Abstract: A drive module is employed for use in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) powertrain or in a battery electric vehicle (BEV) powertrain. The drive module serves to propel movement of the accompanying hybrid electric vehicle or battery electric vehicle. In an implementation, the drive module includes a housing, an electric motor, a gear assembly, a coolant sump, and a coolant passage. The electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The rotor has a shaft. The gear assembly has its movement driven by the shaft. The coolant passage resides in a wall of the housing. Amid use, coolant is drawn from the coolant sump via the coolant passage.

Abstract: A plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition coating system includes a deposition chamber including one or more zones of processing, an electrode centrally located within the deposition chamber, wherein the electrode forms a central axis in the deposition chamber, and a carousel configured to carry at least one substrate. The carousel is configured to move axially in a direction along the central axis from a first end of the deposition chamber to a second end of the deposition chamber. The carousel is further configured to rotate around the central axis such that the substrate is oriented in a plurality of different directions relative to the central axis.

Abstract: A wafer processing system has a transport vacuum chamber for handling a frame assembly under vacuum conditions, at least one vacuum cassette elevator load lock for housing a cassette and adjusting a vertical position of the cassette under vacuum conditions, and at least one wafer processing module in vacuum communication with the transport vacuum chamber. An actuating assembly changes guide members from an expanded configuration to a contracted configuration to reduce a first cross-sectional dimension of a frame assembly receiving area and to reduce a second cross-sectional dimension of the frame assembly receiving area that is perpendicular to the first cross-sectional dimension.

Abstract: A chainsaw system includes a chainsaw and a saw blade module, which has a cutting chain and at least one guide unit for forming a guide for at least one part of the cutting chain. The chainsaw system further includes at least one coupling unit for coupling the saw blade module to the chainsaw and at least one release unit that has at least one fastening element and is provided in order to provide tool-free decoupling of the at least one saw blade module which is coupled by means of the coupling unit.

Abstract: A motor vehicle steering system may include an electric motor and a control unit that controls the electric motor. The control unit may have at least two redundant control paths for controlling the electric motor and an asymmetry detection device. The asymmetry detection device may be configured to compare electric current intensities of the at least two redundant control paths and to cause a faulty control path to be interrupted when there is asymmetry. Each of the at least two redundant control paths may include a switching element that is connected to the asymmetry detection device for interrupting the respective redundant control path.

Abstract: The present invention aims at an improvement of robot control monitoring and optimization in mobile networks in support of remote robot control services for robot devices. Heretofore, an analytics system (26) provides service quality information to a Cloud-based remote control system (22). Also, the Cloud-based remote control system (22) issues control requests to a local control unit (30) for control of a robotic device (24) and a mobile communication network (28) connects the Cloud-based remote control system (22) with the local control unit (30). Service event information is collected and associated with control requests issued by the Cloud-based remote control system (22).

Abstract: A chainsaw system includes a chainsaw and a saw blade module, which has a cutting chain and at least one guide unit for forming a guide for at least one part of the cutting chain. The chainsaw system further includes at least one coupling unit for coupling the saw blade module to the chainsaw and at least one release unit that has at least one fastening element and is provided in order to provide tool-free decoupling of the at least one saw blade module which is coupled by means of the coupling unit.

Abstract: A wafer processing system has a transport vacuum chamber for handling a frame assembly under vacuum conditions, at least one vacuum cassette elevator load lock for housing a cassette and adjusting a vertical position of the cassette under vacuum conditions, and at least one wafer processing module in vacuum communication with the transport vacuum chamber. An actuating assembly changes guide members from an expanded configuration to a contracted configuration to reduce a first cross-sectional dimension of a frame assembly receiving area and to reduce a second cross-sectional dimension of the frame assembly receiving area that is perpendicular to the first cross-sectional dimension.

Abstract: The invention is a system for detecting a signal body gesture, comprising a mobile device and a kinetic sensor adapted for recording a measurement motion parameter pattern corresponding to the time dependence of a motion parameter of the mobile device in a measurement time window, and a decision unit applying a machine learning classification algorithm subjected to basic training utilizing machine training with the application of a training database comprising signal training motion parameter patterns corresponding to the signal body gesture, operated in case the measurement motion parameter pattern having a value equal to or exceeding a predetermined signal threshold value, suitable for classifying the measurement motion parameter pattern to a signal body gesture category. The invention is, furthermore, a method for training the system.

Abstract: The present invention aims at an improvement of robot control monitoring and optimization in mobile networks in support of remote robot control services for robot devices. Heretofore, an analytics system (26) provides service quality information to a Cloud-based remote control system (22). Also, the Cloud-based remote control system (22) issues control requests to a local control unit (30) for control of a robotic device (24) and a mobile communication network (28) connects the Cloud-based remote control system (22) with the local control unit (30). Service event information is collected and associated with control requests issued by the Cloud-based remote control system (22).

Abstract: An electric machine having a housing assembly and a stator assembly coupled with a rotor assembly. A plurality of MOSFET assemblies are operably coupled with the stator assembly. The MOSFET assemblies are disposed in openings defined by the housing assembly and include a carrier that is secured within the openings with a press-fit engagement. The carrier defines an interior space extending the full longitudinal length of the carrier and includes at least one planar mounting surface wherein a MOSFET is mounted on the planar mounting surface. In some embodiments, the housing assembly includes an aluminum heat exchange member that defines an opening in which a MOSFET assembly is installed. The carrier may be formed by extruding copper and include longitudinally extending ribs that engage the housing assembly in press fit engagement. A method of manufacturing an electric machine is also disclosed.

