Abstract: A foot brake valve (2?) of a pneumatic brake system in a motor vehicle has an installation plate (4?), on which a brake pedal (14) is pivotably mounted and to which a housing (18?) of a control unit (16, 26) is fastened. A spring-loaded plunger piston (36) in actuating contact with the brake pedal (14) is guided axially movably in an annular collar (50) projecting upward out of the installation plate (4?). For fastening the housing (18?) of the control unit (16, 26) to the installation plate (4?), the housing (18?) has an intermediate flange (48) which is screw-connected to the main part of the housing (18?) and has the annular collar (50). The intermediate flange (48) is coaxially rotatably about a vertical central axis (32), and is connectable in non-positively locking fashion to the installation plate (4?) via a releasable clamping connection (62).

Abstract: Ink-based digital printing systems useful for ink printing include a rotatable charge-retentive reimageable surface layer configured to receive a layer of fountain solution. The fountain solution is carried to the charge retentive surface by a fog or mist including fountain solution aerosol particles, dispersed gas particles, and charge directors that impart charge to the fountain solution aerosol particles. The charge-retentive reimageable surface may be charged to a uniform potential, and selectively discharged using an ROS according to image data to form an electrostatic latent image. The charged fountain solution adheres to portions of the charge-retentive reimageable surface according to the electrostatic latent image to form a fountain solution image thereon. The fountain solution image can be partially transferred to an imaging blanket, where the fountain solution image is inked. The resulting ink image may be transferred to a print substrate.

Abstract: A vehicle, electric machine, and method of manufacturing an electric machine include a stator having teeth extending from a yoke portion toward a rotor and defining slots between adjacent teeth with windings positioned within the slots, wherein the slots are coated with an electrically insulating material having an arcuate surface exiting the slots and extending at least partially over the teeth on at least one end face of the stator to form a winding guide for bending/positioning the windings. The winding guide may be formed by a molded epoxy that replaces insulating paper slot liners while providing a template for forming the hairpin bends of end windings.

Abstract: A method is provided for welding workpieces together while minimizing distortion in those workpieces. That method includes loading the workpieces to be welded together into a periphery clamp welding fixture. This is followed by tack welding the workpieces together by means of spot welds. Next is the removing of a portion of the welding fixture in order to provide an open field with respect to the workpieces and then completing welding of the workpieces together in the open field. Thus, the entire weld process may be completed utilizing a single periphery clamp welding fixture.

Abstract: In a method for performing a refractive index based measurement of a property of a fluid such as chemical composition or temperature, a chirp in the local spatial frequency of interference fringes of an interference pattern is reduced by mathematical manipulation of the recorded light intensity in the interference pattern or by the physical positioning and arrangement of a detector used for capturing the interference pattern.

Abstract: In a method for performing a refractive index based measurement of a property of a fluid such as chemical composition or temperature by observing an apparent angular shift in an interference fringe pattern produced by back or forward scattering interferometry, ambiguities in the measurement caused by the apparent shift being consistent with one of a number of numerical possibilities for the real shift which differ by 2n are resolved by combining measurements performed on the same sample using light paths therethrough of differing lengths.

Abstract: A lawn and garden cart has a frame and an axle attached to the frame. A pair of wheels are attached to the axle, each wheel being rotatably attached to an opposing end of the axle. A longitudinal tow bar is attached to the frame at a first end, the tow bar including a connector at a second distal end. The cart further includes a container having a base, a plurality of generally vertical sidewalls and an angled rear wall, the container being pivotally attached to the frame and releasably coupled to the tow bar.

Abstract: A method has been found for brightening synthetic fibers and plastics. In this method, a granulate optical brightener is incorporated into the synthetic fibers or plastics, the granulated optical brightener being obtained via compacting of an optical brightener in powder form in a pressure compactor under a pressure of from 3 to 50 kNewton/cm of tube length and then comminuting the resultant compactate.

