Abstract: A filling device for filling a container with a fill product, such as a free-jet filler valve, a dosing unit or a piston filler in a filling plant for fluid, paste-like or viscous food products is provided, wherein the filling element has a fill product outlet and an operating element disposed in direct contact with the fill product outlet for influencing the discharge of the fill product from the fill product outlet, wherein on the operating element an ejection device is provided for ejecting a fill product residue in the direction of discharge.

Abstract: A formed, secondary electrochemical cell includes at least one positive electrode containing a metal compound capable of reversibly incorporating and releasing lithium in the form of ions, at least one negative electrode containing a carbon compound capable of reversibly incurporating or releasing lithium in the form of ions, and/or a metal and/or semi-metal which can be alloyed with lithium, an electrolyte via which lithium ions can migrate between the at least one positive electrode and the at least one negative electrode, and mobile lithium available for incorporation or releasing processes in the electrodes, wherein capacity of the at least one negative electrode for taking up lithium is higher than that of the at least one positive electrode, the at least one negative electrode has a higher capacity than required for taking up the entire mobile lithium contained in the cell, and the mobile lithium is contained in the cell in an amount which exceeds the capacity of the at least one positive electrode for

Abstract: A paste for producing electrodes for lithium ion batteries includes as electrochemically active material particles of at least one of a metal/semimetal selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminium, antimony, tin, cobalt and carbon-based particles which intercalate lithium, a binder based on a polysaccharide, water as a solvent, and an aliphatic polyester having a molar mass of 150 to 500 g/mol or an hydroxycarboxylic ester having a molar mass of 150 to 500 g/mol as a plasticizer.

Abstract: A material for a battery or an accumulator, especially for a negative electrode of an accumulator, for example, a lithium ion secondary battery, the use of such a material, an electrode that includes such a material, a battery having such an electrode, and a process for producing such a material. The material includes carbon, an alloy and/or a mixture of silicon with at least one element of main group 1 of the Periodic Table of the Elements excluding lithium, and optionally at least one further metallic element and production-related impurities, the elements being distributed within a silicon phase in the case of a mixture, and a binder which binds carbon and the alloy and/or the mixture to give a solid material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cathode (A) for lithium ion accumulators, comprising (a1) at least one current collector, (a2) at least one layer comprising at least one cathode-active material which stores/releases lithium ions, at least part of layer (a2) having been compacted and/or the side of layer (a2) facing the anode having at least one layer (a3) which comprises at least one solid electrolyte which conducts lithium ions, said solid electrolyte being selected from the group consisting of inorganic solid electrolytes and mixtures thereof and being insoluble in the electrolyte system (B) used in the lithium ion accumulator, to lithium ion accumulators comprising the cathode (A) and to a process for producing the cathode (A).

Abstract: A process for producing active material for an electrode of an electrochemical element includes providing carbon particles, applying a silicon precursor to surfaces of the carbon particles, and thermally decomposing the silicon precursor to form metallic silicon.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for actuating actuators in a motor vehicle having an at least partially metallic housing (MG) in which an electric circuit is arranged, which has at least one high-voltage-generating circuit (HES) for generating an output voltage (UHS) which is higher than a voltage which is considered safe for people, from the on-board motor vehicle power system voltage. The electric circuit has a monitoring circuit (UES) which has a first input (E1) which is connected to a reference voltage (Vref), and has a second input (E2) which is connected to the at least partially metallic housing (MG), and the output (A) of which is operatively connected to the high-voltage-generating circuit (HSS) in such a way that in the case of a differential voltage at the two inputs (E1, E2) which is higher than a predefined value, the high-voltage-generating circuit (HSS) is deactivated or the output voltage (UHS) thereof is limited to a value of at maximum the voltage which is considered safe for people.

Abstract: A device for bottling liquids into containers with at least one filling member (2), which fills the liquids into the containers, and with a covering device (4), which covers the filling member (2) at least temporarily in order to prevent the egress of liquid from the filling member (2), this covering device (4) being both pivotable about a pre-set pivot axis (X) and displaceable about a pre-set displacement direction (S), and with at least one driving device (10) for producing the movements of the covering device (4). According to the invention the driving device (10) serves to produce both the pivoting movement and the displacement movement of the covering device (4), and the driving device (10) is designed in such a way that the pivoting movement and the displacement movement take place in an at least partially staggered manner time-wise with respect to each other.

