Abstract: A wind power generator with a closed internal cooling circuit has a stator that is implemented as sheet metal and includes a winding system which forms winding heads at the end faces of the stator. The stator is enclosed by a cooling jacket at least in the region of the laminated core, wherein permanent magnets of a rotor are disposed on a magnet wheel jacket embodied as a hollow shaft. The magnet wheel jacket is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a shaft or shaft stubs by way of support elements at its end faces, wherein in its interior the hollow shaft has at least one tube whose lateral surface area runs at an equidistant clearance from the magnet wheel jacket. Blowers are mounted at the end faces of the rotor.

Abstract: A method and device for the programming and configuration of a programmable logic controller are disclosed. The method can include: locating a configuration tool in a programming tool, wherein the configuration tool includes a module in an IEC61131 language; integrating at least one further module into the configuration tool, and executing the programming and configuration of the programmable logic controller in a high-level language using a C-Code editor, and wherein the at least one further module is configured to provide a definition of interfaces between an IEC61131 code and a high-level language code, and provide a configuration of the high-level language code.

Abstract: A coaching system for drivers of vehicles monitors the power dissipation of a manual transmission clutch and, when the energy dissipated during an event is excessive, suggests modified driving technique. The system may monitor launch events, shift events, and steady state driving. The system may adjust the energy threshold at which a suggestion is provided based on vehicle weight or road gradient. The system may also adjust the energy threshold when an estimate of clutch temperature is elevated. The suggestion may be provided on a graphic display or may be provided verbally over a speaker. In some cases, the suggested may also be conveyed to a third party outside the vehicle.

Abstract: Electrical machine (12) having a shielding plate (10), wherein the electrical machine (12) comprises a housing part (32) in which is arranged an electronic unit (14), and said electrical machine also comprises a metal heat sink (34) that is arranged on the housing part (32), wherein the electronic unit (14) is arranged between the shielding plate (10) and the heat sink (34).

Abstract: A method, system and/or a digital camera provide a geometrical transformation of deformed images of documents comprising text, by text line tracking, resulting in an image comprising parallel text lines. The transformed image is provided as an input to an OCR program either running in a computer system or in a processing element comprised in said digital camera.

Abstract: Sorbent comprising a solid support material, the surface of which comprises a first residue comprising a pyridyl ring, whose hydrogen atoms may be substituted, and a second residue comprising a carboxyl group. The first and second residues may be attached to a polymer which coats a carrier, but which polymer is not covalently grafted to the carrier. The sorbents can be used to separate or to increase the concentration and/or purity of a protein or peptide from a mixture containing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and/or a digital camera providing a geometrical transformation of deformed images of documents comprising text, by text line tracking, resulting in an image comprising parallel text lines. The transformed image is provided as an input to an OCR program either running in a computer system or in a processing element comprised in said digital camera.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for configuring field devices in a process automation system wherein the field devices are connected to other automation components by means of a field bus. In order to minimize the load placed on the field bus, a copy of the current configuration of each field device is stored in a configuration tool, the appropriate set of configuration and parameter data is transmitted to each field device during initial start-up and modifications in relation to the previous copy of the configuration and parameter data are transmitted to the respective field device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing motor vehicles at a manufacturing location (S), from which ready-assembled motor vehicles are built in a planned number and order of output. First modules (MA) are delivered in a specific assembly stage discontinuously from a first production shop (PA) to the manufacturing location (S) and are fed continuously into a manufacturing line (F) in which the modules (MA) are manufactured into motor vehicles (A). Second modules (MB) be fed in a specific assembly stage from a second production shop (PB) into the joint manufacturing line (F) at a sequencing station (5) alternately with the modules (MA). Thus, vehicles of first and second model series can be manufactured on one and the same manufacturing line.

Abstract: A retractable tow hook assembly is connected with a rectangular storage container having a vertical ramp end wall hingedly connected at its bottom edge with the container for displacement about a horizontal pivot axis from an initial vertical closed position downwardly toward an inclined loading position in engagement with the ground. The tow hook assembly includes a support plate that is externally connected with the container adjacent the hinge connection, and a hook member that is displaceable relative to the support plate between an upwardly extending towing position for engagement by the loop of a towing cable when the ramp wall is in the vertical position, and a non-obstructing downwardly-displaced retracted position when the ramp wall is in the downwardly inclined loading position. A stop arrangement prevents displacement of the tow hook member beyond the extended position.

