Abstract: A device for longitudinally guiding a motor vehicle includes a sensor system for locating preceding vehicles, a regulator that regulates the speed of the vehicle to a setpoint speed, either in a free driving mode or in a following driving mode, the setpoint speed depending on the distance from a preceding vehicle, as well as an interface to a navigation system that provides information concerning the route traveled, and a limiting device for limiting the setpoint speed based on the information provided. The limiting device is designed to deactivate automatically when changing from free driving mode to following driving mode and activate automatically when changing from following driving mode to free driving mode.

Abstract: In a crash sensor and a method for processing a measured value of the crash sensor, at least one measured quantity is detected by a sensor element and a first rewritable memory is provided in which first data for influencing the processing of the at least one measured quantity are stored. In addition, a second hardwired memory is provided in which second data for influencing the processing are stored. A logic module is provided which loads the first or second data, as a function of a test of the first memory, for processing the at least one measured quantity.

Abstract: To process media data from one or more sources, a hierarchy of media components are formed. Each media component receives as input one or more streams of media data and manipulates the media data to produce an output media stream. The media components conform to a uniform plug-in structure. The plug-in structure defines an abstraction that facilitates the hierarchical organization of the media components and that allows the media components to interact, in a decoupled manner, with each other and with processors that perform specific types of media data manipulations. The hierarchy can be reorganized dynamically.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fire-resistant steel material superior in HAZ toughness of a welded joint which is high in high temperature yield strength at an envisioned fire temperature of 700 to 800° C. and is free of embrittlement of the welded joint even if exposed at this envisioned fire temperature and a method of production of the same, that is, a fire-resistant steel material of a composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.005% to less than 0.03%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 0.40%, Cr: 1.50 to 5.00%, V: 0.05 to 0.50%, and N: 0.001 to 0.005% and restricted in contents of Ni, Cu, Mo, B, P, S, and O obtained by heating a steel slab to 1150 to 1300° C., then hot working or hot rolling the slab to an end temperature of 880 degrees or more, acceleratedly cooling the worked or rolled steel material under conditions of a cooling rate at a position of the slowest cooling rate of at least 2° C.

Abstract: A MEMS array structure including a plurality of bulk mode resonators may include at least one resonator coupling section disposed between the plurality of bulk mode resonators. The plurality of resonators may oscillate by expansion and/or contraction in at least one direction/dimension. The MEMS array structure may include a plurality of sense electrodes and drive electrodes spaced apart from the plurality of bulk mode resonators by a gap. Each of at least one of the plurality of bulk mode resonators may be mechanically coupled to a substrate via or approximately at a respective at least one nodal point.

Abstract: According to various embodiments of the invention, a system and method for editing process rules for circuit design through a graphical editor is provided. In some embodiments, the graphical editor is a circuit design tool that provides the user of the tool, such as a circuit designer or process engineer, the ability to visualize, modify, create, or remove process rules through a graphical user interface (“GUI”). These process rules, also known as constraints or circuit design constraints, relate to the layout of circuits and is grouped into constraint groups (also known as “circuit design constraint groups”) that can be associated to specific circuit design objects.

Abstract: A park-steering assistance system and method for operating a park-steering assistance system includes a switch-on and switch-off logic, which is provided to activate the park-steering assistance system as a function of a signal of a control element and to deactivate the park-steering assistance system as a function of a velocity value of the motor vehicle and as a function of a specified first velocity threshold value, a specified second velocity threshold value existing, which is lower than the first velocity threshold value, and the switch-on and switch-off logic being arranged to switch the park-steering assistance system from the activated state to a temporarily deactivated state or from the temporarily deactivated state to the activated state as a function of a comparison of the variables of the velocity value and the second velocity threshold value.

Abstract: An insulating construction having a multi-layer synthetic core for use in products such as sleeping bags is provided. A sleeping bag using this construction may include a synthetic core having first and second layers, an inner lining adjacent to the first layer, and an outer shell adjacent to the second layer. The synthetic core may be contained within the inner lining and outer shell. The first layer may be constructed of a first material having a first denier; and the second layer may be constructed of a second material having a second denier larger than the first denier. The inner liner may define an inner space configured to accommodate a human body. Various other products made from this construction, such as jackets, pants, and other garments, are also provided.

Abstract: A multicolor organic light emitting device employs vertically stacked layers of double heterostructure devices which are fabricated from organic compounds. The vertical stacked structure is formed on a glass base having a transparent coating of ITO or similar metal to provide a substrate. Deposited on the substrate is the vertical stacked arrangement of three double heterostructure devices, each fabricated from a suitable organic material. Stacking is implemented such that the double heterostructure with the longest wavelength is on the top of the stack. This constitutes the device emitting red light on the top with the device having the shortest wavelength, namely, the device emitting blue light, on the bottom of the stack. Located between the red and blue device structures is the green device structure.

