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20120037395 | ENCAPSULATION HOUSING REDUCING PIECE - An encapsulation housing reducing piece has a first flange and a second flange. The second flange has a reduced cross-section compared to the first flange. An encapsulation housing shell extends between the two flanges. The encapsulation housing shell has a plurality of even zones. Rotation symmetrical shell surface sections are arranged between the even zones. | 02-16-2012 |
20120092847 | VIEWING WINDOW AND GROUND CONTACT CONNECTION FOR A HIGH-VOLTAGE ARRANGEMENT - A high-voltage arrangement has at least one switching device, a housing and a drive for the switching device. The housing is formed with a first housing opening and a second housing opening. Both the first and second housing openings are suitable for the selective fitting of a viewing window or a ground contact connection. | 04-19-2012 |
20120103767 | HIGH-VOLTAGE ARRANGEMENT - A high-voltage arrangement has at least one switching device, housing and a drive for the switching device. The switching device has a transmission which can change the switch position of the switching device. In a first switch position, the switching device connects a first connection to a second connection and, in a second switch position, connects the first connection to a third connection, and the three connections are left unconnected in a third switch position. The drive is arranged in the housing on a center axis which runs through the housing center of the housing. The drive axis is at right angles to the center axis, and the movement path of one of the electrical contact elements lies on the center axis and parallel to it. | 05-03-2012 |
20120118709 | HIGH-VOLTAGE ASSEMBLY - A high-voltage assembly contains a switching device. The switching device contains a gear having two coupling rods that can be pivoted in a predetermined pivot plane and that displace an electric contact element during pivoting, whereby the switching position of the switching device can be varied. In a first switching position, the switching device connects a first connection to a second connection, and in a second switching position, it connects the first connection to a third connection, and in a third switching position, the three connections remain unconnected. A drive axis of a drive is arranged perpendicular to a pivot plane of the coupling rods, and the coupling rods are mounted such that at least one of them can pivot through the drive axis region in which the drive axis of the drive penetrates the pivot plane of both coupling rods when adjusting the switching position of the switching device. | 05-17-2012 |
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20120080619 | Method and Apparatus for the Generation of EUV Radiation from a Gas Discharge Plasma - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating EUV radiation from a gas discharge plasma. The object of the invention, to generate EUV radiation from a gas discharge plasma by with is optimized conversion efficiency of the EUV emission while locally limiting the electric discharge channel, is met in that a channel-generating beam of pulsed high-energy radiation is supplied in at least two partial beams which are focused in a pulse-synchronized manner into a superposition region along a spacing axis between the electrodes, and an electrically conductive discharge channel is generated along the superposition region due to an ionization at least of a buffer gas present in the discharge space, wherein the pulsed high-energy radiation of the channel-generating beam is triggered in such a way that the discharge channel is generated before a discharge current pulse has reached its maximum value. | 04-05-2012 |
20120112101 | Method and Arrangement for the Stabilization of the Source Location of the Generation of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Radiation Based on a Discharge Plasma - The invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for stabilizing the source location during the generation of EUV radiation based on a discharge plasma. The object of finding a novel possibility for stabilizing the source location during the generation of EUV radiation which allows changes in position of the source location to be compensated in a simple manner during the operation of the radiation source is met according to the invention in that a first beam aligning unit ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120153829 | Method and Apparatus for the Generation of Short-Wavelength Radiation by Means of a Gas Discharge-Based High-Frequency, High-Current Discharge - The invention is related to a gas discharge-based radiation source which emits short-wavelength radiation, wherein an emitter is ionized and compressed by pulse-shaped currents between two electrodes arranged in a vacuum chamber and is excited to form an emitting plasma. According to the invention, the plasma is preserved by means of a high-frequency sequence of pulse-shaped currents the pulse repetition period of which is adjusted so as to be shorter than a lifetime of the plasma so that the plasma is kept periodically alternating between a high-energy state of an emitting compressed plasma and a low-energy state of a relaxing plasma. For exciting the relaxing plasma to the compressed plasma, excitation energy is coupled into the relaxing plasma by making use of pulse-shaped currents with repetition frequencies between 50 kHz and 4 MHz and pulse widths equal to the pulse repetition period. | 06-21-2012 |
