Abstract: An apparatus for influencing an automatic transmission has a man-machine-interface, which is connected to a transmission controller for selecting a transmission ratio of the automatic transmission connected to an internal combustion engine, and a monitoring device for monitoring at least one operating parameter that is relevant to the wear of the internal combustion engine, wherein a threshold value of the operating parameter and a desired rotation speed range of the internal combustion engine that depends on the threshold value can be selected via the man-machine-interface, and wherein the transmission controller selects a transmission ratio on the basis of the monitoring device, by which an actual rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is adjusted within the desired rotation speed range. A method for influencing an automatic transmission is also described.

Abstract: A distributor for connecting at least a first multiphase line to at least a second multiphase line, comprising a plurality of contacting points, wherein each of the contacting points is arranged to electrically connect a phase of the first line to a corresponding phase of the second line, the plurality of contacting points being arranged approximately on a circular line.

Abstract: A connecting element for connecting a fiber-optic light guide to a light source one time and detaching the fiber-optic light guide from a light source one time is provided. The connecting element includes a housing having a wall, where the housing encloses a cavity, a fiber-optic light guide that passes through the housing and the cavity, a connecting piece corresponding to a connecting section of the light source for establishing the connection to the light source, where the connecting section can be reused after the detachment, and prevention device configured to prevent repeated use of the connecting element and/or the light guide.

Abstract: LED lighting devices are provided that include two optical waveguides and at least one LED in an intermediate region between end faces of the optical waveguides so that radiation from the LED is coupled into the optical waveguides through the end faces. A de-coupler is on outer circumferential surface regions of each of the two separate optical waveguides. The de-coupler reflects the radiation guided in the optical waveguides so that the radiation passes through the optical waveguides and is coupled out of the optical waveguides laterally. The intermediate region has a length that is selected so that a brightness difference, measured perpendicular to an axis of the optical waveguides in the center of the intermediate region, at a distance of 10 mm perpendicular to the axis of the optical waveguides is at most 25% based on a maximum value of brightness along the axis of the optical waveguides.

Abstract: A distributor for connecting at least a first multiphase line to at least a second multiphase line, comprising a plurality of contacting points, wherein each of the contacting points is arranged to electrically connect a phase of the first line to a corresponding phase of the second line, the plurality of contacting points being arranged approximately on a circular line.

Abstract: A fiber-optic apparatus for receiving emitted radiation from a diode laser having at least one diode laser bar with a multiplicity of emitters which are arranged in at least one row alongside one another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. The fiber-optic apparatus has at least one optical fiber bundle that is associated with the diode laser bar and into which the laser beam is injected. Each emitter has a multiplicity of associated optical fibers. The optical fibers are hot-fused to one another under pressure and without regulation on the input side in order to form at least one fiber wedge with an inlet surface. The emitters of the diode laser bar are directly associated with at least one inlet surface in order to completely receive the laser light emitted from the diode laser bar.

Abstract: A method for clock synchronisation between an amplitude-modulated or phase-modulated received signal (r(t)) and a transmitted signal (s(t)) estimates the timing offset (?) between the received signal (r(t)) and the transmitted signal (s(t)) by means of a maximum-likelihood method. The maximum-likelihood method in this context is realised by an estimation filtering (S40; S140) dependent upon the transmission characteristic, a subsequent nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) and an averaging filtering (S60, S100; S180, S200). The received signal (r(t)) is especially a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB?(t)). The nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) maintains the alternating component in the spectrum of the pre-filtered vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (vVSB?(t)).

Abstract: A method and a device for carrier-frequency synchronization of a vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB(t)) with a carrier signal (ej(2?(fT+?f)t+??)), which is affected by a frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??), estimates the frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??) of the carrier signal (ej(2?(fT+?f)t+??)) by means of a maximum-likelihood estimation. For this purpose, the vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB(t)) is converted into a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (xVSB?(t?)), which provides time-discrete complex rotating phasors (|xVSB?(t?)|·ej2??f·t?+??), in which only the time-discrete phases (2??ft?+??) are dependent upon the frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??).

Abstract: A fiber-optic apparatus for receiving emitted radiation from a diode laser having at least one diode laser bar with a multiplicity of emitters which are arranged in at least one row alongside one another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. The fiber-optic apparatus has at least one optical fiber bundle that is associated with the diode laser bar and into which the laser beam is injected. Each emitter has a multiplicity of associated optical fibers. The optical fibers are hot-fused to one another under pressure and without regulation on the input side in order to form at least one fiber wedge with an inlet surface. The emitters of the diode laser bar are directly associated with at least one inlet surface in order to completely receive the laser light emitted from the diode laser bar.

