Abstract: An apparatus for printing a banding strip for documents of value, which is preferably moved relative to the apparatus, having a print head by means of which, upon an activation, more than nine dots can be printed, a circuit actuatable by print signals, which, in response to print signals, activates the print head in accordance with the print signals, in order to print patterns specified by the print signals, and a current supply unit for providing current for the circuit and by means thereof for the print head.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising removing buds together with meristematic tissue from the stalk of a 6 to 18 months old sugar cane plant, treating the buds with at least one fungicide and/or at least one insecticide and/or at least one nematicide and/or at least one growth regulator and/or at least one rooting enabler and/or growth-promoting bacteria, planting these buds in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the buds at a temperature of at least 15° C., and 10 to 120 days after planting the buds, planting the seedlings grown from the buds to the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the buds to ambient conditions.

Abstract: A surge arrester comprising stacked arrester units is provided that is that is easy to assemble. For that, a surge arrester comprises stacked arrester units, a capacitor, and a resilient element, where the resilient element electrically and mechanically connects the capacitor with a node of the arrester stack.

Abstract: A method in which accounting units consisting of one or several bank notes are successively processed by a processing machine, wherein the bank notes are checked by a sensor device and a control device. One or several accounting units are inserted, the information items characterizing the accounting units are entered, the bank notes of each accounting unit are singled, checked, and in dependence on the check are assigned to output units of the processing machine The bank notes recognized upon the check are accounted for the respective accounting unit by the control device and transported into the assigned output unit. Bank notes not recognized upon the check are divided into two groups with a first group containing the unrecognized individual bank notes for which an identification feature characterizing the respective bank note can be ascertained by sensor device and control device, and a second group whose respective identification feature cannot be ascertained by the sensor device and control device.

Abstract: A mercury-free discharge lamp with an electrical power consumption of less than 35 Watts may include a translucent discharge vessel which has a discharge space into which electrodes protrude for generating a gas discharge, wherein metal halides and ignition gas are contained in the discharge space, wherein the metal halides are present in a quantity in the range from 5 milligrams to 15 milligrams per 1 milliliter of discharge space volume in the discharge space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising cutting the stalk of an adult sugar cane plant into pieces, placing the stalk pieces containing at least one node in a humid medium, removing the shoots emerged from the nodes of the stalk or of the stalk pieces, optionally removing the newly emerged shoots, where this step can be repeated one or several times, removing the newly formed shoots when they are 10 to 60 cm long in such a way that they comprise meristematic tissue, planting these shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C., and 10 to 120 days after planting the shoots, planting the seedlings grown from the shoots to the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions.

Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a cost object settlement rule and an inventory notification business object.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method as well as a device for closed-loop control of the electrode gap in a vacuum arc furnace (10), wherein an electrode gap of a melting electrode from the surface of a melt material is subjected to closed-loop control as a function of a droplet short-circuit rate. For this purpose, a histogram (70) of detected droplet short-circuits (80) is created on the basis of at least one droplet short-circuit criterion (76), the histogram (70) is subdivided into sub-areas (72), a characteristic sub-area (74) of the histogram (70) is selected for closed-loop control purposes, and an electrode gap is subjected to closed-loop control on the basis of the droplet short-circuits (80) which can be associated with the selected sub-area (74).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device (40) for filtering supply network failures (84) out of an electrode signal (82) in a metallurgical electric remelting process, in particular for the electrode gap closed-loop control of a system for closed-loop control of an electrode gap (48) of a melting furnace (10). For this purpose, said device also comprises at least one electrode sensor device (44) for measuring an electrode signal (82), in particular electrode current and/or electrode voltage of the electrode (30), a network sensor device (46) for measuring a network signal, in particular network current and/or network voltage, and a filter device (50) for filtering network failures (84) of the network signal out of the electrode signal (82), such that an electrode signal (80) with no network failures can be emitted.

Abstract: In an apparatus for singling sheet material, multiple picks are avoided by a retaining device ensuring that sheet material entrained with the sheet to be singled is retained not only on one side but also on the other side of the sheet to be singled. While the first retaining device is located opposite a singling gap of the singling device and is continually effective, the second retaining device acts before, or in, the singling gap from the other side of the singling gap and is only activated after the sheet to be singled is reliably grasped by the singling device, and deactivated when it has left the singling gap.

