Abstract: An aircraft fuselage structure is disclosed herein and includes an outer skin, with circumferential ribs, such that a recess is provided for receiving a wing torsion box in the outer skin, and the ribs are interrupted in the region of the recess. An object of the disclosure includes providing an aircraft fuselage structure designed such that the wing torsion box is able to extend at least partially through the upper region of the fuselage, without the stability of the fuselage being significantly reduced. This can include providing first longitudinal members which are adjacent to the recess and which extend along the longitudinal edges beyond the entire length thereof. End regions of the first longitudinal members are connected to ribs which extend circumferentially at intervals from the transverse edges of the recess along the outer skin over the vertical longitudinal central plane.

Abstract: Optical arrangements for processing a workpiece include a fiber laser arrangement for emitting laser radiation, a fiber arrangement directly coupled to the fiber laser arrangement and configured to guide the laser radiation in a direction to the workpiece to be processed, the fiber arrangement including a transport fiber having a fiber core and at least one fiber cladding surrounding the fiber core, and at least one coupling device for coupling a portion of the laser radiation guided in the fiber arrangement into at least one fiber cladding of the transport fiber. The coupling device has a spectral bandwidth of at least the same magnitude as a spectral bandwidth of the laser radiation. The fiber laser arrangement is configured to change a beam profile of the guided laser radiation to shift the spectral bandwidth of the laser radiation relative to the spectral bandwidth of the coupling device.

Abstract: A device for building a three-dimensional structure in layers includes at least one supply unit, at least one laser unit and one table, wherein the table comprises a circular surface and is adapted for rotating the circular surface around a central axis. The supply unit is adapted for applying a powdery material in layers on the circular surface of the table. The laser unit at the same time can partly or completely melt powdery material already applied by the supply unit while the circular surface is rotating.

Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies and methods of using the antibodies to treat, prevent, modulate, attenuate and diagnose iron-related disorders.

Abstract: Described is a clearcoat coating composition, its use, and a process for preparing the clearcoat coating composition. The clearcoat coating composition comprises (A) at least one polyester having an OH number of 80-250 mg KOH/g; (B) at least one butanol-etherified melamine-formaldehyde resin having a crosslinking onset temperature between 65° C.-100° C. lower than the crosslinking onset temperature of hexamethoxy-methylmelamine; (C) at least one butanol-etherified melamine-formaldehyde resin having a crosslinking onset temperature between 30° C.-60° C. lower than the crosslinking onset temperature of hexamethoxymethylmelamine; (D) at least one organic urea compound as rheological assistant; and (E) at least one acid catalyst.

Abstract: A connection system includes two connecting elements each having a respective connecting flange on which a plurality of coupling elements are arranged along a peripheral direction and which has a substantially round external profile; and a coupling belt, on which a plurality of opposing coupling elements are arranged which are configured to form a positive-locking connection with the coupling elements of the two connecting elements for the mutual rotation-proof fixing of the two connecting elements.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are anti-RGMa antibodies and methods of using these antibodies to treat multiple sclerosis, including relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis such as relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis or relapsing-secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

Abstract: Disclosed are coating compositions comprising at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A) and at least one isocyanato-containing compound (B), wherein one or more of the constituents of the coating composition comprise between 2.5 and 97.5 mol %, based on the entirety of structural units (I) and (II), of at least one structural unit of the formula (I) —N(X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x)n(X?—SiR?y(OR?)3-y)m??(I) and between 2.5 and 97.5 mol %, based on the entirety of structural units (I) and (II), of at least one structural unit of the formula (II) —Z—(X—SiR?x(OR?)3-x)??(II).

Abstract: Disclosed is a hyperbranched, dendritic, hydroxyl-functional polyester comprising an OH number greater than or equal to 180 mg KOH/g as measured via DIN 53240 and to clearcoat compositions comprising said polyesters. Also disclosed are processes for preparing the disclosed polyester, methods of making coated automotive substrates by applying the disclosed clearcoat compositions to automotive substrates, and to coated substrates made therefrom.

Abstract: Binder mixture comprising a hydroxyl-containing compound (A), and at least 1.0% by weight, based on the nonvolatile constituents of the binder mixture, of a phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing catalyst (D) for the crosslinking of silane groups, wherein the hydroxyl-containing compound (A) comprises a hydroxyl-functional polyester having on average at least one hydroxyl function of the polyester esterified with a C8 to C9 monocarboxylic acid, and the catalyst (D) is blocked with at least one tertiary amine of the formula (I) where R1 is an acyclic aliphatic or araliphatic hydrocarbon radical having at least 3 C atoms, R2 is an acyclic aliphatic or araliphatic hydrocarbon radical which is the same or different from R1 and/or R3, and R3 is hydrogen or an acyclic aliphatic or araliphatic hydrocarbon radical which is the same or different from R1 and/or R2.

