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A light module of a motor vehicle generates a spot distribution of a high-beam-light distribution formed by superimposition of the spot distribution and a base distribution generated by at least one other module. The light module comprises a plurality of separately controllable sub-modules that generate a plurality of stripe-shaped segments of the spot distribution that supplement it. Also, a headlight generates the high-beam-light distribution and comprises the light module. Furthermore, a headlight system comprises a pair of the headlights disposed in a front region toward sides of the vehicle and each of which generates the high-beam-light distribution. The headlights include corresponding light modules that generate stripe-shaped segments of left and right sides, respectively, of the spot distribution such that the stripe-shaped segments of the light modules of the headlights supplement the spot distribution or are at least partially superimposed thereon.

A paint spraying gun with a gun body and a material supply device that are connected to one another by a screw-wedge connection. The screw-wedge connection includes a screw-wedge element that is arranged on the circumference of an essentially hollow-cylindrical connecting part of the material supply device, and a corresponding counter element on the gun body. The connection is inexpensively manufactured and easily handled. The screw-wedge element extends in an arc over more than half of the circumference of the connecting part with the ends of the screw-wedge element being peripherally spaced from one another. The counter element is an arcuate projection arranged on one side of and above a receiving bore of the gun body.

A paint spraying gun with a gun body and a material supply device that can be connected to one another by means of a screw-wedge connection, wherein the screw-wedge connection includes a screw-wedge element that is arranged on the circumference of an essentially hollow-cylindrical connecting part of the material supply device, and a corresponding counter element on the gun body. A new method for connecting the material supply device, which can be inexpensively manufactured and easily handled, and which is characterized by the fact that the screw-wedge element contains a gap and extends over more than half of the circumference of the connecting part, and by the fact that the counter element is arranged on a one-sided projection situated above a receiving bore of the gun body.

The invention relates to a mechanism for enhancing database performance in a Domain Name System (DNS). In order to optimize the performance of current de-facto DNS name servers for queries that request data related to a E.164 number, a domain name received in a first format is converted into a second format before it is supplied to database operations. In the second format at least two successive labels of the domain name are combined to form a single label. The conversion may be made in connection with a zone transfer and in connection with a subsequent DNS query.

The present invention relates to a lighting unit for vehicles, comprising a light source arranged on a circuit board and further comprising an optical attachment mounted in the direction of light emission in front of the light source, said optical attachment comprising at least one holding turret on one of the sides facing the circuit board such that, at its mounting position, the holding turret slots into a hole drilled into the circuit board, wherein the optical attachment is positive-locking to a holding body arranged on one of the sides facing away from the light source, wherein the holding body is molded to a carrier frame, and wherein the holding body or the carrier frame snaps on to the optical attachment.

The invention relates to a method of measuring the distance between a fixed point and an object, by the steps of:a) transmitting a light pulse (11) from the fixed point at a selected instant of transmission;b) periodically scanning of light intensity received at the fixed point and continuously storing, as a set of received scanned signal values, the scanned values at the scanning rate during a predetermined measuring time window (13) embracing the instant of reception of the light pulse reflected from the object;c) repeating steps a) and b) N number of times in order to obtain N number of sets of received signal values;d) summing the individual stored sets of received scanned signal values, set by set, to a summed scanned value set during a calculating window (14) following the N measuring time windows (13);e) repeating steps a) through d) in order to obtain a further summed scanning value set, whereby during or following step d) the further summed scanned value set is added, scanned value set by scanned value set, to the present summed scanned value set to actualize the latter, and whereby an equalizing portion of a summed scanned value set is optionally subtracted therefrom before and / or after the mentioned addition;f) searching within the summed scanned value set for significant scanning values which satisfy predetermined threshold values;g) repeating steps e) and f) until significant scanning values have been detected; andh) determining the looked-for distance from the position of the detected Significant scanning values in the summed scanned value set.

The invention relates to a process for the treating or conditioning of polluted water using a source of hydrogen peroxide and / or ozone and a heterogeneous catalyst.

A non-toxic anti-fouling coating paste having a rheologic switching behavior based on a flow point, which can be set to the hydrodynamic and biological environmental conditions of a submarine component to be protected and which is between 5 Pa and 2,000 Pa above the wall shearing stress of the unfouled component to form a substrate which prevents colonization by marine fouling organisms.

