Abstract: In a method for initiating a data transfer from an implantable medical device a relay data request is generated at a remote device, the relay data request containing an implant interrogation request representing a request for the implantable medical device to create an interrogation data set. The relay data request is transferred to a patient device, and a communication link between the patient device and the implantable medical device is established to transmit said implant interrogation request to the implantable medical device. An implant interrogation response is transferred from the implantable medical device to the patient device, the implant interrogation response representing a response from the implantable medical device containing said interrogation data set. The implant interrogation response is transferred from the patient device to the remote device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tempering apparatus for the execution of a tempering program for at least one sample, in particular PCR-sample, comprising: at least one tempering block, which is configured for the reception of at least one sample, at least one tempering device, which is arranged for tempering said at least one tempering block, at least one temperature measurement device, which is assigned to said tempering device, at least one control loop for the regulation of a temperature, to which at least one tempering device and at least one temperature measurement device, which is assigned to said at least one tempering device, are assigned to, at least one control device, which is configured for the control of the tempering of the at least one tempering block, wherein the tempering apparatus comprises at least two temperature measurement devices, which are assigned to at least one control loop, and that to the tempering apparatus a testing device for performing a test method is assigned to, wherein said te

Abstract: A laboratory centrifuge has a centrifuge rotor supported on a stator and rotatable on a bearing about an axis of rotation. An electric motor drives the rotor and has pole pieces at a stationary part mounted on the stator and a rotatable part directly attached to the rotor, the stationary part having pole pieces with drive coils. The pole pieces magnetically act through a gap between the pole pieces and the rotatable part, and the gap lies in a surface which is perpendicular to the axis of rotation or forms a shallow frustocone opening either upwardly or downwardly.