Abstract: In a speech recognition method for word sequences that are combined in sentences with defined syntax, syntax information is integrated into a speech model so as to unambiguously identify recurring words through indexing. As a result, the recognition process can be carried out in a manner similar to the situation without integration of the syntax information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 1997
Date of Patent:
February 8, 2000
Assignee:
Daimler Benz AG
Inventors:
Fritz Class, Alfred Kaltenmeier, Ute Kilian, Peter Regel-Brietzmann
Abstract: A process for manufacturing a ceramic metal composite body in the case of which a dimensionally stable and porous sacrificial body is produced from ceramic initial products and is filled at a filling temperature with a softened metal, particularly under an increased pressure. The filled sacrificial body is heated to a reaction temperature and the metal to be filled in, BMe, is reacted with a metal of the ceramics. KMe, forming the ceramic metal composite body which has a ceramic phase having KMe.sub.m B.sub.x and/or KMe.sub.n C.sub.y and/or KMe.sub.o CN and BMe.sub.p O.sub.3 and has a metallic phase having an intermetallic compound which is formed of KMe and BMe, the filling temperature being lower than the reaction temperature and higher than or equal to the softening temperature of the metal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 20, 1998
Date of Patent:
February 8, 2000
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Steffen Rauscher, Michael Scheydecker, Karl Weisskopf, Tilmann Haug
Abstract: A process for regenerating an adsorber which adsorbs organic substances from the air in which the adsorber is heated by microwave energy to evaporate adsorbed organic substances on the adsorber. The adsorber is provided with enhanced microwave absorption capacity to enable the adsorber to evaporate the adsorbed organic substances. The adsorber can be produced to have itself high microwave energy absorbing capacity or a solid material can be combined with the adsorber to provide the high microwave absorbing capacity. The solid material can be combined with an adsorbing enhancing substance and can be a carrier therefor. In a particular embodiment, the adsorber can be a hydrophobic zeolite and the microwave absorbing material can be a hydrophilic zeolite.
Abstract: In the case of a control system (140) for a drive having an asynchronous motor, in particular for a railroad vehicle, which control system (140) comprises a first control loop (141) for motor control, and a second control loop (142) which is connected to the first control loop (141) and has an adhesion controller (125), an improved control response is obtained in that the motor control system is designed as a stator frequency control system (127), and in that an actual torque value (M.sub.act) for the asynchronous motor is derived within the motor control system, and in that the two control loops (141, 142) are connected to one another in such a manner that the actual torque value (M.sub.act) from the motor control system is used as the actual value for the adhesion controller (125), and in that the adhesion controller (125) presets a nominal stator frequency value (f.sub.s,nom) for the motor control system.
Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor device which includes a packaged electrical component such as an IC chip, wherein terminal posts are realized within the chip area without additional wafer surface being required beyond the chip edge. A direct feedthrough of the individual electrical connections by way of downwardly extending terminal posts that are connected to bonding pads at the top of the chip results in a small lead length and thus lesser parasitic influences, which in turn results in optimum conditions for use at super-high frequencies. Furthermore, a process for making the semiconductor device offers the option of forming deep vertical trenches on the chip edge and to thus implement separation etching for dicing. During this process, the coverage of the side surface with encapsulating material effects a passivation on the chip edge without further outlay. Expensive rewiring of the connections on the bottom side of the chip is not necessarily due to the terminal posts.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 20, 1998
Date of Patent:
February 1, 2000
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Max Kuisl, Karl Strohm, Manfred R.o slashed.sler
Abstract: This invention relates to a polymerizable phosphazene derivative with a general structural formula.brket open-st.NP(A).sub.a (B).sub.b).brket close-st..sub.xwherein the groups A and B are bonded to phosphorus atoms through --O--, --S--, --NH--, or --NR-- (with R=C.sub.1 -C.sub.6) alkyl), and wherein A stands more precisely for a vinyl ether group or a styrene ether group, and B stands more precisely for a hydrocarbon group. The invention also relates to procedures for synthesizing such phosphazene derivatives. The phosphazenes derivatives of the invention can be cured by a process that is initiated cationically, which leads to a large number of advantages. The phosphazene derivatives of the invention can, in particular, be used as curable binders for paints, coatings, fillers, mastics, adhesives, moldings, or films. Paints or coatings comprising the phosphazene derivatives of the invention show especially high mechanical resistance and scratch resistance.
Abstract: The invention concerns heterostructure field effect transistors (HFET's) with high charge carrier concentration in the two-dimensional charge-carrier gas. The n-HFET of the heterostructure layer sequence contains several zones with formed 2DEG while the p-HFET contains several zones with formed 2DHG, which can be gate-controlled with a transistor gate, without mutually screening each other. At the same time, more charge carriers n.sub.s with high mobility are available through several channels. Higher transconductances for transistors are obtained with this, resulting in the promise of shorter switching times, especially for integrated circuits. In addition, other characteristics that are critical for the high-frequency technology, such as transit frequency and maximum operating frequency, can also be increased.
