Abstract: A device for the contacting of a conductor with an electrical component with a flat conductor made of aluminum includes a contacting element, which is connectable with the flat conductor in a material-bonded manner. The contacting element is formed of copper and configured as a disk, in which the disk includes a friction aid configured as a conical or annular structure on a first side, referred to as a joint side, and an outer contour, provided with at least one opening, on a second side opposite the joint side of the disk, for the receiving of the disk in an insertion contour corresponding to a welding tool.

Abstract: A one-piece cast component having at least one integrated attachment part is disclosed. The component includes at least one pin which is rigidly connected to an attachment part; a housing at least partially enclosing the pin in a contactless manner; the pin being arranged in the axial direction between two axial connecting webs and being rigidly connected via the latter to the housing; the pin being arranged in the radial direction between a plurality of radial connecting webs and being rigidly connected via the latter to the housing; wherein the connecting webs are dimensioned in such a way that only the latter break at respective predetermined breaking points when pivoting the attachment part for the first time relative to the housing, whereafter the attachment part, together with the pin, is mounted so as to be pivotable with respect to the housing. The regions of the connecting webs that remain on the housing after the breaking operation prevent the pin from being removed from the housing.

Abstract: A high current contact is disclosed having a contact pin for insertion into the high-current socket having a plurality of contact segments that are slotted in a radial direction for contacting an inner contact surface of the high-current socket; a guide sleeve surrounding the contact pin, which, by means of an at least central front pressing against the high-current socket relative to the contact pin in an axial direction from an initial position, in which the guide sleeve blocks an independent radial spreading of the contact segments in order to avoid a contact between the contacts segments protruding axially from the guide sleeve and the inner contact surface, is movable into a contact position that is set back with respect to the contact pin and in which the guide sleeve unblocks an independent radial spreading of the contact segments protruding from the guide sleeve for contacting the inner contact surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a heat transfer between a base plate and at least one cell module of a battery, wherein the base plate of a frame of the battery is placed on a vacuum cushion, the vacuum cushion is plastically molded and a negative pressure is generated in the vacuum cushion in order to harden the vacuum cushion, then the cell module of the battery is pressed into a thermal paste previously applied to a surface of at least one of the base plate and the cell module, while the base plate is supported substantially over the entire surface by the hardened vacuum cushion, wherein the thermal paste is laterally distributed between the cell module and the base plate.

Abstract: A method for non-destructive testing of a quality of an ultrasonic weld from a welding process includes detecting of a time-dependent measurement value over a period of time, where the measurement value is characteristic of a mechanical or electrical vibration behavior of a welding process to be tested. The method includes evaluating a measurement-value course of the detected time-dependent measurement value by using a Fourier analysis. The method further includes comparing a result of the evaluation to a reference value in order to test the quality of the weld. A measuring device and an ultrasonic welding system are also included.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a test system for optically checking an electrical line, including a test area for arranging the electric line; a plurality of prisms surrounding the test area; a camera directed at the prisms, which is designed to optically detect the electric line arranged in the test area through the prisms from different sides; a shielding mechanism, the curved inner contour of which encloses the test area and the prisms at least in the radial direction; an air duct, which is at least indirectly connected to a nozzle directed towards the test area and which is designed to apply a cleaning air stream to at least some prism surfaces facing the test area and thereby to entrain dirt particles present on these prism surfaces; and further air ducts opening into an area of the inner contour of the shielding.

Abstract: A network for a vehicle and a method of making the network is described. The network is suitable for a number of vehicle network subscribers in at least two topology levels which can be distinguished spatially or functionally. An energy supply device, at least one control unit, at least one interface module, a communication interface; a number of load interfaces, at least one load interface, at least one matrix coupler are provided. The matrix coupler is set up to represent an unbundling task for linking the vehicle network subscribers, where nodes of a line-connector relationship of the graph representing the matrix-coupler in each case denotes a load interface of the number of load interfaces at the end of a line. Here, an edge of the graph denotes a connection relationship of at least one line between a first load interface and a second load interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cross car beam for a vehicle including a first main body extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end, at least a first upper fixing point and a first lower fixing point at the first end of the first main body, and at least a second upper fixing point and a second lower fixing point at the second end of the first main body. A first center line runs, or extends, through the first upper fixing point at the first end and the second upper fixing point at the second end. The first main body has a u-shaped first cross section following the first center line. The cross car beam is formed integrally by at least one fiber reinforced polymer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cross car beam for a vehicle, the cross car beam including a first main body extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end. The first main body has a u-shaped cross section following the longitudinal direction. The cross car beam is formed integrally by at least one fiber reinforced polymer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cross car beam for a vehicle including a first main body extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end. The first main body has a substantially u-shaped cross section following the longitudinal direction. The cross car beam is formed integrally by at least one fiber reinforced polymer.

Abstract: A retaining component for securing at least one cable, includes a main body with a base and a foot element formed on the base. Two webs extend from the base. Both webs extend essentially parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction and form a receiving area for receiving at least one cable. At least one of the webs includes a latching element disposed on an outer side configured to be brought into friction-locking and/or positive-locking engagement with a cover element. The cover element features two holes configured to be brought into engagement with the latching element of a web of the retaining component in a closed position. The cover element is connected to the retaining component to produce a friction-locking and/or positive-locking connection between the webs and the cover element.

