Abstract: In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transdermal therapeutic systems for the transdermal administration of rotigotine containing a therapeutically effective amount of rotigotine base in a self-adhesive layer structure that includes a backing layer and a rotigotine-containing biphasic layer. The biphasic layer has an outer phase formed from a polymer or a polymer mixture along with an inner phase that includes rotigotine base and a polymer mixture including polyvinylpyrrolidone having a K-Value of at least 80 and at least one further hydrophilic polymer selected from the polymer groups: copolymers of vinyl caprolactam, vinylacetate and ethylene glycol, copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone and vinylacetate, copolymers of ethylene and vinylacetate, polyethylene glycols, polypropylene glycols, acrylic polymers, and modified celluloses. The inner phase forms dispersed deposits in the outer phase. The inventive transdermal therapeutic systems optionally include a skin contact layer.

Abstract: An ophthalmological device for surgical treatment of a cornea comprises a laser source, a focusing optical module, a scanner system, and an electronic circuit configured to control the scanner system to move the focus of the pulsed laser beam generated by the laser source to cut inside the cornea a lenticule and a venting channel which comprises an opening incision in a peripheral area of an exterior surface of the cornea, outside a perimeter of the lenticule from a top view perspective onto the cornea, and the venting channel connecting fluidically the posterior lenticule surface and/or the anterior lenticule surface to the opening incision, to enable venting of gas, produced by cutting the lenticule inside the cornea, through the opening incision to the exterior of the cornea.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system for the transdermal administration of guanfacine comprising a guanfacine-containing layer structure, said guanfacine-containing layer structure comprising: A) a backing layer; and B) a guanfacine-containing layer; wherein the transdermal therapeutic system comprises at least one silicone polymer.

Abstract: An aeroponic system having a longitudinal hollow cylindrical grow tube with through-holes in the upper surface of the shell of the grow tube for accommodating grow pots with a hollow shell having an upper part and a lower part. The lower part has a plurality of cut-outs and the upper part has a flange to be supported on the edge of a through-hole of the grow tube and is a curved flange with a underside complementary to the curved upper surface of the cylindrical grow tube. The aeroponic system becomes a closed system by connecting a pressure manifold to the grow tube at its head portion and has an internal distribution pipe with nozzles configured to mist the nutrient solution into the grow chamber, avoiding as such additional through-holes in the grow tubes.

Abstract: A computerized method of the invention includes software having instructions loaded on a computer system including a database populated with item information associated with owner, leasee and/or lien holder information. The CPU executes the instructions for, in a first step, registering user, in a second step, associating items and, in a third step, making registered item information available for updating and interrogation by users with the requisite permissions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a secure element for detecting the trustworthiness of an electronic assembly (100). The secure element (200) comprises a control unit (210), a record storage device (230), and a secure storage device (220); the record storage device (230) comprises a target state value (235) of the assembly (100): the secure storage device (220) comprises a private key (226) of a proof of origin (222); the secure element (200) has a public key (224) of the proof of origin (222), said public key being output to a requesting processing unit; and the control unit (210) is designed to carry out the method in order to detect the trustworthiness .

Abstract: In order to provide a treatment installation for treating workpieces that is of simple construction and enables optimised workpiece treatment, it is proposed that the treatment installation should include a treatment chamber and a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces are suppliable to the treatment chamber, are removable from the treatment chamber, and/or are conveyable through the treatment chamber in a conveying direction.

Abstract: In order to provide a filter system for separating off contaminants from a stream of untreated gas that contains contaminants that is of simple construction and is operable efficiently, it is proposed that the filter system should include the following: a base construction through which the stream of untreated gas is guidable and which includes at least one filter module receptacle for receiving at least one filter module, and at least one filter module which is selectively arrangeable on and/or in the at least one filter module receptacle and/or removable therefrom, wherein the at least one filter module includes a plurality of filter element receptacles for receiving a plurality of mutually independent filter elements.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a pivoting unit for a handling robot for opening a flap (e.g. door) of a motor vehicle body, comprising a mounting flange, a gripper arm and a first gripping tool for gripping an engagement on the flap to be opened, the first gripping tool being mounted on the gripper arm, and a pivoting head for pivoting the gripper arm between an initial position and an engaged position. The disclosure provides that a second gripping tool is also mounted on the gripper arm, and that the two gripping tools on the gripper arm are adapted to be inserted in different insertion directions into engagement with the openable flap of the motor vehicle body, in particular from top to bottom for the first gripping tool and from bottom to top for the second gripping tool. The disclosure further comprises an associated method.

Abstract: For the purposes of working on eye tissue, an ophthalmological apparatus comprises a laser source that is configured to produce a pulsed laser beam, a focusing optical unit that is configured to focus the pulsed laser beam into the eye tissue, and a scanner system for deflecting the pulsed laser beam onto work target points in the eye tissue. The scanner system is configured to guide the pulsed laser beam onto work target points along a scan line that extends across a work line at an alignment angle and to tilt the scan line depending on the work target point on the work line in such a way that the scan line extends substantially along an outer face of a lenticule to be cut in the eye tissue.

