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20090326644 | PLANAR STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PLANAR STRUCTURE - The invention relates to a planar structure made of fibers adhered to each other in certain locations, characterized in that the adhesions and/or fibers are broken by an ultrasound treatment. Such planar structures are utilized particularly in the medical field as vascular prostheses or tissue patches. | 12-31-2009 |
20120283828 | NON-WOVEN FABRIC FOR MEDICAL USE AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF - Process for preparing a non-woven fabric for medical use, comprising the following steps: —performing a spraying process in which —a spray jet is generated from a polycarbonate urethane plastic solution having a viscosity of from 800 to 1500 Pa×s using a spraying unit from which the polycarbonate urethane plastic solution exits; —said spray jet includes at least one strand of a single microfiber that may have a diameter of from 1 to 15 μm, preferably a diameter of from 2 to 10 μm; —said at least one strand of the single microfiber is sprayed onto a support, wherein —the support is moved relative to the spraying unit, or the spraying unit is moved relative to the support; —the spraying process is repeated several times to form polycarbonate urethane microfiber layers; —whereby polycarbonate urethane microfibers formed from the individual spraying processes overlay each other and adhere to each other at the respective contact points; and —a non-woven fabric having a fibrillar microporous structure is formed; —and optionally detached from the support after the last spraying process. | 11-08-2012 |
20130325140 | DEVICE FOR PLACEMENT IN A HOLLOW ORGAN, IN PARTICULAR FOR HOLDING OPEN SAID HOLLOW ORGAN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH DEVICE - The device for placement in a hollow organ, in particular for holding open the hollow organ, comprises a placement body ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140364937 | Structure Having Fibres Which Are Adhesively Bonded To One Another In Locations - The invention relates to a structure having fibres which are adhesively bonded to one another in locations and have a permeability for air of between 0.5 ml/min*cm | 12-11-2014 |
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20120072386 | Intelligent Plant Development Library Environment - An intelligent plant development library environment is presented. Contemplated environments comprise an EPC knowledge system capable of incorporating know-how of one or more construction firms in the form of assembly objects. Assembly objects represent construction components (e.g., bolts, cable trays, pipes, processing units, deliverables, etc.) that can be incorporated into a plant design. Assembly objects are stored in an assembly database and include available contexts considered relevant to the assembly objects. An inference engine is utilized to derive a specified context related to a plant design from one or more design tools. The inference engine applies rule sets to infer which assembly objects to instantiate as construction objects. The inference engine can further configure the design tools to incorporate the instantiated construction objects into a plant construction project model. Example rule sets include forward chaining rules, backward chaining rules, case-based reasoning rules, inductive reasoning rules, or abductive reasoning rules. | 03-22-2012 |
20120130914 | JURISDICTION COMPLIANCE ENGINES - Jurisdiction compliance engines are presented. Contemplated jurisdiction compliance engines are design tool agonistic and can operate in conjunction with design tools to ensure instantiated construction objects comply with jurisdiction rules sets. The jurisdiction rules sets can include optimization criteria based on metrics that can govern how construction objects are integrated into a design project. | 05-24-2012 |
20130024235 | Conflicting Expert Systems - An expert system for providing optimized recommendations regarding a construction project is configured to generate conflicting optimization recommendations. Multiple expert system engines are implemented, where each engine provides one or more recommendations optimized in accordance with the priorities of a functional discipline. A conflict engine will identify conflicts between optimized recommendations and will package the conflicts into conflict objects that are presented to a conflict user interface for resolution. The user could resolve the conflicts him/herself, or could configure a cross-functional conflict object to resolve such conflicts based upon specified resolution criteria. | 01-24-2013 |
20130110573 | IDENTIFICATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF OVER-ENGINEERED COMPONENTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130132146 | MODEL PLANT CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES - In methods for managing congestion points of a plant lifecycle, access can be provided to a project database, as well as a congestion engine coupled with the project database. The congestion engine can be used to analyze project designs, resources, and activities. At least one congestion object can be generated based at least in part upon the analysis of the congestion engine. A project interface can be configured to present the at least one congestion object. | 05-23-2013 |
