Abstract: A packer for pipe and sewer rehabilitation, having a front and a rear flange, between which an expandable sleeve which can be filled with a pressure medium and a stabilization arrangement which runs within the sleeve between the front and the rear flange are arranged, wherein the stabilization arrangement has: a stabilization portion which has a first flexibility and covers the greater part of the total length between the flanges and directly adjoins the rear flange, and a steering portion which extends from the stabilization portion to the front flange, wherein the steering portion has a second, greater flexibility than the stabilization portion.

Abstract: A packer for pipe and sewer rehabilitation, including a front and a rear flange, between which an expandable sleeve which can be filled with a pressure medium is arranged, wherein the rear and the front flange have lead-through openings which are connected by a hollow lead-through element within the sleeve, so as to be sealed in relation to the sleeve, and through which a feed line to a camera arrangement that is arranged adjoining the lead-through opening in the front flange and that includes a camera is guided, wherein the camera arrangement includes an extension element which is bendable in a radial direction and at the front end of which the camera is arranged, wherein the extension element is assigned an adjusting device for setting the radial bending thereof.

Abstract: A system for producing and transporting portions of food includes a filling machine for continuously transporting a stream of food, a separating device for dividing portions from the transported food stream, and a transport device for delivering the portions to a subsequent processing device. To prevent fluctuations in portion size and weight, the system further includes a sensor unit for generating a portion request signal in response to a portion request from the subsequent processing device. The sensor unit outputs the portion request signal to the filling machine, which is designed to control the continuous transportation of the food stream using the portion request signal. The system is operable to synchronize the entire line, including the filling machine, the separating device, the transport device, and the subsequent processing device.

Abstract: A system for producing and transporting portions of food includes a filling machine for continuously transporting a stream of food, a separating device for dividing portions from the transported food stream, and a transport device for delivering the portions to a subsequent processing device. To prevent fluctuations in portion size and weight, the system further includes a sensor unit for generating a portion request signal in response to a portion request from the subsequent processing device. The sensor unit outputs the portion request signal to the filling machine, which is designed to control the continuous transportation of the food stream using the portion request signal. The system is operable to synchronize the entire line, including the filling machine, the separating device, the transport device, and the subsequent processing device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for milking at least one animal, particularly cows, in a multi-position milking installation.

Abstract: A plasma process machine includes at least two electrodes disposed in a processing chamber and in contact with targets, an alternating current source connected to supply power to the electrodes, and a power delivery controller adapted to control power delivered by the alternating current source to the electrodes. The power delivery controller is configured to determine a control value from a comparison between actual power delivery as detected by a detector and a desired power delivery, and to adjust power delivery based on the control value.

Abstract: A plasma process machine includes at least two electrodes disposed in a processing chamber and in contact with targets, an alternating current source connected to supply power to the electrodes, and a power delivery controller adapted to control power delivered by the alternating current source to the electrodes. The power delivery controller is configured to determine a control value from a comparison between actual power delivery as detected by a detector and a desired power delivery, and to adjust power delivery based on the control.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing multiple layer systems on a non-conductive substrate. According to said method, metallic layers and electrically non-conductive layers are alternately deposited respectively by means of PVD and PECVD and are modified in such a way that at least one layer can be optionally selectively structured. It was thus determined that selective structuring by means of laser energy is only possible by introducing sacrificial layers. In this way, for the first time, a miniaturisation of multiple layer systems can be achieved that is not possible with conventionally constructed multiple layer systems.

Abstract: A method for electrically connecting first and second circuit board conductors of a printed circuit board, wherein the first and second circuit board conductors being disposed in different planes of the circuit board and separated by an insulator layer, includes the step of placing a cover onto at least one of the first and second circuit board conductors and making a cutout through the cover, the insulator layer and the first and second circuit board conductors. In addition, an electrically conductive layer is applied under mechanical load onto the cover at least in the area of the cutout so that an electric connection is created along an inner wall surface of the cutout between the first and second circuit board conductors via the electrically conductive layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel polymorph crystal form of the compound of formula (I), a process for its preparation and the use thereof.

Abstract: A plasma process machine includes at least two electrodes disposed in a processing chamber and in contact with targets, an alternating current source connected to supply power to the electrodes, and a power delivery controller adapted to control power delivered by the alternating current source to the electrodes. The power delivery controller is configured to determine a control value from a comparison between actual power delivery as detected by a detector and a desired power delivery, and to adjust power delivery based on the control value.

