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20090212597 | AIR GUIDING DEVICE - An air guiding device for a motor vehicle, in particular a rear spoiler, can be moved between a retracted non-use position and at least one deployed use position and contains an air guiding body on which are disposed two lateral air guiding body sections which can be moved in the vehicle transverse direction. Here, it is important that, in the non-use position of the air guiding device, the lateral air guiding body sections form a common joint which runs in the vehicle longitudinal direction, with at least one of the two air guiding body sections having, on its side which forms an edge of the common joint, a depression at least in regions. | 08-27-2009 |
20090230732 | VEHICLE ROOF - A vehicle roof contains a first movable roof part, a guide device for displacing the first roof part relative to a second roof part for optionally at least partially opening and closing a roof opening. The guide device contains first and second lateral guide rails of a lateral guide and at least one third guide rail of a central guide, in which the first roof part is guided with front and rear slide bearings adjacent to its front and rear edges. In order to be able to increase further the comfort in a motor vehicle, it is provided that the front slide bearings are guided in the first and second guide rails of the lateral guide and the rear slide bearing is guided in the central guide. | 09-17-2009 |
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20080282925 | ELECTRONIC BLASTING WITH HIGH ACCURACY - Electronic blasting systems typically permit blasting with detonator delay times having millisecond accuracy. Disclosed herein are blasting apparatuses and methods of blasting that are capable of even higher degrees of delay time accuracy, for example involving programmable delay times selectable to an accuracy of about 0.25 ms, 0.1 ms, or better. Such methods and apparatuses present unprecedented and unexpected advantages for both mining applications, civil engineering uses, and in seismic prospecting. | 11-20-2008 |
20080302264 | Wireless Detonator Assembly, and Methods of Blasting - A wireless detonator assembly ( | 12-11-2008 |
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20090260532 | Method for Assigning a Delay Time to Electronic Delay Detonators - In the method for assigning a delay time to an electronic delay detonator. The detonator includes a data register ( | 10-22-2009 |
20100180788 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION AT A BLAST STIE, AND CORRESPONDING BLASTING APPARATUS - Blasting operations for mining frequently involve a large number of detonators for a single blasting event. An important step in the execution of a blast is to perform a roll-call to check that all detonator assemblies placed at the blast site are in communication with a blasting machine, and forming operative components of the blasting apparatus. Disclosed herein are blasting apparatuses and methods of blasting that streamline this roll-call step, thereby reducing time consumed in the blasting process. | 07-22-2010 |
20100275799 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION AT A BLAST SITE, AND CORRESPONDING BLASTING APPARATUS - Blasting operations for mining frequently involve a large number of detonators for a single blasting event. An important step in the execution of a blast is to perform a roll-call to check that all detonator assemblies placed at the blast site are in communication with a blasting machine, and forming operative components of the blasting apparatus. Disclosed herein are blasting apparatuses and methods of blasting that streamline this roll-call step, thereby reducing time consumed in the blasting process. | 11-04-2010 |
20110265677 | CALIBRATION OF DETONATORS - A plurality of detonator assemblies in signal communication with a blasting machine, each detonator assembly consisting of a detonator, a storage compartment for storing programmed delay time and/or oscillation count and a countdown oscillator. A transmitter for transmitting a blast rehearsal stop start and stop signal, said signals being separated by said programmed delay time individually selected for each detonator signal. The oscillator counting the total oscillation count corresponding to said delay time. When a detonator assembly receives a FIRE command, the individual countdown oscillators countdowns the total oscillation count associated with its detonator assembly. | 11-03-2011 |
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20080213590 | Invention Concerning Agricultural Active Substances - The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a charged or empty state. The method and device use electrospinning technology. | 09-04-2008 |
20110293846 | METHOD FOR COATING TARGET SURFACES IN THE FORM OF DIELECTRIC SUBSTANCES OR FERROELECTRIC CRYSTALS - The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a charged or empty state. The method and device use electrospinning technology. | 12-01-2011 |
20110300251 | DEVICE FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE OUTPUT OF NANOSCALED POLYMER FIBERS - Carriers for the production and targeted and/or delayed release, particularly of agricultural active substances, as well as a method for the output and a device for the production of such carriers in a loaded or unloaded state are proposed. The method and the device use the technology of electrospinning. | 12-08-2011 |
