Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a firm, in particular vegan, gel food body, preferably a gel food block, made of plant proteins, the method having the following steps: a) providing a composition consisting of or comprising an aqueous plant protein concentrate solution b) aggregating the composition in a pressure vessel (2) by heating the composition to a maximum temperature, then cooling the composition to a cool temperature below 100° C. and below the peak start temperature (7) c) performing the heating and cooling at a counterpressure in the pressure vessel (2), which counterpressure acts on the composition and is above normal atmospheric pressure, in such a way that the composition is prevented from boiling. The invention also relates to a gel food body and to the use of an aggregator (1).

Abstract: A jelly confectionary includes a sugar selected from a group consisting of isomaltulose, trehalose and combinations thereof. The jelly confectionary further includes at least one gelling agent and water. The sugar in the jelly confectionary is 30 to 50 wt. % based on a total weight of the jelly confectionary. A process for producing the jelly confectionary includes bringing a composition of the sugar, gelling agent and water to a pouring temperature, pouring the composition into a mold maintained at a mold temperature and drying the composition in the mold for at least two weeks.

Abstract: The invention relates to a guide apparatus for turbomachines, in particular for Francis or Kaplan turbines or pumps or pump turbines having a plurality of guide blades which can be actuated via in each case one link on a common adjusting member. Here, every guide blade or every second guide blade can be equipped with a bending element. A bending-failure link can have a screw connection and a bending body element. The screw connection is prestressed and is configured with a defined fracture cross section. The triggering force on the bending-failure link and the holding force after a fracture of the bending element can therefore be selected independently of one another. The guide blades are protected against damage by foreign bodies in the guide apparatus.

Abstract: A jelly confectionary includes a sugar selected from a group consisting of isomaltulose, trehalose and combinations thereof. The jelly confectionary further includes at least one gelling agent and water. The sugar in the jelly confectionary is 30 to 50 wt.-% based on a total weight of the jelly confectionary. A process for producing the jelly confectionary includes bringing a composition of the sugar, gelling agent and water to a pouring temperature, pouring the composition into a mold maintained at a mold temperature and drying the composition in the mold for at least two weeks.

Abstract: The invention relates to a guide apparatus for turbomachines, in particular for Francis or Kaplan turbines or pumps or pump turbines having a plurality of guide blades which can be actuated via in each case one link on a common adjusting member. Here, every guide blade or every second guide blade can be equipped with a bending element. A bending-failure link can have a screw connection and a bending body element. The screw connection is prestressed and is configured with a defined fracture cross section. The triggering force on the bending-failure link and the holding force after a fracture of the bending element can therefore be selected independently of one another. The guide blades are protected against damage by foreign bodies in the guide apparatus.

Abstract: A method for operating a monitored telecommunications network, the telecommunications network management system being monitored by a network management system, the network management system processing alarm messages generated by monitoring components within the telecommunications network, incidents of technical failure or error within the telecommunications network resulting in the generation of the alarm messages by the monitoring components, includes: monitoring the telecommunications network, observed incidents of technical failure or error, and generated alarm messages during a preparatory period of time; determining a scaling parameter per type of alarm message, wherein the scaling parameter is related to the number of incident tickets generated during the preparatory period of time; and suppressing the generated alarm message based on the value of the scaling parameter associated to the type of the generated alarm message.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibiotic(s)-polymer combination, which under physiological conditions guarantees the continuous release of antibiotics over a period of several days and can be used in human and veterinary medicine. The invented antibiotic(s)-polymer combination is wherein in a homogeneous polymer mixture, consisting of one or more hydrophobic polymers from the groups of poly(methacrylic acid esters), the poly(acrylic acid esters) and the poly(methacrylic acid ester-co-acrylic acid esters) and one or more hydrophilic polymers from the group of polyethers, one or more slightly water-soluble antibiotics from the groups of aminoglycoside antibiotics, the lincosamide antibiotics, the tetracycline antibiotics and quinolone antibiotics, possibly an easily water-soluble antibiotic from the groups of aminoglycoside antibiotics, the lincosamide antibiotics and the tetracycline antibiotics, and possibly one or more organic adjuvants are suspended, and that this suspension forms a composite.

