Abstract: An imaging device in a projection exposure machine for microlithography has at least one optical element and at least one manipulator, having a linear drive, for manipulating the position of the optical element. The linear drive has a driven subregion and a nondriven subregion, which are movable relative to one another in the direction of a movement axis. The subregions are interconnected at least temporarily via functional elements with an active axis and via functional elements with an active direction at least approximately parallel to the movement axis.

Abstract: The invention provides for a cermet powder containing 75-90% by weight of at least one hard material powder, from 10 to 25% by weight of one or more matrix metal powders and up to 3% by weight of at least one modifier, wherein the matrix metal powder or powders contain from 0 to 38% by weight of cobalt, from 0 to 38% by weight of nickel, from 0 to 20% by weight of aluminum, from 0 to 90% by weight of iron and from 10 to 35% by weight of chromium and the sum of the contents of iron and chromium is in the range from 10 to 95% by weight and the sum of the contents of cobalt, nickel and iron is in the range from 65 to 95% by weight. The invention also relates to a cermet and a process to make the cermet containing the cermet powder and shaped article coated with the cermet powder and a process to make the shaped article.

Abstract: A method of controlling an apparatus comprising a plurality of features and adapted to receive messages via a first network interface, wherein said method is implemented in a filter superposed on the top of an existing architecture of the apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: receiving network management message via said first network interface; interrogating said message in order to identify a feature said network management message relates to and filtering the received management message such that said management message is rejected if the identified feature is classified as disabled and said management message is allowed top go through if said feature is classified as enabled.

Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement including a nonplanar substrate on which an integrated circuit is formed on at least one side, wherein the side of the substrate which has the integrated circuit is arranged on a carrier and the carrier is produced from a chemically resistant material.

Abstract: In an extraction device comprising a suction apparatus (16) with an electric motor (32) and an centrifugal separator (14) exhibiting an inlet cylinder (22), a vertically arranged dip pipe (30) and a lateral suction nozzle (24) through which a laden gas stream enters the inlet cylinder (22), it is provided with a view to creating a low-cost and easy-to-handle extraction device of a compact design, having a centrifugal separator, that the electric motor (32) is arranged inside the dip pipe (30).

Abstract: A plug-in module frame has sockets (2) with at least one signal contact (7, 16) each for passing an information signal between the plug-in module frame (1) and a plug-in module (3) mounted at one of the sockets (2). A protocol converter (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17) having first and second terminals communicates with the plug-in module (3) via its first terminal and signal contact (7, 16) ac-cording to a first protocol and via its second terminal according to a second protocol. Type detecting means (8) are provided for detecting a characteristic of a plug-in module (3) mounted in socket (2), which characteristic is unambiguously associated to a protocol supported by the plug-in module (3), and the protocol converter (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17) which is connected to the type detecting means and supports a plurality of first protocols is adapted to use at its first terminal a protocol encoded by the detected property of the plug-in module (3) at its first terminal.

Abstract: An optical information transmission system comprises a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers, each having ports for exchangeable waveguides. Each transmitter has an input for receiving an enable signal assigned to it, and is adapted to generate or not to generate an optical information signal according to the status of the enable signal. A signal generator generates the enable signal whose status indicates whether the receiver is connected via a waveguide to a transmitter or not. Each signal generator is connected to one enable input by an enable control line wired separately from the waveguides and is adapted to generate the enable signal only after a test signal specific for each receiver has been received at its waveguide port. A description of the specific test signal of a receiver is transmitted to the associated transmitter.

Abstract: An integrated circuit arrangement including a nonplanar substrate on which an integrated circuit is formed on at least one side, wherein the side of the substrate a which has the integrated circuit is arranged on a carrier and the carrier is produced from a chemically resistant material.

Abstract: An imaging device in a projection exposure machine for microlithography has at least one optical element and at least one manipulator, having a linear drive, for manipulating the position of the optical element. The linear drive has a driven subregion and a nondriven subregion, which are movable relative to one another in the direction of a movement axis. The subregions are interconnected at least temporarily via functional elements with an active axis and via functional elements with an active direction at least approximately parallel to the movement axis.

