Abstract: A light engine for a tube lamp has a substrate defining a longitudinal direction, having at least three conductive traces extending in the longitudinal direction. At least two of the conductive traces are divided into a plurality of trace sections. The light engine further includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements, each light emitting element having two electric terminals and being arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and electrically connected with a first electric terminal to one of the conductive traces and with a second electric terminal to another one of the conductive traces.

Abstract: A light fixture includes a light-permeable tube with an end cap pushed onto a free end of the tube, a light module arranged inside the tube and a driver device at least partially received in the tube for driving the light module, wherein the tube has a substantially constant external diameter over its entire longitudinal extent.

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system is provided. The compressor system includes one or more compressors and one or more peripheral devices. The compressors and the peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a predetermined configuration. The compressor system is controlled and/or monitored by a control/monitoring unit. After creation of the compressor system, the concretely existing configuration is input in the form of a P&I diagram by an editor and forms the basis for subsequent control, monitoring, diagnosis or evaluation routines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the analysis of the compressed-air supply security of a compressed-air system which comprises one or more compressed-air generators (C1, C2) and supplies one or more compressed-air consumers via a compressed-air network (9), characterized in that a time course of the maximum delivery volumetric flow rate MDVF(t) is recorded, estimated or calculated, that a time course of the consumption volumetric flow rate CVF(t) is recorded, estimated or calculated, and that for the analysis of the compressed-air supply security the time course of the maximum delivery volumetric flow rate MDVF(t) and the time course of the consumption volumetric flow rate CVF(t) are automatically offset against each other over an analysis period.

Abstract: A lamp includes a base with at least two electrical connecting elements. A bulb is rotatably mounted relative to the base. A light engine is arranged in the bulb with at least one light-emitting element and an electrically conductive substrate on which the light-emitting element is arranged. An electronic driver is connected to the electrically conductive substrate for activation of the light-emitting element. The base has a base sleeve in which the electronic driver is arranged. The electrically conductive substrate has a flexible connecting section between the electronic driver and the light-emitting element.

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system is provided. The compressor system includes one or more compressors and one or more peripheral devices. The compressors and the peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a predetermined configuration. The compressor system is controlled and/or monitored by a control/monitoring unit. After creation of the compressor system, the concretely existing configuration is input in the form of a P&I diagram by an editor and forms the basis for subsequent control, monitoring, diagnosis or evaluation routines.

Abstract: A light engine for a tube lamp has a substrate defining a longitudinal direction, having at least three conductive traces extending in the longitudinal direction. At least two of the conductive traces are divided into a plurality of trace sections. The light engine further includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements, each light emitting element having two electric terminals and being arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and electrically connected with a first electric terminal to one of the conductive traces and with a second electric terminal to another one of the conductive traces.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to GDF-5 related proteins having an improved capability of inducing cartilage formation and a reduced capability of inducing bone formation. The novel proteins are particularly useful in the treatment of cartilage defects, wherein the formation of bone tissue is undesirable.

Abstract: A method for producing a power-electronics switching device and a power electronic switching device produced thereby. In the power-electronics switching device, a power semiconductor component is arranged on a first region of a conductor track of a substrate. An insulating film comprising a cutout is then provided, wherein an overlap region of the insulating film, which overlap region is adjacent to the cutout, is designed to cover an edge region of the power semiconductor component. This is followed by arranging the insulating film on the substrate, with the power semiconductor component arranged on it, in such a way that the power semiconductor component is covered on all sides of its edge region by the covering region of the insulating film, wherein a further section of the insulating film covers parts of one of the conductor tracks. Finally, the connecting device is arranged.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system comprising several components, namely one or more compressors, one or more peripheral devices, and also a control/monitoring unit, wherein the compressors and peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a certain configuration. The method distinguishes itself in that (a) in a measured-value-capture step, measured values are captured within the compressor system or the components; (b) in an allocation step, context information is allocated to the measured value or measured values in advance, simultaneously, or after the measured-value capture, in order to standardize the measured values; and (c) in an evaluation step, the measured value or measured values standardized by the context information are used in a control, monitoring, diagnostics, or evaluation routine.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic control device for a component of compressed-air generation, compressed-air processing, compressed-air storage, and/or compressed-air distribution, wherein the electronic control device (11) falls back upon one or more models, which, as component-related models, contain information relevant to the structure, or the behavior of the component (12), in order to determine, simulate, or evaluate operation-relevant data and performs, as an evaluation purpose, either—open-loop control, closed-loop control, diagnosis, and/or monitoring of the component or—a determination, provision, prediction, or optimization of operating data, operating states, operating modes, operating behaviors, and/or operating effects on the basis of the models in a concrete evaluation routine, and wherein current or historical structure information operating data, operating states, and/or measurements/sensor values of the component at least partially available in the electronic control device are used as

