Abstract: A personal electronic web health log is for storing, processing and using personal health data associated with a user. It includes a data interface which can be used to set up a communication link to contracting parties when required in order to transfer data from the health log to them at least intermittently. There is preferably a local health log on the user's computer with pre-structured electronic forms for inputting the personal health data, and also a converter, actuated using selection schemes, for producing encrypted data which are anonymous, so that they permit no inference as to the identity of the user, for addressed filing of at least some of the data on a network, such as the internet.

Abstract: A remote activity controller for people is in the form of a portable appliance, including a display apparatus, an internal clock, a user ID code and memory device, and possibly with geographic position recording and with movement and other activity sensors for mobile detection and storage of personal state data for the wearer. Further, a data interface is included via which, when required, a communication link can be set up with contract partners in order to transfer data from the appliance to them, at least at times. In addition, a label communicator is included for detection of information data of measurement or therapy appliances used, including the measurement data determined by these appliances; and also the information about products, such as foodstuffs, medicaments, and network addresses of contract partners or the like, on the basis of labels which are located on or in them or are stored in a label album.

Abstract: A phoneme dictionary for speech recognition has a continuously stored set of standard words and their phonemes. As documents are needed by an application using the phoneme dictionary, words in the documents are selected and dynamically and temporarily added to the phoneme dictionary. Phonemes corresponding to the added words are generated using a text-to-phoneme converter, and are then temporarily added to the dictionary. Temporarily added words and their phonemes are dropped from the phoneme dictionary when their document is no longer needed by the application.

Abstract: A remote activity controller for people is in the form of a portable appliance, including a display apparatus, an internal clock, a user ID code and memory device, and possibly with geographic position recording and with movement and other activity sensors for mobile detection and storage of personal state data for the wearer. Further, a data interface is included via which, when required, a communication link can be set up with contract partners in order to transfer data from the appliance to them, at least at times. In addition, a label communicator is included for detection of information data of measurement or therapy appliances used, including the measurement data determined by these appliances; and also the information about products, such as foodstuffs, medicaments, and network addresses of contract partners or the like, on the basis of labels which are located on or in them or are stored in a label album.

Abstract: An e-commerce device is for discretion-critical transactions, particularly on the Internet, having a personal electronic web health log, for storing, editing and using personal health data for a user. The device includes a data interface which can be used to set up a communication link to contracting parties when required in order to transfer data to them at least intermittently from the health log, there being a local health log on the user's computer with prestructured electronic forms for inputting the personal health data. Also, a converter is included, actuated by way of selection schemes and including data filters, for producing encrypted data. This may be anonymous, so that they do not permit any inferences about the user's identity.

Abstract: An information display system having an output display for presenting information. Optical means are provided that deflect an illumination beam path into the field of view of the observer. Further, a subdividable output display is created that makes it possible to partly obtain information in a vehicle via a head-up display and partly via a traditional or back-projection display. Given seats arranged in rows, for example in airplanes or buses, back rests of preceding seats contain an output display and a communication interface to the seat of the viewer.

Abstract: A protected electronic health file for managing all the health-relevant data, including earlier diagnoses and treatments, of a patient in the form of data capsules on a number of decentralized servers of a network with an access code which can be released by the patient wherein, with every change or addition to a called-up data capsule, the old data capsules in the network are erased and a new access code is formed, under which the changed data capsule is re-stored again in the network.

Abstract: In a tele-evaluation system, especially a tele-medicine system for centralized remote evaluation of information, particularly medical patient information and measurement data, based on one-time use articles (disposable items) that are identified with data and/or can collect measurement data, the disposable items carries an individual encoding key for encoding the data in a patient station that is linked via data line or data network to a storage station and/or evaluation-reception station. A disposable-ID is applied to or stored in the disposable item and is automatically collected at the patient station and is simultaneously transmitted unencoded, with an identifier for the patient station. The reception station has a data link to the disposable item manufacturer in order to query, using the disposable-ID, the individual key for decoding the data.

Abstract: A tele-health information system for patient groups, particularly for members of a company, has a server, which contains the personal data and medical data of a patient and which is connected to a data input device and a data output device. The server has a variable data input device enabling an inquiry about different location-variable data request stations and different data transmission systems and has an intelligent data output device producing a data output that is adapted to the type of the data request station, or corresponding to a user request.

Abstract: A wide variety of components, such as speech input and output devices, image display devices and a computer are combined in one device. A plurality of methods of representing images are indicated. Preferably, the computer can be removed from the device and communicate with the basic device using an infrared link. In addition, a broadband transmission link may be provided, radio waves which are independent of the telephone network making contact with computer servers which are preferably provided.

