Abstract: A device for centering of petri dishes, where the petri dishes include a bottom container with a lateral surface and a lid with a lid diameter, including an elevator with an elevator axis and an elevator drive, and the conveyor includes concentrically along the elevator axis a frustoconical through-hole tapering downwards, and the elevator drive is built to move a substantially flat plate from a neutral position downwards into a first position, which is reached as soon as the petri dish rests with its weight on the inner surface of the through-hole, and the elevator drive is built to rotate the plate during a movement of the plate from the neutral position into the first position.

Abstract: A system for analyzing and sorting of petri dishes comprising an analysis tool, a control unit, a first elevator movable along a first elevator axis, a conveyor with a conveyor plane, and at least one carrier built to carry the petri dishes along a carrier axis. The analysis tool is built to assign information to the petri dish, and in case of a first information assigned to the petri dish the control unit is built to move the first elevator into a carrier position, wherein, as soon as the first elevator reaches the carrier position, the control unit is built to move a substantially flat first plate along the first elevator axis from a first neutral position located in the conveyor plane into a first transfer position.

Abstract: A system for analyzing and sorting of petri dishes comprising an analysis tool, a control unit, a first elevator movable along a first elevator axis, a conveyor with a conveyor plane, and at least one carrier built to carry the petri dishes along a carrier axis. The analysis tool is built to assign information to the petri dish, and in case of a first information assigned to the petri dish the control unit is built to move the first elevator into a carrier position, wherein, as soon as the first elevator reaches the carrier position, the control unit is built to move a substantially flat first plate along the first elevator axis from a first neutral position located in the conveyor plane into a first transfer position.

Abstract: A device for centering of petri dishes, where the petri dishes include a bottom container with a lateral surface and a lid with a lid diameter, including an elevator with an elevator axis and an elevator drive, and the conveyor includes concentrically along the elevator axis a frustoconical through-hole tapering downwards, and the elevator drive is built to move a substantially flat plate from a neutral position downwards into a first position, which is reached as soon as the petri dish rests with its weight on the inner surface of the through-hole, and the elevator drive is built to rotate the plate during a movement of the plate from the neutral position into the first position.

Abstract: A method produces a multilayer element with a substrate and at least one conductor structure connected in an areal manner to the substrate, which has first regions of electrically conductive material, which is present in accordance with a prescribed pattern, while electrically non-conductive second regions lie between the first regions.

Abstract: Disclosed are an open-porous metal foam and a method for manufacturing the same. An open-porous metal foam according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is made of an iron-based alloy including 15 wt % or more of chrome and 5 wt % or more of aluminum. The open-porous metal foam is a semi-product that is formed of iron or the iron-based alloy that does not include chrome and aluminum or includes a smaller amount of chrome and aluminum in the powder when manufacturing, and the surface and the open pore thereof are uniformly coated with the powder of the iron-chrome-aluminum alloy and the organic binding agent. When heat treatment is performed under a reduction atmosphere, sintering is performed.

Abstract: A method produces a multilayer element with a substrate and at least one conductor structure connected in an areal manner to the substrate, which has first regions of electrically conductive material, which is present in accordance with a prescribed pattern, while electrically non-conductive second regions lie between the first regions.

Abstract: The invention relates to components which are produced or processed by powder metallurgy, and to processes for producing components of this type. The components produced by powder metallurgy are intended both to have porous regions and to provide fluid-tight properties, and it should also be possible to produce them at correspondingly low cost and suitably flexibly. For this purpose, a component of this type has at least one porous region, which is formed from an intermetallic phase or solid solutions. However, it may also have a corresponding surface coating. Moreover, in a component of this type there is at least one areal fluid-tight region which is formed from a meta or metal alloy of the corresponding intermetallic phase or solid solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fabricating an open-porous metal foam body with a nickel base alloy, to a metal foam body fabricated this way as well as advantageous applications for the separation of specific components and pollutants from fluid flows. On the occasion, according to the set object open-porous metal foam bodies which have improved mechanical properties, and in addition an enlarged specific surface and/or increased surface roughness are to be provided. During fabricating it is proceeded such that an open-porous base foam body made of nickel or a nickel base alloy is coated with a liquid binding agent. Subsequent to this, a mixture of a powdery nickel base alloy and an organic component the temperature of phase transformation of which is at least 30 degrees centigrade from its solid phase to the liquid phase is deposited. The temperature should then be below the respective temperature of phase transformation.

