Abstract: A local coil system for detecting magnetic resonance (MR) signals in a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device includes an energy reception antenna for inductively receiving energy for the local coil system from a magnetic field changing over time with an energy transmission frequency. The energy reception antenna includes a conductor loop running in loop-like fashion from a first loop connection to a second loop connection. At least one path filter that blocks for harmonic frequencies of the energy transmission frequency is arranged over the course of the energy reception path, and/or at least one path filter that blocks for harmonic frequencies of the energy transmission frequency is arranged over the course of an energy reception path leading from the loop connections to a rectifier.

Abstract: A method and device for operating an x-ray device including an x-ray emitter and an x-ray detector are provided. An alternating magnetic field is produced and emitted at the x-ray emitter. At least two sensors are included for capturing at least one physical variable correlating with the alternating magnetic field. An alignment of the x-ray detector relative to the x-ray emitter is determined based on the measurement.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for monitoring the treatment of mobile patient support devices. The infection status of a mobile patient support device is registered in a database in a computer system. The mobile patient support device is identified at a treatment station using a data reader which identifies an identification tag attached to the mobile patient support device. Information on the infection status of the mobile patient support device is output at the treatment station.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for transverse installation in a vehicle includes a muffler housing (26) elongated in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis (G) with a housing jacket (28) and two front walls (30, 32). The two front walls (30, 32) are arranged at spaced locations from one another and define an interior (34) of the muffler with the housing jacket (28). At least one inlet pipe (36) leads into the interior (34) of the muffler and at least one outlet pipe (20) leads out of the interior (34) of the muffler. At least one front wall (30, 32) has at least one predetermined deformation area (50, 52).

Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive charging device having at least one inductive charging coil wound about a coil axis, and an electric or dielectric antenna, which is arranged at a location that is shifted parallel to the coil axis in relation to a location of a region of the charging coil, a location within the at least one charging coil, or a location between the charging coils. The electric vehicle and the charging station each have such an inductive charging device. With the method, one or two such inductive charging devices are used, wherein by means of the inductive charging coils, energy is transmitted, and by means of the antennas, communications data are transmitted.

Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device (10) for identifying and/or locating an RFID transponder (12), comprising a first RFID reader (14) and at least one second RFID reader (16), wherein the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16) for identifying and/or locating the RFID transponder (12) sends out a query signal (S1 to S4) to the RFID transponder (12) and receives a response signal (A1, A2) from the RFID transponder (12), and wherein the communication device (10) comprises a trigger device (18) which is designed so as to send a trigger signal (R1/2_OUT, R3/4_OUT, R1/2/3/4_OUT) to the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16), as a result of which the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16) sends out the query signal (S1 to S4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated soluble CCR6 receptor polypeptide capable of binding to CCL18 and/or CCL20 and to a method for quantifying the concentration of a soluble CCR6 receptor polypeptide in a liquid sample from a subject. The present invention also relates to a method for detecting and/or prognosticating an interstitial lung disease or a cancer in a subject by determining the level of a soluble CCR6 receptor polypeptide in a sample from said subject and further provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound capable of inhibiting the activity and/or the expression of CCL18 or CCL20 for the treatment of said diseases. The present invention further relates to an isolated polypeptide capable of binding to and inhibiting the activity of the chemokine receptor CCR6 and to a method for identifying further inhibitors of CCR6 receptor activity.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for transverse installation in a vehicle includes a muffler housing (26) elongated in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis (G) with a housing jacket (28) and two front walls (30, 32). The two front walls (30, 32) are arranged at spaced locations from one another and define an interior (34) of the muffler with the housing jacket (28). At least one inlet pipe (36) leads into the interior (34) of the muffler and at least one outlet pipe (20) leads out of the interior (34) of the muffler. At least one front wall (30, 32) has at least one predetermined deformation area (50, 52).

Abstract: A vehicle door, comprising an inner door panel and an outer door panel with an inner surface facing the inner door panel, is provided. A loudspeaker which is arranged on the inner door panel, is spaced apart from the outer door panel and is intended for generating acoustic sound waves. A sound-guiding element which is designed to deflect sound waves radiated in the direction of the outer door panel by the loudspeaker and to guide said sound waves into a wet chamber of the vehicle door, which wet chamber is formed between the inner door panel and the outer door panel, and/or into a dry chamber of the vehicle door, which dry chamber is formed on a side of the inner door panel that faces away from the outer door panel.

Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a device and a method for determining at least one concentration of coal particles in a gas flow flowing through a channel, wherein at least part of the gas flow having coal particles contained therein is measured by at least one microwave sensor and at least one measurement signal characterizing the concentration of the coal particles is provided, wherein an autocorrelation function of the measurement signal is determined and at least one distance value characterizing a distance of a point of the gas flow belonging to the concentration from the microwave sensor is determined in dependence on the autocorrelation function.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor (300) for determining a dielectric property of a medium (205). The sensor (300) has a substrate (301, 302), which has at least one via (203, 204), and a waveguide (12), which is arranged so as to be planar in relation to an upper surface of the substrate (301). The waveguide (12) can be connected to an analysis device (20) by means of the at least one via (203, 204). Furthermore, the waveguide (12) is designed to receive an input signal from the analysis device (20) and to output an output signal to the analysis device (20). When of the waveguide (12) is in contact with a medium (205), properties of the input signal and of the output signal are indicative of the dielectric property of the medium (205). The arrangement of the waveguide (12) so as to be planar in relation to the substrate (301) enables larger measurement ranges and improved measurement accuracies. Furthermore, a compact construction is achieved by the planar structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to test kits for the determination of allergic dermatitis caused by insect bites in an animal such as horses, and to compositions and methods for desensitization. It was found that a culture supernatant or a cell extract of Sf21 insect cells is suitable for reliable test kits and for compositions for desensitization.

