Abstract: An apparatus for eliciting a blood sample comprises a housing, an aperture in a wall of the housing, an aperture cover moveable between a first position in which the aperture is covered and a second position in which the aperture is uncovered, the aperture cover comprising a sealing member configured to seal the aperture on a first side of the wall when the aperture cover is in the first position and a user-contactable part extending from the sealing member through the aperture to the second side of the wall and configured to allow a user to move the aperture cover between the first and second positions.

Abstract: An improved circuit breaker is disclosed herein. The improved circuit breaker includes one or more main contacts and only one resistor contact. The only one resistor contact is connected in parallel with at least one of the one or more main contacts.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a housing, a testing member rotatably mounted in the housing, a lancet protruding from an edge of the testing member and having a piercing end, and a cover configured to cover at least the piercing end of the lancet and to be displaced from the piercing end of the lancet during actuation of the testing member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing polyisocyanurates comprising isocyanate groups, based on 2,4- and 2,6-toluylene diisocyanate (TDI) and to the use thereof in coating compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyisocyanates comprising urethane groups, based on toluylene diisocyanate, to a method for their production, and to their use as the polyisocyanate component in one- and two-component polyurethane coatings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for modifying isocyanates where at least one organic isocyanate with NCO functionality >1 is oligomerized in the presence of at least one catalyst, characterized in that the catalyst comprises, as isocyanatemodification catalysts, at least one cyclic ammonium salt having a cation of the formula (I) (formula I), where the N-containing substituents R1 and R2 are mutually independently identical or different aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic C, to C20 moieties which are saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, optionally substituted and/or interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen, and Y is a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched C2 to C20 segment optionally interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen or else intempted by aromatic rings, and optionally containing other rings. The invention further relates to the use of such a catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrochemical process for preparing bis-O-alkyl-carbamates from primary amines with CO2 as carbonyl source and at least one alkyl halide with at least three carbon atoms in the alkyl group as alkylating agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycyclic diiminooxadiazinones of the formula I and/or of the formula II, in which in each case R1 to R12 are each independently hydrogen, a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic organic radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which is unsubstituted or is substituted by radicals inert to isocyanate groups, and/or comprises heteroatoms inert to isocyanate groups in the chain, or are an aromatic organic radical having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, which is unsubstituted or is substituted by radicals inert to isocyanate groups, wherein two or more of the aforementioned radicals R1 to R6 may form further rings, in each case with one another and incorporating one, two or three carbon atoms of the fused ring segment X, and/or two or more of the aforementioned radicals R7 to R12 may form further rings, in each case with one another and incorporating one, two or three carbon atoms of the fused ring segment Y.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for modifying isocyanates, wherein at least one organic monomer isocyanate having an NCO functionality >1 is oligomerised in the presence of at least one catalyst, said method being characterised in that the catalyst comprises at least one specific compound having an NPN sequence selected from compounds of formula I (formula I), and/or from compounds of formula II (formula II) where HX represents an acid with a pKa value ?2, X? represents the anion of an acid with a pKa value ?2, and n represents an integer or fractional number between 0 and 20, wherein Y represents R12(R13)N— and/or one or more substituents of the structure of formula III (formula III) and wherein R1 to R19 independently represent identical or different substituents selected from C1-C20 alkyl-, C1-C20 cycloalkyl- and C6-C20 aryl groups, or wherein R1 and R2, R3 and R4, R5 and R6, R7 and R8, R9 and R10, R12 and R13, R14 and R15, R16 and R17, R18 and R19 independently represent identical or different substi

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing polyisocyanurates comprising isocyanate groups, based on 2,4- and 2,6-toluylene diisocyanate (TDI) and to the use thereof in coating compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a multi-layer coating structure, comprising the following steps: a) providing a substrate; b) applying at least one base-coat layer, wherein the base-coat layer is substantially free of melamine and derivatives thereof; c) applying at least one clear-coat and/or top-coat layer, comprising at least one polyisocyanate, at least one NCO-reactive compound, and at least one thermally latent catalyst; d) waiting for at least 30 s after step c) such that a film can form; e) curing the multi-layer coating structure while supplying heat. The invention further relates to the multi-layer coating structure that can be obtained from the method according to the invention, to the use of the multi-layer coating structure to coat substrates, and to substrates coated with the multi-layer coating structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an amino-functional aromatic compound which has a benzyl CH function. The production takes place on a boron-doped diamond electrode (BDD) in the presence of a pyridine-based aminating reagent. The invention further relates to a compound of the formula (IV) according to the invention, to a composition containing amino-functional aromatic compounds, to a method for producing a compound containing isocyanate groups, and to the compounds thus obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for modifying isocyanates where at least one organic isocyanate with NCO functionality >1 is oligomerized in the presence of at least one catalyst, characterized in that the catalyst comprises, as isocyanatemodification catalysts, at least one cyclic ammonium salt having a cation of the formula (I) (formula I), where the N-containing substituents R1 and R2 are mutually independently identical or different aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic C, to C20 moieties which are saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, optionally substituted and/or interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen, and Y is a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched C2 to C20 segment optionally interrupted by heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen or else intempted by aromatic rings, and optionally containing other rings. The invention further relates to the use of such a catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for coating plastics or plastic surfaces with metals, especially plastics composed of acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene copolymers (ABS) and composed of mixtures of these copolymers with other plastics (e.g. ABS blends), wherein the process comprises the pretreatment of the plastic surfaces with a composition C (etch solution) comprising at least two different ionic liquids IL1 and IL2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (A), Further, the present invention relates to the respective compound (A) as such and to its use in the preparation of antifungal agent.