Abstract: A connector having a housing, having first contact elements and second contact elements that are connected to one another and arranged in the housing in order to establish an electrical connection, having first lines that are connected to the first contact elements, having second lines that are connected to the second contact elements or whose ends form the second contact elements, and having a casting resin that at least partially surrounds the contact elements, but surrounds at least the contact points between the first and the second contact elements The housing is formed of multiple parts, and has at least a first housing part and a second housing part that are connected to one another. The contact points are provided in or on the first housing part, and the casting resin has a connection to the first housing part.

Abstract: A method for producing a lighting device and a lighting device, comprising a flat light guide extending in a z-direction, wherein the light guide has a thickness, a back side, a front side and circumferential narrow sides, and scattering particles are arranged in its volume. A reflector is arranged at the back of the light guide and at least one light source is optically connected to the light guide for coupling light. Furthermore, the lighting device has a surface coating. In order to provide homogeneous illumination of the interior and a compact lighting device, the surface coating has a light transmission starting from the at least one light source in the z-direction, which increases to the extent that the curve of the light intensity of the at least one light source decreases and the light guide is formed by cohesive back-injection of a carrier foil with the surface coating.

Abstract: A method for communicating information, wherein two sensor devices each have a sensor test value generator with a variable value and with a calculation rule. The variable values and/or the calculation rules are different, and wherein a receiver device has a receiver test value generator with the two variable values and/or with the two calculation rules. The method includes: calculation of the sensor test value, generation of a data packet with the calculated sensor test value, receiving, by the receiver device, of the data packet from the sensor device, selection of the variable value and/or selection of the calculation rule, calculation of a receiver test value, and checking of the received sensor measurement information for a transmission error based on the received sensor test value and the calculated receiver test value.

Abstract: A method for improving an evaluation of object identification of a radar device of a motor vehicle. A first map is generated of the surroundings of said surroundings by a LiDAR scanner. A first object identification is performed on the basis of the generated first map of the surroundings by a first identification apparatus. A ground-truth model is created of the surroundings on the basis of the performed first object identification by the first identification apparatus. A second map is generated of the surroundings of the surroundings by the radar device. A second object identification is repeatedly performed using alternative object identification algorithms on the basis of the generated second map of the surroundings by a second identification apparatus of the radar device. A radar model is created of the surroundings on the basis of the repeatedly performed second object identification by means of the second identification apparatus.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical component for an illuminating device of a motor vehicle, the optical component having at least one structured surface, comprising the following method steps: generating a first virtual representation of the surface that is to be structured of the component, applying a grid of points to the virtual representation of the surface that is to be structured of the component, shifting all or a plurality of the points in a randomized manner in the positive or negative direction in parallel with the respective normals to the surface in order to structure the surface, creating a second virtual representation of the surface that reproduces the structuring achieved by the shifting of the points, and producing the component on the basis of the second virtual representation of the surface.

Abstract: An angular position sensor assembly for determining an angular position of a shaft when the shaft rotates about an axis of rotation of the shaft. A rotational encoder is connected to the shaft in force transmission and a rotational sensor detects a movement of the rotational encoder. On the shaft, a non-rotatable first gear part of a gearbox of the angular position sensor assembly is arranged and the rotational encoder is formed as a second gear part of the gearbox engaged with the first gear part. The gearbox simultaneously forms a fixed mechanical stop of the shaft on a first end of an angular position range of the shaft when the shaft rotates counterclockwise and on a second end of the angular position range of the shaft when the shaft rotates clockwise.

Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle, in particular a headlamp for a vehicle, having at least one light source, from which light emanates during the operation of the lighting device, a diffractive optical unit, including a plurality of gratings, which form a grating cell array, the light passing through the grating cell array during the operation of the lighting device in such a way that a light distribution is created in the outer area of the vehicle, at least one of the gratings of the grating cell array being designed as a volume hologram.

Abstract: A light source module for a motor vehicle, comprising a substrate, multiple light sources, and temperature sensors, wherein the light sources and the temperature sensors are arranged on the substrate, wherein the substrate has a central region and a peripheral region, and wherein the number of temperature sensors per unit area is greater in the central region than in the peripheral region.

Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle, having a housing, at least one light module for producing a light function, a supporting frame that is arranged in the housing so as to be pivotable. The at least one light module is mounted in the supporting frame such that it is pivoted upon a pivoting of the supporting frame. An adjuster is designed to pivot the supporting frame about a vertical axis. The adjuster being connected to the supporting frame in a first engagement region and in a second engagement region that is arranged horizontally on the opposite side of the supporting frame. The adjuster moving the supporting frame in a first horizontal direction in the first engagement region and to simultaneously move it in a second horizontal direction, which is opposite to the first direction, in the second engagement region.

Abstract: A gripping element for arrangement on a component, wherein the component, in particular a cable harness, is of flexible design and has a changeable form, wherein the gripping element has at least one optically detectable marker via which a spatial orientation of the gripping element is detectable by an optical recognition device, and wherein the gripping element is grippable by a gripper.

