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A method of operating a particle beam microscope, comprising: scanning at least one particle beam across a scanning region of a surface of an object; detecting particles, by a detector system, for a plurality of impingement locations of the primary beam within the scanning region; wherein the detected particles are released from an interaction region at the respective impingement location, wherein in each of the interaction regions, the primary beam interacts with the object; generating, by the detector system, detector signals which represent for each of the impingement locations an intensity of the detected particles; and calculating material data of for at least a portion of the interaction regions; wherein the calculation of the material data is performed depending on one or more of the detector signals, characterized in that the calculating of the material data is performed also depending on topography data by using the topography data, wherein the topography data represent a topography of the object surface in at least a portion of the scanning region, wherein the topography data comprise inclination data values of the object surface, wherein the calculating depends on a relationship between the material data on the one hand and the intensities of the detected particles and the topography data on the other hand obtained by performing measurements or simulations on samples having known material properties. scanning at least one particle beam across a scanning region of a surface of an object; detecting particles, by a detector system, for a plurality of impingement locations of the primary beam within the scanning region; wherein the detected particles are released from an interaction region at the respective impingement location, wherein in each of the interaction regions, the primary beam interacts with the object; generating, by the detector system, detector signals which represent for each of the impingement locations an intensity of the detected particles; and calculating material data of for at least a portion of the interaction regions; wherein the calculation of the material data is performed depending on one or more of the detector signals, characterized in that the calculating of the material data is performed also depending on topography data by using the topography data, wherein the topography data represent a topography of the object surface in at least a portion of the scanning region, wherein the topography data comprise inclination data values of the object surface, wherein the calculating depends on a relationship between the material data on the one hand and the intensities of the detected particles and the topography data on the other hand obtained by performing measurements or simulations on samples having known material properties.
Method for producing plastic components for a vehicle, wherein the plastic components are at least partially painted in a painting step and then connected to further components on the non-painted surfaces, wherein a region, which is used for connection to the further components, is freed of contaminations by a material removal method using laser light, and wherein the painting step is followed by a machining step in which punching and/or boring is combined with laser ablation, wherein the plastic component is kept upright for the machining step.
A method of operating a compression ignition engine using two fuels comprising supplying a first fuel to a combustion chamber of the engine and injecting a second fuel into the combustion chamber; characterised in that the first fuel comprises bioethanol, which includes a proportion of water such that there is more than 1% of water by weight; the second fuel comprises diesel or biodiesel; and the second fuel is injected in multiple pulses in each ignition cycle with the first pulse acting as a pilot pulse to trigger ignition, and the timing of the next pulse being such as to modify evaporation of the second fuel and thereby reduce the combustion temperature and mitigate knock.
A Method of operating a combined heat and power plant, thermally coupled with a building that is connected to an electric grid, the method comprising the steps of: providing local input data indicative of a local heat demand of the building; providing grid input data indicative of a grid electricity demand; determining at least one operating time period for the CHP based on a local input data and said grid input data, calculating an expected overall heat balance from said at least one operating time period, and calculating a set point building temperature profile in a way that the set point temperature value is reduced below a reference temperature value during a predefined interval anteceding at least one of said at least one operating time period for defining a schedule of the at least one operation time period to match local heat demand and grid electricity demand, and wherein the reduced set point temperature value during the predefined interval implies to reduce the heat production for the building during the said predefined interval. providing local input data indicative of a local heat demand of the building; providing grid input data indicative of a grid electricity demand; determining at least one operating time period for the CHP based on a local input data and said grid input data, calculating an expected overall heat balance from said at least one operating time period, and calculating a set point building temperature profile in a way that the set point temperature value is reduced below a reference temperature value during a predefined interval anteceding at least one of said at least one operating time period for defining a schedule of the at least one operation time period to match local heat demand and grid electricity demand, and wherein the reduced set point temperature value during the predefined interval implies to reduce the heat production for the building during the said predefined interval.
