Abstract: A device for attaching a headrest to a vehicle seat with the possibility of adjusting the headrest relative to the vehicle seat according to an adjustment axis. The device for attaching includes a receiving space for receiving a support element of the headrest, a locking element movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, a control member, and a transmission mechanism having at least one rotatable transmission element movable in rotation around a rotation axis parallel to the adjustment axis. Rotation of each transmission element causes the displacement of the locking element from the locking position to the unlocking position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrodeposition primer compositions comprising catalytically active core/shell particles CS. The electrodeposition primer compositions can be used more particularly for cathodic dip coating for the coating of automobile bodies or parts thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersion comprising (i) at least one liquid polymer and (ii) at least one polymer particle mixture comprising at least one meltable solid and at least one copolymer (C), wherein said at least one copolymer (C) is a random copolymer synthesized from at least one ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer and at least one polymerizable polymer of the class of liquid polymers according to (i), to processes for preparing this dispersion, to the use of this dispersion to prepare polyurethanes, and to a process for preparing polyurethanes, in which at least one such dispersion is reacted with at least one polyisocyanate.

Abstract: The proposal is made for a process for the preparation of a minisuspoemulsion of submicron core/shell particles, wherein the starting material is a suspoemulsion of a first disperse liquid phase I in a second continuous liquid phase II, which comprises, in the first disperse liquid phase I, submicron particles of a solid C forming the core, and a precursor substance PS for the shell dissolved in molecularly disperse form and, if appropriate, a reactant R, and wherein the submicron core/shell particles CS are prepared in the first disperse liquid phase I of the suspoemulsion by chemical or physical conversion of the precursor substance PS for the shell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a noise reduction device (1) for arrangement on a traffic route, comprising at least one wall element (8) having a wall element longitudinal extension (28a), the wall element (8) being disposed on at least one base element (7) having a base element longitudinal extension (12) in the direction of the wall element longitudinal extension (28a), and the base element (7) has a first front face (14) and a second front face (15), and the two front faces (14, 15) extend opposite one another along the base element longitudinal extension (12). The first front face (14) of the base element (7) is provided with a curvature (16) and the second front face (15) of the base element (7) is provided with a second curvature (17) and the two curvatures (16, 17) extend in the direction perpendicular to the base element longitudinal extension (12).

Abstract: The invention relates to a noise reduction device (1) for installation on a traffic route, comprising at least one base element (7) and at least one wall element (8), the base element (7) having a top face (9) and a bottom face (15), and the wall element (8) is disposed on the top face (9) of the base element (7). The bottom face (15) of the base element (7) is inclined at an angle (16) relative to the horizontal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of nanoparticles or nanostructured particles with the help of a 2-emulsion method, particles being produced through targeted coalescence of miniemulsions in a high-pressure homogenized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of nanoparticles or nanostructured particles with the help of a 2-emulsion method, particles being produced through targeted coalescence of miniemulsions in a high-pressure homogenized.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of finely divided suspensions by melt emulsification, comprising at least one substance with a melting temperature above room temperature, comprising the following steps: (a) passing at least one preemulsion, comprising one continuous phase and one disperse phase, to a rotor-stator machine, a rotor-rotor machine or to a continuous and/or disperse phase; (b) optionally adding one or more further components to the at least one preemulsion in the rotor-stator machine; (c) emulsifying the at least one preemulsion with mechanical shear and/or elongation and/or turbulence at a temperature which is at most 10 K above the melting temperature of the at least one substance with a melting temperature above room temperature, or at a temperature which is at least 10 K below and at most 10 K above the glass transition temperature or the melting temperature, if the substance with a melting temperature above room temperature is a polymer, for producing a finely divided e