Abstract: A method for covering a screw head of a screw which penetrates through a workpiece surface in a sealed manner by means of a viscous coating material is disclosed. The method includes the steps of applying a first strip of the viscous coating material onto the workpiece surface at a first inclination relative to the workpiece surface, the first strip of the viscous coating material, after having been applied, at most partially covering the screw head; and applying a second strip of the viscous coating material to the workpiece surface at a second inclination relative to the workpiece surface, the second strip of the viscous coating material, after having been applied, overlapping the first strip in such a way that the screw head is fully covered, the first inclination and the second inclination being opposite one another. The invention furthermore relates to an application system.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a four-port diplexer device which includes a first port configured to pass signals within a first frequency band and to block signals within a second frequency band; a second port configured to pass signals within the second frequency band and to block signals within the first frequency band; a third port configured to transmit a first signal portion of a combination of the signals received from the first port and the signals received from the second port; and a fourth port configured to transmit a second signal portion of the combination of the signals received from the first port and the signals received from the second port.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a temperature measuring device for measuring a temperature of a pin-shaped electrical contact element, which includes a flexible circuit board with a first thermally conducting and electrically insulating substrate layer. The first substrate layer includes a contact surface that is configured to lie flat against a flange of the pin-shaped electrical contact element and an opening disposed in the contact surface. The pin-shaped electrical contact element is disposed at least partially in the opening. The flexible circuit board further includes a second thermally and electrically conducting layer that is disposed on a sensor surface opposite the contact surface of the first substrate layer and includes a sensor element connected to the sensor surface. The sensor element is configured to record a temperature of the pin-shaped electrical contact element when the pin-shaped electrical contact element is at least partially disposed in the opening.

Abstract: A battery system for an electric vehicle is disclosed having a first battery connectable to a first electric drive; a second, redundant battery, connectable to a second, redundant electric drive; and an electronic power switch having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal being electrically connected to the first battery, the second input terminal being electrically connected to the second battery, and the output terminal being electrically connectable to an electrical accessory, the electronic power switch being configured to selectively and electrically connect the output terminal to the first input terminal or the second input terminal to provide electrical power from the first battery or the second battery to the electrical accessory.

Abstract: A multifunction carrier for receiving circuit components of a battery system for an electric vehicle is disclosed, wherein the multifunction carrier includes: a busbar assembly with at least one charging connection rail and a drive connection rail; and an insulating housing in which the busbar assembly is embedded, wherein the insulating housing has openings exposing contact surfaces of the connecting rails, and wherein the insulating housing has plug connectors which are designed to provide a pluggable mechanical and electrical contact between the circuit components of the battery system with the open contact surfaces of the connecting rails. The invention further relates to a high-voltage contactor for a battery system of an electric vehicle.

Abstract: A horn antenna element includes a septum polarizer configured to transform a linear polarized input signal into a circular polarized output signal at a common port, and a horn radiator. The horn radiator includes an input geometry formed as a quad-ridge waveguide to receive the circular polarized output signal at the common port and an aperture grid to radiate a grid-based circular polarized output signal. The septum polarizer is embedded in the quad-ridge waveguide at the common port.

Abstract: A battery management system for classifying a battery module includes an interface and a processor. The battery module has a first and a second battery cell. The processor is configured to determine reference voltage curve on the basis of a mean voltage value of a first voltage curve associated with the first battery cell and a second voltage curve associated with a second battery cell and compare the first voltage curve to the reference voltage curve in order to obtain a first metric, and compare the second voltage curve to the reference voltage curve in order to obtain a second metric, and assign to the first voltage curve a first electrical characteristic and to the second voltage curve section of the reference voltage curve a second electrical characteristic in order to classify the battery module based on the first electrical characteristic and the second electrical characteristic.

Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting apparatus is disclosed. It includes an elongate light guide having at least one end-side light input coupling surface, a longitudinal light deflection surface and a longitudinal light output coupling surface opposite the light deflection surface, and at least one light source, the light of which is able to be coupled into the light guide at the at least one light input coupling surface and able to be coupled out of the light guide at the light output coupling surface by way of a light deflection at the light deflection surface. At least one light deflection prism is disposed optically downstream of the light output coupling surface and there is at least one jump between two refractive indices in a light path between the light guide and the at least one light deflection prism and the at least one light deflection prism is disposed between two adjacent light deflection regions when viewed perpendicular to the light output coupling surface.

Abstract: A method for welding at least three cables, each with two conductors protruding from the sheath ends of the cables includes stripping ends of the first conductors and stacking from opposite directions atop one another forming a first stack. The stripped ends of the second conductors are stacked atop one another from opposite directions at a working distance from the first stack forming a second stack. The first stack is arranged in a welding area of a welding device and welded to a first welding point, while the second stack is arranged in a waiting area spaced by the working distance from the welding area. The first welding point is moved by the working distance from the welding area to a storage area, while the second stack is moved by the working distance from the waiting area into the welding area and is welded to a second welding point.