Abstract: A positioning system, including: a first plate; a second plate coupled to the first plate and pivotable about an axis; a pair of voice coil actuators configured to rotate the second plate about this axis; and a processor configured to drive currents to the pair of voice coil actuators; wherein the pair of voice coil actuators comprises a first and second magnet structures mounted on the first plate at equal and opposite distance from the axis, and a first and second coils mounted on the second plate and positioned such that the respective first and second magnet structures move in and out of the first and second coils when the second plate rotates about the axis; wherein each of the first and second magnet structures substantially conforms to an arc having a center at the axis and a radius equal to the distance of the magnet structure from the axis.

Abstract: A method is proposed for detecting at least one fluorescence pattern on an immunofluorescence image of a biological cell substrate, comprising the following steps: incubating the cell substrate with a liquid patient sample, which potentially includes primary antibodies, and furthermore with secondary antibodies, which are marked using a fluorescence stain, irradiating the cell substrate using excitation radiation and capturing the immunofluorescence image, determining segmentation information comprising at least one first and one second segmentation area, wherein the segmentation areas each represent a respective cell substrate area, via segmentation of the immunofluorescence image using a first neural network, determining a boundary area, which represents a transition from the first cell substrate area towards the second cell substrate area in the fluorescence image, on the basis of the segmentation information, selecting multiple partial images from the immunofluorescence image along the boundary area, dete

Abstract: A method is proposed for detecting a presence of a fluorescence pattern on an immunofluorescence image of a biological cell substrate, comprising the following steps: incubating the cell substrate with a liquid patient sample, which potentially comprises primary antibodies, and furthermore with secondary antibodies, which are marked using a fluorescence stain, irradiating the cell substrate using excitation radiation and capturing the immunofluorescence image, determining respective items of location information, which indicate respective locations of respective relevant subsections of the cell substrate in the fluorescence image, and determining respective first partial confidence measures of respective presences of the fluorescence pattern on the respective subsections by means of a first neural network on the basis of the overall fluorescence image, extracting respective image subsections, which correspond to the respective subsections of the cell substrate, from the fluorescence image on the basis of the

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, optimized for cleaning optical and optoelectronic sensor devices in motor vehicles, comprising a housing, and a reciprocating piston movable in a pressure-controlled manner in the housing and movable from a retracted position into a deployed position along an actuation axis is disclosed. The reciprocating piston has an inner channel to transport a cleaning fluid through the reciprocating piston to a spray nozzle. A miniaturized, easily and inexpensively producible cleaning apparatus which makes possible exact and precise orientation of the cleaning jet, quick operational readiness, reduced tendency for follow-up flow of the cleaning fluid, and improved adaptability to different installation positions, is also disclosed. In an embodiment at least the cleaning apparatus has at least one guide to prevent rotation of the reciprocating piston about the actuation axis during its entire stroke, the at least one guide means arranged at least regionally in the inner channel.

Abstract: A coating composition for coating of components of a flow machine, especially a turbomachine such as a gas turbine with compressor, or of a compressor, which are exposed to the fluid stream of the flow machine or of the compressor, wherein the coating composition includes anticorrosion pigments, wherein the coating composition includes hard material particles, and wherein the coating composition is an RT-curing, UV-curing and/or thermally curing coating composition. A component of a flow machine or of a compressor has the coating composition. A method of maintaining a flow machine or a compressor uses the coating composition.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for generating an assembly plan including manufacturing instructions to configure a manufacturing machine for manufacturing an industrial assembly with a plurality of objects.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for preparing a three-dimensional model for a fabrication component in the context of production for data transmission to different receiving entities comprising: receiving three-dimensional model data via an input interface; providing a detail-state for processing of the three-dimensional model on the respective receiving entity; and executing a reduction algorithm on a reference version of the received three-dimensional model data for automatically calculating and providing a reduced reference version with the provided detail-state.

Abstract: In a purification method for purifying contaminated water, the contaminated water contained in a purification tank is filtered by a membrane module disposed in the purification tank. An adsorption agent with powdered activated carbon is added to the purification tank at a raw side of the membrane module. The membrane module is aerated by inflow of air from below. The steps of filtering, adding, and aerating are carried out in parallel and/or sequentially. The purification method is used as a stage of a purification process of a wastewater treatment plant prior to introducing the water purified by the purification method into a river, lake or the ocean.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator. The method includes: depositing a piezoelectric layer and forming a recess in a lateral area in such a way that a silicon functional layer is exposed inside the recess, forming a silicide layer on a surface of the silicon functional layer exposed inside the recess, forming a diffusion barrier layer on the silicide layer, depositing and structuring a first and second metallization layer in such a way that a supply line and two connection elements are formed, forming the oscillating structure by structuring the silicon functional layer, the silicon functional layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the first connection element and forming a lower electrode of the resonator, the first metallization layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the second connection element and forming an upper electrode of the resonator.