A device having a plate cylinder and at least one printing plate arranged on the plate cylinder, wherein the plate cylinder comprises at least one channel, in which at least one tensioning device is arranged, wherein the at least one tensioning device comprises at least one front clamping device and at least one rear clamping device, and wherein the at least one rear clamping device is part at least of a slide of the at least one tensioning device, and wherein the at least one slide is arranged to be movable along a tensioning path in a direction of tensioning towards the at least one front clamping device by means of at least one tensioning drive within the at least one channel, characterized in that a maximum adjustment path of the at least one slide relative to a cylinder barrel of the plate cylinder in the direction of tensioning and/or against the latter is at least as large as an extension measured in the direction of tensioning of a provided contact surface of a printing plate clamped in the at least one rear clamping device with at least one outer radial clamping element of the at least one rear clamping device.
A method of making a stent for implantation in a lumen of the human body, comprising: providing a stent that is provided with a rough outer surface, characterised in that the surface of the stent comprises microstructures having lateral extensions (d) in the range of 0.5 to 5 micrometers and separated from each other with spacings (e), whereby the recognition of the stent as an implanted foreign body is reduced; and applying an immuno suppressing drug to the rough outer surface, whereby the immuno suppressing drug treats an inner surface of the lumen and prevents an immuno reaction thereof. providing a stent that is provided with a rough outer surface, characterised in that the surface of the stent comprises microstructures having lateral extensions (d) in the range of 0.5 to 5 micrometers and separated from each other with spacings (e), whereby the recognition of the stent as an implanted foreign body is reduced; and applying an immuno suppressing drug to the rough outer surface, whereby the immuno suppressing drug treats an inner surface of the lumen and prevents an immuno reaction thereof.
An in-vehicle structure of electrical equipment, the in-vehicle structure comprising in an engine compartment in a front portion of a vehicle: a drive unit that includes a motor configured to supply drive power to the vehicle; a first equipment; and a second equipment, wherein a coupling member is provided to couple the first equipment and the second equipment, extends horizontally in the vehicle width direction, and is configured to support the first and second equipment (11, 12) against a falling load directed from one thereof toward the other, characterized by a generating unit that includes an engine and a generator using the engine as a power source, wherein the generating unit and the drive unit are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction in the engine compartment, the first equipment is vertically provided on one of the generating unit and the drive unit, and the second equipment is vertically provided on the other of the generating unit and the drive unit. a drive unit that includes a motor configured to supply drive power to the vehicle; a first equipment; and a second equipment, wherein a coupling member is provided to couple the first equipment and the second equipment, extends horizontally in the vehicle width direction, and is configured to support the first and second equipment (11, 12) against a falling load directed from one thereof toward the other, characterized by a generating unit that includes an engine and a generator using the engine as a power source, wherein the generating unit and the drive unit are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction in the engine compartment, the first equipment is vertically provided on one of the generating unit and the drive unit, and the second equipment is vertically provided on the other of the generating unit and the drive unit.
