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Apparatus and methods comprising a positron emission tomography detector having a first rectangular cross-section crystal block positioned between a first pentagonal cross-section crystal block and a second pentagonal cross-section crystal block.

Enzymatically active hydrogenase is synthesized in a cell-free reaction. The hydrogenases are synthesized in a cell-free reaction comprising a cell extract derived from microbial strains expressing at least one hydrogenase accessory protein. In some embodiments, the extracts are produced under anerobic conditions.

[Problems] To provide an efficient process for producing an optically active epoxy compound.[Means For Solving Problems] The process for producing an optically active epoxy compound comprises asymmetrically epoxidizing an unsaturated compound with an oxidizing agent in the presence of an optically active titanium-salen complex, an optically active titanium-salalen complex or an optically active titanium-salan complex, with addition of a buffering agent or a buffer solution. The process can inhibit catalyst degradation, reduce the amount of the catalyst used in the reaction, and inhibit a by-product, compared with the prior art, and can provide an optically active epoxy compound in high chemical yield and optical yield and with high quality, and therefore is an industrially useful process.

A cable transport device having a pivotably mounted cable transporter, a first drive means connected in a stationary manner to a base frame and intended for achieving an exactly defined pivot movement of the cable transporter around a pivot axis and a second drive means for synchronous driving of at least two cooperating pressure rollers. The second drive means with a drive axle for the pressure rollers is connected in a stationary manner to the base frame, and the drive axle of the second drive means coincides with the pivot axis for the cable transporter. The transmission of the pivot movement is effected via a toothed belt which is tensioned symmetrically to the center of rotation of the pivot axis between a first intermediate shaft arranged on a base plate of the cable transporter and a second intermediate shaft fixed to the machine frame, the pitch axis of the cable transporter being identical to the axis of the first intermediate shaft.

A cutting insert for milling cam shafts includes first and second surface interconnected by a third surface, and at least one cutting edge. The cutting edge includes a straight first cutting edge section, a straight second cutting edge section, and a generally convex third cutting edge section, all adjoining one another. The first section extends along the junction between the first and third surfaces. The second section extends along the junction and includes a first end adjoining an end of the first section. The second is inclined at an obtuse angle from one end of the first section in a direction away from the third surface. The third section extends along the junction and adjoins a second end of the second section. The third section is of generally convex shape and extends over an angular range greater than 90°. The first, second and third sections lie in the third surface.

A tool holder that may be used for storing and / or transporting tools, such as CNC equipment, and a method of use. The tool holder includes a tray having a plurality of receptacles for storing tools and a cover for at least one of the plurality of receptacles. The cover keeps staged tooling clean and workers safe while increasing efficiency and security. The preferred cover includes a body having a first portion, a second portion, a base extending from the second portion and an indicator to designate the type or condition of the tool. Additionally, most preferably, the first piece is transparent and the second piece is opaque. Preferably, the first piece further includes a vent to reduce moisture buildup within the cover. Alternatively, the preferred cover may be made of a one-piece construction. In preferred embodiments, the cover may be removably secured to the tray with fastening elements.

Included are: a gain chip having a gain unit and a phase control region; a current supply for causing a positive current to flow to the phase control region; a voltage supply for applying a bias voltage to the phase control region; and a control unit for selectively driving the current supply or the voltage supply depending on a direction of the wavelength shift. The control unit drives the current supply when a laser wavelength is to be shifted to a shorter wavelength side from a wavelength with the current supply and the voltage supply being turned off, and drives the voltage supply when the laser wavelength is to be shifted to a longer wavelength side from a wavelength with the current supply and the voltage supply being turned off.

The invention relates to a component comprising a plurality of plates (1) stacked on each other, at least one of said plates being made of a ceramic material and in which a channel area is formed of fluid flow guide channels (3) by means of webs (2), said channels having a flow connection to inlet and outlet openings (4, 5, 6, 7), wherein the stack of plates is connected by force fit by means of a clamping device, and wherein a flat seal (8) is disposed between each of the individual plates (1) of the stack, wherein the flat seal (8) is made of an elastic and / or compressible material and covers both the channel area and the areas encompassing the inlet and outlet openings (4, 5, 6, 7), and at least partially covers the top sides of the webs (2) forming the channels. The components according to the invention are pressure-tight, resistant to thermal shock, and can be dismantled. They are particularly well suited as heat exchangers and microreactors.

A device for transmitting information between at least two units mobile relative to each other comprises a light guide having a light-guiding medium, the optical properties of which can be changed by external electromagnetic fields. The light guided in this light guide is modulated by electromagnetic fields emitted by a movable probe.