A device for irradiating substrate material (S) in the form of a sheet or web in a sheet-fed or web-fed processing system, especially in a sheet-fed or web-fed processing or printing press. The device comprises at least one flexible light-emitting sheet (10) for producing radiation of a desired wavelength or wavelength band, which light-emitting sheet (10) is disposed along a path of the substrate material (S) to subject the substrate material (S) to said radiation. The flexible light-emitting sheet (10) is preferably an organic light-emitting device (OLED) sheet.

An illumination device (1) comprises: mains input terminals (2, 3); a power source (30), having input terminals (31, 32) coupled to the mains input terminals and having three output terminals (33, 35, 34), one of said output terminals being a common output terminal (35). A first output (36) is defined by a first output terminal and said common output terminal; a second output (37) is defined by a second output terminal and said common output terminal. A first LED string (110) is connected to the first power source output in series with a first resistor (120). A second LED string (210) is connected to the second power source output in series with a second resistor (220). The power source is controllable to vary the voltage at the common output terminal within the range from the voltage at the first output terminal to the voltage at the second output terminal.

A warning system and a method for alerting a driver of a vehicle that the parking brake of the vehicle is not engaged by generating a warning when the following conditions are simultaneously fulfilled: the ignition of the vehicle is on, the driver access door of the vehicle cabin is open, no throttle lever, or clutch lever or brake lever of the vehicle is activated, the gear shift lever of the vehicle is in the neutral position, and the parking brake is not engaged, and not when—the pressure of a pneumatic circuit associated with the parking brake is below a threshold,—the vehicle speed exceeds a threshold.

The invention relates to an auto-injector (1) with a delay mechanism (36) for slowing down motion of a retraction sleeve (10) in axial direction of the auto-injector (1), the delay mechanism (36) comprising a circumferential outer wall (37) with a back collar (38) attached to a housing (2) of the auto-injector (1) and a circumferential inner wall (39) with a front collar (40) attached to the retraction sleeve (10) wherein a cavity is defined between the outer wall (37) and inner wall (39), the cavity sealed by the back collar (38) against the inner wall (39) and by the front collar (40) against the outer wall (37), the cavity filled with a viscous fluid, wherein at least one orifice is arranged in the delay mechanism (36) for allowing the viscous fluid to be pushed out as the volume of the cavity decreases due to axial motion of the component with respect to the housing. The retraction sleeve (10) is axially movably arranged in the housing (2) and serves for retracting the syringe (3) with the needle (4) into the covered position after delivering the medicament (M).

A wind energy converter includes a wind turbine, a wind turbine foundation and a temperature control mechanism for controlling the temperature of one or more areas of the wind turbine. The temperature control mechanism including a mechanism for exchanging heat. The wind energy converter is characterized in that the mechanism for exchanging heat is positioned in the ground outside the foundation. Also contemplated is a method for controlling the temperature of one or more areas of a wind energy converter and use thereof.

An over-the-air test system is described that is used for testing a device under test in a wireless communication environment. The test system comprises at least one measurement antenna connected with a signal processing unit configured to generate a signal or to analyze a signal. The test system further comprises a reflector configured to reflect electromagnetic signals, the reflector being positioned in a signal path established between the device under test and the measurement antenna such that the signals are reflected by the reflector. The measurement antenna has a radiation pattern with a main lobe, the measurement antenna being configured to adjust the direction of the main lobe with respect to the reflector in order to simulate different impinging angles of the signals. Further, a method for testing a device under test is described.

An object class (Class1) in a computer system is dynamically created by creating a global generic class (GenericClass) having two possible members, wherein at least one member is an instance of a generic class (GenericAttribute, GenericMethod), and by instantiating the global generic class.

The invention relates to a valve device and to a method for transferring a transfer medium, said valve device and method having an inflow, an outflow and two valve disks which are arranged one behind another in the direction of flow and are pivotable about a common rotational axis for opening and closing the lumen which surrounds them, wherein the inflow and the outflow are formed by two housing sections which are lockable together, the ends of which facing one another receive in each case a valve disk with a fixedly connected half-shaft, wherein, with the housing sections in the locked state, the two half-shafts form one common shaft which is pivotable about the rotational axis and the valve disks abut closely against one another, and wherein, with the housing sections in the non-locked state, the valve disks in each case close the lumen of the housing section receiving them.

