Abstract: A device for producing sensory stimuli for a child by means of a body made of an elastic material and a bellows which is embedded in the elastic material of the body, including a first converter device for generating a fluid flow for moving a lying surface for a child, a second converter device for generating sound in a fluid, which corresponds at least to either heart sounds or human speech or music, and a fluid line for simultaneously conducting the fluid flow generated by the first converter device and transmitting the sound generated by the second converter device to a bellows in a body made of an elastic material.

Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.

Abstract: A device for generating sensory stimuli, corresponding to sensory stimuli emanating from a reference person, for a child comprises a receiving unit for receiving a data stream from a device for acquiring sensory stimuli, emanating from a reference person, and a transducer unit, which is coupled to the receiving unit and is controllable by the data stream. The transducer unit generates at least either body-borne sound, which corresponds to the heart sounds, described by the data stream, of the reference person, or movements, which correspond to the movements, described by the data stream, of the reference person, or airborne sound, which corresponds to the airborne sound generated by the reference person and is described by the data stream.

Abstract: A method for producing a flat steel product with high reflectivity, in which at least one surface has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 0.03 ?m includes providing a flat steel product, at least one surface of which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of less than 2.5 ?m. The flat steel product is cold rolled in a plurality of rolling passes. Also a flat steel product with high reflectivity in the finished re-rolled state on at least one of its surface has a low arithmetic mean roughness, a high gloss, and a high directed reflection. A solar concentrator is produced from such a flat steel product.

Abstract: A device for generating sensory stimuli, corresponding to sensory stimuli emanating from a reference person, for a child comprises a receiving unit for receiving a data stream from a device for acquiring sensory stimuli, emanating from a reference person, and a transducer unit, which is coupled to the receiving unit and is controllable by the data stream. The transducer unit generates at least either body-borne sound, which corresponds to the heart sounds, described by the data stream, of the reference person, or movements, which correspond to the movements, described by the data stream, of the reference person, or airborne sound, which corresponds to the airborne sound generated by the reference person and is described by the data stream.

Abstract: A set of dental implants comprising two implants each having an anchoring head for a structural element and having an end face of a predetermined face diameter and a screw element with a thread core and a self-cutting outer thread. The thread core and the outer thread have three segments following one another in succession from crestal to apical, namely a crestal segment adjoining the anchoring head with a constant outer crestal diameter of the outer thread and a thread core conically tapering in the apical direction to a predetermined intermediate diameter, a middle segment with an outer diameter of the thread core substantially equal to the intermediate diameter, and a tip segment with an outer thread of an outer diameter tapering in the apical direction and a conically tapering diameter of the thread core. The face diameters of the two implants are different.

Abstract: A plug connector and printed circuit board assembly and method include a snap-on fastening arrangement wherein a row of resilient contacts on the plug connector are brought into engagement with a corresponding row of strip contacts carried by a planar surface of the printed circuit board, whereupon the plug connector is fastened to the printed circuit board in such a manner as to compress the resilient contacts against the strip contacts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental implant (1) comprising an anchoring head (2) for a structural part (15), and a screw element (3) having a thread root (8) and a self-cutting external thread (9). The thread root (8) and the external thread (9) form three succeeding sections from the crest to the apex, in which the outer diameters of the external thread (9) and the thread root (8) change in a specific manner.

Abstract: A plug connector and printed circuit board assembly and method include a snap-on fastening arrangement wherein a row of resilient contacts on the plug connector are brought into engagement with a corresponding row of strip contacts carried by a planar surface of the printed circuit board, whereupon the plug connector is fastened to the printed circuit board in such a manner as to compress the resilient contacts against the strip contacts.

Abstract: Process and device for treating seeds in order to combat harmful organisms. According to the invention, in an initial stage of the process, the seeds are separated and distributed evenly in a free-fall process, subjected in a vacuum to irradiation by low energy electron beams and then immediately treated with fungicides and/or microbial antagonists or metabolic products and spores thereof and/or synergists.

Abstract: A sectional mounting connector is provided for mounting a component on a printed circuit board, characterized that the sections of the component are arranged end to end in interlocking relation.

Abstract: A sectional mounting connector is provided for mounting a component on a printed circuit board, characterized that the sections of the component are arranged end to end in interlocking relation.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a system for providing a remote support service between at least one support-service provider's site and a customer's site having a customer's information technological (IT) infrastructure, comprising: an information collecting component which collects information about the customer's IT infrastructure; a storage component which stores collected information according to a data model modeling at least part of the customer's IT infrastructure; an information-transferring component capable of transferring at least part of the collected or stored information or a representation of it to the support-service provider; and an analysis component which analyzes the stored or transferred information or representation as a basis for the provision of the remote support services. The invention is also directed to a corresponding method and computer program product.

Abstract: A bandpass filter, includes a series of waveguide resonators positioned along a common longitudinal axis so as to define at least a first resonator and a last resonator, whereby adjacent resonators are mechanically linked to one another by a common coupling plate of sheet metal member which is formed with coupling slots for electrically coupling the resonators, with the first and last resonators each being closed by an end plate of sheet metal.

Abstract: A broadband coaxial overvoltage protector includes a short-circuit line segment connected in parallel with a coaxial line section, a transforming coaxial line section with a length <&lgr;/4, with one end of the transforming coaxial line section connected in series to the coaxial line section, and an open-circuit line segment connected in series to the other end of the transforming line section. The length of the transforming line section is selected in such a way that the curve representing the frequency dependence of the reflection coefficient for two different operating frequencies, which may be widely spaced, has a respective minimum at each of the two frequencies.

Abstract: A resilient connector for maintaining an electrical conductor in side-by-side conductive engagement with a bus bar includes a generally loop- or O-shaped resilient contact body having a first end portion, an intermediate portion arranged generally normal to the intermediate portion, and a second end portion that is normally arranged at an acute angle relative to the contact intermediate portion, the contact first end portion containing a window opening having first and second opposed edges remote from and adjacent the intermediate portion, respectively, the second contact end portion being displaceable from a normal first position adjacent the first window edge toward a second position adjacent the second window edge, whereby when the second contact end is displaced to its second position and a conductor and a bus bar are introduced in side-by-side electrically conductive relation within the window, release of the second end portion causes the conductor and the bus bar to be clamped in tight electrical contac

Abstract: The flat/round connecting device provides connection between conductors of a flat-ribbon, flat-conductor cable having at least two flat conductors and the round conductors of a round cable having at least two round conductors. The device comprises a plurality of individual connectors, each having two portions extending along a straight line or disposed at an angle of 90.degree. relative to each other. One of the portions has a flat conductor crimping zone with crimping tongues arranged at a mutual spacing for crimping to the flat conductors and the other portion has a round-conductor crimping zone with crimping tongues arranged at a mutual spacing for crimping to the round conductors and to the insulation of the round conductors.