Abstract: An eccentric screw pump with a rotor of a pump drive shaft circling essentially about a fixed axis relative to a stator in a bearing block, which pump drive shaft is rotationally driven by a motor drive shaft of a motor, a power train and a screw conveyor, which revolves in a rotating-oscillating manner in a screw flight of the stator, wherein the power train provides the screw conveyor with its drive torque and the power train adapts the differences of the motion sequences of the screw conveyor and of the pump drive shaft. There is thereby an air gap between the motor drive shaft and the pump drive shaft, wherein the motor drive shaft supports a motor-side coupling half and the pump drive shaft supports a pump-side coupling half, which are connected to one another in a torque-transmitting manner by means of magnetic forces across the air gap, wherein the air gap is penetrated by a seal, which hermetically separates the motor region from the rest of the eccentric screw pump.

Abstract: The invention concerns an article comprising a nanolaminate coating, wherein the nanolaminate coating has a total thickness ranging from 20 to 500 nm and comprises at least one pair of layers constituted of adjacent first and second layers and a minimum of three layers, said first layer being an inorganic silica layer obtained by evaporation of silicon oxide, especially evaporation of SiO2, and the second layer being a silicon-based organic-inorganic layer obtained by deposition of an organosilicon compound or a mixture of organosilicon compounds under plasma or ionic assistance, and wherein the refractive index of the nanolaminate coating as a whole is lower than 1.58 at 550 nm.

Abstract: With the aid of one or more optical sensors, substrates which are faulty or have been incorrectly inserted in a CVD reactor are identified. The one or more optical sensors sense properties of the surfaces of the substrates, for example layer thickness or temperature, before or during a treatment process of the substrates within the CVD reactor housing. The measurement values provided by the sensors can be plotted in the form of a measurement curve, and patterns are obtained from the measurement curve, each pattern corresponding to one of the substrates. The patterns are compared with each other or with a mean calculated from the patterns.

Abstract: An agricultural machine, of which the assembly connection between the support frame and the running-gear allows a movement between the support frame and the running-gear along the longitudinal axis. The machine includes a device for determining and optionally adjusting, if necessary, automatically by an evaluation and control device or on command of an operator. The relative positioning between the support frame and the running-gear is set such the center of gravity of the support frame with its tool and a central point of the running-gear are mutually close, advantageously located in a same plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and preferably coincident.

Abstract: During a process involving one or more process steps of a process phase, in which a substrate is located in the process chamber of a CVD reactor, a process temperature and a pressure are each set and a process gas flow is fed into the process chamber by way of control data delivered by a controller in accordance with a formula stored in the controller. Additionally, sensors are used to determine measurement data from which a current fingerprint is calculated and then compared with a historic fingerprint. The fingerprint includes only values or groups of values that are obtained from measured values that are recorded during one or more conditioning steps of a conditioning phase in which a conditioning temperature and a conditioning pressure are each set and a conditioning gas flow is fed into the process chamber in accordance with control data specified by the formula.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for an energy management system comprising at least one subsystems, the method includes determining an energy budget and at least one setpoint for each subsystem, determining a desired additional energy budget based on the respective determined energy budgets and the at least one setpoint, predicting a performance loss of each subsystem based on the energy budget compared to a sum of the energy budget and the desired additional energy budget for the at least one setpoint, communicating the desired additional energy budget and performance loss, determining a granted additional energy budget for each subsystem based on the desired additional energy budget and the predicted performance loss for each subsystem, generating an energy budget plan based on the determined granted additional energy budget for each subsystem, and controlling the energy management system based on the energy budget plan for each subsystem.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for image-based verification of checklist items. In one embodiment, a user request is received to record a temperature reading of a food item using a handheld temperature sensor. In response to the user request, the temperature reading is received and an image of the handheld temperature sensor is captured. The image of the handheld temperature sensor is stored in association with the temperature reading.

Abstract: A positive displacement pump for conveying material to be conveyed is described, including a measuring assembly with at least one measuring channel, through which at least a portion of the material to be conveyed, which is conveyed by the pump, can flow, wherein the at least one measuring channel has a non-circular cross section and the measuring assembly has a pressure sensor assembly for detecting pressures, which act at positions, which are spaced apart in the flow-through direction of the at least one measuring channel, when the at least one portion of the material to be conveyed, which is conveyed by the pump, flows through the at least one measuring channel. A system with the positive displacement pump and a control unit is further described.

Abstract: The invention relates to an eccentric screw pump, including a rotor, which forms a conveying screw, and a stator, which forms a screw flight and in which the rotor rotates during conveying operation, wherein: the stator includes a stator housing, in which a stator lining is disposed, the stator lining reproducing the screw flight; the stator lining is a sleeve which is supported, at its outer periphery, on the stator housing by means of a support structure which forms cavities; the support structure is designed and dimensioned, in accordance with the location of its connection to the sleeve, in such a way that the supporting effect provided by the support structure is matched to the local needs of the sleeve.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for targeting a neoantigen to, for example, treat or prevent cancer. Disclosed embodiments include binding proteins, such as T cell receptors bind to a neoantigen:HLA complex. Disclosed binding proteins are highly sensitive to antigen, capable of inducing activation of host T cells at low concentrations of peptide antigen. In certain embodiments, binding proteins of the present disclosure are non-alloreactive against, are substantially non-alloreactive against, and/or have a low risk of alloreactivity against (i) amino acid sequences from the human proteome and/or (ii) against human HLA alleles. Polynucleotides encoding such binding protein can introduced into a host cell, such as a T cell, and the cell can be used in immunotherapy for treating various cancers.

