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The present device relates to an electromechanically operated parking brake for motor vehicles that is designed as a drum brake of the ‘Duo-Servo’ type, including a floatingly supported expanding lock which is operable by an electromechanical actuator arranged on a wheel support member and which acts on two brake shoes. To ensure the floating support of the expanding lock that is formed of a threaded-nut/spindle assembly and to always provide a desired application force, the invention discloses that the threaded nut on its outside circumference has a spur toothing which forms a spiral-toothed gear wheel system along with a spiral-toothed gear wheel driven by the electromechanical actuator.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger arrangement for heating an area of a vehicle to be heated, comprising a first heat exchanger element (5) for transferring waste heat from at least one electrical component (2, 3, 4) of the vehicle to be cooled to air and a second heat exchanger element (23) for transferring heat from at least one vehicle heating device (22) to air. The first heat exchanger element (5) and the second heat exchanger element (23) are arranged in such a way that said heat exchanger elements are exposed in succession to air (L) to be heated.

The invention relates to a method for determining and monitoring the level of a medium in a container by means of a field device according to a runtime measurement method, wherein corresponding application and device related test signals and response signals to be expected from a fill level surface are determined in a teaching phase and application and device related comparison signals are determined therefrom, wherein test signals are output in the direction of the medium and application and device related response signals are received in an operating phase and the comparison signals are compared to the response signals by means of a comparison algorithm and a value for a probability of matching (w) is determined,; wherein the fill level is determined and output as a measurement value upon the determined value of the matching probability exceeding a predefined threshold and/or a new test signal is output for once again determining a response signal upon falling short of the predefined threshold.

The invention relates to a device (10) comprising a thermally insulating container (12-38) and at least one high temperature fuel cell system component (40) that is arranged in the container (12-38), said high temperature fuel cell component being surrounded by at least one insulating layer (24-30) made of a first material. A tensioning device acts upon the insulating layer. According to the invention, the tensioning device comprises one or more plate-type elements (32 -38) that are made of a second material and that act upon the insulating layer and that are supported on the container housing (12-22). Said elements can be elastically deformed when a pressure is applied, at which the first material cannot be deformed.

The invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a communications channel (106), wherein the data is transmitted with a transmission frame, the transmission frame has at least one prioritisation field (PCP) for establishing the priority of the message and a data field, the prioritisation field (PCP) functions to control the bus access by prioritizing the messages. For this purpose, a bus access controller is used, in which the priority of at least the last received data packet is stored in a minimum priority storage cell (330). After receiving a data packet, a timer (320) is started, for which a timeout value is set, which is reset when a following packet is received. After reaching the timeout value, a decrementing of the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330)occurs. Thereafter, for the purpose of bus access control, when sending a packet, it is checked whether the priority of the packet to be sent is lower than the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330), and the sending of the data packet is prevented if the priority of the packet is lower than the value stored in the minimum priority storage cell (330).

The invention relates to a method for transmitting data via a serial communication bus, a bus interface and a computer program. An extension of the existing CAN FD data transmission protocol is related. The extension enables the use of the IPv6 protocol for the CAN bus. The CAN FD protocol is further developed in an incompatible way. One modification measure relates to the lengthening of the DataField, which is positioned in the transmission frame after an Arbitration Field. An arbitrary number of bytes can be entered in the extended Data Field within a specified upper limit. Since the Data Field is transmitted at a higher bit rate field than the Arbitration Field, the data throughput is increased dramatically.

The invention relates to a hardware architecture for controlling a safety-relevant process. At least two microcontrollers 250, 350 are utilized for controlling the process in at least two control branches, wherein the respective microcontrollers 250, 350 are designed to control the safety-relevant process. This is therefore a redundant system. In a method, the microcontrollers 250, 350 process thedata from at least one sensor 276, 376, which detects the actual characteristic of the respective control branch. Between the two microcontrollers 250, 350, the data of the respective sensor 276, 376are exchanged, and in a decision module 258, 358 provided for each microcontroller 250, 350, a check is made to determine whether the data from the sensors 276, 376 are consistent. In response to aninconsistency being detected, a majority decision is made and a model value used in forming the majority decision, is calculated in the microcontroller 250, 350 based on control commands so the control of the safety-relevant process by the microcontroller 250, 350 of the control branch, whose data were detected as erroneous in the majority decision, is disabled. Third sensors that would otherwisehave to be used for check can be saved by calculating model parameters.