Abstract: A local coil system for detecting magnetic resonance (MR) signals in a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device includes an energy reception antenna for inductively receiving energy for the local coil system from a magnetic field changing over time with an energy transmission frequency. The energy reception antenna includes a conductor loop running in loop-like fashion from a first loop connection to a second loop connection. At least one path filter that blocks for harmonic frequencies of the energy transmission frequency is arranged over the course of the energy reception path, and/or at least one path filter that blocks for harmonic frequencies of the energy transmission frequency is arranged over the course of an energy reception path leading from the loop connections to a rectifier.

Abstract: A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [Bi1WbOx]a[Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5nOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide Bi1WbOx with the particle size d50A1 and, formed from element sources, a finely divided intimate mixture of stoichiometry Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5h with the particle size d50A2 are mixed in a ratio of a:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where (d50A1)0.7·(d90A1)1.5·(a)?1?820.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a membrane (6) in a membrane filtration system by flowing gas bubbles past the surfaces of the membrane (6) to scour accumulated solids therefrom. The method includes flowing a liquid past a supply of gas; creating a reduced pressure within the liquid flow to cause a flow of gas from the supply of gas (9) into the liquid flow and form gas bubbles therein and then flowing the liquid containing the gas bubbles past the surfaces of the membrane (6) to scour the surfaces thereof. Apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: Mo-, Bi- and Fe-comprising multimetal oxide compositions of the general stoichiometry I, Mo12BiaCobFecKdSieOx??(I), where a=0.5 to 1, b=7 to 8.5, c=1.5 to 3.0, d=0 to 0.15, e=0 to 2.5 and x=the stoichiometric coefficient of O2? which guarantees the electric neutrality of the multimetal oxide, and 12?b?1.5·c=A and 0.5?A?1.5, 0.2?a/A?1.3, and 2.5?b/c?9, and the use thereof.

Abstract: A vehicle door, comprising an inner door panel and an outer door panel with an inner surface facing the inner door panel, is provided. A loudspeaker which is arranged on the inner door panel, is spaced apart from the outer door panel and is intended for generating acoustic sound waves. A sound-guiding element which is designed to deflect sound waves radiated in the direction of the outer door panel by the loudspeaker and to guide said sound waves into a wet chamber of the vehicle door, which wet chamber is formed between the inner door panel and the outer door panel, and/or into a dry chamber of the vehicle door, which dry chamber is formed on a side of the inner door panel that faces away from the outer door panel.

Abstract: A connection between two annular sections of two components of an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine that is installed in a motor vehicle. In an embodiment, the two components are coaxial to one another. The connection comprises an annular connecting element with a first ring section, and a second ring section concentric to the first ring section. The ring sections are axially connected to one another in a rigid fashion on the face side by means of a connecting region. The first ring section is rigidly connected to the annular section of the first component by means of a first connecting region spaced apart from the connecting region. The second ring section is rigidly connected to the annular section of the second component by means of a second connecting region spaced apart from the connecting region. The connection is characterized by a high fatigue strength under thermal stress.

Abstract: A process for long-term operation of a continuous heterogeneously catalyzed partial dehydrogenation of a hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated, in which a reaction gas mixture stream comprising the hydrocarbon to be dehydrogenated in a molar starting amount KW is conducted through an overall catalyst bed comprising the total amount M of dehydrogenation catalyst and the deactivation of the overall catalyst bed is counteracted in such a way that, with increasing operating time, the contribution to the conversion in the first third of the total amount M of dehydrogenation catalyst in flow direction decreases, the contribution to the conversion in the last third of the total amount M of dehydrogenation catalyst in flow direction increases, and the contribution to the conversion in the second third of the total amount M of dehydrogenation catalyst in flow direction passes through a maximum.

Abstract: Iron- and manganese-containing heterogeneous catalyst, and a process for producing it, including the following steps: thermal decomposition of gaseous iron pentacarbonyl to give carbonyl iron powder having spherical primary particles; treatment of carbonyl iron powder with hydrogen, resulting in the metallic spherical primary particles at least partly agglomerating; surface oxidation of the iron particles to form iron oxide; contacting the particles with an aqueous solution of a manganese compound; drying in the presence of oxygen and subsequent calcination in the absence of oxygen, resulting in oxygen-comprising manganese compounds on the particles; and finally reaction of these with the iron oxide to form a mixed oxide of the formula MnxFe3-xO4, where 0<x?2. Process for preparing olefins by reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the abovementioned iron- and manganese-comprising heterogeneous catalyst is used as catalyst.