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20130049508 | ELECTRIC DAMPER - An electric damper for damping the relative movement between a first and a second mass includes a generator integrated into a gear and driven by the movement of the first and second masses. A first gear element forming a stator is set into rotation by the movement of the masses. A second gear element forming a rotor is rotated by the rotation of the first gear element. The second gear element is directly or indirectly coupled to the first gear element with a gear ratio. Either the first or the second gear element includes means for generating a magnetic field. | 02-28-2013 |
20130154277 | WHEEL SUSPENSION FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle includes an electric vibration damper which is affixed to the vehicle body and which has a generator that can be driven by translational wheel movements of the vehicle wheel in order to generate an induced voltage. The stator and the rotor of the generator are interconnected via at least one gear stage, wherein a gear element of the gear stage is a drive gear wheel of a rack-and-pinion drive that is drivingly connected to a wheel carrier of the wheel suspension, with the wheel carrier following the wheel movements. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154404 | ELECTRIC DAMPER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - An electric damper for a vehicle for damping a relative motion between two components includes an electrical generator, which can be driven by the relative motion, for generating an induced voltage. Said electrical generator has a stator, a rotor, and associated induction windings and field magnets. According to the invention, the rotor is designed as a two-part rotor, comprising an inner, stationary iron core and a radially outer hollow wheel, which carries the induction windings or the field magnets. | 06-20-2013 |
20130320791 | ELECTRIC DAMPER - Electric damper for damping the relative movement between first and second masses, comprising a generator driven by the mass movement and having a fixed stator and a rotor rotatable relative thereto, and a gear mechanism coupled to the generator, wherein at least one first gear element, directly connected to a lifting member ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140217663 | ROTARY DAMPER - Rotary damper ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140217664 | PNEUMATIC SPRING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to a pneumatic spring device for a motor vehicle, including a rolling piston ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140256501 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DAMPER - An electromechanical damper for a vehicle for damping between two components mechanical oscillations by which a drive torque is transmittable to an electric generator for generating a damping force includes first and second gearboxes in the form of planetary gear trains, each having a sun wheel, with the sun wheels being connected to end faces of a rotor of the generator, respectively. A stator housing forms a gear element which is integrated in the first and second gearboxes. The sun wheel, ring gear and planet wheels of the first and second gearboxes are each provided with helical teeth in axial direction, with the helical teeth of the sun wheel of one of the first and second gearboxes and the sun wheel of the other one of the first and second gearboxes being directed in opposition to one another. | 09-11-2014 |
20140285043 | ROTATIONAL DAMPER - An electric rotational damper includes a generator which including a stator and a rotor; a damper housing having a housing attachment, wherein the stator is connected with the damper housing, and wherein the housing attachment and the stator in fixed rotative relationship with the damper housing; a transmission connecting a coupling lever with the rotor of the transmission of the rotational damper; a housing part connected with and co-rotating with the transmission, wherein the housing part is in surrounding relationship with the rotor, and wherein the housing attachment is in surrounding relationship with the housing part; and a centrifugal brake arranged between the housing part and the housing attachment. | 09-25-2014 |
20140300072 | WHEEL SUSPENSION WITH ROTATION DAMPER - A motor vehicle has a plurality of vehicle wheels that are or can be mounted on the vehicle body by means of wheel suspensions. A wheel has at least one suspension arm that connects a vehicle wheel to a vehicle body and is pivotable about an axis, and at least one rotation damper having at least one damper element for damping the relative movement between a first mass arranged on the wheel suspension and a second mass arranged on the vehicle body. The rotation damper is integrated directly into the mounting of the suspension arm, wherein pivoting movements of the suspension arm induced by the mass movement can be transferred to a rotatable damper part of the damper element which is motion-coupled to the connecting element. | 10-09-2014 |
