Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine includes a delivery duct, a drive shaft, a coolant pump impeller arranged on the drive shaft to covey a coolant into the delivery duct, a control slide which controls a cross-section of an annular gap arranged between an outlet of the coolant pump impeller and the delivery duct, a side channel pump with a side channel pump impeller arranged on the drive shaft and a side channel, a pressure duct comprising a cross-section which fluidically connects an outlet of the side channel to a first pressure chamber of the control slide, a valve which opens and closes the cross-section of the pressure duct, and a first housing part arranged to have the side channel be formed therein and the control slide slidingly guided thereon. The coolant pump impeller is integrally formed with the side channel pump impeller.

Abstract: A valve device (1) for a medical system comprises a valve housing (10), an inlet port (102) arranged on the valve housing (10), an outlet port (103) arranged on the valve housing (10), a flow duct (12) extending through the valve housing (10) connecting the inlet port (102) and the outlet port (103) to allow for a fluid flow (P) through the valve housing between the inlet port (102) and the outlet port (103), and a closure element (11) arranged on the valve housing (10) for selectively opening and closing the flow duct (12).

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for unifying a two-dimensional (2D) interface and a three-dimensional (3D) interface of a computer device, with each interface having unique inputs and displays specific to each dimensionality. The present disclosure provides for identifying a display context value that indicates whether a user is viewing a two dimensional (2D) display of a 2D space or a three dimensional (3D) display of a 3D space of the computer device, as well as identifying an input context value that indicates whether a user input received at an input device is directed toward the 2D space or the 3D space of the computer device, and selecting one of a plurality of operating states of the computer device based on the display context value and the input context value.

Abstract: A system for use in a park attraction to provide collaborative driving experiences. The system includes a vehicle including a body with passenger seats, including a user input assembly proximate to each of the passenger seats, and further including a holonomic drive system adapted to move the body in any direction while riding on a driving surface of the park attraction. The system also includes a system controller (running an attraction/game control module) that operates to: (a) receive user input from each of the user input assemblies; (b) process the user input from each of the user input assemblies to generate a control vector associated with each of the user input assemblies; (c) combine the control vectors from all of the user input assemblies to generate a resultant vector; (d) generate a drive control signal from the resultant vector; and (e) transmit the drive control signal to the vehicle.

Abstract: An implantable device is provided. The implantable device includes a flexible polymeric substrate that extends through an aperture in an electrically conductive material to form an anchor that partially covers the electrically conductive material. Methods for fabricating the implantable device are also provided.

Abstract: A single-level rack serving apparatus for transporting load units, which comprises two chassis halves each having a pair of rollers and each having an extendible arm, a storage region between the chassis halves and a connection structure, wherein the chassis halves are connected to one another by the connection structure and travel on running rails by the rollers. The arms serve to pull up or push down load units onto or from the storage region which comprises at least two first and second lateral supporting plates for supportingly carrying the load units. The size of the storage region can be varied by varying the spacing between the arms together with the lateral supporting plates. A further third supporting plate is arranged between the first and second lateral supporting plates such that it supports a load unit centrally from below in the storage region irrespective of the size of the storage region.

Abstract: The invention relates to aluminum pigments which are at least partially coated with lubricant, wherein the aluminum pigments have a relative breadth of thickness distribution ?h of from 30% to less than 70%, as determined by a scanning electron microscope thickness count and as calculated on the basis of the corresponding cumulative breakthrough curve of the relative frequencies of occurrence, according to the formula ?h=100×(h90?h10)/h50, and an X-ray diffractogram, measured on pigments in substantially plane-parallel orientation, having one or two main peaks which do not correspond to the [111] reflexes. The invention further relates to a method for the production of said aluminum pigments and to uses thereof and also to nail varnishes and printing inks containing said aluminum pigments of the invention.

Abstract: Computing devices, head-mounted display devices and methods for processing spatial input signals from a pointing device are disclosed. In one example, a pointer is displayed within a desktop window that represents an operating system shell generated by a computing device. The desktop window and the pointer are displayed via a head-mounted display device within a three-dimensional environment. Spatial input signals are received from the pointing device and are translated into two-dimensional motion of the pointer within the desktop window. Based on determining that a location of the pointer moves outside the desktop window, the spatial input signals are translated into three-dimensional motion of the pointer within the three-dimensional environment displayed via the head-mounted display device.

Abstract: A method for setting up a wastewater pumping station in a wastewater shaft and a wastewater pumping station are provided. At least one solids-collecting tank which separates solids from wastewater containing solids, a liquids-collecting tank which received the treated wastewater from the at least one solids collecting tank, and a pump for emptying wastewater from the liquids-collecting tank via the solids-collecting tank, are produced as separate subassemblies. At least the solids-collecting tank and the pump are prefabricated in the form of a construction unit, and the construction unit is combined with the already on-site liquids-collecting tank during installation in the likewise already on-site wastewater shaft.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a network server system of a service provider providing a service comprising media streaming. The method comprises receiving a detection message from a mobile radio device running the service for a user registered with the service provider, said message comprising an indication that said radio device has detected that it is within a predefined geographical area. The method also comprises determining that the predefined geographical area is registered with the service provider and associated with one or more actions. The method also comprises electing an action of the one or more actions. The method also comprises sending an instructions message to the radio device, said message comprising instructions to modify the service such that the radio device performs the elected action.

