Abstract: A drive member (1) for a water pump of the cooling-water circuit of an internal combustion engine, with a drive wheel (7) and a shaft (4) which is coupled to the water pump, is proposed. According to the invention, for the transmission of torque between the drive wheel (7) and the shaft (4), an electromagnetically actuable friction-disk clutch (9, 10, 11, 12) and a second clutch device in the form of an eddy-current clutch (14) are provided, the latter taking up the shaft (4) when the friction-disk clutch is out of engagement. Moreover, a frictional shift clutch for a drive member of this type is proposed.

Abstract: The method for determining the mass of a vehicle comprises at least two measurements (6, 8) offset in time within a measuring period by which are determined respectively at least one traction variable (2) and at least one movement variable (4) of the vehicle, one of the two measurements (8) being effected during a traction-free phase and the other of the two measurements (6) during a traction phase. According to the invention, it is proposed that each of the two measurements comprises one data collection period (6, 8) the duration of which is longer than a minimum duration, that the traction variable corresponds to the timed integral of the traction and the movement variable to the change of speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A silicone composition comprising a polymer having siloxane units and two or more silicon bonded hydroxyl or hydrolyzable groups per molecule; a crosslinker; an extender material which is either an alkyl substituted aryl compound such as a heavy alkylate, or a alkylcycloaliphatic compound; and a u.v. light stabilizer comprising a benzotriazole moiety. These compositions are useful, for example as room temperature vulcanizable sealants. They retain color clarity or transparency, even on ageing.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of L-amino acids, in which the following steps are carried out:

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a starting gear step for a vehicle with a stepped variable speed transmission with several gear steps. It is proposed that a maximum admissible value for a slip time (12) and/or a maximum admissible value for a frictional work (14) of the starting clutch during the starting process, the same as an available engine torque (10) for starting be determined, that beginning with a highest suitable gear step (18) for starting, values for the slip time (20) and/or the frictional work (22) be calculated in advance depending on the vehicle mass (8), that the precalculated values (20, 22) be compared with the maximum admissible values (12, 14), that the calculation loop be repeated with the next smaller suitable gear step for starting when at least one of the precalculated values is greater than the maximum admissible values and that a gear step be issued as starting gear step when the precalculated values are smaller than or equal to the maximum admissible values.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a method for achieving data consistency in an enterprise resource planning system. A first set of structural data is received and sent to two or more enterprise resource planning systems. The enterprise resource planning systems are associated with a single business or a related group of businesses and each maintains its own structural data. The sending of the first set of structural data is operable to cause each of the enterprise resource planning systems to create or change their own structural data.

Abstract: The present invention provides nucleotide sequences from Coryneform bacteria which code for the OtsA protein and processes for the fermentative preparation of amino acids using bacteria in which the otrA gene is attenuated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting cornering for a vehicle (2) with automatic transmission. According to the invention it is proposed that the current bend radius be determined from the rotational speed signals of the front wheels, that the beginning of a cornering mode be determined when the current bend radius falls below a first limit bend radius and the end of a cornering mode be determined when the vehicle has covered a presettable distance after exceeding a second limit bend radius.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a starting gear step for a vehicle with a multi-speed stepped variable transmission, wherein the starting gear step is determined by an electronic control device which is dependent on the vehicle mass; and a second variable which depends on the vehicle state is determined from the vehicle mass, the current traction and the current vehicle acceleration resulting therefrom.

Abstract: The specification describes and claims an insulating glass unit and a process for making. The unit comprises two glass panes spaced apart by a spacer of thermoplastics material adherent to the panes, an inert or heavy gas trapped within the unit and a layer of silicone elastomer located at the periphery of the unit between edge portions of the glass panes and in contact with external surfaces of the spacer. The thermoplastics material has a water vapor permeability of not more than about 0.2 l/m2/day (measured at 20° C. for 4 mm thickness) and a shear strength of more than 0.2 MPa as determined at a sealant thickness of 0.5 mm at 23° C. and a shear speed of 100 mm/min.

Abstract: A monitoring OAM (operation administrating monitoring) cell assisted method to detect bit errors occurring in ATM useful cells on an ATM transmission link generates first control bits by evaluating bits of ATM useful cells with a selected target address in the cell head prior to feeding the ATM useful cells into the ATM transmission link, whereupon the first control bits are Abramson-encoded to generate further, second control bits. The first control bits are additionally encoded to produce additional, third control bits, all of which are entered into the monitoring OAM cells and transmitted on the ATM transmission link with the ATM useful cells. At a receiver decoder the ATM useful cells are separated from the monitoring OAM cells, the monitoring OAM cells are error detected and corrected where necessary using the second and/or third control bits to provide error-free OAM cells, the first control bits of which are used to detect bit errors in the ATM useful cells.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the transmission characteristics (H(jf)) of an electric line (2) in an ISDN system, in which a test signal (m(t)) is applied to the line (2) at one end, and at the other end of the line (2) the received signal (g(t)) produced owing to the test signal (m(t)) is evaluated.In order to be able to carry out such a method using a test signal having a crest factor of one with relatively little cost, use is made as test signal of a binary, bipolar random number sequence signal (m(t)) having the crest factor of one, and during a time interval corresponding to the period of the test signal (m(t)) the received signal (g(t)) is scanned and subjected to a Fourier transformation to obtain a spectral signal (G(jf)); the latter is complexly multiplied by a reference spectrum Mi(jf) to obtain an output signal (H(jf) which represents a measure of the transmission characteristics of the line (31).