20140360825 | ROTARY DAMPER - A rotary damper for a motor vehicle includes at least one damper element for damping the relative movement of a first mass located on the wheel-suspension side and of a second mass located on the vehicle-body side, with at least one vibration absorber ( | 12-11-2014 |
20150054290 | ELECTRIC DAMPER - An electric damper for damping the relative motion between a first and a second mass includes a generator that can be driven by the mass motion. In addition to field generating means in the generator, an additional field winding is provided for producing a secondary magnetic field, the additional field winding being arranged in such a way that the primary and secondary magnetic fields have oppositely oriented field lines. | 02-26-2015 |
20150108321 | DAMPER BEARING FOR SUPPORTING A CHASSIS COMPONENT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - The invention relates to a damper bearing ( | 04-23-2015 |
20150159730 | DAMPING DEVICE HAVING A ROTARY DAMPER - A damping device having a rotary damper for a vehicle for damping a pivoting motion occurring at an input element, in particular a coupling rod, wherein during pivoting the input element operates on the rotary damper via a gear mechanism. The input element is coupled to the gear mechanism by way of a slip coupling such that the torques occurring at the slip coupling that are above a predetermined threshold torque result in a relative movement between the input element and the gear mechanism. | 06-11-2015 |
20150251513 | ROTARY DAMPER - A rotary damper includes an electromagnetic damper motor, a damper housing surrounding the damper motor and configured as tubular torsion spring secured by a fastening element to a first mass. A lever is swingably mounted relative to the fastening element and connected to a second mass. The torsion spring is connected with one end to the fastening element and with another end to the lever. A gear mechanism formed as strain wave gearing transmits and/or modifies a relative rotational movement between the first and second masses to the damper motor for vibration damping. The strain wave gearing includes a rigid unit having internal teeth, a flexible unit having external teeth, and an oval wave generator rotatably mounted in the flexible unit and causing a deformation of the flexible unit, when rotating, with the rigid and flexible units coupled to one another by a formfit via the internal and external teeth. | 09-10-2015 |
20150273969 | ELECTRIC DAMPER MECHANISM - An electric damper assembly includes a damper having a rotor and a stator which connect a first component and a second component movable relative thereto, excitation windings, and induction windings, wherein a rotation of the rotor in relation to the stator causes a rotation of the excitation windings relative to induction windings, thereby inducing an induction voltage in the induction windings. A sensor detects the movement of the first component relative to the second component. A control unit is connected to the sensor and the damper. The control unit supplies the excitation winding with electric energy in such a way that an electromagnetic rotary field is generated which is dependent on the detected movement, and thereby is superimposed on the rotation of the rotor relative to the stator. | 10-01-2015 |
20150306933 | ROTARY DAMPER - A rotary damper includes a damper motor and a damper housing in surrounding relationship to the damper motor. The damper housing has a connection piece for mounting the damper housing to a first mass. An articulated lever is swingably mounted in relation to the damper housing and connected to a second mass. The articulated lever has a lobe which is movable during a swinging motion of the articulated lever in relation to the damper housing along a movement path between two stops which are connected to the damper housing. A gear mechanism transmits and/or converts a relative rotational movement between the first and second masses to the damper motor for vibration damping. | 10-29-2015 |
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20090048374 | STABILIZER COMPOSITIONS FOR HALOGENATED POLYMERS WITH IMPROVED INITIAL COLOR AND IMPROVED COLOR MAINTENANCE - A stabilizer composition for halogenated polymers includes at least one compound from group A) and at least one compound from group B), group A) being composed of semicarbazides, carbazides, carbazones, and carbodiazones, and their salts, and group B) of guanidines and melamines, superacids and salts of superacids, epoxy and glycidyl compounds, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds, polyols, sterically hindered amines, hydrotalcites, zeolites, and alkali metal aluminocarbonates, hydrocalumites, metal hydroxides, metal oxides, metal hydrogen carbonates, and metal carbonates, metal soaps, organotin compounds, organic phosphite esters, amino alcohols and hydroxyl-containing isocyanurates, α,β-unsaturated β-aminocarbonyl compounds, aminouracil compounds and aminothiouracil compounds, and compounds having at least one mercapto-functional, sp | 02-19-2009 |
