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An expandable surgical retractor for use in minimal incision surgery is disclosed. The retractor consists of a fiber optic central rod surrounded by flexible wires designed to create an open space for visualization and surgical work within an illuminated surgical field. The flexible wires are disposed via selective pressure of the surgeon and are variable in number. The configuration will allow for both forward and back illumination of the surgical field. The expandable surgical retractor allows for surgical visualization in anatomical areas heretofore too complicated for surgical consideration. Other embodiments of the expandable surgical retractor are contemplated wherein a handle with an aperture may replace the central rod. The flexible wires may fit in openings around the aperture. The handle, in this embodiment, may have a light source and may be adapted to be used in select areas of anatomy. Further, the handle may be transparent.

There is disclosed a safety switch for generating an enable signal as a function of the position of a moveable guard door. The safety switch comprises a door part and a frame part. The door part has an activator, which can be displaced between a first and a second position. The frame part has a cutout, in which the activator can engage in the second position. A locking element is arranged on the door part in order to lock the activator in the second position. A sensor is designed to detect at least one of the positions of the activator in order to generate the enable signal as a function thereof.

A quick-release mechanism for disconnecting the footwear and footplate of an orthoses from a rotation bar, 90-degree bar, or other component of an orthosis is disclosed. The mechanism allows the footwear to be fitted to a patient with the bar or other component disengaged, while also allowing the angle between the bar or other component and the footplate to be locked when the orthosis is in place in order to treat conditions such as clubfoot.

A unitary extractor system of products for vending machines, which products are to be found stored in compartments or ducts of different trays, includes a traction belt mounted in the open central part of the base of each compartment or duct, to which belt are joined a diversity of separator pieces for the products. The traction belt (5) incorporates a plurality of small pieces (6), with a slight inclination towards the rear part, joined to respective teeth, and a support body (7) for the last product (2) to dispense, with its support surface slightly inclined towards the rear part. The body (7) is secured to the teeth of the traction belt (5) as it advances, and in such a way that it is pulled on the lateral surfaces (4) making up the base of the compartment or duct (1).

The invention relates to a heat exchanger, comprising a closed chamber in which are arranged ribbed welded plates (40) defining therebetween independent and mutually penetrating circuits in which fluids flow, the side walls defining said chamber being attached onto vertical rails, characterised in that said plates comprise at each angle an edge (41) that fits into apertures formed on vertical angle corners (60), said rails being inserted into said corners. The use of angle corners for receiving the edges of the plates improves the assembly and the retention of the plates therebetween.

The invention relates to a method for producing a set of shell appliances for correcting tooth misalignments in a patient, wherein a target position is established from a current position of the patient's teeth, models of the patient's individual teeth or of groups of the patient's teeth are produced and can be arranged on a support to form a model of a set of teeth. In accordance with the invention, a set of supports is produced, which have a respective fitting position for each of the tooth models, the position and alignments of said fitting positions predefining a position of the tooth model, wherein the positions predefined by the supports form a sequence that leads in steps to the target position, and the tooth models are fitted in succession onto the individual supports, thus producing a respective model of a set of teeth, and a shell appliance is produced from each of these models of a set of teeth by thermoforming.

The invention relates to a turbomachine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in said turbomachine. The aim of said invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbomachine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbomachine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbomachine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbomachine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing said fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and means influencing a liquid flow is formed of an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force. Methods for cooling the rotor only by decelerating the gas turbine and for heating the turbomachine rotor by heating fluid flowing therethrough are also disclosed.

The invention relates to an electronic device with a housing to accommodate a support substrate, provided with an electronic circuit, whereby the electronic circuit makes contact with at least one electrical line, leading out of the housing. The electrical line is connected to a rigid contact element on a contact holder and the contact element is introduced into the support substrate to make contact with the electronic circuit.

A wiping device for a container containing a product to be applied by an applicator. The wiping device includes a wiping member and a coupling member configured to couple the wiping device to the container. The coupling member includes a member capable of flexing, bending or moving with respect to the body. In a preferred form, the coupling member wiping device can resist the introduction of the wiping device into the container somewhat less than the coupling member resists the extraction of the wiping device from the container.

A cable plug for a coaxial cable, in particular comprising an external corrugated conductor, comprises an electrically conductive housing, which concentrically surrounds an insulated internal conductor, in addition to fixing elements which are used to connect the external conductor of the coaxial cable electrically and mechanically to the housing of the cable plug. The cable plug permits a particularly simple configuration and assembly. To achieve this, the fixing elements ensure a fixed and sealed connection between the external conductor of the coaxial cable and the housing of the cable plug.

An assembly includes a vane and a cooling liner for cooling the vane, the vane having a central cavity with at least one first opening into which the liner extends, the liner having a flange fixed to the rim of the opening. This assembly includes, near the flange, a peripheral insert inserted between the wall of the liner and the wall of the opening.

A modular assembly for a turbine engine has an annular bearing support that is configured to be connected to a first anti-friction bearing, which is configured to be fitted around a first shaft of the turbine engine. The modular assembly further includes a second anti-friction bearing configured to be fitted around a second shaft of the turbine engine, wherein the second shaft is not parallel to said first shaft.

