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20130110369 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130138312 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A FORWARD-GUIDING DRIVER ASSIST SYSTEM IN A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for operating a forward-guiding driver assist system, in particular an ACC system, in a motor vehicle having a clutch pedal as a driver-operated actuator for manually operating a clutch and an additional clutch actuator includes the steps of performing with the driver assist system at least one driving intervention for controlling the speed of the motor vehicle, determining a desired clutch slip, when controlling the speed, and controlling the additional clutch actuator for automatically disengaging and engaging the clutch commensurate with the determined clutch slip. | 05-30-2013 |
20130197762 | METHOD OF STEERING A VEHICLE BY A STEERING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - In a method of steering a vehicle by a steering assistance system, a steering-wheel angle of a steering wheel is set by a driver. The steering assistance system checks whether the set steering-wheel angle is maintained during a predefined time period and checks whether the driver has taken the hands from the steering wheel. The vehicle is then operated according to the set steering-wheel angle, when the driver maintains the set steering-wheel angle during the predefined time period, or the steering assistance system is switched off, when the driver has released the steering wheel. | 08-01-2013 |
20130238166 | METHOD FOR TESTING THE OPERABILITY OF A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM INSTALLED IN A TEST VEHICLE - A method for testing the operability of a driver assistance system installed in a test vehicle and operating based on information supplied by sensors which detect a target vehicle traveling in the environment of the test vehicle, in particular a driver assistance system intervening in the longitudinal or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle, includes outputting control signals via a wireless communication link to at least partially control from the test vehicle the operation of the target vehicle for intentionally performing at least one defined driving maneuver. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238192 | METHOD FOR WARNING THE DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE OF AN IMPENDING HAZARDOUS SITUATION DUE TO ACCIDENTAL DRIFTING INTO AN OPPOSING TRAFFIC LANE - A method for warning the driver of a motor vehicle of an impending hazardous situation caused by accidental drifting towards or into an opposing traffic lane includes determining a virtual vehicle path of the own motor vehicle and a lane marker separating the lane of the own motor vehicle from the opposing traffic lane, determining a relative position of the own motor vehicle in relation to the lane marker, checking whether an oncoming vehicle enters or has entered the virtual vehicle path, checking whether the own motor vehicle will cross or has crossed the lane marker, checking for driver activity, and outputting a warning signal or performing an automatic driving mode intervention, when the oncoming vehicle will enter or has entered the virtual vehicle path and the own vehicle will cross or has crossed the lane marker, and when the driver is inactive. | 09-12-2013 |
20140095038 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A SAFETY SYSTEM FOR AVOIDING COLLISIONS AND/OR FOR REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF COLLISIONS IN A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE - A method for operating a safety system for avoiding collisions and/or for reducing the severity of collisions in a motor vehicle that has a clutch pedal as an actuator for manually actuating a clutch. The safety system is designed to carry out at least one braking intervention when a collision is imminent. An additional actuator in form of a clutch actuator is used to automatically open and close the clutch. In the context of at least one braking intervention of the safety system, the clutch actuator is actuated in order to open the clutch dependent on at least one item of intervention information relating to the braking intervention. | 04-03-2014 |
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20080302811 | Device for Automatically Equipping Substrates with Medical and/or Pharmaceutical and/or Food Supplementing Products and System for Automatically Producing Packaging for Medical and/or Pharmaceutical and/or Food Supplementing Products - The invention relates to an apparatus for automatically mounting substrates with medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food-supplementing products, including at least one magazine for storing blister strips rolled up on rolls or the like, each magazine having at least one holding position for the rolls, and a delivery device for unrolling the blister strips and delivering the unrolled blister strips to a supply position for the products to be mounted being provided for each roll in the magazine, and a mounting head which can be controlled by a control system for transporting the products from the supply position to a dispensing position on the substrate, which is distinguished in that the apparatus has separating means for separating product-filled blister sections from the blister strip, and the mounting head is designed to receive, rotate and dispense the separated blister sections with the products sealed therein. Furthermore, the invention concerns a system for automatically manufacturing packages with at least one above-mentioned apparatus. | 12-11-2008 |
