Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal, includes a spectral domain audio decoder for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions, the decoded representation having a first spectral resolution; a parametric decoder for generating a second decoded representation of a second set of second spectral portions having a second spectral resolution being lower than the first spectral resolution; a frequency regenerator for regenerating every constructed second spectral portion having the first spectral resolution using a first spectral portion and spectral envelope information for the second spectral portion; and a spectrum time converter for converting the first decoded representation and the reconstructed second spectral portion into a time representation.

Abstract: A headrest for a vehicle seat includes an upholstered support surface for supporting an occupant's head and a neck rest. The neck rest is pivotable between a flat position and an angled position by a friction hinge such that an end region of the neck rest forms a part of the upholstered support surface in the flat position and the end region of the neck rest stands angled in relation to the upholstered support surface and delimits the upholstered support surface in the angled position.

Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a water-soluble receptacle which is suitable for accommodating an additive or an additive composition and is filled with an additive or an additive composition comprising at least one dye or at least one dye composition, wherein the water-soluble receptacle has a wall thickness in the range from 5 to 50 µm, and wherein the water-soluble receptacle comprises a water-soluble polymer composition or consists of a water-soluble polymer composition, wherein the polymer composition comprises: a) at least one polyvinyl alcohol copolymer P1 having a degree of hydrolysis in the range from 75 to 95 mol%, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol copolymer P1 is a copolymer which comprises vinyl alcohol repeating units, vinyl ester repeating units and repeating units of at least one comonomer, wherein the at least one comonomer is selected from pentaerythritol acrylate and pentaerythritol acrylate derivatives and also optionally acrylic acid; and/or b) at least one polyvinyl alcohol P2 having a degree

Abstract: Proposed is a self-optimizing, adaptive industrial chocolate production system (1), and method thereof. The system comprising a chocolate mass processing line (11) with at least dosing means (2), one or more mixers (3), one or more refiners (4), one or more conches (5), and liquefying and tempering means (6). Appropriate inter-dependent operational parameters of the various devices (2/3/4/5/6) are measured by real-time measuring devices and transmitted to a controller device 12. The measured inter-dependent operational parameters are mutually optimized and dynamically adjusted providing an optimal operation at least in terms of the characteristics of the end chocolate mass 7 and/or throughputs of the chocolate production line 11 and/or other operation conditions as energy consumption.

Abstract: Proposed is a self-optimizing, adaptive industrial chocolate production system (1), and method thereof. The system comprising a chocolate mass processing line (11) with at least dosing means (2), one or more mixers (3), one or more refiners (4), one or more conches (5), and liquefying and tempering means (6). Appropriate inter-dependent operational parameters of the various devices (2/3/4/5/6) are measured by real-time measuring devices and transmitted to a controller device 12. The measured inter-dependent operational parameters are mutually optimized and dynamically adjusted providing an optimal operation at least in terms of the characteristics of the end chocolate mass 7 and/or throughputs of the chocolate production line 11 and/or other operation conditions as energy consumption.

Abstract: An apparatus for dropletizing a flowable product, having an outer tube which is arranged in a rotatable manner on a core, wherein, in the core, a feed device for the product to be dropletized and a distribution apparatus bearing against the inner circumference of the outer tube are provided. A device for cleaning an outer circumference of the outer tube is provided, wherein the device has a cleaning spatula, a guide rail for the cleaning spatula, which guide rail extends parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the outer tube, and a first drive for moving the cleaning spatula along the guide rail.

Abstract: A device for pastillating a flowable product, in particular a melt. The device has a revolving belt and a drop former, and the drop former deposits product drops on an upper run of the belt. The product drops, in the course of transportation on the upper run of the belt, solidify to form pastilles, and an arrangement for wetting the belt with a liquid release agent is provided upstream of that region in which the product drops are deposited on the belt. The release agent prevents or reduces the adhesion of the product drops to the belt, and a proportional metering pump is provided for continuously mixing the release agent from at least two liquid components during the operation of the device.

Abstract: An apparatus for dropletizing a flowable product, having an outer tube which is arranged in a rotatable manner on a core, wherein, in the core, a feed device for the product to be dropletized and a distribution apparatus bearing against the inner circumference of the outer tube are provided. A device for cleaning an outer circumference of the outer tube is provided, wherein the device has a cleaning spatula, a guide rail for the cleaning spatula, which guide rail extends parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the outer tube, and a first drive for moving the cleaning spatula along the guide rail.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for comminuting particles in a liquid material, in particular a powder or a semi-liquid for producing a chocolate mass. Said device (1) comprises at least one pair of rollers (2, 3), for which at least one process parameter, in particular the roller contact pressure and/or the rotational speed of one of the rollers (2, 3) can be adjusted. The invention also relates to a device (1) comprising a filling level meter (11) for measuring the height of the filling level (5) of the liquid material in the roller gap or in a roller trough (4) arranged upstream of the rollers. A control unit (11) modifies at least one process parameter in accordance with the measured height of the filling level (5) of the liquid material in the roller gap or in the roller trough (4). The invention also relates to a method for comminuting particles in a liquid material and to a method for calibrating a control unit (10).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of pharmacogenomics and in particular to assessing the response of a cancer patient to a treatment by analysing CpG methylation in the shox2 gene. Depending on the result of the analysis, the treatment can be continued or altered, thereby exploiting the therapeutic window better than conventional methods of assessing a treatment response.

