Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft with wings whose maximum lift can be altered by controllable wing components. By means of a regulating device, depending on flight state parameters and the actually measured load on the wings, wing components are acted upon such that, as a precautionary measure, the maximum possible aerodynamic lift does not exceed a desired upper limit value.

Abstract: Anode-supported high-temperature fuel cells with a substrate and an anode of stabilised zirconium dioxide and metallic nickel can be destroyed by air penetrating on the fuel gas side. Reoxidation causes the volume of the nickel in the anode to change. The resultant mechanical stresses may destroy the gas-impermeable electrolyte. The invention provides oxygen scavengers that can be produced at low cost for the anode, which more effectively bind the oxygen that penetrates on the fuel gas side than oxygen scavengers according to the prior art.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft with wings whose maximum lift can be altered by controllable wing components. By means of a regulating device (20), depending on flight state parameters and the actually measured load on the wings (10), wing components (11, 12) are acted upon such that the maximum possible aerodynamic lift does not exceed a desired upper limit value.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an aircraft leading edge nose structure includes the following steps. Parallel strengthening members are welded onto a flat planar outer skin sheet. Two forming tool members having appropriately shaped outer contours contact the inner surfaces of the strengthening members, and are then pivoted and shifted toward each other so as to bend the outer skin sheet into a parabolic shape along the curved contour defined by the forming tool members. The resulting bent outer skin sheet with the strengthening members welded thereon is secured into a negative mold. To provide boundary layer suction, a perforated throttling sheet, inner ribs, and a non-perforated inner skin sheet may be successively secured by sealant and blind rivets onto the pre-bent structure of the outer skin sheet and the strengthening members. The finished structure is then removed from the mold.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an aircraft leading edge nose structure includes the following steps. Parallel strengthening members are welded onto a flat planar outer skin sheet. Two forming tool members having appropriately shaped outer contours contact the inner surfaces of the strengthening members, and are then pivoted and shifted toward each other so as to bend the outer skin sheet into a parabolic shape along the curved contour defined by the forming tool members. The resulting bent outer skin sheet with the strengthening members welded thereon is secured into a negative mold. To provide boundary layer suction, a perforated throttling sheet, inner ribs, and a non-perforated inner skin sheet may be successively secured by sealant and blind rivets onto the pre-bent structure of the outer skin sheet and the strengthening members. The finished structure is then removed from the mold.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compounds of 70 to 99.5% by weight thermoplastic polyamides and 30 to 0.5% by weight hydrogenated nitrile rubber and 0 to 29.5% by weight thermoplastic resin components and, optionally, standard additives in typical quantities. These thermoplastic molding compounds show high strength values, very good moldability and, above all, high weathering resistance.

Abstract: Apparatus for preparation of process water for presses, such as printing presses, or the like, including conditioning apparatus for conditioning the process water and cooling apparatus for cooling the process water, comprise a housing (1) which is spatially divided into upper and lower housing spaces (A, B), with the conditioning apparatus (2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 22-24) arranged in the lower housing space (B) and the cooling apparatus (9, 10) and a fan arrangement (11, 12) to produce a substantially upwardly directed exhaust stream of cooling air out of the housing arranged in the upper housing space (A). The cooling apparatus includes a refrigeration condenser arranged close to a cooling-air exhaust opening (12) at an upper side of the housing (1) so that the refrigeration condenser is subjected to cool air before it exits into a surrounding space.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic polyamide moulding compositions with improved toughness at low temperatures consisting of at least 60% by weight of polyamide and from 3 to 35% by weight of graft rubbers from the group comprising diene rubbers and acrylate rubbers, which are produced in that a mixture of the two components is produced in the presence of from 0.01 to 5% by weight of a radical forming agent and the moulding compositions are then heated below the polyamide melting point as far as possible in the absence of oxygen.

Abstract: This invention relates to polyamides which have been modified with special silicone graft rubbers to render them impact resistant and are tough at low temperatures and have high processing stability even at high temperatures and good surface properties.The moulding compounds, which are distinguished by excellent mechanical properties even at low temperatures, consist of at least 40% by weight of polyamide and special graft rubbers with a multishell core/sheath structure having a silicone-based core.

