Abstract: A drug delivery device (1), comprising a delivery unit (3) including a drug container (6), a liquid flow system (7), a pumping system (8), and a casing (9) enclosing therein the drug container, the pumping system and at least a part of the liquid flow system, the drug container comprising a barrel portion (6a) and a plunger (12) slidably mounted within the barrel portion and sealing the drug (78) within the container at one end of the barrel portion, the liquid flow system (7) connected fluidically to the drug container during delivery of the liquid drug.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically examining a liquid sample, which has a liquid and at least one particle, by means of a first measurement signal which emanates from a liquid region and which serves to determine at least one particle with a first property, and by means of a second measurement signal which emanates from the liquid region and serves to determine at least one particle with a second property, the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal being evaluated independently of one another and whether a particle condition has been satisfied in the liquid region subsequently being determined on the basis of the evaluated first measurement signal and the evaluated second measurement signal.

Abstract: A method operates a hearing aid, in particular a classic hearing aid. The hearing aid includes an input transducer, a signal processing device, and an output transducer. Wherein an occurrence of a comb filter effect is determined by the signal processing device, and wherein a countermeasure is controlled by the signal processing device as a function of the determined occurrence of the comb filter effect.

Abstract: A metering console (100) includes a housing (110) adapted to allow flow of a liquid (F) therethrough. The housing (110) is adapted to attach with one or more gardening devices (132, 152). The metering console (100) includes a display (170) associated with the housing (110). The metering console (100) is characterized in that the display (170) is rotatably engaged with the housing (110) of the metering console (100) such that the display (170) rotates along a central axis (A-A?) of the housing (110).

Abstract: A high output gas burner such as for a food cooking appliance is disclosed. The gas burner is adapted to combust a mixture of gas and air. The gas burner has a cross ring having a plurality of radially spaced channels and a plurality of axially spaced channels. The radially spaced channels and the axially spaced channels are adapted to guide the air to be combusted with the gas. The radially spaced channels have a diameter of the order of 10 mm and the axially spaced channels have a diameter of the order of 8 mm.

Abstract: An actuator for aviation applications, in particular for adjusting rotor blades in a helicopter, may include an electromechanical drive assembly connected to an output drive via a downstream transmission, where the drive assembly is divided into sub-drives that can be operated independently, and where at least two sub-drives are spatially separated from one another in that the transmission is placed between these sub-drives. The transmission may include at least two harmonic gearings coupled to one another by at least one first coupling element, where a first harmonic gearing is located inside a non-rotating first housing, where a second harmonic gearing is located inside a rotating second housing, and where the second housing is connected to the output drive.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brake piston 1 for a brake caliper 9 of a disk brake, which is produced using working processes from a metallic material, in particular from a flat metal sheet, and is formed in one piece as a unilaterally open pot with a piston longitudinal axis A, with a piston wall 2 and with a piston head 3. There is a need for robust and light as well as alternatively constructed, efficiently producible and well guided brake pistons. The object is achieved firstly in principle on the basis of a cup-shapedly worked brake piston blank 19, in that at least one locally defined, i.e. partially cold-upset or partially ironed, cylindrical piston wall portion is present with a partially deformed piston wall 2 which is configured in adaptively modified manner by plastic material deformation by means of material redistribution (flow) including strain-hardening of its piston wall thickness of sl?x.

Abstract: A method fits a digital hearing aid having an input transducer, a signal processing device and an output transducer. The signal processing device is configured to form an evaluation unit, a comparator unit, and a pre-amplification unit. An acoustic test signal is generated by an external testing device while the hearing aid is worn by a hearing-aid wearer. A digital test input signal is generated by the input transducer on the basis of the acoustic test signal. A sound pressure-dependent test quantity is determined on the basis of the digital test input signal by the evaluation unit. A deviation between the sound pressure-dependent test quantity and a reference quantity stored in the signal processing device is determined by the comparator unit. A pre-amplification by the pre-amplification unit is adjusted on the basis of the determined deviation.

Abstract: A transmitter device (100) includes a housing (102). The transmitter device (100) has a cable (110). The cable (110) is at least partially housed within the housing (102) and electrically connected to a socket (130). Further, the transmitter device (100) has a sensor (106). The sensor (106) is electrically coupled with the cable (110). The transmitter device (100) further includes a cover (104). The cover (104) at least partially covers the sensor (106). The transmitter dev ice (100) is characterized in that the socket (130) is disposed outside the housing (102), and the socket (130) is flexibly coupled to the housing (102) through the cable (110). The housing (102) includes a channel (111) such that the cable (110) is slidably received within the channel (111).

Abstract: A method and microscopy system are useful for recording an image of a sample region. A laser beam is directed onto the sample region with interface(s). An objective lens facilitates images the laser beam on a focusing point which lies on the optical axis of the objective lens or an axis parallel thereto, and which lies in a focusing plane. The objective lens and the sample region are displaced with respect to one another in relative fashion along the optical axis of the objective lens to different relative displacement positions. Intensity values of the laser beam are captured for a respective relative displacement position. A respective highest intensity value for a respective displacement position, a curve of the highest intensity values, and a reference relative displacement position from at least one maximum of the curve, are determined. Image(s) of the sample region is/are captured at the reference relative displacement position.