A SiC wafer is produced from a single crystal SiC ingot. A focal point of a pulsed laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the ingot is set inside the ingot at a predetermined depth from a flat surface of the ingot, the predetermined depth corresponding to the thickness of the wafer to be produced. The pulsed laser beam is applied to the ingot to thereby form a separation layer for separating the wafer from the ingot. The wafer is separated from the ingot along the separation layer, and a flat surface is formed by grinding an upper surface of the ingot as a rough separation surface left after separating the wafer, thereby removing the roughness of the upper surface of the ingot to flatten the upper surface of the ingot.

Organometal-containing acrylate or methacrylate derivatives and photoresists comprising the polymers thereof. Unlike conventional matrix polymers of photoresist, the polymers induce a difference in silicon content between exposed regions and unexposed regions of photoresists by releasing their silicon-containing side chains with the aid of acid in a chemical amplification manner. The difference in silicon content causes the exposed regions to be etched at a different rate from that of the unexposed regions under oxygen plasma. Thus, the photoresist material makes it possible to use a microlithographic process comprising a dry development step which can advantageously prevent the deformation or collapse of patterns which is aggravated as their aspect ratio increases, as well as the photoresist is economically more favorable than a top surface imaging system to which silylation on its top surface or a multi-level resist system to which wet development on its top layer must be applied, because the microlithographic process is very simple and no solvent is released.

A moving counterweight that reduces lifting and lowering torque of an unbalanced load. In one embodiment, a beam pump, an articulated reciprocating counterweight extending above the effort of a class 1 lever on extended pitman arms above the lever effort at the tail bearing to structurally and continuously changes it's position in an air-arc to reduce lifting and lowering torque, by rigid-mechanical geometric re-positioning of the counterbalance effect to and fro, when the rotation is crank arms falling toward the well load, thus mechanically, continuously, favorably, and without friction re-positioning the counterweight either away from the load and fulcrum thereby increasing the counterbalance effect, or nearer to the load and fulcrum thereby decreasing the counterbalance effect, as is desirable to compensate the unbalanced downhole load, where the load in the lift direction exceeds the load in the return direction. The longer the extension of the pitman arm above the beam with the counterweight attached the greater is the counterweight effect of the counterweight deadweight.

A process for producing a hollow monoblock shaft from a pipe, the pipe initially having a constant diameter and a constant wall thickness, and the monoblock component including at least one area of its length being of a smaller outside diameter and a greater wall thickness than the constant diameter and constant wall thickness of the pipe. The process can be carried out simply and economically by the following process steps:selecting a pipe with a wall thickness which corresponds to the smallest wall thickness of the finished component,partial heating of at least one area of the pipe,axial upsetting the heated area of the pipe andradial forging the heated area of the pipe.

An apparatus for cutting sheet metal pieces from a sheet metal coil comprises a coil support adapted to support the sheet metal coil such that same may rotate about the coil axis to unroll an end portion of the sheet metal coil and a sheet support adapted to support the end portion for cutting. A cutting head is mounted above the end portion and is operative to cut through the end portion. A cutting head drive is operative to move the cutting head back and forth along a first path parallel to the coil axis and a sheet metal drive is operative to move the end portion forward and rearward along a second path perpendicular to the coil axis. A computer is operative to control and coordinate the sheet metal drive and the cutting head drive such that the pieces are cut from the end portion.

A rotor of an electric motor includes a laminated armature core, a shaft, magnets arranged on the circumference of the laminated armature core, and a plastic overmold. The laminated armature core has at least one associated channel on the circumference of the laminated armature core for each magnet. The channels extend parallel to the shaft, and the laminated armature core has radially oriented webs on the circumference. The webs (8) extend parallel to the shaft and a magnet (9) is arranged between each pair of webs (8), and the plastic overmold (4) encloses the laminated armature core (1) and the magnets (3) to such an extent that only the radial outer face of the magnets (3) is free of plastic (4).

A releasing device for a spring-loaded firing pin (1) or a spring-loaded firing-pin piece, in particular of a firearm, with at least one release trigger (2) that can be activated by hand, in particular, with at least one finger, and with a control body (3) acting on the firing pin (1) or the firing-pin piece. A transmission mechanism is arranged and / or acts between the release trigger (2) and the control body (1), and the transmission mechanism has a series of roller bodies (4) lying one on the other, advantageously balls and / or cylinders.

The invention relates to a component comprising a plurality of plates stacked on each other, at least one of said plates being made of a ceramic material and in which a channel area is formed of fluid flow guide channels by means of webs, said channels having a flow connection to inlet and outlet openings, wherein the stack of plates is connected by force fit by means of a clamping device, and wherein a flat seal is disposed between each of the individual plates of the stack, wherein the flat seal is made of an elastic and / or compressible material and covers both the channel area and the areas encompassing the inlet and outlet openings, and at least partially covers the top sides of the webs forming the channels. The components according to the invention are pressure-tight, resistant to thermal shock, and can be dismantled.

