Abstract: A turbine has a turbine housing with a receiving region, a turbine wheel which is disposed in the receiving region, a duct formed by the turbine housing, through which exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine can flow and which opens into the receiving region, and a tongue slide which has a tongue which is assigned to the duct and which can be displaced relative to the turbine housing about the rotational axis such that a flow cross section of the duct can be set. The exhaust gas which flows through the duct can be guided via the flow cross section into the receiving region and can be fed to the turbine wheel. The turbine is configured as a half-axial flow turbine in which a respective flow direction runs obliquely with respect to the axial direction and obliquely with respect to the radial direction of the turbine wheel.

Abstract: A cutting machine for cutting slices of in particular strand-shaped cutting material includes: a machine housing; a drive motor; a cutting blade, driven in rotation by the drive motor in a cutting plane, for cutting off slices; a stop plate, displaceable parallel to the cutting plane, for setting a desired slice thickness; a carriage, movable back and forth parallel to the cutting plane, having a supporting plate and a bearing wall, the supporting plate and the bearing wall forming a holding device for the cutting material, the carriage including a pivoting device for moving the supporting plate between a starting position and a pivoted-up position, the supporting plate in the starting position and in the pivoted-up position forming a right angle with the cutting plane; and a fixing plate arranged orthogonal to the supporting plate and being rigidly connected to the supporting plate, the fixing plate including a slotted link.

Abstract: Descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources are maintained in a computer-readable storage medium. A plurality of evaluation strategies a maintained, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, at least one of the plurality of rules is evaluated and the operation of the at least one rule is performed.

Abstract: An electro-acoustic transducer including a housing having an interior volume with first and second interior volume portions and a sound aperture that extends to the first interior volume, a diaphragm located between the first and second interior volumes, and an environmental sensor associated with the housing and having an inlet in fluid communication with the first interior volume.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a device, comprising a hollow body having at least one open end comprising at least one solid matrix binding, adsorbing, absorbing, chelating or retaining compounds which are not desired in a sample and preferably at least one barrier which is non-permeable for liquids and solids under ambience conditions, however, becomes liquid-permeable by applying an external force to the barrier, the use of such a device for isolating or purifying a biomolecule from a sample, a method for preparation of the device and a method for isolation or purification of any biomolecule using said device.

Abstract: A medical fastening device for noninvasively fastening a medical marking device comprising two or more marking elements to a body part of a patient is provided. The fastening device has a support body which extends over a surface in two directions of extent aligned at an angle to each other and is adaptable in its shape to the contour of the body part, to which the marking device is fixed or fixable. The support body is elastically stretchable in the surface of its extent and comprises a first stretch area and at least one second stretch area, the stretchability of which in at least one direction in the surface of the extent of the support body is less than that of the first stretch area. A medical referencing device and a medical instrumentation comprising such a fastening device are also provided.

Abstract: A pressure bulkhead for an aircraft fuselage including a sandwich structure defining a central axis and extending between a circumferential border area, the sandwich structure including an inner face sheet and an outer face sheet extending transverse to the central axis, and a core assembly sandwiched between the inner face sheet and the outer face sheet. The pressure bulkhead can receive pressure loads and can be used as a structural bearing element for receiving loads introduced by other structural parts. The inner face sheet and/or the outer face sheet has a corrugated shape. The distance between the outer face sheet and the inner face sheet increases and subsequently decreases from the border area to a central area about the central axis, forming a thickened area where the distance between the outer face sheet and the inner face sheet has a peak.

Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a hearing aid system (HS) comprising a first hearing aid device (2), which is designed for arrangement in an ear canal (1.1), and a second hearing aid device (3), which is designed for arrangement near to the first hearing aid device (2), wherein the first hearing aid device (2) and the second hearing aid device (3) each comprise at least one microphone, one signal processing unit, one loudspeaker and one battery, such that both the first hearing aid device (2) and the second hearing aid device (3) can each function as a hearing aid device independently of the respective other of the hearing aid devices (2, 3). Furthermore, the disclosed technology relates to a method for operating the hearing aid system (HS).

Abstract: Hardness testers having a pivoting body and capable of providing power to accessories on the pivoting body are disclosed. An example hardness testing device includes: a rotating carriage configured to: hold at least one of an indenter or an objective and at least one accessory; and rotate to selectively place the at least one indenter or objective or the at least one accessory in an operative position to operate the at least one indenter or objective or the at least one accessory; a carriage mount configured to support the rotating carriage; and an electrical contact block mounted stationary with respect to the carriage mount, the electrical contact block comprising a plurality of electrical contacts configured to make electrical contact with a counterpart electrical contact block of the at least one accessory coupled to the rotating carriage when the at least one accessory is positioned in the operative position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a seat (10) and a mobile terminal that are or can be connected to one another in order to transmit data, wherein the seat (10) comprises at least one electromechanical actuator (22, 24, 26, 28) and/or at least one sensor element (32, 34, 36, 38), the mobile terminal is designed to receive inputs from a user and control the at least one actuator (22, 24, 26, 28) on the basis of these inputs and/or to receive and process data collected by the at least one sensor element (32, 34, 36, 38), and the seat (10) and the mobile terminal are each provided with at least one communication means (44), which are designed to wirelessly transmit data between the seat (10) and the mobile terminal. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: A method of assigning a destination floor to an elevator call associated with a mobile device is provided. The method including: receiving a first elevator call to travel from a first floor, the first floor is a boarding floor for the first elevator call; detecting a location of a mobile device relative to an elevator car of an elevator system; moving the elevator car from the first floor to a second floor in response to the first elevator call; determining when the mobile device exits the elevator car at the second floor in response to the location of the mobile device, the second floor is a destination floor for the first elevator call; receiving a second elevator call from the mobile device; and establishing the second floor as a destination floor for the second elevator call.

