Abstract: A method for medical examination, in particular determination of the blood pressure of an animal that preferably has a paw and is in particular an animal of the subfamily of the Felinae. In the method, a curve comprising information about the arterial blood flow of the animal, in particular a photoplethysmogram, is recorded, and the curve is cut into several curve sections in such a way that each curve section corresponds to a heartbeat. According to another independent aspect, a sensor or a subset of sensors is selected from several sensors of the same kind to perform the examination.

Abstract: Examples include a device for coating a web-format carrier substrate with a dry film. The device includes an application unit having first and second rollers forming a first gap therebetween. A counter-pressure roller, together with the second roller or a further roller forms a second gap through which a substrate path for the carrier substrate to be coated leads. A measuring device includes a sensor system for measuring the grammage of the dry film. A positioning drive is provided for adjusting the gap width of the first gap. The sensor system connects to a control device configured to vary the gap width of the first gap based on the grammage determined by the sensor system and via a connection to a drive means of the positioning drive, and/or to vary a ratio between the circumferential speed of the first roller and the circumferential speed of the second roller.

Abstract: Examples include a sheet-fed printing machine including a sheet simultaneous printing unit having two collect cylinders, which are arranged on top of and in contact with one another. The machine includes a simultaneous printing inspection device and a sheet transport means that defines a section of a transport path for sheets. The section includes an inspection region of the simultaneous printing inspection device. The simultaneous printing inspection device includes a sensor device arranged to be aligned with the inspection region and the detection width of which is at least 80% of the working width. A guide device of the sensor device defines a sensor adjustment path provided for movement of the sensor device and that extends from the simultaneous inspection position to a maintenance position of the sensor device, and that extends linearly and parallel to a transverse direction at least between the simultaneous inspection position and the maintenance position.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve comprises a housing with an air chamber having supply, connecting and discharge openings. An actuator with a movable closing element is arranged in the housing, featuring a plunger, which projects through the discharge opening with a plate and a first sealing element for closing the discharge opening with an elastic element which, in the activated state, presses said sealing element against the discharge opening The actuator is in the form of an SMA actuator, wherein the actuator element is configured to, in a non-energized state, bring the actuating element to a first state in which it presses the plunger against the supply opening, and to, in an energized state, bring the actuating element to a second state in which the actuating portion does not exert any force on the plunger, wherein a second sealing element is arranged in the air chamber and functions as a check valve.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve features a fluid supply port, a fluid outlet port, and a fluid drainage opening. The valve includes a valve chamber with fluid supply, outlet, and trigger openings, and an actuator chamber connected to the trigger opening. An actuator with an SMA wire, actuating and resetting elements, and a printed circuit board is housed within the valve. A sealing element on the actuating element controls the trigger opening, while a membrane divides the valve chamber into two regions and facilitates plunger movement. The plunger connected to the membrane closes the fluid outlet opening in the unactuated state and opens it in the actuated state. The membrane includes a passage opening for fluid flow between the regions, with a smaller cross-section than the trigger opening, facilitating controlled fluid flow within the valve.

Abstract: Examples relate to a device including an application unit having a first roller and second roller forming, in a nip thereof, a first roller gap through which powdered material can be conveyed to form a dry film. A counter-pressure roller together with the second roller, or a further roller downstream from the second roller, forms a second roller gap. A substrate path leads through the second roller gap for guiding a carrier substrate web through the second gap for applying the dry film thereto. At least one drawing device including a drive means for adjusting the first or second roller gap between two adjacent rollers that are movable relative to one another is provided on each frame side, enabling the two rollers to be moved toward one another in an adjustment direction, or be tensioned, and to be moved away from one another again, or at least be relaxed.

Abstract: A method for adapting massage sequences to different types of seats, which have a number of inflatable cushions arranged at specified locations in the seat, is described. Here, a calculation model is parameterized for a specific seat type, and the duration of control commands for filling and ventilation of a cushion is adapted for each step such that a specified degree of filling is achieved, wherein the total temporal length of a step may vary in order either to achieve continuous operation of the compressor or in order to adhere to pauses of a defined minimum duration in the activation of the compressor.

