Abstract: A method for measuring a property of an object, the method comprising: dipping a solid immersion lens into a solution comprising the object, such that the object interacts with the surface of the solid immersion lens; illuminating the surface of the solid immersion lens with an illumination source and detecting the scattered light from the object using an interferometric scattering microscope; measuring a property of the object using the detected scattered light; withdrawing the solid immersion lens from the solution; and subsequently cleaning the solid immersion lens such that the object is removed from the surface of the solid immersion lens.

Abstract: The application discloses a method and apparatus for imaging a sample by interferometric scattering microscopy, the method comprising illuminating a sample with at least one coherent light source, the sample being held at a sample location comprising an interface having a refractive index change, illuminating the sample with illuminating radiation to generate a backpropagating signal from the sample comprising light reflected at the interface and light scattered by the sample, splitting the backpropagating signal into first and second signals, modifying the second signal using a modifying element such that the second signal differs from the first signal, directing the first and second signals onto first and second detectors to generate, respectively, first and second images and comparing, by a processor, the first and second images to determine one or more characteristics of the sample.

Abstract: A driving device, comprising a hand-held housing with a piston element arranged therein for the transmission of energy to a fastening element to be driven in a driving direction, a propellant charge, and a combustion chamber, which is arranged between the propellant charge and the piston element and extends around a central axis, and an actuator, by which the energy to be transmitted from the propellant charge to the piston element can be varied in such a way that the energy can be set, wherein a venting channel connected to the combustion chamber can be exposed by means of a movable slide of the actuator, wherein the venting channel opens out into the combustion chamber by a vent opening, which can be partially or completely covered by the slide, and wherein a cross-sectional area of the vent opening increases in the driving direction.

Abstract: A driving device, comprising a hand-held housing with a piston element arranged therein for transmission of energy to a fastening element to be driven in a driving direction, a propellant charge, and a combustion chamber, which is arranged between the propellant charge and the piston element and extends around a central axis, and an actuator, by which energy to be transmitted from the propellant charge to the piston element can be varied in such that the energy can be set, wherein the combustion chamber has an internal thread and a cylindrical guiding portion, wherein the actuator is arranged in the combustion chamber and has an external thread in engagement with the internal thread and a bearing for mounting the actuator in the guiding portion, wherein a thread gap spacing between the external and internal threads is greater than a bearing gap spacing between the bearing and the guiding portion.

Abstract: A method and kit is described for the detection of a biomarker in a sample, by light scattering microscopy. The invention is particularly useful for the detection of low abundance biomarker in complex samples, and is suitable for use in a point of care setting. In an embodiment, the method of the invention describes detection of a biomarker in a sample using mass photometry.

Abstract: A power tool, comprising first and second module, removable from the first module, the first and second modules being insertable into one another along an insertion axis defining an insertion direction, the first module having a pressing inhibiting element, moved along with the second module, and a pressing blocking element, the inhibiting element being turnable with respect to the blocking element about the insertion axis between normal and detaching positions, the second module being held against the first module in the normal position and removable from the first module in the detaching position, the blocking element allowing the inhibiting element to be transferred along the insertion axis toward the first module into a pressing position when the inhibiting element is in the normal position, the blocking element blocking the insert fitting from being transferred into the pressing position when the inhibiting element is in the detaching position.

Abstract: A tool device comprises a first module and a second module that can be detached from the first module, the first module having a receptacle and the second module having an insertion part that can be inserted in the receptacle along an insertion axis. The insertion part can be rotated in the receptacle about the insertion axis between a locked position and an enabled position, the receptacle having a first projection and the insertion part having a second projection. In the locked position, the second projection engages behind the first projection in the direction of the insertion axis, and in the enabled position, the first projection enables the second projection to pass in the direction of the insertion axis, the receptacle preventing an activation of the tool device in an initial position and allowing activation of the tool device in a pressed-on position.

Abstract: The application discloses a method and apparatus for imaging a sample by interferometric scattering microscopy, the method comprising illuminating a sample with at least one coherent light source, the sample being held at a sample location comprising an interface having a refractive index change, illuminating the sample with illuminating radiation to generate a backpropagating signal from the sample comprising light reflected at the interface and light scattered by the sample, splitting the backpropagating signal into first and second signals, modifying the second signal using a modifying element such that the second signal differs from the first signal, directing the first and second signals onto first and second detectors to generate, respectively, first and second images and comparing, by a processor, the first and second images to determine one or more characteristics of the sample.

Abstract: A tool device comprises a first module and a second module that can be detached from the first module, the first module having a receptacle and the second module having an insertion part that can be inserted in the receptacle along an insertion axis. The insertion part can be rotated in the receptacle about the insertion axis between a locked position and an enabled position, the receptacle having a first projection and the insertion part having a second projection. In the locked position, the second projection engages behind the first projection in the direction of the insertion axis, and in the enabled position, the first projection enables the second projection to pass in the direction of the insertion axis, the receptacle preventing an activation of the tool device in an initial position and allowing activation of the tool device in a pressed-on position.

