Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of generating a set of final free parameters which describe a design of one or more planar electromagnetic coils, such as for use in a stellarator. In some embodiments, the computing of the set of final free parameters describing the one or more planar coils includes a parametrization which describes one or more planar coils.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of generating a set of torsion-restricted free parameters which describe a design of one or more electromagnetic coils, such as for use in a stellarator. In some embodiments, the computing of the set of torsion-restricted free parameters describing the one or more substantially planar coils includes a parametrization which describes one or more non-planar coils.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of classifying one or several watercraft using the sound waves emitted or transmitted by these vehicles. The sound waves are thereby received using an array of underwater sound sensors of a sonar receiving system and processed into received signals. At least one amplitude spectrum is generated from these received signals consisting of one or more sets of frequency lines and any individual lines, from which the characteristic vehicle parameters are automatically determined in a frequency line pattern detection module or determined manually. Subsequently, the vehicle characteristic parameters are compared with the database parameters, where this comparison is evaluated with a matching factor. Considering the matching factor, one or several watercraft are determined as the result of the classification. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding device for carrying out the process.

Abstract: A wind power plant is characterized in that a measurement device (18) is provided for the determination of the load on an electric motor (13, 14), wherein the control device (16, 17) reduces the load on the motor (13, 14) by reducing the rotational speed of the rotor (11), by changing the blade angle of the at least one rotor blade (12, 12?) and/or by reducing the output of the wind power plant (10) when a preselectable first load limit of the electric motor (13, 14) is exceeded.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of classifying one or several watercraft using the sound waves (2) emitted or transmitted by these vehicles. The sound waves (2) are thereby received using an array of underwater sound sensors of a sonar receiving system (4) and processed into received signals (6). At least one amplitude spectrum (24) is generated from these received signals (6) consisting of one or more sets of frequency lines and any individual lines, from which the characteristic vehicle parameters (28) are automatically determined in a frequency line pattern detection module (26) or determined manually. Subsequently, the vehicle characteristic parameters (28) are compared with the database parameters, where this comparison is evaluated with a matching factor (34). Considering the matching factor (34), one or several watercraft are determined as the result of the classification. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding device for carrying out the process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the filling of a capsule with a medicament, to a corresponding filling method, to the associated apparatuses, and to a computer program for controlling the method and the apparatus. In the monitoring method, after at least part of the capsule has been filled with a predefined filling mass of a predefined closed contour of the medicament, at least the filling mass in the part of the capsule after the filling operation is recorded using digital imaging in a first step, the contour of the filling mass in the part of the capsule is determined from the digital imaging recording in a second step, and the contour is analysed in a third step in order to assess the filling operation in comparison with the predefined contour. The invention provides for external influences on the image properties to be compensated for by controlling the optical system.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind power plant (W), wherein the wind power plant (W) has a tower (T) and a rotor with at least two rotor blades (RB1, RB2, RB3) connected with the tower, wherein each rotor blade (RB1, RB2, RB3) can be adjusted or is adjusted respectively around a rotor blade axis (RA1, RA2, RA3) with a predetermined rotor blade adjustment angle (GPW) and the rotor blades (RB1, RB2, RB3) are driven in a rotating manner by external wind movements around a rotor axis pro-vided transverse to the rotor blade axes (RA1, RA2, RA3). The rotor blade adjustment angle (GPW) for each rotor blade (RB1, RB2, RB3) is changed independently and/or individually depending on the lateral oscillations of the tower such that the amplitude of the lateral oscillations of the tower (T), induced in particular through the exterior wind movements, is damped.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the filling of a capsule with a medicament, to a corresponding filling method, to the associated apparatuses, and to a computer program for controlling the method and the apparatus. In the monitoring method, after at least part of the capsule has been filled with a predefined filling mass of a predefined closed contour of the medicament, at least the filling mass in the part of the capsule after the filling operation is recorded using digital imaging in a first step, the contour of the filling mass in the part of the capsule is determined from the digital imaging recording in a second step, and the contour is analysed in a third step in order to assess the filling operation in comparison with the predefined contour. The invention provides for external influences on the image properties to be compensated for by controlling the optical system.

Abstract: Provided herein is a wind energy installation including a generator for production of electrical energy, a rotor which drives the generator and has variable pitch rotor blades and a central control device, and individual pitch devices provided individually for the rotor blades. The individual pitch devices may include an adjustment drive, a communication link to the central control device and a regulator, the rotor blades being adjustable in order to slow down the wind energy installation to a shut-down position. The individual pitch devices may also include a disturbance situation detector which is designed to identify abnormal operating states and to move the rotor blades to a shut-down position. Also provided herein is the method of operating such a wind energy installation.