Abstract: A block data compression system comprising a Compression unit and a Decompression unit, and an Algorithm for fast block data compression using multi-byte search. Objective of the invention is to develop a block data compression system and algorithm for fast block data compression with multi-byte search for optimal encoding during the learning phase of substitutional methods, allowing length-limited and relative small blocks of input data symbols to be compressed independently, as required by random-access storage or telecommunication devices; and reaching high-performance characteristics by employed accelerating architectures and highly pipelines data-flow principles.

Abstract: A method for clock synchronisation between an amplitude-modulated or phase-modulated received signal (r(t)) and a transmitted signal (s(t)) estimates the timing offset (?) between the received signal (r(t)) and the transmitted signal (s(t)) by means of a maximum-likelihood method. The maximum-likelihood method in this context is realised by an estimation filtering (S40; S140) dependent upon the transmission characteristic, a subsequent nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) and an averaging filtering (S60, S100; S180, S200) The received signal (r(t)) is especially a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB?(t)). The nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) maintains the alternating component in the spectrum of the pre-filtered vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (vVSB?(t)).

Abstract: A block data compression system comprising a Compression unit and a Decompression unit, and an Algorithm for fast block data compression using multi-byte search. Objective of the invention is to develop a block data compression system and algorithm for fast block data compression with multi-byte search for optimal encoding during the learning phase of substitutional methods, allowing length-limited and relative small blocks of input data symbols to be compressed independently, as required by random-access storage or telecommunication devices; and reaching high-performance characteristics by employed accelerating architectures and highly pipelines data-flow principles.

Abstract: A method for clock synchronisation between an amplitude-modulated or phase-modulated received signal (r(t)) and a transmitted signal (s(t)) estimates the timing offset (?) between the received signal (r(t)) and the transmitted signal (s(t)) by means of a maximum-likelihood method. The maximum-likelihood method in this context is realised by an estimation filtering (S40; S140) dependent upon the transmission characteristic, a subsequent nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) and an averaging filtering (S60, S100; S180, S200). The received signal (r(t)) is especially a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB?(t)). The nonlinear signal-processing function (S50; S150) maintains the alternating component in the spectrum of the pre-filtered vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (vVSB?(t)).

Abstract: A method and a device for carrier-frequency synchronisation of a vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB(t)) with a carrier signal (ej(2?(fT+?f)t+??)), which is affected by a frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??), estimates the frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??) of the carrier signal (ej(2?(fT+?f)t+??)) by means of a maximum-likelihood estimation. For this purpose, the vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (rVSB(t)) is converted into a modified vestigial-sideband-modulated received signal (xVSB?(t?)), which provides time-discrete complex rotating phasors (|xVSB(t?)·ej2??f·t?+??), in which only the time-discrete phases (2??ft?+??) are dependent upon the frequency offset and/or phase offset (?f, ??).

Abstract: A medical-technical system workstation for open or minimally invasive surgery has a patient support mechanism and at least one medical device with at least one applicator connected to the medical device. The medical device is attached to the ceiling of a room containing the workstation, or in or at the patient support mechanism or in or at a unit that can be placed at the patient support mechanism.

Abstract: In a medical system architecture with a modality for acquiring examination images, a workstation allocated to the modality for acquiring and/or post-processing data and/or examination images, a device for the transmission of data and of the examination images, a device for storing the data and examination images, and with further workstations for post-processing the data and examination images, a call system for the transmission of messages is allocated to at least one of the workstations.

Abstract: A medical workstation for treatment of a patient has a device for the electrical registration of voice signals, a device for continuously storing the registered voice signals and a communication path for the transmission of the registered voice signals from the device for registration to the device for storing the voice signals.

Abstract: A writing instrument with elongated housing and a writing tip has an inscription or receiving area formed by an insertion panel. The insertion panel is set in a recess in the housing and operatively connected to a cover panel by a hinge extending with its pivot axis in the direction of elongation of the housing. In its closed position, the covering panel covers the insertion panel and is set with its outer surface essentially in alignment with the adjacent housing portions. When the covering panel is open, the inscription or receiving area is accessible.