Abstract: An airbag module for occupant restraint systems in vehicles has a pot-like housing part (10) made of sheet metal to the base (14) of which a gas generator is attached and to the circumferential wall (16) of which, extending upwards from the base (14), an airbag (26) and a covering cap (12) made of plastic are attached. The covering cap (12) has a supporting wall (17) that is in contact with the outside of the circumferential wall (16) of the housing part (10). The supporting wall (17) is provided with cutouts (20). On the free edge of the circumferential wall (16) of the housing part (10) facing away from the base (14), there are arranged hook-shaped metal tabs (18) which pass through the cutouts (20) of the supporting wall (17) of the covering cap (12) and which are bent on their outside in the direction toward the base (14) of the housing part (10).

Abstract: A gas bag module comprises a gas bag with a gas bag wall having a front wall serving as an impact surface for an occupant, where, in an inflated state of said gas bag, the front wall has a centric orifice as a transition to an indentation. The indentation is formed by restraining a center section of the gas bag wall during inflation and preventing the center section from moving freely. The orifice is surrounded by a stabilizer defined by a closed ring in a region of the orifice and the stabilizer is a part separate from the gas bag wall.

Abstract: A blister pack has a main sheet unitarily formed with an array of pockets each dimensioned to receive a respective object and a frangible foil overlying a front face of the sheet and closing the pockets so that objects in the pockets are hermetically sealed therein by the foil. A pair of guides unitarily formed with the main sheet flank the array of pockets. A protective panel having an array of holes substantially identical to the array of pockets overlies the foil and is displaceable in the guides between a rest position with the holes at least partially offset from the pockets and the panel blocking the pockets and a dispensing position with the holes aligned with the pockets. A spring web unitarily formed with the sheet and with the panel urges the panel into the rest position.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image for creating digital images. In the image detector there are present means for receiving and storing administrative data.

Abstract: An electrostatic corrector for eliminating the chromatic aberration of particle lenses, includes a corrector having a straight optical axis and an electrostatic quadrupole for allocating to the objective lens. Two corrector pieces are positioned behind the quadrupole, along the optical axis in the direction of radiation. Each corrector piece has three electrical quadrupole fields with an overlying circular lens field. The quadrupole fields, however, are rotated 90° about the optical axis in relation to each other. This arrangement is adjusted so that the astigmatic first image of one sectional view lies in one corrector piece and the astigmatic first image perpendicular thereto, of the other sectional view, lies in the other corrector piece, with another electrostatic quadrupole being located on the output side.

Abstract: A convertible with a roof (2) which can be opened and lowered into a rear roof storage space (3), has a trunk lid (5) which can be swung up at its forward edge to clear a through opening for the roof (2) which is to be lowered, and has a covering (11) which is movably supported on the trunk lid (5) and can be moved between a covering position in front of the trunk lid (11) with the roof opened (2) and a rear lowered position under the trunk lid (5) with the roof (2) closed. A movably supported shelf (20) occupies an operating position as a shelf which with the roof (2) closed and a lowered position at the front of the roof storage space (3) with the roof (2) opened.

Abstract: There is described an applicator element for providing a layer of a liquid ink, in particular for inking a latent image carrier of a device for electrographic printing or copying, the surface of the applicator element having a structure with a plurality of areas at which the detachment of droplets from the liquid layer is facilitated.

Abstract: In a printer system composed of a plurality of printer devices, the speed of the recording medium to be printed and of the intermediate carrier in every printer device following a printer device is adapted to the changing dimensions of the recording medium. For example, the changes in the recording medium that occur due to the fixing of toner images on the recording medium and that lead to a degradation of the print image are considered in following printer devices.

Abstract: A stand up bag of a heat-sealable or weldable plastic film for receiving liquid and/or paste-like material. The bag includes two side walls connected to each other along their longitudinal edges. A foldable bottom member is positioned between the side walls and serves as a self-standing bottom inserted at the lower end of the stand up bag between lower transverse edges. A foldable cover member is positioned at the upper end of the stand up bag between the side walls and includes a removal opening between the upper transverse edge of a first side wall and the corresponding cover member edge, with a closure element inserted into the removal opening. To be able to empty the stand up bag in a better and simpler way, the closure element is bendable and is retained by a mechanism for stabilizing and retaining the forwardly bent closure element.

Abstract: An assembly consisting of a cylindrical inflator , a housing and a retainer by means of which the inflator can be fixed in the housing. The inflator has a longitudinal centerline and a cirumferential surface area and the retainer comprises a circular opening with an edge. Protruding from the edge into the opening are tabs which engage the circumferential surface area of the inflator to fix the latter in the opening.

