Abstract: A gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraint device comprises a gas generator and a gas bag having a wall. The module further includes a diffusor which surrounds the gas generator and has a cup-shaped section. The cup-shaped section has a filter section consisting of at least one fiber, through which filter section gas flows out from the gas generator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing wood fiberboard by pressing wood fibers which have been treated with binder, in which the wood fibers are boiled and milled at elevated temperature under steam pressure in a refiner unit, subsequently are transferred to a blow-line, then dried and finally pressed under pressure and, if desired, at elevated temperature to produce boards, wherein the treatment with binder is carried out using a multi-component binder, preferably with one component A) containing functional groups which are nonreactive at elevated temperature and a second component B) containing functional groups which are reactive at elevated temperature the component A) being added in the refiner unit at a temperature of from 120° C. to 200° C. prior to the milling step, during the milling step, or shortly after the milling step in the front section of the blow-line and component B) being added at a lower temperature of not more than 150° C.

Abstract: A lamp for a vehicle includes a housing, an illuminant that is arranged in the housing, und a plug element for electrically contacting the illuminant. The lamp further includes a pull-off-assisting element for pulling the plug element off the housing in a pull-off direction. The pull-off-assisting element has a first end arranged at the plug element such that it is pivotable about a pivoting axis, which extends transversely to the pull-off direction, and a second end for being manually gripped and for facilitating pulling of the pull-off-assisting element. This pull-off-assisting element is pivotable between a parking position in which is rests against the housing, and a pull-off position in which it extends from the housing for pulling off the plug element.

Abstract: A urological working place is provided that can include a U-bow with an x-ray source arranged at one end and an image processing device arranged at the other end, wherein the image processing device cooperates with the x-ray source. An examination table is releasably secured to the U-bow and replaceable by an alternate examination table that is independent of the movements of the U-bow. The x-ray source and the image processing device are displaceable relative to the U-bow individually and synchronously in a transverse direction, and the U-bow is supported in a lower area thereof so that it is tiltable in the longitudinal direction of the examination table.

Abstract: A method of foam-embedding cables, in particular for foam-embedding a steering wheel skeleton which is equipped with cables, comprises the following steps: the cable is positioned in a foaming mold; a portion of the cable, which is not to be embedded in foam, is positioned in a resealable cavity provided in the foaming mold, the cavity being sealed against the ingress of foam; the cavity and the foaming mold are closed; the foaming mold is filled with foam; and the foaming mold and the cavity are opened to remove a product produced. There is also proposed a foaming tool for performing such method.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lens array having a laterally movable axis for corpuscular rays, particularly for transmission from areas of an object surface onto the focal plane by means of electrons. The inventive array consists of a combined lens comprising a cylinder lens and a quadrupole lens provided with slit diaphragms which can be impinged upon by electric and/or magnetic fields. The optical axis of the quadrupole lens is oriented parallel to the axis of the cylinder lens and defines the optical axis of the projection, the position of which can be altered in relation to the axis of the cylinder lens. The quadrupole lens is in focus in the sector in which the cylinder lens is not in focus and is out of focus in the section in which the cylinder lens is in focus. The inventive combined lens can be operated as an immersion lens for projecting secondary electrons. The immersion field consists of at least two adjacent axially aligned fields.

Abstract: A reading light for a vehicle, in particular for fitting above a vehicle seat of a vehicle, such as an airplane, comprises at least one LED emitting white light, and a reflector and/or a light cover, the reflector and/or the light cover being provided with a coating that absorbs or reduces the intensity of the light of the at least one LED whose wavelength is less than a predefinable wavelength value.

