Abstract: The invention relates to a device (40) for magnetically axially supporting a rotor, which rotor comprises a thrust bearing plate (32) connected to the rotor, in a magnetic thrust bearing (54) having at least two independently controllable bearing branches (3, 4, 41) which each comprise at least one coil (5, 42), wherein magnetic flux isolation of the bearing branches (3, 4, 41) is provided, which flux isolation consists in that at least two of the bearing branches (3, 4) are arranged one after the other in the circumferential direction and have a single common pole (9) which has a circularly closed circumference, the center point of which is arranged on the axis of rotation (35) of the rotor, wherein the coils (5) surround pole segments (11) connected to the common pole (9) and wherein the common pole (9) is arranged either radially inside or radially outside of the pole segments (11), and/or in that the thrust bearing plate (32) is divided into at least two coaxial plate parts (46, 61) which are associated w

Abstract: A floating platform is provided including the following: a covering element; at least three buoyant bodies, which are separated from each other, are fixedly mounted to the lower face of the covering element, are open toward the bottom, and are made of a gas-tight, pressure- and corrosion-resistant flexible material. The buoyant bodies enclose a closed hollow space when coming into contact with a liquid surface. At least one compressed-air generating device is also provided for generating an overpressure in the individual hollow spaces.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a genetically modified fungal cell of the genus Trichoderma capable to express the regulatory protein VEL1 in a higher amount compared to the unmodified wild type fungal cell.

Abstract: A device (1) for coating a substrate made of particles by means of cathode atomisation with a movable substrate dish (4) tilted relative to the horizontal plane, wherein the substrate dish (4) is arranged loose in a plate (3) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (10), is tilted and has a side wall (8), wherein an outer wall (19) of the substrate dish (4) is intermittently in contact with the inner side (17) of the side wall (8) of the plate (3).

Abstract: A fluidized-bed reactor system with at least two fluidized-bed reactors, each being a circulating fluidized bed, a particle line with a particle separator for transferring fluidized-bed particles from the first to the second reactor, and a particle line exiting at the lower half of the second reactor for transferring fluidized-bed particles back to the first reactor, wherein, at least in the second reactor, two or more reaction zones separated by one or more flow controllers and that the particle line opens into the second reactor above at least one flow controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the layered construction of a shaped body made of highly viscous photopolymerizable material.

Abstract: A method and a device for processing light-polymerizable material for the assembly of a mold, utilizing a lithography-based generative manufacturing technique wherein a layer of a light-polymerizable material, the material being located in at least one trough (4) having a particularly light-transmissive, horizontal bottom (6), is polymerized by illumination on at least one horizontal platform (12), the platform having a prespecified geometry and projecting into a trough (4), in an illumination field, wherein the platform (12) is displaced vertically to form a subsequent layer, light-polymerizable material is then added to the most recently formed layer, and repetition of the foregoing steps leads to the layered construction of the mold in the desired form, which arises from the succession of layer geometries.

Abstract: Methods and system for visualizing 3D ultrasound data are provided. One method includes obtaining image slices from a volumetric image data set and generating a ray profile using one or more rays through at least one of the image slices, wherein the one or more rays extend along a depth of the volumetric image data set. The method further includes identifying one or more seed points along the one or more rays and defining a clipping surface using the one or more seed points, wherein the clipping surface defines a rendering region within the volumetric image data set. The method also includes rendering a 3D image of the rendering region within the volumetric image data set.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerization-curable composition for the preparation of biodegradable, biocompatible, cross-linked polymers on the basis of polyvinyl alcohol comprising: 5 to 100% by weight of (a) vinyl ester monomer(s) of one of the general formulas (I) to (III): wherein X is oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, or phosphorus; n is 1 to 1000, at least 20% of the n being ?2; the R1 are selected from hydrogen; straight, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, n-valent hydrocarbon groups having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, which optionally have heteroatoms and are optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from —OH, —COON, —CN, —CHO, and ?O, and n-valent radicals of biodegradable, biocompatible oligomers and polymers; m is an integer from 1 to 5; the R2 are selected from hydrogen, —OH, ?O, and the options listed for R1; and the R3 are selected from hydrogen, —OH, and the options listed for R1; 0 to 50% by weight of ethylenically unsaturated co-monomers; 0 to 10% by weight of (a)

Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of the histological preparation of biological tissue comprising a method and means for preparing transparent biological specimens for examination under a light microscope.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for locating an RFID tag (1) using at least one RFID reading device (2). The invention is characterized in that the RFID reading device (2) transmits a query signal (3) which comprises a broadband signal (4); the RFID tag (1) modulates the query signal (3) with a code signal (5) by varying the antenna impedance of the RFID tag and reflects said signal as a reflected signal (6); the RFID reading device (2) receives the reflected signal (6) and obtains the code signal (5) and a scattered broadband signal (7) from the reflected signal; the RFID reading device (2) determines a travel time of the broadband signal (4) by comparing the broadband signal (4) with the scattered broadband signal (7); the RFID reading device (2) determines the distance between the RFID reading device (2) and the RFID tag (1) from the travel time difference.

