Abstract: A method and a briquetting press for briquetting metal chips, wherein stable briquettes/pressed component are produced. The actual length (Lact) of the pressed component is obtained by applying pressure (Pmax/Preq) using at least one pressing ram (1, 2) and measuring the length with a measuring device (5, 6). The measured value is compared to a desired nominal value (Lnom) and a difference value (?) is subsequently determined.

Abstract: A mixture of a polyester or a polyamide, such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) PET, and a suitable stabilizer selected from the group consisting of certain Mannich base compounds, when extrusion compounded exhibits a lower residual acetaldehyde content than does PET or polyamide alone when similarly treated. The invention pertains to any polyester or polyamide used in the manufacture of molded articles, fibers, or films, for instance bottles or containers which are used to store consumer materials, for example food, beverages and water.

Abstract: Compounds of formula Ia or Ib 1

Abstract: A method and a briquetting press for briquetting metal chips wherein stable briquettes/pressed components are produced. The actual length (Lact) of the pressed component is obtained by applying pressure (Pmax/Preq) using at least one pressing ram (1,2) and measuring the length with a measuring device (5, 6). The measured value is compared to a desired nominal value (Lnom) and a difference value (&Dgr;) is subsequently determined.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for the holding of a steering column to a cross-member of a motor vehicle, in particular for a later screw connection of the steering column and/or of a dashboard holder to the cross-member, wherein holding means are formed at the steering column and at the cross-member which cooperate in a pre-installation state such that the steering column is held freely suspended at the cross-member.

Abstract: Compounds of formula Ia or Ib wherein A is an (n+1)-valent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical and n is an integer from 0 to 5, E is an (m+1)-valent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical and m is an integer from 0 to 3, X is —O—, —COO— or —CHR4—, R1 and R2 are, each independently of the other, hydrogen or methyl, R3 is hydrogen, and R5 is a monovalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical, are highly reactive curing agents for epoxy resins and yield cured products having improved resistance to chemicals.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses monoclonal antibodies that bind to lipoteichoic acid (LTA) of Gram positive bacteria. The antibodies also bind to whole bacteria and enhance phagocytosis and killing of the bacteria in vitro. The invention also provides antibodies having human sequences (chimeric, humanized and human antibodies). The invention also sets forth the variable regions of three antibodies within the invention and presents the striking homology between them.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a briquetting press for briquetting metal chips. The aim of the invention is to produce stable briquettes/pressed components. The actual length (Lact) of the pressed component is obtained by applying pressure (Pmax/Preq) using at least one pressing ram (1, 2) and measuring the length with a measuring device (5, 6). The measured value is compared to a desired nominal value (Lnom) and a difference value (&Dgr;) is subsequently determined.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of compounds of formula (I): wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, which comprises reacting a compound of formula (V): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R18 are as defined in claim 1, and R18 is especially nitro, chlorine or bromine, with an azide compound of formula (IX): wherein M and n are as defined in claim 1, especially with sodium azide.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses monoclonal antibodies that bind to lipoteichoic acid (LTA) of Gram positive bacteria. The antibodies also bind to whole bacteria and enhance phagocytosis and killing of the bacteria in vitro. The invention also provides antibodies having human sequences (chimeric, humanized and human antibodies). The invention also sets forth the variable regions of three antibodies within the invention and presents the striking homology between them.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses protective monoclonal antibodies that bind to peptidoglycan of Gram-positive bacteria. The antibodies also bind to whole bacteria and enhance phagocytosis and killing of the bacteria in vitro and block nasal colonization by Gram-positive bacteria in vivo. The invention also provides human, humanized and chimeric antibodies. The invention also sets forth the heavy chain and light chain variable regions of an antibody within the invention.

Abstract: This invention provides MAbs for blocking and alleviating nasal colonization by staphylococci and methods for their use in the anterior nares.