Abstract: An electrode for a lithium ion battery includes a matrix based on at least one polysaccharide and also particles of at least one electrochemically active material which are embedded in the matrix, with the electrode being free of synthetic polymeric compounds. A battery contains the electrode and a polysaccharide is a binder for electrochemically active electrode materials for such an electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I), Lm?Ln3+(Ch?)n (I), wherein Ln represents a lanthanide, CH? is a negatively charged ligand containing at least one UV absorbing double bond, n denotes 3 or 4, m denotes a number from 1 to 4, in case n is 3, m denotes a number from 1 to 4 and L is a neutral monodentate or polydentate nitrogen-, oxygen- or sulfur-containing UV absorbing ligand with the exception of 2,2?-bipyridyl or, in case n is 4, m denotes 1 and L is a single-charged cation; and (b) a liquid ink carrier, which can be used for applying hidden mark on objects which can only be revealed under UV exposure.

Abstract: For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs.

Abstract: A process for automatically wiring at least one terminal of an electrical apparatus with a wire-laying tool of the type that includes a wiring finger movable relative to the terminal. An initial terminal connection is established between the leading end of a wire and the terminal by pressing the wire into a SBIPC connector, which is located within the housing of the terminal, while positioning the wiring finger of the electrical apparatus outside the portions of the housing surrounding the SBIPC. A final wire connection is established between the trailing end of the wire and the terminal by pressing the cut wire into the SBIPC while positioning the wiring finger outside the portions of the housing of the terminal surrounding the SBIPC.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for the controlled and/or slow release of a biologically active hydroxyl group containing-substance on a substrate which comprises reacting said hydroxyl group containing substance subsequently with a halogen-substituted aliphatic carboxylic acid halide and either a diamine containing at least one tertiary amino group or a heterocyclic aromatic amine, applying the thus obtained water-soluble ester to the substrate and finally hydrolysing the ester on the substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I), Lm-Ln3+(Ch?)n (I), wherein Ln represents a lanthanide, CH? is a negatively charged ligand containing at least one UV absorbing double bond, n denotes 3 or 4, m denotes a number from 1 to 4, in case n is 3, m denotes a number from 1 to 4 and L is a neutral monodentate or polydentate nitrogen-, oxygen- or sulfur-containing UV absorbing ligand with the exception of 2,2?-bipyridyl or, in case n is 4, m denotes 1 and L is a single-charged cation; and (b) a liquid ink carrier, which can be used for applying hidden mark on objects which can only be revealed under UV exposure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the staining of wood, which comprises treating the unstained wood with an aqueous preparation comprising a) at least one dye, and b) at least one dye stabilizer of the formula (I) or (II)  in which G1 and G2, independently of one another, are C1-C4alkyl or together are pentamethylene, Z1 and Z2 are methyl, or Z1 and Z2 form a bridging member which is unsubstituted or substituted by an ester, ether, hydroxyl, oxo, cyanohydrin, amido, amino, carboxyl or urethane radical, E is oxyl or hydroxyl, and X is an inorganic or organic anion, and the total number of cations h corresponds to the total number of anions j, to a wood stain comprising a dye and a dye stabilizer of the formula (I) or (II), and to the use of this wood stain for the staining of wood.

Abstract: For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs.

Abstract: For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs.

Abstract: For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a retroreflector or a retroreflector arrangement in which the faces of the retroreflector are directly heated by a heating element. The retroreflector comprises a triple-mirror prism having three isosceles limiting faces and one equilateral limiting face. Also, the retroreflector has at least one heating element in direct contact with each of the faces. The heating elements directly heat the faces. As a result, the effectiveness of the retroreflector is not diminished in extreme weather conditions, for instance, in extremely cold or humid conditions.

Abstract: An electrical clamping terminal arrangement with an IDC contact located in a housing of insulating material is formed, in particular for use in an automatic wiring, in such a way that the housing, on at least one side adjoining the introduction slit of the IDC contact, has a slitlike or groovelike indentation opening toward the introduction side for the conductor. The dimensions of this indentation are chosen such that a free end, located in the vicinity of the IDC contact, of a line contacted in the IDC contact is received in the indentation in a shock-hazard-proof manner.