Abstract: The invention relates to a 9-speed transmission made up of two simple planetary gear sets including a drive group and an output group designed as a Ravigneaux set having six shift elements, namely three clutches and three brakes, certain specific embodiments being expandable to form an 11-speed transmission by adding a fourth brake.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration for a motor vehicle includes a first, a second, and a third planetary gear set. The web of the third planetary gear set is connected to an input shaft, wherein either the sun gear or the internal gear of the third planetary gear set is connected to the rotor of a first electric machine and correspondingly either the internal gear or the sun gear of the third planetary gear set is coupled via a brake to the transmission housing, or the sun gear of the third planetary gear set is coupled via the brake to the transmission housing, wherein either the web or the internal gear of the third planetary gear set is connected to the input shaft and correspondingly either the internal gear or the web of the third planetary gear set is connected to the web of the second planetary gear set.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration for a motor vehicle includes a first planetary set whose internal gear is coupled via a first brake to a transmission housing. A second planetary set is embodied as a Ravigneaux set. The first sun of the Ravigneaux gear set, which meshes with the long planets thereof, is connected to the rotor of a first electrical machine and is coupled via a first clutch to the internal gear of the first planetary set. The second sun of the Ravigneaux set, which meshes with the short planets thereof, is coupled via a second brake to the transmission housing. The carrier of the Ravigneaux set is coupled via a second clutch to the carrier of the first planetary set and the ring gear of the Ravigneaux set is connected to the input shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a 9-speed transmission made up of two simple planetary gear sets including a drive group and an output group designed as a Ravigneaux set having six shift elements, namely three clutches and three brakes, certain specific embodiments being expandable to form an 11-speed transmission by adding a fourth brake.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration for a motor vehicle includes a first planetary set whose internal gear is coupled via a first brake to a transmission housing. A second planetary set is embodied as a Ravigneaux set. The first sun of the Ravigneaux gear set, which meshes with the long planets thereof, is connected to the rotor of a first electrical machine and is coupled via a first clutch to the internal gear of the first planetary set. The second sun of the Ravigneaux set, which meshes with the short planets thereof, is coupled via a second brake to the transmission housing. The carrier of the Ravigneaux set is coupled via a second clutch to the carrier of the first planetary set and the ring gear of the Ravigneaux set is connected to the input shaft.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration for a motor vehicle includes a first, a second, and a third planetary gear set. The web of the third planetary gear set is connected to an input shaft, wherein either the sun gear or the internal gear of the third planetary gear set is connected to the rotor of a first electric machine and correspondingly either the internal gear or the sun gear of the third planetary gear set is coupled via a brake to the transmission housing, or the sun gear of the third planetary gear set is coupled via the brake to the transmission housing, wherein either the web or the internal gear of the third planetary gear set is connected to the input shaft and correspondingly either the internal gear or the web of the third planetary gear set is connected to the web of the second planetary gear set.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration is provided wherein the carrier of a first planetary gear set is coupled with the ring gear of a second planetary gear set, which is embodied as a Ravigneaux gear set. The ring gear of the second planetary gear set is fixedly connected to a driven shaft. The carrier of the second planetary gear set is connectable to the ring gear of the first planetary gear set by a clutch. The ring gear of the first planetary gear set is fixedly connected to a drive shaft. The rotor of a first electric machine is fixedly connected to the sun gear of the first planetary gear set. The rotor of a second electric machine is fixedly connected to the first sun gear of the second planetary gear set. The second sun gear of the second planetary gear set is connectable to a housing by a brake.

Abstract: A hybrid drive configuration is provided wherein the carrier of a first planetary gear set is coupled with the ring gear of a second planetary gear set, which is embodied as a Ravigneaux gear set. The ring gear of the second planetary gear set is fixedly connected to a driven shaft. The carrier of the second planetary gear set is connectable to the ring gear of the first planetary gear set by a clutch. The ring gear of the first planetary gear set is fixedly connected to a drive shaft. The rotor of a first electric machine is fixedly connected to the sun gear of the first planetary gear set. The rotor of a second electric machine is fixedly connected to the first sun gear of the second planetary gear set. The second sun gear of the second planetary gear set is connectable to a housing by a brake.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture comprising diesters of the formula (I) where R1 to R8?H or alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, where the R1 to R8 radicals may be the same or different, which is characterized in that at least two different diesters I are present in the mixture, said diesters differing in the structure of at least one of the carboxylic acid radicals C8H17COO present, to a process for preparing diesters of an isosorbide derivative of the formula I, in which a hexahydric alcohol and/or a monoanhydro or dianhydro derivative of the alcohol is esterified with a mixture of at least two different carboxylic acids of the empirical formula C8H17COOH, and to the use of these mixtures in paints, inks or coatings, in plastisols, adhesives or adhesive components, in sealants, as plasticizers in polymers or polymer components, as solvents, as lubricant oil components and as assistants in metal processing, and also PVC compositions or plastisols comprising PVC and from 5 to 250 parts by ma

Abstract: The gas which is to be introduced into a compressed gas container (50) is stored in a storage container (10) at a high pressure of approximately 250 bar. A booster compressor (20) is connected downstream of the storage container: The outlet of the booster compressor can be connected to a pre-filling container (30) via a valve apparatus (22). The compressed gas container (50) is filled first of all by the pre-filling container (30). When the pressure of the latter is no longer sufficient, a switchover is carried out, wherein the further filling takes place by the booster compressor (20) via a cyclone tube (40) or an injection device. In this way, a large storage container can be filled in a short time.

