Abstract: An apparatus and method of performing sample characterization with an AFM and a pulsed IR laser directed at the tip of a probe of the AFM. Gated laser pulsing and gated detection based on a lock-in amplifier, boxcar integrator or FFT may be employed in Peak force tapping operation. Nano-spectroscopic measurements with sub-20 nm, and even sub-10 nm resolution can be executed together with nano-mechanical and other property measurements.

Abstract: A system for producing plastic containers with a heating device for heating plastic preforms, wherein the heating device has a transport device for transporting plastic preforms along a predetermined first transport path, and a plurality of holding devices for holding the plastic preforms and at least one heating device which heats the plastic preforms during the transport thereof and comprising a forming device for forming the plastic preforms to form plastic containers. The forming device is configured for expanding the plastic preforms heated by the heating device by applying a flowable medium, and includes a plurality of forming stations which form the plastic preforms to form the plastic containers. Both the heating device and the forming device have changeable elements, wherein the system has a changing device configured for changing both changeable elements of the heating device and changeable elements of the forming device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a Transport apparatus (1) for supply rolls (8) with packaging material wound thereon. The transport apparatus (1) comprises at least one driverless transport vehicle (2) and at least one adapter (3). The adapter (3) is preferably connectable to the driverless transport vehicle (2), as well as being separable from the driverless transport vehicle (2). The adapter (3) is moreover designed to hold at least one supply roll (8).

Abstract: A dielectric wave guide cable (1) includes a tubular core (2) made from a low loss material having a certain permittivity. The tubular core (2) is encompassed by a cladding (3) having, compared to the tubular core (2), a lower permittivity. The tubular core (2) may be coated on the inside by a coating (3) having a higher permittivity. The cladding (3) may be encompassed by a jacket (4).

Abstract: A system and method are provided for creating an image including quantified flow within vessels of a subject. The method includes providing a single-sweep, three-dimensional (3D) image volume acquired from a subject during a single pass of a computed tomography (CT) imaging system as the subject receives a dose of a contrast agent and determining a phase shift corresponding to pulsatile contrast in vessels within the single-sweep, 3D image volume. The method further includes quantifying a flow through the vessels within the single-sweep, 3D image volume using the phase shift and generating a report including indicating flow through the vessels within the 3D image volume.

Abstract: A board to board connector assembly (1) includes a first connector (2) suitable to be arranged on a first printed circuit board (3) and a second connector (4) suitable to be arranged on a second printed circuit board (5). An adapter (6) is arranged in a mounted position between and interconnected to the first and the second connector (2, 4). The adapter (6) includes an adapter inner conductor (7) and an adapter outer conductor (8). The adapter outer conductor (8) is arranged separate from the adapter inner conductor (7) and comprises a bore (18) in which the adapter inner conductor (7) is arranged.

Abstract: A drive device for moving a leaf, in particular a door leaf or a window leaf, with an electric machine including an, in particular single, stator and an, in particular single, rotor, which can be rotated about a machine axis, and with a gear coupled to the electric machine. The gear has a first gear element, which can be rotated coaxially with the machine axis, with the first gear element being connected to the rotor in a rotationally-fixed manner.

Abstract: A drive device for moving a leaf, in particular a door leaf or window leaf, includes an electric machine. The electric machine is an axial flux machine having a stator, in particular a single stator, and a rotor, in particular a single rotor, which is rotatable relative to the stator about a machine axis.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first and second terminal configured to couple the apparatus to a first and second bus wire of a communication bus; a transceiver arrangement for communicating with one or more network nodes via the communication bus, the transceiver arrangement configured to provide and receive differential signalling according to a communication scheme to/from the communication bus, wherein the communication scheme defines at least a voltage to be used to provide said differential signalling; the apparatus configured to: based on a fault detection signal indicative of the occurrence of a fault in at least the communication bus, transmit a reconfiguration signal for the network nodes and wherein at least part of the reconfiguration signal has a high-voltage-level comprising a voltage higher than that defined in the communication scheme for said differential signalling; and wherein said reconfiguration signal is configured to cause the network nodes to switch single-ended signalling.

Abstract: A coaxial connecting member (1) for transmitting radio-frequency signals between a first and a second circuit board (2, 3) includes an inner conductor (4), an outer conductor (5) and an insulating member (6) arranged between the inner conductor (4) and the outer conductor (5). The inner conductor (4) and/or the outer conductor (5) comprise a first and a second end section (7, 8) to interconnect the inner conductor (4) to the first and the second circuit board (2, 3). The first and the second end section (7, 8) are interconnected to each other by at least one elastically deformable transversal section (9) to compensate axial and/or lateral misalignment of the first and the second circuit board (2, 3) with respect to each other.

