Abstract: A refractory system includes a first set of components and a colloidal silica binder. The first set of components includes alumina and zirconia. The colloidal silica binder is at 5 wt % to 20 wt % of the dry weight of the first set of components. The refractory composition comprises 10 wt % to 45 wt % alumina, at least 35 wt % zirconia, and at least 20 wt % silica.

Abstract: A refractory composition includes a first set of components and a colloidal silica binder. The first set of components includes alumina and zirconia. The colloidal silica binder is provided at 5 wt % to 20 wt % of the dry weight of the first set of components. The refractory composition includes 45 wt % to 75 wt % alumina, 15 wt % to 30 wt % zirconia, and 10 wt % to 30 wt % silica.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for removing molten glass from flow channels for the transport of production glass that are installed between a melting furnace and an extraction point for the production glass. The flow channel has a glass-resistant inner lining. A drainage unit for bottom glass is installed upstream of the extraction point for the production glass. In order to keep electrodes away from the molten glass, but still maintain a local and temporal influence on the temperature profile within the cross section, the inner lining, at least in the area of the drainage unit, of is formed of a fusion cast electrically conductive material which has a drainage opening for the bottom glass with a drainage slit above it. At least two electrodes are installed on opposite sides of the flow channel and the drainage unit for the bottom glass.

Abstract: A method and a machine for the production of hollow glassware articles, by the blow-and-blow, press-and-blow, press-and-blow paste mold and direct-press processes in a glassware forming machine including single or multiple machine sections each having single or multiple-cavity, comprising: forming a parison in an inverted orientation, into a blank mold and a first transferable and open-able neck ring mold held by an inverting apparatus having a first and a second diametrically opposed arms, each arm holding a transferable and open-able neck ring mold; inverting the parison held by the first transferable and open-able neck ring mold, by rotating the first arm 180° to an upright orientation at an intermediate station, while the second arm with a second transferable and open-able neck ring mold is simultaneously placed at the parison forming station; transferring the first transferable and open-able neck ring mold holding the parison in an upright orientation, from the intermediate station, to a blow mold statio

Abstract: The invention relates to a finish cooling unit for a container glass machine for molding a glass container, comprising at least one plunger cylinder having a plunger cylinder cover (6) and a parison mold (4). Said plunger cylinder cover (6) has at least one feed line and at least one channel (PK) with an outlet through which a cooling medium (KM) is guided and exits the channel (PK) in the plunger cylinder cover (6). The cooling medium (KM) for the finish is supplied from a source separate from the source for cooling the parison mold in order to cool the finish of the glass container to be molded independent of the cooling of the parison mold (4). The invention also relates to a method for cooling the finish of a glass container during parison molding in a container glass machine, whereby the finish of the glass container is cooled using a control or adjustment of the pressure of the cooling medium (KM) independent of the cooling of the parison mold.

Abstract: Aluminum alloy connecting and supporting device for a glass construction project mainly includes a base, extension rods, glass clamping-connecting rods and glass clamping-connecting members, which are made of aluminum alloy and connected with one another by means of pivots. The aluminum alloy connecting and supporting device of this invention can be used for connecting glass of different specifications, of different locating points or of different shapes, able to shorten time needed for glass assembling work and able to assemble and connect glass conveniently, stably and safely.

Abstract: A device and method for controlling a drainage pump of a washing machine. The drainage pump is powered by a synchronous motor that is connected to a mains voltage bus by a switch. During one or more stages of a washing program the switch is operated to apply in each half cycle of the mains voltage a delay time from the zero setting of the mains voltage to cause the motor to operate in a cut-wave mode.

Abstract: An anchorage guide for a trocar including a tubular body, formed by a plurality of substantially circular sectors, radially moveable from and towards the longitudinal axis of the tubular body between a first position, at which the circular sectors flank each other according to a first substantially circular arrangement with a diameter equal to that of the tubular body, and a second position, at which the circular sectors result equidistant from each other according to a second substantially circular arrangement of greater diameter than that of the first arrangement. Each of the circular sectors is rotatably connected to a support element and a manual operation mechanism, moveably connected to the support element, moves the circular sectors from the first to the second position and vice versa.