Abstract: A local system for the liberation of an active principle is described which consists of spherical bodies which are composed of polymethyl methacrylate or polymethyl methacrylate co-methyl acrylate and, if necessary, zirconium dioxide and/or barium sulphate and a pharmaceutical active principle, which contains at least one hemostyptically effective compound stable at least up to 120° C., preferably a calcium salt. The local system for the liberation of an active principle is provided as medical product or drug.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for carrying out an automated clutch actuation of a motor vehicle with a drive engine and a transmission, connected to said drive engine by way of a clutch, in which process the clutch exhibits both an opened and a closed operating position, whereby to introduce unpowered operating phases the clutch is transferred by means of automation into the opened operating position and to introduce powered operating phases it is transferred by means of automation into the closed operating position. To design such a process more reliably and comfortably, the variables, from which a dangerous situation in time or its termination can be concluded with a certain probability, are measured, according to the invention, so that the clutch can be moved into an operating position (opened or closed), which makes it possible to carry out faster the subsequent request of the driver—such as an acceleration request or a braking request.

Abstract: An apparatus for thickening liquids or thin sludges by water extraction, having a bottom, a tub having an underside, stands supporting the tub on the bottom, a ripening time chamber for receiving the liquids or thin sludges, first devices for admixing a polyelectrolyte for flocculation in the ripening time chamber, a conveyor belt for further dewatering the liquids or thin sludges, and second devices for delivering liquid extracted from the conveyor belt and thick sludge discharges. At least the conveyor belt, the ripening time chamber and the second devices are accommodated in the tub, which thus acts as a frame and a lateral boundary for the conveyor belt, the ripening time chamber and the second devices. All connections required for operation are disposed on the underside of the tub, and the underside of the tub is spaced above the bottom by the stands.

Abstract: A motor vehicle steering wheel has flat steel deformable spokes which connect a steering-wheel rim to a hub to be mounted on a steering shaft. The associated free ends of the spokes are cast into the cast hub, and each spoke has in the cast-in area a passage bore which extends in the axial direction of the steering wheel and penetrated by the hub material during the casting process. In order to achieve an increase in rigidity in the hub/spokes connecting area, the passage bore is arranged directly adjacent to the entry area of the spoke into the hub, forming a rolling step, such that in this area a tension-rod connection is formed between the hub material located above and below the spoke.

Abstract: A communications system with communications terminal equipment provided with prescribed functions that are defined and controlled by a communications installation by information transmission. An identical parameter-controlled program for all communications terminal equipment connectable to a communications installation is stored in the program memory of the communications terminal equipment. All functions that can be allocated to the different types of communications terminal equipment are realized by this program. The functions provided for the respective communications terminal equipment are allocated and controlled by parameter data stored in a data memory. On the basis of an initialization in the communications terminal equipment or in the communications installation, the parameter data are transmitted for the first time to or updated at the respective communications terminal equipment by the communications installation.

Abstract: A method for transmitting equipment-specifying program parameter data from a communications installation to communications terminal equipment. The method provides for transmitting program parameter data from a communications installation to a plurality of communications terminal equipment connected thereto and is based on a message-oriented transmission protocol that is used in the sense of an information exchange in the signalling channel between the equipment. In the communications equipment, the input and output devices as well as the procedures of performance features and local performance features are essentially controlled with the assistance of the program parameter data. A transmission of program parameter data is initiated either by a parameter request message transmitted from the communications terminal equipment or by an internal request of the communications installation.

Abstract: An automobile steering wheel that is disposed below a plane of a steering wheel rim. As a protection against impact, there is a plastically deformable cup-like deformation member within the steering wheel that absorbs energy due to an impact of a driver of the motor vehicle on the steering wheel. Spokes are constructed in such a manner that the contribute to the energy absorption by a performance of deformation work. The deformation member has a height which is less than a distance between the hub and the plane of the steering wheel rim. The deformation member is fixedly connected in its upper region with the respective spokes.