Abstract: A method represents an environment via a display unit arranged on a person and visible for the person as a display image within the scope of a simulation. The simulation is carried out in an interaction environment, wherein a number of actuatable interaction elements are arranged in the interaction environment. An interaction environment image capture, depicting the interaction environment, is created by use of a first image capturing unit arranged on the person or relative to the person. A position of the person is determined in the interaction environment and based on the position of the person an environment image is provided. An image mask is provided which depicts the individual interaction elements contained in the interaction environment image capture and is represented in the display image. The interaction environment image capture and the environment image are superimposed using the image mask and then displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for creating an image including quantified flow within vessels of a subject. The method includes providing a single-sweep, three-dimensional (3D) image volume acquired from a subject during a single pass of a computed tomography (CT) imaging system as the subject receives a dose of a contrast agent and determining a phase shift corresponding to pulsatile contrast in vessels within the single-sweep, 3D image volume. The method further includes quantifying a flow through the vessels within the single-sweep, 3D image volume using the phase shift and generating a report including indicating flow through the vessels within the 3D image volume.

Abstract: A door drive for arrangement on or in connection with a door system, whereby at least one leaf element of the door system is movable. The door drive includes a motor unit with a housing, in which a stator is stationarily received, and wherein a rotor is arranged so as to be rotationally-movable in the housing and includes an output shaft, wherein the output shaft can be brought into operative connection in a driving manner with the leaf element. The rotor includes a support body, on which receiving fields are formed, on which permanent magnets are adhered.

Abstract: A torsional probe for a metrology instrument includes a cantilever coupled to a support structure via a torsion bar. The cantilever, support structure, and arms of torsion bar have substantially the same thickness. A method of manufacture of the torsion probe, as well as a method of using the torsion probe to measure photothermal induced surface displacement of a sample are also described.

Abstract: A method for determining and/or verifying a status of a door system, wherein the door system has at least one first subsystem and one second subsystem, includes the following steps determining at least one item of measurement information relating to the door system is determined in a measuring step, and determining and/or verifying the status of the door system using a model and using the at least one determined item of measurement information in a status determination step, wherein the model has a first model block for the first subsystem and a second model block for the second subsystem.

Abstract: A method for determining and/or verifying a status of a door system includes the following steps: determining at least one item of measurement information relating to the door system in a measuring step, and determining and/or verifying the status of the door system using an artificial intelligence system and using the at least one determined item of measurement information in a status determination step.

Abstract: A door drive for arrangement on or in connection with a door system, wherein at least one leaf element of the door system is movable, including a motor unit with a housing, in which a stator is stationarily received, and wherein a rotor is arranged so as to be rotationally-movable in the housing and includes an output shaft, wherein the output shaft can be brought into operative connection in a driving manner with the leaf element. The motor unit has the basic shape of a cuboid, which is formed at least by two housing halves connected to each other.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for determining vascular velocity using non-invasively acquired medical images. The method includes reconstructing CT angiography (CTA) data into a plurality of images of the subject by producing a composite image using the CTA data corresponding to a set of the plurality of view angles, backprojecting each view angle in the CTA data and weighting a value backprojected into at image pixel by an attenuation value of a corresponding pixel in the composite image, and summing backprojected values for each image pixel to produce a CT image of the subject. The method also includes determining a flow direction or a velocity of flow within a vessel, calculating, using the flow direction or velocity, a pressure in the vessel, and generating a quantitative map of the subject indicating the flow direction, velocity, or pressure in the vessel against an image of the subject including the vessel.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for imaging a contrast agent. The system includes a power injector that delivers a contrast agent as a series of boluses using a known period, flow rate, or duration and with a rate of at least one or more separate boluses per cardiac cycle. An x-ray imaging system acquires a reference dataset of the subject before the contrast agent is delivered and acquires an imaging dataset as the series of boluses are delivered to the subject, wherein multiple images are acquired of the subject per bolus. A computer system receives the reference dataset and the imaging dataset from the x-ray imaging system and reconstructs the reference dataset and the imaging dataset using a reconstruction process that removes the subject from the images to generate time-resolved volumetric images of the contrast agent moving within a volume of the subject without the subject.