Abstract: A front-loading laundry appliance including a housing with a substantially circular housing opening and a door configured to close the housing opening. A substantially cylindrical container is disposed in the housing and is configured to receive laundry for treatment. The substantially cylindrical container has a substantially circular container opening. The laundry appliance also includes a steam generator with a heating element, an inlet opening and a common outlet opening for water and steam. A pump is configured to deliver water to the inlet opening of the steam generator. A nozzle is disposed in an edge region of the container opening and configured to inject water and steam into the interior of the container.

Abstract: A combination lock includes a locking mechanism, a plurality of dials, and a code identifying member. When each of the plurality of dials is rotated to an unlocking orientation, a recess on each of the dials aligns with a portion of the locking mechanism, allowing the locking mechanism to move from a locked condition to an unlocked condition. When the code identifying member is in a dial engaging position, and one of the plurality of dials is rotated to the unlocking orientation, one of a plurality of dial engaging portions of the code identifying member engages the recess of the one of the plurality of dials to provide a perceptible indication that the one of the plurality of dials is in the unlocking orientation.

Abstract: An improved cable lock that can adjust the length of a steel cable to snugly wind a target locking article mainly has a shell to house a winding means, a release means and a locking means. The steel cable has one end fastened to a latch head which can be inserted into the locking means. After the latch head is inserted and latched, the steel cable can still be retracted so that it can wind the targeted locking article snugly to facilitate operation of the cable lock.

Abstract: A multiple function lock comprising a body, an engaging element having a first end and a second end, a locking mechanism for securing the first end and the second end of the engaging element to the body, and a gate mechanism for selectively concealing or revealing a passage in the body through which the second end may move to unlock the lock. In certain embodiments, a multiple function lock may comprise a body, a U-shaped shackle having toe and heel portions, the heel portion rotatably secured within the body, a locking mechanism for locking the heel and the toe portions within the body, a passage through the body adjacent to the toe portion, the toe portion adapted to move through the passage to unlock the lock, and either a retaining cup, an adjustable gate, or an outer housing, each being adapted to selectively block or reveal the passage.

Abstract: A door lock is provided, which can open and close the door by pushing or pulling a handle of the door lock as well as by rotating the handle, to thereby make users use the door lock conveniently. The door lock includes: inner and outer flanges; a sleeve; inner and outer handles; an operating cam; a spring; and a holder, wherein the operating cam includes an operating groove formed in any one side of the operating cam and predetermined slanted planes formed at both sides thereof, wherein the rotating unit operates by the slanted planes during manipulation of the rotation, and wherein the rotating unit operates by the end of the operating groove during manipulation of the linear movement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a handle device for a vehicle door, comprising an outer shell with a metal layer at least on the side facing away from the vehicle door and a cavity in which a sensor system for the keyless activation of a locking and unlocking system is arranged. According to the invention, the outer shell (4) has a free surface (7) with no metal layer, provided with a first sensor element (6a) arranged in the sensor system (6a, 6b, 6c), which has a touch- or proximity-sensor embodiment.

Abstract: A system for the security of passengers boarding a transport unit such as an aircraft or any other land or water transport unit, the boarding being carried out inside a single secure site having at least one access element equipped with control elements, enabling those concerned by the transport, namely the passengers and the administrative, technical and crew personnel to be securely identified, the secure site being equipped with one or more of the control elements, arranged at strategic locations, enabling the involved persons to be followed from the time of their access to the secure site until their boarding the transport unit, as long as the transport unit is not moving. The secure site is equipped with at least one secure opening enabling at least part of the transport unit to be introduced into the secure site including the access to the transport unit.

Abstract: An optical transceiver includes a housing formed to be inserted into or extracted from a cage in a host device, a movable lock member for preventing the housing from being extracted from the cage, where the cage includes a lock hole for preventing the housing from being extracted from the cage when the movable lock member is placed into the lock hole, and an integration parts.

Abstract: An electric anti-impact lock with spring accumulator comprises a lock shell; a pivot keeper for locking door with a latch portion and a tail portion, the door can be opened when the latch portion pivoting into the shell, the door being locked when the latch portion pivoting outside the shell; a device for locking keeper comprising a slideable block bar, the keeper is locked when the slideable block bar being against the tail portion, the keeper is turnable when the slideable block being moved away; a anti-impact device having a reinforce structure, which bears a impact from the door through the keeper and the block bar; and a device for locking block bar is a block pin device with spring accumulator, the block pin shoots out to stop moving of the block bar when power on, thereby, the door being locked, the block pin withdrawing to free the stop when power on in reverse pole, the door can be opened. The new lock solves the problems of weakness and lock death for current electromagnetic locks in market.