Abstract: A security system for preventing the hijacking of aircraft, which are provided with an autopilot with stored flight routes, wherein an emergency switch-over device for actuating the autopilot, when actuated, prevents the autopilot being switched off again in the cockpit.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the production of chain-like or concatenated foodstuff products. A pasty filling material is conveyed by a filling pump through a filling tube which is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, and introduced into a tubular case or skin which partially surrounds the filling tube. The filled skin is fed to a portioning device having a plurality of dividing elements. The filled skin is engaged by two dividing elements which are disposed in opposite paired relationship and acted upon by a clamping force. A torque is applied to the skin by the filling tube so that the filled skin is caused to rotate at least in a portion between an exit opening of the filling tube and the portioning device and is locally prevented from rotating by application of the clamping force by the dividing elements, so that a twist-off location is produced. At a location spaced from the twist-off location, a further twist-off location is produced on the filled skin, to produce portioned sausages.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for conveying and individually separating sausages or other elongate foodstuff products, wherein the sausages are fed by a conveyor device (46) to a separating apparatus (8) with a separating tool. A sensor (64) which is responsive to the conveyor device (4) and which preferably cooperates with the drive motor of the conveyor device (4) or with the movable conveyor elements (36) of the conveyor device (6) produces a signal which represents a measurement for a current position of a movable conveyor element (36) of the conveyor device (6) and thus for a current position of one or more constriction or twist-off locations in the chain of sausages, and that the signal is fed to the separating apparatus (8) in order to control the drive motor (13) in such a way that the severing tool separates the sausages in the region of a twist-off location.

Abstract: What is described is an apparatus for stuffing casings or similar receptacles with paste, in particular with sausage meat or other foods in the form of paste, using a portioning means (16) that stuffs adjustable portions of the paste through a stuffing horn (14) into a casing (62) of a pre-defined caliber or caliber group, wherein said casing is pulled portion-wise during stuffing from a casing holder (casing brake 24). A guide tube (26) is disposed after and as an extension to the casing holder (24), the internal diameter of said guide tube 26 being approximately the same as the smaller outer diameter of the pre-defined casing caliber and/or the pre-defined casing caliber group, such that the guide tube 26 has a coating of lubricant on its inner surface and that the casing is pulled into and through the guide tube 26 in the process of being stuffed.

Abstract: The present invention provides the use of pramipexole in the treatment of restless legs syndrome.

Abstract: The present invention provides the use of pramipexole in the treatment of restless legs syndrome.

Abstract: A process is provided for the production of nitrobenzamides or aminobenzamides having the formula: ##STR1## in which n is 1 or 2, preferably 1, X is an amino or nitro group and R is hydrogen, unsubstituted alkyl or alkyl substituted by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy, phenyl, carboxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, a mono- or di-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylated amino group or by --SO.sub.3 M in which M is hydrogen, an alkali metal atom, ammonium or a cation formed from an amine, which process comprises reacting a nitrobenzoyl chloride having the formula: ##STR2## in which n has its previous significance, with an aqueous solution of an amine having the formula NH.sub.2 --R in which R has its previous significance, in the presence of an inert organic solvent, to produce a compound having the formula: ##STR3## in which n and R have their previous significance; and finally optionally reducing the nitro group(s) to amino group(s).

Abstract: A measuring tube for a flowmeter. The measuring tube is lined with a tubular lining of thermoplastic material, particularly PTFE or PFA, which comes into contact with the measured substance which flows through the tube. The ends of the tubular lining are flanged around end flanges of the measuring tube after the ends of the tubular lining have been plasticised by heating. The plasticised ends of the tubular lining are turned outward by more than 90.degree. and then forced into undercuts in the end faces of the end flanges. Upon cooling, the ends of the lining are in intimate contact with the end faces of the end flanges and the undercuts in the end faces.

Abstract: In a process for assembly and bonding of electric and/or electronic components (3), provided with metal connections (11), on an insulating support (1) to be provided with strip conductors, it is provided, to increase the economic efficiency, that a catalyst (7) for currentless metal deposition is applied on support (1) first in the area of the strip conductor structure, that components (2) are positioned with their metal connections (11) on the assigned strip conductor points of support (1) and that then, by currentless metal deposition from a chemical metallization bath, bonding (13, 14) of metal connections (11) is performed simultaneously with the formation of metallic strip conductors (5).