Abstract: A method for controlling an agricultural installation for small and medium livestock farming includes the steps of: acquiring at least one sensor signal of a sensor device of the agricultural installation configured for measuring a process or state variable in the agricultural installation; acquiring a plurality of further sensor signals from locally in the agricultural installation or from sensor devices distributed locally in another agricultural installation, wherein the distributed sensor devices are configured to measure process or state variables; storing the acquired sensor signals as cloud data in a cloud computing device; evaluating the sensor signal with an evaluation module, wherein the evaluation module is part of a control device of the agricultural installation and/or of a cloud computing device and wherein the evaluation takes at least a portion of the stored cloud data into consideration in order to verify the sensor signal in relation to the stored cloud data.

Abstract: A device for the automated identification of a pig that is ready for onward transfer includes a detection unit for the determination of a weight statement of at least one pig, a database with pig-related data, wherein the pig-related data includes statements concerning at least one determined, or determinable, pig, and an evaluation unit configured to generate an onward transfer indicator. The evaluation unit is configured for data exchange with the detection unit and with the database, such that the evaluation unit generates the onward transfer indicator as a function of the determined weight value and as a function of the pig-related data, so as automatically to identify the pig with the onward transfer indicator as being ready for onward transfer.

Abstract: Described is a heating means for thermally connecting two objects each having a plastic material, wherein, during the connecting, a first inner object is surrounded at least partially by a second outer object, and the heating means surrounds the first inner object at least partially along a complete circumferential course around the first inner object, and is located between the first inner object and the second outer object. The heating means has a ribbon-type structure. The ribbon-type structure has an auxiliary heating material, which is inductively heatable, wherein the auxiliary heating material is spatially distributed or arranged along the circumferential course such that an electrical conductivity is interrupted at at least one position along the complete circumferential course around the first inner object. Further described are an arrangement and a system each having such a heating means as well as a method for thermally connecting two plastic objects.

Abstract: Described is a heating means for thermally connecting two objects each having a plastic material, wherein, in the connecting, a first inner object is surrounded at least partially by a second outer object, and the heating means is located between the first inner object and the second outer object. The heating means has a ribbon-type structure, in which a plurality of openings is formed. These openings are dimensioned such that molten-on plastic material of the first inner object and/or of the second outer object can intrude and can connect to molten-on plastic material of the respective other object. Alternatively or in combination, the openings are filled with a plastic material, which can connect to molten-on plastic material of the first inner object and/or of the second outer object. The ribbon-type structure has a ferromagnetic material, which is inductively heatable and which has a Curie temperature that is lower than 460° C.

Abstract: Described is a heating device for thermally connecting a pipe, which has a first plastic material, to a bushing, which has a second plastic material, and which surrounds at least a section of the pipe, wherein an inductively heatable heating means is located between the pipe and the bushing and/or integrated in the pipe and/or the bushing. The heating device has a coil arrangement, which is excitable by a generator, and which has a first coil, which has at least one complete winding within a first cross-sectional area, and a second coil, which is electrically coupled to the first coil, and which has at least one complete winding within a second cross-sectional area. The first cross-sectional area is different from the second cross-sectional area. Furthermore, a heating system having such a heating device as well as a method for thermally connecting a pipe to a bushing are described.

Abstract: A component carrier with a base structure, an antenna arrangement, and an electronic component are disclosed. The antenna arrangement has a first antenna element and a second antenna element, wherein both antennas elements are embedded within the base structure. The electronic component is embedded within the base structure and is operatively connected both with the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The electronic component is an active electronic component capable of providing a first transmit signal to the first antenna element and a second transmit signal to the second antenna element and/or processing a first receive signal received from the first antenna element and a second receive signal received from the second antenna element. Further, an electronic apparatus comprising such a component carrier and a manufacturing method for such a component carrier are described.

Abstract: An ambient backscatter (transmit) communication device includes (a) an antenna arrangement for scattering electromagnetic radiation towards a receive communication device; (b) an electronic circuit having a modulator unit for modulating an impedance of the antenna arrangement in accordance with pieces of information to be communicated; and (c) a component carrier. At least a part of the antenna arrangement and/or the electronic circuit is embedded within the component carrier. An ambient backscatter (receive) communication device includes (a) an antenna arrangement for receiving ambient backscattered radiation; (b) an electronic circuit having a demodulator unit for demodulating the received ambient backscattered radiation to retrieve pieces of information; and (c) a component carrier. At least a part of the antenna arrangement and/or the electronic circuit is embedded within the component carrier.

Abstract: A component carrier with a base structure, an antenna arrangement, and an electronic component are disclosed. The antenna arrangement has a first antenna element and a second antenna element, wherein both antennas elements are embedded within the base structure. The electronic component is embedded within the base structure and is operatively connected both with the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The electronic component is an active electronic component capable of providing a first transmit signal to the first antenna element and a second transmit signal to the second antenna element and/or processing a first receive signal received from the first antenna element and a second receive signal received from the second antenna element. Further, an electronic apparatus comprising such a component carrier and a manufacturing method for such a component carrier are described.