Abstract: A key mechanism. A base plate includes at least one first guiding base, at least one second guiding base, at least one first barricade, and at least one second barricade. The first guiding base opposes the second guiding base. The first barricade opposes the second barricade. A scissors linking assembly is connected to the base plate and includes a first linking member and a second linking member. The first linking member pivots to the second linking member and includes a first guiding pillar. The second linking member includes a second guiding pillar. The first guiding pillar is disposed in the first guiding base through the first barricade and is abutted therebetween. The second guiding pillar is disposed in the second guiding base through the second barricade and is abutted therebetween. A keycap is connected to the scissors linking assembly.

Abstract: A multifunctional lock comprises a lock shell (1), a lock bar (3), movable tooth pieces (4), a support (5) for sliding blocks, sliding blocks (6) and a guide slot unit (8) for the insertion of a key. Wherein, an elastic element is provided between the lock bar and the support, the sliding blocks at least partially extend into the keyway of the unit. When the lock is unlocked, a projection of the unit has two operating positions, in one of which the projection is received into the cut of the shell and the upper teeth of the tooth pieces disengage from the bottom teeth of the sliding blocks, in another it is out of the cut and the upper teeth engage with the bottom teeth. The key of the lock can be changed many times.

Abstract: A device for protecting a lock, the device including a protective covering for protecting a lock, an annular sealing portion extending along at least a portion of a perimeter of the protective covering and fixedly attached thereto, and an attachment portion fixedly attached to the protective covering, the attachment portion being adapted to be removably attached to the lock being protected.

Abstract: A lock cylinder structure mainly comprises a cylinder shell, a plug and a pin group. The cylinder shell has a housing and the plug is rotatably positioned within the housing of the cylinder shell. The plug has at least one first lower pin hole and at least one second lower pin hole having a circular-cylindrical inside wall and a stopper portion formed at the circular-cylindrical inside wall. The pin group comprises at least one first lower pin and at least one second lower pin, the first lower pin is slideably positioned in the first lower pin hole of the plug and has a first end, and the second lower pin is slideably positioned in the second lower pin hole and has a tube body and a cover. The tube body has a limit protrusion and a second end, and the cover is adaptably coupled to the tube body. The limit protrusion is blocked at the stopper portion of the second lower pin hole and there is a height difference between the second end of the tube body and the first end of the first lower pin.

Abstract: A headed pin for use in pin tumbler locks is provided with a release diameter cylindrical body having an enlarged diameter axially short head at one end, the reduced diameter body being received internally of a biasing spring which bottoms against an underside of the head, the spring extending beyond the end of the cylindrical body opposite the head, and the headed pin and spring being received in one or more of the pinholes as the upper pin in a pin tumbler lock.

Abstract: A programmable lock cylinder assembly comprising a lock housing and a cylinder plug mounted for rotation within the housing. A set of rack pins are positioned in the cylinder plug and moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position. A set of tongue pins are positioned in the cylinder plug and extend across the keyway. Each tongue pin is selectively engagable with a respective rack pin. A re-combinating member is engaged with the tongue pins and moveable between a first position wherein the tongue pins are engaged with the rack pins and a second position wherein the tongue pins are disengaged from the rack pins. A reset actuator is positioned within the cylinder plug and moveable between an engaged position wherein the re-combinating member position is locked relative to the cylinder plug and a non-engaged position wherein the re-combinating member position is moveable relative to the cylinder plug.

Abstract: Salts of mineral nutrients stabilized with amino acids and/or ammonium salt, product and food supplement in which they are included and procedures of obtention, where the salts are obtained with anions of organic acids or inorganic anions and metallic cations associated with amino acids and/or ammonium salt, in which the invention introduces its general structure: {[Ac]n?·Men+?n[Amino acid and/or ammonium salt]}·xH2O Where ? represents a covalent dative bond, These new compounds have better taste and more solubility in water, making them more bioavailable.

