Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fashion article or textile article, such as a cap 100, with a magnetically attachable and/or detachable patch element 200. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a patch element 200 magnetically attachable to the textile article or fashion article, such as the cap 100, and to a textile article or fashion article, such as the cap 100, configured to magnetically attach the magnetically attachable patch element 200.

Abstract: A controllable coolant pump of internal combustion engines, including a pump housing, a drivable pump shaft rotatably in the pump housing, an impeller fixed on a free end of the pump shaft, and a pressure-difference-driven actuator to drive at least one piston rod guided in a piston rod bore of the pump housing, which includes a control spool at the impeller-side end of the piston rod, and which is guided in the piston rod bore by a guide bushing which is a portion of a sealing device which seals off a pump space carrying coolant with respect to the pressure-difference-driven actuator. The sealing device includes two seals which are spaced apart from one another, are on one end of the guide bushing, and include a static sealing area surrounding the guide bushing on the circumferential side and a dynamic sealing area adjoining the static sealing area.

Abstract: A controllable coolant pump of internal combustion engines includes a pump housing, a drivable pump shaft rotatably mounted in the pump housing, an impeller non-rotatably fixed on a free end of the pump shaft, and a pressure-difference-driven actuator to drive at least one piston rod which is guided in a piston rod bore of the pump housing and includes a control spool valve held at the impeller-side end of the piston rod. The control spool valve is set up to variably cover an outflow region of the impeller. The piston rod is guided in the piston rod bore by a guide bushing which is a portion of a sealing device which seals off a pump chamber carrying the coolant with respect to the pressure-difference-driven actuator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a solar cell composed of crystalline silicon, as well as a solar cell of said type. The substrate of said solar cell has, in a first surface, a first doping region produced by boron diffusion and, in a second surface, a phosphorus-doped second doping region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for metallizing and connecting solar cell substrates and to a photovoltaic module made of several metallized solar cells that are electrically connected to one another. According to the invention, a solar cell substrate, in which second metal layers forming electrical metal contacts are optionally provided, is attached to a carrier substrate, on the surface of which at least one first metal layer is formed in a suitable pattern. By localized irradiation of the metal layer with laser radiation through the solar cell substrate or the carrier substrate, energy is introduced such that the metal layer is heated by absorbed laser radiation for an irreversible bonding to the adjacent surface of the solar cell substrate. By the laser bonding of the metal layer on the carrier substrate to the solar cell substrate, solar cells can be connected to form a photovoltaic module.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to facilitate sales estimates are disclosed. An example method includes compiling, in a market intelligence database, point of sale (POS) data collected at stores using a first data collection system, compiling, in a market intelligence database, consumer purchase data collected from panelists using a second data collection system, compiling, in a market intelligence database, geographically informed demographic data collected with a third data collection system, and compiling, in a market intelligence database, store characteristic data collected with a fourth data system in a market. The example method also includes organizing at least a subset of the POS data, the consumer purchase data, the geographically informed demographic data, or the store characteristic data into a first multi-dimensional volume of cells.

Abstract: A transaction authorization, notification and/or security apparatus, which comprises a device for issuing an authorization request for a transaction, a device for processing the authorization request and for transmitting a first one of a signal, data and information in response to the authorization request and a communication device for receiving said first one of a signal, data and information transmitted by said processing device.

Abstract: A transaction security apparatus and method, including a receiver which receives a limitation or restriction on an account usage, wherein the limitation or restriction on an account usage is received in real-time from a communication device associated with an individual account holder, a memory device for storing the limitation or restriction on an account usage, and a processing device for processing a transaction on an account or an authorization request in conjunction with the limitation or restriction on an account usage. The processing device generates a signal, wherein the signal contains information for authorizing or disallowing the transaction.

Abstract: A microprocessor is provided with circuitry for receiving JTAG and ICE test control signals through JTAG test ports and for synchronizing the test signals to a chip clock signal. Test signals synchronized to an external JTAG device are processed internally by an ICE of the microprocessor chip once the test signals are synchronized with the chip clock rate. To this end, the microprocessor is provided with a synchronizer which receives the chip clock signal, a JTAG control signal, and a JTAG reset signal, and outputs a synchronized control signal. The synchronizer includes an unclocked SR flip-flop for sampling the JTAG control signal, and two or more DR flip-flops for synchronizing the JTAG control signal to the chip clock signal. The synchronizer may be configured to generate a control signal pulse or a control signal level. The synchronizer is protocol independent, i.e., the clock rate of the JTAG test commands is independent of the chip clock.

Abstract: A solderable, flame retardant wire coating solution composition comprising a bromine and phosphorous containing polyol and hydroxy terminated saturated polyester of adipic acid and ethylene glycol together with a suitable epoxy resin and a phenol blocked toluene diisocyanate adduct. To this is added a small weight/percent of a catalyst, such as dibutyltin dilaurate, all mixed in a suitable solvent.