Abstract: A locking device for a buttress of a flying buttress hood of a vehicle, having a locking element for locking the buttress in a locking position and a display device for visually signaling the locking position. The display device has a display element which is coupled via a coupling element to the locking element and therefore a movement of the locking element into the locking position moves the display element via the coupling element into a first display position and, upon leaving the locking position, the locking element via the coupling element moves the display element from the first display position into at least one second display position.

Abstract: An inductive position-measuring device includes a scanning element and a graduation element, rotatable about an axis relative to the scanning element. The scanning element has exciter lead(s), a first receiver track, including receiver line(s), extending according to a first periodic pattern having a first period along a first direction, and a second receiver track, including receiver line(s). The graduation element includes a graduation track, extending in the circumferential direction and including a graduation period. An electromagnetic field generated by the exciter lead(s) with the aid of the graduation track is able to be modulated, so that an angular position is detectable with the aid of the receiver line of the first receiver track, and a position of the graduation element in the first direction relative to the scanning element is detectable with the aid of the receiver line of the second receiver track.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electric machine, in particular a permanent magnet synchronous machine, having a first, in particular three-phase, winding system, which is controlled by a first converter, and having a second, in particular three-phase, winding system, which is controlled by a second converter. The first converter is operated with block commutation and the second converter is operated with pulse width modulation, in particular space vector modulation.

Abstract: A traction battery system for a motor vehicle includes a traction battery, which is designed such that it can be nonmovably received in a body of the motor vehicle, and a protective structure, which is arranged between the traction battery and a roadway of the motor vehicle, wherein the protective structure is connected to the traction battery by a fixing system. The fixing system is a releasable fixing system designed to have a female element and a male element, wherein the female element and the male element are designed to produce a form-fitting connection with one another.

Abstract: A motor vehicle front end has a heat exchanger and a cooling-air mechanism for controlling a supply of air to the heat exchanger. The cooling-air mechanism includes: a downwardly opening air inlet opening; and an air flap, which corresponds to the air inlet opening, and which, at its top edge, is articulatable on a body part in a pivotable manner via a pivot joint. The air flap is configured such that, in its closed position, it closes off the air inlet opening, and in its operative position, it opens up the air inlet opening, and as seen in a direction of travel of the motor vehicle, is situated in front of the air inlet opening.

Abstract: A method for calibrating a temperature measuring device having a temperature measuring unit and having at least one sensor connectable to the temperature measuring unit includes the steps of providing a temperature calibrator having a sensor mount into which the sensor is inserted and heated to a test temperature, inserting the at least one sensor into the sensor mount, setting up a communication channel for a data transmission between the temperature calibrator and the temperature measuring device, and transmitting a calibration value from the temperature calibrator to the temperature measuring device by means of the communication channel.

Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring leakage currents at active conductors has a differential current measurement device, a signal generation device and a control device, which differential current measurement device is designed to record a first signal (I_DIFF) characterizing the differential current of the active conductors and to feed the first signal to the control device. The signal generation device is designed to generate at least one second signal (V_GRID) and to feed the second signal to the control device, which at least one second signal (V_GRID) includes information about the phase angle of a signal occurring at one of the active conductors. The control device is designed to generate a third signal (I_LC_RES) on the basis of the first signal (I_DIFF) and of the at least one second signal (V_GRID), which third signal characterizes the resistive leakage current.

Abstract: A seat for a motor vehicle includes a basic shell and a seat surface. The seat surface includes a vacuum layer and an air cushion layer; and the air cushion layer is arranged between the vacuum layer and the basic shell. Also disclosed is a motor vehicle having such a seat.

Abstract: An energy storage arrangement for a motor vehicle, including a protective device which can be arranged above a ground clearance line of the motor vehicle, and at least one battery module which is arranged above the protective device and which has at least one load-bearing battery module housing and at least one battery cell pack arranged in the interior of the battery module housing. The battery module housing includes at least two vertically arranged housing walls. The protective device has a protective plate and at least two load introduction elements arranged above the protective plate. The load introduction elements are arranged below the housing walls.

Abstract: A method for controlling an engine in a motor vehicle includes determining a theoretical inertia of a drivetrain during a change of an operating mode of the engine, detecting an actual inertia in the drivetrain during the change of the operating mode, and increasing a rotational speed of the engine in response to detecting the actual inertia. The method further includes detecting an inertia overcome, determining a difference between the theoretical inertia and the inertia overcome, and reducing the rotational speed of the engine if the difference becomes less than a threshold value.