Abstract: A method for adapting massage sequences to different types of seats, which have a number of inflatable cushions arranged at specified locations in the seat, is described. A calculation model is parameterized for a particular seat type, and target values for each step of a massage sequence are read in by a control unit and control commands for valves are output depending on the degree of filling estimated by the calculation model during the massage sequence, wherein the target values of a step comprise at least the duration of a control command and the desired degree of filling of a cushion. The duration of a control command for filling a cushion is shortened, if necessary, in relation to the target value for each step of a massage sequence, in such a way that a specified degree of filling is not exceeded.

Abstract: Examples relate to a device including a first application unit having a first roller and second roller forming, in a nip between the outer cylindrical surfaces thereof, a first gap through which powdered material can be conveyed to form a first dry film. The second roller, or a further roller following downstream from the second roller, together with a counter-pressure roller forms a second gap through which a carrier substrate is guided to have the dry film applied. The first and the second rollers can be inclined with respect to one another based on a relative progression of axes of rotation thereof and can be varied in relative inclinations. The first or second roller is mounted in the device to be pivotable about an actual or imaginary pivot axis which extends perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the pivotable roller and/or of the other of the two rollers.

Abstract: Examples relate to a device for coating a carrier substrate with a powdered material, the device including an application unit having first and second rollers, with a first roller gap through which powdered material can be conveyed to form a first dry film. A counter-pressure roller together with the second roller or a further roller downstream from the second roller, form a second roller gap through which a carrier substrate to be coated can be guided. The first, second, and counter-pressure roller are each mounted on both sides in frame walls of three different frame sections. The frame section carrying the second roller is fixed to the frame or fixed in space, and the frame sections carrying the first roller and the counter-pressure roller are each mounted to be able to vary a position thereof in a direction perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the second roller.

Abstract: Examples include a sheet processing machine to which a transport path is assigned for transporting sheets. The sheet processing machine includes an application device with an application point for applying material to the sheets. A cooling device including a cooling cylinder is arranged along the transport path, downstream from the application point. An inspection transport body is arranged along the transport path, downstream from the cooling cylinder, and has a sensor device of an inspection unit aligned therewith. Examples further include a sheet-fed printing machine with a simultaneous double printing unit and an application point. A curing device with an LED UV radiation source is arranged downstream from the application point and includes two curing units for drying two opposite sides of sheets. A cooling device of the curing device includes a cooling element with a line system, and the cooling section is arranged downstream from the curing section.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve includes a fluid supply port, a fluid outlet port, and a fluid drainage opening. A valve chamber includes a fluid supply opening connected to the fluid supply port, a fluid outlet opening connected to the fluid outlet port, a trigger opening connected to an actuator chamber having the fluid drainage opening. An actuator disposed in the actuator chamber is formed with an SMA wire includes an actuating element and a resetting element. A sealing element is arranged on the actuating element and is pressed against the trigger opening by the resetting element in a non-actuated state and opens up the trigger opening in an actuated state. A membrane divides the valve chamber into two a first region connected to the trigger opening and a second region connected to the fluid supply opening.

Abstract: An apparatus to treat refractive error of the eye comprises one or more optics configured to project stimuli comprising out of focus images onto the peripheral retina outside the macula. While the stimuli can be configured in many ways, in some embodiments the stimuli are arranged to decrease interference with central vison such as macular vision. The stimuli can be out of focus images may comprise an amount of defocus within a range from about 3 Diopters (“D”) to about 6 D. In some embodiments, the brightness of the stimuli is greater than a brightness of background illumination by an appropriate amount such as at least 3 times the background brightness. In some embodiments, each of a plurality of stimuli comprises a spatial frequency distribution with an amplitude profile having spatial frequencies within a range from about range of 1×10?1 to 2.5×101 cycles per degree.

