Abstract: A filter apparatus consists of a combination of various filter elements combined to form a structural unit, one filter element of these filter elements serving to clean of particles and another filter element to clean oil oxidation products from a fluid stream, the filter elements being mounted in parallel to each other for the respective cleaning of the fluid stream.

Abstract: A system for identifying at least one sensor device, in or on a vehicle, the system including the at least one sensor device for detecting measurement signals and at least one measuring point, wherein at least one of the sensor devices is and/or can be positioned at the at least one measuring point, and a control unit for collecting and/or evaluating the measurement signals detected by the at least one sensor device, wherein the at least one sensor device and/or the at least measuring point is configured to detect and/or generate a position-dependent identification signal and forward the signal to the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to assign the at least one sensor device and/or the measurement signals detected by the at least one sensor device to the respective measuring point on the basis of the identification signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of purified O-polysaccharide-Exoprotein A (O-EPA) bioconjugates. In particular, the process comprises a purification of said bioconjugate comprising the steps of a first anion exchange chromatography prior to a hydroxyapatite chromatography followed by a hydrophobic interaction chromatography and subsequently a second anion exchange chromatography.

Abstract: An operating device for a tube lifter which comprises an end effector and a lifting tube, comprising a lifting tube port for fluidic connection to the tube interior of the lifting tube, an end effector coupling for coupling the end effector to the operating device, a valve device for controlling fluidic connections and an operating mechanism for actuating the valve device, wherein the valve device comprises a ventilation valve for ventilating the lifting tube port, wherein the ventilation valve has a valve flap, which is adjustable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the operating mechanism comprises a first operating element and a second operating element, wherein the first and the second operating element are mechanically coupled to the valve flap in such a way that, by actuating the first and/or the second operating element, an opening angle of the valve flap is adjustable.

Abstract: A tube lifter comprising a lifting tube extending along a lifting tube longitudinal axis, an end effector and a coupling device, by way of the end effector being coupled to the lifting tube, wherein the coupling device has a lifting tube-side first coupling portion and an end effector-side second coupling portion, wherein one of the coupling portions has an insertion portion and the other coupling portion has a receiving portion for receiving the insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion and the receiving portion are designed such that the insertion portion can be inserted into the receiving portion in an insertion direction, and the end effector and the lifting tube can thereby be connected to one another, wherein the insertion portion can be inserted into the receiving portion in different rotary positions about an end effector rotation axis orthogonal to the insertion direction.

Abstract: A sealing ring includes a retaining region, a primary sealing lip and a secondary sealing lip, wherein the retaining region is formed circumferentially about an axial direction, wherein a radial direction extends radially and perpendicularly away from the axial direction, and wherein the primary sealing lip and the secondary sealing lip have an extension in the radial direction, in particular in the positive radial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter device, comprising a filter housing (10), which has an inlet (12) for unfiltered medium and an outlet (14) for filtered medium and which accommodates an exchangeable filter element (16). When unfiltered medium flows through said filter element from the outside in, it flows through both a hollow cylindrical element material (18) and an element material (22) which closes the hollow cylinder (18) at one free end (20) of the hollow cylinder. At the other free end (24) of the hollow cylinder, an element cap (26) having a central opening (28) is used to discharge filtered medium to the outlet (14) in the filter housing (10), the outlet being connected to the central opening (28). Each element material (18, 22) is accommodated seal-free in the filter housing (10) for incident flow on all sides, from the outside in.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reversible sealing of a microfluidic chip used for thermal incubation of an aqueous sample suspected to contain a target nucleic acid. The microfluidic chip contains a flow channel and a plurality of reaction compartments, into which the sample and a displacement fluid are introduced through an inlet port scalable by means of a sealing agent having a melting point above room temperature.

Abstract: An injection moulding machine having a machine controller and a control unit, capable of starting up the injection moulding machine from a switched-off mode or a standby mode into a production operation for producing injection-moulded parts and to shut down back into a switched-off or standby mode. Start-up and shutdown of the injection moulding machine are each divided into a number of phases, and a sequence of specific machine movement commands and/or specific machine mode change commands is pre-programmed for each phase of start-up and for each phase of shutdown. One or more control elements are provided on the control unit which, when actuated, activate a pre-programmed sequence so that a phase of start-up or shutdown can be started, the functions of start-up or shutdown of the injection moulding machine associated with the machine movement command and/or the machine mode change command of this sequence then being triggered.

Abstract: A sealing ring includes a retaining portion and a primary sealing lip, the retaining portion extending circumferentially around an axial direction, a radial direction extending radially and perpendicularly away from the axial direction, the primary sealing lip having an extension in the positive radial direction, the primary sealing lip having a pressure side in the direction of the axial direction.

