Abstract: A hybrid component is provided for automotive applications, and includes a sheet metal component and at least one plastic support component. The at least one plastic support component is positively connected to the sheet metal component. A decor section of the sheet metal component includes a colour coating pattern generating a dedicated aesthetic design appeal.

Abstract: A support frame for components of a vehicle lighting device, especially for a housing or for a light module. The support frame features a sandwich structure of at least two metallic sheet members in parallel arrangement and at least one intermediate plastic joint member, which features form-locking joints with the sheet members.

Abstract: A membrane module comprising a hollow fiber membrane bundle with a longitudinal extent, a membrane bundle cross section and a first and a second bundle end, the bundle comprising a multitude of hollow fiber membranes extending between the first and the second bundle end, and also comprising, within the membrane bundle cross section, a proportion of threads which are arranged between the hollow fiber membranes and which keep the hollow fiber membranes apart.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane bundle with a longitudinal extent, with a membrane bundle cross section and with a first and a second bundle end, comprising a multitude of hollow fiber membranes extending between the first and the second bundle end, and also comprising, within the membrane bundle cross section, a proportion of threads which are arranged between the hollow fiber membranes and which keep the hollow fiber membranes apart.

Abstract: A drilling assembly for use in drilling of a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a device that detects a flow-off state, a power generator that generates electrical energy in response to a fluid flowing through the drilling assembly during the flow-off state, and a circuit that utilizes such power to perform one or more selected operations in response to the detection of the flow-off state, including, but not limited to, storing data in a memory; shutting certain devices in the drilling assembly and parking a device in a desired position.

Abstract: A power control device includes a communication device configured to be disposed in a borehole and configured to couple electrical power from a power source to a downhole component from a conductor disposed along a borehole string, a circuit breaker system including a first circuit breaker disposed at a connection between the conductor and the downhole component and configured to be closed to connect the downhole component to the conductor, and a controller configured to monitor at least one of a current level and a voltage level at the connection and at the conductor. The controller is configured to control the circuit breaker system and autonomously perform opening the first circuit breaker in response to detecting a deviation in the at least one of the current levels and voltage levels at the connection, to isolate the downhole component from the conductor and the power source.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the number of leukocytes in blood through treating the blood in an arrangement of a plurality of fibers based on organic polymers, whereby the blood is channeled along the fibers and whereby the reduction in leukocytes from the blood occurs essentially through adsorption on the fibers, characterized in that the plurality of fibers based on organic polymers is fixed in a housing with an inlet arrangement and an outlet arrangement, and that the blood is channeled via the inlet arrangement into the housing, flows through the housing with the plurality of fibers made from organic polymers, and exits the housing via the outlet arrangement, that the arrangement of the fibers shows a high degree of order, that the blood flows along the external surface of the fibers, and that the fibers cause a generation of the complement activation product C5a in a concentration of at least 10 ?g per m2 of fiber surface.

Abstract: A drilling assembly for use in drilling of a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a device that detects a flow-off state, a power generator that generates electrical energy in response to a fluid flowing through the drilling assembly during the flow-off state, and a circuit that utilizes such power to perform one or more selected operations in response to the detection of the flow-off state, including, but not limited to, storing data in a memory; shutting certain devices in the drilling assembly and parking a device in a desired position.

Abstract: A power control device includes a communication device configured to be disposed in a borehole and configured to couple electrical power from a power source to a downhole component from a conductor disposed along a borehole string, a circuit breaker system including a first circuit breaker disposed at a connection between the conductor and the downhole component and configured to be closed to connect the downhole component to the conductor, and a controller configured to monitor at least one of a current level and a voltage level at the connection and at the conductor. The controller is configured to control the circuit breaker system and autonomously perform opening the first circuit breaker in response to detecting a deviation in the at least one of the current levels and voltage levels at the connection, to isolate the downhole component from the conductor and the power source.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a measurement device includes: compiling historical calibration data for the measurement device, the historical calibration data including values corresponding to outputs of the measurement device over a first operating duration in environmental conditions associated with an operating environment; projecting the historical calibration data over a subsequent operating duration to generate predictive calibration data; disposing the measurement device in the operating environment and generating measurement signals during the first operating duration and the subsequent operating duration; and generating measurement values from measurement signals generated during the subsequent operating duration based on the predictive calibration data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the number of leukocytes in blood through treating the blood in an arrangement of a plurality of fibers based on organic polymers, whereby the blood is channeled along the fibers and whereby the reduction in leukocytes from the blood occurs essentially through adsorption on the fibers, characterized in that the plurality of fibers based on organic polymers is fixed in a housing with an inlet arrangement and an outlet arrangement, and that the blood is channeled via the inlet arrangement into the housing, flows through the housing with the plurality of fibers made from organic polymers, and exits the housing via the outlet arrangement, that the arrangement of the fibers shows a high degree of order, that the blood flows along the external surface of the fibers, and that the fibers cause a generation of the complement activation product C5a in a concentration of at least 10 ?g per m2 of fiber surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the number of leukocytes in blood through treating the blood in an arrangement of a plurality of fibers based on organic polymers, whereby the blood is channeled along the fibers and whereby the reduction in leukocytes from the blood occurs essentially through adsorption on the fibers, characterized in that the plurality of fibers based on organic polymers is fixed in a housing with an inlet arrangement and an outlet arrangement, and that the blood is channeled via the inlet arrangement into the housing, flows through the housing with the plurality of fibers made from organic polymers, and exits the housing via the outlet arrangement, that the arrangement of the fibers shows a high degree of order, that the blood flows along the external surface of the fibers, and that the fibers cause a generation of the complement activation product C5a in a concentration of at least 10 ?g per m2 of fiber surface.

