Abstract: The invention relates to the treatment of hair loss with minoxidil and caffeine.

Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a cuboidal module housing, and, on a degassing side of the module housing, at least one module degassing opening. The battery module is connected to a temperature control system and the plurality of battery cells is directly surrounded by the flow of a temperature control fluid. A respective battery cell includes a cell degassing opening, wherein all cell degassing openings are arranged so as to point to the degassing side. The at least one module degassing opening and the respective cell degassing openings are directly connected to at least one degassing region. The at least one degassing region is delimited from the temperature control fluid. The at least one degassing region is smaller in its surface area extension than the degassing side, such that the temperature control fluid passes between the degassing side and the battery cells.

Abstract: A method is provided for implementing electric-shock protection in a transformer-free AC charging device (202). The method includes supplying an input end of the AC charging device (202) with alternating current from a charging socket (122), providing the output end of the AC charging device (202) with direct current (106) for charging a high-voltage battery, and using the peripheral charge controller (220) for controlling the charging socket (122). The peripheral charge controller (220) is arranged within a housing of the AC charging device (202).

Abstract: A device for exhaust gas aftertreatment in an internal combustion engine can be connected to an outlet of the internal combustion engine. The device comprises an exhaust gas system with an exhaust gas channel in which a three-way catalytic converter is arranged, and an exhaust gas burner with which hot burner exhaust gases can be fed into the exhaust gas channel at a feed point upstream from the three-way catalytic converter. The three-way catalytic converter is configured as a lambda probe catalytic converter and comprises a first catalyst volume and a second catalyst volume, whereby a lambda probe is arranged downstream from the first catalyst volume and upstream from the second catalyst volume, whereby the first catalyst volume has a lower oxygen storage capacity than the second catalyst volume. A method for exhaust gas aftertreatment in an internal combustion engine has such an exhaust gas aftertreatment device.

Abstract: A diagnostic arrangement (200) for a charging park has plural components and a network arrangement. The components include a central gateway (270), at least one control device (280) and a diagnostic database (290) arranged at the central gateway. The diagnostic database contains files or data for diagnosis of the at least one control device. The network arrangement makes a core network available between the components. The at least one control device is connected via the core network to the central gateway. The network arrangement also has a backend server having a backend database with the same diagnostic information as the diagnostic database of the central gateway and is connected to the central gateway. A database extract (220) provides a list (201) of available diagnostics. The at least one control device has apparatus for diagnosis and/or conveying at least one value (208) regarding at least one status of the control device.

Abstract: A DC filter device includes: a first filter device connection; a second filter device connection; a third filter device connection; a fourth filter device connection; a coil core; at least one first coil arranged on the coil core, the at least one first coil being connected in between the first filter device connection and the third filter device connection; at least one second coil arranged on the coil core, the at least one second coil being connected in between the second filter device connection and the fourth filter device connection; and a third coil arranged on the coil core, the third coil having a first coil connection and a second coil connection. The first coil connection and the second coil connection are connected to one another via a circuit device, which circuit device has a resistor.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement for fastening a roof liner to a body roof, which has a frame opening, of a motor vehicle, with at least one fastening strip which is formed on the roof liner and extends parallel to a longitudinal or transverse side of the frame opening, with at least one elastically deformable clamping device, which is designed to lock the roof liner to the body roof in a form-fitting manner with a latching connector. It is provided that the clamping device has the latching connector, which is floatingly mounted on the roof liner, and that the latching connector, guided through an opening of the body roof, engages behind the body roof in a form-fitting manner.

Abstract: A dielectric substrate for RF, microwave, or millimeter wave devices, circuits, or surfaces includes a propagating region for transmitting or reflecting an electromagnetic field, and one or more material-filled vias located within the propagating region. The application of an external electric or magnetic field to the material-filled vias may be used to tune the electric permittivity or the magnetic permeability of the fill material and hence control the effective electric permittivity or the effective magnetic permeability of the dielectric substrate within the propagating region. A dimension of the material-filled vias may be less than half of a wavelength of the propagating electromagnetic field. The fill material may include liquid crystals, a ferroelectric crystal composite, a ferromagnetic crystal composite, organic semiconductors, and/or electro-optic or magneto-optic polymers.

Abstract: A cooling air flap device is for a motor vehicle. The cooling air flap device has a cooling air opening through which cooling air can flow. The cooling air flap device has: a cooling air flap, which is arranged in or on the cooling air opening so as to be adjustable in order to change an opening cross section of the cooling air opening through which the cooling air can flow; and a sensor configured to sense surroundings in a region of the cooling air flap device. The sensor is secured to the cooling air flap so that the sensor is adjustable together with the cooling air flap.

Abstract: An optical position-measuring device includes a scale and a scanning unit. The scale is connected to a first object, extends along a measurement direction and includes a first track having an incremental measuring graduation, and a second track having an absolute measuring graduation. The scanning unit is connected to a second object and includes a light source, a detector having an absolute detector arrangement configured to detect an aperiodic light pattern transmitted from the absolute measuring graduation onto a detection plane and an incremental detector arrangement configured to detect a periodic light pattern transmitted from the incremental measuring graduation onto a detection plane, and a fiber-optic plate arranged as a continuous component in front of the absolute detector arrangement and the incremental detector arrangement, wherein both absolute track information and incremental track information in the respective detection planes are transmitted via the fiber-optic plate in this manner.