Abstract: A monitoring OAM cell assisted method enables continuous intrasystem determination of bit errors which have occurred in ATM useful cells with a useful information field and a cell head on an ATM transmission link. First control bits are generated by evaluating bits of ATM useful cells with selected target addresses in the cell head prior to feeding the ATM useful cells into the transmission link, and the control bits are additionally encoded to generate second control bits. The first and second control bits and OAM cells are then transmitted along with the ATM useful bits. The second control bits of the monitoring OAM cells are received at the far end of the ATM transmission link and examined for errors to determine if the monitoring OAM cells were received without error. The first control bits are used to determine if the useful ATM cells were received error-free.

Abstract: A first data stream for a first data transmission system having a first data rate contains ATM data cells and structural data, which are distributed as spaced apart data in accordance with a specified instruction and are assigned to a section including in each case a plurality of ATM data cells. While retaining its ATM data cell format, the first data stream is converted into a second data stream containing only ATM data cells for a second data transmission system having a second data rate which is higher than the first data rate. The structural data are thereby selected (or picked out) from the first data stream and are input into a marked structural cell having the ATM cell format, for the section. The structural cell is inserted into the second data stream to partially fill an unoccupied section resulting from the differing data rates.

Abstract: A process may be implemented which obtains a signal indicating a synchronization error between a pseudo-random signal sequence from a transmitter and a reference pseudo-random signal sequence from a receiver in a measuring device on the receiving end. In order to be able to detect a synchronization error as quickly and reliably as possible, successive sections (a, b, c) of a reference pseudo-random signal sequence (g'(n)) are each cross-correlated separately with the received pseudo-random signal sequence (g(n)), yielding partial cross-correlation functions (KKF.sub.a (n), KKF.sub.b (n) and KKF.sub.c (n)). The partial cross-correlation functions are added up to obtain a sum cross-correlation function (KKF.sub.s (n)). The sum cross-correlation function (KKF.sub.s (n)) is analyzed to detect the proper chronological occurrence of at least three maximums (m.sub.a, m.sub.b and m.sub.c). If the maximums (m.sub.a, m.sub.b and m.sub.

Abstract: A data transmission path, which is to be tested, has an input end provided with a digital test sequence. An output sequence, received on an output end of the data-transmission path, is correlated with a reference sequence corresponding to the test sequence by performing a cyclically bit-wise shifted exclusive-OR operation followed by forming a check-sum to form a binary cross-correlation. The low-order positions of an extreme value (i.e., minimum or maximum) of the cross-correlation function, directly indicate the number of defective bits in the output sequence.

Abstract: A feedback shift register for generating digital signals representing pseudo-random number sequences has n-stages and exclusive OR-circuits in the feedback logic, as well as a clock-pulse generator. To be able to generate digital signals, which are well suited for a further digital processing, the clock-pulse generator (17) is linked with the n-stages (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) of the shift register (10) via a controllable gate circuit (18), which blocks one clock pulse of 2.sup.n clock pulses (CLK) of the clock-pulse generator (17) in each case.

Abstract: The transmission path (4) is fed with a test signal (M'), which is generated from a sequence (m) of spectral components (S1 . . . S10), which are distributed equidistantly in the frequency domain, as the result of combining with an additional function (ZSF). The additional function (ZSF) is selected so as to allow the test signal (M') to contain, besides the spectral components (S1 . . . S10)of the sequence (m), additional spectral components (ZS1 . . . ZS21). An output signal (M") received on the output side of the path is evaluated at evaluation frequencies (AW1 . . . AW10), in the case of which the test signal (M') is free per se of spectral components and, in the case of which, the test signal (M'), after a self-convolution, exhibits additional spectral components (SA1 . . . SA10). The additional spectral components (SA1 . . . SA10) occurring at the evaluation frequencies (AW 1 . . . AW 10) allow a non-linearity of the transmission path (4) to be immediately detected.

Abstract: Test data are inserted on the data source side into a data stream (DS) transmitted to a data receiver (5) from a data source (1) via at least one transmission section (4). A bit error function (e(n)) is obtained from the test data received. The bit error function (e(n)) is evaluated in a part by part manner to discover its periodicity, the length of the partial section evaluated at the same time being measured in such a way that it contains a plurality of bit errors (BF). The bit error function (e(n) or err(n)) is subjected to auto-correlation. The maxima (M, M1, . . . Mi) of the auto-correlation functions (AKF(m)) thus obtained are used to determine the nature of the interference (10, 11) with reference to its stochastic or deterministic nature.

Abstract: A process for recovering, at the reception end, data transmitted over a transmission path for digital data streams. A code-word generator for generating a binary code word producing a Dirac pulse is provided. The binary code word is cyclically shifted to create further binary code words. The binary code word and further binary code words are inverted to create still further binary code words. The data is coded, on the transmission end of the transmission path, with the binary code word, with the further binary code words, and with the still further binary code words. On the reception end of the transmission path, the data is recovered by cross-correlating the data and by utilizing the position of the main maximum of the cross-correlation functions.