Abstract: A retractable hard top for convertibles, in particular for four-seated convertibles, includes, sequentially, a first, front section, a second section, a third section and a fourth, rear section. Each section has a front, first edge portion and a rear, second edge portion. The first and the second sections substantially form the roof ceiling in the closed position of the hard top, while the third section forms the C-pillar and includes the backlite. The sections are pivotally connected by a linkage which compactly folds the top for storage in a storage compartment. All three sections are inverted and nest within one another, with their respective first edge portions being positioned in the longitudinal vehicle direction behind the second edge portions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data base for the storage of data, which comprises dental data relating to real teeth in the form of digitized images, which digitized images involve universally applicable dentition-specific and/or universally applicable tooth-specific features or structural properties, such as sex-specific and/or tooth family-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics.

Abstract: A driver's gas bag module includes a gas bag (18) which in relation to an inflated state has a front wall (22) facing a driver (A), a central section (24) of the front wall in the inflated state having an indentation (26). The indentation is created by the central section (24) at least partially being prevented from a movement in the direction out from the gas bag module (10). The front wall (22), in relation to the center (28) of the indentation (26), has an upper region (30) and a lower region (32), an outer edge (36) of the upper region (30) having three substantially straight sections (36a, 36b, 36c).

Abstract: A gas bag module for a motor vehicle steering wheel includes a gas bag (10), a gas generator (12) mounted so as to be capable of swinging, a generator carrier (16), means (18) for bracing the gas bag (10) on the generator carrier (16), and an elastically deformable, in relation to the central axis (A) of the gas bag module encircling sealing element (24). The sealing element (24) is fastened by its free edges directly or indirectly to the gas generator (12) and to the generator carrier (16), respectively. A section (26) of the sealing element (24), which is free before a filling of the gas bag (10), is deflected by the pressure occurring in the interior of the gas bag on filling of the gas bag (10), so that it comes directly or indirectly in abutment with a support surface (22; 28).

Abstract: An inflation device (10) adapted for use in a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises a housing (12), an igniter (14) received in the housing, and a first cord-type gas generator (22) connected to the housing (12), the cord-type gas generator (22) including a cord-shaped propellant strand (24). The igniter housing (12) has at least one relief opening (20a, 20b) which is associated to a surrounding region outside the cord-type gas generator (22) and the housing (12).

Abstract: A method and a system for operating a dental operating chair connected to a computer, comprising operating elements and/or state indicators arranged on the dental operating chair, an interface via which the information is transmitted from the dental operating chair to the computer, in the form of function codes, by the operating elements and/or state indicators, and a memory region on the computer, in which at least one action associated with a function code is stored. To adapt the operating elements or the operating surface, software for managing the function codes is provided on the computer, by which the action associated with the function codes and stored in a configuration file is initiated. The allocation of the function codes of the operating elements and/or the state indicators of the dental operating chair to the PC actions can be configured by changing the configuration file.

Abstract: An assembly unit comprises an airbag module, a vehicle part, in particular a steering wheel, and a removable latching connection for attaching the airbag module to the vehicle part. The latching device has a journal provided with a recess and a locking element that can be moved crosswise, preferably perpendicular, to a longitudinal axis of the journal. The locking element is radially displaced towards the longitudinal axis of the journal when it latches in place in the recess. In the locked position, the locking element is prestressed towards a release position so as to move out of the recess.

Abstract: Silane-modified polyvinyl acetals are obtained by copolymerizing a) vinyl esters of C1-15 alkylcarboxylic acids having from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, and optionally (meth)acrylates C1-15 of alcohols, olefins, dienes, vinylaromatics, or vinyl halides, with b) from 0.02 to 20.0 % by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated, hydrolyzable silicon compounds or hydrolyzable mercaptosilanes; hydrolyzing the resulting vinyl ester copolymers to 50 mol % or more of vinyl alcohol units; and acetalizing vinyl alcohol units with a C1-15 aliphatic or aromatic aldehydes, wherein from 5 to 50 % by weight of a mixture of comonomers a) and silane comonomers b), based on the total weight of comonomers a) and b), is used as an initial charge, and the remainder is metered in during polymerization, such that the ratio between the comonomers a) and silane comonomers b) remains constant throughout the polymerization, resulting in a homogeneous polymer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining and/or positioning a sensor of a digital X-ray unit. The device includes an input and output unit, which serve to interactively control the device, and further includes a first storage location in which a digital picture of an area to be examined is stored. The device also includes a second storage location, in which at least one template-shaped image of the sensor is stored, and further includes a processing unit that simulatively places the template-shaped image of at least one sensor onto an area of the digital picture to be examined whereby completely displaying the area to be examined in the event of an actual X-ray picture.

Abstract: The invention relates to an airbag for a vehicle occupant restraint system. The airbag comprises an airbag wall which has a front wall facing the occupant to be restrained, a back wall and a side wall. The front wall and the back wall are connected to each other by means of a detachable connection. This connection between the front wall and the back wall is severed by the unfolding of the side wall when the airbag is inflated.