Abstract: Noise-abatement for a leading edge wing slat is provided by a noise-abatement airflow shield integral with the lower trailing edge of the slat, wherein the shield is reciprocally autonomously curveable from a substantially planar configuration when the slat is in a retracted position thereof and into a convexly curved configuration when the slat is in a deployed position thereof.

Abstract: Noise-abatement systems provide noise abatement to a wing assembly provided with a forward edge slat and include an elongate shield element which is unconnected but positionable adjacent to a lower trailing edge of the edge slat along a lengthwise extent thereof, and a support web having a distal end fixed to the shield element and a proximal end capable of fixation to an interior cove surface of the edge slat adjacent an upper trailing edge thereof. The support web will therefore allow movement of the shield element towards and away from the lower trailing edge of the edge slat between an operative position wherein the shield element is positioned adjacent to the lower trailing edge of the edge slat along the lengthwise extent thereof and an inoperative position wherein the edge slat is spaced from the trailing edge of the edge slat and positioned in the cove region thereof, respectively.

Abstract: A noise-abatement systems (10) provide noise abatement to a wing assembly (Wp) provided with a forward edge slat (ES) and include an elongated shield element (20) which is unconnected but positionable adjacent to a lower trailing edge (16a) of the edge slat (ES) along a lengthwise extent thereof, and a support tab (24) having a distal end fixed to the shield element (20) and a proximal end capable of fixation to an interior cove surface of the edge slat (ES) adjacent an upper trailing edge (22) thereof.

Abstract: Noise-abatement for a leading edge wing slat is provided by a noise-abatement airflow shield integral with the lower trailing edge of the slat, wherein the shield is reciprocally autonomously curvable from a substantially planar configuration when the slat is in a retracted position thereof and into a convexly curved configuration when the slat is in a deployed position thereof.

Abstract: In order, in an intervertebral implant having a core made of a swellable material and having a vertebral-body locating face on its top and/or bottom side, which is connected to the swellable core, to reduce the shearing forces between the swellable core and the vertebral-body locating face during swelling of the swellable core, it is proposed that the vertebral-body locating face comprises a plurality of support elements, which are respectively anchored adjacent to one another and individually in the core, and a plurality of mutually separate locating elements, which are disposed adjacent to one another and outside of the core and which are carried by the support elements and are movable relative to one another in the plane of the vertebral-body locating face.

Abstract: In order to improve an implant for replacing a vertebral body or for insertion into an intervertebral cavity between adjacent vertebral bodies of a human or animal spinal column, with a first contact face for resting on a joint face of a first vertebral body and with a second contact face for resting on a joint face of a second vertebral body, the implant being at least partially produced from an X-ray transparent material and comprising at least one X-ray marker in such a way that it can be produced more simply, it is proposed that the at least one X-ray marker is configured in the form of an at least partial marker coating, which contains metal as the marker material, of a side face of the implant, which is inclined relative to the first and/or the second contact face by an angle of inclination.

Abstract: In order to improve an implant, in particular a bone replacement implant for insertion into a bone cavity, or an intervertebral implant for insertion between two adjacent vertebral bodies of a human or animal spine, which can be brought from a normal position, in which the implant encompasses a maximum total volume, into an insertion position, in which the implant encompasses an insertion volume, which is smaller than the maximum total volume, such that the implant can be inserted through as small as possible an opening in a human or animal body and nevertheless have a high inherent stability, it is proposed that the implant has a plurality of cavities in fluidic connection with one another, and that a net volume encompassed in the normal position by the plurality of cavities in fluidic connection with one another is smaller than the maximum total volume.