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrodeposition primer compositions comprising catalytically active core/shell particles CS . The electrodeposition primer compositions can be used more particularly for cathodic dip coating for the coating of automobile bodies or parts thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersion comprising (i) at least one liquid polymer and (ii) at least one polymer particle mixture comprising at least one meltable solid and at least one copolymer (C), wherein said at least one copolymer (C) is a random copolymer synthesized from at least one ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated monomer and at least one polymerizable polymer of the class of liquid polymers according to (i), to processes for preparing this dispersion, to the use of this dispersion to prepare polyurethanes, and to a process for preparing polyurethanes, in which at least one such dispersion is reacted with at least one polyisocyanate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a powder coating suspension prepared in the presence of an emulsifier (A) by emulsifying a liquid component (B) in an aqueous medium (C) to give an aqueous emulsion of liquid particles (D); and cooling the emulsion of liquid particles (D); wherein the emulsifier (A) has a hydroxyl number of 50 to 250 mg KOH/g and is a copolymer prepared by copolymerizing in an aqueous medium (a1) a hydroxyl-containing, olefinically unsaturated monomer; and (a2) an olefinically unsaturated monomer selected from the group consisting of (a21) a monomer of the general formula R1R2C?CR3R4, wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen atoms or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkylcycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, cycloalkylaryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals, with the proviso that at least two of R1, R2, R3, and R4 are aryl, arylalkyl or arylcycloalkyl radicals; (a22) an olefinically unsaturated terpene hydrocarbon; and (a23) a dimeric alpha-alkylvinylaromatic.

Abstract: The proposal is made for a process for the preparation of a minisuspoemulsion of submicron core/shell particles, wherein the starting material is a suspoemulsion of a first disperse liquid phase I in a second continuous liquid phase II, which comprises, in the first disperse liquid phase I, submicron particles of a solid C forming the core, and a precursor substance PS for the shell dissolved in molecularly disperse form and, if appropriate, a reactant R, and wherein the submicron core/shell particles CS are prepared in the first disperse liquid phase I of the suspoemulsion by chemical or physical conversion of the precursor substance PS for the shell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying 1,4-butynediol, which comprises compressing 1,4-butynediol to from 50 to 1500 bar, depressurizing it, waiting for phase separation to occur after depressurization and separating off the bottom phase, and a process for the hydrogenation of 1,4-butynediol to 1,4-butenediol and 1,4-butanediol using the purified 1,4-butynediol.

Abstract: A method for the disruption of biological cells by means of a homogenizer device which a) comprises an orifice plate having at least one inlet nozzle and an orifice plate having at least one exit nozzle, wherein, in the intermediate space between the orifice plates, a static mixer is situated and, if appropriate, mechanical energy is additionally introduced or b) comprises an orifice plate having at least one inlet nozzle and a baffle plate, wherein, in the intermediate space between the orifice plate and the baffle plate, if appropriate a static mixer is situated and/or mechanical energy is introduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying 1,4-butynediol, which comprises compressing 1,4-butynediol to from 50 to 1500 bar, depressurizing it, waiting for phase separation to occur after depressurization and separating off the bottom phase, and a process for the hydrogenation of 1,4-butynediol to 1,4-butenediol and 1,4-butanediol using the purified 1,4-butynediol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying 1,4-butynediol, which comprises compressing 1,4-butynediol to from 50 to 1500 bar, depressurizing it, waiting for phase separation to occur after depressurization and separating off the bottom phase, and a process for the hydrogenation of 1,4-butynediol to 1,4-butenediol and 1,4-butanediol using the purified 1,4-butynediol.

Abstract: Process for producing finely divided liquid-liquid formulations and apparatus for producing the same, comprising a) a baffle having at least one inlet nozzle and a baffle having at least one outlet nozzle, the nozzles being arranged axially with respect to one another, a static mixer being located in the space between the baffles, and there being, additionally, if appropriate, mechanical introduction of energy, or b) a baffle having at least one inlet nozzle and an impingement plate, there being, if appropriate, in the space between the baffle and the impingement plate a static mixer and/or mechanical introduction of energy.

Abstract: A method of preparing a finely divided emulsion from a crude emulsion is proposed where the crude emulsion is forced through a porous membrane, wherein the porous membrane is constructed from two or more superimposed layers which differ in pore diameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for purifying 1,4-butynediol, which comprises compressing 1,4-butynediol to from 50 to 1500 bar, depressurizing it, waiting for phase separation to occur after depressurization and separating off the bottom phase, and a process for the hydrogenation of 1,4-butynediol to 1,4-butenediol and 1,4-butanediol using the purified 1,4-butynediol.