20090188828 | PACKAGING FOR MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND THE LIKE - The invention relates to a pack for pharmaceutical and/or medical products and/or food supplements, comprising a substrate which is fitted with one or more prefabricated, sealed product carriers which each contain one or more isolated products, for a given length of time, and is provided with instructions for application or administration time for the patient, wherein each product carrier exclusively contains products of a special active ingredient or a special combination of active ingredients in a special dosage, which is distinguished by the fact that each product carrier forms part of a single-strip blister pack that can be rolled up, and the product carriers each containing one or more isolated products are assembled on the substrate individually to the patient. Furthermore the invention concerns a method as well as an apparatus for the manufacture of such packs. | 07-30-2009 |
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20100129810 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING VALIDATION, CALIBRATION AND NORMALIZATION - A system for performing quality control for nucleic acid sample sequencing is disclosed. The system has a set of solid supports, each support having attached thereto a plurality of nucleic acid sequences. The set has plural groups of solid supports and each group contains solid supports having the same nucleic acid sequences attached thereto. The nucleic acid sequences of each group differ from each other. The nucleic acid sequences are synthetically derived. A method of preparing a quality control for performing nucleic acid sample sequencing and a method of validating a nucleic acid sequencing instrument are also disclosed. | 05-27-2010 |
20110257031 | Nucleic acid, biomolecule and polymer identifier codes - Provided herein are systems, compositions and methods for tracking, sorting and/or identifying sample polynucleotides using nucleic acid barcodes. The barcodes provided herein are oligonucleotides that are designed to be uniquely identifiable. The nucleic acid barcodes have properties that permit them to be sequenced with high accuracy and/or reduced error rates. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid barcodes are designed to have certain nucleotide sequences that make up overlapping dibase color positions (also called color positions). The order of the overlapping dibase color positions can be determined using fluorophore-encoded dibase probes in a fluorophore color calling scheme to give high fidelity reads. | 10-20-2011 |
20110270532 | Systems And Methods For Identifying Exon Junctions From Single Reads - Systems and methods are used to identify an exon junction from a single read of a transcript. A transcript sample is interrogated and a read sequence is produced using a nucleic acid sequencer. A first exon sequence and a second exon sequence are obtained using the processor. The first exon sequence is mapped to a prefix of the read sequence using the processor. The second exon sequence is mapped to a suffix of the read sequence using the processor. A sum of a number of sequence elements of the first exon sequence that overlap the prefix of the read sequence, of a number of sequence elements of the second exon sequence that overlap the suffix of the read sequence, and of a constant is calculated using the processor. If the sum equals a length of the read sequence, a junction is identified in the read using the processor. | 11-03-2011 |
20110295514 | Computational Methods For Translating A Sequence Of Multi-Base Color Calls To A Sequence Of Bases - Disclosed are systems and methods for resequencing using color calls. A DNA sample is encoded and sequenced according to a multi-base code producing a string of read color calls for a fragment of the sample. A reference sequence is obtained. The string of read color calls is mapped to the reference sequence. A base sequence is extracted from the reference sequence. The base sequence is encoded as a string of reference color codes according to the multi-base code. The string of read color calls is aligned with the string of reference color codes and mismatches in the alignment are detected. One or more mismatches of the string of read color calls are annotated as inconsistent. The one or more inconsistent mismatches of the string of read color calls are corrected. The string of corrected read color calls is decoded to bases producing a read sequence. | 12-01-2011 |
20130091126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA - Systems and method for annotating variants within a genome can call variants from reads or receive called variants directly and associate the called variants with functional annotations and interpretive annotations. A summary report of the called variants, the associated functional annotations, and the associated interpretive annotations can be generated. | 04-11-2013 |
20130268207 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SOMATIC MUTATIONS - Systems and method for identifying somatic mutations can receive first ans second sequence information, determine if a variant present in the first sequencing information is also present in the second sequence information, and identify variants present in the first sequence information are somatic mutations when the variant is either not present in the second sequence information or the presence of the variant in the second sequence information is likely due to a sequencing error. | 10-10-2013 |
20140080718 | Systems and Methods for Identifying Sequence Variation Associated with Genetic Diseases - Systems and method for identifying variants associated with a genetic disease can include obtaining calls for a plurality of individuals for a list of variant positions. The calls can be compared to identify variants that are found in affected individuals and absent in non-affected individuals. Such variants can include loss of heterozygosity, trans-phased compound heterozygotes, increased frequency mitochondrial variants, homozygous recessive variants, de novo variants, sex-linked variants, and combinations thereof. | 03-20-2014 |
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20110204286 | SYNTHETIC PHYLLOSILICATES NOT CAPABLE OF SWELLING FOR POLYMER PHYLLOSILICATE (NANO)COMPOSITES - The present invention relates to a process for the production of non-swellable phyllosilicate tactoids, comprising