A method and device are provided, for locating a user of a mobile terminal, for forming a set of cells for time difference measurements for a mobile terminal camped on a first cell of a cellular network and being in idle mode, the method including the steps of: receiving a first set of cell identifiers of neighboring cells for the first cell, with each of the neighboring cells sending a radio signal on synchronization channels; and measuring the received signal strength for cells having identifiers which are included in the first set, with a number N of cells having a signal strength exceeding a predefined threshold constituting a set of available cells; wherein the improvement includes the steps of: reading the synchronization channels for the set of available cells, thereby measuring time differences for the set of available cells; and selecting a second set from the set of available cells using a predefined selection rule, the second set including M<N cells, thus forming a new set of cells for time difference measurements.

Disclosed herein are the energy storage system of an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) equipped with the battery and a method of driving the same. The energy storage system includes a commercial power source unit configured to supply a first power source to a load, and the battery configured to supply a second power source to the load. And the system monitors a power failure state in the commercial power source unit, determines a charging state of the battery, and controls the commercial power source unit and the battery in response to output of monitoring or determination, so that the first power source or the second power source is supplied to the load. A power reservation ratio for the use of power can be increased by reducing power used during daytime.

A device for transmitting information between at least two units mobile relative to each other comprises a light guide having a light-guiding medium, the optical properties of which can be changed by external electromagnetic fields. The light guided in this light guide is modulated by electromagnetic fields emitted by a movable probe.

Disclosed are an apparatus for preparing hydrogen and carbon monoxide (hereinafter, referred to as “synthesis gas”) from methane and an oxygen containing compound using an atmospheric pressure barrier discharge reaction and a method for preparing the synthesis gas using the same. According to the invention, when the synthesis gas is prepared from the methane and the oxygen containing compound using the barrier discharge plasma at the low temperature, it is possible to obtain the same performance as the case using a high temperature catalyst reaction more economically at a time. In particular, according to the invention, it is possible to save the energy by about 35%, compared to the case using the prior heating only.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to lifting and lowering loads more efficiently and also more economically than known systems. This invention is the continuous movement by mechanical means of a moving crank shaft force point to a desired advantageous position at a desired advantageous moment to achieve improved geometry resulting in a desired low torque factor for a reduced net torque when lifting or lowering an unbalanced load with a beam with a fulcrum and connected to a load and an effort. In one embodiment, a walking beam well pumping unit, the lifting and lowering of the well load can be caused by the reciprocating motion of a beam tipping on a fulcrum and with an effort force point continuously substantially vertically disposed with the moving crank shaft force point. Potentially reduced net torque might allow longer life speed reducers, smaller speed reducers, and longer reciprocating vertical stroke length.

A reception device for detecting an electromagnetic radio-frequency wave emitted by the examination subject in a magnetic resonance tomography installation has two reception coils and amplifiers arranged following these coils. The mutually phase-delayed reception signals of the reception coils are tapped by a common signal line. For compensating the phase shift one of the amplifiers is or both amplifiers are directed between the two reception signals. A separate combiner can thereby be advantageously eliminated.

An overvoltage protection element with a housing, with at least one overvoltage limiting component which is located in the housing, especially a varistor, with two terminal lugs which are each connected to a respective pole of the overvoltage limiting component in an electrically conductive manner, especially soldered or welded, and with two connecting elements for electrical connection of the overvoltage protection element to the current path or signal path to be protected. In the normal state of the overvoltage protection element, the connecting elements are each in electrically conductive contact with a respective terminal lug. The overvoltage protection element can be produced especially easily and economically by the first terminal lug and the first connecting element being integrally connected to one another and by the free end of the first connecting element which faces away from the overvoltage limiting component being made as a plug-in contact.

A cable transport device having a pivotably mounted cable transporter, a first drive means connected in a stationary manner to a base frame and intended for achieving an exactly defined pivot movement of the cable transporter around a pivot axis and a second drive means for synchronous driving of at least two cooperating pressure rollers. The second drive means with a drive axle for the pressure rollers is connected in a stationary manner to the base frame, and the drive axle of the second drive means coincides with the pivot axis for the cable transporter. In additional versions, the second drive means with a drive axle for the pressure rollers is also connected in a stationary manner to the base frame, and the rollers' axes of rotation are parallel to one another and parallel to a common pitch axis. In these versions, transmission of the drive movement to the toothed belt driving the pressure rollers is effected via a toothed belt which is tensioned symmetrically to the center of rotation of the pivot axis between a first intermediate shaft arranged on a base plate of the cable transporter and a second intermediate shaft fixed to the machine frame, the pitch axis of the cable transporter being identical to the axis of the first intermediate shaft. The cable transport device may be equipped with a guide sleeve that includes a grooved plate and a cover plate that may be replaced for adaptation to different cable diameters and for correction of the cable position.