Abstract: Described is a heating means for thermally connecting two objects each having a plastic material, wherein, in the connecting, a first inner object is surrounded at least partially by a second outer object, and the heating means is located between the first inner object and the second outer object. The heating means has a ribbon-type structure, in which a plurality of openings is formed. These openings are dimensioned such that molten-on plastic material of the first inner object and/or of the second outer object can intrude and can connect to molten-on plastic material of the respective other object. Alternatively or in combination, the openings are filled with a plastic material, which can connect to molten-on plastic material of the first inner object and/or of the second outer object. The ribbon-type structure has a ferromagnetic material, which is inductively heatable and which has a Curie temperature that is lower than 460° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for electrically connecting components, which device has at least one electrically insulating layer structure, at least one electrically conducting layer structure, which is stacked and consolidated with the at least one electrically insulating layer structure under formation of a stack of layers, and a warpage stabilization structure for stabilizing the device in a warpage-suppressing manner, which structure at least partially pervades layer structures of the stack of layers.

Abstract: Described is a heating means for thermally connecting two objects each having a plastic material, wherein, during the connecting, a first inner object is surrounded at least partially by a second outer object, and the heating means surrounds the first inner object at least partially along a complete circumferential course around the first inner object, and is located between the first inner object and the second outer object. The heating means has a ribbon-type structure. The ribbon-type structure has an auxiliary heating material, which is inductively heatable, wherein the auxiliary heating material is spatially distributed or arranged along the circumferential course such that an electrical conductivity is interrupted at at least one position along the complete circumferential course around the first inner object. Further described are an arrangement and a system each having such a heating means as well as a method for thermally connecting two plastic objects.

Abstract: Described is a heating device for thermally connecting a pipe, which has a first plastic material, to a bushing, which has a second plastic material, and which surrounds at least a section of the pipe, wherein an inductively heatable heating means is located between the pipe and the bushing and/or integrated in the pipe and/or the bushing. The heating device has a coil arrangement, which is excitable by a generator, and which has a first coil, which has at least one complete winding within a first cross-sectional area, and a second coil, which is electrically coupled to the first coil, and which has at least one complete winding within a second cross-sectional area. The first cross-sectional area is different from the second cross-sectional area. Furthermore, a heating system having such a heating device as well as a method for thermally connecting a pipe to a bushing are described.

Abstract: An ambient backscatter (transmit) communication device includes (a) an antenna arrangement for scattering electromagnetic radiation towards a receive communication device; (b) an electronic circuit having a modulator unit for modulating an impedance of the antenna arrangement in accordance with pieces of information to be communicated; and (c) a component carrier. At least a part of the antenna arrangement and/or the electronic circuit is embedded within the component carrier. An ambient backscatter (receive) communication device includes (a) an antenna arrangement for receiving ambient backscattered radiation; (b) an electronic circuit having a demodulator unit for demodulating the received ambient backscattered radiation to retrieve pieces of information; and (c) a component carrier. At least a part of the antenna arrangement and/or the electronic circuit is embedded within the component carrier.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for electrically connecting components, which device has at least one electrically insulating layer structure, at least one electrically conducting layer structure, which is stacked and consolidated with the at least one electrically insulating layer structure under formation of a stack of layers, and a warpage stabilization structure for stabilizing the device in a warpage-suppressing manner, which structure at least partially pervades layer structures of the stack of layers.

Abstract: A system and methods providing for minimizing the arc energy delivered to the pads of a plurality of contactors using a single control coil based on monitoring the electrical sine waves of the three alternating current electrical poles and calculating the instant to energize or deenergize a single control coil. The remainder of the contactors will make or break based on an offset in time from the making or breaking of the control contactor.

Abstract: A system and methods providing for minimizing the arc energy delivered to the pads of a plurality of contactors using a single control coil based on monitoring the electrical sine waves of the three alternating current electrical poles and calculating the instant to energize or deenergize a single control coil. The remainder of the contactors will make or break based on an offset in time from the making or breaking of the control contactor.

Abstract: A system and methods providing for minimizing the arc energy delivered to the pads of a plurality of contactors using a single control coil based on monitoring the electrical sine waves of the three alternating current electrical poles and calculating the instant to energize or deenergize a single control coil. The remainder of the contactors will make or break based on an offset in time from the making or breaking of the control contactor.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the laser machining of an unfinished object into a cutting tool with a cutting edge and a free surface. A laser generates laser beam impulses which are directed by a redirecting arrangement onto a surface of the unfinished object. An impulse reaches an impact location on the surface of the unfinished object under an inclination angle between the laser beam direction (R) of the impulse and the surface to be formed. The redirecting arrangement is controlled so that the laser beam impulses impact at adjacent impact locations and form a pulse zone. With a positioning arrangement a relative movement between the pulse zone and the unfinished object of predetermined speed is established so that the pulse zone formed by the impact locations moves along the surface of the unfinished object and an ablation layer of a layer thickness (dS) is removed with each contour pass.

Abstract: A system and methods providing for minimizing the arc energy delivered to the pads of a plurality of contactors using a single control coil based on monitoring the electrical sine waves of the three alternating current electrical poles and calculating the instant to energize or deenergize a single control coil. The remainder of the contactors will make or break based on an offset in time from the making or breaking of the control contactor.

Abstract: A system and methods providing for minimizing the arc energy delivered to the pads of a plurality of contactors using a single control coil based on monitoring the electrical sine waves of the three alternating current electrical poles and calculating the instant to energize or deenergize a single control coil. The remainder of the contactors will make or break based on an offset in time from the making or breaking of the control contactor.