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A radome for housing a radar system comprises a plurality of interconnected curved radome thermoplastic composite material panels, each curved radome thermoplastic composite material panel having a plurality of interconnecting edges, a foam core, an inner skin, an outer skin, and a plurality of three-dimensional fiber bundles tying the inner skin and the outer skin to each other through the foam core, inhibiting delamination. The radome includes a hydrophobic exterior surface that is self-cleaning and requires zero maintenance for 25 years.

The invention relates to a device (10), particularly for a tailgate (80) of a vehicle, comprising a camera unit (11) used to capture images of the outer region of the vehicle, and a control unit (2) used to control a part of the vehicle, said camera unit (11) and control unit (12) particularly being arranged one next to the other on the vehicle by means of a carrier element (13). At least the camera unit (11) is accommodated in a housing (14) in a protected manner, and a movable closure element (15) is provided to close a housing opening (14.3), which closure element can be moved by means of a drive unit (16) into at least two end positions (I, II), specifically a closed position (I) and an open position (II). According to the invention, the housing (14) is constructed in at least two parts (14.1, 14.2), the carrier element (13) forming a first housing part (14.1) on which the control element (12) and the camera unit (11) can be arranged, and the drive unit (16) being arrangeable on a second housing part (14.2).

An integrally bladed rotor disk (20) for a turbine, including rotor blades (40), which are joined in a substance-to-substance bond to a disk element (30), and a sealing device (60) for preventing or reducing the extent to which cooling air is able to flow from a high-pressure side (12) of the rotor disk (20) through openings (24) on the rotor disk (20) to a low-pressure side (14) of the rotor disk (20).

The invention relates to a reflection-type TFT (Thin Film Transistor) LCD (liquid crystal display) and a making method thereof. A light absorption layer is arranged below a reflection surface, rays can enter the light absorption layer below the reflection surface through a light absorption gap and can be absorbed by the light absorption layer without irradiating the upper surface of a driving part to cause the failure of the driving part. Accordingly, the light absorption layer can substitute a black light-shielding layer in the prior art, and a black border region is formed between two adjacent pixels. The pixel electrodes or the reflection layer is extremely thin, and the pattern making thereof has extremely high accuracy so that the pattern of the black border region also has extremely high accuracy. Moreover, the black border region and the pixel electrodes are formed on the same substrate, the problem of pattern pasting contraposition errors among different substrates is inessential, and contraposition errors of different film layers of the same substrate are generally very small so that the black border region can be designed very narrow to acquire a larger pixel reflection display area and an effective reflection area ratio.

A pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in a space acted upon by high pressure. The signals detected by the pressure sensor are supplied to evaluation electronics. A sensor diaphragm is accommodated on the end of the pressure sensor pointing towards the space acted upon by high pressure. The sensor diaphragm takes the form of a steel diaphragm, to whose back side a thin, metallic layer accommodating piezoresistive measuring elements is applied. The thin, metallic layer is contacted by transmission elements and connected to the evaluation electronics.

A conveyor grate for the transport and cooling of bulk material, for example cement clinker, comprises a grate floor having multiple planks (12), adjacently situated transverse to the direction of transport on associated support structures and operationally moved longitudinally relative to one another individually or in groups, with moving gaps (14) designed as blow openings situated therebetween, and a method for operating such a conveyor grate. The mutually facing side edges or side edge regions of two adjacent planks (12) form two complementary, mutually engaging profiles between which the moving gap (14) is formed. In the method according to the invention, at least a quantity of the cooling air is blown through the moving gaps (14) which is sufficient to blow the moving gaps (14) completely open.

The invention relates to an elevator car door lock device and an elevator. The elevator car door lock device comprises a belt, a door vane base, a first oscillating bar, a second oscillating bar, a horizontal crossbar, a telescopic device and a car door lock hook. The belt is connected with the first oscillating bar, and the first oscillating bar and the second oscillating bar are connected to the door knife base in a rotating mode. One end of the horizontal crossbar is connected with the car door lock hook, and the other end of the horizontal crossbar is provided with a protruding block. The protruding block abuts against one side, far from the first oscillating bar, of the second oscillating bar. The telescopic device comprises an energized magnet, a connection rod, a limit plate, a push plate and a telescopic spring, wherein the telescopic spring is arranged on the connection rod in a sleeving mode. The second oscillating bar is provided with a through hole matched with the connection rod, one end of the connection rod is connected with the limit plate, and the other end of the connection rod penetrates through the through hole and is connected with the push plate. The two ends of the telescopic spring abut against the push plate and the face, opposite to first oscillating bar, of the second oscillating bar respectively. According to the elevator car door lock device, the stroke difference between a landing door and a car door is greatly reduced, synchronicity between the landing door and the car door is improved, the length of an upper sill of the car door is greatly reduced, and an elevator well can be designed to be narrower.

A pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in a space acted upon by high pressure. The signals detected by the pressure sensor are supplied to evaluation electronics. A sensor diaphragm is accommodated on the end of the pressure sensor pointing towards the space acted upon by high pressure. The sensor diaphragm takes the form of a steel diaphragm, to whose back side a thin, metallic layer accommodating piezoresistive measuring elements is applied. The thin, metallic layer is contacted by transmission elements and connected to the evaluation electronics.