Abstract: The disclosure describes an adaptive and optimal imaging of individual quantum emitters within a lattice or optical field of view for quantum computing. Advanced image processing techniques are described to identify individual optically active quantum bits (qubits) with an imager. Images of individual and optically-resolved quantum emitters fluorescing as a lattice are decomposed and recognized based on fluorescence. Expected spatial distributions of the quantum emitters guides the processing, which uses adaptive fitting of peak distribution functions to determine the number of quantum emitters in real time. These techniques can be used for the loading process, where atoms or ions enter the trap one-by-one, for the identification of solid-state emitters, and for internal state-detection of the quantum emitters, where each emitter can be fluorescent or dark depending on its internal state.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a network server system of a service provider providing a service comprising media streaming. The method comprises receiving a detection message from a mobile radio device running the service for a user registered with the service provider, said message comprising an indication that said radio device has detected that it is within a predefined geographical area. The method also comprises determining that the predefined geographical area is registered with the service provider and associated with one or more actions. The method also comprises electing an action of the one or more actions. The method also comprises sending an instructions message to the radio device, said message comprising instructions to modify the service such that the radio device performs the elected action.

Abstract: Computing devices, head-mounted display devices and methods for processing spatial input signals from a pointing device are disclosed. In one example, a pointer is displayed within a desktop window that represents an operating system shell generated by a computing device. The desktop window and the pointer are displayed via a head-mounted display device within a three-dimensional environment. Spatial input signals are received from the pointing device and are translated into two-dimensional motion of the pointer within the desktop window. Based on determining that a location of the pointer moves outside the desktop window, the spatial input signals are translated into three-dimensional motion of the pointer within the three-dimensional environment displayed via the head-mounted display device.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for providing music-styled advertisement or other sponsor-directed content. Metadata describes media content that can be streamed or otherwise provided to a user's media device. A media streaming logic and targeting service analyzes a playing media content, and selects advertisements for delivery in conjunction with that content. For example, the system can determine a genre, tempo, or mood of music being streamed during a session, and select advertisements targeted to a style of music. Information associated with the user, for example their location, can be used to predict their mood, and select appropriate advertisements. Advertisements can also be selected based on an analysis of, for example, a playlist description or a song lyrics.

Abstract: The invention relates to an offset printing ink containing platelet-shaped aluminum pigments with an average thickness h50 ranging from 15 to 80 nm, binders, and solvents. The invention is characterized in that the platelet-shaped aluminum pigments are produced using a PVD method and are at least partly coated with a leafing additive, and the offset printing ink has a viscosity of 4 to 15 Pa s, measured on a sample which is temperature-controlled at 25° C. by means of a rotation viscometer with a cone/plate geometry under a shear stress of 185.9 Pa. The invention further relates to a method for producing a high-gloss printed metal image on a substrate, having the following steps: a) optionally applying a primer onto the substrate, b) applying an offset printing ink according to the invention onto the primer layer or onto the substrate, thereby forming a high-gloss printed layer B, and c) optionally applying additional color layers C onto the layer B.

Abstract: A coolant pump for an internal combustion engine includes a delivery duct, a drive shaft, a coolant pump impeller arranged on the drive shaft to covey a coolant into the delivery duct, a control slide which controls a cross-section of an annular gap arranged between an outlet of the coolant pump impeller and the delivery duct, a side channel pump with a side channel pump impeller arranged on the drive shaft and a side channel, a pressure duct comprising a cross-section which fluidically connects an outlet of the side channel to a first pressure chamber of the control slide, a valve which opens and closes the cross-section of the pressure duct, and a first housing part arranged to have the side channel be formed therein and the control slide slidingly guided thereon. The coolant pump impeller is integrally formed with the side channel pump impeller.

Abstract: The invention concerns a deck (1) for forming an accessible area in a shoring tower (26), which can be used for fabrication or reconstruction of buildings, with a lifting lock (2) for avoiding take off of the deck (1) from an intended insertion position, preferably with two insertion hooks (2) each on both front sides, characterized in that the lifting lock (2) can also at a resting deck (1) switch from a detached position into a locked position only by force of gravity and/or the lifting lock (2) can switch from the locked position into the detached position by lifting the deck (1) through engaging at the lifting lock (2). Furthermore, a further developed system comprising a separate lifting and holding tool and a deck as well as a further developed shoring tower are disclosed. A very easy and safe assembly and disassembly can thereby be achieved.

Abstract: A wastewater-lifting system is provided. The wastewater-lifting system includes at least one bulky-material-collecting vessel for wastewater loaded with bulky materials which is guided therethrough, a liquid-collecting vessel for the wastewater which is freed from bulky materials and precleaned in the bulky-material-collecting vessel, and with a wastewater shaft for accommodating the bulky-material-collecting vessel and the liquid-collecting vessel. The liquid-collecting vessel and the wastewater shaft have at least one common wall surface. The liquid-collecting vessel defines a closed-off space with only a partially covered base surface in the wastewater shaft, and is equipped for this purpose with at least one wall surface independent of the wastewater shaft.

Abstract: An infusion device (3) comprises a housing element (30) having a receptacle (301) for receiving a pump module (1), and a pump actuation mechanism (2) having a wobbling device (20) arranged on the housing element (30) and a drive shaft (21) being rotatable about a rotational axis (A). The wobbling device (20) is actuatable, by rotating the drive shaft (21) about the rotational axis (A), to perform a tumbling motion with respect to the receptacle (300) for acting onto the pump module (1) received in the receptacle (300) in order to pump a fluid through the pump module (1). Herein, the wobbling device (20) is displaceable along at least one direction (X, Y) transverse to the rotational axis (A) with respect to the receptacle (300).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method performed in a network server system of a service provider providing a service comprising media streaming. The method comprises receiving a detection message from a mobile radio device running the service for a user registered with the service provider, said message comprising an indication that said radio device has detected that it is within a predefined geographical area. The method also comprises determining that the predefined geographical area is registered with the service provider and associated with one or more actions. The method also comprises electing an action of the one or more actions. The method also comprises sending an instructions message to the radio device, said message comprising instructions to modify the service such that the radio device performs the elected action.