Abstract: A method adjusts parameters of a hearing system which has a hearing aid device and a communication device, which is separate from the hearing aid device. A component for acoustic coupling of the hearing aid device to the ear of a hearing-aid wearer is fitted to the hearing aid device. A camera of the communication device is used to capture at least one image of the component used for acoustic coupling. A product identity of the component is identified from the captured image and acoustic transfer characteristics are assigned to the previously identified component. The parameters of the hearing system are adjusted on the basis of these acoustic transfer characteristics.

Abstract: A pressure bulkhead for an aircraft fuselage having a skin element, with a first surface and a second surface, a circumferential edge and a center axis, and a reinforcement assembly, which has radially disposed reinforcement elements extending along the first surface radially between an outer end at the edge of the skin element and an inner end, which faces the center axis, wherein, in a cross section, which extends radially along the center axis, each of the radially disposed reinforcement elements defines first and second contour lines, each extending from the outer end of the radially disposed reinforcement elements to the inner end thereof, and the reinforcement assembly resting with the first contour lines thereof on the first surface of the skin element. A pressure bulkhead for an aircraft fuselage can efficiently absorb occurring pressure loads.

Abstract: An aircraft structural component having a skin element, including an inner surface, a multitude of transverse stiffening elements, which lie against the inner surface of the skin element, and a multitude of longitudinal stiffening elements, perpendicular to the transverse stiffening elements against the inner surface of the skin element, wherein between a first and a second transverse stiffening element and also between a first and a second longitudinal stiffening element, a first skin section is defined. An aircraft structural component is provided with the quantity of the longitudinal stiffening elements reduced. A first applied reinforcement includes a core layer having a contour line running along the circumference of the skin element, the first applied reinforcement including a face sheet surrounding the core layer on the side thereof which faces away from the skin element, which face sheet is connected to the skin element along the core layer contour line.

Abstract: This invention relates to an earpiece (1) for coupling a hearing aid (10) to the ear (20) of a hearing aid user, comprising a seal (2) conforming to the shape of the user's ear canal (30) and therein retained; wherein the seal (2) comprises a sound output bore (3) connected to a receiver (11) of the hearing aid (10); and a multiplicity of through openings (4) spaced around the sound output bore (3). The number of the openings (4) is comprised in a range of 50 to 2000; and the openings (4) have diameters in the range of 50 to 250 micrometers. The present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such an earpiece (1).

Abstract: A method, system and dispensing head for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by additive manufacturing. The three-dimensional object includes a three-dimensional component. The method provides a substrate and forming layers there-on, each layer formed in a pattern corresponding to a three-dimensional component being manufactured and each layer formed by dispensing a curable material from a nozzle of a dispensing head and subsequently curing the curable material. The three-dimensional object comprises the combination of the substrate and the three-dimensional component, wherein the substrate has a non-planar surface portion and the three-dimensional component is formed on the non-planar surface portion such that it is fixedly secured to the substrate.

Abstract: A corona ignition device is described, with a central electrode, an insulator, in which the central electrode sits, a coil, which is connected to the central electrode, a metal housing, which holds the insulator and surrounds the coil, and a cover, which closes the metal housing at its end facing away from the insulator. According to this disclosure, provision is made for a spring arranged between the cover and the coil. In another aspect, a shield is provided that surrounds the housing and comprises several shell elements which each surround a section of the circumference of the coil.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving by a control system a sequence of symbols, translating the received sequence of symbols into a batch of commands parsable by an electronic controller of the electromechanical medical device, sending the batch of commands from the control system to the electromechanical device, and causing by the electronic controller the electromechanical medical device to execute the batch of commands on the electromechanical medical device.

Abstract: A cutting machine for cutting slices of in particular strand-shaped cutting material includes: a machine housing; a drive motor; a cutting blade, driven in rotation by the drive motor in a cutting plane, for cutting off slices; a stop plate, displaceable parallel to the cutting plane, for setting a desired slice thickness; a carriage, movable back and forth parallel to the cutting plane, having a supporting plate and a bearing wall, the supporting plate and the bearing wall forming a holding device for the cutting material, the carriage including a pivoting device for moving the supporting plate between a starting position and a pivoted-up position, the supporting plate in the starting position and in the pivoted-up position forming a right angle with the cutting plane; and a fixing plate arranged orthogonal to the supporting plate and being rigidly connected to the supporting plate, the fixing plate including a slotted link.

Abstract: The invention relates to a calibration array (10; 50) for calibrating a network analyzer, the array having multiple calibration points (18, 20, 22, 24) for direct or indirect connection to a network analyzer, and a main body connected to said calibration points (18, 20, 22, 24), at least one of the calibration points (18, 20, 22, 24) being rotatable in relation to the main body.