20110300383 | NANOSCALED POLYMER FIBERS - The invention relates to supports consisting of nanoscalar polymer fibres, polymer tubes or hollow fibres for the application and targeted and/or delayed release of ingredients, in particular, agricultural active ingredients. The invention also relates to a method and a device for the production of supports of this type in a charged or empty state. The method and device use electrospinning technology. | 12-08-2011 |
20120270942 | Spreading Active Agricultural Agents - Disclosed herein is a device for the application of agricultural active agents, wherein the device is suitable to be brought to the site of action in a manner temporally and spatially separated from the production process, and comprises a dispenser and non-water-soluble nanofibers and/or mesofibers charged with agricultural active agents. The polymers from which the nanofibers and/or mesofibers are made are preferably biodegradable. The agricultural active agents are selected from fungicides, herbicides, batericides, plant growth regulators and plant nutrients. These are preferably pheromones, kairomones and signaling substances. Furthermore, a method for the production of this device is disclosed, wherein the nanofibers and/or mesofibers charged with active agents are produced via electrospinning. The device is suitable to be used to bring agricultural active agents to the site of action in a manner temporally and spatially separated from the production of this device. The application is suitable to be carried out mechanically or automatically. This is preferably agricultural land used for fruit growing, viticulture, gardening or a commercial row crop. The device according to the present invention is particularly suitable to be used for the regulation of arthropods. | 10-25-2012 |
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20130126029 | MULTI-LAYER FILM PERMEABLE TO UV RADIATION - A multilayer film that is impermeable to liquids and is to some extent permeable to UV radiation, optionally in the form of a tubular film, having a layer sequence of a layer (a) comprising at least one thermoplastic olefin homo- or copolymer, as one of the external layers, an adhesive-promoter layer (b), an internal layer (c) comprising at least one homo- and/or copolyamide, an adhesive-promoter layer (d), and a layer (e) comprising at least one homo- and/or copolyamide, as one of the external layers, wherein the VICAT softening point of the thermoplastic olefin homo- or copolymer of the layer (a) is at least 100° C., and the use of said multilayer film as internally situated tube of an insertion tube for the renovation of subterranean pipes, an insertion tube of this type, and a pipe-renovation system suitable for the renovation of subterranean pipes. | 05-23-2013 |
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20110163727 | Method for Regulating or Controlling the Charge State of an Electrical Energy Accumulator of a Hybrid Vehicle - A method controls or regulates the charge state of an electrical energy accumulator of a hybrid vehicle, where, in some operating states, the energy accumulator is charged from a low to a higher charge state level by way of an electric machine driven by an internal-combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle and operating as a generator. The level of the charge state to which the energy accumulator is charged by the internal-combustion engine is selected as a function of a parameter representing the load of the electrical system or correlating thereto. | 07-07-2011 |
20120316719 | Method for Controlling the State of Charge of an Electrical Energy Store - For controlling the charge state of a battery in a hybrid vehicle having an internal-combustion engine and an electric machine, the battery is operated in a working state-of-charge range falling within a theoretically possible state-of-charge range. In a first sub-range, the battery is charged by the electric machine, the electric machine working as a generator and being engine driven. In a second sub-range, the battery is neither charged nor discharged, the electric machine working as a generator and being driven by the engine and, in the process, supplying only an on-board power supply system of the hybrid vehicle with current. In a third sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies the on-board power supply system with current, the electric machine running along passively. In a fourth sub-range, the battery is discharged and, in the process, supplies current to the electric machine operating as an electric motor. | 12-13-2012 |
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20080209888 | Internal Combustion Engine with a System for Secondary Air Charging and Method for Operation of the Internal Combustion Engine - An internal combustion engine with a system for secondary air charging has a combustion unit, an intake air conduit connected to the combustion unit, and an exhaust gas conduit connected to the combustion unit. A throttle is arranged in the intake air conduit. A turbo-engine is connected to the intake air conduit by a supply conduit upstream of the throttle and by a discharge conduit downstream of the throttle. A compressor is provided wherein the turbo-engine is connected operatively to the compressor and wherein the compressor is connected by a connecting line to the exhaust gas conduit. A valve is arranged in the discharge conduit. A vacuum cell actuates the valve. An electro-pneumatic converter is operatively connected to the vacuum cell. The vacuum cell, when reaching a defined differential pressure, opens the valve suddenly so that a vacuum pulse is generated that acts on the turbo-engine. | 09-04-2008 |
