Abstract: A double-deck elevator car has first and second vertically spaced cars each accessible via a different floor in a stop position, a car frame with at least one longitudinal support, a first support structure in the frame supporting the first car, a second support structure in the frame supporting the second car, and a linear guide movably coupling the first support structure to the longitudinal support. The linear guide has at least one rail element fastened to the longitudinal support, and at least one coupling element slidably mounted on the rail element and fastened to the first support structure. The coupling element has first and second mounting portions mounting on the rail element and a fastening portion fastening the coupling element to the first support structure. A drive moves the first support structure relative to the second support structure.

Abstract: An elevator installation erection method includes installing in an elevator shaft: a construction phase elevator system having a self-propelled elevator car whose usable lifting height is adapted to an increasing elevator shaft height; at least one guide rail in the elevator shaft guiding the elevator car along its travel path; and a drive system driving the elevator car and including a primary part attached to the elevator car and a secondary part attached along the elevator car travel path, wherein the guide rail and the secondary part are gradually extended upwards during the construction phase, wherein the self-propelled elevator car transports persons and/or material for the construction of the building and passengers and freight for floors already used as residential or business premises, and wherein after the elevator shaft has reached its final height the construction phase elevator system is replaced by a final elevator system.

Abstract: A module for a microscope includes at least one sensor and/or at least one actuator, and a control and evaluation unit. The control and evaluation unit is configured to determine current parameter values of parameters of the sensor and/or of the actuator, analyze the parameter values using a statistical model stored in the control and evaluation unit to determine an operating state value that characterizes an operating state of the module, and identify the operating state as an abnormal operating state upon determining that the operating state value satisfies a predefined condition with respect to a threshold value.

Abstract: The compact scent delivery system (300) comprises: —a compact scent delivery device (100, 200), —an air flow mixing unit (400) comprising: 5—an inlet (405) for scented air, configured to be connected to an outlet (125) of scented air of the compact scent delivery device, —an outlet (410) for mixed scented air directed at a smelling port (415), —a conduit (420) connecting the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed diluted scent air and 0—at least one element of: —an inlet (425) for fresh air, configured to be connected to a fresh air delivery apparatus, said inlet delivering fresh air into the scented air stream between the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed scented air and/or 5—an outlet (430) for waste scented air, configured to be connected to an air flow retrieval apparatus and/or a waste air exhaust, said outlet retrieving scented air from the scented air stream between the inlet for scented air and the outlet for mixed scented air to reduce the air flow either for subsequent dilution

Abstract: A mounting device and a method for carrying out an installation process in a vertically extending elevator shaft of an elevator system include a carrier component, a mechatronic installation component and a displacement system. The displacement system displaces the carrier component vertically within the elevator shaft. The installation component is held on the carrier component and, at least semi-automatically, performs a mounting step as part of the installation process. The displacement system also displaces the carrier component horizontally in a shift direction within the elevator shaft between adjacent vertical car tracks.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rail vehicle (1) comprising a first passenger car and a powerpack (2) having a longitudinal axis, the powerpack (2) and the passenger car being coupled together. The powerpack (2) comprises at least one fuel cell (20) and at least one fuel tank (21) having a fuel tank valve (33). The powerpack (2) is mounted on at least one bogie. The rail vehicle (1) comprises at least one driven bogie which can be supplied with electrical energy from the fuel cell (20).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a blower means or apparatus for a road making machine which is present in the form of a road finishing machine or a charger vehicle for a road finishing machine. The blower means comprises a blower unit for creating an airflow, and an air discharge unit connected with the blower unit, which is designed to form an air barrier from the airflow created by means of the blower unit at a control station of the road making machine for an operator positioned therein. The blower means is designed as a modular attachment apparatus configured to be removably attached to the control station of the road making machine. The disclosure furthermore relates to the use of a blower means designed as a modular attachment apparatus at a road making machine.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fresh air means or device for a driver control panel or for an external control console of a road making machine which is configured in the form of a road finishing machine or a charger vehicle for a road finishing machine. The fresh air means comprises at least one blower unit for generating an air flow, at least one filter unit for filtering the air flow formed by means of the blower unit, and an air discharge unit including at least one air outlet opening for the filtered air flow. Furthermore, fresh air means is designed as a modular attachment apparatus configured to be removably attached to the driver control panel or to the external control console.

Abstract: A method and construction site device for vertical transportation during a building construction phase include a climbing formwork platform arranged in a currently uppermost region of the building for concreting at least part of the building core, an elevator car intermittently adjusted to a current building height in a first elevator shaft by hoisting a mechanical platform to a higher level and fixing it there, a construction elevator temporarily installed in a second elevator shaft and attached to the climbing formwork platform with a construction elevator car vertically movable in a construction elevator frame, and wherein people and/or material are transported to a floor associated with an access opening of the construction elevator by the elevator system and then are transported from this floor to a floor situated in the currently uppermost region of the building or to the climbing formwork platform by the construction elevator.

Abstract: A compact coupled inductor with improved properties is provided. The coupled inductor comprises a shared leg between a base and a top and two center legs between the base and the top and a first vertical gap in the first center leg and/or the second center leg.

Abstract: What is proposed is an antenna housing comprising at least one profile element fastened on an area of the antenna housing at a distance from said housing and shaped so that it channels an airstream striking the antenna housing so that a part of the airflow is channelled between the profile element and the antenna housing.