An electrically assisted cycle kit 50 for fitting to a pedal cycle 2 comprises an electric motor 58 for assisting pedal cycle motion, a battery 52 for powering the motor 58, and a controller 60 for controlling the drive of the motor 58. A gear tooth sensor 65 provides a gear motion signal indicative of the speed / acceleration of motion of gear teeth 94 and valleys 95 of a gear sprocket 32 of the cycle. The controller controls the drive of the motor 58 in dependence on the gear motion signal.

A lighting apparatus includes: an LED module; a heat sink releasing heat generated by the LED module; a cover covering the LED module; a cap; and an insulating member located between the cap and the heat sink. Further provided is a light source supporting body having a locking part locking into the heat sink so as to hold the LED module on the heat sink. The cover has a protruding part fitting and locking into the light source supporting body or the heat sink. In the insulating member, one end side has an inserted part locking into the heat sink, and the other end side has a connection part screwed into the cap.

A monitoring device (1) for spatial areas (2) includes emitters (3) that emit radiation pulses that are reflected by objects located within the spatial areas (2) toward receivers (4). The receivers (4) are connected to a run time determining unit (9) with whose aid a distance image of an object within the spatial areas (2) can be generated. A selection unit (10) evaluates the distance images and generates a detection signal at an output (11) when predetermined distance values occur in the distance images.

An automotive vehicle includes a support arrangement for supporting the steering column, an air-conditioning unit, a head-up display (HUD) and / or pedals. The automotive vehicle has a window arch which extends below the windscreen in the region between the two A-columns of the automotive vehicle. In order to facilitate assembly, the window arch has, on the engine compartment-side, recesses in order to be able to fix the support arrangement or a corresponding instrument panel module from the engine compartment.

A ball and socket joint has high stability of the bearing shell and hence of the joint and reduces the transmitted structure-borne noise from the viewpoint of increased comfort with a bearing shell design with at least two layers. The inner layer is formed of a metal and the outer layer of a plastic such as polyoxymethylene.

In a method for constructing a linear motor, each tooth of a plurality of teeth is provided with two separate tooth halves with removable tooth tips. After removing the tooth tips to expose an open end of the tooth halves, a prewound coil is pushed over the open end of the two tooth halves of each tooth up to an end position, and a magnet is inserted between the two tooth halves of each tooth. The tooth halves have a thickness between the open end and the end position which does not exceed a thickness of the tooth halves at the end position.

A retaining device for an airbag module is provided. At least a portion of the airbag module is connected to the retaining device. The retaining device may include a hook and an element for fastening the device to a motor vehicle component. The component may be, for example, a vehicle seat or a vehicle door. The element for fastening the device to the motor vehicle component may include an opening and fastener arrangement or a clip type arrangement.

In the case of a fitting (5) for a vehicle seat (1), in particular for a motor vehicle seat, having a lockable latching fitting (7) for the fine adjustment of the inclination and locking of a backrest (3) between a plurality of use positions, and a pivotable free-pivoting device (11, 23) for moving the backrest (3) beyond the use positions, a coupling (35) is provided, by way of which unlocking of the free-pivoting device (11, 23) only takes place after unlocking of the latching fitting (7).

Sealed, thermally insulated tank has tank walls fixed to the load-bearing structure (1) of a floating structure, the tank walls having, in succession, in the direction of the thickness from the inside to the outside of the tank, a primary sealing barrier (8), a primary insulating barrier (6), a secondary sealing barrier (5) and a secondary insulating barrier (2), at least one of the insulating barriers includes juxtaposed non-conducting elements, each non-conducting element including a thermal insulation liner (63) and load-bearing elements that rise through the thickness of the thermal insulation liner in order to take up the compression forces, characterized in that the load-bearing elements of a non-conducting element include pillars (65) of small transverse section as compared to the dimensions of the non-conducting element in a plane parallel to the tank wall.

Clamping apparatus for holding a motor vehicle window pane wherein a window pane (6) is fixed to and moved in a height-adjustable manner on a driver holder (2) of a window lifting mechanism (1), said clamping means comprising a driver holder (2) having at least one concave surface and a clamping plate (3) which can be braced against the window pane (6) by means of a fastening element (7), with the interposition of spacers (4 and 5), the driver holder (2) and the clamping plate (3) each have a pair of upper and lower recesses (11 and 12 respectively) concave to the window pane (6) and the clamping plate (3) is held parallel to these by prismatic guide means (8 / 9) on the driver holder (2), the window pane (6) is embraced by directly interposed spacers (4 and 5) having on their outer faces convex upper and lower raised portions (13 and 14 respectively) corresponding to the respective concave recesses (11 and 12), and the window pane, held in a desired installed position by a device, can be clamped fast in the desired position with automatic displacement of the spacers (4 and 5) by tightening the fastening element (7).

The invention concerns a protective sleeve for fluid circulation tube made of an interwoven fiber structure formed by a strip (10) of interwoven fibers comprising at least a pocket (11) extending in the transverse direction of the strip (10) and including a spring (13) housed in the pocket (11) and designed, in a stable equilibrium position, to maintain the protective sheath closed by overlapping of the longitudinal edges (10c, 10d) of the strip. The invention is useful in particular for thermal protection of an exhaust gas recycling duct in a motor vehicle.