Abstract: A method for cooling power electronics circuits, in which a printed circuit board is produced according to a prescribed circuit board process and is populated with at least one power electronics components. Contact connecting at least one location on at least one metallic conductor track running on a surface of the printed circuit board that includes at least one metal element, which is both electrically conductive and heat-conductive and the physical height of which is designed to be at least as large as that of the at least one power electronics component. A cooling plate is placed in a planar manner onto the at least one power electronics component and/or the at least one metal element.

Abstract: A toothbrush having a distal end and a proximal end. The toothbrush has a head portion located at the distal end. The toothbrush also has a plurality of bristles coupled to the head portion and extending outward in a ventral direction. The toothbrush also has a neck portion being coupled to the head portion at a neck portion distal end. The toothbrush also has a shoulder portion being coupled to the neck portion at a shoulder portion distal end and a neck portion proximal end, and the shoulder portion being curved toward the ventral direction. The toothbrush also has a base portion located at the proximal end, the base portion being coupled to the shoulder portion at a base portion distal end and a shoulder portion proximal end, the base portion being curved toward the ventral direction.

Abstract: A method for providing at least one specific vehicle state of a vehicle. The method includes acquiring basic parameters of the vehicle from at least one data source; comparing the acquired basic parameters with a comparison list; and providing a specific vehicle state for the acquired basic parameters based on the comparison.

Abstract: A charging station system, in particular for electric vehicles is described, wherein the charging station system has at least one housing. The charging station system also has a plurality of main components. The housing and the main components are standardized in such a manner that the main components can be arranged modularly in the housing. An associated method for constructing a charging station is also described.

Abstract: A charging socket cover for an electrically operated motor vehicle having a closing apparatus, a pivoting apparatus and a drive apparatus. The pivoting apparatus is driven by way of the drive apparatus in order to pivot the closing apparatus between a closed position, in which the closing apparatus closes an opening which is made in a vehicle body part of the motor vehicle, and an open position, in which the closing apparatus releases the opening and is arranged substantially behind the vehicle body part. The pivoting apparatus and the drive apparatus are configured to pivot the closing apparatus by way of a rotational movement about a rotational axis and by way of a translational movement parallel to the rotational axis between the closed position and the open position and/or between the open position and the closed position.

Abstract: A motor vehicle (1) has a front-end diffuser (7) that is open toward a ground surface, and has a device arranged in the region of the diffuser (7) and for varying the downforce of the motor vehicle in the region of a front axle of the motor vehicle. The device has an air conduit (12) with an inlet (13) in the region of a front-end positive pressure area of the motor vehicle and has an outlet (14) in the region of the diffuser (7), and has means (16) for opening and closing the air conduit (12). The device enables the downforce of the motor vehicle in the region of the front axle can be varied.

Abstract: An electric machine has a multiplicity of windings having a first terminal and a second terminal. At least one node exists to which one of the two terminals of a respective winding from the multiplicity of windings is electrically connected. The corresponding other terminal of a respective winding from the multiplicity of windings is electrically connected to a phase terminal, and to a modular multilevel converter that has a multiplicity of individual modules that are connected up in series to form a ring. At least one tap can be arranged between two respective adjacent individual modules and provides a phase terminal to which the first or the second terminal of a winding from the multiplicity of windings of the electric machine is electrically connected. A number of taps of the modular multilevel converter corresponds exactly to a number of windings from the multiplicity of windings of the electric machine.

Abstract: A lighting element for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle includes a diffuser; an elongated light guide, wherein the light guide is at least partially accommodated in the diffuser; and a reflector arranged on an inner side of the diffuser and having a reflective surface facing the light guide. The reflector is configured to reflect light from the light guide to an outer side of the light guide. The reflector has a rough surface in order to reflect light from the light guide diffusely.

Abstract: A device and method for preventing inadvertent selection of a parking lock function in a 2-ratio transmission. Here, the shift positions of the transmission and the parking lock function thereof can be selected by way of a shift drum. A mechanically acting apparatus is provided which, in the event of rotation of the shift drum in a first direction of rotation, blocks the selection of a parking lock position of the shift drum, subsequently, in the event of rotation of the shift drum in a second direction of rotation opposite to the first direction of rotation, releases the blocking, and subsequently, in the first direction of rotation opposite to the second direction of rotation, permits selection of the parking lock position. The device does not require a separate parking lock wheel.

Abstract: A traction power source for electric vehicles in a single unit. Specifically, traction power source integrates several functions, such as the battery and inverter. In addition, further functionalities that are traditionally in separate units can be integrated into the system and efficiently performed by the same electronics, such as battery management and thermal management.

Abstract: A spoiler system for a vehicle includes a spoiler body having a spoiler surface for influencing an air flow around the vehicle; and a spoiler receptacle having a sealing device with a seal configured to provide sealing between the sealing device and a sealing surface of the spoiler body during an extension movement of the spoiler body from a retracted position into an extended position. The spoiler body is movably mounted on the spoiler receptacle between the retracted position in which the spoiler body is received at least partially in the spoiler receptacle and the extended position in which the spoiler body is extended at least partially out of the spoiler receptacle.

Abstract: This present invention systems and methods of accessing/monitoring the responsiveness of a breast cancer to a therapeutic compound.

Abstract: A wheel hub arrangement having a wheel hub for mounting a rim with an inflated tire. The wheel hub arrangement has a rotary piston compressor mounted rotatably on the wheel hub. The wheel hub arrangement has a switchable mechanical coupling device, by way of which the rotary piston compressor can be switched over between a compression mode, in which the rotary piston compressor can be actuated by way of a rotational movement relative to the mounted rim or the wheel hub, and a rest mode, in which it is passive and does not produce any compressed air on the outlet side, and the rotary piston compressor producing compressed air on the outlet side for filling the tire in the compression mode.

Abstract: A spoiler arrangement of a motor vehicle includes a spoiler blade, a body portion to which the spoiler blade attaches, a displacement device for the spoiler blade, the displacement device being configured to move the spoiler blade relative to the body portion between a retracted position and an extended position; and a cover configured to attach to the spoiler blade and to at least partially close a rear gap which is formed, in the extended position of the spoiler blade, between a rear edge of the spoiler blade and an adjoining assembly of the body portion.

Abstract: A charging apparatus for charging electrical energy stores for motor vehicles, having a conversion device for converting a power supplied from a medium-voltage grid to a power suitable for the charging process of the energy store. Here, the conversion device includes at least one phase unit connected to at least one phase of the medium-voltage grid, said phase unit having at least two strands, namely at least one strand for a positive component of the phase and at least one strand for a negative component of the phase. At least one module, having at least one input unit and at least one inverter unit and at least one transformer unit and at least one rectifier unit associated with the transformer unit and at least one output unit, is associated in each case with the strands.