Abstract: An adhesive retainer for fixing to a structure has at least one adhesive foot which has a supporting base region formed on the adhesive foot and is provided with receiving openings which extend like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot. The receiving openings are configured to form an integral bond with the structure such that when the adhesive foot is placed on the structure covered for this purpose with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance, the receiving openings receive bonding substance due to capillary ascension.

Abstract: A connection arrangement having: a fuselage portion; a wing portion which is mounted on the fuselage portion in an upper region thereof; a first Z-coupling element which couples the wing portion to the fuselage portion in the vertical direction thereof; and two XZ-coupling elements which couple the wing portion to the fuselage portion in the vertical direction and longitudinal direction thereof; the first Z-coupling element being longitudinally adjustable in the vertical direction in order to thus adjust an angle of attack of the wing portion.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixing an element, in particular a line, a cable, a pipe, a hose or the like in an aircraft or spacecraft, to a component, includes an LFS fixing structure, the latching body and/or the flange portion of the LFS fixing structure having a tolerance compensator for compensating thickness tolerances of the entire arrangement.

Abstract: Disclosed is an at least partly crosslinked coating (K) composed of a near-surface coating zone (K1) and a volume coating zone (K2), the coating obtained from a composition comprising at least two different crosslinkable components (D1) and (D2), at least part of component (D1) having one or more surface-active structural units, wherein (i) the coating both in zone (K1) and in zone (K2) is at least partly crosslinked, and (ii) the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K1) is higher than the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K2). Also disclosed are coatings (K) wherein the concentration of component (D1) in the near-surface coating zone (K1) is higher than in the volume coating zone (K2), and the micropenetration hardness and/or the dry scratch resistance of the coating (K) is higher than that of an at least partly crosslinked coating (K?) obtained from a composition with no crosslinkable component (D1).

Abstract: A door construction for an airborne vehicle includes a door, a door frame, with the shape of door frame forming a gap between the door and the door frame in the outer surface of the door and the door frame when the door is closed, and a gap sealing device comprising an inflatable tube positioned in the gap with at least one tube inlet, the inflatable tube being configured to be inflated through the at least one tube inlet and to at least partially seal the gap between the door and the door frame when inflated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising (a) at least one hydroxyl-containing compound (A), (b) at least one compound (B) having free and/or blocked isocyanate groups, and (c) at least one phosphate-containing catalyst (C) for the crosslinking of silane groups, (d) at least one further catalyst (D), one or more constituents of the coating composition containing hydrolyzable silane groups, wherein the catalyst (D) is a bicyclic amine.

Abstract: An attachment device for attaching at least one element, in particular lines such as cables, pipes, hoses and the like, to a component section. The attachment device comprises a retaining section for encompassing, at least in some sections, at least one such element, and comprising a flange section for resting against the component section. Spring sections of a hollow engagement body, which spring sections are acting in the radial direction, are blocked as a result of the insertion of a securing pin into the interior of the engagement body, and can thus no longer be moved radially inwards towards each other. A method for installing such an attachment device.

Abstract: The use of curable mixtures comprising (A) at least one phosphonic diester and/or at least one diphosphonic diester and (B) at least one compound containing at least two condensable silane groups, as coupling agents, particularly as coupling agents in laminates comprising at least one substrate, at least one coating, at least one adhesive layer, and at least one sheet, and also a new process for producing such laminates using the coupling agents, the laminates which are producible using the coupling agents, and thermally curable mixtures comprising the coupling agents and at least one thermally curable polyester (C).

Abstract: Disclosed is an at least partly crosslinked coating (K) composed of a near-surface coating zone (K1) and a volume coating zone (K2), the coating obtained from a composition comprising at least two different crosslinkable components (D1) and (D2), at least part of component (D) having one or more surface-active structural units, wherein (i) the coating in zone (K1) and in zone (K2) is at least partly crosslinked, and (ii) the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K1) is higher than the crosslinking density of the coating in zone (K2). Also disclosed are coatings (K) wherein the concentration of component (D1) in the near-surface coating zone (K1) is higher than in the volume coating zone (K2), and the micropentration hardness and/or the dry scratch resistance of the coating (K) is higher than that of an at least partly crosslinked coating (K?) obtained from a composition with no crosslinkable component (D1).

Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for laser-supported plasma cutting or plasma welding of a workpiece. In one aspect, a method includes producing a plasma beam which extends in an expansion direction between an electrode and a processing location on the workpiece, the plasma beam having, with respect to a center axis of the plasma beam that extends in the expansion direction, an inner central region and an outer edge region, and supplying laser radiation to the outer edge region of the plasma beam. The laser radiation supplied to the outer edge region extends parallel with the center axis of the plasma beam.