Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including a housing with a dust container therein and a suction opening with a detachable connection of a suction hose to the opening. The housing having an outer wall aligned with the suction opening and the suction opening in an inner wall. The connector body of the suction hose having tubular end piece with a connecting cone insertable into the suction opening through both walls of the housing and into the dust container.

Abstract: A cooking device containing a muffle delimiting a cooking chamber including a hot-air heating unit, a high-speed heating unit and a control unit for regulating a high-speed heating mode. The high-speed heating unit having at least one upper heating unit. The control unit switches on the upper heating unit while simultaneously adjusting the high-speed cooking mode exclusively when operating with the hot-air heating unit.

Abstract: A raised-level, built-in cooking devices has a muffle and a bottom-sided muffle opening that can be closed by a lowerable bottom door. A drive device has at least one tensile element which is connected to the bottom door. The tensile element is subject to a tensile force counter to the weight of the bottom door. In order to maintain the tensile element such that it is sufficiently taut, a tensile stress device is associated with the tensile element, whereupon a minimum value of the tensile force is maintained in the tensile element when the tensile force is relieved.

Abstract: A refrigerating appliance with an inner chamber enclosed by a heat-insulating housing and a plurality of electrical or electromechanical components. The components including a cooling circuit for cooling the inner chamber and at least one temperature sensor. A control unit for controlling the cooperation of the components, which control unit has a test operating mode for checking the operative ness of at least some of the components.

Abstract: A turbine fluid guide member (10) including an airfoil portion (12), a platform portion (14) and fillet (16) joining the airfoil portion to the platform portion. Fillet cooling holes (18a-18f) are positioned in the turbine fluid guide member relative to a pressure side vortex flow (22) so that a cooling fluid flow (20) exiting the hole is directed to form a cooling film (32) over the fillet. The cooling holes may be positioned in the airfoil portion, the platform portion, or any combination thereof, depending on the geometry of the airfoil and resultant vortex flows around the airfoil. A method of cooling a fillet of the turbine fluid guide member may include identifying a vortex flow around the fillet and selectively positioning a hole relative to the vortex flow such that a cooling fluid flow exiting the hole is directed to form a cooling film over the fillet.

Abstract: An extraction system for domestic appliances, especially cooking devices, containing an item holder, at least one fixed support unit and at least one mobile support unit. The mobile support unit guided on the fixed support unit and having at least one bearing surface to enhance the extraction of the item holder.

Abstract: A simple and efficient opportunity for interoperability of the presence services in line with the Wireless Village and IP Multimedia Subsystem standards is described by the method and the apparatus for recording presence attributes from the Wireless Village standard in a presence information message from the IP Multimedia Subsystem standard in a mobile communication network. At least one text character string in a presence attribute from the Wireless Village standard is recorded by a mapping unit in a note element in a presence information message from the IP Multimedia Subsystem standard, and the presence information message is transmitted to a presence server for the purpose of forwarding to further network units.

Abstract: A control unit for a household appliance, preferably a cooking device, containing a control device and regulating devices. The control device has a removable control element and a blocking device. The regulating devices have a change-over regulating device that allows the cooking device to be used in an alternative operating mode should the control element be removed from the cooking device.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a power output stage including at least one half bridge with upper and lower semiconductor switches connected in series, wherein the semiconductor switches are controllable alternately to a switched-on state and a switched-off state by pulse-width modulated pulses, includes measuring a first voltage across the lower semiconductor switch when the upper semiconductor switch is switched on and measuring a second voltage across the lower semiconductor switch when the lower semiconductor switch is switched on, comparing a difference between the operating voltage and the first voltage to a predetermined voltage and comparing the second voltage with the predetermined voltage, which is the maximum permissible voltage across a semiconductor switch when it is switched on, and determining that the power output stage or the output of the at least one half bridge is faulty when at least one of the difference and the second voltage is greater than the predetermined voltage.

Abstract: A drive system includes a rotary drive unit for rotating a shaft and a linear drive unit for moving the shaft in a linear direction. To improve efficiency and shelf life, an energy storage is mechanically connected to the shaft for biasing the shaft to seek a linear movement in opposition to the linear direction. The energy storage absorbs the kinetic energy of the shaft and releases it again subsequently.

Abstract: A circulating mechanism includes a moving member, e.g. a chain or a belt, which travels along a circulating path and is looped about at least one deflecting member for reversing a travel direction of the moving member. Disposed in a section of the circulating path is a guide assembly for guiding the moving member. A magnetic field generating device is provided for applying a magnetic force upon the moving member at least in an area of the guide assembly so as to draw the moving member against the guide assembly and thereby enhance the travel behavior of the moving member.