Abstract: Integrated design of a combustion pressure sensor (11, 12, 13, 14) and combustion heat-flow sensor (21) which is suitable for determining a physical variable of the combustion process of an engine.

Abstract: A pasty dental material is disclosed which hardens to a high gloss polishable mass in the presence of an initiator. The mass is formed of a polymerizable bonding agent combined with an organosiloxane filler which contains units of the formula I ##STR1## and which has been subjected to an after treatment which is a condensation in an autoclave for a period of time of 1 hour to 5 days at a temperature of 60.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. under a pressure which is the sum of the partial pressures at the given temperature.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle for a combustion engine not only has a valve for alternately opening and closing the nozzle, but also has a part which undergoes alternating stroke movement, either longitudinally or transversely. The alternating stroke movement changes the opening angle of the nozzle opening. The alternating stroke movement is in a frequency range of approximately 5 to 20 kiloHertz.

Abstract: Laser-induced color printing with means with which the printing color of a micro-capsule to be impinged by the laser beam (12) is identified. These means are a fluorescence transformer material as a constituent of the content of the micro-capsules (3) or an additional white light ray with which the printing color of an individual micro-capsule (3) can likewise be identified.The printing ensues given coincidence of a printing instruction provided for a defined location with color specification and of the momentary incidence of the scanning laser beam (12) on a micro-capsule (3) for which this printing color has been identified as being present.

Abstract: Optical sensor line of amorphous or polycrystalline photo-electric material having a plurality of sensor elements. An optical sensor line of amorphous or polycrystalline photo-electric material having a plurality of sensor elements, whereby it is provided that a non-linear element is allocated to each sensor element as a converter that converts the photo-current (i.sub.ph) of the associated sensor and which is proportional to the quantity of light incident on the sensor into a signal voltage (u.sub.s) that is at least approximately proportional to the logarithm of the photo-current (i.sub.ph).

Abstract: Hydrophilic polyacrylonitrile filaments or fibres where at least one filament-forming synthetic polymer is wet spun in a spinning solvent and wherein the spinning solvent has added to it from 10 to 20% by weight of a substance which is readily miscible with the spinning solvent and a washing liquid and is a nonsolvent for the polymer to be spun.

Abstract: A piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer for radiating ultrasonic energy in the medium of air has a number of piezoceramic ultrasonic radiators disposed in registry within a dimensionally stable carrier block which has an intrinsic acoustic impedance which is lower by a factor of at least eight than that of the piezoceramic material and which has a high mechanical attenuation 1/Q.sub.m greater than approximately 0.05. The carrier block is yieldable at at least one closed face thereof for emission and/or reception of ultrasonic energy. The piezoelectric transducer elements may be divided into a number of side-by-side elements which may be individually energized, or may have electrodes connected in series for energizing the individual transducer elements in common.

Abstract: A piezo-electric control element with a monitoring system is formed of lamellae of piezo-electric material whose longitudinal direction extends in an actuation direction of the control element. The lamellae are interconnected to form at least one lamella packet and electrodes are provided for applying electric actuation voltage at opposite principal faces of the lamella. At lest one lamella of the packet has on one principal face a measuring electrode which extends over a portion of the lamella and which is opposite a cooperating electrode on an opposite principal face of the lamella. The measuring electrode has an electric terminal separately provided for measurement of displacement and/or speed, or actuating force.

Abstract: An electrically actuated control and positioning element formed of a lamella packet as a piezoelectric transducer whose ends are designed to form a power transmission element, and which is capable of transmitting tensile forces. Lamellae spaced from one another engage with parts of the power transmission element, preferably in a dovetailing or interlocking manner. Further active lamellae may be situated in the spaces between the spaced lamellae.

Abstract: An electrically actuated positioning element system utilizes a positioning element formed of piezo-electrical bodies each formed of a plurality of lamellae having electrodes. The lamellae have a length substantially greater than their thickness and upon application of an electrical voltage with a field direction which promotes a polarization of the material of the lamellae, the body is shortened. The two bodies are connected to one another at one end by a cross arm and at the other end the one body end is active and free to move relative to the other body end such that a resultant relative motion occurring between the two body ends may be utilized. Preferably a connection is provided for absorbing a lateral thrust of the bodies. The two piezo-electrical bodies are each electrically connected to one another for reverse-phase operation such that one contracts while the other is in a lengthened condition and vice versa.