Abstract: A method for aligning a reaction ring in an analyzer system using a gauge vertical reaction ring comprising at least one end slot includes inserting a light beam gauge into an aperture operable to hold the light beam gauge at a height corresponding to a photometer included in the analyzer system. The gauge vertical reaction ring is rotated on the reaction ring until the light beam gauge engages the end slot to confirm alignment of the reaction ring with the photometer.

Abstract: A switch mode power supply unit having a plurality of output channels and a web interface for connection to a communications network, where the switch mode power supply unit includes a real time Ethernet controller which is connected to a control of the switch mode power supply unit and is equipped as a web server such that a plurality of operating parameters of the switch mode power supply unit can be set and/or displayed in real time via the web interface such that the switch mode power supply unit can be configured and monitored via the communications network, while ensuring that any changes to the configuration are immediately effective.

Abstract: An auxiliary supply for a current supply with at least one transformer with a primary side and a secondary side, wherein the auxiliary supply includes at least one frequency generator arranged on the primary side for generating an alternating voltage with predetermined frequency, a rectifier unit arranged on the secondary side for a secondary-side supply voltage and first and second potential separation units arranged between the primary side and the secondary side, where the first potential separation unit is connected on the primary side via, for example, a high-value impedance to the frequency generator, where on the primary side, the second potential separation unit has a high-frequency coupling to a reference potential assigned to the frequency generator and provides a low-ohmic capacitive connection between a secondary-side reference potential and the primary side, where it is possible to use a voltage drop at the impedance to evaluate the secondary-side supply voltage.

Abstract: Physically-based volume rendering produces pixels. By assigning depths to the pixels, a 3D point cloud is generated. For more rapid rendering, such as due to user interaction, the 3D point cloud rendering is a proxy to physically-based volume rendering. The rendering parameters for the desired image may be determined using the proxy, and then physically-based volume rendering is performed to obtain the desired image.

Abstract: Techniques are described for generating setting parameters for an MRI sequence to be performed, wherein a conditional generative artificial neural network is used that has been trained as part of a conditional generative adversarial net. The techniques also include establishing a conditional generative artificial neural network. The conditioning of the conditional generative artificial neural network can be used to specify a specific medical application or question to obtain setting parameters for an MRI apparatus that are optimized with respect to said application or question.

Abstract: Various embodiments include an insulator arrangement for a high-voltage or medium-voltage assembly comprising an axially symmetrical insulating structure element having two annular base regions separated from one another by an annular blocking region. The relative permittivity of the material of the blocking region is at least twice as high as the relative permittivity of the material of the base region.

Abstract: A DC overvoltage protection device for an energy storage system and/or an energy generating system has at least one auxiliary release on an AC-switch and the at least one auxiliary release interrupts the AC switch. The DC overvoltage protection device further has at least one electrical energy store and/or at least one photovoltaic installation and a plurality of converters each having a power section having a DC voltage measurement system and an interface.

Abstract: An energy storage module cooling system having a source of cooling fluid; and a fluid conduit for supplying the cooling fluid to one or more energy storage modules. Each energy storage module has carriers for a plurality of energy storage devices; the carriers further have cooling channels forming a cooler for each energy storage device. One surface of each energy storage device is in thermal contact with the cooler; and another surface of the energy storage device is provided with a thermally insulating layer, whereby heat transfer between adjacent energy storage devices is reduced.

Abstract: A backfeed stage of a radial turbo fluid energy machine having a backfeed channel extending annularly about an axis and four sections adjacent in the flow direction through which process fluid flows. A first section conducts the process fluid radially outward; a second section deflects the process fluid from radially outward to radially inward; a third section conducts the process fluid radially inward; a fourth section redirects the process fluid in the axial direction; the third section has first guide vanes defining flow channels of the backfeed channel in relation to each other in the circumferential direction; the backfeed stage has second guide vanes downstream of the first guide vanes defining the flow channels of the backfeed channel in relation to each other in the circumferential direction. The first guide vanes are arranged only in the third section, the second guide vanes are arranged only in the fourth section.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a transmission element for a spring return of an actuating drive comprising: a toothed wheel element with teeth at least in sections; and a locking element including a locking section for locking engagement in the teeth of the toothed wheel element to prevent a rotation of the toothed wheel element in a return direction. The locking element includes a safety element mechanically operatively connected to the locking section and elastically deformable in order to release the locking of the toothed wheel element by elastic deformation of the safety element at a torque of the toothed wheel element in the return direction greater than a safety torque limit.

