Abstract: Control center for an aerial device, said aerial device comprising a main boom part mounted with a first end on a turret, the main boom part being inclinable around a horizontal axis in a first inclination movement, rotatable around a vertical axis in a rotation movement, and extendable and retractable along its longitudinal extension direction in a first telescopic movement, wherein the control center comprises a first joystick configured for controlling the first inclination movement by tilting the first joystick around a first control axis, controlling the rotation movement by tilting the first joystick around a second control axis perpendicular to the first control axis, and for controlling the first telescopic movement by rotating the first joystick around its stick axis.

Abstract: A bending frame extends the travel of an actuator for a mechanically actuated component. The bending frame includes a plurality of bendable longitudinal struts, which are arranged about a longitudinal axis on which the travel of the actuator runs. The longitudinal struts each extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and an application of force enacted by the actuator long the actuation path on the longitudinal struts causes same to bend in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Respective cross struts extend out toward the longitudinal axis from each of the longitudinal struts, wherein a first end of a respective cross strut is articulated to a respective longitudinal strut and a second end of the respective cross strut opposite to the first end is provided in order to transmit force to the component in the direction of the longitudinal axis for the purpose of actuation thereof.

Abstract: A pre-chamber body for an engine is disclosed. The pre-chamber body may have a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber body may also have flow transfer channels fluidly connecting the pre-chamber and an exterior of the pre-chamber body. Each flow transfer channel extends along a flow transfer channel axis (B) from an inner opening via a throat section to an outer opening. A cross-section of the flow transfer channels converges from a first cross section (A1) of the inner opening to a second cross-section (A2) of the throat section and diverges from the second cross-section (A2) to a third cross-section (A3) of the outer opening along the flow transfer channel axis (B). At least one of the inner opening and the outer opening has an oval shape with a maximum diameter (a1, a3) and a minimum diameter (b1, b3), the maximum diameter (a1, a3) being greater than the minimum diameter (b1, b3).

Abstract: A pre-chamber body for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The pre-chamber body may have a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber body may also have a flow transfer passage, which may fluidly connect the pre-chamber and an exterior of the pre-chamber body. In addition, the pre-chamber body may have at least one backflow channel, which may fluidly connect the pre-chamber and the flow transfer passage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a new route of synthesis and a new stable amorphous form of ibrutinib. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, oral dosage forms and the use of the amorphous ibrutinib in the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method to initiate the use of cryptography and authentication methods and to perform these methods. The method comprises the steps of: generating a URI (410), calling (420) a communication component (120) using the generated URI and a proprietory URI scheme; performing (430) the cryptography and authentication method by the local communication component (120); generating (440) at least one result (440) by the communication component (120).

Abstract: A method for determining a current that flows through a load, wherein the current comprises a DC component and a dithering component, and the dithering component is modified in predetermined time intervals, comprises steps for recording a momentary current; determining a dithering parameter; and determining the current based on the momentary current and the dithering parameter.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a control device for controlling a load, wherein the control device comprises the following elements: a first current control valve between a first port of the load and a first potential of an operating voltage; a second current control valve between a second port of the load and a second potential of the operating voltage; a processor configured to actuate the second current control valve when the first current control valve is closed, in order to control a current through the load; and a sampling device for determining an input voltage through the first current control valve, wherein the processor is configured to determine the presence of a short circuit between the first port and the first potential if the input voltage does not increase when the first current control valve is opened gradually.

Abstract: The invention relates to a microbial test standard for use in infrared spectrometry which has at least two resealable vessels which are liquid-tight when closed, each of which contains a predefined amount of dried biomass of a microorganism. The microorganisms in the different vessels differ in at least one characteristic, which is selected in particular from the group comprising species, subspecies, strain, serovar, pathovar, toxivar and variety, and the difference manifests itself in a predefined intermicrobial spectral distance. The disclosure furthermore comprises a method of using the microbial test standard.

Abstract: A control unit comprises a processing device with an electrical connection; a diagnostic circuit, which is electrically connected to the connection; and a sheathing, which completely insulates the connection electrically. At the same time, the diagnostic circuit comprises an electrical interface and is configured to sample an electrical signal at the connection and provide the result via the interface.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and instruments for the rapid detection and rapid mass spectrometric identification of microbial infective agents in blood or other body fluids. The invention recognizes that blood is not a good environment for the cultivation of microbes and provides a method which (a) largely destroys or dissolves the human particles in body fluids, such as erythrocytes and leukocytes in blood, without impairing the ability of the microbes to reproduce, (b) separates the microbial pathogens from the fluid, (c) cultivates them in a nutrient broth which contains none of the antimicrobial components of the body fluids, (d) separates them from the nutrient broth, and (e) identifies the microbes by a mass spectrum of the microbial proteins. The dissolution of the human particles also releases the microbes nesting in macrophages.

