Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for welding a joining region of a foil to a connecting part, particularly two foils to a tubular connecting part. Conventional apparatuses are associated with the risk of steep workpiece flanges causing uncontrolled weaknesses in the foil and the weld seam. According to the invention, an extension of the foil outside of the joining region is provided in a controlled manner such that the foil has spare length. In this connection, the invention further relates to the use of a foil, to a method for welding, to a system for producing bag, and to a bag.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for separating foil layers in a foil processing line, the foil layers being caused to move relative to each other, and to a method and an apparatus for further processing the separated foils for manufacturing a product in which an insert is interposed between two foils.

Abstract: A deposition system includes a drum for supporting a web substrate during deposition that defines a plurality of apertures in an outer surface for passing cooling gas. A gas manifold includes an input that is coupled to an output of a gas source and at least one output that is coupled to the plurality of apertures in the outer surface of the drum. The gas manifold provides gas to the plurality of apertures that flows between the outer surface of the drum and the web substrate, thereby increasing heat transfer from the web substrate to the drum. At least one deposition source is positioned so that material deposits on the web substrate.

Abstract: A water separator for a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine has a housing with an inlet and an outlet for fuel and further has a separating chamber and a collecting chamber for collecting water. The separating chamber is arranged above the collecting chamber. A separating element is arranged in the separating chamber, wherein the separating element has a first separating stage and a second separating stage. The first separating stage has a hydrophilic filter medium. An element with a plurality of through openings surrounds the hydrophilic filter medium. The element forms an outlet contour and generates downstream of the hydrophilic filter medium and the element droplets of water separated from the fuel.

Abstract: A fuel supply device (1), particularly for an internal combustion engine (6), is equipped with a particulate filter and a water trap. In order to improve the separation effect, while simultaneously reducing the separation material that is required, it is proposed to configure the water trap (5, 8, 30) as a separate component connected downstream of the fuel filer (4) and to provide it with a first separation stage made of coalescent material and a second separation stage made of hydrophobic material, and to dispose the separation stages such that between them the fuel is diverted.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing shell comprising a first exposed region and a second exposed region, said two exposed regions being formed on the inner surface of the two bearing shell ends. The oil grooves arranged in the two exposed regions are inclined in relation to the central line of the bearing shell, in the direction of flow of the lubricating oil. In this way, the lubricating oil is prevented from escaping in the axial direction in the exposed regions. The invention also relates to a method for producing such bearing shells.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel filter (1) with a device for separating water from the fuel. This device comprises at least one filter screen element (6) placed in a filter housing (2) which is located downstream a filter element (3) for the filtration of particles from the fuel, a tank (15) located under the filter screen element (6) at the filter housing (2) in which the separated water droplets are collected, and a device for deviating the fuel between the filter element (3) and the filter screen element (6).

Abstract: The present application relates to the use of 1,4-diaryldihydropyrimidin-2-one derivatives of the formula (I) for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pulmonary arterial hypertension and other types of pulmonary hypertension, and to the use thereof for the manufacture of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pulmonary arterial hypertension and other types of pulmonary hypertension.

Abstract: A battery module having a battery cell assembly with a heat exchanger is provided. The battery cell assembly includes a first battery cell having a first side and a second side. The battery cell assembly further includes a second battery cell having a first side and a second side. The first side of the second battery cell contacts the second side of the first battery cell. The battery cell assembly further includes a heat exchanger having a first side and a second side. The first side of the heat exchanger contacts the second side of the second battery cell. The battery cell assembly further includes a third battery cell having a first side and a second side. The first side of the third battery cell contacts the second side of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is configured to remove heat energy from the first, second, and third battery cells to maintain the first, second, and third battery cells at substantially a desired temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a detector for detecting electrically neutral particles. The detector has a housing (10) filled with a counting gas. A converter (22) in the housing (10) generates conversion products as a result of the absorption of the neutral particles. The conversion products generate electrically charged particles in the counting gas, and a readout device (19) detects the electrically charged particles. A device (18) generates an electrical drift field for the electrically charged particles in a region of the volume of the counting gas so that at least some of the electrically charged particles drift toward the readout device (19). The converter device (22) is of charge-transparent design and being arranged in the detector housing (10) so that the drift field passes through at least part of this device.

Abstract: A bearing shell assembly has a bearing of length B1 and having two bearing shell halves each having a width B2<B1/2 spaced from each other axially. An oil duct extending angularly of the bearing shell halves is formed between the bearing shell halves.

