Abstract:
An automation and platform management system for navel vessels configured to be operated from a multimedia information and operation control center. This automation and management system has a system for monitoring and commanding the ship, a system for navigating the ship, a system for coordinating weapons deployment, a system for handling the external and internal radio communications, a system for controlling and handling the information distribution, a system for power generation and distribution (power management monitoring), and a system for monitoring ship operations. To be able further to reduce the number of crewmembers of a ship equipped with the automation and management system, the automation and management system further has a system for automated ship damage control and/or an integrated onboard information and data network (2) and/or an integrated system for monitoring and control of a COPAW drive of the ship.
Abstract:
A method for stretch breaking fibers to produce a staple yarn and operating a staple fiber spinning machine, and an apparatus for performing such method, that enables the production of a plurality of products of lot size smaller than a large denier tow product. The process includes at least two break zones and a consolidation zone downstream from a second break zone to form a staple yarn. The filaments are broken in a second break zone downstream from the first break zone by increasing the speed of the fiber fed into the process.
Abstract:
A stent, in particular a coronary stent, includes a thin-walled, hollow-cylindrical base body of an X-ray transparent material, the surface area of which has an open-worded, net-shaped design owing to recesses. The stent has at least one X-ray opaque element or region, wherein the X-ray opaque element or the X-ray opaque region extends essentially in a linear direction over at least a portion of the circumference of the stent located at least one end region of the stent while the rest of the stent remains X-ray transparent.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use of oil-soluble oleophilic organic liquid phases—flowable at temperatures of 0 to 10° C.—from the classes of corresponding monocarboxylic and/or polycarboxylic acid esters, carbonic acid esters, fatty alcohols and their oligoalkoxides and/or ethers as the at least predominant part of the liquid phase in storage-stable homogeneous mixtures with guar and/or water-soluble guar derivatives for their use in water-based borehole servicing fluids.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a subunit for a machine driven by an internal combustion engine, in which the components are integrated in a module and wherein means have been provided to connect the module to the internal combustion engine.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for intensifying the surface stabilization of soil susceptible to erosion by introduction of water-based adhesion-promoting impregnating compounds based on esters of polyvinyl alcohol with C.sub.1-5 monocarboxylic acids and mixtures thereof with higher monocarboxylic acids (binders) using surface-active and biologiclly compatible wetting agents. The process is characterized in that impregnation of the soil is carried out in several stages and in that an aqueous preparation containing the wetting agents is used at least in the first impregnating stage. Binder is preferably used in a comparatively small quantity in this pre-impregnation stage.
Abstract:
A heating arrangement, particularly for preventing freezing of pipes for delivering crankcase gas from the crankcase of an internal combustion engine to the air intake, in which a valve (12, 18) is provided which includes at least one metal plate, and a PTC thermistor (20) or a resistance heater is disposed on the metal plate.