Abstract: A fender assembly for an agricultural tractor including a carrier bracket which supports a wheel fender adjacent to a vehicle wheel. A steering mechanism is provided as part of the fender assembly, such that the wheel fender can be rotated relative to the carrier bracket. Accordingly, the rotation of the wheel fender can be controlled based on a steering signal generated by the vehicle steering system, to ensure that the wheel fender accurately follows the movement of the adjacent tractor wheel.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and instruments for the rapid detection and rapid mass spectrometric identification of microbial infective agents in blood or other body fluids. The invention recognizes that blood is not a good environment for the cultivation of microbes and provides a method which (a) largely destroys or dissolves the human particles in body fluids, such as erythrocytes and leukocytes in blood, without impairing the ability of the microbes to reproduce, (b) separates the microbial pathogens from the fluid, (c) cultivates them in a nutrient broth which contains none of the antimicrobial components of the body fluids, (d) separates them from the nutrient broth, and (e) identifies the microbes by a mass spectrum of the microbial proteins. The dissolution of the human particles also releases the microbes nesting in macrophages.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of Lyocell fibers with a tendency to fibrillate for the manufacture of a nonwoven fibrous web material, in particular for the use in a wipe, by using a foam technique.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking an electrical value of an electric machine, in particular an electric machine of a coordinate measuring device. The electric machine has an electric drive comprising a stator and a rotor. The method includes the steps of: detecting a value of a drive current delivered to the electric drive for driving the rotor, detecting a measured value of an electrical input variable of the electric machine, determining a calculated value of the electrical input variable on the basis of the detected value of the drive current and on the basis of a performance model of the electric machine, and determining a comparison value on the basis of the detected measured value and the calculated value of the electrical input variable, in order to check the detected value of the drive current.

Abstract: A valve arrangement for an aerospace component includes an inlet, an outlet, and an actuator that can be actuated by a heating element. In a non-actuated state of the actuator, the valve is open to allow flow between the inlet and the outlet. The actuator is a single-use effect shape memory actuator that is compressed in the martensitic state along a longitudinal axis of the actuator and integrated into the valve arrangement. Through the activation of the heating element upon reaching a predetermined transformation temperature, the actuator undergoes a change in length, whereby it is gradually pressed against a seal seat that is embodied at the inlet or the outlet.

Abstract: Methods, systems and tools are provided for controllable adjustment of a removal rate of cutting edges of rapidly rotating effectors of manually-guided material- and tissue-separating tools without significantly changing the rotation speed of the effectors or the position, orientation or the geometry of the effectors, and in particular, for precisely maintaining work space boundaries during material and tissue removal with effectors in rapidly rotating machine tools in surgery and freehand manufacturing to produce free-form surfaces. The manually-guided material-separating and tissue-separating tools and effectors allow controllable adjustment of the removal rate of the material-separating cutting edges of the effector by mechanically adjusting a position or orientation of at least one cutting edge cover at a constant rotation speed of the effector without appreciable change of the removal movement.

Abstract: A valve for closing a fluid line, comprising: an inlet element with an inlet line; an outlet element with an outlet line; a closing element which, in a first state, allows a fluid passage between the inlet line and the outlet line and which, in a second state, closes the fluid passage, wherein the closing element, in the first state, is fixedly connected to the inlet element or the outlet element and, in the second state, is detached from the inlet element or the outlet element; an actuator which, when actuated, is configured to move the closing element from the first state towards the second state; and a pretension element which is pretensioned and is configured to move the closing element into the second state after actuation of the actuator.

Abstract: Imidazoquinolines of formula I that contain substituted amine or amide functionality at 1-position and that are effective as Toll like Receptor 7 activators are disclosed. These compounds are useful as anticancer agents.

Abstract: A device for opening or closing a seal seat of a valve arranged in a pipe for liquid or gaseous media includes a one-time only activation of the valve using a shape memory actuator. The shape memory actuator changes its external shape abruptly when a transformation temperature is reached that is dependent upon its alloy composition. The transformation temperature can be generated by a controllable electrical heating device of the device.