Abstract: The invention relates to a valve unit for a system for producing parenteral nutrition, in which unit a three-way valve is used for each pair of connections to a source container. The valve unit is a component that can be mounted on die system and removed again after use. The valve unit is in particular provided as an interchangeable disposable component.

Abstract: To reduce the complexity and the outlay involved in the development and implementation in a vehicle of systems and methods known from the prior art for operating a differential-free, clutch-controlled balancing unit having a first clutch and a second clutch, the invention provides for the first clutch and the second clutch to be controlled independently of the driving conditions, and always using the same variable controlled variable of the same value.

Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for producing a medical preparation, in particular for producing a preparation for parenteral nutrition. The installation comprises a pump with which liquids can be transferred from a plurality of source containers into a target container. The installation has a modular construction and comprises a weighing module and a main module with the pump. According to a further aspect of the invention, the pump is arranged at an inclination with respect to a vertical plane. According to a further aspect of the invention, the installation comprises cascaded valve nodes.

Abstract: Controlling a driving torque of a driveline assembly of a motor vehicle comprises: monitoring a speed of a first drive axle; monitoring a speed of a second drive axle; determining a target speed for the electric machine from at least one of the speeds of the first and the second drive axle controlling the electric machine in target speed mode as a function of the at least one speed; determining a target torque from the speed of the first drive axle and the speed of the second drive axle; controlling the clutch in a target torque mode as a function of the speed of the first drive axle and the speed of the second drive axle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for synthesizing a medical preparation, a peristaltic pump being used for pumping liquid from a plurality of source containers. According to the invention, the individual metering steps are verified by a weighing process, even the metering of micro-amounts being verifiable.

Abstract: Controlling a driving torque of a driveline assembly of a motor vehicle comprises: monitoring a speed of a first drive axle; monitoring a speed of a second drive axle; determining a target speed for the electric machine from at least one of the speeds of the first and the second drive axle controlling the electric machine in target speed mode as a function of the at least one speed; determining a target torque from the speed of the first drive axle and the speed of the second drive axle; controlling the clutch in a target torque mode as a function of the speed of the first drive axle and the speed of the second drive axle.

Abstract: A mechanical and electric drive train of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, includes a conventional drive train which is driven by the internal combustion engine, an electric motor drive train which is driven by an electric motor, a shift gearbox arranged in the conventional drive train, and at least one axle drive unit for driving axle drive members which are connected or are connectable via a clutch to driving wheels of at least one axle of the motor vehicle. The electric motor drive train is connected between the shift gearbox and the axle drive members to the drive train via at least one first clutch device, wherein the connection can be produced and eliminated by actuation of the first clutch device.

Abstract: A mechanical and electric drive train of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, includes a conventional drive train which is driven by the internal combustion engine, an electric motor drive drain which is driven by an electric motor, a manual gearbox arranged in the conventional drive train, and at least one axle drive unit for driving axle drive members which are connected or are connectable via a clutch to driving wheels of at least one axle of the motor vehicle. The electric motor drive train is frictionally connected between the manual gearbox and the axle drive members to the drive train via at least one first clutch device, wherein the frictional connection can be produced and eliminated by actuation of the first clutch device.

Abstract: A profiled frame, as a window frame and/or door frame of a motor vehicle door or lid, is manufactured as a roll formed profile from flat strip material, in particular from flat steel, with a preferably closed hollow profile and with preferably at least one flange following the progression of the hollow profile, and with at least one contact surface (15) and/or one attachment formation (16) on the hollow profile and/or the flange. At least one contact surface (15) and/or attachment formation (16) is fashioned into an additional profile which is separate from a hollow profile, and that the additional profile is permanently and rigidly connected with said hollow profile, in particular welded to it.

Abstract: An axial setting device comprising two plates (24, 29) which are relatively rotatable and coaxially supported relative to one another and between which balls are guided in pairs of ball grooves (34, 39) in the plates (24, 29), with the depth of said pairs of ball grooves (34, 39) being circumferentially variable; of the plates (24, 29), one is axially supported and one is axially displaceable against the elastic returning forces of spring means; at least one of the plates (24, 29) is drivable via a driveline by a driving motor (11). Within the driveline, between the driving motor (11) and the drivable plates (24, 29), there is inserted a switching coupling (83).

Abstract: A profiled frame, as a window frame and/or door frame of a motor vehicle door or lid, is manufactured as a roll formed profile from flat strip material, in particular from flat steel, with a preferably closed hollow profile and with preferably at least one flange following the progression of the hollow profile, and with at least one contact surface (15) and/or one attachment formation (16) on the hollow profile and/or the flange. At least one contact surface (15) and/or attachment formation (16) is fashioned into an additional profile which is separate from a hollow profile, and that the additional profile is permanently and rigidly connected with said hollow profile, in particular welded to it.

