Abstract: The present invention describes a pallet container (10) for storing and transporting fluid or flowable filling materials, having a thin-walled, rigid plastics inner container (12) made from thermoplastic plastics material, having a tubular grid frame (14) which tightly surrounds the plastics inner container (12) as a supporting covering and which comprises horizontal and vertical tubular rods (18, 20) which are welded to each other, and having a base pallet (16) on which the plastics inner container (12) is positioned and to which the tubular grid frame (14) is securely connected, wherein at least two rod-shaped transverse cross-members (22) are provided above the plastics inner container (12) and are fixed with the two ends thereof via a screw connection to two mutually opposite side walls in the upper region of the tubular grid frame (14).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow-point bullet, for example for police and/or authority ammunition with a caliber of at most 13 millimeters, which is made of iron, in particular soft iron.

Abstract: The present invention describes a pallet container (10) for storing and transporting fluid or flowable filling materials, having a thin-walled, rigid plastics inner container (12) made from thermoplastic plastics material, having a tubular grid frame (14) which tightly surrounds the plastics inner container (12) as a supporting covering and which comprises horizontal and vertical tubular rods (18, 20) which are welded to each other, and having a base pallet (16) on which the plastics inner container (12) is positioned and to which the tubular grid frame (14) is securely connected, wherein at least two rod-shaped transverse cross-members (22) are provided above the plastics inner container (12) and are fixed with the two ends thereof to two mutually opposite side walls in the upper region of the tubular grid frame (14).

Abstract: A method for actuating an X-ray device during robot-assisted navigation of at least two objects introduced into a body, such as a hollow organ, of a patient by at least one robotic system, includes providing a first selection criterion for selecting one of the objects, and providing a second selection criterion for selecting one of the objects. One of the at least two objects is selected based on the first selection criterion and the second selection criterion, and recording parameters of the X-ray device are automatically set, such that the selected object in an X-ray image to be recorded is highlighted compared to the at least one other object. The selected object may be highlighted with respect to image quality, image flavor, positioning on the X-ray image, and/or a collimator setting of a collimator of the X-ray device. An X-ray image is recorded with the set recording parameters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a metallic practice cartridge bullet, in particular for use on, in particular police, shooting ranges, comprising a, in particular ogive-shaped bullet nose, with a central cavity and a bullet tail, wherein the bullet is made of iron, in particular soft iron, with a carbon content of more than 0.05%.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a gas-sensitive device includes a substrate structure, and a gas sensitive capacitor. The gas sensitive capacitor a first capacitor electrode in form of a gas-sensitive layer on a first main surface region of an insulation layer, and a second capacitor electrode in form of a buried conductive region below the insulation layer, so that the insulation layer is arranged between the first and second capacitor electrode. The gas-sensitive layer comprises a sheet impedance which changes in response to the adsorption or desorption of gas molecules.

Abstract: A sensor chip includes a substrate and one or more chemo-resistive gas sensing elements attached to the substrate. Each gas sensing element provides a signal depending on one or more gases to be sensed. A catalytic gas filter arrangement includes one or more filter sections, each filter section including a cavity covered with at least one membrane. The at least one membrane is supported by a support structure and includes gas permeable pores. A surface defining the pores includes a catalytic material for degrading one or more of the gases. The gas filter arrangement is arranged so at least one of the chemo-resistive gas sensing elements is exposed to a filtered mixture of the gases in the cavity of one of the filter sections. The filtered mixture of gases is obtained by filtering the ambient mixture of the one or more gases with the one of the filter sections.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for functionally securely transfer data in a two-sided data exchange of safety-related data between two communication partners (A, B), wherein a mapping is defined, which assigns to a consumer ID a provider ID of the same end point in the case of each bidirectional connection, and the mapping is made known to the two end points a priori, where the mapping could consist of the one's complement or alternatively of the two's complement, and wherein the connection between the data provider and the data consumer is established as described, the data consumer receives the address identification of the data provider via an additional side channel, for example, and after the connection has been established, the identification of the data provider can be securely checked.

Abstract: A lower pacing rate limit is utilized by pacing devices to initiate pacing in response to a patient's intrinsic rate being less than the lower pacing rate limit. Illustrative systems, devices, and methods may obtain rate modification information related to a patient such as physical characteristics, diagnostic parameters, pathologies, device characteristics of a pacing device implanted in the patient, and patient-reported information. The rate modification information may be used to determine lower pacing rate limit based thereon.