Abstract: An air guide device for a vehicle has: a static carrier, which is installable via installation brackets on a body structure of the vehicle, which are connected at a first portion to the body structure and at a second portion to a carrier; an air guide displaceable relative to the static carrier between a retracted rest position and a deployed operating position; a kinematic link arrangement, which has multiple links via which the air guide is displaceable relative to the carrier, wherein the links of the kinematic link arrangement are mounted on first installation brackets; and an adjusting motor, which acts on the kinematic link arrangement for the purposes of displacing the air guide relative to the carrier. The adjusting motor is mounted on a second installation bracket. The carrier, which is made of plastic, is connected by a clip connection to the installation brackets, which comprise plastic or metal.

Abstract: A drive arrangement for a motor vehicle functional part includes: a housing, in which a drive motor, a gear mechanism and an adjustor are provided at least partially; a drive shaft configured to transfer the adjustor via the gear mechanism from a closed position into an open position and vice versa; and a wrap spring arrangement comprising two wrap spring members, which act in opposite directions. The wrap spring arrangement is arranged on a gear mechanism output side, in a region of the adjustor.

Abstract: A compensation device for compensating leakage currents has a differential current measurement device, a first signal generation device, an amplifier and a feeder device. The first signal generation device is designed to generate a first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1) suitable for the compensation from the first signal (I_DIFF) from the differential current measurement device by way of analog signal processing and to feed this first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1) to the amplifier in analog or digitized form. The amplifier is designed to generate a compensation current (I_COMP) on the basis of the first compensation current specification signal (I_COMP_S1), and the feeder device is designed to allow the compensation current to be fed in at at least one of the active conductors.

Abstract: A locking device for locking a charging flap of an electrically operated motor vehicle, with a latching device, a latch catch device and a receiving device. The receiving device includes a receptacle in which the latch catch device is accommodated in a form-fitting manner and is fixedly clamped. The latching device is connectable to a body component of the motor vehicle and the receiving device is connectable to the charging flap of the motor vehicle. The latching device is connectable in a locking position in a form-fitting manner to the latch catch device and in a release position is separable from the latch catch device. The latch catch device is designed in order, in the locking position of the latching device, to be removable without destruction from the receptacle by exertion of a predetermined minimum pull-off force by the latching device along a pull-off direction.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a lead-free radiation shielding sheet. The method for manufacturing a lead-free radiation shielding sheet according to the present invention comprises a film laminating step of forming a multi-layered radiation shielding film on one side of a base material by repeating a process of applying to laminate, drying, and integrating a radiation shielding material containing a radiation shielding powder and a binder for forming a film to be mixed with each other on one side of the base material for forming a radiation shielding sheet.

Abstract: Method and system for generating movement profiles of traffic participants in a traffic network with at least two acquisition stations, wherein image data of the traffic participants are acquired by means of sensors of the acquisition stations and evaluated by means of an evaluation device, wherein data sets with feature data of the traffic participants are generated from the image data and wherein the data sets of different acquisition stations are compared.

Abstract: A brake disk includes at least one friction ring, which includes a base member. The brake disk also includes at least one hole and/or groove located in the friction ring. The brake disk also includes at least one coating, which is applied to at least portions of the friction ring. The coating comprises at least portions of the transition between the hole and/or groove and the friction ring. At least portions of the transition between the hole and/or groove and the friction ring are constructed to be rounded and/or chamfered in a flat manner.

Abstract: A vehicle body of a vehicle with a rear engine includes a rear structure that defines a receiving space for the rear engine; an assembly support connected to the rear structure and having at least one recess for passage of air; an air-guiding device mounted on the assembly support and having a retractable and extendable upper part and additionally having a fixed lower part with at least one recess for the passage of air; and a protective grille inserted into the respective recess of the lower part of the air-guiding device. The protective grille is assigned a covering element that is configured to be shiftable relative to the protective grille in order to open up or to close openings defined by the protective grille.

Abstract: An arrangement includes a carrier and a scale disposed on the carrier in a spaced-apart relation therewith. The scale has a measuring graduation and is attached to the carrier via areally distributed and spaced-apart adhesive dots. The adhesive dots, which can be circular in shape, each include at least three spacers, which can be spheres, enclosed within an adhesive.