Tread profile of a vehicle tyre, in particular of a passenger car tyre, with profile elements which are separated from one another by way of grooves (10, 11, 12) and are delimited radially to the outside by a radially outer surface, and with sipes which are configured in profile elements and are configured to extend along a first main direction of extent which extends in the radially outer surface, and along a second main direction of extent which extends radially inwards starting from the radially outer surface, and are delimited in each case in the radial direction R towards the inside by a sipe base, the sipe being configured, starting from the radially outer surface as far as a depth T 1, in each case along its extent along the first main direction of extent at least in an extent region consisting of first extent sections and second extent sections which are arranged behind one another in an alternating sequence, the sipe being configured with a sectional contour in the sectional planes which are formed perpendicularly with respect to its extent in the radially outer surface, which sectional contour is substantially rectilinear in the first extent section, in each case starting from the radially outer surface as far as the depth T 1, the sipes being configured with a greatest axial directional component along the first main direction of extent, the sipe being oriented in its first extent sections along its extent along the first main direction of extent with a greatest directional component of its extent in the circumferential direction U, and being oriented in its second extent sections along its extent along the first main direction of extent with a greatest directional component of its extent in the axial direction A, and the sipe being configured with a sectional contour in the sectional planes which are formed perpendicularly with respect to its extent in the radially outer surface, which sectional contour is configured in the second extent section with at least one first radial extent section, in which the sectional contour is oriented substantially rectilinearly in the second main direction of extent, characterized in that the sectional contour of each of the second extent sections of the sipes is configured with at least one second radial extent section in all the sectional planes which are formed perpendicularly with respect to its extent in the radially outer surface, in which second radial extent section the sectional contour has a directional component which is oriented in the second main direction of extent and a directional component which is oriented perpendicularly with respect thereto and is configured with an alternating orientation along the extent of the sectional contour along the second main direction of extent.
Self-binding pigment particle suspension, obtainable by a process comprising the following steps: a) providing a suspension comprising at least one calcium carbonate containing material, b) providing an anionic polymeric binder, wherein said binder comprises at least one modified polysaccharide, c) providing at least one cationic polymer, wherein the at least one cationic polymer of step c) is selected from the group comprising polyamines, polyethyleneimines, polyacrylamides, cationic epichlorohydrin resins, polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride, cationic starch, cationic guar, and mixtures thereof, d) mixing the suspension of step a) and the binder of step b), and e) grinding the mixed suspension of step d), wherein the at least one cationic polymer of step c) i) is mixed in step d) with the suspension of step a) and the binder of step b), and/or ii) is mixed with the suspension obtained after grinding step e), and the obtained mixture is deagglomerated, wherein the binder of step b) is added in an amount from 0.001 to 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the dry calcium carbonate containing material, the at least one cationic polymer of step c) is added in an amount from 0.001 to 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the dry calcium carbonate containing material, the grinding step e) is carried out until the fraction of self-binding pigment particles having a particle size of less than 2 μm is greater than 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the pigment particles, as measured with a Mastersizer 2000, and wherein the binder of step b) is a carboxymethylcellulose. a) providing a suspension comprising at least one calcium carbonate containing material, b) providing an anionic polymeric binder, wherein said binder comprises at least one modified polysaccharide, c) providing at least one cationic polymer, wherein the at least one cationic polymer of step c) is selected from the group comprising polyamines, polyethyleneimines, polyacrylamides, cationic epichlorohydrin resins, polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride, cationic starch, cationic guar, and mixtures thereof, d) mixing the suspension of step a) and the binder of step b), and e) grinding the mixed suspension of step d), i) is mixed in step d) with the suspension of step a) and the binder of step b), and/or ii) is mixed with the suspension obtained after grinding step e), and the obtained mixture is deagglomerated, wherein the binder of step b) is added in an amount from 0.001 to 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the dry calcium carbonate containing material, the at least one cationic polymer of step c) is added in an amount from 0.001 to 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the dry calcium carbonate containing material, the grinding step e) is carried out until the fraction of self-binding pigment particles having a particle size of less than 2 μm is greater than 20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the pigment particles, as measured with a Mastersizer 2000, and wherein the binder of step b) is a carboxymethylcellulose.