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20100106361 | INTEGRATED BATTERY SERVICE SYSTEM - An integrated battery service system performs a plurality of services related to a battery, such as battery testing, battery charging, and the like. In addition, the integrated service system provides services to devices/components that are coupled to the battery, such as starters, alternators, etc. The integrated battery service system allows a user to abort a service and then resume the process from where the process was aborted. When conducting a service, the integrated battery service system determines a noise level caused by devices/components coupled to the battery. The integrated battery service system includes connectors configured to couple to a battery for receiving input signals, a processor coupled to the connectors, and a memory device coupled to the processor for storing control codes and operation history. The control codes, when executed by the processor, control the system to selectively abort a service in response to a user input. Since the memory stores operation histories, the processor may access the memory to retrieve data related to the aborted service and parameters obtained during the service before the process was aborted. The system reinstates the aborted service in response to another user input. | 04-29-2010 |
20130020985 | Integrated Battery Service System - An integrated battery service system allows a user to abort a service and then resume the process from where the process was aborted. When conducting a service, the integrated battery service system determines a noise level caused by devices/components coupled to the battery. The integrated battery service system includes connectors configured to couple to a battery for receiving input signals, a processor coupled to the connectors, and a memory device coupled to the processor for storing control codes and operation history. The control codes, when executed by the processor, control the system to selectively abort a service in response to a user input. Since the memory stores operation histories, the processor may access the memory to retrieve data related to the aborted service and parameters obtained during the service before the process was aborted. The system reinstates the aborted service in response to another user input. | 01-24-2013 |
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20120090847 | Tools and Methods for Use in Completion of a Wellbore - A ported tubular is provided for use in casing a wellbore, to permit selective access to the adjacent formation during completion operations. A system and method for completing a wellbore using the ported tubular are also provided. Ports within the wellbore casing may be opened, isolated, or otherwise accessed to deliver treatment to the formation through the ports. | 04-19-2012 |
20130068451 | Tools and Methods for Use in Completion of a Wellbore - A ported tubular is provided for use in casing a wellbore, to permit selective access to the adjacent formation during completion operations. A system and method for completing a wellbore using the ported tubular are also provided. Ports within the wellbore casing may be opened, isolated, or otherwise accessed to deliver treatment to the formation through the ports, using a tool assembly deployed on tubing or wireline. | 03-21-2013 |
20140305648 | TOOLS AND METHODS FOR USE IN COMPLETION OF A WELLBORE - A ported tubular is provided for use in casing a wellbore, to permit selective access to the adjacent formation during completion operations. A system and method for completing a wellbore using the ported tubular are also provided. Ports within the wellbore casing may be opened, isolated, or otherwise accessed to deliver treatment to the formation through the ports. | 10-16-2014 |
20160003003 | TOOLS AND METHODS FOR USE IN COMPLETION OF A WELLBORE - A ported tubular is provided for use in casing a wellbore, to permit selective access to the adjacent formation during completion operations. A system and method for completing a wellbore using the ported tubular are also provided. Ports within the wellbore casing may be opened, isolated, or otherwise accessed to deliver treatment to the formation through the ports, using a tool assembly deployed on tubing or wireline. | 01-07-2016 |
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20120085316 | DIRECT-INJECTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH INJECTION NOZZLE - A direct-injection internal combustion engine is provided. The engine comprises at least one cylinder in which a combustion chamber is jointly formed by a piston crown of a piston and by a cylinder head, each cylinder having an inlet opening for the supply of fresh air, and an injection nozzle which is arranged in the cylinder head on the opposite side of the piston crown, on which injection nozzle, at a free end projecting into the combustion chamber, are provided a plurality of nozzle holes for the direct injection of the fuel, the injection nozzle being arranged eccentrically, spaced apart from a longitudinal axis of the cylinder and inclined at an angle α to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder, at least two of the plurality of nozzle holes including opening cross-sections of different size. In this way, an equal fuel distribution in the cylinder may be provided. | 04-12-2012 |
