Abstract: A device (1) for removing a sterile object (2) from an outer packaging (3), a system with a corresponding device (1) and a method for removing a sterile object (2) from an outer packaging (3) are proposed.

Abstract: A probe head with a cylindrical portion and an oblique truncated portion angled downward toward a high-powered electronic device under testing. The probe head has a proximal end comprising an oblique truncated cone portion angled relative to the longitudinal axis at an input angle and has an analog signal input. The probe head has a digital signal output provided on the distal end of the housing.

Abstract: A method for determining a concentration of a target gas in blood of a human or animal animate being. The method includes the steps of: generating electromagnetic excitation radiation having a carrier frequency, wherein the carrier frequency is selected such that the target gas and an absorbing gas absorb the excitation radiation, modulating an amplitude or the carrier frequency of the excitation radiation with a modulation frequency, illuminating an absorption path superficial to a skin of the animate being with the excitation radiation, generating a sound wave by an absorption of the excitation radiation in the absorption gas, and detecting at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the sound wave as a measure of a concentration of the target gas on the absorption path. Also provided is a photoacoustic sensor for determining a concentration of a target gas in blood of a human or animal animate being.

Abstract: Described herein are Zika virus vaccines and compositions and methods of producing and administering said vaccines to subjects in need thereof.

Abstract: Described herein are Zika virus vaccines and compositions and methods of producing and administering said vaccines to subjects in need thereof.

Abstract: A device (10) for removing a sterile object (12) from a foil bag (14) includes a needle unit (16) with a hollow needle (18) for piercing the foil bag (14), a gas connection (20) arranged on the needle unit (16) for introducing gas via the hollow needle (18) into the foil bag (14), a holding device (22) for holding the foil bag (14), a cutting device (24) for cutting open the foil bag (14), and a removal device (26) for removing the object (12) from the cut open foil bag (14). The holding device (22) has at least one holding unit (28), which is formed in a planar manner on the holding device (22) and is mounted movably, for contacting the foil bag (14).

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a display device. The disclosure is further directed towards a method, a computer program code, and an apparatus for providing a correction map for such a display device. The disclosure is further related to a method and a computer program code for operating a display device. The display device comprises a display panel comprising pixels, a cover element, and a decorative element arranged on the cover element. An individual brightness of the pixels of the display panel is adapted to a light transmissivity of the decorative element at the respective pixel positions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gear device for a motor vehicle, as is used, for example, for adjusting a camshaft in a combustion engine in order to influence the phase angle between crankshaft and camshaft. Such gear devices have to be constructed compactly and also have to have high resistance to wear, in particular upon reaching end stops during adjustment of the phase angle. For this purpose, the gear device has hydraulic end stop damping by the drive unit and the output unit having communicating cavities.

Abstract: The high-temperature pathogen-disinfecting air filter includes a first layer of heated open-cell foam contained in a housing with an air pump configured to direct airflow across thereof. The first layer of the open-cell foam may be made of a metal alloy and includes a first electrically-resistive elongated body folded in a serpentine pattern. The pattern may define a sheet-like construction of the first layer making it convenient to incorporate into the air filter housing. The controller is provided to apply electrical energy to heat up the foam to a predetermined temperature, thereby providing heat to disinfect the airflow passing across the first layer. Additional foam layers and heat-resistant filters may also be provided.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydraulic camshaft phaser for relative rotation between a camshaft and a crankshaft. The camshaft phaser comprising two oppositely acting working chambers to which hydraulic medium pressure can be applied in a controlling manner by means of a hydraulic valve, thereby causing a relative rotation between the camshaft and the crankshaft. A volume accumulator formed by the camshaft phaser collects the hydraulic medium exiting from the working chambers. The volume accumulator is divided into two partial volume accumulators which flank the working chambers in an axial direction and which are connected to one another by a hydraulic medium line which extends axially through the camshaft phaser and is independent of the working chambers.

Abstract: Known infrared radiators have a moulded body, which has a radiation surface that emits short-wave or medium-wave infrared radiation with a first peak emission wavelength. In order to provide, proceeding therefrom, an infrared radiator with an emissions spectrum which is well matched to absorption characteristics with a maximum around 2750 nm, and which furthermore can be operated with a high electrical power density, and with which the warming-up time in industrial applications, such as, for example, drying of inks, joining of plastics or bending of glass, can be shortened, according to the invention a radiation converter material is applied to at least a part of the radiation surface and, as a consequence of heating by the infrared radiation of the first peak emission wavelength, emits infrared radiation with a second peak emission wavelength which is of a longer wavelength than the first peak emission wavelength.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gear device (101) for a motor vehicle, as is used, for example, for adjusting a camshaft in a combustion engine in order to influence the phase angle between crankshaft and camshaft. Such gear devices (101) have to be constructed compactly and also have to have high resistance to wear, in particular on reaching end stops during adjustment of the phase angle. For this purpose, the gear device (101) has hydraulic end stop damping by the drive unit (103) and the output unit (105) having communicating cavities (113, 115).