Abstract: A lighting device for illuminating the inside of a baking oven containing an oven muffle and a front flap or door including a viewing window. The lighting device having a light beam path inside of the front flap and at least one mirror arranged in the front flap for distributing light from the lighting device light beam path into the oven muffle.

Abstract: The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for handling complex inter-dependencies between imaging mode parameters in a medical imaging system. In one preferred embodiment, a behavior engine comprises a plurality of behavior objects interconnected by parameters with at least one of the parameters being circularly dependent. A static list of the behavior objects and the dependent parameters is generated. After an input to the medical imaging system causes one parameter to change values, a dynamic list of behavior objects dependent on the changed parameter is generated. Further, an iterative process of processing the behavior objects in the dynamic list, determining whether any output parameters from the processed behavior objects have changed, adding behavior objects to the dynamic list which are dependent on the changed parameter outputs, and removing the processed behavior objects from the dynamic list is performed.

Abstract: A dishwasher includes a washing receptacle for items to be cleaned, a pump for liquid, a flow heater for liquid, a device for spraying items to be cleaned, a control device for wash cycles of the spraying device, and a device for providing steam having a separate steam dispenser and unit for producing a jet of steam supplied by the steam dispenser. The steam dispenser and the steam jet unit are disposed in the dishwasher in such a way that the steam jet unit always supplies steam to the same predetermined location in the washing receptacle specifically identified and configured for receiving particular items to be cleaned, e.g. particularly dirty items. An uncontrolled escape of steam from any section of the entire washing receptacle is prevented, thus improving the cleaning result with maximum usage of the steam and without also being dependent on activation of a separate steam washing cycle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a side panel (2) of a motor vehicle, comprising at least one opening (5) that can be closed with a cover. Said cover is slideably received in at least one guide rail (9) and at least one support (10) is provided that carries the guide rail (9) and that is linked with both the guide rail (9) and the side panel (2).

Abstract: A feeding device for taped electric components includes advancing wheels for the tapes. The advancing wheels are driven via tangentially disposed drive spindles of a worm drive. Drive motors for the drive spindles are off-set from one another in two directions of the coordinate system in such a manner that their distance in the axial direction of the advancing wheels is smaller than the distance of the advancing wheels. This thereby allows an increase of the thickness of the drive motors and a corresponding increase of their drive power.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for measuring the atmosphere within an enclosure. A sensor well is provided comprising a drilling head and a drill point such that the sensor well may be directly inserted into the enclosure using a drill. A sensor may be provided in the sensor well before or after the sensor well is inserted into the enclosure. Once the sensor well is inserted into the enclosure using the drill, and a sensor is provided within the bore of the sensor well, the sensor may be connected to a measuring device such that the atmosphere within the enclosure may be measured.

Abstract: A shirt-smoothing device includes a lower part and an inflatable body fixed thereon. Because the inflatable body must be at least the same size as the shirt to be smoothed, the device has considerable height, however, the rigid components in the area of the inflatable body are lowerable to handle the device more easily and, more particularly, to stow it away easily. An internally disposed supporting frame and a button strip tensioner disposed in front of the inflatable body can be lowered after use into the lower part, whereby the inflatable body, which is exclusively connected to the supporting frame at the top becomes folded. The same applies to flexible inflatable support bodied and support nets disposed between the inflatable body and the supporting frame. The storage space required for the shirt smoothing device can be substantially reduced by the invention and the handling and storage thereof simplified.

Abstract: An injection unit for an injection-molding machine for processing thermoplastic material is designed in such a way that a direct drive (EM) which meets high dynamic requirements is used for the injection operation and that a standard motor (DM), the rotational speed of which is optimized to the material preparation process by a gear mechanism (R, RS1, RS2), is used for the material preparation, in which such dynamic requirements do not exist.

Abstract: An improved system for detecting the presence of an object in the path of a liftgate relies upon the sensor/transmitters that are used for collision avoidance systems to detect the presence of an object rearwardly of a vehicle moving in a reverse direction. Known sensors are provided to look for the presence of an object when the vehicle is being moved in a reverse direction. The sensors are now also actuated when the liftgate is being moved to its closed position. Should an object be detected, further movement of the liftgate is stopped. The present invention thus detects the presence of an object in the path of a liftgate prior to any contact. Further, the invention combines two prior control modules into a single control module.