20080223345 | Arrangement of a Charge Air Cooler in an Intake System of an Internal Combustion Engine - The arrangement of a charge air cooler in an intake system of an internal combustion engine has a charge air cooler that on the one hand is supplied with combustion air and on the other hand with a liquid coolant. A coolant/air cooler is provided in which the liquid coolant is cooled by an air stream. The charge air cooler is slantedly arranged in a pipe conduit for the charge air with regard to the end face of a heat exchanger block exposed to the charge air. The end face of the charge air cooler is arranged relative to the cross-section of the pipe conduit at an angle of >45°. | 09-18-2008 |
20100061851 | Secondary Air Charger - A secondary air charger has a bearing housing and a turbine shaft extending in an axial direction of the bearing housing. A first and a second rolling bearings are arranged in the bearing housing on bearings seats and support the turbine shaft rotatably in the bearing housing. The rolling bearings are positioned at an axial spacing relative to one another and each have an inner ring seated on the bearing seats. A spacer device for determining the axial spacing of the rolling bearings is arranged on the turbine shaft. The turbine shaft has a base member and at least one sleeve. The base member has a cylindrical section that is continuous in the axial direction, wherein the cylindrical section is provided in the area of the bearing seats. The at least one sleeve is pushed onto the cylindrical section for forming the spacer device between the bearing seats. | 03-11-2010 |
20110088663 | Intake Manifold of an Internal Combustion Engine and Cooling Fluid Charge Air Cooler - An intake manifold arrangement of an internal combustion engine has an intake manifold and a cooling fluid charge air cooler arranged in the intake manifold. The cooling fluid charge air cooler has cooling fluid tanks at first and second opposite ends. At least one of the cooling fluid tanks at the first end forms at least a part of the intake manifold and is an integral component of the cooling fluid charge air cooler. | 04-21-2011 |
20120090579 | CHARGE AIR DUCT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A charge air duct for an internal combustion engine includes a housing with at least one entrance and at least one exit for charge air, a first heat exchanger arranged inside the housing to cool the charge air, a bypass arranged on the housing to at least partially circumvent the heat exchanger, and an actuator arranged on the housing to influence the charge air flow. The charge air is guided from the entrance to the first heat exchanger in a first position of the actuator and from the entrance to the bypass in a second position of the actuator, and the bypass leads upstream of a second heat exchanger of the charge air duct. | 04-19-2012 |
20120097136 | CHARGE AIR DUCT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A charge air duct for an internal combustion engine includes a housing with at least one entrance and at least one exit for charge air. A heat exchanger is arranged inside the housing to cool the charge air, a bypass is arranged on the housing to at least partially circumvent the heat exchanger and an actuator is arranged on the housing to influence the charge air flow. The charge air is guided from the entrance to the heat exchanger in a first position of the actuator and from the entrance to the bypass in a second position of the actuator, and the actuator at least partially reduces a cross-section of the charge air in a third position. | 04-26-2012 |
20140054119 | Brake Dust Collector for Motor Vehicles - A brake dust collector for a motor vehicle for collecting brake dusk of a vehicle wheel brake has a dust collecting device with a filter element arranged in a filter receptacle. The filter element is designed as an exchangeable filter and is arranged exchangeable in a receiving space provided in the filter receptacle. The filter receptacle has a housing opening communicating with the receiving space. Through the housing opening the filter element is inserted into the receiving space and removed from the receiving space. The housing opening is located on a side of the filter receptacle that is facing away from the vehicle wheel brake. | 02-27-2014 |
20140054120 | Brake Dust Collector for Motor Vehicles - A brake dust collector for a motor vehicle for collecting brake dust of a vehicle wheel brake has a dust collecting device that has at least one filter element and at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element is secured in the at least one filter element receptacle. The at least one filter element receptacle is a through opening in a wheel rim; an intermediate space defined between the wheel rim and non-rotating vehicle parts; or a combination thereof. | 02-27-2014 |
20140054121 | Brake Dust Collector for Motor Vehicles - A brake dust collector for a motor vehicles for collecting brake dust has a dust collecting device with a filter element and a filter receptacle in which the filter element is arranged. The filter element is a shaped filter and has at least two partial sections. The at least two partial sections each have a filter material of a different porosity including a first partial section with a great porosity and a second partial section with a small porosity. | 02-27-2014 |
20140130764 | CHARGE AIR DUCT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A charge air duct for an internal combustion engine is provided that includes a housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet for combustion air, and a heat exchanger, which is arranged in the housing and through which a fluid can flow, for cooling and/or heating the charge air. The housing is reinforced against pressure of the combustion air via a tie rod, wherein the tie rod is structurally integrated with the heat exchanger. | 05-15-2014 |