Abstract: A rheometer and a method for measuring viscosity of a specimen include a motor-driven measuring shaft, a first measuring part fastened to the shaft, a second measuring part below the first measuring part, the measuring parts defining a measuring gap receiving the specimen and having a thickness set by the measuring parts. A heating or temperature-control unit below the second measuring part temperature-controls the second measuring part. The measuring parts rotate or rotate-oscillate relative to each other about an axis. A hood has an internal contour at the second measuring part and/or the heating or temperature-control unit. The internal contour surrounds and covers the first measuring part and the measuring gap and forms a measuring space. A duct near the temperature-control unit opens into the space, allowing the temperature-control unit to control a temperature of temperature-control medium in the duct.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve comprises a housing with a valve chamber having a first opening connecting to a first gas port, a second opening connecting to a second gas port, and a third opening connecting to an actuator chamber connected to a third gas port, and an SMA actuator with a movable closing element. The closing element has a plunger protruding through the third opening and projecting into the valve chamber, a sealing plate with a first sealing element for closing the first opening and a second sealing element for closing the third opening. A spring element pushing the second sealing element in the direction of the third opening when the pneumatic valve is activated connects to the closing element. The plunger and the actuator, via a driver element, have a form-fitting connection with play such that actuation of the actuator causes the plunger to move within the play.

Abstract: An implantable pressure-sensing device can be used to measure blood pressure. It can include a substrate to secure the implantable pressure-sensing device within 0 mm to 10 mm from a blood vessel, a pressure-sensing element projecting from an outer surface of the substrate and configured to sense blood pressure within the blood vessel, circuitry disposed on the substrate and in electrical communication with the pressure-sensing element and configured to receive data from the pressure-sensing element, and a power management system. The pressure-sensing device may also include a structure disposed around the pressure-sensing element configured to transmit pressure waves from the blood vessel towards the pressure-sensing element. The pressure-sensing device may also include a multilayer ceramic/polymer coating.

Abstract: A method and a device for diagnosing an air supply of an internal combustion engine which includes a first air duct for supplying air to a cylinder and a second air duct for supplying air to a heater for heating an exhaust system. The first and second airs ducts each have a mass flow sensor for measuring a mass of the air flowing therethrough, a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in the air duct, and a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the air flowing therethrough. The first and second air ducts originate from a common air filter. Depending on operating states of the cylinders and heater, measured values of the mass flow sensors, pressure sensors, and temperature sensors of the first and second ducts are compared with one another or with comparison values, and a result of the diagnosis is ascertained depending on the comparison.

Abstract: A pneumatic valve comprises an actuator with a movable closing element being disposed in a housing; the closing element with a tappet penetrating an actuator opening between an air chamber formed in the housing and an actuator chamber, and a plate, with a sealing element, for closing the supply opening, thereon, on that end of said tappet protruding into the air chamber, and an elastic element pressing the plate toward the actuator opening in an activated state; the actuator element configured to move, in a non-energized state, the activating element to press the tappet against a supply opening, and in an energized state to move the activating element so as not to exert force on the tappet so that the plate is pressed in the direction of the actuator opening by the elastic element. A sealing collar disposed about the tappet seals the air chamber from the actuator chamber.

Abstract: Examples include a sheet processing machine to which a transport path is assigned for transporting sheets. The sheet processing machine includes an application device with an application point for applying material to the sheets. A cooling device including a cooling cylinder is arranged along the transport path, downstream from the application point. An inspection transport body is arranged along the transport path, downstream from the cooling cylinder, and has a sensor device of an inspection unit aligned therewith. Examples further include a sheet-fed printing machine with a simultaneous double printing unit and an application point. A curing device with an LED UV radiation source is arranged downstream from the application point and includes two curing units for drying two opposite sides of sheets. A cooling device of the curing device includes a cooling element with a line system, and the cooling section is arranged downstream from the curing section.

Abstract: Disclosed is detecting the position of an actuator element of an actuator arrangement, having at least one actuator element movable in two opposing directions by two adjustment elements. The adjustment elements electrically connected via only one two-wire connection to a control unit comprise electrically controllable shape memory alloy wires. A resistance measurement circuit formed in the control unit periodically records the resistance values of the two adjustment elements. At an energization time of a currently actuated adjustment element, the resistance value of the adjustment element and, in a subsequent pause in energization, the resistance value of another adjustment element is determined and stored. The differential value of the two resistance values is compared with pairs of values which are stored in a table and describe a correlation between the resistance differential value and a position of the adjustment element, to determine the position of the actuator element.