Abstract: An inflator as well as a method of manufacturing an inflator, a module including an inflator and an airbag module. In an inflator, especially for a protective device in a vehicle, comprising plural components a sealant is applied in the area of abutting components, especially a sealant which adheres to both abutting components.

Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of hepatitis infections or hepatitis diseases, in particular hepatitis C. The invention more particularly relates to the use of an inhibitor and/or repressor of a nucleic acid molecule, especially gene, which is related to the proliferation and/or replication of hepatitis viruses, in particular hepatitis C viruses, in order to produce a medicament for preventing and/or curing hepatitis, in particular hepatitis C, as well as a pharmaceutical composition, preferably for preventing or treating hepatitis C diseases, said composition containing the repressor and/or inhibitor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel medical diagnostic method and treatment in conjunction with depression-inducing genes which are stimulated in particular by interferon. The invention relates in particular to the use of at least one nucleic acid molecule which induces depression and/or is associated with depression, in particular a gene and/or the DNA sequence thereof and/or the RNA sequence associated therewith, and/or a (poly)peptide encoded by the nucleic acid, for finding and/or providing a diagnostic method for detecting depression, or a medicament for the preventive and/or curative treatment of depression, and/or for determining the risk of developing depression, and/or for predicting the individual effects and/or side-effects of medicaments, in particular for treatment with interferon (for example, for the treatment of hepatitis).

Abstract: A method for coating the surface of inorganic solid particles in an aqueous suspension, particularly for coating titanium dioxide with SiO2 includes: a) disagglomeration of the solid particles contained in aqueous suspension, b) addition of a water-soluble precursor of the coating substance to the suspension, c) immediately following step b) homogenization of the suspension, where the temperature and pH value of the suspension do not change significantly in steps a) to c), d) feeding the slurry into a tank and precipitation of the coating substance onto the particle surface and, optionally, application of further coatings, and e) separation of the solid particles from the suspension. The method produces to a highly homogeneous and continuous skin on the particle surface, and to less separately precipitated coating substance.

Abstract: A method for reprocessing cyclone dust occurring during the carbochlorination of titaniferous raw materials, which essentially consists of titanium dioxide, coke and other inert metal oxides, such as silicon dioxide, and for returning a coke-rich and/or a TiO2-rich fraction to the chlorination reactor includes: preparing an aqueous suspension of the cyclone dust; separating a coke-rich fraction (1) from the aqueous suspension by flotation; adding hydrofluoric acid to the remaining suspension; and separating a TiO2-rich fraction (2) by flotation from the remaining suspension.

Abstract: A chuck is described, in particular for a hammer drill or chisel hammer, having a chuck body having an insertion opening for holding a tool shank, and a locking element for axially locking the tool shank in the insertion opening, the locking element being movable between a locked position and an unlocked position, and having an arresting pin, mounted in the locking element and radially displaceable between an arresting position and a release position, which axially arrests the locking element in its arresting position and axially releases it in its release position.

Abstract: A gas generator has a propellant charge and an early ignition device held loosely in the propellant charge. The early ignition device consists of an early ignition charge and an enclosure surrounding the early ignition charge. The enclosure is at least one foil wrapped around the early ignition charge. The outer edges of the foil, lying one over another, are connected with each other to close the enclosure.

Abstract: A method for the agitator milling of solid particles, particularly of titanium dioxide, where the suspension with a maximum particle size of 2 ?m is milled in closed-circuit mode and subjected to continuous classification by sedimentation in a tank after each pass through the mill. The method results in milled solid particles with narrower particle size distributions, particularly titanium dioxide pigments with improved optical properties, such as tinting strength and gloss.

Abstract: Among other things, a method for the production of a modified material, for example, a carbon material, is described, having the following steps: Generation of a high-frequency field in a chamber (2) of a plasmatron (1); introduction of a plasma gas into chamber (2); generation of a plasma with the plasma gas by the high-frequency field; and introduction of initial material into the plasma. In addition a plasmatron (1) is described for the production of a modified material (M), having: a chamber (2), at least one high-frequency inductor (3) disposed in at least one region of chamber (2), a gas supply line (10, 11) for introducing a plasma gas into the region of a high-frequency field generated by high-frequency inductor (3), and a material supply line (4) for blowing in initial material with a transport gas into the plasma generated by high-frequency inductor (3) with the plasma gas. Finally, it also describes a modified carbon material which is correspondingly produced.

Abstract: A chuck is described, in particular for a hammer drill or chisel hammer, having a chuck body having an insertion opening for holding a tool shank, and a locking element for axially locking the tool shank in the insertion opening, the locking element being movable betveen a locked position and an unlocked position, and having an arresting pin, mounted in the locking element and radially displaceable between an arresting position and a release position, which axially arrests the locking element in its arresting position and axially releases it in its release position.

Abstract: In a multi-chamber device a chamber with lubricant is sealed off on a rotationally drivable component from a second chamber at a peg of a power tool, by at least one seal sliding at a contact face, and least one stationary component is provided in the chamber with lubricant before the contact face and surrounds a rotationally drivable component at least over a region of a circumference to substantially prevent turbulence in the lubricant in a region of the contact face.

Abstract: A snap ring for shafts or bores is proposed, which is able to be axially fixed in position by snapping into place in a circumferential groove. The snap ring is provided with a centering ring which, when the case of the snap ring is installed in the circumferential groove, extends with radial clearance to an annular clip of the snap ring, which is disposed approximately concentrically to the circumferential groove.

Abstract: A hand power tool has at least one safety coupling arranged in a drive train, the safety coupling having at least two coupling elements for transmitting a torque around a rotary axis, at least one arresting element which is spring loaded and held in a guiding passage for connecting the coupling elements with one another, a guiding element, a spring providing spring-loading of the arresting element and supported in direction of the arresting element by the guiding element, the guiding element being non rotatably guided relative to an axis extending parallel to the rotary axis by guiding surfaces in the guiding passage, and the arresting element unlatching and keeping in contact with a surface toward which the arresting element is urged by the spring in response to exceeding of predetermined torque.

Abstract: The invention is based on a device for sealing off a chamber (10) with lubricant (12) on a rotationally drivable component (14) from a second chamber (16), in particular at a peg of a power tool, having at least one seal (20) sliding at a contact face (18).

Abstract: A hand power tool has at least one safety coupling arranged in a drive train and having at least two coupling elements for transmitting a torque around a rotary axis, at lest one arresting element which is spring loaded and held in a guiding passage for connecting the coupling elements with one another, so that the coupling elements are at least disconnected in response to exceeding of predetermined torque, a spring providing spring-loading of the arresting element and supported in direction of the arresting element by the guiding element, and the guiding element being non rotatably guided relative to an axis extending parallel to the rotary axis by guiding surfaces in the guiding passage.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnosis machine having an X-ray source (3) and a recording device with a photo-timer which has at least one measurement field (2) in a radiation detector plane (1) essentially parallel to the image plane. The measurement field is mounted so as to be capable of being displaced in the radiation detector plane.