Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlamp that has a housing and a light module that is connected to the housing by an adjustment device for adjusting the main beam direction thereof. The adjustment device has a threaded adjustment assembly and a pivot lever, which is supported in the housing such that it can pivot about a stationary pivot point in relation to the housing. The pivot lever has a movement input coupling section at a distance to the pivot point, with which it is coupled in a flexible manner to the adjustment assembly. The pivot lever is connected to the light module at a movement output coupling section that is at a distance to the pivot point and the movement input coupling section.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a package of cheese shreds. Cheese shreds and anticaking agent are mixed at a load between 2 wt. % and 10 wt. % in relation to the cheese shreds to form anticake-coated cheese shreds. The anticaking agent comprises 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar; 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase; and 0.5-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The anticake-coated cheese shreds are then sealed into a package without modifying the atmosphere in the package or using an inert gas flush.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle headlamp that has a housing and a light module that is connected to the housing by an adjustment device for adjusting the main beam direction thereof. The adjustment device has a threaded adjustment assembly and a pivot lever, which is supported in the housing such that it can pivot about a stationary pivot point in relation to the housing. The pivot lever has a movement input coupling section at a distance to the pivot point, with which it is coupled in a flexible manner to the adjustment assembly. The pivot lever is connected to the light module at a movement output coupling section that is at a distance to the pivot point and the movement input coupling section.

Abstract: Lighting devices and methods of manufacturing lighting devices are described. A lighting devices includes at least one thermally conductive element, at least one lighting module thermally coupled to the at least one thermally conductive element, and an overmould at least partially encasing the at least one thermally conductive element, the overmould comprising at least one receiving portion. The at least one circuit board is mounted in the at least one receiving portion and is at least partially exposed from the overmould. The at least one circuit board includes at least one connector and at least two bond pads. The at least one connector includes surface accessible conduction lines.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are described. An apparatus includes a module body made of a polymer material. The module body includes a mounting surface adjacent a potting area. At least two lead frame elements are embedded in the polymer material of the module body. Each of the at least two lead frame elements has a first terminal side and a second terminal side in the component potting area. An LED element is on the mounting surface of the module body and electrically coupled to the first terminal side of the at least two lead frame elements.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a package of cheese shreds. Cheese shreds and anticaking agent are mixed at a load between 2 wt. % and 10 wt. % in relation to the cheese shreds to form anticake-coated cheese shreds. The anticaking agent comprises 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar; 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase; and 0.5-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The anticake-coated cheese shreds are then sealed into a package without modifying the atmosphere in the package or using an inert gas flush.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a package of cheese shreds. Cheese shreds and anticaking agent are mixed at a load between 2 wt. % and 10 wt. % in relation to the cheese shreds to form anticake-coated cheese shreds. The anticaking agent comprises 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar; 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase; and 0.5-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The anticake-coated cheese shreds are then sealed into a package without modifying the atmosphere in the package or using an inert gas flush.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air mixing and distribution apparatus (32) and to a vehicle heating or air-conditioning system (10) having an air distribution chamber (30), into which a cold air duct (16) opens with a cold air opening (26) and a warm air duct (20) opens with a warm air opening (28). The warm air opening (28) is formed by the outlet of a heat exchanger (22), the cold and warm air openings (26, 28) lie next to one another and in the same plane (34), and the cold air which flows through the cold air opening (26) and the warm air which flows through the warm air opening (28) flow into the air distribution chamber (30). The air distribution chamber (30) has a mixed air outlet (42) for the windscreen and a mixed air outlet (44) for a front diffuser, the mixed air outlets (42, 44) being spaced apart from one another. The apparatus (32) also includes a first air deflection element (52) and a second air deflection element (56).

Abstract: The invention relates to an air mixing and distribution apparatus (32) and to a vehicle heating or air-conditioning system (10) having an air distribution chamber (30), into which a cold air duct (16) opens with a cold air opening (26) and a warm air duct (20) opens with a warm air opening (28). The warm air opening (28) is formed by the outlet of a heat exchanger (22), the cold and warm air openings (26, 28) lie next to one another and in the same plane (34), and the cold air which flows through the cold air opening (26) and the warm air which flows through the warm air opening (28) flow into the air distribution chamber (30). The air distribution chamber (30) has a mixed air outlet (42) for the windscreen and a mixed air outlet (44) for a front diffuser, the mixed air outlets (42, 44) being spaced apart from one another. The apparatus (32) also includes a first air deflection element (52).

Abstract: A process for modifying starch by heating starch in an aqueous medium to temperatures above the gelatinization temperature of said starch comprises effecting said modifying of said starch in the presence of (a) a polymeric cationizer selected from the group consisting of the polymers containing vinylamine units and having molar masses of up to 1 million, the polyethyleneimines, the polydiallyldimethylammonium chlorides, the condensates of dimethylamine with epichlorohydrin or dichloroalkanes, the condensates of dichloroethane and ammonia, and the mixtures thereof, and (b) polymeric papermaking drainage aids selected from the group consisting of the water-soluble crosslinked polyamidoamines with or without an ethyleneimine graft, the polymers containing acrylamide and/or methacrylamide units and having molar masses of more than 1 million, the polymers containing vinylamine units and having molar masses of more then 1 million, and the mixtures thereof.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, starch/polymer combinations are provided. The preferred starch/polymer combinations are usable as paper additives, in the wet end of a papermaking process. Typical and preferred starch/polymer combinations of this type, result from combining a starch, having a polymer reactive carbonyl functionality, with a polymer, having a carbonyl reactive functionality, under conditions that allow for covalent interaction between the two. Typically usable components comprise oxidized starch and polymer having reactive primary or reactive secondary amine groups. Also provided are methods of preparing such combinations, methods of use, preferred papers including such combinations, and, analytical techniques usable in preparation of such combinations.