Abstract: A blocking device, and a gear-drive unit containing such a blocking device, and a method for producing such a gear-drive unit for blocking a rotary motion of a shaft relative to a housing of the gear-drive unit, having a first, rotatable blocking element and a second blocking element which is displaceable relative to the first blocking element by means of at least one electromagnet and at least one restoring element, in which the blocking elements in the blocked state mesh in the axial direction with one another by form-locking, and the blocking device is embodied as a separate, independent structural unit, which can be mounted as a unit on the one hand onto the housing and on the other onto the shaft.

Abstract: A blocking device, and a gear-drive unit containing such a blocking device, and a method for producing such a gear-drive unit for blocking a rotary motion of a shaft (14) relative to a housing (16) of the gear-drive unit (10), having a first, rotatable blocking element (32) and a second blocking element (34) which is displaceable relative to the first blocking element (32) by means of at least one electromagnet (44) and at least one restoring element (42), in which the blocking elements (32, 34) in the blocked state mesh in the axial direction with one another by form-locking, and the blocking device (30) is embodied as a separate, independent structural unit (31), which can be mounted as a unit (31) on the one hand onto the housing (16) and on the other onto the shaft (14).

Abstract: A method and device for the programming and configuration of a programmable logic controller are disclosed. The method can include: locating a configuration tool in a programming tool, wherein the configuration tool includes a module in an IEC61131 language; integrating at least one further module into the configuration tool, and executing the programming and configuration of the programmable logic controller in a high-level language using a C-Code editor, and wherein the at least one further module is configured to provide a definition of interfaces between an IEC61131 code and a high-level language code, and provide a configuration of the high-level language code.

Abstract: A retractable tow hook assembly is connected with a rectangular storage container having a vertical ramp end wall hingedly connected at its bottom edge with the container for displacement about a horizontal pivot axis from an initial vertical closed position downwardly toward an inclined loading position in engagement with the ground. The tow hook assembly includes a support plate that is externally connected with the container adjacent the hinge connection, and a hook member that is displaceable relative to the support plate between an upwardly extending towing position for engagement by the loop of a towing cable when the ramp wall is in the vertical position, and a non-obstructing downwardly-displaced retracted position when the ramp wall is in the downwardly inclined loading position. A stop arrangement prevents displacement of the tow hook member beyond the extended position.

Abstract: Sorbent comprising a solid support material, the surface of which comprises first residues comprising a binuclear heteroaromatic structure comprising besides carbon atoms at least one of the heteroatoms N, O, S, and second residues comprising a mononuclear heteroaromatic structure comprising besides carbon atoms at least one of the heteroatoms N, O, S.

Abstract: Sorbent comprising a solid support material, the surface of which comprises a first residue comprising a pyridyl ring, whose hydrogen atoms may be substituted, and a second residue comprising a carboxyl group.

Abstract: Plant and process for cement clinker production includes preheating a raw meal, a calcination step where the raw meal is brought to a temperature of about 800-850° C. to substantially decompose its mineral constituents into their oxides, and a sintering step where the load is brought to a temperature of 1300 to 1450° C. to form Ca2SiO4 (or (CaO)2.SiO2), to further decompose calcium carbonate and partially melt the load to form Ca3.SiO5 (or (CaO)3.SiO2) in a rotarykiln, followed by cooling the resulting clinker, and optionally milling it, wherein untreated oil sludge is supplied into an injection zone of the calcination zone operated at a material temperature of approx. 800-850° C., the injection zone including the bottom discharge of the lowest cyclone stages and/or of the precalciner, if appropriate, the feed-in slope of the rotary kiln and the gas phase over the mineral bed at the material inlet end of the rotary kiln.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electromechanical brake booster with adjustable non-linear assistance force, comprising a brake booster piston (10), an adjustment means (50) which can be moved in a translatory fashion, and a non-linear coupling mechanism (40) for coupling the brake booster piston (10) to the adjustment means (50) in order to apply variable force to the brake booster piston (10).

Abstract: A process for electric bonding of an aluminum wire to a contact area which wire, provided with an oxide layer on its outer surface, is wrapped with an insulating lacquer and ultrasonic bonded to said contact area, wherein insulation is removed from the aluminum wire section to be connected to the contact area prior to the ultrasonic bonding process by removing the insulating layer which surrounds the outer surface of the wire with oxide layer by means of an electric plasma.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a medical device which can be detected by means of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The medical device is characterized by having mechanically stably attached a coating comprising paramagnetic ions which are directly and strongly encompassed by the coating polymers. The medical device comprises a modified envelope polymer providing chemically active free functional groups and a coating covalently bonded to the free functional groups of the envelope polymer at its surface. The coating contains statistically encompassed paramagnetic ions to render it MR visible.