Abstract: A method and system for distributed management and maintenance of remote transmitters, or beacons, via a remotely hosted integrated software platform and the interaction of the beacons with mobile devices in an environment where the beacons are located.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reversible sealing of a microfluidic chip used for thermal incubation of an aqueous sample suspected to contain a target nucleic acid. The microfluidic chip contains a flow channel and a plurality of reaction compartments, into which the sample and a displacement fluid are introduced through an inlet port sealable by means of a sealing agent having a melting point above room temperature.

Abstract: A king pin arrangement includes a king pin and a mounting member, the mounting member comprising a receiving plate, the king pin having a base section and a king pin head, the king pin extending in a king pin direction, wherein a positive king pin direction points from the base section to the king pin head, wherein the king pin is fastened directly and/or indirectly to the mounting element by the base section in a form-fitting, force-fitting and/or material-fitting manner, the king pin being fastened such that the king pin is rotationally fixed to the mounting element in a circumferential direction about the king pin direction, wherein the mounting element and/or the king pin has a first measuring surface which has a continuous height profile along an extension of the remaining surface in the direction of the king pin direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for determining mechanical properties, more particularly rheological properties, of a system, having an oscillatable contact element and having a further contact element, in which apparatus the two contact elements are arranged in such a manner relative to one another that they can be operatively connected to one another by means of the system, having a device for photothermally exciting the oscillatable contact element, and with a device for detecting vibrations in the excited oscillatable contact element, wherein both the excitation device and the detection device interact with the oscillatable contact element, wherein the oscillatable contact element and the system can be excited to oscillate with different frequencies and/or with one or more frequency sweeps.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method for creating a masking curve for an ultrasonic or radar-based fill level measuring device. A measuring signal is transmitted, a measurement curve is recorded based on the reflected measuring signal, and at least two greatest maxima are ascertained from the measurement curve. The at least two ascertained maxima are normalized with reference to the greatest maximum and one of the normalized maxima is assigned to the fill level, so that the masking curve can be created based on the measurement curve in at least one subrange between the fill level measuring device and the maximum of the fill level value. Because of the normalization of the maxima, the danger of mistake in the assignment can be lessened, so that the assignment and subsequent fill level measurements are reliable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection system for connecting at least two plate-like elements, the connection system having a bolt, a nut that corresponds to the bolt and has a screwing channel which extends along a screwing axis and into which the bolt can be screwed, and a cage for receiving the nut, wherein the nut has a foot portion and a head portion adjoining the foot portion along the screwing axis, the foot portion projecting, at least in portions, beyond the head portion in a direction perpendicular to the screwing axis.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for determining fill level of a substance in a container using a measuring device working according to the travel time principle. The measuring device transmits signals to the fill substance and, based on signal fractions reflected back in the container, ascertains an echo curve. The echo curve is transmitted to a superordinate control unit, and an envelope curve enveloping the echo curve is created and transmitted to the superordinate control unit. The echo curve and envelope curve are evaluated by the superordinate control unit. A wanted echo signal of the echo curve and envelope curve is identified. During the determining of the fill level the fill substance and the container are subjected to a current process. Based on information concerning the current process, plausibility of the wanted echo signal is checked and the evaluation is dynamically adapted to the current process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising (i) a polymer, (ii) an organic compound A carrying at least two amide functionalities, and (iii) 12 to 1'000 parts per million (ppm) of a compound B selected from the group consisting of an organic compound C carrying at least two amide functionalities, sugar alcohol acetals and derivatives thereof, metal salts of organic acids and precursor-systems thereof, metal salts of organic phosphoric acids and precursor-systems thereof and metal salts of polyols and precursor-systems thereof, and mixtures thereof, based on the weight of the polymer, as well as shaped articles obtainable from this composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for detecting a three-dimensional structure, comprising an imaging device, especially a camera, which is adjustable in the z-direction, a control device which is designed to record an image of a first plane and, after adjustment of the imaging device in the z-direction, to record an image of a second plane, and an evaluation device which is designed to interpolate a sub-plane between the first plane and the second plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection system for connecting at least two plate-like elements, the connection system having a bolt, a nut that corresponds to the bolt and has a screwing channel which extends along a screwing axis and into which the bolt can be screwed, and a cage for receiving the nut, wherein the nut has a foot portion and a head portion adjoining the foot portion along the screwing axis, the foot portion projecting, at least in portions, beyond the head portion in a direction perpendicular to the screwing axis.