Abstract: An electronically controlled braking device of a towing vehicle-trailer combination, which includes at least a generating arrangement (FBM) for generating at least one brake request signal, an electronic towing vehicle brake control unit associated with the towing vehicle for generating brake pressure setpoint value signals for at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module of the towing vehicle as a function of the brake request signal, a data link between the towing vehicle and the trailer, at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module associated with the trailer for controlling a trailer brake pressure, in which the data link is for direct communication between the towing vehicle brake control unit and the at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module of the trailer, and in which the towing vehicle brake control unit and the data link are for directly inputting control signals into the at least one pressure control module of the trailer for generating the trailer brake pressure at

Abstract: In a method for assisting the calculation of vehicle speed in a vehicle that comprises an axle differential on at least one vehicle axle and a braking device for decelerating individual wheels of the vehicle axle, in the case of deceleration of the vehicle via the drive train, one wheel of the vehicle axle is additionally decelerated by way of the braking system, the rotation speed of the oppositely located wheel being taken as the basis for ascertaining the vehicle speed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for cultivating sugar cane comprising planting sugar cane shoots in a growth medium, growing seedlings from the shoots at a temperature of at least 15° C. and 10-120 days after having planted the shoots planting the seedlings obtained therefrom into the field if the growth medium is not a field, or, in case the growth medium is a field, exposing the seedlings obtained from the shoots to ambient conditions, where the seedling, while growing, is treated with at least one strobilurin fungicide and/or at least one carboxamide fungicide and/or at least one GABA antagonist insecticide and/or at least one nicotinic receptor agonists/antagonist insecticide and/or at least one chloride channel activator insecticide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a storage compartment (1) having a pivotable cover (5). The invention proposes that the cover (5) be mounted on a slider member (3) and driven with a constraining kinematic arrangement (15) so that, during opening, the cover (5) is in the first instance displaced with the slider member (3) in parallel and is then pivoted upwards, the cover (5) being displaced further with the slider member (3) during pivoting.

Abstract: There is described an apparatus for guiding a value document along a portion of a transport path in a specified transport direction, having a film forming device which is configured for respectively forming on mutually opposing sides of the transport path portion a film of gas flowing in the transport direction, the film extending at least over the total width of the transport path portion and thus the total width of value documents transported along the transport path, so that the value documents are guided between the gas films.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures comprising, as active components: 1) metconazole of the formula I and 2) prochloraz of the formula II, in a synergistically effective amount, and also compositions comprising these mixtures.

Abstract: A method in which accounting units consisting of one or several bank notes are successively processed by a processing machine, wherein the bank notes are checked by a sensor device and a control device. One or several accounting units are inserted, the information items characterizing the accounting units are entered, the bank notes of each accounting unit are singled, checked, and in dependence on the check are assigned to output units of the processing machine The bank notes recognized upon the check are accounted for the respective accounting unit by the control device and transported into the assigned output unit. Bank notes not recognized upon the check are divided into two groups with a first group containing the unrecognized individual bank notes for which an identification feature characterizing the respective bank note can be ascertained by sensor device and control device, and a second group whose respective identification feature cannot be ascertained by the sensor device and control device.

Abstract: A solar sail spacecraft is designed to steer and move in space by using solar radiation pressure as a driving force, therefore allowing fuelless propulsion, station keeping and attitude control. A solar power satellite utilizes thrusters only to stay in an rather stationary orbit. Its purpose is, to collect energy and transfer it to a given location, usually to Earth. The intention of the present invention is to create a hybrid of a solar sail spacecraft and a power satellite for space based power generation and transmission, which is mobile and provides both, fuelless solar sailing and electric thrusters as means of propulsion. The mobile Solar Sail Power Station serves as solar energy collector and can be connected by docking with other power stations and with a transmitter unit for energy transmission, whereby the transmitter features its own fuelless pointing and attitude control devices.

Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising as active components 1) at least one 1-methylpyrazol-4-ylcarboxanilides of the formula I where X=O or S, R1=C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-haloalkyl, R2=hydrogen or halogen, R3, R4 and R5=independently of one another cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy or C1-C4-alkylthio; and 2) at least one active compound II, selected from the active compound groups A) to F): A) azoles; B) strobilurins; C) carboxamides; D) heterocyclic compounds; E) carbamates; F) other fungicides; in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of at least one compound I and at least one active compound II and the use of the compound(s) I with active compounds II for preparing such mixtures, and also compositions and seed comprising such mixtures.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for cooling or quenching slabs and sheets (2) with water in a cooling pond (1, 14) wherein the slabs and the sheets (2), previously set upright by a tilting device (18), are lowered and temporarily maintained in position on edge. The inventive method is characterized in that the slabs and the sheets are sprayed with the cooling water. Therefor, the cooling pond (1) has, on both sides of the lowered slabs and sheets (2) jet devices (10; 11a, 11b) directed towards the surfaces of the large sides of the slabs or sheets and connected to a cooling water circuit which comprises means for reducing the water filling supply from a maximum upper water level (13b) to a lower water level (13a).