Abstract: Provided are a power assist apparatus and its control method, which realize improvements in positioning precision and in workability while reducing the burden of a work positioning operation on a operator by burdening a portion of the positioning work on the power assist apparatus and while making good use of the decision or experience (or institution or knack) by the operator when the operator positions the work by using the power assist apparatus. The power assist apparatus thus autonomously cooperated with the working action of the operator comprises a transfer tool including an articulated robot, a sucking jig and a free joint for gripping and transferring windows, and a control device for controlling the actions of the transfer tool. The control device divides and stores a series of working tasks into a plurality of working section, and sets control logics for the individual working sections and for the individual working directions, in which the power assist apparatus has degrees of freedom.

Abstract: Methods, systems , and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are disclosed for reducing the impact of lighting conditions and biometric distortions, while providing a low-computation solution for reasonably effective (low threshold) face recognition. In one aspect, the methods include processing a captured image of a face of a user seeking to access a resource by conforming a subset of the captured face image to a reference model. The reference model corresponds to a high information portion of human faces. The methods further include comparing the processed captured image to at least one target profile corresponding to a user associated with the resource, and selectively recognizing the user seeking access to the resource based on a result of said comparing.

Abstract: An electrode is used for an electric storage device that includes plural electrodes that are stacked such that an ion-conductive layer is disposed between each pair of the electrodes. Each of the plural electrodes includes a current collector, and an electrode layer, formed on the current collector, which contains an active material. The configuration of the electrode layer (for example, the amount of the active material) varies according to the position in the electrode layer such that a current density in a first region of the electrode, where heat radiation performance is lower than the heat radiation performance in a second region of the electrode, is lower than the current density in the second region of the electrode.

Abstract: An assembly includes: two crossbars extending substantially in parallel to each other; and two securing members for securing onto the vehicle body, each securing member being secured to one end of each crossbar so as to connect the two crossbars together. The two securing members are made of the same material as the two crossbars.

Abstract: A method for carrying out a self-test for a micromechanical sensor device, and a corresponding micromechanical sensor device. The method has the following steps: exciting the sensor device using a first excitation signal variation in a first self-test; storing a corresponding first response signal variation of the sensor device; exciting the sensor device using a second excitation signal variation in a second self-test; storing a corresponding second response signal variation of the sensor device; analyzing the first and second response signal variations with regard to at least one predefined criterion; and preparing a self-test result based on the analytical result of the first and second response signal variations.

Abstract: An image forming optical system includes in order from an object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, which includes an aperture stop, a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group, in order from the object side, includes a negative sub-group and a positive sub-group. The third lens group is a focusing group which includes only a cemented lens having a convex surface directed toward the object side, of a negative lens and a positive meniscus lens, in order from the object side.

Abstract: In a method and a device for engine stop/engine start of hybrid vehicles, which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric machine which is coupled to the internal combustion engine and is selectively able to be operated regeneratively or motively, the engine speed can be detected and compared to a limit speed to initiate the stopping of the engine in a hybrid vehicle using an automatic start/stop mechanism, and if the engine speed drops to the threshold speed, the engine is stopped, the electric machine being switched over into the motive or the regenerative operation when the limit speed is reached; the electric machine assuming the limit speed, whereas the fuel supply of the internal combustion engine is shut down or remains shut down and the electric machine initiates the stopping of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: In a method and a device for decoding a signal, the signal is transmitted via at least one connecting line of a data transmission system, in a user of the data transmission system receiving the signal. It is provided to measure the interval of a change—provided compulsorily in a transmission protocol used in the data transmission system—of the signal from rising to falling or from falling to rising edge. A tendency for an asymmetrical delay of the signal can be ascertained from the measured interval. The sampling of the bits of the received signal can be improved as a function of the interval or of the asymmetrical delay, for example, by setting the sampling instant in variable fashion. Alternatively, the interval or the asymmetrical delay can be utilized for diagnostic purposes.

Abstract: A method is provided for the control/regulation of at least one task with the aid of a control program that monitors a runtime of the at least one task, the control program terminating the at least one task if the runtime of the at least one task exceeds a predefined period of time.

Abstract: A device for synchronizing at least two bus systems, having a first communications module for a first bus system and a second communications module for a second bus system, wherein in the first communications module first trigger information is present by which a trigger signal is triggered in the first bus system, characterized in that the device is configured in such a manner that the first and second communications modules are connected to each other and the first trigger information is transmitted to the second communications module, and the second communications module is configured in such a manner that a time information value is determined from the first trigger information and that time information value is compared with a second time mark of the second bus system, a time difference being determined and the next reference message being triggered in the second bus system in dependence upon the second time mark and the time difference.

Abstract: A combination dilatation and drug delivery device includes a flexible catheter, a drug delivery sheath mounted to a distal end region of the catheter and a dilatation balloon also mounted to the catheter and contained within a compartment formed by the sheath. The sheath is radially expandable by supplying a liquid therapeutic agent to the compartment under a moderate pressure. The dilatation balloon is expandable by providing a dilatation fluid to the balloon under a much higher pressure. The sheath can be formed of a highly elastic material or can be made quite thin, and in either case is mounted independently of the dilatation balloon. Thus when radially expanded, the sheath is moved into a conforming contact with surrounding vascular tissue. The conforming contact protects tissue and the therapeutic agent from exposure to blood, and more effectively confines the therapeutic agent to the intended treatment area.