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system is provided. The compressor system includes one or more compressors and one or more peripheral devices. The compressors and the peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a predetermined configuration. The compressor system is controlled and/or monitored by a control/monitoring unit. After creation of the compressor system, the concretely existing configuration is input in the form of a P&I diagram by an editor and forms the basis for subsequent control, monitoring, diagnosis or evaluation routines.

Abstract: A method for controlling and/or monitoring a compressor system is provided. The compressor system includes one or more compressors and one or more peripheral devices. The compressors and peripheral devices are arranged or connected in a predetermined configuration. The compressor system is controlled and/or monitored by a control/monitoring unit. The method involves creating one or more derived models on the basis of one or more initial models of the compressor system that are based on a P&I diagram. The derived models take into account the operative interrelationships among the individual compressors and peripheral devices, and optionally also dynamic processes. The one or more derived models form the basis for subsequent control, monitoring, diagnosis or evaluation routines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor component with base emitter and electrical contacts and also at least one passivation layer which consists of hydrated aluminium nitride or essentially comprises this. The invention relates likewise to a corresponding method for surface passivation of semiconductor components.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to GDF-5 related proteins having an improved capability of inducing cartilage formation and a reduced capability of inducing bone formation. The novel proteins are particularly useful in the treatment of cartilage defects, wherein the formation of bone tissue is undesirable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling and/or regulating a compressed air station comprising at least one plurality of interconnected compressors, optionally having different technical specifications, and further optional compressed air system devices, which is optionally able to implement control cycles as well as switching strategies by means of an electronic system controller to influence the amount of a pressurized fluid in the compressed air station available at all times to one or more consumers of the compressed air station as well as adaptively adjust the amount of pressurized fluid available at all times to one or more consumers of the compressed air station to the future operating conditions of the compressed air station based on the amount of pressurized fluid withdrawn from the compressed air station, wherein before a switching strategy is initiated, different switching strategies are analyzed in a prior simulation method based on a model of the compressed air station and the comparativ

Abstract: The invention relates to a safety binding (1) for a snowboard, particularly a safety binding to be attached in pairs to a snowboard. The invention solves the problem of reducing force peaks on the lower extremities of the athlete, which, for example, in the event of a fall exceed a force value which can be set, and in this event also enabling a three-dimensional rotation of the lower extremities. This is achieved in that a lower binding part (2), which can be fixed to the snowboard, and an upper binding part (3), which can be fixed to the shoe, are disposed on mutually facing support surfaces in a sliding manner, wherein the support surfaces are designed as the surface elements of two spherical caps, the common center of curvature of which is located above the lower binding part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a cerametallic composite part containing a phase rich in Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 which is permeated by a metallic phase consisting predominantly of aluminides, in which process a preform that may have been sintered and comprises at least one oxidic compound reducible by aluminium and maybe also non-oxidic compounds or elements is reacted with molten aluminium or aluminium alloy until aluminide and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 have formed at least in the surface layer. Composite parts fabricated in this way can serve as wear-resistant or/and high-temperature-resistant components in the construction of machinery, apparatus, engines and turbines, for applications under corrosive or/and oxidizing conditions, as functional elements, especially high-performance brake elements and as electrical or magnetic functional elements.