Cam belt, particularly for agricultural machinery, produced from a polymer provided with reinforcement inserts, has cams on the inner side of the cam belt that are used to drive cam belt. A first flank faces in the running direction of cam belt and a second flank faces in opposite direction. Cams are spaced apart from one another by gaps in a predefined division, and gaps are delimited by first flank and second flank of two adjoining cams and a base which connects two flanks. During operation of cam belt carrier of a cam wheel resting against second flank of one of adjoining cams and against the base of a gap engage with the gaps. On outer side of belt, functional elements are fixed by a fastener which from inner side of the belt passes through the cam belt and the functional elements via at least one through hole.

To anchor a fixture in a jaw bone, the fixture is applied in a hole which is substantially smaller than the diameter of the fixture. The fixture has a front portion which from the point of view of diameter grows very much narrower and which is arranged with both a cutting function and a threading function. The fixture is provided with a thread, with one, two or more thread turns extending down along the greatly narrowing portion while substantially maintaining their thread profile. One or more porous layers arranged on the thread turns can also be included. In this way the fixture can exploit the clamping effect from the soft parts of the jaw bone and still effectively penetrate through any hard parts possibly present in the jaw bone, without these hard parts being pressed inward upon fixture application. An effective fusion of the fixture in the jaw bone is achieved with the aid of said porous outer layers.

The present disclosure provides an optical sensing apparatus for measuring a change in a first property. The optical sensing apparatus comprises first and second optical fibre portions and a sensing region for exposing both the first and second optical fibre portions to a change in an applied force. The force is, or is related to, the first property and has a component that is transversal to the optical fibre portions. The apparatus further comprises a holder for holding the first and second optical fibre portions in the sensing region. The first and second optical fibre portions are arranged relative to each other such that the change in the force results in a first change of an optical property of the first optical fibre portion and in a second change of the optical property of the second optical fibre portion and wherein the first change differs from the second change.

A printed circuit board arrangement and method includes a planar generally-rectangular vertically-arranged printed circuit board having front and rear surfaces terminating in a peripheral edge, at least one of the front and rear surfaces having a conductive printed circuit thereon. The printed circuit board has a vertical side edge portion containing a recess, and arranged adjacent the recess is a fixed contact connected with a conductor portion of the printed circuit. A relatively narrow conductor housing arranged outside the peripheral edge of the printed circuit board is mounted in the recess with a movable contact carried by the housing in electrical engagement with the fixed contact. The connector housing is supported by a rear wall mounted on the rear surface of the printed circuit board, and by a resilient clip on the connector housing that engages the printed circuit board adjacent the recess.

The present invention provides various lamp assembly configurations for motorized vehicles. In one embodiment, the lamp assembly includes a light source, such as a light emitting diode (LED) module, that is operable to generate light. The light source is attached to the vehicle structure, located on the interior of the vehicle adjacent to the aperture. A light guide is operatively connected to the light source. The light guide is configured to transmit light generated by the light source to preselected locations along the exterior of the vehicle structure, and diffuse the light. The light guide is attached to the vehicle structure, located on the exterior of the vehicle adjacent to the aperture in opposing relation to the light source. The cross-sectional area of the aperture formed through the vehicle structure is less than the cross-sectional areas of the LED module body and the light emitting segment of the light guide.

A wavelength selective optical switch device includes an incidence and exit part where a signal beam made of light of a multiplicity of wavelengths enters and a signal beam of a selected wavelength exits, a wavelength dispersion element that spatially disperses a signal beam according to the wavelength thereof and multiplexes reflected light, a condensing element that condenses the light dispersed by the wavelength dispersion element onto a two-dimensional plane, and a wavelength selection element that uses a multilevel optical phased array arranged in a position to receive incident light developed on an xy-plane made of an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction perpendicular thereto developed according to a wavelength, having a multiplicity of pixels arrayed in a lattice on the xy-plane, and that cyclically changes the phase shift amount in the y-axis direction to a sawtooth wave pattern for each pixel on the x-axis.

A wavelength selective optical switch device includes an incidence and exit part where a signal beam made of light of a multiplicity of wavelengths enters and a signal beam of a selected wavelength exits, a wavelength dispersion element that spatially disperses a signal beam according to the wavelength thereof and multiplexes reflected light, a condensing element that condenses the light dispersed by the wavelength dispersion element onto a two-dimensional plane, and a wavelength selection element that uses a multilevel optical phased array arranged in a position to receive incident light developed on an xy-plane made of an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction perpendicular thereto developed according to a wavelength, having a multiplicity of pixels arrayed in a lattice on the xy-plane, and that cyclically changes the phase shift amount in the y-axis direction to a sawtooth wave pattern for each pixel on the x-axis.

In an adjusting device for a camshaft of an internal combustion engine having a drive element which is driven by a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, an output element which drives the camshaft of the internal combustion engine, and an actuating element controlled by a brake so as to provide for a relative rotation between the drive element and output element by varying the braking torque effective on the actuating element.