20120248327 | Method and Arrangement for the Adjustment of Characteristics of a Beam Bundle of High-Energy Radiation Emitted from a Plasma - The invention is related to the adjustment of characteristics of a beam bundle of high-energy radiation emitted from a plasma, particularly for applications in semiconductor lithography. For acquiring and adjusting characteristics of a beam bundle of high-energy radiation emitted from a plasma and focused by means of collector optics, an intensity distribution of the radiation is acquired over the cross section of a convergent beam bundle in a measuring plane perpendicular to the optical axis in front of an intermediate focus of the collector optics, and intensity values are recorded in defined sectors for a quantity of reception regions of a measuring device which are aligned with different radii concentric to the optical axis, and measured quantities and control variables are determined from a comparison of the intensity values of different sectors for aligning the collector optics. | 10-04-2012 |
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20110212853 | NOVEL DIAGNOSTIC METHOD - A method of monitoring treatment of an inflammatory disease or an inflammatory associated disease with the use of the ratio of N-terminal pyroglutamate modified MCP-1 (MCP-1 N1pE):total concentration of MCP-1 within a biological sample as a biomarker, and a method for determining the proportion of N-terminal pyroglutamate modified MCP-1 in relation to the total concentration of MCP-1 in biological samples. Also disclosed are a diagnostic kit and a method for screening a glutaminyl cyclase (QC) inhibitor or measuring the effectiveness of a glutaminyl cyclase (QC) inhibitor. | 09-01-2011 |
20120064547 | DIAGNOSTIC ANTIBODY ASSAY - Novel diagnostic assays for the diagnosis of amyloidosis, in particular Alzheimer's disease, and related aspects. In particular, monoclonal antibodies and an antibody assay are provided. | 03-15-2012 |
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20100196736 | Vibration-damping composite component - A composite component comprising at least one base plate and at least one sandwich component which is arranged on the base plate provides the composite component with very satisfactory vibration-damping properties which can additionally be produced in a simple way and at the same time is suitable for lightweight design concepts. The vibration damping properties of the composite component are achieved by the fact that the sandwich component has at least two outer plates and at least one plastic layer which is arranged between the two outer plates. | 08-05-2010 |
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20080247050 | MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE - The invention relates to a microscope objective which consists of at least four lenses or groups of lenses and can preferably be used to improve image contrast. | 10-09-2008 |
20090224174 | Calibration device and laser scanning microscope with such a calibration device - A calibration device for managing a variety of performance tests and/or calibration tasks in a laser scanning microscope. The calibration device, which has focusing optics and a test structure arranged in the focal plane of the focusing optics, with structural elements detectable in reflected and/or transmitted light aligned to each other in a common mounting, can be switched into the microscope beam path in a laser scanning microscope, so that the pupil of the focusing optics coincides with the objective pupil of the laser scanning microscope or lies in a plane conjugated to it. | 09-10-2009 |
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20120250148 | ARRANGEMENT FOR EQUALIZING BINOCULAR VISUAL FIELDS - An arrangement for equalizing binocular visual fields for microscopes and other optical instruments, with an eyepiece arranged in each beam path, and with diaphragms serving the purpose of visual field adjustment. The diaphragms are fixed or movable in or in immediate proximity to an intermediate image plane in the optical output to the left eye and/or to the right eye. One diaphragm is arranged eccentrically or concentrically in the installation space of at least one eyepiece or in at least one eyepiece support of the corresponding optical instrument provided therefor. Adjusters are present for positioning and/or adjusting the diaphragms. | 10-04-2012 |
20130027768 | ATTACHMENT OF OPTICAL MICROSCOPE COMPONENTS - A device for attaching a first optical microscope component part to a second part includes an annular receptacle attached to the second part and an annual insertion part. The annular insertion part includes outside-conical retaining projections. The receptacle includes a base ring having a retaining collar with an inside cone tapering away from the base ring and in which a lateral opening is formed, through which the insertion part can be inserted in the receptacle such that it is located on a pre-locking position in which the annular openings overlap. The insertion part and the receptacle can be moved by reciprocal rotation from the pre-locking position into a locking position in which the outside-conical retaining projections of the insertion part are seated against the inside cone of the retaining collar and press the insertion part on the base ring, whereby the insertion part is locked to the receptacle. | 01-31-2013 |
20130271847 | IMMERSION OBJECTIVE AND LIGHT MICROSCOPE - An immersion objective for a light microscope with a first lens group including a first and second lenses, with a third lens arranged behind the first lens group, a first air gap between the first lens group and the third lens, with a second lens group behind the third lens and including fourth, fifth and sixth lenses, a second air gap formed the third lens and the second lens group, and a third lens group behind the second lens group including seventh, eighth and ninth lenses. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth lens are provided behind the third lens group. For correction of aberrations a fourth air gap is formed between the third lens group and the tenth lens, a fifth air gap is formed between the tenth lens and the eleventh lens and a sixth air gap is formed between the eleventh lens and the twelfth lens. | 10-17-2013 |