Abstract: A method for operating a parking lock system (10) with a parking interlock gear (11) is provided. The parking lock system (10) also includes a parking pawl (12) insertable with an insertion section (20) in one of recesses (16) of the parking interlock gear (11) in order to interlock the parking interlock gear (11), a parking lock actuator (13) for the parking pawl (12), and a parking lock sensor (14) for detecting an absolute rotation angle position of the parking interlock gear (11). The method includes detecting an absolute rotation angle position of the parking interlock gear (11) and comparing the detected absolute rotation angle position with a reference rotation angle position. When the particular absolute rotation angle position is situated behind the reference rotation angle position as viewed in the particular direction of rotation of the parking interlock gear (11), a rattling process of the parking pawl (12) is detected.

Abstract: Systems and methods for tourniquet monitoring and control is provided. A system includes at least one sensor, a housing, a processor, and a user communication module. The at least one sensor is configured to monitor at least one of deployment or operation of the tourniquet. The housing is configured to removably engage the tourniquet to position the at least one sensor to monitor the at least one of deployment or operation of the tourniquet. The processor is configured to receive feedback from the at least one sensor, compare the feedback to at least one of deployment or operation parameters for the tourniquet, and generate a user report. The user communication module is configured to communicate the user report.

Abstract: A holding and moving device includes a support foot, a bearing arm secured pivotably onto the support foot to form a useful load side section and a weight-side section, a first pivot arm connected to the useful load side section of the bearing arm for attachment of a useful load and/or holding device for a useful load, and a second pivot arm connected to the weight-side section of the bearing arm for attachment of a balance weight. The bearing arm and the first and second pivot arms are connected to one another such that the alignment of the first and second pivot arms are essentially parallel to one another in each position. The second pivot arm and/or the weight-side section are designed such that the weight of the first pivot arm and/or of the useful load side section is balanced in each position of the holding and moving device.

Abstract: A brake disc (1) including at least one friction ring (2) and a brake hub (3) connected to the friction ring (2) for conjoint rotation. A side wall section (17) of the brake hub (3) has a plurality of radially oriented deformations (5). A contact surface (7) extending in the radial direction is formed by these deformations (5), and a rotationally fixed connection (8) is established by the contact surface (7) between the friction ring (2) and the brake hub (3). A ratio Da/Di formed from the outer diameter Da of a side wall section (17) of the brake hub (3) and an inner diameter Di of the friction ring (2) is at most 1.01.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a position-based dynamics approach for simulating objects using a set of points and constraints, applied as equations that restrict the relative motion of bodies. Forces are applied to the points to move them, and the constraints ensure that the points will not move in a way that is inconsistent with rules of the simulation. The present invention improves upon existing PBD approaches by using regularized constraints that directly correspond to well-defined energy potentials, and which can advantageously be solved independent of time step and iteration count.

Abstract: One aspect refers to an electrode for a medical device including a monolithic substrate having at least one surface including a continuous pattern, wherein the continuous pattern is formed by at least one set of hollow lines, and wherein the at least one set of hollow lines forms the boundaries of repeating elements. One aspect further relates to a medical device including the electrode according to one embodiment, and to a process for preparing the electrode according to one embodiment.

Abstract: A pot-shaped, cold-formed steel brake piston as a pot which is open on one side includes a base and a wall including inner and outer walls, a radially inwardly configured groove is open in a radially outward direction and forms, radially at the inside, a groove bead projection. The open side of the pot ends as a bearing for a friction pad backplate. Interfaces integrated at the inside on the end side serve a) for the fixing between friction pad and steel brake piston and b) as support bearing for spring mounting the friction pad. An aspect is a further improved steel brake piston of the new generation. The minimum inner diameter dimin is axially set back in the direction of the base by a multiple of the length of a wall thickness s, and the minimum piston inner diameter dimin is formed by the groove bead projection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds which can be used in particular as structural mimetics of proline-rich peptides. The compounds of the present invention are capable of selectively inhibiting Ena/VASP-EVH1-mediated protein-protein interactions. The invention further relates to the use of these compounds as pharmaceutical agents and the use of the pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of tumor diseases.

Abstract: A pump (2) comprising a stator (4) and a rotor (6) axially and rotatably movable relative to the stator, the stator comprising a rotor shaft receiving cavity (18), an inlet (14) and an outlet (16) fluidly connected to the rotor shaft receiving cavity (18), the rotor comprising a shaft (24) received in the rotor shaft receiving cavity (18). The rotor shaft (24) comprises a cavity (39) receiving a piston portion (12) of the stator therein to form a piston chamber (42), a seal (44) mounted between the piston portion (12) and inner sidewall of the cavity (39) to sealingly close an end of the piston chamber (42).

Abstract: The invention relates to a rack for a switchgear cabinet arrangement, comprising a main frame that includes four vertical profiled struts and eight horizontal profiled struts, four of said profiled struts forming a rectangular rack frame (4) having a constant cross-section; the rack frame has a peripheral receptacle which is formed by at least two sides of the profiled struts and which is open towards an external side of the rack frame; the disclosed rack is characterized in that a rectangular additional frame is inserted into the receptacle.