting apparatus for control surfaces of a missile the control surfaces 2, 3 are displaceable by adjusting motors 5, 6 by way of thrust spindles 15. To afford a compact structure and a low weight the stators 7 of the adjusting motors 5, 6 are arranged directly in a carrier housing 4 and the thrust spindle 15 engages into a female thread 14 of the motor shaft 9.

Abstract: A housing for an exhaust gas catalyst in motor vehicles with an internal combustion engine has a first seamless housing part deep-drawn of sheet metal, wherein the first housing part has at least one inlet cone, at least one first pipe connector, and at least one first cylindrical housing mantle. A second seamless housing part deep-drawn of sheet metal has at least one outlet cone, at least one second pipe connector, and at least one second cylindrical housing mantle. The first and second housing mantles are connected to one another by a gas-tight peripheral connecting seam.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system has a gas generator and a gas bag. A method for inflating a gas bag for restraining an occupant comprises the following steps: providing a gas generator for producing gas which is flowingly connected to the gas bag, providing at least one propellant charge within the gas generator, providing at least one igniter within the gas generator, the gas generator blowing gas into the gas bag over more than one second, preferably over more than three seconds, in order to achieve a high service time.

Abstract: The invention describes a method and a device for determining the filling level and can be applied, in particular, for the ascertainment of thesimmering process of mineral oil products.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the detachable fastening of a steering wheel on a steering shaft having an axis. The steering wheel has a hub provided with a through-bore arranged perpendicularly to the axis of the steering shaft and the through-bore intersects a groove arranged in the steering shaft. The device comprises a fastening means arranged in the through-bore. The fastening means has a bolt with a head and a shaft provided at least partially with an external thread and has a nut able to be screwed onto the shaft of the bolt. The nut is able to engage into the groove and the through-bore has two oppositely directed radial support surfaces arranged between the bolt head and the nut. One support surface is arranged on the bolt head side and the other support surface is arranged on the nut side. A spring element is provided which engages one of the bolt and the nut and exerts a force onto one of the bolt and the nut. The force aims for an increase of a distance between the bolt head and the nut.