Abstract: The reaction of--preferably partially crystalline--polyamides with monoisocyanate or monoisocyanate precursors gives products having improved flowability, mould release and/or notched impact strength.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions showing improved properties, more especially improved dimensional stability and notched impact strength, particularly at low temperatures, in the form of a mixture of at least 35% by weight of a copolyamide containing polydiorganosiloxane carbonamide units and/or of a mixture of partly crystalline polyamides and (co)polyamides containing polydiorganosiloxane carbonamide units and from 1 to 65% by weight of graft products of vinyl polymers on rubbers.The invention also relates to the dimensionally stable molding compositions tough at low temperatures characterized above which additionally contain amorphous siloxane-free polyamides added in quantities of up to 64% by weight.

Abstract: This invention relates to high-impact mixtures of polyamides and polymers based on polyacrylates or polybutadienes having improved processing behaviour and improved technological properties and to the production of these polymers by a multistage process.

Abstract: Unfilled, unreinforced polyamide moulding compounds are disclosed which have high rigidity and notched impact strength and are highly fluid in the molten state, containing aliphatic polycarbonate polyurethanes which are substantially unbranched in the carbon chain, prepared from polyhexamethylene carbonate diols and/or mixtures thereof with oligo- or polyalkylene glycols having 4-100 carbon atoms and 1,6-diisocyanatohexane.

Abstract: Thermoplastic moulding materials, with improved toughness at low temperatures, of polyamide and cross-linked graft rubbers from the diene rubber and acrylate rubber series, obtained by heating blends of the two components below the melting point of the polyamide.

Abstract: This invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions having improved impact strength at low temperatures comprising polyamides and grafted, at least partially crosslinked diene rubbers and/or acrylate rubbers having a bimodal rubber particle size distribution.

Abstract: Block copolyamides consisting of from 1 to 80% by weight of hydrogenated telechelic diene polymers having M.sub.n molecular weight of from 400 to 6000 and from 99 to 20% by weight of polyamides or polyamide-forming components.

Abstract: A mixture comprising 1. from 70 to 99% by weight of a predominantly aromatic polycarbonate; and 2. from 30 to 1% by weight of a polyolefin graft polymer of (a) 70 to 95% by weight of a graft base consisting of a homopolymer of aliphatic and/or aromatic monoolefins or of a copolymer of these olefins, and up to 50% by weight of other monoolefinically unsaturated, radially polymerizable compounds and/or up to 5% by weight of diolefins, and (b) 5 to 30% by weight of at least one graft-polymerizable vinyl compound, the olefin graft polymers having been obtained by contacting a melt of the graft base (a) with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas for at most 10 min. with intensive mixing under a pressure of from 1 to 150 bars and at a temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 300.degree. C., adding the vinyl compounds (b) to be grafted on immediately afterwards with intensive mixing in the absence of oxygen or oxygen-containing gas and removing the residual monomers after the graft polymerization reaction.

Abstract: A method for making a light-collector of a transparent plastic and a fluorescent dye, wherein the monomers forming transparent plastics are mass-prepolymerized in the presence of radical catalysts and the fluorescent dye is added before, during or at the end of prepolymerization, and then polymerizing the mixture to completion by adding another catalyst, also at pressures of from 2 to 20 bars and at temperatures of from 50.degree. to 160.degree. C., and the use of the light-collector thus produced in combination with photovoltaic elements, preferably based on Ga/As or Si.

Abstract: A block copolymer is produced fromI. 1 to 60% by weight of at least one telechelic diene polymer containing terminal carbonate ester, --OH--, --NH.sub.2 --, carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid ester groups and having a molecular weight M.sub.n of from about 400 to 1300, andII. 99 to 40% by weight of at least one polyamide or polyamide-forming component.

Abstract: A high molecular weight stabilized polymer composition containing p-polyphenylene sulfide and a siloxane.