A production process for a microneedle arrangement and a corresponding microneedle arrangement as well as a use for it is disclosed. The process has the following steps: forming an etching mask (10'; 10''; 10''') in grid form, with grid bars (100', 110'; 100'', 110''; 100''', 110''') with corresponding grid crossing regions (10'a; 10''a; 10'''a) and grid openings (10'b; 10''b; 10'''b) in between on a substrate (1); carrying out an etching process to form the microneedle arrangement (20'; 20''; 20'''; 21'''; 22''') on the substrate (1) using the etching mask (10'; 10''; 10'''; 11'''; 12'''; 13'''; 14'''); and removing the etching mask (10'; 10''; 10'''; 11'''; 12'''; 13'''; 14'''). The etching mask (10'; 10''; 10''') in grid form has at least some of the grid crossing regions (10'a; 10''a; 10'''a) flat reinforcing regions (115'; 115''a; 115''b), which extend beyond the grid bars (100', 110'; 100'', 110''; 100''', 110''').

The invention relates to a hot runner device comprising at least one needle valve nozzle (1) and a shut-off needle (3) which is movable in the needle valve nozzle (1) by means of a movement means, andcomprising an overload protection device for the shut-off needle (3), characterized in that the overload protection device is implemented as follows: the shut-off needle is connected in at least a first movement direction directly or indirectly to the movement means by at least one frictional connection (21) that can be released when a threshold force is exceeded.

A method for transmitting data between a peripheral device (60) and a data acquisition unit (50), the data acquisition unit (50) having a configurable communication interface via (53)which the data are transmitted according to one of a number of defined communication protocols, includes: carrying out a communication protocol analysis by the peripheral device (60) upon connection to a power supply;and carrying out an adaptation of the configurable communication interface of the peripheral device (60) after detection of a communication protocol, providing a detected communication protocol, usedby the data acquisition unit (50) in order to carry out data exchange according to the detected communication protocol.

A method (10) for protecting a device (d), characterized by the following features: a file system of the device (d) is individualized (20) and a file (f) to be processed by the device (d) is matched to the individualized runtime environment (30).

The invention relates to a method for producing a planar spacer, an associated bipolar transistor and an associated biCMOS circuit arrangement, wherein the first and second spacer layers (3, 4) are formed on a substrate (1) after a sacrifice mask (2) is formed and first and second spacer layers (3, 4) are embodied. In order to produce auxiliary spacers (4S) on the second spacer layer (4), a first anisotropic etching process is carried out. Afterwards, a second anisotropic etching process is carried out by means of the auxiliary spacers (4S) for producing a planar spacer (PS), thereby making it possible to freely select the height of the thus produced planar spacer (PS), wherein the planarity thereof very much simplifies the continuation of the process. The inventive method makes it possible to produce components exhibiting improved electric properties.

The invention describes an arc-extinguishing piece arrangement (1) for an electric installation switch device, in particular for a line protection switch, a motor protection switch or an earth leakage protection switch. The arc-extinguishing piece arrangement (1) has arc-extinguishing pieces (2) which are stacked in parallel between a first guide plate and a second guide plate to a predeterminable stack height. The arc-extinguishing pieces (2) are supported at intervals by at least one supporting device (3) made of insulating materials. For adaption to the short-circuit current limit caused by the arc-extinguishing piece arrangement (1), under the circumstance of maintaining the predetermined stack height, the total amount of the arc-extinguishing pieces is the sum of the first amount of the first arc-extinguishing pieces with a first thickness and the second amount of the second arc-extinguishing pieces with a second thickness, wherein the second thickness is less than the first thickness.

The invention relates to a solar cell (11; 21; 31) comprising a dielectric coating (4) which is disposed on a rear face of the solar cell (11; 21; 31) and is covered at least partially by at least one flat contact (12; 22; 32), wherein a boundary line (14; 24; 34) of the at least one flat contact (12; 22; 32) has at least one recess (16a, 16b; 26a, 26b, 26c). The invention also relates to a method for producing same.

The invention relates to a steering system for a motor vehicle (1) having a worm gear set (2), comprising a worm wheel (3) and a worm screw (4), the worm screw (4) being mounted rotatably in a housing of the worm gear set (2) by means of a pivot bearing (6) at at least one bearing point (5). According to the invention, the pivot bearing (6) has a higher load capacity than a pivot bearing with a single-row standard grooved ball bearing. The invention further relates to a pivot bearing (6) for a steering system (1), having an inner race (11) and an outer race (12), a plurality of rolling elements (17) being arranged between the inner race (11) and the outer race (12). According to the invention, one of the bearing races (11, 12) is designed as a solid race and the respective other bearing race (11, 12) is designed as a split bearing race (21), wherein the split bearing race (21) comprises a first race element (22) and a second race element (23).