20140299295 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND PRODUCTION METHOD - A stub connection for a heat exchanger that is arranged in a housing and has a stack including plates and fins. The housing consists of housing parts which can be joined together, and at least one first stub for a first heat-exchanging medium being integrated directly into the housing. The stub connection also includes at least one second stub for a second heat-exchanging medium that extends to outside the housing. The at least one second stub is configured for the connection of a line and is integrated directly or indirectly into the housing. | 10-09-2014 |
20140300105 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND PRODUCTION METHOD - A stub connection for a heat exchanger that is arranged in a housing. The stub connection includes a first part which is fastened to the heat exchanger and a second part which has a stub shank extending through an opening in the housing and is seated in a hole of the first part. The stub connection also includes at least two seals. The first seal is an annular seal, which is seated in a groove of the stub shank and the second seal is a gasket, which is arranged between the opening, the stub shank, and the first part. The first seal is seated in the hole and seals between the stub shank and the first part. | 10-09-2014 |
20140311142 | Intake Manifold with an Intercooler - An intake manifold for a charged internal combustion engine has an intercooler provided with coolant connectors that is disposed in an intake manifold housing. The intake manifold housing has at least two housing parts including a basic housing part. The intake manifold housing is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and is further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler. The intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air. The intercooler is fastened in the basic housing part by a fastening device such that the intercooler separates at least on one side of the basic housing part the at least one inlet seal-tightly from the at least one outlet. | 10-23-2014 |
20140326222 | Suction Pipe Assembly of an Internal Combustion Engine having a Cooling Fluid Intercooler - A suction pipe assembly of an internal combustion engine has a suction pipe and a cooling fluid intercooler arranged in the suction pipe. A seal chamber is provided that is delimited by at least one section of the suction pipe and at least one section connected with the cooling fluid intercooler. A seal, disposed in the seal chamber, seals the suction pipe relative to the cooling fluid intercooler. The seal is made of an initially flowable sealing material introduced into the seal chamber in an initially flowable state and subsequently cured in a curing phase in the seal chamber. The seal chamber is seal-tightly closed with the exception of at least one fill opening through which the sealing material is introduced into the seal chamber. | 11-06-2014 |
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20080220704 | AUTOMATIC SPREADING ADJUSTMENT - An apparatus for producing a plaited portion on a packaging casing material which accommodates a filling material, in particular sausage meat, wherein the plaited portion is at least approximately filling material-free at least during the formation thereof, including: a first displacer unit and a second displacer unit which is displaceable reversibly in a linear movement with respect to the first displacer unit, and a drive unit for at least the drive for the linear movement of the second displacer unit, wherein provided between the drive unit and the second displacer unit is at least one drive force transmission unit which transmits the drive force produced by the drive unit to the second displacer unit and which is pivotable reversibly about a pivot point, the position of which is adjustable. | 09-11-2008 |
20080223694 | ADJUSTABLE CLIP ADVANCE - The invention concerns a clip conveyor apparatus for conveying a clip line ( | 09-18-2008 |
20110143902 | AUTOMATIC DISPLACER CLEARANCE ADJUSTMENT - An apparatus and method producing a plait-like portion on a tubular packaging casing, which accommodates a filling material includes a plait-like portion at least approximately free of filling material, extending along a longitudinal plait-axis. The apparatus comprises a first displacer unit with a first pair of displacer elements reversibly movable between an opened and a closed position perpendicular to the longitudinal plait-axis. A displacer clearance is created between the first pair of displacer elements, which surrounds the longitudinal plait-axis, in which the tubular packaging casing is being gathered, when the first pair of displacer elements is in the closed position. The apparatus comprises a second displacer unit with a second pair of displacer elements also being reversibly movable between an opened and a closed position perpendicular to the longitudinal plait-axis. A displacer clearance is created between the second pair of displacer elements, similar to first pair of displacer elements. | 06-16-2011 |