The invention relates to an elevator car door lock device and an elevator. The elevator car door lock device comprises a belt, a door vane base, a first oscillating bar, a second oscillating bar, a horizontal crossbar, a telescopic device and a car door lock hook. The belt is connected with the first oscillating bar, and the first oscillating bar and the second oscillating bar are connected to the door knife base in a rotating mode. One end of the horizontal crossbar is connected with the car door lock hook, and the other end of the horizontal crossbar is provided with a protruding block. The protruding block abuts against one side, far from the first oscillating bar, of the second oscillating bar. The telescopic device comprises an energized magnet, a connection rod, a limit plate, a push plate and a telescopic spring, wherein the telescopic spring is arranged on the connection rod in a sleeving mode. The second oscillating bar is provided with a through hole matched with the connection rod, one end of the connection rod is connected with the limit plate, and the other end of the connection rod penetrates through the through hole and is connected with the push plate. The two ends of the telescopic spring abut against the push plate and the face, opposite to first oscillating bar, of the second oscillating bar respectively. According to the elevator car door lock device, the stroke difference between a landing door and a car door is greatly reduced, synchronicity between the landing door and the car door is improved, the length of an upper sill of the car door is greatly reduced, and an elevator well can be designed to be narrower.

The present device provides for a universal stylus. The stylus emits a light incident upon a distal metallic object therein causing electrons on the metallic object to be ejected from the metallic object, resulting in a non-uniform electric field near the metallic object. When the metallic object is brought into close proximity of a capacitive touch-screen of a smartphone, tablet, kiosk, computer or other electronic device, the local disruption in the electric field surrounding the touch-screen is registered as a touch, in a similar manner as a human finger normally activates the touch-screen. In an embodiment, the device utilizes a light incident directly upon the electronic device, without the need for the light incident striking a metallic object.

The invention relates to a device (1) for varying the control times of an internal combustion engine (100), having a driving wheel (12), a driven element (8) and a swashplate mechanism (2). The torque of a crankshaft (101) is transmitted by means of a primary drive to the driving wheel (12) and further by means of the swashplate mechanism (2) to the driven element (8) which is connected fixedly in terms of rotation to a camshaft (9).The swashplate mechanism (2) is composed of at least one bevel wheel (3) and a swashplate (5) which is mounted on an adjusting shaft (15).It is the aim of the invention to reduce the mass and the installation space of the device (1).

The invention relates to an electrical plug-in connector (1) for telecommunications and data systems technology, comprising electrically interconnected elastic high-frequency contacts (4) and core connection contacts (10). At least the high-frequency contacts (4) are arranged in a housing (2) comprising a receiving opening (3) for a counter plug-in connector, and the core connection contacts (10) are arranged in two parallel rows (8, 9). The distance between adjacent core connection contacts of a row is smaller than that between core connection contacts of different rows. The housing (2) has an upper edge (5), a lower edge (6) and two lateral edges (7), the two rows (8, 9) of core connection contacts (10) being parallel to the upper edge (5) of the housing (2).

A method for manufacturing a micromechanical sensor, including the steps: providing a MEMS wafer that includes a MEMS substrate, a defined number of etching trenches being formed in the MEMS substrate in a diaphragm area, the diaphragm area being formed in a first silicon layer that is situated at a defined distance from the MEMS substrate; providing a cap wafer; bonding the MEMS wafer to the cap wafer; and forming a media access point to the diaphragm area by grinding the MEMS substrate.

A spark plug for an internal combustion engine, including an electrical connecting arrangement on a connection-side end, an end on the combustion-chamber side pointing toward a combustion chamber, an insulator and a housing having a thread for attaching the spark plug to an engine component, a first sealing area and a second sealing area being provided between the insulator and the housing, the first sealing area being situated closer to the connection-side end and the second sealing area being situated closer to the end on the combustion-chamber side, a tool engagement area for transmitting a torque to the spark plug for fitting or removing the spark plug being situated in an area of the spark plug which lies between the connection-side end and the first sealing area.

Probe pins related to the present invention are formed from a material which consists essentially of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of platinum, iridium, ruthenium, osmium, palladium and rhodium. A material obtained by adding one or more elements selected from the group consisting of tungsten, nickel and cobalt to this metal may also be used.

A display apparatus includes a back plate, a plurality of first magnetic components, a display module and second magnetic components. The back plate has a bottom wall and a carrying portion. The carrying portion is connected to the bottom wall and located at a periphery of the bottom wall. A plurality of first magnetic components is disposed on the carrying portion. The display module includes a first substrate. The carrying portion supports an edge of the first substrate. The second magnetic components are disposed to the edge of the first substrate and disposed oppositely to the first magnetic components respectively. The first magnetic components and the second magnetic components are coupled to each other by a magnetic force.

The invention relates to a linear drive, in particular a rack and pinion drive, comprising at least one motor element (2) which is mounted on or in a retaining element (1.1, 1.2). The motor element (2) drives, directly or indirectly, a pinion (4), optionally, via an integrated drive (3), said pinion co-operating with a linear guide (5). According to the invention, the retaining element (1.1, 1.2) can be displaced by at least one actuator (12.1 to 12.3) in relation to a receiving element (6).