Abstract: An arrangement of floating platforms is provided, including (a) an anchored main platform and (b) one or more outer platforms, each of which being connected to the main platform by at least one connection element. One or more of the main and/or outer platforms are rotatable about a vertical axis by drive units which are fixed thereon. Marine engines having a propeller propulsion system are provided as drive units on the main platform and/or the outer platforms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of estimating BEM coefficients of the Channel taps of a transmission Channel of an OFDM System having a given pilot arrangement, comprising, at the receiver side of the transmission Channel, the Steps of a) subsampling a received OFDM symbol in the frequency domain into a set of subsequences, b) inverse Fourier transforming each subsequence into a transformed subsequence, and c) estimating Fourier coefficients of a truncated Fourier series expansion model of the Channel taps from the set of transformed subsequences.

Abstract: A method and a device for processing a light-polymerizable material (5, 55) for building up an object (27) in layers, using a lithography based generative manufacture having a construction platform (12) for building up the object (27), a projecting exposure unit (10, 60) that can be controlled for locally selected exposing of a surface on the construction platform (12, 62) to an intensity pattern having a prescribed shape, and a control unit (11, 61) prepared for polymerizing overlapping layers (28) on the construction platform (12, 62) in successive exposure steps, each having a prescribed geometry, by controlling the projecting exposure unit (10, 60), in order to thus successively build up the object (27) in the desired shape, said shape resulting from the sequence of layer geometries.

Abstract: A device is provided for cooling or heating vessels and containers for carrying out chemical or physical reactions. The device includes the following components in a vertical direction from top to bottom: a heat-conductive cooling or heating plate; at least one Peltier element equipped with electrical connections; optionally at least one heat-conductive separator plate between two Peltier elements respectively; a heat-conductive thermoblock, through which one or more fluid channels pass, for dissipation and supply of heat from and to the at least one Peltier element; and an external control unit for the at least one Peltier element. The components rest on top of one another and are therefore in direct planar contact with one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for the online-detection of a deterioration in the state of an insulation in an electric machine (2). A stepped voltage is applied to the winding(s) (3) of the machine (2) with the aid of a converter (41), and the current (i) induced in this manner, and/or the time derivative (di/dt) thereof, is acquired as a measurement signal with the aid of at least one sensor (6, 7, 8) and is then oversampled with a frequency higher than the frequencies characteristic for settling. The signal obtained by said oversampling is then evaluated with regard to parameters of the settling process such as overshooting (Ah) and/or natural frequency (1/?T) and/or a damping constant, in order to detect any deterioration in the insulation.

Abstract: What is described is an actuator system (2) comprising at least one actuator (29, 29?) and an associated control system (8) which is designed for at least two operating modes, at least one of which may be deactivated, whereby one of the operating modes is a high efficiency operating mode.

Abstract: A method of equalizing a signal received over transmission channel defined by BEM coefficients of a basis expansion model of its channel taps, comprising the step of approximately solving the relation (I) for x[n] by an iterative method, n being the index of time, y[n] being the received signal, x[n] being the equalized signal, Bm[n] being the mth basis function of the basis expansion model, M being the model order of the basis expansion model, and blm being the BEM coefficient of the mth of the basis function of the lth channel tap, and w[n] being optional noise.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method, comprising a workpiece-receiving portion (2) for receiving a workpiece (28) to be mechanically machined. At least one vibrating device (9) is connected to the workpiece-receiving portion (2), and the vibrating device (9) causes the workpiece-receiving portion (2) to vibrate, the vibration of the workpiece-receiving portion (2) having a frequency that is lower than the frequency of ultrasound. The vibrating device (9) has a vibrating body (8) to which a compensating mass (7) that vibrates in the opposite direction is associated.

Abstract: A method and a device for processing light-polymerizable material for the assembly of a mold, utilizing a lithography-based generative manufacturing technique wherein a layer of a light-polymerizable material, the material being located in at least one trough (4) having a particularly light-transmissive, horizontal bottom (6), is polymerized by illumination on at least one horizontal platform (12), the platform having a prespecified geometry and projecting into a trough (4), in an illumination field, wherein the platform (12) is displaced vertically to form a subsequent layer, light-polymerizable material is then added to the most recently formed layer, and repetition of the foregoing steps leads to the layered construction of the mold in the desired form, which arises from the succession of layer geometries.