Abstract: A device for pastillating a flowable product, in particular a melt. The device has a revolving belt and a drop former, and the drop former deposits product drops on an upper run of the belt. The product drops, in the course of transportation on the upper run of the belt, solidify to form pastilles, and an arrangement for wetting the belt with a liquid release agent is provided upstream of that region in which the product drops are deposited on the belt. The release agent prevents or reduces the adhesion of the product drops to the belt, and a proportional metering pump is provided for continuously mixing the release agent from at least two liquid components during the operation of the device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaft-hub connection, in particular of assembled camshafts (10) for combustion engines, at which at least two functional parts (14, 16, 18) are shrunk or pressed onto corresponding rotationally symmetric shaft sections (24, 26, 28) with the hub thereof, wherein in an assembly direction (30) of the functional parts (14, 16, 18), the first section (24) is designed with a larger exterior circumference than the second section (26).

Abstract: A method is provided for producing colored molded bodies based on the following steps: (a) plasticising a polymeric material and blending the material with one or more dyes to form a molding compound by means of a gelation unit equipped with a metering apparatus for dyes; (b) optionally temporarily storing the molding compound obtained in step (a); (c) charging a molding device with the molding compound; and (d) producing the molded body; wherein the ratio of dye to polymeric material is automatically regulated using a colorimeter and an electronic control, and in step (a) color values are measured at the molding compound located in the gelation unit and transmitted as a signal to the electronic control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a film made of a vinyl chloride polymer mixture that, in addition to the conventional additives, contains 0.1 to less than 5 wt % of a semicrystalline or amorphous polyester, has a good thermal formability, and is suitable for the packaging of bulk goods. The film is produced by extruding or by calendering the plastified vinyl chloride polymer mixture, optionally followed by inline/offline stretching and, optionally, thermally formed immediately thereafter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for comminuting particles in a liquid material, in particular a powder or a semi-liquid for producing a chocolate mass. Said device (1) comprises at least one pair of rollers (2, 3), for which at least one process parameter, in particular the roller contact pressure and/or the rotational speed of one of the rollers (2, 3) can be adjusted. The invention also relates to a device (1) comprising a filling level meter (11) for measuring the height of the filling level (5) of the liquid material in the roller gap or in a roller trough (4) arranged upstream of the rollers. A control unit (11) modifies at least one process parameter in accordance with the measured height of the filling level (5) of the liquid material in the roller gap or in the roller trough (4). The invention also relates to a method for comminuting particles in a liquid material and to a method for calibrating a control unit (10).

Abstract: A packaging film which contains pigment particles randomly distributed in a low surface-area density is used for the authentication of products. An imaging device is used to record a first digital image of a packaged product. The positional coordinates, and optionally the color values, of the pigment particles contained in the packaging film are determined from the digital image by means of a computer program and an identification code is calculated from the coordinate or color values and stored in a database. To authenticate the product at a later time, a second digital image is recorded and a test code is determined and compared with the recorded identification code.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cross-coupling product of a benzenoid dizonium salt according to the general formula (I), wherein the groups R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 represent hydrogen, halogen, an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, nitro, cyano, hydroxy, acetyl, and/or diazo groups independently of each, and X represents BF4, Cl, F, SO3CH3, CO2CH3, PF6, ClO2CH3, or CIO4, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a benzenoid amide, which with the exception of the diazo function has the same substituents R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 as the benzenoid diazonium salt of the general formula (I), and hydrolytically cleaving the amide to form an amine or providing a corresponding amine, (b) diazotizing the amine thus obtained or provided with a nitrite, and (c) subsequently reacting the benzenoid diazonium salt with a coupling partner in the presence of a catalyst to form a cross-coupling product, wherein the coupling parter is represented by the general formula (II), R6, R7, and R8 are the same or

Abstract: The application relates to a device for mixing and kneading masses (1), in particular chocolate masses, and to a method for mixing and kneading masses, in particular chocolate masses. The device comprises a kettle (2) having an inner wall (3), which at least partially emulates the outer surface of a rotational body, and a shaft (11) and at least one tool (10, 13) fastened thereto. At least one, in particular planar, deflector surface (8) is arranged in the kettle (2), the surface extending in the axial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a fat-containing suspension and/or a fat-containing emulsion, in particular a chocolate or a chocolate-like fat composition, by mixing an emulsion formed by means of a reactive emulsifying technique, which emulsion has a disperse aqueous phase and a continuous fat phase, with a fat phase, in particular a cocoa mass. The invention relates, in particular, to a method of producing agave syrup-containing chocolate, wherein an emulsion consisting of cocoa butter or another fat or fat mixture and agave syrup or an aqueous sugar solution is generated and mixed with cocoa mass. According to the invention, the emulsion and later the chocolate are stabilized by emulsification at elevated temperature and evaporating the agave syrup or the sugar solution in the emulsified state. An otherwise customary comminution of the dry materials is therefore no longer necessary since the fineness necessary for sensory properties is set by the emulsifying process.