Abstract: Paper, board and cardboard having high dry strength are produced by the addition of cationic, anionic and/or amphoteric starch as dry strength agents to the paper stock and drainage of the paper stock with sheet formation in the presence of cationic polymers as retention aids for starch, and cationic polymeric retention aids are used for increasing the retention of dry strength agents comprising cationic, anionic and/or amphoteric starch in the production of paper, board and cardboard.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, starch/polymer combinations are provided. The preferred starch/polymer combinations are usable as paper additives, in the wet end of a papermaking process. Typical and preferred starch/polymer combinations of this type, result from combining a starch, having a polymer reactive carbonyl functionality, with a polymer, having a carbonyl reactive functionality, under conditions that allow for covalent interaction between the two. Typically usable components comprise oxidized starch and polymer having reactive primary or reactive secondary amine groups. Also provided are methods of preparing such combinations, methods of use, preferred papers including such combinations, and, analytical techniques usable in preparation of such combinations.

Abstract: Solutions of polymers containing vinylamine units, which solutions have a long shelf life, are prepared by hydrolyzing polymers containing N-vinylcarboxamide units with acids in an aqueous medium and removing the carboxylic acids eliminated from the polymers as esters from the aqueous polymer solution after the hydrolysis by adding at least stoichiometric amounts of at least one C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alcohol and distilling off the esters from the reaction mixture, and said aqueous solutions are used as dry and wet strength agents in papermaking.

Abstract: Graft polymers are obtainable by free radical polymerization of(A) monomers or monomer mixtures comprising(a) from 1 to 100% by weight of N-vinylcarboxamides of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, (b) from 0 to 99% by weight of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers copolymerizable with the monomers (a) and(c) from 0 to 5% by weight of monomers having at least two ethylenically unsaturated, nonconjugated double bonds in the molecule,in the presence of(B) polymers which contain units of vinyl esters of saturated C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A graft polymer obtained by free radically polymerizing:(A) a monomer or monomer mixture comprising:(a) from 10-100% by weight of a N-vinylcarboxamide of the formula: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, (b) from 0-90% by weight of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated monomer which is copolymerizable with (a), and(c) from 0-5% by weight of at least one monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated nonconjugated double bonds in the molecule, in the presence of(B) a polytetrahydrofuran or a polymer which contains at least 3 units of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkylene oxide and is a hornopolymer of C.sub.2-4 -alkylene oxide having two free terminal OH groups or random or block copolymers of C.sub.2-4 -alkylene oxides having two free terminal OH groups or the reaction products of C.sub.

Abstract: In a cationic modification process for starch, starch is reacted with polymers that contain amino and/or ammonium groups in an aqueous medium at temperatures from 115.degree. C. to 180.degree. C. under an increased pressure and in the absence of oxidizers, polymerization initiators and alkali. The reaction is conducted so that maximum 10% by weight starch has its molar weight reduced. Also disclosed is the use of the thus obtained reaction products as dry strength agents for paper.

Abstract: Copolymers which are obtained by copolymerization ofa) from 5 to 99 mol % of N-vinylcarboxamides,b) from 95 to 1 mol % of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and/or the alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium or amine salts thereof, and if required,c) up to 30 mol % of other monoethylenically unsaturated compounds, and if required,d) up to 2 mol % of crosslinking agents,and subsequent partial or complete elimination of the acyl groups from the N-vinylcarboxamides polymerized in the copolymer, with formation of amino or ammonium groups, are used as additives to paper stock for increasing the drainage rate and the retention in papermaking, and the dry and wet strength of the paper.

Abstract: Graft polymers are obtainable by free radical polymerization of(A) monomers or monomer mixtures of(a) from 10 to 100% by weight of open-chain N-vinylcarboxamides(b) from 0 to 90% by weight of other, carboxyl-free monoethylenically unsaturated monomers which are copolymerizable with the monomers (a) and(c) from 0 to 5% by weight of monomers containing two or more ethylenically unsaturated, non-conjugated double bonds in the molecule,in the presence of(B) natural substances containing saccharide structures, such as mono-, oligo- and polysaccharides,in a weight ratio (A):(B) of from 95:5 to 20:80 and, if required, subsequent hydrolysis of the amido groups of the polymerized monomers (a) of the graft polymer with formation of amino groups, and said polymers are used as dry and wet strength agents for paper, board and cardboard.

Abstract: Cationic urea/formaldehyde resins are obtainable by condensing urea and formaldehyde in a molar ratio of from 1:1.5 to 1:3 in the presence of polymers which contain not less than 1 mol % of polymerized vinylamine units and have Fikentscher K values of from 5 to 300, in an amount of from 5 to 50 g per mole of urea in the end product, where the mixture is first a) precondensed at a pH of from 8 to 14, then acidified and b) condensed at a pH of from 1 to 5 until gel formation begins, c) then from 0.3 to 1.5 moles of formaldehyde are added per mole of urea used, d) post-condensation is carried out and e) the resin solution is subsequently neutralized. The resins thus obtained are used in papermaking as assistants for increasing the dry and wet strength of paper and result in less dulling of the whiteness of the paper.