Abstract: A method for producing a gas turbine component, which comes into frictional contact with a friction partner, includes: providing a base body produced from a superalloy; applying a first metal coating to a surface of the base body facing the at least one friction partner in the mounted state, wherein an additive production method using a first metal powder is used to apply the first metal coating; and applying a second metal coating to the first metal coating, wherein an additive production method using a second metal powder and a pulverulent pore-forming agent is used to apply the second metal coating and, by adding the pore-forming agent, the porosity of the second metal coating is set such that it is greater than the porosity of the first metal coating, and the volume flows of the introduced metal powder and the introduced pulverulent pore-forming agent are set or controlled separately.

Abstract: A method and system for suppressing metal artifacts in magnetic resonance (MR) images of slices of a patient containing a metallic implant. The method and system can use a Slice Encoding for Metal Artifact Correction (SEMAC) sequence. In the method and system, MR data of each slice is fully sampled in k-space in a reference region located in a center of k-space in a phase-encoding direction and a central section in a slice-selection direction. The MR-data of each slice outside the reference region can be undersampled in k-space. The fully sampled MR data from the reference regions of each slice can be combined to generate a reference data set for reconstructing an MR image of each slice.

Abstract: Additional cooling is provided to an energy storage module of a cooling system with a plurality of cooling channels in contact with a surface of an energy storage device, by pipe connections of a common cooling fluid outlet pipe that have a lower melting point than pipe connections of the common cooling fluid inlet pipe. In use, if the pipe connections are subjected to elevated temperatures, or fire, the pipe connections of the common fluid outlet pipe fail before the pipe connections of the common fluid inlet pipe, causing a pressure drop, whereby the rate of fluid flow through the cooler of the energy storage module in which the pipe connection has failed is substantially increased.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for assessing a lifecycle of a component. In an embodiment, the method includes: obtaining, using a simulation device, model description information that corresponds to component models of some or all components in the production line; obtaining at least one piece of data information that is needed by at least one component model that corresponds to the model description information; performing event marking based on the event information on the obtained data information; obtaining component status information of a corresponding component of each model based on the marked data information; and generating a corresponding analysis report based on the component status information from. An advantage of an embodiment is that, a failure mode, a key module, and a measurement rule no longer rely on manual operations and experience of an expert. Instead corresponding information may be precisely provided by using a PLM system.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed related to recording a magnetic resonance image data set of a region of a patient with a magnetic resonance device using a multislice imaging technique. The multislice technique may be applied simultaneously with at least partial undersampling in a slice plane. The magnetic resonance data may be read out from a set of excited slices simultaneously and, by means of a slice separation algorithm that is calibrated using reference data recorded in a separate reference scan, may be allocated to the simultaneously read-out slices. Subsequently, an undersampling algorithm compensating for the undersampling in the slice plane may be applied to the undersampled magnetic resonance data of the individual slices.

Abstract: A method is for providing an attenuation map of a patient, suitable for correcting PET data of the patient acquired with combined magnetic resonance/positron emission tomography imaging in a magnetic resonance/positron emission tomography system. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring magnetic resonance data with at least one imaging scan in the magnetic resonance/positron emission tomography system; determining the attenuation map of the patient using the magnetic resonance data and providing the attenuation map of the patient for correcting the PET data of the patient acquired with combined magnetic resonance/positron emission tomography imaging.

Abstract: In a method for stabilizing a rail vehicle with a wheel set, the speed of the rail vehicle is changed when a critical vibration state of the wheel set occurs. An advantageous state can be achieved if the speed of the rail vehicle is changed by using a vibration state variable of the wheel set.

Abstract: A patient treatment monitoring system includes an interface for receiving multiple different types of patient medical information including data derived from a patient monitoring device and a patient medical imaging device. A data processor processes the received multiple different types of patient medical information to be suitable for presentation in a display image. A display processor initiates generation of data representing a single composite display image including an image element representing multiple sequentially performed individual stages of a treatment process. The individual stages are associated with corresponding different sets of the received multiple different types of patient medical information. The single composite display image includes multiple image areas for displaying one of the corresponding different sets of the received multiple different types of patient medical information, in response to user selection of a particular stage of the individual stages using the image element.

Abstract: A system and method for using modeling language for efficient generation of design architectures in a design system are provided. A design space problem is received by the design system. The design space problem is transformed into a design space model. One or more ensembles are generated from the design space model. One or more design architectures are generated from the ensembles.

Abstract: A method for separating carbon dioxide from a gas stream, in particular from a flue gas stream, wherein, a gas stream is brought into contact with a washing medium in an absorber of a separation device and the carbon dioxide contained in the gas stream is separated; the charged washing medium is supplied to a desorber of the separation device to release the carbon dioxide; a vapor stream is removed from the desorber and is supplied to a cooling unit to form a condensate; degradation products, in particular nitrosamines, contained in at least a partial stream of the condensate are photolytically decomposed to decomposition products; at least the decomposition products, in particular nitrites and amines, are removed; and at least a partial stream of the condensate is returned to the desorber. A corresponding separation device separates carbon dioxide from a gas stream.