Abstract: A tool device comprises a first module and a second module that can be detached from the first module, the first module having a receptacle and the second module having an insertion part that can be inserted in the receptacle along an insertion axis. The insertion part can be rotated in the receptacle about the insertion axis between a locked position and an enabled position, the receptacle having a first projection and the insertion part having a second projection. In the locked position, the second projection engages behind the first projection in the direction of the insertion axis, and in the enabled position, the first projection enables the second projection to pass in the direction of the insertion axis, the receptacle preventing an activation of the tool device in an initial position and allowing activation of the tool device in a pressed-on position.

Abstract: A tool device comprises a first module and a second module that can be detached from the first module, the first module having a receptacle and the second module having an insertion part that can be inserted in the receptacle along an insertion axis. The insertion part can be rotated in the receptacle about the insertion axis between a locked position and an enabled position, the receptacle having a first projection and the insertion part having a second projection. In the locked position, the second projection engages behind the first projection in the direction of the insertion axis, and in the enabled position, the first projection enables the second projection to pass in the direction of the insertion axis, the receptacle preventing an activation of the tool device in an initial position and allowing activation of the tool device in a pressed-on position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for driving a securing element into a substrate, having a mechanical energy store for storing mechanical energy; an energy transmitting element for transmitting energy from the mechanical energy store to the securing element; an energy transmitting device for transmitting energy from an energy source to the mechanical energy store; a housing with a first and a second housing part, said first housing part being connected to the second housing part in order to form an interior between the first and second housing part, the mechanical energy store being arranged in said interior; and an intermediate element, by means of which the mechanical energy store can be secured to the first housing part at least temporarily while energy is stored in the mechanical energy store.

Abstract: An arrangement of at least two wafers for detecting electromagnetic radiation, in particular far infrared radiation, comprises a first wafer and a second wafer. The first wafer includes a microsystem formed as a sensor array. The microsystem is configured to register electromagnetic radiation and provide a corresponding sensor signal. The second wafer includes an integrated circuit formed as an evaluation circuit that is coupled to the sensor array. The integrated circuit is configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation with the aid of the sensor signal provided.

Abstract: A hand-held drive-in device for fastening elements has a drive arrangement for a drive-in ram which is mounted so as to be movable in a guide, the ram being coupled via a transmission device to at least one drive spring element which can be tensioned via a tensioning device, wherein the transmission device and the drive spring element have masses. In order to improve the quality of setting operations, the masses of the transmission device and of the drive spring element are tailored to one another such that, when driving a fastening element at a drive-in point into a substrate, the hand-held drive-in device experiences a supporting force which acts in the direction of the substrate and serves, with the hand-held drive-in device, to exert pressure on the surroundings of the drive-in point.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool comprises a hand-held casing having a movable and drivable energy transmission element including a driving member, wherein the driving member acts to drive a fastener, a locking element, and a sensor member for determining an operational state of the fastener driving tool, wherein a driving process is released only if the operational state prevails, wherein the locking member is arranged in a locking manner in a path of the energy transmission element if the non-operational state prevails, wherein, once a driving process has been triggered, the locking member can stop the energy transmission element.

Abstract: A method provides for operating a drive train having several drive assemblies, a transmission and an output A first drive assembly acts on a first transmission shaft of the transmission, and a second drive assembly acts on a second transmission shaft. The transmission includes several shift elements, whereas an output torque depending on a driver's requested torque is provided at the output. For the opening of a shift element the shift element is placed without load. The probability of a gearshift request is determined on the control side by a shifting strategy.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nail device for setting nails into an object, comprising a housing, a setting mechanism for setting the nail along a setting axis, a bolt-guiding element for contacting on the object at a first contact point, in particular a trigger for activating the setting mechanism, a swivelable support foot for contacting on the object at a second contact point, wherein a connecting line between the first and the second contact point and the setting axis span a device plane of the nail device, characterised in that the swivel axis of the support foot is oriented substantially perpendicular to the device plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a driver device, comprising a rotating motor, a gas spring having an elastically compressible gas volume, and a setting piston, wherein the gas spring can be loaded by the motor by means of a loading mechanism in order to accelerate the setting piston in a driving direction after a release from the loaded state, wherein the gas spring comprises a piston head guided in a gas-tight manner, which is adjoined by a piston rod as a separate component in the driving direction, wherein the piston rod is connected to the piston head by means of a thrust bearing that can be pivoted in several planes.

Abstract: The invention concerns a driving tool comprising a motor, in particular, an electric motor, a gas spring with an elastically compressible gas volume, and a firing piston, wherein the gas spring can be tensioned via a tensioning device with the motor, so as to accelerate after a release from a tensioned state the firing piston in a firing direction, wherein at least one part of the tensioning device is located within the gas volume of the gas spring.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the application, a device for driving a fastening element into a substrate has an energy-transfer element for transferring energy to the fastening element. The energy-transfer element can move preferably between a starting position and a setting position, wherein the energy-transfer element is located, before a driving-in procedure, in the starting position and, after the driving-in procedure, in the setting position. According to another aspect of the application, the device comprises a mechanical-energy storage device for storing mechanical energy. The energy-transfer element is then suitable preferably for transferring energy from the mechanical-energy storage device to the fastening element.