Abstract: A device for contactless cargo load control for shipping container crane installations, by x-raying the containers in the course of loading and unloading of transport vehicles. An X-ray device for contactless control of the shipping container is mounted on the crane, and the shipping containers are driven through the X-ray device. This offers the advantage that shipping containers can be checked in a quick and safe manner.

Abstract: First and second hollow bodies each having at least one opening are joined by first forming a fracture zone in a joint region of the first body and then juxtaposing the bodies in a closed cavity of an internal high-pressure shaping tool with the second body spaced from and open toward the fracture zone of the first body. The first body is then internally pressurized with a hydraulic medium until a burst pressure at the fracture zone is exceeded and the first body ruptures and is deformed outward at the fracture zone into engagement with the second body. The medium then flows through the ruptured fracture zone into the second body.

Abstract: A switching device includes two or more switching modules (7, 8, 15) with at least one switch and connection clamps (24), an actuator (16), and a transfer device (39). The transfer device (39) propagates the drive motion initiated by the actuator (16) in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the actuator (16) and transfers the drive motion to at least one switching pin (18, 19) of the switching modules (7, 8, 15). The switching pin (18, 19) is positionable axially at a distance parallel to the axis of the actuator (16).

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of polyvinyl alcohol-stabilized Polymers base on vinyl ester, (meth)acrylate, and optionally ethylene monomers In the form of their aqueous dispersions and dispersion powders redispersible in water, by means of free radical emulsion polymerization of suspension polymerization of one or more monomers from the group consisting of the esters of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid with vinyl esters, optionally ethylene and optionally further monomers copolymerizable therewith, in the presence of one ormore polyvinyl alcohol protective colloids, and option ally drying of the aqueous dispersion obtainable thereby, wherein a) from 50 to 100% by weight of the total weight of vinyl ester monomers employed, from 0 to 40% by weight of the total weight of (meth)acrylate monomers employed and at least 80% by weight of the total weight of ethylene employed are initially introduced in the polymerization and b) the polymerization is carried out at a temperature of ≧60&d

Abstract: A process for preparing polyvinyl alcohol by means of catalytic transesterification of an alcoholic polyvinyl ester solution and subsequent workup by means of isolation of the polyvinyl alcohol formed includes adding, prior to the transesterification of the polyvinyl ester solution, the acetic ester of the alcohol used as solvent, in an amount of from 5 to 70% by weight, based on the overall amount of alcoholic solvent and its acetic ester, and recycling the liquid phase obtained after isolation of the polyvinyl alcohol product to a further polyvinyl ester transesterification.

Abstract: The steering wheel for motor vehicles has a hub, a steering wheel rim and a plurality of spokes connecting the steering wheel rim with the hub. The hub comprises a hub core for fastening to a steering shaft and a base body which surrounds the hub core and is made of a fiber-reinforced plastic material. The spokes are integrally and continuously molded with the base body of the hub from a fiber-reinforced plastic material. The steering wheel rim is integrally and continuously molded with the spokes from a fiber-reinforced plastic material. In this arrangement, the base body together with the spokes and the steering wheel rim forms a self-supporting shaped body.

Abstract: The steering wheel for motor vehicles has a hub, a steering wheel rim and a plurality of spokes connecting the steering wheel rim with the hub. The hub comprises a hub core for fastening to a steering shaft and a base body which surrounds the hub core and is made of a fiber-reinforced plastic material. The spokes are integrally and continuously molded with the base body. of the hub from a fiber-reinforced plastic material. The steering wheel rim is integrally and continuously molded with the spokes from a fiber-reinforced plastic material. In this arrangement, the base body together with the spokes and the steering wheel rim forms a self-supporting shaped body.

Abstract: A strip line directional coupler includes a controlled amount of potting compound applied to establish a desired coupling factor between at least two cooperating strip lines. In one embodiment the strip line directional coupler is positioned in a housing that is filled with the potting compound until the desired coupling factor is established. A network analyzer monitors the coupling factor as the potting compound is added. Once the desired coupling factor is established, the flow of potting compound into the housing is automatically terminated.

Abstract: An assembly consists of a first component and of a second component. The first component is provided with at least one opening and with at least one holding projection which is associated with the opening The second component consists of sheet metal and is provided with at least one holding tongue which has a cross-piece and a head. The cross-piece extends through the opening in the first component and is bent around such that the head lies against the side of the holding projection facing away from the opening.

Abstract: A carcass-free steering wheel for motor vehicles consists of a pot-shaped lower part (1) and an upper part (2) connected thereto along its edge side, both parts (1, 2) having an outer shell (3, 4) of a high-performance plastic material, which at least in the case of the lower part (1) is reinforced by webs (5, 6, 7) pointing inwards and being molded on integrally.