Abstract: The invention relates to n-tuple or RAM based neural network classification methods and systems and, more particularly, to n-tuple or RAM based classification systems where the decision criteria applied to obtain the output sources and compare these output sources to obtain a classification are determined during a training process. Accordingly, the invention relates to a system and a method of training a computer classification system which can be defined by a network comprising a number of n-tuples or Look Up Tables (LUTs), with each n-tuple or LUT comprising a number of rows corresponding to at least a subset of possible classes and comprising columns being addressed by signals or elements of sampled training input data examples.

Abstract: The invention relates to granulated optical brightening agents that are coated with a wax.

Abstract: In the production of polyester from a polyol, preferably di-alcohol, and a polycarboxylic acid, preferably dicarboxylic acid, an optical brightener is added in the esterification process whose structure is free from open-chain ethylenic double bonds and as a result is chemically stable to the free acid used.

Abstract: An optical brightener mixture comprising

Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures of optical brighteners comprising nonionic polyester brighteners and anionic or nonionic polyamide brighteners, which develop a synergistic effect. The brighteners of the invention are suitable for polyamide and polyurethane fabrics but also for blends of these fabrics with other natural or synthetic fibers.

Abstract: Storage-stable liquid brightener formulations essentially comprise a basic optical brightener, an aprotic polar organic solvent and an acid.

Abstract: Stable and homogeneous aqueous formulations of surfactantsStable and homogeneous aqueous formulations of surfactants having an HLB value of less than or equal to 13, which additionally contain a compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkenyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl or phenalkyl having in each case 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain or cyclohexyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or one of the radicals mentioned for R.sup.1, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, together with the nitrogen atom, are a heterocyclic radical, M is an alkali metal cation, an ammonium cation or one equivalent of an alkaline earth metal or aluminium cation and m and n in each case independently of one another are numbers from 6 to 8.By the presence of the compounds of the formula I, it is possible to prepare stable and homogeneous aqueous formulations even from those surfactants which are otherwise only sparingly soluble or not soluble at all in water.

Abstract: Water-soluble sulphur dyes can be applied to cellulose without reducing agents, without added salt and without oxidising agents if the cellulose has been grafted with a polymer obtained by polymerisation of at least one N-containing basic monomer.

Abstract: Process for producing pattern effects when dyeing or printing textile material in the absence of alkali or reducing agents, which comprises pretreating the textile material with a cationizing agent, drying, applying an oxidizing agent in the form of a pattern, drying and dyeing or printing with reactive, direct, acid, water-soluble sulfur dyes or pigment dyes in the absence of any alkali or reducing agent.

Abstract: Process for dyeing textile material with pigment dyes, which comprises1. pretreating the textile material with a polymer which consists wholly or partly of monomeric units of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.22)alkyl which may be interrupted by --CO--NH-- or --NH--CO--, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen or methyl, and Y.sup.- is a monovalent anion or one equivalent of a polyvalent anion,2. then dyeing with a pigment dye in the presence of a leveling or dispersing agent by the exhaust method and if necessary3. treating the dyeing in a liquor with a pigment binder and subsequently fixing it.This process makes it possible to dye textile material, in particular ready-made jeans garments, with pigment dyes by an exhaust method.

Abstract: New optical brighteners of the general formula ##STR1## in which R denotes hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, cyclohexyl, methylcyclohexyl, benzyl, phenylethyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl or xylyl,X denotes a C.sub.2 -C.sub.7 -alkylene group or a bridge member of the formula --X.sup.1 --(OX.sup.2).sub.n -- in which X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 denote C.sub.2 H.sub.4 or C.sub.3 H.sub.7 and n denotes 1 or 2 and Me denotes a proton, an alkali metal cation or a cation NH.sub.2 R.sup.1 R.sup.2 in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which n denotes 1 or 2,X denotes an OMe group,Me denotes a proton, an alkali metal cation or an optionally substituted ammonium cation,R denotes hydrogen, a lower alkyl group or halogen, and, in the event thatn is 1,X also denotes an --NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 group in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl group,a process for their preparation and their use as optical brighteners, especially for polyamide fibers and wool.