Abstract: A method for printing a surface (1) with a printed pattern (2) includes printing a first partial structure (3) of the printed pattern (2), printing a second partial structure (3) of the printed pattern (2) at a distance from the first printed structure (3) and treating at least one region (7) between the first printed structure (3) and the second printed structure (3), and the irradiating the region (7) between the first printed structure (3) and the second printed structure (3) with electromagnetic waves and/or soundwaves.

Abstract: A paneling element for a vehicle interior compartment has a carrier element (12) and a sound-reducing element (14) arranged on a surface (42) of the carrier element (12). The surface (42) of the carrier element (12) has at least one access region (19) that faces the sound-reducing element (14). The sound-reducing element (14) has an access opening (18) through which the access region (19) can be accessed. The sound-reducing element (14) has a cantilevered tongue (24) that can close the access opening (18) in the unmounted state of the sound-reducing element (14). The cantilevered tongue (24) is folded over in the mounted state of the sound-reducing element (14) so that the access opening (18) is opened.

Abstract: A detection reagent is disclosed in the form of a dye having the basic structure of a 4-(phenylethynyl)-phenyl-amine, a 4-(phenylethenyl)-phenyl-amine and/or a biphenylamine derivative. The dye can be used as detection reagent for nitroaromatics, nitroalkanes, nitroamines, nitrates, nitric acid, nitrous acid, nitrogen oxides, and additionally for sulphur dioxide (which is produced with the degradation of black powder). The dye can be an asymmetric triphenylamine derivative, which can lead to a fluorescence quenching, which can be used analytically in the case of electron abstraction.

Abstract: A personalization method for a motor vehicle and data release method. The motor vehicle includes at least the following components: an on-board computer; a human-machine interface; a vehicle-side data interface; and an access security device for recognizing physical or electronic vehicle-specific access authorization information. The personalization method includes a first step of recognizing, by the on-board computer using the access security device, the physical and/or electronic input of the vehicle-specific access authorization information. The method also includes a second step of retrieving and storing, by the on-board computer using the vehicle-side data interface, personal data of at least one user assigned to the motor vehicle. The second step is only carried out if in the first step the vehicle-specific access authorization information is recognized. The personalization method and data release method significantly simplify the personalization process in a motor vehicle.

Abstract: Pattern transfer printing (PTP) systems and methods are provided to improve the quality, accuracy and throughput of pattern transfer printing. PTP systems comprise a tape handling unit for handling a tape with pattern transfer sheets sections and for controllably delivering the pattern transfer sheets one-by-one for paste filling and consecutively for pattern transfer, with the tape moving from an unwinder roll to a re-winding roll. PTP systems further comprise a paste filling unit which enables continuous paste filling using a supporting counter roll opposite to the paste filling head, a wafer handling unit controllably delivering wafers for the pattern transfer in a parallelized manner that increases throughput, a paste transfer unit with enhanced accuracy and efficiency due to exact monitoring and wafer alignment, as well as a print quality control unit.

Abstract: An artificial turf contains a damping layer made of a particle foam, a fiber backing, and an artificial grass layer made of single or multiple fibers. The fibers are tied to the fiber backing, forming an artificial carpet of grass. The particle foam and the single or multiple fibers forming the artificial grass layer are each made of a thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oil-in-water emulsion containing 15.0 to 30.0 wt.-% ethanol.

Abstract: A method for determining an aging state of at least one cell of a battery. The method includes the step receiving a large amount of operating data relating to the at least one cell of the battery via a memory unit, wherein the operating data can be assigned to a specific point in time. The received operating data is stored in the memory unit with a timestamp which corresponds to the respectively assigned point in time. An aging state of the at least one cell of the battery is calculated using a processor while interdependently taking into account multiple operating data having a common timestamp. The method makes it possible to estimate an aging state using a multidimensional database.

Abstract: A battery module housing for accommodating at least one cell stack for use in a motor vehicle. The battery module housing includes a plurality of housing units for accommodating battery cells, as well as a front and a rear cover member for closing the housing units. The housing units are designed as extrusion profiles and include a front and a rear face-side opening for introducing the battery cells and a housing wall arranged between the openings. The housing units are positively connected to one another via their housing wall and the front and rear cover elements are designed to cover the front and rear face-side openings of the housing units.

Abstract: A method for robust identification of a vehicle occupant. Simultaneously acquired data pairs from interior sensors and sensing elements are used as a training data set for global learning of a Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis architecture with two neural networks, wherein an authentication of the respective vehicle occupants from the group of vehicle users is carried out in a first step as an initialization. In a second step or a subsequent use, only one of the two sensing elements is then needed to identify the respective vehicle occupant. Also described is a system, via which the robust identification is provided by way of the method.