Abstract: A modular medical care system, housing a plurality of different modules providing different functions used in delivering healthcare to a patient, includes a plurality of different modules including: (a) a patient monitoring module for acquiring and processing signals derived from sensors suitable for attachment to a patient; and (b) a patient treatment module for delivering treatment to the patient. A processor processes signals derived from the plurality of different modules. A communication interface provides bidirectional communication between the processor and the plurality of different modules via a network.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic clutch device used to establish and to release a working connection between a drive and a takeoff is disclosed. The device includes a housing capable of rotating around an axis of rotation, the housing containing a torus space, which forms a torus volume (TV) with a pump wheel and a turbine wheel, and a clutch space, which forms the boundaries of the clutch volume (CV) and which encloses a mechanical transmission circuit including a bridging clutch designed with a torsional vibration damper During the course of the minimum resting phase of the housing, the fluid which is distributed throughout the housing during the operating state decreases from a total volume comprising at least the torus volume (TV) and the clutch volume (CV) to a resting volume (RV), which is located at least essentially underneath the axis of rotation as a result of the force of gravity. A volume reduction arrangement is provided to the housing to reduce the clutch volume (CV) versus the resting volume (RV).

Abstract: An anesthesia apparatus or respirator (1) enables the user (21) to simulate functions of the device and to carry out suitable operating steps depending on the situation, the device interactively responding to interventions by the user. The anesthesia apparatus or respirator (1) is equipped with at least one control and regulating unit (6), with at least one associated actuator (7, 8) and with internal and/or external sensors (9, 10) as well as with an interface unit (15) with an associated input and output unit (2, 3), respectively, for the operation, data input and output, and with an external data interface (4), wherein simulation components (12, 13) simulating the properties of the internal and/or external sensors (9, 10) with an associated simulation control (14) are present, so that the control and regulating unit (6) uses data of the simulation components (12, 13) for controlling the at least one actuator (7, 8) via the input and output unit (2, 3) and via the simulation control (14).

Abstract: A method of switching a power supply of at least one voltage domain of a semiconductor circuit uses at least one microswitch, which is designed in standard cell design, to switch the power supply, so that the standard cell design method can be automated. Multiple microswitches can be disposed, evenly distributed, over those areas of the semiconductor circuit in which there is a voltage domain of which the power supply is to be switched. The microswitches of a voltage domain are defined by being switched by the same control signal. A semiconductor circuit to switch the power supply of the voltage domain includes microswitches, which can be constructed as transistors.

Abstract: A respirator with a tidal volume-measuring device (6) between a respiration bag (8) and a patient adapter (2) provides accurate metering of the tidal volume. The device includes a first pressure-measuring device (4) and a breathing gas interruptor (5) in series sequence between the patient adapter (2) and the tidal volume-measuring device (6). A second pressure-measuring device (7) is provided between the tidal volume-measuring device (6) and the respiration bag (8). A control unit (20) is connected with the tidal volume-measuring device (6) and the pressure-measuring devices (4, 7) and sends control signals in such a way that when a predetermined tidal volume is reached, the breathing gas interrupter (5) is switched to the closed position, and that the closed position is eliminated when the pressure p2 measured with the second pressure-measuring means (7) has dropped below the pressure p1 determined with the first pressure-measuring means (4).

Abstract: A modular medical care system, housing a plurality of different modules providing different functions used in delivering healthcare to a patient, includes a plurality of different modules including: (a) a patient monitoring module for acquiring and processing signals derived from sensors suitable for attachment to a patient; and (b) a patient treatment module for delivering treatment to the patient. A processor processes signals derived from the plurality of different modules. A communication interface provides bidirectional communication between the processor and the plurality of different modules via a network.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing color pastes, in which a component comprising colorant particles is dispersed in a binder. In the method of the invention the dispersing operation is controlled by beaming excitational light of a defined wavelength range into a mixture of the component comprising colorant particles and the binder, detecting the light transmitted, reflected and/or scattered by the mixture and determining a sample spectrum, evaluating the sample spectrum and hence determining parameters of the color paste, and monitoring changes in the sample spectrum over time and terminating the dispersing operation when predetermined target parameters are attained.

Abstract: A hydrophilic or hydrophobic polyurethane containing on average per molecule at least one olefinically unsaturated structural unit selected from the group consisting of pendant, internal, and terminal, acyclic and cyclic terpene units; graft copolymers of the polyurethane with olefinically unsaturated monomers, processes for preparing the polyurethane and the graft copolymers, and their use for preparing coating materials, adhesives, and sealing compounds.

Abstract: Novel polyurethanes containing sulfide groups which comprise at least one group of the general formula I in the polymer main chain and/or at least one group of the general formula II incorporated at the chain end:

Abstract: Polyurethane-modified addition copolymers preparable by free-radically (co)polymerizing an olefinically unsaturated monomer (a) in an aqueous or nonaqueous medium comprising at least one reaction product (A/B) of

Abstract: Graft copolymers based on polyurethane, preparable by graft copolymerizing at least one hydrophobic or hydrophilic polyurethane containing on average at least one thiol group with at least one olefinically unsaturated monomer in solution or in an aqueous dispersion, and the use of the graft copolymers for preparing aqueous dispersions, coating materials, adhesives, and sealing compounds.