Abstract: A wheel suspension is provided for a vehicle (7), with a carrier element (5), a wheel carrier (1) arranged at a spaced location from the carrier element (5) and a wheel (14) mounted rotatably on the wheel carrier (1). The wheel carrier (1) is connected to the carrier element (5) via a first guide (3; 17) and a first pivotable connection (10) and the wheel carrier (1) is connected to the carrier element (5) via a second guide (2; 4) and a second pivotable connection (8; 12). A first angle-measuring device (27, 28) is integrated in the first pivotable connection (10) and a second angle-measuring device (44, 45) is integrated in the second pivotable connection (8; 12).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for determining a steering angle of a motor vehicle. The systems make it possible to detect an elastokinematic angle on at least one steering pivoting joint (10) in correlation with a wheel offset.

Abstract: A shifting device for a motor vehicle is provided with a bracket (3), with a selector lever (7) mounted at the bracket (3) pivotably via a joint (12) and with an angle-measuring device having a signal transmitter (13) and two sensors (14, 15). The angle-measuring device is arranged in the joint (12) and is electrically connected to a control means (19) connected to a motor vehicle transmission (21).

Abstract: A method to approximate descriptive parameters of an interaction of a coherent light source with an arbitrary wavelength and energy mode with an arbitrary material of known properties, the method comprising providing a data file with characteristics of the coherent light source, providing a data file with characteristics of the material, providing a data file describing a resolution of a subset of the material, and calculating at least one of an energy distribution and a beam projection of the coherent light source specific to the material with a parallel processing technique.

Abstract: A method for separating a shaped body from a substrate, the method comprising forming a scoreline having a width and a depth in a first side of the substrate in a directional path defining the annular shaped body from the substrate, applying a temperature differential to at least one of the annular shaped body and the main body to increase the width and the depth of the scoreline, and applying a physical force to separate the shaped body from the substrate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the rapid sectioning of hollow cylindrical bodies by means of coherent light. The method applies to nonmetallic substances under special consideration of glass.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the separation of round or elliptical bodies from the surrounding material or for annular shaped bodies from the material sorrounding the OD as well as the material confined by the ID. The method applies to non-metallic substances under special consideration of glass.

Abstract: This invention relates to a group of methods aimed to facilitate the start of a controlled thermal scoring, shearing or separation method applied to brittle materials. More or less all thermal scoring, shearing or separation methods have in common that the specific energy level inherent to this method remains constant over the path. Such energy level sufficient to control the propagation of a crack is insufficient to start the same.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for sundering semiconductor materials. The interesting optical properties of semiconducting materials such as monocrystalline Silicon, Gallium arsenide (GaAs) and Indium phosphide (InP) and epitaxial materials such as InGaP/GaAs, InP/InGaAs, AlGaAs/GaAs, InAlAs/InGaAs as well as SOS (Silicon on Sapphire) are sufficiently similar to employ a general technique according to this invention with only minor modifications for the individual materials. This invention is using electromagnetic radiation in the far-infrared, a wavelength known to have comparably small extinction coefficients in the particular group of materials. This invention describes a method to couple the effects of weak absorption, temperature dependency of the adsorption and incoherent internal reflection to create sufficient stress in the material to extend an initially surface bound rupture throughout the material.