A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material into a globular configuration having a plurality of random folds, a plurality of random engaged portions, and a plurality of voids. The sheet of material has an upper surface and a lower surface with at...

A rear roof frame (4) is fastened via articulated joints to the B-columns (3), and side roof struts (7) extend between rear frame and transverse windscreen carrier strut (2). A sliding folding hood (12) moves in the roof struts in longitudinal vehicle direction. A tail hood (10) is fastened to the rear roof frame and to the rear vehicle end. The cover has a fabric tensioning bracket (13). The B-co...

A device for connecting two tubular piping parts, in particular piping parts in a motor vehicle exhaust system, has two connector pieces with a sealing device being mounted between the connector pieces. The connector pieces are stressed against each other in axial direction by a spring device. The spring device has a wire spring which surrounds one connector piece at least partially with two sprin...

The present invention relates to granular lithium zeolites of type A which have a degree of exchange of from 70% to 100%, based on exchangeable cations and, in addition to a lithium exchange of the zeolite, have a limited exchange with divalent cations.

A water and oil repellent composition containing, as an effective component, a copolymer comprising the following polymeric units (a), (b) and at least one member selected from (c) and (d): polymeric units (a): Polymeric units of a (meth)acrylate having a polyfluoroalkyl group; Polymeric units (b): Polymeric units of 2-isocyanate ethyl (meth)acrylate with the isocyanate group blocked; Polymeric un...

The present invention relates to lysostaphin analogs having a molecular structure preventing post-translational modifications while retaining lysostaphin-like biological activity. Such recombinant lysostaphin analogs have at least one modified site, or a rearrangement of at least one site at the level of the amino acid sequence of the mature lysostaphin protein. The invention also relates to DNA s...

To provide a shortcut communication system which enables economical use of network resources even when applied for multiple to multiple shortcut communications among numerous nodes (5 to 7) in a large-scale network, shortcut connections (23 and 27) to the same destination node (6) outside of a predetermined domain (25) are integrated into one relay connection (24) by a shortcut relay node (22) pro...

Light emitting devices are combined with non-imaging optical elements to create a backlighting system for liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). A pair of optically isolated sub-systems, a night vision imaging system (NVIS) (14) and a daylight system (12) are combined to provide optimum display legibility in ambient illuminations ranging from bright sunlight to total darkness. The sub-systems utilize non...