Abstract: A method and device are provided for the ultrasonic inoculation of biological cell material. The method and device can be implemented by transmitting ultrasonic energy via a device, that includes an ultrasonic transducer and suitably formed glass fibres coupled thereto, into the immediate vicinity of the cells to be inoculated in a fluid containing the inoculation medium or a tissue aggregation. A simple method for low-cost inoculation of individual cells or cell aggregations with biological molecules and/or with pharmaceutical particles is thereby provided.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of vinyl chloride copolymers involves free radical suspension polymerization or emulsion polymerization of a mixture of vinyl chloride, epoxide-containing vinyl monomers and further comonomers copolymerizable therewith, wherein a) from 49.5 to 90% by weight of vinyl chloride, b) from 0.01 to 0.7% by weight of epoxide-containing vinyl monomers and c) from 9.5 to 50% by weight of further comonomers copolymerizable with a) and b) are polymerized, the data in % by weight totaling 100% by weight, and from 0.001 to 0.1% by weight of one or more aliphatic or alicyclic, saturated or unsaturated dicarboxylic acids having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or aliphatic and alicyclic, saturated and unsaturated hydroxymono-, hydroxydi- and hydroxytricarboxylic acids having 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 1 to 4 hydroxyl groups are added during or after the polymerization, and the vinyl chloride copolymer is isolated as a solid resin.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of epoxy-modified vinyl chloride-vinyl ester copolymers in the form of the solid resins involves aqueous, free radical polymerization of a mixture comprising a) from 50 to 90% by weight of vinyl chloride, b) from 5 to 25% by weight of epoxide-containing vinyl monomers and c) from 5 to 25% by weight of one or more vinyl esters of straight-chain or branched alkylcarboxylic acids having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, d) from 0 to 40% by weight of further comonomers copolymerizable with a), b) and c), the data in % by weight summing to 100% by weight, and subsequent drying of the aqueous dispersions obtained thereby, polymerization being effected by means of suspension polymerization in the presence of aldehyde regulators.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor device which is used to transport work-pieces, especially the work-pieces of motor vehicle bodies, through a processing area for surface treatment of said work-pieces, comprising a conveyor which brings the work-pieces which are respectively maintained by a holder into the processing area; transports them through said area and removes them therefrom. The inventive conveyor device requires less maintenance in comparison with known conveyor devices. The holders respectively comprise a base part which moves in a translatory movement along a conveyor device and a rotating part on which the work-piece is arranged and which is held in such a way that it is rotatable on the base part. The conveyor comprises at least one drive device enabling at least one directly driven respective holder to be driven directly in a movement along the conveyor device.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating and using a supporting substrate for the deposition, automated recognition and spectroscopic identification of particulate impurities in liquid or gaseous media are disclosed wherein the supporting substrate comprises a filter membrane of polymer materials of a defined pore width, wherein the surface of the filter membrane is coated with metal which in the selected wavelength range for spectroscopic identification has no spectral features and at the selected excitation wavelength absorbs no or only little of the laser energy which is radiated in, and has a very smooth structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a support (1) for functional planes used for a magnetic levitation track. The stator packets (11) comprised in the track are suspended in a particularly compact and production-friendly manner on a stator beam (9), the stator packet being connected to the stator beam (9, 10) via borings (15) that are disposed therein and holding bolts (16, 38) which penetrate said borings (15). The stator packets (11) can be secured in a redundant manner vial additional suspensions (30, . . . , 34) and/or by creating a non-positive connection between adjacent stator packets (11) by providing the faces of the stator packets (11), which face the direction of travel, with a profile.

Abstract: In a particle multibeam lithography apparatus an illumination system (242) having a particle source (203) produces an illuminating beam (205) of electrically charged particles, and a multibeam optical system (208) positioned after the illumination system (242) and comprising at least one aperture plate having an array of a plurality of apertures to form a plurality of sub-beams focuses the sub-beams onto the surface of a substrate (220), wherein for each sub-beam (207) a deflection unit (210) is positioned within the multibeam optical system and adapted to correct individual imaging aberrations of the respective sub-beam with respect to the desired target position and/or position the sub-beam during a writing process an the substrate surface.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for taking up an object space using a laser range finder and a scanning device for scanning the object space. Furthermore, there is a passive opto-electronic receiver having an associated scanning device. The scanning device(s) scans the object space for the range finder and the passive receiver synchronously and in phase. To each image element, a spatial angle is assigned for identification. The passive receiver, comprises an array of transducer, elements where the image angle of an individual element of the array corresponds preferably to the beam angle of the laser beam. A memory includes one cell per image element so that with each distance measurement the individual elements of the array can be read and their signals stored in the cells of the memory.

Abstract: A monitoring and control device includes a touch sensitive LCD screen, with a basic layout including a display area and touch sensitive keys depicted with associated system and function symbols. A main menu or any one of plural system menus can be selectively displayed in the display area. The system menus relate to cabin systems such as audio, lighting, and water systems. The selected system menu displays status information and touch input keys for the user to monitor the status and to select and control the operation of the system. The main menu is a top level window providing essential information regarding all of the cabin systems and allows a user to select any one of the system menus. The device is compact, user-friendly, and adaptable to various system requirements by mere software reprogramming. The displays and input keys are all virtual elements generated by software.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electrophotographic printing device (10). A multilevel character generator (22) is used in said printing device (10). Correction parameters (K1, K2, K3) are determined for light coding values (1, 2 and 3) such that a high-quality printed image can he obtained also in the instance of modified printing conditions.

Abstract: A force limiter is provided on a belt retractor. The belt retractor comprises a belt spool (1) that is rotatably mounted in a frame (10) and has at least one flange (1a) and a disk (2) that can be non-rotatably blocked on the frame. The disk (2) and the flange (1a) of the belt spool (1) are adapted to be coupled by a cutting element (3). The cutting element (3), with a relative rotation between the disk (2) and the flange (1a), comes into a coupling position and cuts material when the relative rotation is continued.

Abstract: A method of testing circuit boards, in particular non-componented circuit boards in which the level of the surface of a circuit board to be tested is detected automatically in a contacting process, and the further contacting operations are then controlled on the basis of the level detected. By this means, the control of the movement of the test probes of the finger tester effects automatic matching to the level, which is of particular advantage in the testing of flexible circuit boards, since their surface may have a three-dimensional form.

Abstract: In a multifunctional printing method and printing system, printed material is checked, verified and tracked. For that purpose different test equipments are located in-line with a printing line. Magnetic information being printed by a printing station onto the recording carrier using magnetic ink character readable toner may be in-line tested by a magnetic test equipment, which reads information from the magnetic recording zone on the carrier. Optical information may be tested by an in-line mounted optical test equipment, respectively. Further in-line test equipment is proposed such as a leaser bar code scanner and an address reader. The printing line may have additional devices such as print preprocessing unwinders or print postprocessing stackers, folders or cutters.