Abstract: Method for producing foamed microporous polymer molded bodies by melting a thermoplastic polymer in a first zone of an extrusion device, mixing in a highly volatile blowing agent, conveying the polymer melt containing the blowing agent into a second zone in which dissolution of the blowing agent occurs to saturation of the polymer melt at the foaming temperature, and molding and foaming of the loaded polymer melt to a foamed structure, whereby, in the second zone, a pressure above 90 bar, a blowing agent concentration above the critical minimum concentration for complete foaming, and the foaming temperature, lying above the solidification temperature of the polymer melt saturated with blowing agent, are set such that the polymer molded body obtained has a porosity in the range between 40 and 90 vol. % and an open-cell pore structure with uniform cross-sectional distribution.

Abstract: Process for producing an integrally asymmetrical hydrophobic polyolefinic membrane with a sponge-like, open-pored, microporous support structure and a separation layer with a denser structure, using a thermally induced liquid-liquid phase separation process. A solution of at least one polyolefin is extruded to form a shaped object. The solvent used is one for which the demixing temperature of a solution of 25% by weight of the polyolefin in this solvent is 10 to 70° C. above the solidification temperature. After leaving the die, the shaped object is cooled using a liquid cooling medium that does not dissolve the polymer up to the die temperature, until the phase separation and solidification of the high-polymer-content phase take place.

Abstract: Method for producing foamed microporous polymer molded bodies by melting a thermoplastic polymer in a first zone of an extrusion device, mixing in a highly volatile blowing agent, conveying the polymer melt containing the blowing agent into a second zone in which dissolution of the blowing agent occurs to saturation of the polymer melt at the foaming temperature, and molding and foaming of the loaded polymer melt to a foamed structure, whereby, in the second zone, a pressure above 90 bar, a blowing agent concentration above the critical minimum concentration for complete foaming, and the foaming temperature, lying above the solidification temperature of the polymer melt saturated with blowing agent, are set such that the polymer molded body obtained has a porosity in the range between 40 and 90 vol. % and an open-cell pore structure with uniform cross-sectional distribution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the number of leukocytes in blood through treating the blood in an arrangement of a plurality of fibers based on organic polymers, whereby the blood is channeled along the fibers and whereby the reduction in leukocytes from the blood occurs essentially through adsorption on the fibers, characterized in that the plurality of fibers based on organic polymers is fixed in a housing with an inlet arrangement and an outlet arrangement, and that the blood is channeled via the inlet arrangement into the housing, flows through the housing with the plurality of fibers made from organic polymers, and exits the housing via the outlet arrangement, that the arrangement of the fibers shows a high degree of order, that the blood flows along the external surface of the fibers, and that the fibers cause a generation of the complement activation product C5a in a concentration of at least 10 ?g per m2 of fiber surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for dissolving a gas with short-lived physical properties in a liquid, comprising the steps of providing the gas with short-lived physical properties, providing the liquid and bringing the gas with short-lived with short-lived physical properties is fed into the liquid via a semi-permeable membrane that is permeable to gas.

Abstract: A MWD/LWD bottom hole assembly including a housing and a window at the housing, the window being transmissive to the signal of at least one transceiver of a tool having a memory in operable communication with the transceiver, such that the signal is receivable outside of the housing through the window. A method for downloading MWD/LWD data to a surface computer. The method includes wirelessly communicating collected data from a MWD/LWD tool memory to a transceiver external to the tool; passing data through the external transceiver, the transceiver further transmitting the data; and receiving data at the surface computer.

Abstract: A communication system for communication with a downhole tool comprising: a first communication transceiver in a first tool for measurement while drilling and a second communication transceiver in at least one of the first tool, a second tool for measurement while drilling, and an external instrumentation interface. The communication system also includes a bus system comprising a first conductive connection and a second conductive connection in each of the first tool and at least one of the first tool, a second tool and an external instrumentation interface, said first conductive connection and the second conductive connection of the first tool in operable communication with the first communication transceiver and the first conductive connection and the second conductive connection of the at least one of the first tool, a second tool and an external instrumentation interface also in operable communication with the second communication transceiver.

Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane contactor includes a perforated center tube, a first mat comprising a first hollow fiber membrane, a second mat comprising a second hollow fiber membrane, a first tube sheet, a second tube sheet, a shell, and end caps. The first and second hollow fiber membranes are dissimilar. The first and second mats surround the center tube, and the first and second tube sheets affix the first and second mats to the center tube. The first hollow fiber membrane has a first lumen, and the second hollow fiber membrane has a second lumen. The first lumen may be open at the first tube sheet and closed at the second tube sheet while the second lumen may be open at the second tube sheet and closed at the first tube sheet. The shell surrounds the first and second mats, and it is sealed to the tube sheets. The end caps are affixed to the shell thereby defining headspaces therebetween the tube sheets and the end caps.