Abstract: An elevator system for a building, wherein an elevator shaft becomes taller as the building height increases during a construction phase, includes a self-moving construction-phase elevator car guided on a guide rail section(s) for conveying persons or goods during the construction phase, an assembly platform arranged above the car from which the guide rail section is elongated upwards in a rail assembly phase, an upper protection platform temporarily fixed in the elevator shaft on which the assembly platform is suspended via a cable-based lifting device or is suspended in the rail assembly phase, a lower protection platform, wherein the assembly platform is moved vertically between the upper platform and the lower platform by the lifting device during the rail assembly phase, and a docking device temporarily suspending the car on the lower platform to secure the car for evacuations, the docking device connecting the car to the lifting device.

Abstract: A system and method for surgical implantation of cochlear implants that allows for the assessment of cochlear implant insertion progress during the surgical procedure through insertion planning, electrode selection, monitoring insertion progress, and confirming implant placement is provided. The inventive system and methods allow for the determination of a desired insertion state and progress plan for the selected cochlear implant and subsequently allow for the monitoring of insertion progress The provided system and methods allow for the use of imaging data, implant data, patient data and electrophysiological data in determining the desired insertion state and progress plan and for selecting the implant, and various imaging and tracking methodologies in monitoring insertion progress and confirming that the implant has been properly placed.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the device including: a device housing including a cavity to removably receive the substrate; an inductive heating arrangement including an induction coil to generate a varying magnetic field within the cavity and being arranged around at least a portion of the cavity; and a flux concentrator arranged around at least a portion of the coil and being configured to distort the field of the arrangement towards the cavity, the flux concentrator including a multi-layer flux concentrator foil having a magnetic layer laminated with at least a first support layer, the magnetic layer including a plurality of separated fragments of a soft magnetic alloy and being arranged in a pattern including a plurality of crack centers, and a plurality of cracks spread radially outwards from each crack center in a web-shaped pattern.

Abstract: A method for dynamically compensating angle errors when operating a machine tool that includes at least one fixture for a workpiece, in or on which a workpiece can be secured, at least one toolholder, in or on which a tool, in particular a drill, can be secured and can be rotationally driven by a rotational drive of the toolholder. The rotational drive including at least one horizontal drive by which the toolholder — for purposes of machining the workpiece —can execute movements in at least one horizontal plane of the machine tool. The machine tool further includes at least one vertical drive by which the toolholder can execute movements in a vertical direction of the machine tool, and at least one controller to which the rotational drive, the horizontal drive, and the vertical drive are functionally assigned.

Abstract: A mobile transport device and a method for introducing an installation frame into a shaft, in particular an elevator shaft, are used for transporting an installation frame and for introducing the installation frame into the shaft. The installation frame has a base frame and a bearing frame on which the installation frame is supported from above. The transport device additionally has a fixing device arranged on the base frame for fixing the base frame to a shaft opening of a shaft wall of the shaft and for preventing the transport device from tilting. The bearing frame is supported by the base frame and is movable in the horizontal direction relative to the base frame such that, when the base frame is arranged outside of the shaft, the bearing frame , and thus also the installation frame, can be moved into the shaft from outside the shaft through the shaft opening.

Abstract: A lifting device for lifting a payload within an elevator shaft in a controllable manner has a platform to be fixed in the elevator shaft, a holding device to be fixed to the payload, a lifting cable attached to the holding device, a securing cable secured to the holding device (such as, for example, a pulling device secured to the platform), and a catching device secured to the platform. The pulling device actively and controllably displaces the lifting cable relative to the platform. The lifting device displaces the securing cable in the event of a relative movement between the holding device and the platform such that the securing cable remains tensioned. The securing cable and the catching device are configured such that the catching device blocks a further relative movement between the securing cable and the catching device in the event that the lifting cable fails.

Abstract: Method and plant for recovery of a processed, powdered structural material in a plant for manufacturing a three-dimensional component by selective solidification of the structural material by a beam directed onto the structural material, in which, in a construction station which includes a process chamber, the component is manufactured on a substrate plate in a construction module by layered hardening of the structural material and/or in which, in an unpacking station which includes an unpacking chamber, the component manufactured in the construction module is removed from the construction module, and the processed, non-hardened structural material is removed from the component, in which the processed structural material is collected in a collecting device by a recovery device and provided for further feeding into the process chamber for manufacturing further components, wherein the recovery device includes at least one cartridge filled with the processed structural material collected in the application devic

Abstract: In an embodiment a coil element includes a first core element and a first winding body arranged around a winding carrier part of the first core element with a winding axis, wherein the first winding body includes a first film conductor element and the first film conductor element includes a plurality of conductor films stacked on top of each other along a stacking direction and arranged electrically insulated from each other, wherein the stacking direction is parallel to the winding axis, and wherein the first core element includes a plurality of windings of the first film conductor element arranged in a spiral around the winding axis.

Abstract: The disclosure refers to a road construction machine, adapted in particular in the form of a road paver or a feeder vehicle for a road paver. According to the disclosure, the road construction machine comprises a first and/or a second air barrier device adapted to shield a driver and/or an operator of the road construction machine. Furthermore, the disclosure refers to a corresponding method for generating an air flow during operation of a road construction machine in order to shield a driver and/or an operator from vapors and/or aerosols rising during operation of the road construction machine.