Abstract: A lightweight door for vehicles comprises a door box having a top portion delimited by inner and outer window gutter profiles. A lightweight window frame is coupled to the door box and is formed of light metal or light metal alloy. The window frame is formed from an extruded bent profile that has a closed hollow chamber and at least one mounting formation. The mounting formation may include a mounting groove or a clip-on strip. The mounting formation continuously follows a length of the profile and is for receiving at least one add-on component. A plastic molded panel module is coupled to the frame. The module has a support surface and outer panels formed as a single piece along the frame adjacent a roof rail and a B-pillar of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A door shell for a motor vehicle door with a one-piece or multi-piece profile frame of metal. The profile frame has a profile cross-section changing over the length of the profile frame at least in sections, in particular in the region of an edge of the door shell running essentially vertically. Preferably the profile frame has a hollow chamber and in particular this hollow chamber has a profile cross-section that changes over the length of the profile frame. Further preferably the profile frame is designed as an extruded profile of a light metal or light metal compound, in particular aluminium or an aluminium compound, as a tube of a light metal or light metal compound, in particular aluminium or an aluminium compound welded on a longitudinal seam, as a tube of steel welded on a longitudinal seam or as a tube of steel produced seamless. The profile cross-section of the profile frame is adapted to and follows the form of the inside door panel.

Abstract: An axial setting device comprising two plates (24, 29) which are relatively rotatable and coaxially supported relative to one another and between which balls are guided in pairs of ball grooves (34, 39) in the plates (24, 29), with the depth of said pairs of ball grooves (34, 39) being circumferentially variable; of the plates (24, 29), one is axially supported and one is axially displaceable against the elastic returning forces of spring means; at least one of the plates (24, 29) is drivable via a driveline by a driving motor (11). Within the driveline, between the driving motor (11) and the drivable plates (24, 29), there is inserted a switching coupling (83).

Abstract: A coupling for controllably transmitting torque, having a first coupling member and a second coupling member—especially a shaft and a coupling housing—which are supported so as to be rotatable relative to one another; the coupling comprises a friction coupling and a viscous coupling switched in parallel; the friction coupling comprises two sets of friction plates and the viscous coupling comprises two VC plate carriers; the sets of friction plates of the friction coupling are each connected in a rotationally fast way to the first and the second coupling member and axially loadable by an adjusting device, and a first VC plate carrier of the viscous coupling is permanently connected in a rotationally fast way to the first one of the coupling members, and a second VC plate carrier of the viscous coupling is disconnectably connected to the second coupling member, with an axial adjusting device connecting and disconnecting the second VC plate carrier of the viscous coupling in a friction locking way an

Abstract: The invention relates to a lightweight door for motor vehicles, comprising a door box (1) which towards the top towards the window area is delimited by inner and outer window gutter profiles (3; 4); and comprising a window frame (5) made from light metal/light metal alloys, in particular aluminium/aluminium alloys; with said window frame (5) encompassing the window area, being permanently connected, in particular welded, to the door box (1), in particular to the inner window gutter profile (3), wherein said window frame (5) is made from an extruded and bent light metal profile, in particular a light metal profile bent by stretching and rolling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lightweight door for motor vehicles, using the hidden bar-element construction technique. It is characterised by the supporting frame being made in a single piece from a metal sheet of minimum thickness; said metal sheet being a pressed part or a deepdrawn part.

Abstract: A hot-gas stream (40) flows along the surface of a segment arrangement for shroud bands, in particular in a gas turbine. The segment arrangement comprises segments (20, 20′) arranged next to one another and in each case separated from one another by a gap (12). The hot-gas stream (40), in at least one section (70) of the gap (12), has a velocity component perpendicular to the direction of the gap from a first segment (20) to a second segment (20′). In this case, in said section (70), along that edge (26) of the first segment (20) which faces the gap (12), at least one film-cooling bore (52) connects a cooling-air chamber (50), allocated to the first segment, to the surface (22) subjected to the hot-gas stream (40), and/or, in said section (70), along that edge (26′) of the second segment (20′) which faces the gap (12), at least one edge-cooling bore (56) connects a cooling-air chamber (50′), allocated to the second segment, to the inside (28′) of the gap (12).

Abstract: A mechanical clutch with two elements (11, 21) which, for the purpose of positively engaging one another, are provided with opposed end toothings which are adapted to one another, the first element (11) being rotatably mounted and axially supported, the second element (21) also being rotatably mounted and axially supported, and further being axially blocked in a first position for the purpose of being non-rotatably engaged with the first element (11), and being axially moveable into a position in which it is freely rotatably and disengaged from the first element (11), with a device for selectively axially blocking the second element (21), the clutch further comprising: a cavity system whose shape is variable and which is filled with a magneto-rheological fluid; a displacing member which can be moved between a first position and a second position, which delimits the cavity system and which is connected to the second element (21); and an electro-magnet (37) which can magnetize at least part of the magneto-rheol

Abstract: Platform cooling having a guide-blade platform (30; 60) which is subjected to a hot-gas stream (20) and is separated by a gap (36; 66) from a combustion-chamber segment (40; 70) arranged upstream, one or more segment cooling bores (42; 72) being made in the combustion-chamber segment (40; 70), which segment cooling bores (42; 72) connect a cooling-air chamber (44; 74) to the gap (36; 66). The guide-blade platform (30; 60) has a surface (34; 64) on the downstream side in the region of the gap (36; 66), the axes of the one or more segment cooling bores (42; 72) running roughly tangentially to said surface (34; 64).