Abstract: An eccentric screw pump with a rotor of a pump drive shaft circling essentially about a fixed axis relative to a stator in a bearing block, which pump drive shaft is rotationally driven by a motor drive shaft of a motor, a power train and a screw conveyor, which revolves in a rotating-oscillating manner in a screw flight of the stator, wherein the power train provides the screw conveyor with its drive torque and the power train adapts the differences of the motion sequences of the screw conveyor and of the pump drive shaft. There is thereby an air gap between the motor drive shaft and the pump drive shaft, wherein the motor drive shaft supports a motor-side coupling half and the pump drive shaft supports a pump-side coupling half, which are connected to one another in a torque-transmitting manner by means of magnetic forces across the air gap, wherein the air gap is penetrated by a seal, which hermetically separates the motor region from the rest of the eccentric screw pump.

Abstract: Information is communicated to a process control device by performing a process that includes the step of heating a component, the component having structured volumetric regions. When the component is heated, structures present in the volumetric regions radiate in the infrared spectrum, allowing the structures to be distinguished by an infrared sensor. The structures, formed by elevations or depressions, form a machine-readable identifier, which can be used as an originality identification means for the component. Since the identifier can be determined in situ during a heating process, the process control device can recognize whether correction values are to be used for the thermal treatment of a substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an eccentric screw pump, including a rotor, which forms a conveying screw, and a stator, which forms a screw flight and in which the rotor rotates during conveying operation, wherein: the stator includes a stator housing, in which a stator lining is disposed, the stator lining reproducing the screw flight; the stator lining is a sleeve which is supported, at its outer periphery, on the stator housing by means of a support structure which forms cavities; the support structure is designed and dimensioned, in accordance with the location of its connection to the sleeve, in such a way that the supporting effect provided by the support structure is matched to the local needs of the sleeve.

Abstract: A medical device having a time-controlled start function and a control unit, which enables user-friendly operation of the medical device, is described. The medical device has a control unit, which is equipped for automatic start-up of the medical device at a predetermined point in time and for checking on whether, after start-up of the medical device, a predetermined event has occurred, and has a display screen for display of information when the check reveals that the event has not occurred. Furthermore, a corresponding process for user-friendly operation is described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for repeatedly computing a control input for a control of a system according to objectives. The method comprises computing, at a current time step, the control input according to the objectives using one or more Pareto fronts that were generated for computing, at one or more respective time steps before the current time step, the control input according to the objectives. The present invention further provides a data processing apparatus comprising means for carrying out the aforementioned method; and a computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to carry out the aforementioned method.

Abstract: A fixation device for fixing a contact element within a connector. The device includes a housing defining a contact element receptacle for receiving a contact element and a support face defining a deflection surface for supporting the contact element within the housing, and a clamping device for clamping the contact element in the contact element receptacle with a clamping force directed in a clamping direction. The deflection surface is oriented at an angle relative to the clamping direction such that it deflects a component or portion of the clamping force acting upon the contact element in a direction transverse to the clamping direction.

Abstract: With the aid of one or more optical sensors, substrates which are faulty or have been incorrectly inserted in a CVD reactor are identified. The one or more optical sensors sense properties of the surfaces of the substrates, for example layer thickness or temperature, before or during a treatment process of the substrates within the CVD reactor housing. The measurement values provided by the sensors can be plotted in the form of a measurement curve, and patterns are obtained from the measurement curve, each pattern corresponding to one of the substrates. The patterns are compared with each other or with a mean calculated from the patterns.

Abstract: A medical device having a time-controlled start function and a control unit, which enables user-friendly operation of the medical device, is described. The medical device has a control unit, which is equipped for automatic start-up of the medical device at a predetermined point in time and for checking on whether, after start-up of the medical device, a predetermined event has occurred, and has a display screen for display of information when the check reveals that the event has not occurred. Furthermore, a corresponding process for user-friendly operation is described.

Abstract: A medical device having a time-controlled start function and a control unit, which enables user-friendly operation of the medical device, is described. The medical device has a control unit, which is equipped for automatic start-up of the medical device at a predetermined point in time and for checking on whether, after start-up of the medical device, a predetermined event has occurred, and has a display screen for display of information when the check reveals that the event has not occurred. Furthermore, a corresponding process for user-friendly operation is described.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for image-based verification of checklist items. In one embodiment, a user request is received to record a temperature reading of a food item using a handheld temperature sensor. In response to the user request, the temperature reading is received and an image of the handheld temperature sensor is captured. The image of the handheld temperature sensor is stored in association with the temperature reading.