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20120157622 | Water-Absorbent Edge-Modified-Clay Linked Polymers - An aqueous acidic polymerization liquid comprising polymerisable monomers or oligomers with carboxylate and/or carboxylic acid moiety or moieties, and edge modified clay that is homogenously dispersable in said liquid is provided, and also methods for making such liquids, and also edge-modified-clay linked water-absorbing polymers made by with said liquids and methods, and disposable absorbent articles comprising such edge-modified-clay linked water-absorbing polycarboxylate/polycarboxylic acid polymers. | 06-21-2012 |
20120157623 | Water-Absorbent Surface-Modified-Clay Linked Polymers - An aqueous acidic polymerization liquid comprising polymerisable monomers or oligomers with carboxylate and/or carboxylic acid moiety or moieties, and basal surface modified clay that is homogenously dispersable in said liquid is provided, and also methods for making such liquids, and also surface-modified-clay linked water-absorbing polymers made with said liquids and methods, and disposable absorbent articles comprising such surface-modified-clay linked water-absorbing polycarboxylate/polycarboxylic acid polymers. | 06-21-2012 |
20120329801 | CRYSTALLINE FORMS FOR 5-AMINO-2, 3-DIHYDROPHTHALAZINE-1, 4-DIONE SODIUM SALT, PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS CONTAINING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SAID FORMS - The invention relates to the provision of two novel crystalline forms I and II for 5-amino-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-dione sodium salt. Surprisingly, it was discovered that form I and form II have differing immunological effects. This advantageous property is useful for immunospecific applications. In addition, both forms have advantageous physicochemical properties, which are useful in the production, further processing and/or use of a pharmaceutical preparation of form I or form II or a mixture of both. | 12-27-2012 |
20130035432 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PHYLLOSILICATE DISCS HAVING A HIGH ASPECT RATIO - The present invention relates to a process for the production of phyllosilicate platelets having a high aspect ratio, to a phyllosilicate platelet obtainable by the process according to the invention, to the use of phyllosilicate platelets according to the invention in the production of a composite material, of a flameproof barrier or of a diffusion harrier, and to a composite material comprising or obtainable using phyllosilicate platelets according to the invention. | 02-07-2013 |
20140303169 | Crystalline forms for 5-amino-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-dione sodium salt, pharmaceutical preparations containing the same and method for the production of said forms - The invention relates to the provision of two novel crystalline forms I and II for 5-amino-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-dione sodium salt. Surprisingly, it was discovered that form I and form II have differing immunological effects. This advantageous property is useful for immunospecific applications. In addition, both forms have advantageous physicochemical properties, which are useful in the production, further processing and/or use of a pharmaceutical preparation of form I or form II or a mixture of both. | 10-09-2014 |
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20100005919 | DEVICE FOR DISPLACING AND POSITIONING AN OBJECT IN SPACE - The invention relates to a device for displacing and positioning an object in a space, having at least three actuating arms that can pivot about a transmission axis. Each arm is connected to a motor unit/transmission unit. A carrier element is provided in order to arrange at least one gripping element for gripping the object. Each actuating arm, on the free ends thereof, has a first articulated axis that is parallel to the transmission axis with first articulated parts arranged at a distance from each other, of a first ball joint. The carrier element has a second articulated axis associated with each actuating arm with first articulated parts that are arranged at a distance in relation to each other, of a second ball joint. The first articulated axis is connected to the second articulated axis by a pair of connecting bars which include terminal second articulated parts. The terminal second articulated parts of the connecting bars form the first and second ball joints with the first articulated parts on the first articulated axis and the first articulated parts on the second articulated axis. The connecting bars for stabilizing the ball joints are connected together. According to the invention, the connecting bars are made of an essentially elastic material and are connected together by at least one prestressing element made of an essentially stiff material. | 01-14-2010 |
20100101359 | DEVICE FOR DISPLACING AND POSITIONING AN OBJECT IN SPACE - The invention relates to a device for displacing and positioning an object in a space, having at least three actuating arms that can pivot about a transmission axis. Each arm is connected to a motor unit/transmission unit. A carrier element is provided in order to arrange at least one gripping element for gripping the object. Each actuating arm, on the free ends thereof, has a first articulated axis that is parallel to the transmission axis with first articulated parts arranged at a distance from each other, of a first ball joint. The carrier element has a second articulated axis associated with each actuating arm with first articulated parts that are arranged at a distance in relation to each other, of a second ball joint. The first articulated axis is connected to the second articulated axis by a pair of connecting bars which include terminal second articulated parts. The terminal second articulated parts of the connecting bars form the first and second ball joints with the first articulated parts on the first articulated axis and the first articulated parts on the second articulated axis. The connecting bars for stabilizing the ball joints are connected together. The actuating arms, the connecting bars, the articulated parts of the ball joint and the carrier element form electrically conductive parts of an alarm circuit. | 04-29-2010 |