Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for securing a vehicle against theft. According to the invention, at least one essential operating element (2) of the vehicle can be switched between three operating states A, B and C. An external authorisation device (3) switches the operating element into the unlimited operating state A. If a defined action (20) is carried out, for example the driver's door is opened, the operating element is switched into the operating state B for a defined period of time. If authorisation information is transmitted during this time, the operating element is switched back to the operating state A. Otherwise, once this period of time has expired, the operating element is switched into the non-operational operating state C.

Abstract: A dressing support that includes a flexible, resilient spacing sheet, which is stuck firmly to the patient and has an opening for receiving an ulcerated area. A compress is applied in the opening. A foot bed includes a recess which is complementary to the support and which receives the support when the foot rests on the foot bed, the support being stuck to the bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

Abstract: A hollow section made of a metal alloy and having at least one hollow space which is delimited by walls featuring end lengths forming corner regions. The walls exhibit at least in part different thicknesses in cross-section. The thickness of the end length of the walls diminishes in a continuous manner to a smaller thickness. The facing and approximately parallel outer walls of the hollow section are joined on the inside by at least one integral inner wall. The outer walls along with the inner walls delimit a plurality of hollow chambers and the walls of each chamber exhibit in each case a middle length of constant thickness and at both ends thereof an end length of increasing thickness.

Abstract: A dressing support (1) is comprised of a flexible, resilient spacing sheet, which is stuck firmly to the patient and has an opening for receiving an ulcerated area. A compress (9) is applied in the opening (2). A foot bed (30) includes a recess (32) which is complementary to the support (1) and which receives said support when the foot rests on the foot bed, said support being stuck to the bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

Abstract: A magnetic field enhanced sputtering arrangement and vacuum treatment apparatus includes an arrangement housing, on whose front face is mountable a target arrangement. A magnet carrier arrangement is rotatably supported about an axis in the arrangement housing. Magnetic flux of the magnet carrier penetrates through a region of the mounted target arrangement and the region is shifted through a relative rotational motion. An electric motor drive with a drive housing is connected to the arrangement housing so as to be torsion-tight therewith, and a rotor is rotatably supported in the drive housing, which, in turn, acts upon the magnet carrier arrangement. The drive housing forms the arrangement housing and the rotor is connected to the magnet carrier arrangement so as to be non-rotatable therewith, for a compact construction.

Abstract: A hinge for use in an orthosis having the function of supporting, protecting and/or controlling a body joint. The hinge includes first and second sets of flexible, substantially planar, elongated strip-shaped elements mutually slidable in a plane-to-plane contacting relationship. The strip-shaped elements are carried by supporting members having a controlling and guiding function and at least one of the sets of strip-shaped elements is comprised of resilient strip elements having a degree of springiness and stiffness and being resiliently flexible in the longitudinal direction of the strip yet essentially rigid against bending about an axis essentially perpendicular to the hinge axis of the joint.

Abstract: Yellow to orange-red bismuth oxide-chromium oxide mixed phase pigments having a specific surface from about 1 to 10 m.sup.2 /g and the composition Bi.sub.2-x Cr.sub.x O.sub.3 wherein x is from about 0.05 to 0.5 are produced by mixing the appropriate quantities of finely disperse bismuth-(III)-- and chromium-III-- or chromium-(VI)-compounds, calcining the mixture in air at a temperature from about 500.degree. to 800.degree. C. and subsequently grinding. The products are suitable for pigmenting lacquers, plastics and dispersion dyes.

Abstract: A depot fertilizer composition comprising an inorganic matrix and another inorganic and/or organic component of the formulaX Me(II)O.[(1-x)/2]Me(III).sub.2 O.sub.3.YA.zI.aqin whichMe (II) is at least one divalent metal,Me(III) is at least one trivalent metal,A is at least one inorganic acid or anhydride of an inorganic acid,I is at least one organic compound,aq is 0-9,X is from 0 to 1,Y is from 0.5 to 0.7, andZ is from 0 to 20,at least one of the components containing a plant nutrient element. The compositions are suited for fertilizing the leaves or full systems of plants growing in soil or in water.

Abstract: A bismuth oxide/chromium oxide mixed phase pigment having the composition Bi.sub.2-x Cr.sub.x O.sub.3 wherein 0.05.times.0.5 and a specification surface of about 1.0 to 10 m.sup.2 /g is produced by mixing metallic bismuth intensively with a chromium (III) and/or chromium (VI) compound, calcining the homogeneous mixture in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature of about 500.degree. to 800.degree. C., and crushing the product to pigment size.

Abstract: Yellow to orange-red bismuth oxide-chromium oxide mixed phase pigments having a specific surface from about 1 to 10 m.sup.2 /g and the composition Bi.sub.2-x Cr.sub.x O.sub.3 wherein x is from about 0.05 to 0.5 are produced by mixing the appropriate quantities of finely disperse bismuth-(III)- and chromium-(III)- or chromium-(VI)-compounds, calcining the mixture in air at a temperature from about 500.degree. to 800.degree. C. and subsequently grinding. The products are suitable for pigmenting lacquers, plastics and dispersion dyes.

Abstract: Iron oxide particles containing at least 5% by weight of iron (II) content calculated as FeO are stabilized against atmospheric oxidation by a coating of at least one compound containing boron and those particles are useful as coloring pigments and magnetic particles in magnetic recording media.

Abstract: A process for scrubbing acid gases, especially carbon dioxide, from gas mixtures with an aqueous amine solution serving as the scrubbing liquid in which hexamethylene diamine serves as the amine. The concentration of the hexamethylene diamine in the aqueous solution is 5 to 40% by weight, preferably 25 to 35% by weight.