20130122792 | DISPLACER FCA Y - The invention relates to a clipping machine for partitioning and closing a tubular packaging casing accommodating a filing material, and in particular sausage meat. The clipping machine comprises at least a first and second displacer element pair which in relation to an axis of the tubular packaging casing are arranged axially one after the other, and, which comprise each an upper displacer element and a lower displacer element. Each pair of the displacer elements are linearly reversibly movable in a first and second plane from an open position to a closed position. A first linear guidance comprises a first and second guiding rod for guiding the two pairs of the displacer elements. The first and second guiding rods are positioned in a plane parallel to the first and second plane of the first and second pairs of the displacer elements. | 05-16-2013 |
20140179208 | AUTOMATIC DISPLACER CLEARANCE ADJUSTMENT - A method for producing a plait-like portion on a tubular packaging casing which accommodates a filling material, wherein the plait-like portion is at least approximately free of filling material and comprises a longitudinal plait-axis, including the steps: constricting a filled tubular packaging casing by moving a first pair of displacer elements of a first displacer unit and a second pair of displacer elements of a second displacer unit from an opened into a closed position by means of a first drive unit, creating a displacer clearance between the first and second pair of displacer elements, producing a plait-like portion by moving the second displacer unit parallel to the longitudinal plait-axis away from a narrow position in which the second displacer unit is adjacent to the first displacer unit, into a spread position in which the second displacer unit is away from the first displacer unit. | 06-26-2014 |
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20150099646 | NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION PRIMERS FOR PCR-BASED CLONALITY STUDIES - The invention relates to PCR-based clonality studies for among others early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. Provided is a set of nucleic acid amplification primers comprising a forward primer, or a variant thereof, and a reverse primer, or a variant thereof, capable of amplifying a rearrangement selected from the group consisting of a VH-JH IGH rearrangement, a DH-JH IGH rearrangement, a VK-JK IGK rearrangement, a VK/intron-Kde IGK rearrangement, a Vλ-Jλ IGL rearrangement, a Vβ-Jβ TCRB rearrangement, a Dβ-Jβ TCRB rearrangement, a Vγ-Jγ TCRG rearrangement, a Vδ-Jδ TCRD rearrangement, a Dδ-Dδ TCRD rearrangement, a Dδ-Jδ TCRD rearrangement, a Vδ-Dδ TCRD rearrangement, or a translocation selected from t(11;14) (BCL1-IGH) and t(14;18) (BCL2-IGH). The primers can be used in PCR-based clonality studies for early diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders and detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Also provided is a kit comprising at least one set of primers of the invention. | 04-09-2015 |
20150337368 | METHODS AND PRIMER SETS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PCR SEQUENCING - The invention relates to a method for amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence t | 11-26-2015 |
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20150285353 | DUAL CLUTCH TRANSMISSION - A shifting device for a dual clutch transmission as a speed-change transmission for motor vehicles, including two coaxially arranged input shafts, each being activatable via a clutch, an axially parallel output shaft and gearwheel sets that are mounted on the shafts and can be shifted by means of shifting clutches to allow a plurality of forward gears and a reverse gear, the gearwheel sets being subdivided into a sub-transmission having the one input shaft and a sub-transmission having the other input shaft. To achieve a wider gear-ratio spread in a structurally compact construction, a planetary gear train that can be shifted between two gear ratio stages is mounted upstream of the sub-transmission having the hollow input shaft. | 10-08-2015 |
20150300470 | DUAL CLUTCH TRANSMISSION - A dual clutch transmission as a speed-change transmission for motor vehicles, includes two coaxially arranged input shafts, each being activatable via a clutch, an output shaft and gearwheel sets that are mounted on the shafts and can be shifted by means of shifting clutches to allow a plurality of forward gears and a reverse gear, the gearwheel sets being subdivided into a sub-transmission having the one input shaft and a sub-transmission having the other input shaft. To achieve a wider gear-ratio spread in a structurally compact construction, a shifting unit that can be shifted between two gear ratio stages is mounted upstream of the sub-transmission having the hollow input shaft. | 10-22-2015 |
20160047468 | ACTUATOR DEVICE FOR A GEARBOX OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND CORRESPONDING GEARBOX FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - An actuator device for a gearbox of a motor vehicle includes a plurality of selector shafts, which can each be displaced in a first direction between a plurality of selection positions and in a second direction between a plurality of shifting positions and which each have a connecting element that is operatively connected-in at least one of the selection positions with at least one selector rail of the gearbox for transferring a movement of the selector shaft in the second direction onto the selector rail. The selector shafts are mounted relative to each other so as to be movable relative to one another in the first direction and are fixed to relative to each other in the section direction, wherein the selection positions of the selector shafts are independently adjustable by means of a plurality of first adjusting elements, and wherein the selector shafts can be displaced together between the shifting positions by means of a second adjusting element. | 02-18-2016 |