Abstract: A pressing method by which through holes are formed using a punch in a target plate material having a first face and an opposite second face. When the target plate material is punched with the punch from the second face in such an orientation that the first face of the target plate material is in contact with an elastic base, depressed portions are formed. The depressed portions are curved toward a direction in which the through holes are punched to sink downward in the form of funnel as they approach peripheries of the through holes, and are located at peripheral portions around the through holes that are formed in the target plate material in such a manner that the peripheral portions are pushed in toward a deeper side in a thickness direction of the base against an elastic force of the base and are deformed.

Abstract: A plug has a tip end portion, a taper portion, and a middle portion. The surface of the tip end portion is a spherical surface whose radius of curvature is R1 and length is L1 that is shorter than R1. The outer diameter of the taper portion on the front end side is D1, and the outer diameter on the back end side is D2 that is larger than D1, and the length is L2. The plug satisfies Expression (1), Expression (2) if 0<L1/R1<0.5 and Expression (3) if 0.5?L1/R1<1. The curve of the spherical surface of the tip end portion is gentler than that of the semi-spherical surface, and the diameter of a hole formed in a billet by the tip end portion is larger than that in the case of the semi-spherical surface. Therefore, the taper portion does not contact with the billet. 0.5D1<L1+L2?2.5D1??(1) 1.0<D2/D1?1.4??(2) 1.0<D2/D1<1.8?0.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus includes a supporting body which moves in X, Y, and Z-axes directions of a XYZ orthogonal coordinate system representing a moving direction of a wire rod fed from a wire rod feeding unit as a Z-axis. The supporting body is formed with an opening in which the quill is arranged. The supporting body further includes a tool holder for holding a processing tool for processing the wire rod to a spring. The supporting body arranged at the vicinity of the quill is moved to accurately adjust the relative position of the quill and the processing tool, thereby manufacturing a desired spring.

Abstract: A lower platen is provided with a hem punch and a slide cam. The hem punch is floating-supported to the slide cam. An upper platen is provided with a hem punch driver cam and a liner. The hem punch driver cam is used to change the hem punch to a pre-hemming position and to a final hemming position. The liner applies a processing load to the hem punch being in the final hemming position. By moving the hem punch to which the processing load is applied from the liner, a final hemming part of the hem punch is pressed against a bent portion of the workpiece.

Abstract: Disclosed therein are a coupling boss and a method for fabricating a coupling boss, that a collar part is formed through a collar drawing process using a metal plate material, and then, a body part of the coupling boss is firmly combined to a substrate plate through processes of deep drawing, tapping, cleansing, plating and iron coining in order, thereby maximizing competitive power in price, miniaturizing the coupling boss in size, and maximizing tensile strength, compression strength, and surface roughness. In this instance, a more stable material thickness can be kept by performing a collar drawing process or a curling process when a screw part of the coupling boss is formed.

Abstract: There is provided a processing method of a tube body comprising the steps of a tube-expanding step wherein a base tube is partially retained with a chuck unit having a rotational function, and a mandrel is pressed in to an end portion of the base tube so as to expand the end portion of the base tube; and a rotation ironing step wherein the chuck unit rotates the base tube together with the mandrel a roller die is pressed against an outer-periphery surface of the end portion of the base tube and the roller die is moved with respect to the base tube and in an axial direction thereof so as to deform an inner periphery surface of the end portion of the base tube into a shape corresponding to an external shape of the mandrel.

Abstract: A fluorescence reference plate for a fluorescence spectroscopic instrument is arranged with fluorescent layers having different excitation and emission characteristics. The fluorescent layers are ordered in the form of a stack for providing a flat-field calibration standard over multiple bands of wavelengths.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for checking compliance with disulfiram prescription regime. The apparatus includes a device for monitoring, on a regular basis the levels of volatiles in the users breath and a comparator for comparing the test results with anticipated results and producing a non-compliance output when a non-compliance event is detected. The apparatus includes an indicator for providing an indication that carbon disulphide is present in the measured volatiles. The detector of the apparatus detects, at least acetone and carbon disulphide.