Abstract: A method for the automatic locking of the differentials of an all-wheel driven vehicle, slip signals being formed which, as soon as they exceed a threshold value, initiate the driving of the respective differentials. In order to take into account the influence of the steering rolling radius, the change in the steering value is ascertained. From this, using a function determined by the geometry of the vehicle, an apparent slip is ascertained. From the respective apparent slip, corrected threshold values are determined and measured slip signals are compared with the corrected threshold values and, if necessary, the driving of the respective differential is initiated. The method can also be used on a vehicle having articulated-vehicle steering.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 24, 1997
Date of Patent:
January 4, 2000
Assignee:
Steyr-Daimler-Puch Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Harald Salcher, Gerhard Fruhwirth, Franz Stelzeneder
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a purification device, to a purification device and to the use of same. To reduce the emission of pollutants, a filter body through which a fluid can flow and comprising a catalyst, is exposed to a stream of gas which is to be purified. Before the gas enters the catalyst, a reducing agent is added in the flow direction of the gas, and after a certain treatment point, during which the gas, which is to be purified, is flowing in the catalyst, reducing agent is added once more to the flowing gas by a feeding mechanism and contact with the catalyst is maintained.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 1996
Date of Patent:
December 21, 1999
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz AG
Inventors:
Martin Hartweg, Rolf-Dirc Roitzheim, Andrea Seibold, Leonhard Walz, Thomas Fetzer, Bernd Morsbach
Abstract: The helicopter rotor blade connection has a support beam which connects the lift-generating wing section of the rotor blade with the rotor hub, and transmits centrifugal and lateral forces as well as bending and torsional moments. The connection is torsionally elastic and, at least in a main plane, bending elastic. A damping device for damping bending vibrations of the support beam is constructed alternately of elastomer layers and intermediate layers which are stiff in the direction of their extension. According to the invention, the damping device consists of a plurality of separate individual dampers which are arranged with their elastomer and intermediate layers in the direction of the main bending plane of the support beam.
Abstract: A device for the contactless inductive transmission of electric energy to a movable consumer has a stationary primary circuit designed as an arrangement of elongated parallel leads connected to a source of high frequency alternating voltage or current and a transmission head arranged on the movable consumer. The transmission head consists of a ferrite core and of a secondary winding that surrounds the ferrite core and is magnetically coupled to the primary circuit. The primary circuit lead arrangement has an outer lead designed as an almost closed housing (7) and a middle lead (6) arranged approximately at the center of the housing. The current (11) that flows in the outer lead has the same intensity but an opposite flow direction to the current in the middle lead. The middle lead (6) is surrounded by a U-shaped ferrite core (2) that carries the secondary winding (W.sub.2).
Abstract: Described is a method of controlling a power distribution hydromechanical branched transmission consisting of an adjustable hydrostatic unit (4), an integrating planetary gear (10) with at least two outputs (26, 27) and, connected to the integrating planetary gear, a range-changing gear (11) designed as a double planetary gear. The two outputs (26, 27) are connected to the range-changing gear (11) by a first clutch (K1) or a second clutch (K2), and one element of the range-changing gear (11) is controlled by a third clutch (KV). Additional clutches (K3, K4) are fitted for the other ranges. In conditions in which the gear-change position is uncertain, the first clutch (K1) or the second clutch (K2), depending on the instantaneous speed of the vehicle, is synchronized and engaged by adjusting the hydrostatic unit (4), and then either one of the other clutches (K3, K4) or the third clutch (KV) is synchronized and engaged.
Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multicylinder internal combustion engine, particularly a V8 engine, including a high pressure fuel pump supplying high pressure fuel to a high pressure fuel supply duct serving as a high pressure fuel storage (common rail) from which high pressure fuel distribution lines extend to magnetic valve-controlled fuel injectors associated with the various cylinders of the engine, the distribution lines have an inner diameter of at least 2.99 mm and a length of less than 122 mm with an inner diameter to length ratio of between 1:36 and about 1:41 to reduce pressure oscillations in the fuel system.
Abstract: An attitude controller for a 3-axis stabilized, Earth oriented bias momentum spacecraft is described, where only 2-axis attitude measurements from the Earth sensor are available. In contrast to the classical spacecrafts that are controlled w.r.t. a fixed orbital Earth pointing reference frame, (possibly large angle) time varying reference signals are considered here, i.e. the control task consists of a tracking problem. The controller design consists of a decoupling controller and axis-related PID controllers based on yaw observer estimates.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 17, 1997
Date of Patent:
December 7, 1999
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG
Inventors:
Michael Surauer, Walter Fichter, Peter Zentgraf
Abstract: An automatically controlled clutch is arranged between the engine and the driving wheels in the transmission line of a motor vehicle having a transmission which can be shifted manually in an arbitrary manner between idling and driving positions. A control device used for operating the clutch constantly determines the operating performance of the clutch and stores correspondingly adapted characteristic values.