Abstract: A composition for cleaning membranes used in food processing comprising an amine oxide and an alkyl sulfate, the composition maintaining good cleaning performance whilst leaving a low residue of surfactant on the membrane that is cleaned using the composition. A method of use of the composition is also presented.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal, includes a spectral domain audio decoder for generating a first decoded representation of a first set of first spectral portions, the decoded representation having a first spectral resolution; a parametric decoder for generating a second decoded representation of a second set of second spectral portions having a second spectral resolution being lower than the first spectral resolution; a frequency regenerator for regenerating every constructed second spectral portion having the first spectral resolution using a first spectral portion and spectral envelope information for the second spectral portion; and a spectrum time converter for converting the first decoded representation and the reconstructed second spectral portion into a time representation.

Abstract: A method for determining a switching state of a valve that is actuated by a coil, wherein the method includes: respectively ascertaining a current flowing through the coil and a voltage applied to the coil at several times which follow one another with a prespecified time interval, calculating an inductance variable of the coil based on the currents, the voltage and the time interval, and determining the switching state based on the inductance variable. Also disclosed is a solenoid valve assembly.

Abstract: A storage space assembly having a storage cavity having a space for receiving items to be stored, and a self-driving vehicle including such a storage space assembly. The storage space assembly further has at least one fluid reservoir, in particular a water tank, attached to the storage cavity or integrated into the storage cavity.

Abstract: A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.

Abstract: A sorption heat pump having an evaporator containing a working fluid to evaporate the fluid to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a vapor pathway connecting the evaporator and sorber, and a thermal control unit controlling the rate of vapor flow between the evaporator and sorber through the pathway, and being selectively operable to permit, stop and restart the flow of gas through the pathway. The pump may be used with a compartment storing temperature sensitive material. The evaporator may be positioned inside and the sorber outside the compartment, or the sorber may be positioned inside and the evaporator outside the compartment. The pump may be used in an apparatus including both cool and warm compartments, with an insulation layer in each. A method is disclosed for reusing the pump after the sorption material has been sorbed.

Abstract: A thermally insulated transport container for use with an ice battery, having an internal usable volume for freeze-free cooling of temperature-sensitive products placed therein, the usable volume having an outward usable volume portion, an internal cold storage volume sized to receive the ice battery, the cold storage volume having an inward cold storage volume portion adjacent to the outward usable volume portion to define a common interface of the usable volume and the cold storage volume, a heat-conducting liner extending about the usable volume and having a heat-conducting liner portion located between the outward usable volume portion and the inward cold storage volume portion, and a phase change material (PCM) container positioned adjacent to the heat-conducting liner portion at the common interface and in heat-conducting contact with the heat conduction liner portion, the PCM container sized to contain a phase change material.

Abstract: A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.

Abstract: A sorption heat pump having an evaporator containing a working fluid to evaporate the fluid to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a vapor pathway connecting the evaporator and sorber, and a thermal control unit controlling the rate of vapor flow between the evaporator and sorber through the pathway, and being selectively operable to permit, stop and restart the flow of gas through the pathway. The pump may be used with a compartment storing temperature sensitive material. The evaporator may be positioned inside and the sorber outside the compartment, or the sorber may be positioned inside and the evaporator outside the compartment. The pump may be used in an apparatus including both cool and warm compartments, with an insulation layer in each. A method is disclosed for reusing the pump after the sorption material has been sorbed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for regulating an air flow for a front end module (1) of a motor vehicle, comprising a closing means/element (4) for closing air inlets (38) of a front end module (1) of a motor vehicle, a guide means/element (6) for guiding the closing means/element (4) during an opening and a closing movement of the closing means/element (4), a first and a second control means/element (8a, 8b) for controlling an opening and a closing movement of the closing means/element (4) a first and a second drive means/element (10a, 10b) for driving an opening and a closing movement of the closing means/element (4), wherein the first and second control means/elements (8a, 8b) comprise a multi-part integrated tension and tolerance compensation mechanism (12) for compensating a variable pretension of the first and second drive means/elements (10a, 10b) in order to ensure a substantially constant tension of the closing means/element (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to an acidic aqueous composition for electrolytic copper plating, the composition comprising (i) copper (II) ions, (ii) one or more than one suppressor consisting of or comprising one single N-heteroaromatic mono-ring, said mono-ring comprising at least two ring nitrogen atoms and more than one substituent covalently connected to one of said ring nitrogen atoms and/or a ring carbon atom, wherein said substituent independently is or comprises one or more than one linear or branched polyalkylene glycol moiety, and/or one or more than one linear or branched polyalkylene glycol block polyalkylene glycol, or random polyalkylene glycol moiety, with the proviso that if said suppressor comprises a OH group, then it is a terminal OH group of said polyalkylene glycol moiety, polyalkylene glycol block polyalkylene glycol, and random polyalkylene glycol moiety, respectively, and said suppressor does not comprise NH2 groups, halogen atoms, and sulfur atoms; a method of electrolytic copper plating