Abstract: Leveling instrument—clamping device for mounting leveling instruments to the tripod platform of a tripod. It is provided with a device plate which can be mounted to the bottom of the leveling system and with a stop provided on the upper side of the tripod platform, as well as a clamping device positioned at a distance from the stop with the device plate being mounted removable on the tripod platform via the stop and the clamping device. This allows a quick and secure mounting of leveling instruments by few operations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a shearing and compacting press for the production of pressed parts, preferably packages (20) from waste material, especially scrap and sheet clippings. The material used is pre-compacted in a first compacting step. In a second compacting step, the material, which has been pre-compacted to the width of the package, is subjected to intermediate compacting until the height of the package (20) is reached. In a third compacting step, final compacting of the material to the final width or length of the package (20) is carried out. According to the invention, the material is pre-compacted with a continuos force and optionally sheared until the compressor (3.1) reaches its final position. The compressor (3.2) is securely adjusted and guided to its end position on a parallel plane. Subsequently, the compressor (3.3) is guided in a position in which the compressor (3.1) releases the opening of the package chamber (2.3) when the compressor (3.1) is driven back.

Abstract: Sensitive component structures (2) can be encapsulated by enclosing them with a frame structure (6) consisting of a light-sensitive reaction resin and covering the latter with another, structured layer of reaction resin after applying an auxiliary film (7). Top structures (10) which fit over the frame structures (6) can be produced e.g., by structured imprinting or photostructuring. The residual parts of the exposed auxiliary film are removed by dissolving or etching.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modularly constructed plug connector comprising at least one plug module which can be plugged into a housing module and can be latched in the housing module, wherein the plug module and the housing module are in each case formed for receiving contact elements, and wherein the plug module has a locking arrangement at least at one outer side by means of which contact elements which are arranged in the plug module and/or in the housing module can be locked.

Abstract: A process is provided for the catalytic removal of polycyclic aromatic nitro, nitroso and/or amino compounds from the exhaust gas of a combustion system, in particular a diesel engine. The exhaust gas is brought into contact with a catalytic converter which includes a catalytically active material that contains titanium dioxide, at a temperature of from 150 to 600° C. The polycyclic aromatic compounds are oxidized at the catalytic converter through the use of oxygen to form nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide and water.

Abstract: Compounds active as accelerators for curable epoxy and polyurethane systems, those compounds having been prepared by means of a transamination reaction by reacting (a) a substituted phenolic compound (Mannich base) having at least one substituent of formula R1(R2)N—CH(R3)—  (A), wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other linear or branched C1-4alkyl and R3 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or phenyl, with (b) a compound of formula R4(R5)N—CnH2n—(NH—CnH2n)q—NH2  (B), wherein R4 and R5 are each independently of the other C1-C6alkyl or together form a radical of formula —(CH2)5— or —(CH2)2—O—(CH2)2—, n is an integer from 2 to 5 and q is zero, 1, 2 or 3, and the compound obtained or the compounds present in the mixture obtained has/have on average, per molecule, at least one substituent of formula (R4)(R5)N—CnH2n—(NH—CnH2n)q—NH—CH(R3)—, and the use of those compounds as acceler

Abstract: Curable epoxy resin compositions, which are obtainable by heating a composition containing at least one epoxy compound, which contains on average at least one, preferably more than one, 1,2-epoxy group and optionally also one or several hydroxyl groups in the molecule, in the presence of at least one Lewis acid as catalyst, wherein the Lewis acid is a salt of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid or of perchloric acid, the counterion of which carries a 2- to 6-fold positive charge, until the epoxy value, measured in equivalent epoxy/kg (Eq/kg) of the starting material, has been reduced by 1 to 60 percent, preferably by 5 to 50 percent; a process for their preparation, and their use for the preparation of fully cured moulded compositions or coatings.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of the formula R1aRebOc.Ld  (I), in which and the total of a, b and c is such as to comply with the pentavalency or heptavalency of rhenium, with the proviso that c is not larger than 3×b, and in which R1 is absent or identical or different, and is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aromatic hydrocarbon radical having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an arylalkyl radical having 7 to 9 carbon atoms, it being possible for the R1 radicals where appropriate to be substituted identically or differently, independently of one another, as catalysts for oxidizing electron-rich aromatic compounds and their derivatives, the catalysts being employed in a peroxide-containing solution in the presence of an anhydride of a carboxylic acid and/or of a dehydrating agent.