Abstract: A method of diagnosing the health of an individual by collecting a breath sample from the individual and measuring the amount of each of a plurality of analytes in the sample. The amount of each analytes is measured by fitting a time response curve of a sample-evaluation fuel cell in which the fuel cell sample electrode is contacted with the sample with the analysis based on a function of standard time response curves for an equivalent fuel cell configuration obtained separately for each of the analytes on a fuel cell with equivalent construction as sample-evaluation fuel cell. Each of the plurality of analytes is generally indicative of an aspect of the individual's health. Suitable analytes include, for example, inorganic compounds as well as compositions that exhibit negative reduction reactions at least for a portion of the time response curve.

Abstract: In a gas sensor, a seal member is filled in an annular space disposed between abutted inward and outward shoulder portions of a housing and a sensor member and an one open end of the housing. A tubular insulator is installed in the annular space to be mounted at its first end surface on the seal member. A ring member is installed in the annular space to be mounted at its first end surface on a second end surface of the tubular insulator. The one open end of the housing is configured to be inwardly crimped such that an edge of an inner circumference of the inwardly crimped one open end of the housing digs in a second end surface of the ring member to thereby fixedly press the seal member, the insulator, and the ring member to the abutted inward and outward shoulder portions.

Abstract: A combinational sensor system for measuring multiple measurands includes a flow transducer, a pressure transducer and a humidity transducer. The pressure and humidity transducers are provided with independent access to sensed media and are ratiometric to a supply voltage, whereas the flow sensor is sensitive to openings to the flow path. The combinational sensor system utilizes elastomeric seals that include patterned electrically conductive and non-conductive seals. An ASIC is generally associated with the combinational sensor, and is located on a patterned electrically conductive substrate lead frame or for signal conditioning in order to detect any of the sensed measurands. The transducers can be arranged in a manner that distributes the transducers to optimize the accuracy and response time of the combinational sensor system.

Abstract: A device and method for measuring the back pressure in chemical reactor tubes includes many automated features. Inflatable tube seals may be automatically inflated. The device may measure several tubes at once. It may transmit data electronically to a remote computer for analysis and graphic display.

Abstract: A method and device for determining the hydraulic leakage rate of liquid-conveying parts, in particular injection valves for internal combustion engines, place the liquid-conveying part into a test body, and the liquid-conveying part is charged with a test liquid under a particular pressure, and a carrier gas stream is provided in a flow duct of the test body, and a vapor mixture behind the liquid-conveying part is conducted to an analyzer, and a measurement and analysis are carried out, using the analyzer, of the hydraulic leakage rate of the liquid-conveying part via the concentration of test liquid in the vapor mixture, the carrier gas stream being brought in via a nozzle element close to the leakage point of the liquid-conveying part, and/or a heating of the vapor mixture being provided behind the liquid-conveying part for complete conversion into the gas phase.

Abstract: A resin leak detector includes a pressure sensor element and a leak determination unit. The pressure sensor element detects a pressure in a case cavity. That is, when resin leaks into a space between an upper circuit case and a lower circuit case, the pressure in the case cavity decreases temporarily. The decrease of the pressure in the case cavity is detected by the pressure sensor element based on comparison between a detected pressure and a predetermined lower limit. The resin leak into the upper and lower circuit case is detected without cutting an outer case of an electronic device such as an acceleration sensor or the like.

Abstract: A method of detecting leakage in a force main involves placing at least two spaced sensors on the force main. Liquid is pumped through the pipe by means of a pump. The pump is shut down for an interval of time, and during the period following pump shutdown while negative pressure is present in the pipe, signals are generated at the sensors due to noise or vibration resulting from fluid being drawn into the pipe. The position of a leak in the pipe is determined by correlating the leak noise signals generated while the pipe is under negative pressure. Alternatively, the invention can be applied to a pressurized pipe, in which case conditions of negative pressure can be deliberatively created for a period to draw in fluid from the outside.

Abstract: The present invention provides a leakage detector enabling accurate and stable detection for occurrence and a position of leakage in a buried fluid pipe line and also making it possible for even those not so skilled in the leakage detection work to use the detector. The leakage detector 1 according to the present invention comprises a vibration detector 2 having a pickup 6 incorporating a piezoelectric element; a main body 4 of the detector incorporating voltage amplifiers 31, 37 for voltage-amplifying an output signal and a plurality types of noise removing units 33, 34, 35 for removing noises from the output signal, and a headphone 5. The main body 4 of the detector has a display unit 15 for displaying data for detected vibration sounds on a predefined screen.