Abstract: A radial continuous-flow machine with cooling and lubrication by means of a medium flowing through the machine, wherein the medium flows from a high-pressure side to a low-pressure side of the radial continuous-flow machine, having a housing assembly and a rotor assembly that is rotatably mounted in an interior of the housing assembly, wherein at least one first bearing is provided for mounting the rotor assembly in the housing assembly, wherein the rotor assembly includes a rotor of an electric motor and an impeller, wherein the motor includes, in addition to the rotor, a stator that is a part of the housing assembly, wherein the rotor of the motor is arranged in a first region of the rotor assembly, and the stator is arranged in a first region of the housing assembly, wherein the first region of the housing assembly encloses the first region of the rotor assembly.

Abstract: A valve for a liquid system of a vehicle having a valve housing with a multiplicity of valve housing openings, a valve body that is arranged in the valve housing so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis and has at least one flow-conducting connecting passage for the flow-conducting connection of at least two valve housing openings of the multiplicity of valve housing openings. A valve seal is arranged between the valve housing and the valve body. A valve actuator rotates the valve body about the rotational axis, and a multiplicity of flow passages corresponding to the valve housing openings for the flow-conducting connection of the valve to a remainder of the liquid system, are provided. The flow passages are jointly formed from a single first passage shell and a single second passage shell. The first passage shell is simultaneously formed as the valve housing.

Abstract: A liquid tank for a liquid system of a vehicle, comprising a tank housing for storage of a liquid of the liquid system, wherein the tank housing is designed as multiple shells and has at least two tank housing shells that are joined to one another, and at least one flow passage of the liquid system, which flow passage is integrated in the tank housing. At least one of the at least one flow passages integrated in the tank housing is formed by two joined tank housing shells of the at least two tank housing shells.

Abstract: A mold insert for a tooling device for producing an optical component by injection molding, wherein the mold insert is formed at least in part of copper beryllium.

Abstract: A lighting device for a vehicle, in particular a headlight, including a light source, from which light emerges in operation of the lighting device, a collimation optical system having an incident face and an emergent face, which the light emerging from the light source passes through, a projection optical system having a first array of lenses and a second array of lenses, wherein the light emerging from the collimation optical system first passes through the first array of lenses and after that through the second array of lenses, as well as a diaphragm, which the light passes through, wherein the diaphragm is arranged in front of the first array of lenses, so that in operation of the lighting device the light does not strike the first array of lenses until after passing through the diaphragm.

Abstract: An elongate body for a vehicle system of a vehicle, the body having at least one cursor band for an inductive linear displacement sensor, the at least one cursor band extending in the direction of a longitudinal extent of the body, the at least one cursor band being designed with a plurality of electrically conductive cursor pads in order to inductively couple at least one excitation coil to at least one sensor coil of a stator of the linear displacement sensor and being designed with non-coupling sections which are electrically less conductive or non-conductive with respect to the cursor pads, the cursor pads being spaced apart from one another in the direction of the longitudinal extent in each case by the non-coupling sections, and the cursor pads of the cursor band being formed on the body.

Abstract: A device for automatically producing screw connections, having an articulated arm robot and a screwing unit which can be rotated about an effector axis by an output element of an end element of the articulated arm robot. The screwing unit has a housing, wherein a screwing tool is movably received in the housing along the effector axis between a feed position and at least one screwing position, and wherein a mouthpiece for providing a screw is arranged on the housing.

Abstract: An inductive linear position sensor, wherein the linear position sensor comprises a stator having at least one excitation coil and at least one sensor receiver coil, at least one movable element which is linearly movable relative to the stator, and an evaluation circuit.

Abstract: An adjusting unit for adjusting the pose of a light unit of a headlamp, at least including two receiving units spaced a distance apart, each including an axially displaceable receiver for receiving the one light unit. Two shaft units are each operatively connected to a receiving unit in such a way that the receiver are axially displaceable with the aid of rotational movements of the shaft units. The shaft units each including at least two shaft bodies connected to each other in an articulated manner. A drive mechanism, which is operatively connected to the shaft units such that the shaft units are simultaneously rotatable with the aid of a rotational movement of the drive mechanism.

Abstract: An illuminating device for a motor vehicle, in particular, a high-resolution headlamp for a motor vehicle, comprising an LED light source having a plurality of LED elements, whose light outlet surfaces are used for the targeted generation of pixels of a light distribution generated in the outer region of the motor vehicle during the operation of the illuminating device, the light outlet surfaces being arranged in a matrix-like manner in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first direction corresponding to the horizontal direction in the light distribution generated in the outer region of the motor vehicle, and the second direction corresponding to the vertical direction in the light distribution generated in the outer region of the motor vehicle, and the light outlet surfaces at least of a plurality of LED elements each being larger in the first direction than in the second direction.