Abstract: A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided.

Abstract: A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided.

Abstract: A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided.

Abstract: A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided.

Abstract: A process for producing, on a metallic substrate, a geometric metal structure having a precise contour, including the steps of: solder coating a solder paste onto the substrate by screen printing to create the geometric metal structure, the solder paste comprising an organic binder system, and 80 to 95 weight % of a mixture of a nickel-based solder and a pulverulent alloy of nickel with at least one member selected from the group consisting of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese and iron, provided as a higher-melting metallic filler, wherein a weight ratio of solder to filler is 2-6:1, an average grain size of the solder is between 10 and 50 &mgr;m, and a grain size ratio of solder to filler, relative to the average grain size is from 0.5-2.5:1; drying the structure; decomposing the organic binder system present in the solder paste, without leaving a reside, by a heat treatment; and raising the temperature until the resulting solder material liquifies.

Abstract: A flat metal sealing gasket is made as follows: on an unhardened spring steel plate having an aperture and a bead surrounding the aperture, a sinterable powder is deposited along the bead in a desired shape and thickness. Thereafter a sufficiently high temperature is applied to the deposited sinterable powder to effect sintering or melting of the powder to provide a pressure-resistant overlay on the plate and to simultaneously effect a hardening of the plate.

Abstract: A flat sealing gasket includes a mat of non-woven material having opposite faces; a polymerized impregnating agent distributed with the material and an overlay on at least one of the mat faces. The overlay which comprises a hardened, pressure-resistant polymer material is sunken into the mat to a substantial extent of the mat thickness.

Abstract: A flat sealing gasket includes an opening defined by a gasket edge and a sheet metal armor framing the gasket edge. The armor at least partially encloses an annular space which is situated radially inwardly of the gasket edge and is generally concentric with the gasket opening. Further, a graphite filling is accommodated in the annular space.

Abstract: A sealing ring, having a ring body made, for example, of high-temperature resistant compressed metal fibers includes a roughened surface adapted to be pressed against and displaced by sliding relative to a counter-face.

Abstract: A sealing ring having at least one jacket face serving as a slide surface is produced of fibers and sliding agent that are passed to one another, with the fibers being relatively short fibers.

Abstract: An impregnated soft, flat sealing gasket made by a process including the consecutive steps of preparing a gasket material selected from the group consisting of organic fibers, inorganic fibers, synthetic fibers and mixtures thereof and a binder; forming a fiber mat from the gasket material; impregnating the fiber mat with a cross-linkable impregnating agent and at least partly cross-linking the impregnating agent in the fiber mat; and adding to the fiber material, in a fine distribution therein, a duromer synthetic resin prior to the impregnating step and as early as simultaneously with the preparing step.

Abstract: A method of making a flat gasket comprising a non-woven mat having opposite faces, including the steps of impregnating the mat with a polymerizable liquid impregnating agent and applying to at least one part of at least one mat face a coating containing a polymerizable polymer material. The coating is applied to the impregnated mat prior to polymerization of the impregnating agent. The impregnating agent and the coating are simultaneously polymerized in one operation.

Abstract: A sealing ring having at least one jacket face serving as slide face, the ring comprising pressed together fiber materials and slide materials, with the ring containing as a third component up to 10 parts by weight of such finely dispersed additives which chemically react with the fibers under the pressure and/or the development of heat resulting from friction stresses.

Abstract: A flat sealing gasket, such as a cylinder head gasket, for an internal combustion engine, has at least one opening, a cross-sectionally generally U-shaped armor framing the opening. The armor has legs straddling marginal edge zones of the gasket defining the opening. Each armor leg has an inner face in engagement with the gasket and an outer face oriented away from the gasket. A low-friction coating is provided on the outer face of at least one of the armor legs. Those sealing faces of the gasket which are externally of the armor are substantially free from the low-friction coating.

Abstract: A sealing gasket has at least one framed throughgoing opening; the frame is formed of at least two superposed bent sheet metal border flanges which have a U-shaped cross section and which have legs of unlike lengths. The border flanges fully overlap the soft material of the gasket without forming an appreciable hollow space underneath the legs.

Abstract: A self centering clutch release bearing assembly having a central axis of rotation includes a supporting member, a first non-rotatable race adapted to be engaged by the clutch shift mechanism and a second rotatable race between which are located a plurality of anti-friction bodies. The first race is mounted on the supporting member to be resiliently movable about a pivot point at an angle thereto. The second race has a spherical surface adapted to engage the clutch release levers. The means for mounting the first race is arranged so that the forces acting upon it lie in a plane intersecting the axis of the bearing at a point, the point forming the pivot of angular movement of the first race and coinciding with the radial center of the spherical surface of the second race.