Abstract: Clamping device having a receiving opening which is arranged concentrically to a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the clamping device is designed for clamping a gear workpiece comprising a head region and a shaft, the clamping device comprises an annular planar contact surface, which is arranged concentrically to the workpiece spindle axis, is located in a workpiece-side end region of the clamping device, and which extends essentially perpendicular to the workpiece spindle axis, wherein at least one circumferential groove is provided in the workpiece-side end region, which groove extends from an outer surface of the clamping device radially in the direction of the workpiece spindle axis and which provides the clamping device with elasticity in the region of the planar contact surface.

Abstract: A device for heating a target with IR radiation, a process for heat treating a target, a process for making a composite, a use of an IR source, a use of an array of IR sources and a use of the device. Also disclosed is a device for treating a target, comprising an IR source that emits IR radiation from an emitter surface having a first surface area; and a set of elongate bodies consisting of one or more elongate bodies, each elongate body having an inlet, collectively called the inlets, and each elongate body having an outlet, collectively called the outlets; wherein the emitted IR radiation is coupled into the set of elongate bodies via the inlets and decoupled from the elongate body via the outlets over an outlet surface having a second surface area; and wherein the first surface area is greater than the second surface area.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electromechanical camshaft adjuster comprising an electric motor and an adjusting gear, which has a housing with two housing parts that are sealed off with respect to each other by means of a static seal and with respect to the electric motor and a cylinder head by means of two dynamic seals. A first housing part of the adjusting gear has a pot shape that tapers in a stepped manner towards a housing bottom of the housing part, said pot shape having three different inner diameter regions. In the region closest to the bottom with the smallest inner diameter, a stop plate that acts in the circumferential direction is held. In the region with the middle inner diameter, an output ring gear is mounted with play, and in the region with the largest inner diameter, an input ring gear is secured.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control arrangement for vehicles having a hydrostatic auxiliary drive for one or more axles, in particular for motor graders, having a drive engine, driven rear wheels coupled to the drive engine, further wheels which can be activated by associated hydraulic motors and can be operated by a hydraulic pump coupled to the drive engine and which has an adjustable feed volume, wherein each wheel is connected to a hydraulic motor without a clutch. The hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motors can be activated electrically and adjusted in a continuously variable fashion and the hydraulic pump is connected directly, without valves, to the hydraulic motors in parallel by hydraulic lines. The control device controls the respective displacement volume of the hydraulic motors only as a function of the rotational speed signals of the sensors.

Abstract: A component includes a sub-region, where the component is produced at least in the sub-region by an additive manufacturing process. The sub-region is produced from an aluminum alloy which has 12% by weight to 40% by weight silicon, 0.3% by weight to 4% by weight copper, 0.2% by weight to 0.7% by weight magnesium, at most 1% by weight iron, at most 0.5% by weight zirconium, and a remainder which includes aluminum and further accompanying elements and/or production-related impurities that each have a mass fraction of at most 0.3 percent individually and that in total have a mass fraction of at most 1.5 percent.

Abstract: A composite construction, such as, in particular, a composite plate having a sandwich-type construction, has two outer layers which are mutually opposed in parallel and a foam material completely filling the space between the outer layers at least in some regions. The outer layers are interconnected by means of spacers, and the spacers are connected to the outer layers via a cured plastics material.

Abstract: A method for producing gears, includes the following: machining of gears with a gear tool in a single-indexing method, wherein the gear tool produces tooth gaps on each of the gears by machining. A pitch compensation with compensation parameters is predefined for the gears; wherein the compensation parameters are predefined by a machine control as a function of a wear condition of the gear tool.

Abstract: A camshaft phaser for variably adjusting the control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, including: a stator and a rotor which can be rotated relative to the stator, wherein a plurality of hydraulic chambers are formed between the stator and the that are separated by radially inwardly projecting webs of the stator. Radially outwardly projecting vanes are formed on the rotor that divide each of the hydraulic chambers into first and second groups of working chambers with an opposing effective direction. A pressure medium pump is adapted to apply a pressure medium to the working chambers. A central valve controls the oil pressure in the working chambers. The pressure medium pump is directly connected to the working chambers in each ease via a pressure medium channel; the central valve is connected to the working chambers via discharge channels; and the central valve exclusively controls the pressure medium discharge from the working chambers.