Abstract: The invention relates to gamma, gamma'-cobalt-based alloys for additive manufacturing methods or soldering, welding, powder and component. By using a cobalt-based alloy based on Co-7W-7 Al-23Ni-2Ti-2Ta-12Cr-0.0IB-0.IC-(0-0.1Si), an alloy that is especially well-suited for additive manufacturing methods or high-temperature soldering is proposed.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for preparing a three-dimensional model for a fabrication component in the context of production for data transmission to different receiving entities comprising: receiving three-dimensional model data via an input interface; providing a detail-state for processing of the three-dimensional model on the respective receiving entity; and executing a reduction algorithm on a reference version of the received three-dimensional model data for automatically calculating and providing a reduced reference version with the provided detail-state.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a manufacturing system comprising: a communication module for receiving a three-dimensional model and control commands including manufacturing instructions for the manufacturing machine with respective reference values, tolerance values, and/or intervention tolerance values; a manufacturing module, wherein the model, the instructions, and the commands are used to manufacture an object; a calculating module using the three-dimensional model and the manufacturing instructions to calculate the control commands; and a measuring device having a communication module for receiving the three-dimensional model, a capture module using sensors to measure the manufactured object, captured for the reference values and/or the tolerance values and/or intervention tolerance values, and a checking module, wherein a divergence of the measured values from the applicable manufacturing reference values and an exceeding of the associated manufacturing tolerance values and/or the associated intervention

Abstract: A coating composition for coating of components of a flow machine, especially a turbomachine such as a gas turbine with compressor, or of a compressor, which are exposed to the fluid stream of the flow machine or of the compressor, wherein the coating composition includes anticorrosion pigments, wherein the coating composition includes hard material particles, and wherein the coating composition is an RT-curing, UV-curing and/or thermally curing coating composition. A component of a flow machine or of a compressor has the coating composition. A method of maintaining a flow machine or a compressor uses the coating composition.

Abstract: A method for supporting a sorting process of workpieces arranged on a sorting table that have been produced on a machine tool by a processing plan, comprising providing of a processing image data set of the processing plan based on the arrangement of at least one workpiece. The method further relates to an imaging-based capturing of the sorting table having a plurality of adjacent workpieces to each other and generating a first sorting image data set, and repeated image-based capturing of the sorting table and generating of a second sorting image data set once at least one workpiece has been removed from the sorting table. The method comprises comparing of the sorting image data sets, incorporating the processing image data set, wherein a sorting signal is generated which contains information that comprises the type, the position and/or the shape of the at least one removed workpiece.

Abstract: A method for supporting a sorting process of workpieces arranged on a sorting table that have been produced on a machine tool by a processing plan, comprising providing of a processing image data set of the processing plan based on the arrangement of at least one workpiece. The method further relates to an imaging-based capturing of the sorting table having a plurality of adjacent workpieces to each other and generating a first sorting image data set, and repeated image-based capturing of the sorting table and generating of a second sorting image data set once at least one workpiece has been removed from the sorting table. The method comprises comparing of the sorting image data sets, incorporating the processing image data set, wherein a sorting signal is generated which contains information that comprises the type, the position and/or the shape of the at least one removed workpiece.

Abstract: The invention relates to gamma, gamma'-cobalt-based alloys for additive manufacturing methods or soldering, welding, powder and component. By using a cobalt-based alloy based on Co-7W-7 Al-23Ni-2Ti-2Ta-12Cr-0.0IB-0.IC-(0-0.1Si), an alloy that is especially well-suited for additive manufacturing methods or high-temperature soldering is proposed.

Abstract: A device for micro-, ultra-, or nanofiltration that includes one or more flat filter modules having flat filter elements arranged in parallel and at a distance from each other and gas injectors of one or more gas lifting systems for producing a circulating cross flow directed tangentially to the surface of the flat filter elements and having at least one rising area, in which the cross flow flows substantially vertically upward, and at least one falling area, in which the cross flow flows substantially vertically downward, in which the rising area flows through 10 to 100% and the falling area flows through 10 to 100% of an inlet-flow volume of the at least one flat filter module.

Abstract: A sequence of symbols is received on a first channel. A noise contribution of a given synchronization symbol is estimated; a reference noise contribution of at least one further symbol is estimated. Based on the noise contribution and further based on the reference noise contribution the given synchronization symbol is selectively considered when determining a coupling coefficient of crosstalk between the first channel and a second channel.

Abstract: A control device for vehicle headlights with adjustable light distributions and with an adjustable vertical cutoff line in at least one light distribution, with access to the programming of information about the location of objects located in front of the vehicle with glare needing to be reduced, with a processing medium, operable for generating variables to set an adjustable light distribution on at least one main headlight and/or operable for generating variables to set a vertical cut-off line on a light distribution installed on the main right headlight and a vertical cut-off line installed on the main left headlight, with an outlet on which variables for setting up a light distribution and/or the vertical cut -off lines can be deployed, whereby the control device has a memory to store the light strengths of locations in front of the main headlights for the adjustable light distributions.

Abstract: A communication device includes a transmitter operable to couple to a plurality of transceivers via a plurality of transmission channels, transmit payload data via the plurality of transmission channels, and obtain monitored transmission conditions for one or more transmission channels in the plurality of transmission channels. During operation, the transmitter is further operable to generate reconfiguration request signals resultant from processing the monitored transmission conditions and transmit the reconfiguration request signals on transmission channels in the plurality of transmission channels.