Abstract: A transdermal therapeutic system containing rotigotine base in a self-adhesive layer structure. The system includes a backing layer, and a rotigotine-containing biphasic layer. The biphasic layer has an outer phase having a composition including 75% to 100% of a polymer or a polymer mixture, and an inner phase that forms dispersed deposits in the outer phase. The inner phase includes rotigotine base and a polymer mixture of at least two hydrophilic polymers. The hydrophilic polymers are selected from the group of polyvinylpyrrolidones having a K-Value of at least 80, polyvinylpyrrolidones having a K-Value of less than 80, copolymers of vinyl caprolactam, vinylacetate and ethylene glycol, copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone and vinylacetate, copolymers of ethylene and vinylacetate, polyethylene glycols, polypropylene glycols, acrylic polymers, and modified celluloses. The polymer mixture in the inner phase is present in an amount sufficient so that it forms a solid solution with the rotigotine base.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an angular transmission device comprising: An input shaft and an output shaft, An assembly arranged for coupling the input shaft with the output shaft so that the output shaft can be rotationally driven by the input shaft, the assembly comprising a rotary actuator and a linear mobile, the rotary actuator being coupled with the input shaft and moves the mobile in a translation motion relative to the actuator, the mobile being coupled with the output shaft so that the rotation of the input shaft drives the rotation of the output shaft; the assembly further comprises a flexible blade fixed to said mobile and looped around the output shaft, so that when the actuator moves the mobile, the flexible blade drives the rotation of the output shaft. The invention also comprises a method using said device.

Abstract: An ophthalmic device for treating eye tissue using laser pulses comprises a projection optical unit for focused projection of the laser pulses and a scanning device, with a movable mirror, arranged downstream from the projection optical unit, for deflecting the laser pulses projected by the projection optical unit in at least one deflection direction. The ophthalmic device moreover comprises an optical correction element arranged downstream of the scanning device, which correction element is configured to image, in a focused manner, the laser pulses deflected by the scanning device on an intended treatment area in the eye tissue. The optical correction element renders it possible to therefore correct image field curvatures caused by the scanning device arranged downstream from the projection optical unit and, for example, image the deflected laser pulses in focus onto a plane.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a seal, in particular a rod seal for sealing an axially movable rod in a guide cylinder, in particular a piston seal for a pneumatically, electrically or hydraulically driven coating agent pump for pumping coating agent, having an annular sealing element for sealingly resting on a circumferential surface of an axially movable rod, and having at least one elastic annular pretensioning element, the annular pretensioning element surrounding the annular sealing element radially on the outside and pretensioning it radially to the inside. The disclosure provides an annular seal base body which externally surrounds and holds the sealing element and the pretensioning element. In addition, the disclosure also comprises an inverted variant in which the seal is arranged in an annular groove in a lateral surface of a piston and lies sealingly against the cylinder running surface.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an applicator (RZ), in particular a rotary atomizer, for the application of a coating agent, in particular a two-component paint, comprising a first coating agent connection (SL) for feeding a first coating agent, in particular a basic resin of a two-component paint, a first coating agent strand (L1-L4), which extends in the applicator (RZ) from the first coating agent connection (SL) and carries the first coating agent, and a first valve (SLV1), which is arranged in the first coating agent strand (L1-L4) and controls the flow of the first coating agent, wherein the first valve (SLV1) can be controlled by a first control signal. It is proposed that a first pressure-relief valve (SLV1), which is actuated by its own medium, is arranged in the first coating agent strand (L1-L4) and, to avoid a problem being caused by excessive pressure, opens automatically when the pressure upstream of the first pressure-relief valve (SLV1) exceeds a certain maximum pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system for the controlled release of water-soluble pharmaceutical active ingredients from an aqueous phase, comprising an occlusive back layer, a central device facing the skin for releasing the agent, an adhesive layer concentrically surrounding the dispensing device and a removable protective film. Said device is made from a stationary solid phase and a liquid phase containing the active ingredient in aqueous solution, the solid phase being formed from a solid with a fleecy or spongy structure.

Abstract: A vacuum device comprises a vacuum generator and a vacuum interface for fluidically coupling the vacuum generator to a vacuum cavity for affixing an ophthalmological patient interface on a patient's eye. The vacuum device comprises a movement detector which is configured to detect movements of the patient's eye and a control unit that is configured to detect a faulty fluidic coupling of the vacuum cavity on the basis of a pressure that is ascertained by a coupled pressure sensor and to produce a control signal for interrupting an ophthalmological treatment that is carried out by an ophthalmological treatment device if an eye movement is detected by the movement detector at the same time as the detected faulty fluidic coupling of the vacuum cavity.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns an applicator for applying a coating agent (e.g. sealing agent) to a component, in particular for sealing or bonding a flanged seam to the motor vehicle body component. The applicator in accordance with the disclosure first has a nozzle for dispensing the coating agent in a specific jet direction onto a component surface of the component to be coated. In addition, the applicator has a nozzle carrier for positioning the nozzle. The nozzle carrier is hollow on at least part of its length to pass the coating agent. Furthermore, the nozzle carrier comprises a plurality of limbs arranged one behind the other and angled relative to each other. The nozzle is arranged on the nozzle carrier, in particular on the distal limb of the nozzle carrier.

Abstract: The invention relates to a consumable-material handling device for transporting and/or handling at least one consumable material (12a; 12b), in particular packaging material, comprising at least one at least partially autonomous handling unit (14a; 14b), which is at least provided for handling the consumable material (12a; 12b). According to the invention, the machine tool comprises at least one, in particular at least partially autonomous, mobility unit (16a; 16b), on which the handling unit (14a; 14b) is arranged and which is at least provided for enabling locomotion, in particular at least partially autonomous locomotion, of the handling unit (14a; 14b).