20130333663 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE FEATURING PARTIAL SHUTDOWN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF THIS KIND - Systems and methods are provided for an engine wherein one group of cylinders is active and a second group of cylinders is switchable, such that under low loads the second group of cylinders is deactivated, and under high loads the second group of cylinders is activated. Following deactivation of the second group of cylinders a throttling element in an intake line for the second group of cylinders is gradually closed. The closing of the throttling element may reduce pumping losses and thus increase engine efficiency. | 12-19-2013 |
20140190148 | METHODS FOR NOx REDUCTION USING EXHAUST-GAS CONDENSATE - The system and methods described allow for reduce emissions by using a recirculation device within an engine that connects an air feed line to an exhaust line while cooling the exhaust-gas to form a condensate for further cooling the engine system. In one particular example, a cooling unit is described that cools the exhaust-gas stream flowing there through and collects a condensate out of the exhaust-gas stream for injection back into the air feed line via an injecting device. In this way, an injection of water may be made to reduce NOx emissions during vehicle operations, and the outlay for storage of water on board the vehicle may be eliminated. | 07-10-2014 |
20140331667 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH DEACTIVATABLE CYLINDER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF SAID TYPE - A method and system is provided for a turbocharged multi-cylinder internal combustion engine comprising a two-channel turbine and at least two groups of cylinders, wherein one group of cylinders is switchable responsive to an engine load over a threshold. Exhaust lines of each group of cylinders are arranged in a targeted manner to couple with the turbine such that the switchable group is attached to one channel and the active group is attached to the other channel to reduce the difference in distances that pressure pulses travel, wherein a shut-off element is provided in the channel attached to the switchable group and may be moved to block exhaust flow through the channel when the cylinders are deactivated, thus improving the partial deactivation and turbocharging characteristics of the engine. | 11-13-2014 |
20150204279 | BOOSTED INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH PARTIAL DEACTIVATION AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF SAID TYPE - An internal combustion engine system is provided herein. The internal combustion engine includes an active cylinder, a selectively deactivatable cylinder, the active cylinder and selectively deactivatable cylinder each coupled to an intake system and exhaust-gas discharge system, an exhaust-gas turbocharger having a turbine positioned in the exhaust-gas discharge system and a compressor positioned in the intake system, a blower positioned in the intake system downstream of the compressor, and a bypass line bypassing the blower and including a shut-off valve. | 07-23-2015 |
20150267573 | APPLIED-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH VARIABLE VALVE DRIVE - A system and method is provided for an at least partially variable valve drive in an internal combustion engine. In one example, the at least partially variable valve drive comprises a hydraulically adjustable actuating device which may be charged with pressurized oil via an oil pressure line which branches off from an oil circuit. | 09-24-2015 |
20150285163 | METHODS FOR TURBOCHARGED ENGINE WITH CYLINDER DEACTIVATION AND VARIABLE VALVE TIMING - A system and methods are described for a turbocharged engine, comprising powering the engine using a first operating cylinder, supplementing the power using a second switchable cylinder, deactivating the second switchable cylinder responsive to a load below a first threshold, and closing a first shut-off element downstream of a compressor during the partial deactivation to prevent a first turbocharger from imparting a delivery action into a second compressor during the partial deactivation. Embodiments are further described wherein a bypass line in a second exhaust line further serves as a short-circuit line to prevent the second compressor from imparting a delivery action against the closed first shut-off element. A variable valve timing is then included to further optimize the combustion process during the partial deactivation. | 10-08-2015 |
20150322897 | EXHAUST-GAS-TURBOCHARGED APPLIED-IGNITION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE HAVING AT LEAST TWO TURBINES, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF SAID TYPE - A method for operating a boosted internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a first cylinder in a first cylinder group and a second cylinder in a second cylinder group, each of the first and second cylinders having two activatable outlet openings adjoined by an exhaust line, one of the outlet openings of each of the first and second cylinders coupled to a first turbocharger including a first turbine and one of the outlet openings of each of the cylinders coupled to a second turbocharger including a second turbine, the method comprising: if engine load is less than a threshold load value implementing a first operating mode that includes deactivating the second cylinder, deactivating one of the activatable outlet openings in the first cylinder, and activating one of the activatable outlet opening in the first cylinder. | 11-12-2015 |