Abstract: Disclosed are an open-porous metal foam and a method for manufacturing the same. An open-porous metal foam according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is made of an iron-based alloy including 15 wt % or more of chrome and 5 wt % or more of aluminum. The open-porous metal foam is a semi-product that is formed of iron or the iron-based alloy that does not include chrome and aluminum or includes a smaller amount of chrome and aluminum in the powder when manufacturing, and the surface and the open pore thereof are uniformly coated with the powder of the iron-chrome-aluminum alloy and the organic binding agent. When heat treatment is performed under a reduction atmosphere, sintering is performed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the separation of particles contained in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines in which the exhaust gas flow is guided through a filter medium in which particles can be absorbed and held back. The invention should improve the separation in a cost effective manner with respect to conventional particle filters. In accordance with the invention, the filter medium (1) is made from a metal open-pore foam having at least two layers (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) which each have a thickness, porosity and/or pore size in the flowthrough direction through the filter medium which differ from one another. In one embodiment, the particle filter includes first and second filter medium layers where the first filter medium has a mean pore size larger than a mean pore size of the second filter medium, and the first filter medium has a thickness that increases in a direction of the exhaust gas flow inlet passage of the filter housing.

Abstract: Disclosed are an open-porous metal foam and a method for manufacturing the same. An open-porous metal foam according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is made of an iron-based alloy including 15 wt % or more of chrome and 5 wt % or more of aluminum. The open-porous metal foam is a semi-product that is formed of iron or the iron-based alloy that does not include chrome and aluminum or includes a smaller amount of chrome and aluminum in the powder when manufacturing, and the surface and the open pore thereof are uniformly coated with the powder of the iron-chrome-aluminum alloy and the organic binding agent. When heat treatment is performed under a reduction atmosphere, sintering is performed.

Abstract: The invention relates to metal foam bodies having an open-porous structure as well as a method for producing thereof wherein according to the set task such metal foam bodies are to be provided which achieve an increased oxidation resistance and/or an increased corrosion resistance. With the metal foam bodies having an open-porous structure according to the invention, for such metal foam bodies within the webs of the open-porous structure there are channel shaped cavities formed as being determined by the production. At the same time, the webs and cavities will be provided with a metallic protective layer made of a material differing from the metallic starting material of the foam body or the channel shaped cavities will be filled with this material. For this, an adequate metal powder or an alloy component being included in the powder will be used which becomes liquid and forms a liquid phase respectively during thermal treatment below a temperature at which the metal of the base foam body is melting.

Abstract: The invention relates to open-pored metallic foam bodies as well as a method for manufacturing thereof. These metallic foam bodies are allowed to be advantageously used with ambient environmental conditions causing a high corrosion to many conventional materials, and accordingly reducing the lifetime thereof frequently. According to the set object, the metallic foam bodies should have a low mass simultaneously with a high specific surface, and increased corrosion resistance under chemically aggressive ambient environmental conditions. An open-pored metallic foam body according to the invention is then developed such that it is formed from a nickel-copper alloy having at least 40 percent by weight of nickel and yet a porosity of at least 90%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method comprising the following steps: a) use of a support which has at least two different microparticle populations immobilized thereon; b) measuring the fluorescence of the support from step a) with an optical resolution 1, said resolution 1 permitting differentiation of microparticle singlets, doublets, triplets, multiplets and monolayers and determination of the localized position of individual immobilized microparticles; c) contacting the support from step a) with the sample to be analyzed; d) performing at least one additional measurement of the fluorescence of the support during or after contacting in accordance with step c) with a resolution 2; e) assigning the fluorescence values measured with resolution 2 to the individual microparticle singlets, doublets, triplets, multiplets and monolayers locally identified on the support in accordance with step b) and assigned to a particular acceptor molecule population; f) determining the change in fluorescence.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the separation of particles contained in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines in which the exhaust gas flow is guided through a filter medium in which particles can be absorbed and held back (4). The invention should improve the separation in a cost effective manner with respect to conventional particle filters. In accordance with the invention, the filter medium (1) is made from a metal open-pore foam having at least two layers (11, 12, 13) which each have a thickness, porosity and/or pore size in the flowthrough direction through the filter medium which differ from one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to metal foam bodies having an open-porous structure as well as a method for producing thereof wherein according to the set task such metal foam bodies are to be provided which achieve an increased oxidation resistance and/or an increased corrosion resistance. With the metal foam bodies having an open-porous structure according to the invention, for such metal foam bodies within the webs of the open-porous structure there are channel shaped cavities formed as being determined by the production. At the same time, the webs and cavities will be provided with a metallic protective layer made of a material differing from the metallic starting material of the foam body or the channel shaped cavities will be filled with this material. For this, an adequate metal powder or an alloy component being included in the powder will be used which becomes liquid and forms a liquid phase respectively during thermal treatment below a temperature at which the metal of the base foam body is melting.