Abstract: An on-load tap changer module for an on-load tap changer, including a carrier, a diverter switch with a vacuum interrupter and a bridge switch, a selector, a change-over selector, and a drive module, wherein the diverter switch, the selector, and the change-over selector are arranged on the carrier and are activated centrally by the drive module.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slider arrangement (1) designed in particular as a wedge drive tool with a slider upper portion (10) and a slider lower portion (20) which, due to a relative movement with respect to the slider upper portion (10), can be displaced along guides (30) from an initial position into a working position and vice versa, wherein at least one return device (40) is provided in order to bring about the initial position of the slider upper portion (10) and slider lower portion (20), wherein the return device (40) comprises a screw plug (50) at the end in order to attach the return device (40) in a recess (11) of the slider arrangement (1), characterized in that the screw plug (50) comprises at least two rotation prevention means (51) which are designed to prevent a rotation of the screw plug (50) beyond a maximum acceptable rotation angle ?.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes providing a substrate and a functional layer supported by the substrate; forming a structured protection layer on a side of the substrate to which the functional layer is attached, wherein the structured protection layer has a recess so that a portion of the functional layer is exposed; applying a dispersion comprising a solvent and electrically conductive components to the exposed portion of the functional layer so that the recess is at least partially filled with the dispersion; drying the dispersion in order to create an electrically conductive layer; and removing the structured protection layer.

Abstract: A wedge drive (1) has a slide upper part (4), a slide lower part (2), and a slide (3) arranged between the slide upper part (4) and the slide lower part (2). The slide (3) is movable between a closed and an open position in a working position. The slide (3) has a variable-position device (10), a first stop (30) and second stop (40), to obtain either the working position or an installation position. In the working position, the device (10) is positioned so that it is used as the limiter for the first stop (30) when the wedge drive (1) is actuated or is in its intended fully open position. In the installation position, the device (10) is positioned so that the second stop (40) supports itself on the device (10).

Abstract: A wedge drive is provided having a first and a second wedge drive part and an adjustable guide apparatus, formed at least in part by the first and second wedge drive parts, which are movable, by means of a stroke directed in a stroke direction (Z), toward each other in a sliding direction (X, X?, X?) determined by the guide apparatus and at an angle to the stroke direction (Z), guided by the guide apparatus, wherein a guide part of the guide apparatus is movable along a forced guidance surface by adjusting the position of an adjustment surface and a guide play can be set as a result, wherein a normal vector (N) of the forced guidance surface is at an angle to a plane of movement spanned by the stroke direction (Z) and the sliding direction (X, X?, X?).

Abstract: The present invention concerns the use of anti-Claudin-1 monoclonal antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, for the prevention and/or treatment of a fibrotic disease in a patient, in particular pulmonary fibrosis, kidney fibrosis or skin fibrosis. Methods of preventing and/or treating pulmonary fibrosis kidney fibrosis or skin fibrosis by administration of such a monoclonal antibody, or a pharmaceutical composition thereof, are also described.

Abstract: A temperature-regulated chemi-resistive gas sensor includes a sensor surface including a chemically sensitive sensor layer including an active material for adsorbing and desorbing gas molecules of an analyte gas. A predetermined time-continuous periodic temperature profile is applied for periodically heating the sensor surface. An electrical sensor layer conductance signal is determined and time windows are applied to the sensor layer conductance signal. For one or more of the time windows, discrete frequency spectrum data of the sensor layer conductance signal is obtained, and a current gas concentration of the analyte gas is determined based on the obtained discrete frequency spectrum data.

Abstract: A wedge drive (1) has a slide upper part (4), a slide lower part (2), and a slide (3) arranged between the slide upper part (4) and the slide lower part (2). The slide (3) is movable between a closed and an open position in a working position. The slide (3) has a variable-position device (10), a first stop (30) and second stop (40), to obtain either the working position or an installation position. In the working position, the device (10) is positioned so that it is used as the limiter for the first stop (30) when the wedge drive (1) is actuated or is in its intended fully open position. In the installation position, the device (10) is positioned so that the second stop (40) supports itself on the device (10).

Abstract: A linear guide device includes at least one linear guide unit which has a guide housing, in which two annularly closed circulating channels are formed in each of which a multitude of roller bearing elements is received. The guide housing has a single-piece housing intermediate element which contributes to the formation of the circulating channels and through which passes at least one lubrication channel which communicates with the circulating channels. The lubrication channel passes through the single-piece housing intermediate element and extends partly also in an integral pipe-stub-like lubrication appendix of the single-piece housing intermediate element, wherein the lubrication appendix includes a lubrication opening which is accessible from outside the guide housing for bringing in lubricant.

Abstract: According to some aspects, a cardiac pacemaker for implantation within a subject is provided, the pacemaker including a housing, at least one sensor configured to detect an activity level of the subject, and at least one processor coupled to the sensor configured to detect inactivity of the subject based on output from the at least one sensor, produce a first signal configured to increase the heart rate of the subject to a first heart rate during a first time period, wherein the first heart rate is above a resting heart rate and below 100 beats per minute, and in response to determining that the first time period has elapsed, producing a second signal configured to increase the heart rate of the subject to a second heart rate during a second time period, wherein the second heart rate is between 100 and 140 beats per minute.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes providing a substrate and a functional layer supported by the substrate; forming a structured protection layer on a side of the substrate to which the functional layer is attached, wherein the structured protection layer has a recess so that a portion of the functional layer is exposed; applying a dispersion comprising a solvent and electrically conductive components to the exposed portion of the functional layer so that the recess is at least partially filled with the dispersion; drying the dispersion in order to create an electrically conductive layer; and removing the structured protection layer.