Abstract: A mains-operated handheld machine tool includes a tool housing, an electric drive motor arranged in the housing and configured to drive an associated tool insert, and a slide switch arranged, at least in a longitudinally displaceable fashion, on the tool housing and coupled to a sliding element configured to switch the drive motor on and off. The mains-operated handheld machine also includes a protection device with an electromechanical relay. The protection device is configured to prevent, by way of the electromechanical relay, uncontrolled restarting of the drive motor after an interruption to a corresponding power supply to the drive motor as a result of latching of the relay being canceled.

Abstract: A method of forming an electric motor housing includes molding an internal housing portion having an outer surface with a mold including two axial mold members and at least one radial mold member, forming an external housing portion including an inner surface section, and installing the internal housing portion into the external housing portion with the outer surface being spaced from the inner surface section by a gap having a selected dimension.

Abstract: An electric machine having a housing assembly and a stator assembly coupled with a rotor assembly. A plurality of MOSFET assemblies are operably coupled with the stator assembly. The MOSFET assemblies are disposed in openings defined by the housing assembly and include a carrier that is secured within the openings with a press-fit engagement. The carrier defines an interior space extending the full longitudinal length of the carrier and includes at least one planar mounting surface wherein a MOSFET is mounted on the planar mounting surface. In some embodiments, the housing assembly includes an aluminum heat exchange member that defines an opening in which a MOSFET assembly is installed. The carrier may be formed by extruding copper and include longitudinally extending ribs that engage the housing assembly in press fit engagement. A method of manufacturing an electric machine is also disclosed.

Abstract: A hand power tool includes a tool receiver configured to receive a tool. The tool has an outer polygonal coupling and the tool receiver has an inner receiver including, at least portionally, a rotary driver profile. The tool receiver is provided on an associated tool housing, in which there is a drum-type tool change magazine having at least one tool chamber configured to store the tool. The tool chamber is configured to be aligned so as to be flush with the tool receiver to enable the tool to slide from the tool chamber into the inner receiver or from the inner receiver into the tool chamber. An alignment element is configured to align the outer polygonal coupling as the tool slides from the tool chamber into the inner receiver to enable the outer polygonal coupling to slide into the rotary driver profile.

Abstract: A motor-driven machine tool includes a drive unit and a tool changing magazine with tool chambers that are placed into a transfer position adjacent to a tool receptacle to be loaded. The machine tool includes a tool changing device with a slide element that is arranged in operative connection with a tool. The slide element is moved by an operating element into a first position for accepting a tool from or transferring a tool to the tool chamber and into a second position to drive the tool. The slide element is fixed in the second position by a blocking element that is brought out of operative connection with the slide element by a transfer element to move the slide element from the second position to the first position. The slide element is arranged in indirect contact with the blocking element to move the blocking element by the transfer element.

Abstract: A motor-powered machine tool includes a drum-like tool-changing magazine having tool chambers. The magazine is arranged inside a housing, and when the tool is in a change position, one of the tool chambers of the tool-changing magazine is aligned with a tubular tool holder. The tool further includes a sliding element configured to slide a tool from the tool-changing magazine into the tool holder and from the tool holder back into the tool-changing magazine. The sliding element is movable in a longitudinal direction of the tool holder. In at least one embodiment, the sliding element is coupled with a gearbox system which includes at least one toothed gear. The rotational motion of the toothed gear is translated into linear movement of the sliding element.

Abstract: A vehicle starter motor arrangement comprises a battery, a first vehicle starter motor including a first pinion and a second vehicle starter motor including a second pinion. The first vehicle starter motor is connected in series to the battery and the second vehicle starter motor is connected in series to the first vehicle starter motor. Accordingly, the battery, the first vehicle starter motor, and the second vehicle starter motor are all connected in series. The first pinion gear and the second pinion gear are configured to engage an engine ring gear when electrical current flows through the first vehicle starter motor and the second vehicle starter motor.

Abstract: A hand power tool includes a tool receiver configured to receive a tool. The tool has an outer polygonal coupling and the tool receiver has an inner receiver including, at least portionally, a rotary driver profile. The tool receiver is provided on an associated tool housing, in which there is a drum-type tool change magazine having at least one tool chamber configured to store the tool. The tool chamber is configured to be aligned so as to be flush with the tool receiver to enable the tool to slide from the tool chamber into the inner receiver or from the inner receiver into the tool chamber. An alignment element is configured to align the outer polygonal coupling as the tool slides from the tool chamber into the inner receiver to enable the outer polygonal coupling to slide into the rotary driver profile.

Abstract: A tool change magazine for a motor-driven machine tool, in particular a handheld machine tool with a tool which is to be driven in rotation, has an annular or drum-shaped housing. The housing is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. The tool change magazine also includes tool chambers arranged within the housing and each configured to slidably receive a tool. The housing includes regions formed from a transparent material. The tool chambers are arranged in the housing at the regions formed from the transparent material.