A data flow manager of a network for distributing data of a data stream of a user equipment via a first communication link and via a second communication link, the first communication link connecting a home gateway to a first network access entity that provides access to a communication network for the home gateway, the second communication link connecting the user equipment to a second network access entity that provides access to the communication network for the user equipment, the user equipment being further connected to the home gateway via a third communication link, the first communication link and the third communication link forming a composite communication link, the user equipment being configured to simultaneously communicate over the composite communication link and the second communication link in a communication network, the data flow manager comprising: a network interface being configured to receive a first status signal indicating a link quality of the first communication link, a second status signal indicating a link quality of the second communication link and a third status signal indicating a link quality of the composite communication link; and a processor being configured to determine a reduction of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the first communication link and to determine an increase of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the second communication link, if at least one of the first status signal or the second status signal indicates a higher link quality than a link quality that is indicated by the third status signal. a network interface being configured to receive a first status signal indicating a link quality of the first communication link, a second status signal indicating a link quality of the second communication link and a third status signal indicating a link quality of the composite communication link; and a processor being configured to determine a reduction of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the first communication link and to determine an increase of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the second communication link, if at least one of the first status signal or the second status signal indicates a higher link quality than a link quality that is indicated by the third status signal. to determine a reduction of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the first communication link and to determine an increase of an amount of data of the data stream communicated over the second communication link, if at least one of the first status signal or the second status signal indicates a higher link quality than a link quality that is indicated by the third status signal.
A vehicle having at least three load compartments (A, B, C), which comprises a refrigeration system for refrigerating or freezing said load compartments by operating a vapour compression cycle, which compartments are separated from each other by a partitioning wall, so that each load compartment (A, B, C) can be refrigerated to its own individual temperature, characterized in that the refrigeration system comprises at least two separate closed circuits (20', 20") for refrigerant, wherein a first one of said circuits includes a first evaporator, a first compressor (2',) and a first condenser, and wherein said first evaporator is disposed in the first load compartment, and wherein a separate second one of said circuits (20") includes a separate second evaporator (6B"), a separate second compressor (2") and a separate second condenser (3"), and wherein said separate second evaporator (6B") is disposed in the second load compartment, and wherein at least one separate third evaporator is disposed in the third load compartment, and wherein said two closed circuits (20', 20") include said at least one third evaporator.
An adapter for a through-windshield sensor comprising: - a housing (22, 24) having a first face attachable to an inner surface of a windshield and a second face attachable to a front face of the through-windshield sensor to define an enclosed volume therebetween, the enclosed volume located with respect to the through-windshield sensor to permit sensing by the through-windshield sensor through an area of the windshield abutting the enclosed volume; and - an electrical resistance heater supported by the housing (22, 24) and communicating with the enclosed volume to heat air within the enclosed volume to improve transparency of the windshield against environmental moisture by heating the area of the windshield abutting the enclosed volume, characterized in that the electrical resistance heater includes a first portion extending inside the enclosed volume to attach to the windshield at a periphery of an area of the windshield abutting the enclosed volume, wherein the electrical resistance heater is a conductive polymer on a flexible substrate and further includes a second portion deformable with respect to a plane of the first portion to attach to a wall of the housing (22, 24), and wherein the second portion attaches to a lowermost sidewall of the housing (22, 24), wherein the first and second portions (32, 34) are formed from a single continuous sheet of flexible material with the second portion formed from the single continuous sheet from an area within the first portion. - a housing (22, 24) having a first face attachable to an inner surface of a windshield and a second face attachable to a front face of the through-windshield sensor to define an enclosed volume therebetween, the enclosed volume located with respect to the through-windshield sensor to permit sensing by the through-windshield sensor through an area of the windshield abutting the enclosed volume; and - an electrical resistance heater supported by the housing (22, 24) and communicating with the enclosed volume to heat air within the enclosed volume to improve transparency of the windshield against environmental moisture by heating the area of the windshield abutting the enclosed volume,
A sensitizer comprising a combination of: (a) hydrogen peroxide and (b) a hydrogel comprising a crosslinked gelatin gel prepared from an acidic gelatin having an isoelectric point of 4.5 to 5.5, for use in the treatment of a tumor, wherein the sensitizer is locally administered to a tumor area, and enhances a therapeutic effect of radiation or an anti-cancer agent on the tumor. (a) hydrogen peroxide and (b) a hydrogel comprising a crosslinked gelatin gel prepared from an acidic gelatin having an isoelectric point of 4.5 to 5.5,