Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a muffle arranged in a housing and a heating element arranged only in an intermediate space region formed between only one wall of the muffle and an outer wall of the housing in substantially parallel spaced-apart relation thereto. The heating element includes a first heating sub-element and a second heating sub-element. When viewed in a projection plane in parallel relation to a main extension surface of the heating element, one of the heating sub-elements is surrounded by the other heating sub-element. The heating sub-elements are operable independently of one another in one operating mode, and operable jointly in a further operating mode. A temperature sensor detects a temperature the wall of the muffle and is arranged in the intermediate space region adjacent to and between the heating sub-elements for detecting the temperature of the wall of the muffle in an operating mode of the heating element.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing, a muffle arranged in the housing and including walls to define a cooking chamber of the cooking appliance, a heating element arranged outside the muffle in an intermediate space between the housing and the muffle, and a thermal shielding unit arranged in the intermediate space and designed to thermally shield the heating element relative to the housing. The thermal shielding element is made of a material which has as melting point a temperature value which is higher than a maximum operating temperature of the heating element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating a clearance (7) between a tower (2) and foundations (6) of a wind turbine (1), comprising the following steps: S1: acquiring N maximum accelerations of the tower (2) of the wind turbine (1); S2: associating a predefined interval of accelerations with each maximum acceleration; S3: determining the number of occurrences of each interval of accelerations over the N time intervals; S4: deducing therefrom a mode for the N time intervals; S5: repeating steps S1 to S4 multiple times so as to obtain multiple modes; S6: comparing the modes obtained in this manner and deducing therefrom a change in the clearance (7).

Abstract: An apparatus for floatingly mounting a shaft, includes a housing (2), a rigid casing (4) for receiving and rotatably supporting one end of the shaft (1), and an elastically deformable element (5) floatingly supporting the rigid casing (4) in the housing (2). The elastically deformable element (5) is a bellows of synthetic material, mounted at one of its ends by an annular portion (5,) of smaller diameter than the internal folds of the bellows, on an external seat (6) of the rigid casing (4) and at its other end, by an annular portion (5") of greater diameter than the external folds of the bellows, in an internal seat (7) of the housing (2).