Abstract: A touch sensitive screen comprising a display device and a light-permeable, wherein a touch-sensitive arrangement arranged upstream of an image side of the display device at a distance therefrom. The arrangement can be displaced in relation to the display device such that a haptic acknowledgment is generated. The touch-sensitive arrangement forms part of the housing containing the display device, and the housing can be displaced in relation to the display device, by way of the touch-sensitive arrangement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for separating foil layers in a foil processing line, the foil layers being caused to move relative to each other, and to a method and an apparatus for further processing the separated foils for manufacturing a product in which an insert is interposed between two foils.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a bearing shell comprising two circumferentially extending oil grooves. According to said method, a rectangular blank is cut from a strip stock, and said blank is shaped into the bearing shell. The oil grooves are introduced into the blank by die-cutting two cavities which extend from the narrow sides in the longitudinal direction of the blank at a maximum angular range of 60°.

Abstract: A fuel filter system characterized by a simple design provided with a coalescer element (20) disposed in the immediate fuel inlet region for improving the elimination of water droplets. The coalescer element includes an upper end plate (26) that extends to the inner wall of the housing (10), thereby sealing the coalescer element as well as the inlet region and the outer unfiltered fluid region. The coalescer element (20) and the particle filter (19) are arranged on a common separating element (25), which rests against the discharge tube (17) located in the center of the fuel filter via a profiled seal. The end plate of the coalescer element can be produced with the profiled elastomeric seal molded thereon by two-component injection molding or by overmolding.

Abstract: A method in a computer system for authoring media content for a computer application is provided. The authoring is accomplished by making use of a hierarchical structure including media objects, containers to group objects, and meta-containers to group containers and objects, where the media objects are working copies of provided media files. The hierarchical structure is such that when a property or behaviour is assigned to a container, this property is automatically shared to the objects and container therein. Similarly, the containers and objects included in a meta-container share the properties and behaviours assigned to their parent meta-container. Such a method and system can be implemented as an audio authoring tool for video game where a higher-level additional hierarchical structure is provided on top of a lower-level hierarchical structure to route sound assets organized and characterized through the lower-level hierarchy.

Abstract: A reactive sputtering system includes a vacuum chamber and a reactive ion source that is positioned inside the vacuum chamber. The reactive ion source generates a reactive ion beam from a reactant gas. A sputtering chamber is positioned in the vacuum chamber. The sputtering chamber includes a sputter source having a sputtering target that generates sputtering flux, walls that contain an inert gas, and a seal that impedes the reactant gas from entering into the sputtering chamber and that impedes inert gas and sputtered material from escaping into the vacuum chamber. A transport mechanism transports a substrate under the reactive ion source and through the sputtering chamber. The substrate is exposed to the reactive ion beam while passing under the reactive ion source and then is exposed to sputtering flux while passing through the sputtering chamber.

Abstract: The method and system for multi-version digital authoring comprises providing digital media from which media objects are created. Version classes are predetermined, each including version identifiers for identifying respective versions of the media objects. A work copy is then created of each sound object corresponding to each version identifier. A selected modifying value characterizing a selected modifier is associated to a selected media object. The version of the object corresponding to a current version identifier is then modified by the modifying value. The method and system provides means to link and unlink modifiers associated to a selected sound object for a selected version identifier.

Abstract: In a unilateral NMR probe for the analysis of a material comprising at least one magnet for generating a constant time-invariant polarization field B0 in the material to be analyzed and current conductors forming a radio frequency oscillation circuit for generating a pulsed radio frequency magnetic excitation field B1 which is superimposed on the polarization field N0 in the material, the circuit conductors are so designed as to provide several adjacent excitation fields B0 with alternatingly oppositely oriented magnetic fields, whereby the current conductors generating each one of the excitation fields have a distance from each other which causes a certain penetration depth in the material to be analyzed and echoes received therefrom provide measurement values which are characteristic for the material being analyzed.

Abstract: In one aspect, the invention comprises computer processors operable to identify a block of idealized policies, computer processors operable to calculate risk related to the block of idealized policies based on specified actuarial assumptions; and computer processors operable to provide a customized option designed to pay guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits on the block of idealized policies; wherein the block of idealized policies is designed to replicate a current policy mix of an insurance company. In another aspect, the invention comprises computer processors operable to identify a block of idealized policies, computer processors operable to calculate risk related to the block of idealized policies based on specified actuarial assumptions; and computer processors operable to provide a reinsurance contract designed to pay guaranteed minimum death benefits on the block of idealized policies; wherein the block of idealized policies is designed to replicate a current policy mix of an insurance company.