Abstract: The invention relates to methods and an apparatus for cutting planar substrates charged with pharmaceutically active agents. In particular, the planar substrates comprise transdermal systems or orally dissolvable films.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and an apparatus for cutting planar substrates charged with pharmaceutically active agents. In particular, the planar substrates comprise transdermal systems or orally dissolvable films.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and an apparatus for cutting planar substrates charged with pharmaceutically active agents. In particular, the planar substrates comprise transdermal systems or orally dissolvable films.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and an apparatus for cutting planar substrates charged with pharmaceutically active agents. In particular, the planar substrates comprise transdermal systems or orally dissolvable films.

Abstract: Redundant systems are often provided with identically mounted processor boards which function according to a lockstep operation. The basic condition for the implementation of a lockstep system is the deterministic behaviour of all of the constituents contained in the board, such as CPUs, chip sets, main memory etc. According to the invention, deterministic behaviour signifies that said constituents supply identical results at identical times, in an error-free case, when the constituents receive identical stimuli at identical times. Deterministic behaviour also presupposes the use of interfaces in clock-controlled synchronism. Asynchronous interfaces cause a certain temporal indeterminacy in the system in many cases, whereby the entire synchronised behaviour of the system cannot be maintained. In order to thus be able to carry out a lockstep operation, the invention relates to a method for the synchronisation of external events which are supplied to a processor (CPU) and influence the same.

Abstract: A method implemented in hardware for synchronization of identical or different redundant processing units which process identical instruction sequences and are synchronously or asynchronously clocked. In the method, transactions that are external to the processing unit are used by modules assigned to the processing unit for synchronization of the processing unit in that the processing unit is delayed, in each case, by the assigned modules until the instruction execution of the processing units has reached the current transaction.

Abstract: In order to effectively stop noises in the interior of a vehicle occurring to relative movements between individual components or a component and associated support part, it is proposed to coat them with a lacquer at the contact points.

Abstract: A method of distributing the processing load among components of a multiprocessor system, such as a switching system, avoids having two different processors (CP9) simultaneously handling different jobs for the same connection. A plurality of central processors (BP,CP,IOC) and a central main memory (CMY) are connected in parallel to a central bus system (B:CMY). As soon as they are free, each processor fetches a job for handling a switching task from a job registering means (AR), and then fetches data about the appertaining connections from the main memory (CMY). Each processor stores a protective code corresponding to its address at a location associated with the job as soon as and as long as it is handling the job. However, it does not store its code in case a different processor (CP9) has already entered its protective code there. Every central processor has its own job memory (AS).

Abstract: The fluidized bed is situated in a combustion chamber formed from evaporator tubes welded in seal-tight relationship and leading into a gas flue. The combustion chamber is connected to the gas flue via two inclined connecting wall surfaces. Heater tubes bent into an L-shape extend through the fluidized bed. Each shorter limb of the heater tubes extends substantially vertically while the other longer limb extends substantially horizontally. The horizontal limbs pass through a substantially vertical combustion chamber wall at the level of the fluidized bed and the vertical limbs pass through the free surface of the fluidized bed beneath the connecting wall surface. As a result of this arrangement of the heater tubes, the stresses therein due to uneven thermal expansion of the heater tubes remain within permissible limits.