Abstract: A plug-in module frame has sockets (2) with at least one signal contact (7, 16) each for passing an information signal between the plug-in module frame (1) and a plug-in module (3) mounted at one of the sockets (2). A protocol converter (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17) having first and second terminals communicates with the plug-in module (3) via its first terminal and signal contact (7, 16) ac-cording to a first protocol and via its second terminal according to a second protocol. Type detecting means (8) are provided for detecting a characteristic of a plug-in module (3) mounted in socket (2), which characteristic is unambiguously associated to a protocol supported by the plug-in module (3), and the protocol converter (9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17) which is connected to the type detecting means and supports a plurality of first protocols is adapted to use at its first terminal a protocol encoded by the detected property of the plug-in module (3) at its first terminal.

Abstract: A straightening apparatus for large diameter thick wall pipe has an expander head at one end of a beam inserted into the pipe and having a radially displaceable saddle positionable at any selected location along the beam. The saddle may be shifted along the beam by a linear actuator and the saddle applies a radial force to the inner wall of the pipe in a bending operation.

Abstract: Data carrier card having a card body of a flat form and having a recess, a carrier, a chip arranged on the carrier and inserted in the recess of the card body, external contact elements arranged on the carrier and electrically connected to the chip via conductor runs, and a cover covering the recess in operative connection with the carrier such that the carrier is held along the bottom in the recess, wherein the external contact elements and the chip are arranged on a same side of the carrier.

Abstract: A controllable piston valve for a shock absorber in a piston cylinder structure includes a piston valve member controlling a throughflow area is actuated by a differential control piston. Oppositely directed effective surfaces of the control piston are subject to the pressure of the piston chamber and the annular chamber of the cylinder. The control piston and/or the piston valve member are additionally loaded with a pressure of a pressure source opposite to the larger of the effective surfaces, the pressure source being formed by a combination of a fluidic resistance and a fluidic capacitance and are supplied by the pressure in the piston chamber or the annular chamber of the piston cylinder structure.

Abstract: An optical information transmission system comprises a plurality of optical transmitters and receivers, each having ports for exchangeable waveguides. Each transmitter has an input for receiving an enable signal assigned to it, and is adapted to generate or not to generate an optical information signal according to the status of the enable signal. A signal generator generates the enable signal whose status indicates whether the receiver is connected via a waveguide to a transmitter or not. Each signal generator is connected to one enable input by an enable control line wired separately from the waveguides and is adapted to generate the enable signal only after a test signal specific for each receiver has been received at its waveguide port. A description of the specific test signal of a receiver is transmitted to the associated transmitter.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the continuous production of biodiesel from biogenic fat- or oil-containing starting mixtures with a high content of free fatty acids as well as a device for producing biodiesel.

Abstract: A straightening apparatus for large diameter thick wall pipe has an expander head at one end of a beam inserted into the pipe and having a radially displaceable saddle positionable at any selected location along the beam. The saddle may be shifted along the beam by a linear actuator and the saddle applies a radial force to the inner wall of the pipe in a bending operation.

Abstract: Data carrier card having a card body of a flat form and having a recess, a carrier, a chip arranged on the carrier and inserted in the recess of the card body, external contact elements arranged on the carrier and electrically connected to the chip via conductor runs, and a cover covering the recess in operative connection with the carrier such that the carrier is held along the bottom in the recess, wherein the external contact elements and the chip are arranged on a same side of the carrier.

Abstract: In a smart card module for biometric sensors for installation in smart cards, a support has at least one through opening or window in the region of a sensor chip. The sensor chip is mounted on the support such that an active surface of the sensor chip is directed toward the support and is situated in the region of the window, so that it can be accessed through the window in the support.

Abstract: An imaging device (7) in a projection exposure machine (1) for microlithography has at least one optical element (10, 33, 34) and at least one manipulator (9, 36, 41), having a linear drive (11), for manipulating the position of the optical element (10, 33, 34). The linear drive (11) has a driven subregion (14) and a nondriven subregion (15), which are movable relative to one another in the direction of a movement axis (17). The subregions (14, 15) are interconnected at least temporarily via functional elements (18) with an active axis (17) [sic] and via functional elements (19) with an active direction at least approximately parallel to the movement axis (17).