Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing vanillin, which comprises an electrochemical oxidation of an aqueous, lignin-comprising suspension or solution at an anode, wherein the anode used is a silver electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spinning unit of an air-jet spinning machine for the spinning of a fiber composite. The spinning unit has a pair of delivery rollers and a spinning nozzle, whereas the spinning nozzle has a yarn formation element and a fiber guide element. The fiber guide element has a beginning turned towards the pair of delivery rollers and an end turned away from the pair of delivery rollers. The fiber composite is fed to the spinning nozzle with the pair of delivery rollers, and is introduced into the spinning nozzle through the fiber guide element, and subsequently a yarn is formed from the fiber composite through the yarn formation element. A tool for feeding an additive to the fiber composite is provided between the pair of delivery rollers and the end of the fiber guide element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating method for coating a component surface (4) with a coating agent, in particular for painting a motor vehicle body component with a paint, having the following steps: • emitting a spray jet (1) of the coating agent onto the component surface (4) of the component to be coated by means of an atomizer (2), said spray jet (1) having a main axis (5) and having an asymmetry with respect to the main axis (5) such that the spray jet (1) generates a spray pattern with a corresponding asymmetry on the component surface (4), and • at least partially compensating for the asymmetry of the spray jet (1) such that the asymmetry of the resulting spray pattern on the component surface (4) is reduced. The invention further relates to a corresponding coating device.

Abstract: There is provided pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of e.g. opioid dependency comprising microparticles of a pharmacologically-effective amount of buprenorphine, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, in associative admixture with particles comprising a weak acid, or particles comprising weakly-acidic buffer forming materials. The composition may further comprise a disintegrant and/or particles of a pharmacologically-effective amount of naloxone, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof. The compositions are useful in the treatment of opioid dependency/addiction and/or pain.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing unsymmetrical biaryl by anodic dehydrodimerization of substituted ortho-alkoxyaryl alcohols in the presence of partially fluorinated and/or perfluorinated mediators and a supporting electrolyte.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising cefuroximaxetil and at least one carrageenan selected from the group consisting of ?-carrageenan, ?-carrageenan and -carrageenan. The invention furthermore relates to pellets, to a multiparticulate, pharmaceutical dosage form and to a novel crystalline modification of cefuroximaxetil.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing biaryls by anodic cross-dehydrodimerization of substituted phenols with arenes in the presence of partially fluorinated and/or perfluorinated mediators and a supporting electrolyte.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for plasma processing of a substrate to improve process results are proposed. The apparatus pertains to multi-layer segmented electrodes and methods to form and operate such electrodes. The multi-layer segmented electrode includes a first layer comprising a first plurality of electrode segments, whereby electrode segments of the first plurality of electrode segments spatially separated from one another along a first direction. There is also included a second layer comprising a second plurality of electrode segments, whereby the second layer is spatially separated from the first layer along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and whereby at least two segmented electrodes of the first plurality of electrode segments are individually controllable with respect to one or more electrical parameters.

Abstract: Stationary training bicycle having a pedal crank mechanism coupled to a transmission by a flywheel. A magnetic braking device interacts with the flywheel and is variable in its braking action. A calibration table stored in a computing device contains a plurality of braking device settings with reference rundown times of the flywheel not loaded via the pedal crank mechanism and relating to the speed reduction from a first speed to a second speed. The actual rundown time of the flywheel is ascertained at least once by means of a measuring device or the computing device and compared to the reference rundown times. If actual setting and target setting do not correspond, information relating to the actual setting can be output on the display device.

Abstract: Crystalline, anhydrous hydrochloride salts of 4,5?-epoxy-3,14-dihydroxy-17-methylmorphinan-6-one (oxymorphone) are disclosed and three polymorphic forms of these salts are reported. The invention further relates to a method for the production of such salts, a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of such a salt and such a salt as a medicament and for the treatment and/or prevention of pain.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved industrial apparatus for the large-scale storage of energy and a process for storing and transporting electric energy by means of this apparatus.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plasma processing system is provided. The method includes providing a movable plasma-facing structure configured to surround a plasma that is generated during processing of a substrate. The method also includes disposing a movable electrically conductive structure outside of the movable plasma-facing structure, wherein both structures configured to be deployed and retracted as a single unit to facilitate handling of the substrate. The movable electrically conductive structure is radio frequency (RF) grounded during the plasma processing. During processing, the RF current from the plasma flows to the movable electrically conductive structure through the movable plasma-facing structure during the plasma processing. The method further includes coupling a set of conductive straps to the movable electrically conductive structure.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to an optical component (10, 300) for processing optical signals comprising a rhombic prism (20) having a first surface (SF1), a second surface (SF2) that is parallel to the first surface (SF1), a third surface (SF3) that is angled relative to the first and second surfaces (SF1, SF2) and connects the first and second surfaces (SF1, SF2), and a fourth surface (SF4) that is parallel to the third surface (SF3) and connects the first and second surfaces (SF1, SF2), wherein the third surface (SF3) is covered by a polarization dependent layer (PDL) capable of transmitting radiation having a first polarization and capable of reflecting radiation having a second polarization, said first and second polarizations being perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A method for processing a wafer with a wafer bevel that surrounds a central region is provided. The wafer is placed in a bevel plasma processing chamber. A protective layer is deposited on the wafer bevel without depositing the protective layer over the central region. The wafer is removed from the bevel plasma processing chamber. The wafer is further processed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing vanillin from an aqueous, basic vanillin-comprising composition, in particular from a composition as arises in the oxidation, especially in the oxidation by electrolysis, of aqueous alkaline lignin-comprising compositions, comprising at least one treatment of an aqueous, basic vanillin-comprising composition, in particular the treatment of a composition as arises in the oxidation, especially in the oxidation by electrolysis, of aqueous alkaline lignin-comprising compositions, with a basic adsorbent, in particular an anion exchanger.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing vanillin, comprising an electrolysis of an aqueous, alkaline lignin-comprising suspension or solution, wherein, as anode material, a base alloy is used which is selected among Co-base alloys, Fe-base alloys, Cu-base alloys and Ni-base alloys.

Abstract: Process for the direct amination of hydrocarbons to aminohydrocarbons by reaction of a feed stream E comprising at least one hydrocarbon and at least one aminating reagent to form a reaction mixture R comprising aminohydrocarbon and hydrogen in a reaction zone RZ and electrochemical separation of at least part of the hydrogen formed in the reaction from the reaction mixture R by means of a gastight membrane-electrode assembly having at least one selectively proton-conducting membrane and at least one electrode catalyst on each side of the membrane, where at least part of the hydrogen is oxidized to protons at the anode catalyst on the retentate side of the membrane and the protons pass through the membrane and on the permeate side are reacted with oxygen to form water, where the oxygen originates from an oxygen-comprising stream O which is brought into contact with the permeate side of the membrane, over the cathode catalyst.

Abstract: A deflecting air ring includes a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a first region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a second region situated downstream of the first region of the deflecting air jet.

Abstract: There is provided pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of e.g. opioid dependency comprising microparticles of a pharmacologically-effective amount of buprenorphine, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, in associative admixture with particles comprising a weak acid, or particles comprising weakly-acidic buffer forming materials. The composition may further comprise a disintegrant and/or particles of a pharmacologically-effective amount of naloxone, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof. The compositions are useful in the treatment of opioid dependency/addiction and/or pain.

Abstract: A combined pressure control/plasma confinement assembly configured for confining a plasma and for at least partially regulating pressure in a plasma processing chamber during plasma processing of a substrate is provided. The assembly includes a movable plasma confinement structure having therein a plurality of perforations and configured to surround the plasma when deployed.