Abstract: The invention relates to an analysis device for optical analysis of a medium by means of at least one imaging apparatus (3), the analysis device comprising at least one sample carrier (6, 8), and in that the sample carrier (6, 8) and/or the at least one imaging apparatus (2) can be pivoted or rotated by means of at least one drive mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture comprising diesters of the formula (I) where R1 to R8?H or alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, where the R1 to R8 radicals may be the same or different, which is characterized in that at least two different diesters I are present in the mixture, said diesters differing in the structure of at least one of the carboxylic acid radicals C8H17COO present, to a process for preparing diesters of an isosorbide derivative of the formula I, in which a hexahydric alcohol and/or a monoanhydro or dianhydro derivative of the alcohol is esterified with a mixture of at least two different carboxylic acids of the empirical formula C8H17COOH, and to the use of these mixtures in paints, inks or coatings, in plastisols, adhesives or adhesive components, in sealants, as plasticizers in polymers or polymer components, as solvents, as lubricant oil components and as assistants in metal processing, and also PVC compositions or plastisols comprising PVC and from 5 to 250 parts by ma

Abstract: A module for textile machines has a plurality of tools (2) with retention portions (6). The retention portions are grasped in a plastic body (7), which reaches out or embraces the retention portions (6) at one or more recesses (15, 27, 28). The plastic body serves to fix the tools (2) positionally correctly with respect to one another. The positioning of the tools (2) with respective to a dividing sinker (11), however, is effected by direct contact between the retention portions (6) and the dividing sinker (11). By filling the gaplike interstices, which exist between the retention portions, with plastic, a compact yet lightweight retention region (4) for the module (1) is obtained.

Abstract: A module for textile machines has a plurality of tools (2) with retention portions (6). The retention portions are grasped in a plastic body (7), which reaches out or embraces the retention portions (6) at one or more recesses (15, 27, 28). The plastic body serves to fix the tools (2) positionally correctly with respect to one another. The positioning of the tools (2) with respective to a dividing sinker (11), however, is effected by direct contact between the retention portions (6) and the dividing sinker (11). By filling the gaplike interstices, which exist between the retention portions, with plastic, a compact yet lightweight retention region (4) for the module (1) is obtained.

Abstract: An injector for uniformly distributing solids or liquids over surfaces. The injector includes at least two individual injectors each having an internal guide element and an external guide element. The injector includes a double jacketed tube with an inner tube and an outer tube. The injector includes a base body connected to the tubes of the double jacketed tube, and connecting the inner tube to the internal guide element and a region between the inner and outer tubes to the external guide element. The base body and the injectors are arranged such that a mixture of carrier gas and solid particles or liquid droplets which is supplied through the inner tube and a propellent gas which is supplied through the region lead to a turbulent flow mixture of propellent gas, carrier gas and solid particles or liquid droplets and to the turbulent flow mixture formed being distributed radially and uniformly.

Abstract: Solids are dispersed, comminuted or deagglomerated and classified in a single piece of equipment, a classifier jet mill representing a combination of a jet mill and a spiral flow classifier.

Abstract: A device for producing photographic exposures of images appearing on an image screen onto a film platform carrying a plane film comprises a support holding a number of objectives and displaceable parallel to the axis extending through the central point of the image screen and the central point of the film platform. The platform carries one objective fixed to the platform of one magnifying property and four additional objectives which have such magnifying properties that each of them projects the picture field area of the screen on only one fourth of the usable film surface.

Abstract: A method of continuous production of refined chocolate mass from a non-refined cocoa mass composed of a mixture of components reduced in size to a fineness required for the final mass but still containing undesired aromatic substances and moisture and being processed into a low fat, friable or pulverized chocolate mass, is mixed in a plasticator with a preheated air stream which is admitted in the same feeding direction, simultaneously externally heated for a time interval between 5 and 8 minutes while being intensively mixed by shearing stresses until the mass becomes plasticized; thereupon the fluidity of the mass is increased by an emulsifier, then the entrained gas is separated from the mass, the latter is weighed and supplemented according to a final recipe by additional fat content, and the final mass is collected in a container and subjected to an additional homogenizing treatment and in a cooled condition is forwarded for the final processing.

Abstract: Catalysts which consist of a molded carrier, the surface of which is coated with an active catalyst composition of the general formula Mo.sub.12 A.sub.a B.sub.b C.sub.c D.sub.d O.sub.x, where A is V and/or W, B is Cu and/or Fe and/or Mn and/or Ni and/or Cr, C is Nb and/or Ta and/or Bi and/or Sb and/or Sn and/or Th and/or Ce and/or U, D is Li and/or Na and/or K and/or Rb and/or Cs and/or Tl and a is from 0.1 to 18, b is from 0 to 8, c is from 0 to 10, d is from 0 to 2 and x is from 36 to 135, which are particularly active and selective for the oxidation of acrolein and methacrolein with oxygen-containing gases to give acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, respectively, are obtained by first manufacturing the catalyst composition, before applying it to the carrier, from thermally easily decomposed salts of the components by mixing aqueous solutions, slurries or moist solid masses of the salts of the components, drying the mixture and calcining the dried composition at from 140.degree. to 600.degree. C.

Abstract: Particulate olefin polymers are prepared by catalytic polymerization of monoolefins in an auxiliary liquid containing the monomers to be polymerized in dissolved form and the particulate polymer product in suspended form. The reaction mixture is recycled in a loop to which the starting materials are fed and from which the particulate polymer formed is removed. The essential features are (a) that a side stream is branched off from the loop, (b) that the side stream is caused to pass through a separating zone in which particulate olefin polymer is separated by centrifugal acceleration at temperatures and pressures in the same range as present in the loop and (c) that the separated particulate olefin polymer is discharged through flashing means.