In a turbine housing, for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas guide section which has at least one spiral channel that can be coupled to an exhaust path of an exhaust tract and a reception chamber for accommodating a turbine wheel arranged downstream of the at least one spiral channel, at least one first and one second partial housing are provided, which include complementary wall regions of the at least one spiral channel and which are joined so as to form the at least one spiral channel. Also, an exhaust gas turbocharger with such a turbine housing is provided and a method for producing such a turbine housing.

A vacuum cleaner nozzle for floors and carpets having a housing comprised of an upper part and a slide sole, a pivotable rocker located in the housing on a rear segment in working direction and an actuating lever to operate the rocker. Strip-shaped gasket elements are attached to the rocker, which are arranged in working direction in front of and behind a suction port formed into the slide sole and can be retracted and moved out of openings on the lower side of the housing with a pivoting movement of the rocker.

The invention relates to a plate-shaped composite material of several metal layers (1, 2, 3) for producing cookware suitable for induction stoves by deep drawing, wherein the composite material comprises two metallic outer layers (1, 2) and at least one metallic core layer (3) arranged between the outer layers (1, 2), wherein at least one of the two outer layers (1) is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy and the core layer (3) adjacent to this outer layer is formed of a ferromagnetic metal or a ferromagnetic metal alloy. The composite material composed in such a way can be coated on the outer layer which consists of aluminum or an aluminum alloy in a simple and cost efficient way. By this it becomes possible to produce high-quality cookware suitable for induction stoves with a desired coating at low cost.

The invention relates to a vehicle body structure having a body reinforcement behind the second row of seats, the body reinforcement including a beam assembly which is formed from two opposite longitudinal side beams (9, 10), a floor crossbeam (4) and two vertical side beams (5, 6), of which in each case a left-side longitudinal side beam (9), an associated end of the floor crossbeam (4) and a left-side vertical side beam (5) are connected at a left-side nodal point (11) and, correspondingly, the second longitudinal side beam (10) is connected to the other end of the floor crossbeam (4) and the second vertical side beam (10) at a right-side nodal point, and, at the two nodal points, corner reinforcements being fitted for increased stiffening in the transverse plane of the floor crossbeam (4) and the vertical side beams (5, 6). According to the invention, the longitudinal side beams (9, 10) are cast aluminum longitudinal side beams, on which in each case at the nodal point (11) a corner reinforcement is formed and integrated as an corner reinforcing profile (13) made of uniform material and projecting in the manner of a box, wherein the associated vertical side beam (5, 6) is connected to the corner reinforcing profile (13) at the top on one hand, and is connected to the floor crossbeam (4) laterally on the other hand.

An electric machine includes an external rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, and a stator arranged in coaxial relationship to the rotation axis in the external rotor. The stator is comprised of a first stator portion to define a core element, and a second stator portion arranged in the form of a ring in surrounding relationship to the core element and including radially inwardly directed teeth to define a comb-shaped configuration with slots which taper towards the rotation axis for receiving a stator winding. The comb teeth have free ends which are supported on the core element.

A method for monitoring the quality of an adhesive application during a lamination process for manufacturing a packaging laminate includes conveying a first film or foil web in a longitudinal direction, applying an adhesive material over the whole surface or in a pattern onto the moving first film or foil web and applying a second film or foil web onto the adhesive coated first film or foil web and conveying the first and second film or foil web having the intermediate deposited adhesive material layer in the longitudinal direction to a pressing station to form a laminate. A fluorescent agent may be added to and intermixed with the adhesive material such that the fluorescent agent is uniformly distributed. Fluorescence radiation emitted by an ultraviolet-exposed adhesive material layer is detected by a visual inspection system.

A method of producing a thin film photovoltaic system (2) having a two-dimensional metal chalcogenide compound semiconductor layer (7) as an absorber of sunlight and a metal layer (8) applied to the metal chalcogenide compound semiconductor layer is provided, wherein the metal chalcogenide compound semiconductor layer (7) and the metal layer (8) form a Schottky contact at their contact face. The method is characterized in that the metal chalcogenide compound semiconductor layer (7) is produced by applying a dispersion containing nanoscale particles having a diameter of about 3 nm to about 30 nm to a transparent substrate material (12), wherein the layer thickness of the metal chalcogenide compound semiconductor layer (7) applied to the substrate material ranges from about 150 nm to about 2500 nm.