Abstract: Method for dewatering, pressure testing, hydrotreating, suppressing methane hydrate formation and suppressing solution freezing point in pipeline operations have been disclosed, where the solution used in the operations includes an effective amount of a metal formate salt. The metal formate salt solutions have a low viscosity, have a high density, have a low metals corrosivity, are non-volatile, have a low solubility in hydrocarbons, are readily biodegradable, have a low toxicity, are non-hazardous, have a low environmental impact, have a freezing point depression property forming water/formate eutectic point mixtures, and have a water-structuring and water activity modification property.

Abstract: A device and method for measuring the back pressure in chemical reactor tubes includes many automated features. Inflatable tube seals may be automatically inflated. The device may measure several tubes at once. It may transmit data electronically to a remote computer for analysis and graphic display.

Abstract: A device and method for measuring the back pressure in chemical reactor tubes includes many automated features. Inflatable tube seals may be automatically inflated. The device may measure several tubes at once. It may transmit data electronically to a remote computer for analysis and graphic display.

Abstract: A portable diesel fuel tester and a method of its use are provided. A sample of diesel fuel is placed in a sample tray of the tester. The diesel fuel is heated to a gas state and circulated to a SO2 sensor by an air pump. The SO2 sensor determines the level of sulfur in the diesel fuel based on the SO2 levels. The sulfur level is displayed on an LCD screen for viewing by the user.

Abstract: A viscosity sensor for, e.g., outputting a signal representing the viscosity of engine oil has one or more piezoelectric diaphragms disposed in a fluid chamber of a housing. An elongated amplification channel is formed in the housing and extends away from the chamber. The diaphragm can be excited to induce fluid movement that in turn induces the diaphragm to output a sensor signal representative of the viscosity of the fluid.

Abstract: A liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry system includes a chromatographic column through which an effluent passes, wherein the effluent comprises a plurality of analytes that correspond to a plurality of chromatographic peaks and an eluent; a post-column splitter having at least two output ports through which the effluent of the column is split to at least a first portion and a second portion; a mass spectrometer configured to receive the first portion from a first of the output ports for analysis; and a tube connected to a second of the output ports configured to prevent substantial evaporation of the eluent in the second portion until undergoing mass spectrometry. The second portion has a plurality of separated analytes corresponding to at least two chromatographic peaks. A method of using the system is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle characterisation apparatus in which particles suspended in a liquid are passed through an aperture, in principle one by one, to enable characterisation of the particles, for instance by Coulter counting.

Abstract: There is provided a sample manipulating apparatus 1 which is an apparatus of manipulating a sample S mounted on a substrate surface 2a, in which at least a position data and a shape data are acquired by observing the sample S, thereafter, a tweezers 4 is positioned by moving means 5 such that the sample S is positioned between an observing probe 15 and a grasping probe 16 based on the two data, after the positioning, a height of the tweezers 4 is set to a position of being remote from the substrate surface 2a by a constant distance by moving means 5 while monitoring a result of measurement by displacement measuring means 7, thereafter, the grasping probe 16 is moved to a side of the observing probe 15 while monitoring the result of measurement by the displacement measuring means 7 at the set height and the sample S is grasped while detecting a grasping start point.

Abstract: In a non-critical pressure region where a pressure ratio [Pm/Pthrup(i?1)] of an intake air pressure Pm(throttle downstream pressure) detected by an intake air pressure sensor to a previous throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i?1) is greater than a predetermined value B, the previous throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i?1) is substituted for one of two terms of the throttle upstream pressures Pthrup(i) included in an intake system model so that present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) is calculated. In a critical pressure region where the pressure ratio is less than or equal to the predetermined value B, a physical value f(Pm/Pthrup(i)) using a pressure ratio [Pm/Pthrup(i)] of the intake air pressure Pm to a present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) as a parameter is regarded as a steady value fc so that the present throttle upstream pressure Pthrup(i) is calculated.

Abstract: In a method for monitoring an exhaust gas purifying component with gas storage capability for purifying exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas purifying component comprises a gas storage material which changes from a first state into a second state upon storage of the gas. A temperature change of the exhaust gas purifying component and/or of the gas storage material, substantially based on a heat tonality of the modification transition, is measured and evaluated.