Abstract: A method for analyzing the operating state of a cutting device for mowing crop, the cutting device having at least one mowing knife having cutting edges which interact with counter cutting edges of the cutting device, including: detecting of a signal representing the stroke position of the mowing knife; detecting a signal representing the knife force for driving the mowing knife as a function of the stroke position, and determining crop and/or cutting system properties on the basis of an evaluation of the signal representing the knife force as a function of the stroke position.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a knife blade for a cutter knife of an agricultural harvesting machine, wherein a substantially disk-shaped blade blank is provided in a providing step, said blade blank having a bottom side extending in a first plane (YZ1) and a top side extending in a second plane (YZ2), wherein a hole connecting the first plane (YZ1) with the second plane (YZ2) is made in the blade blank, wherein in a reshaping step an area of the blade blank surrounding the hole is deformed in such a way that a top contact surface surrounding the hole is formed in a third plane (YZ3), wherein the third plane is more distant from the first plane than the second plane (YZ2) in a normal direction (X) perpendicular to the first plane (YZ1).

Abstract: A cutting assembly for an agricultural or forestry cutter, the cutting assembly comprising a lower member and an upper member, which together form at least one finger guard extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein a blade gap is formed between the lower member and the upper member, and a knife, which is guided in a reciprocating manner in the blade gap in a drive direction transverse to the longitudinal axis, and which has at least one cutting edge.

Abstract: A cutting device for an agricultural harvesting machine including: a drive; a transmission arrangement having an input element drivingly connected to the drive and driven reciprocatingly by the drive along an input travel; and a knife having a plurality of cutting edges, the knife being drivingly connected to and driven by an output element of the transmission arrangement along an output travel longer than the input travel, is driven in a reciprocating motion in such a way that the cutting edges of the knife pass in each case at least two counter-cutting edges of the cutting device when moving in one direction along the entire output travel.

Abstract: A knife blade for a cutting knife of an agricultural harvesting machine, with a blade top side and a blade bottom side, wherein a surface of the blade bottom side is composed of a planar surface arranged in a plane and a recess region extending above the plane. A height of the knife blade corresponds to a maximum distance between the blade top side and the planar surface in a direction normal to the plane, a material thickness of the knife blade corresponding to a distance between the blade top side and the blade bottom side, and a method of manufacturing a knife blade.

Abstract: A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.

Abstract: A connector including a contact element arranged in an interior of the connector and contacting an electrical connection element and an impedance improving element located at a side of the electrical connection element. The impedance improving element has a reception channel through which the contact element extends and a deformation section adapted to be deformed at least one of radially and axially.

Abstract: A temperature controller for a sorption system having an evaporator to produce a gas, a sorber containing a sorption material to sorb the gas during a sorption phase, a flow channel extending between the evaporator and sorber to provide a gas pathway connecting them, a valve to control the rate of gas flow in the flow channel, and a temperature sensor positioned to measure the temperature of an evaporator surface or the air adjacent thereto indicative of an evaporator surface temperature, and generate a temperature signal. The controller includes an inflatable member having first and second inflation states, and a control unit configured to evaluate the temperature signal and in response control the state of inflation of the inflatable member and thereby the operation of the valve to control the rate of gas flow between the evaporator and sorber through the gas pathway.

Abstract: A method for compensating for an error function is disclosed, wherein a field device has a sensor unit. The method includes transferring properties of the sensor unit to the field device. The properties contain information regarding process variables collected by the sensor unit. The method includes transferring the device status of the field device or the sensor unit to a plurality of field devices, and establishing a substitution system, wherein the properties of the sensor unit and the device status are known to the plurality of field devices, and the field devices independently determine which process variable of a sensor unit can substitute a process variable of another sensor unit with a predetermined degree of accuracy. The method also includes transferring the substitute variable to the higher-level unit in the event that at least one predetermined device status of a field device or a sensor unit arises.