Abstract: A steering wheel has a skeleton with a foamed sheathing, a hub, spokes and a steering wheel rim. A gas bag module is inserted in a central recess of the steering wheel. The gas bag module has a cover cap at the side facing the driver. For actuating a horn switch the module is movable in the direction of the steering wheel axis relative to the steering wheel. A movement gap is formed between the cover cap and the foamed sheathing. Mounting studs on the skeleton extend parallel to the steering wheel axis. The positioning of the mounting studs is defined by the foamed sheathing. The mounting studs have free ends which are slidingly accommodated in guide recesses provided in the cover cap.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cable comprising a cable core, an inner cable sheath, an outer sheath and a sensor, which is extending along the cable for detecting a detectible substance between the inner cable sheath and the outer sheath. Preferably such cable comprises additionally a structured material (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f) between the inner cable sheath and the outer sheath arranged to allow that detectible substance, which occasionally could enter between the inner cable sheath and the outer sheath through a damaged section of the outer sheath, travelling along the perimeter of the inner cable sheath to reach the sensor but restrict travelling of said detectible substance in longitudinal direction of the cable to a short distance hereby covering a continuous part of the surface area of the inner cable sheath allowing contact friction between said inner cable sheath and said outer sheath at the not covered parts of said inner cable sheath.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system. The gas bag module comprises an inflatable gas bag has an interior, a compressed gas source and a fabric layer arranged in the interior of the gas bag. The fabric layer guides a stream of compressed gas emerging from the compressed gas source upon inflation of the gas bag. A guiding plate is provided in the interior of the gas bag as an additional gas guiding means.

Abstract: In a method and x-ray apparatus for making and reproducing a radiological tomogram of a subject, the subject is irradiated with radiation emanating from a focus disposed at a known distance from a focal plane, situated at the subject. The focal plane is disposed at a known distance from a radiation receiver, which is disposed in the image plane, and which contains a number of picture elements. In a digital radiological tomogram, either the slice position with the aforementioned distances is allocated to respective picture elements, or a correction factor, based on the slice position and the aforementioned distances, is allocated to the respective picture elements, from which a corrected image is obtained with the subject appearing with a corrected size corresponding to the size of the subject in the focal plane.

Abstract: A method for determining the position of a vehicle, preferably of a portal stacking truck in relation to a container crane, in which a sensor serves for determining the position of the stacking truck, and evaluating devices are coupled to a detection device, and in which the posts of a container crane are detected as positioning aids in terms of angle and distance by means of a scanner mounted on the stacking truck and transmitted to an evaluating computer, which compares the signals with signals provided in its program and determines the exact position of the stacking truck in relation to the posts of the container, and drives the stacking truck from this position into an exactly predetermined position in relation to the posts of the container.

Abstract: In a method for multi-beam exposure of a printing form, preferably with laser beams, a computer transmits printing form data to a distributor via a data line as a sequence of recording lines and the distributor cyclically distributes the recording lines onto the input stages of an optics head where N parallel laser beams are generated and modulated with the printing form data of the recording lines. The laser beams are subdivided into active and inactive laser beams, recording lines of the printing form are transmitted via the data line for the active laser beams, and empty lines are inserted into the transmitted sequence of the recording lines for the inactive laser beams. The empty lines contain data values with which the inactive laser beams are driven dark.

Abstract: A shift handle with a push button mechanism for shifting an automatic transmission in motor vehicles which includes the shaft handle, a push rod for the automatic transmission, the push button and elements for transmitting movement from the push button to the push rod. The push button is provided with a toothed rack engaging in the teeth of a toothed wheel which is mounted in the shift handle so as to be rotatable by a cylindrical pin. A tension spring is arranged in the push button. The push rod has a region with teeth engaging in the toothed wheel which is mounted so as to be rotatable.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a homogeneous fluorescent binding assay method using carrier particles.

Abstract: In order to provide a walk-on platform arrangement, comprising at least one first sub-platform, which is movable from a rest position in a direction of extension into a working position, and a second sub-platform, which in the working position is disposed behind the first sub-platform, wherein a rear boundary edge of the first sub-platform and a front boundary edge of the second sub-platform in the rest position are spaced vertically apart from one another, with which platform arrangement the risk of accident for an operative walking on the platform arrangement in the working position is reduced, it is proposed that the platform arrangement comprises a guide system, by means of which the relative motion between the first sub-platform and the second sub-platform as the first sub-platform moves into the working position is guided in such a way that the vertical distance between the rear boundary edge of the first sub-platform and the front boundary edge of the second sub-platform in the working position is smal

Abstract: In a printed circuit board pair, each of the printed circuit boards having a contact region with contact elements, a contact-making system includes a first circuit board having three-dimensionally structured contact elements and a second circuit board also having three-dimensionally structured contact elements structured complementarily with respect to the contact elements of the first circuit board for positioning the two boards together. The contact elements of the first board reciprocally electrically contact the contact elements of the second board. The configuration ensures a high positioning accuracy of the two contact regions with respect to one another. A mask having cutouts for contact elements of the two boards can be provided. Such contact element positioning using the conductor track pattern and being independent of a contact-making housing has the advantage that the positioning accuracy is unaffected by tolerances between the conductor track pattern and the contact-making housing.