Abstract: A measuring system for determining a distance between a sensor device and a measured object, wherein the sensor device comprises a light source for generating an illumination light beam and a detector for detecting a portion of the illumination light beam reflected on the surface of the measured object and wherein the measured object is designed so it is transparent at least for a wavelength range of the visible light, is designed and further developed under consideration of the most reliable distance measurement possible in all types of measuring situations, that the illumination light beam has a wavelength in the violet or ultraviolet range and that the measured object is designed in such a way that the illumination light beam is diffusely reflected on the surface of the measured object. In addition, a corresponding measuring system is specified for measuring measured objects that are essentially impermeable to light.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor, comprising a sensor element (1) that operates without contact, an electronic component (5), and a housing (2) having an electrical/electronic connection. The sensor element (1) is part of the housing (2) and is used to close and seal the housing (2) with respect to the measurement side (3).

Abstract: A method for detecting magnetic fields, particularly for detecting the position of objects with a preferably oblong, soft-magnetic element, which is connected to electronics, with via the electronics the impedance of the soft-magnetic material is measured, characterized in that a magnetic field is used in which by the position of an object which is located in an arrangement with the soft-magnetic material the magnetic field develops at the location of the soft-magnetic material, with the magnetic permeability ? of the soft-magnetic material adjusting, depending on the magnetic field and thus the position of the object. A respective device serves for applying the method according to the invention.

Abstract: A temperature sensor comprising a sensor element that is arranged in a housing, is characterized in that the sensor element is totally enclosed with a thermally conductive material, preferably with a thermally conductive paste, inside the housing.

Abstract: A noncontact distance measuring sensor and a method for noncontact distance measurement is provided. The distance measuring sensor has a coil arrangement including at least two measuring coils oriented along a common axis. An electrically and/or magnetically conducting measurement object is in electromagnetic interaction with the coil arrangement. The distance measuring sensor further has an evaluation circuit for evaluating and ascertaining a position of the measurement object. In addition to the measuring coils, the noncontact distance measuring sensor includes an additional coil which is arranged along the common axis, is coupled to the evaluation circuit, and at least partly overlaps at least one of the two measuring coils.

Abstract: A bushing of an electrical conductor through a wall which separates two regions from one another, wherein the conductor extends through a passage in the wall, at a distance from said wall, characterized in that a sleeve, which is electrically insulated from the passage and is hermetically sealed, preferably extends approximately coaxially through the passage, and in that the electrical conductor extends through the sleeve and is incorporated in the sleeve in a hermetically sealed, preferably integral, manner.

Abstract: Sensor with a one-layer or multi-layer sensor element operating in a contact-free manner and a housing comprising an electric/electronic connection and, in given cases, electronic components, where the sensor element comprises a coil arrangement whose windings have a defined line width, line thickness, and line spacing per layer and whose layers have a defined layer thickness and, in given cases, a defined layer spacing, characterized in that the sensor element is built up from ceramic layers in the sense of multi-layer ceramics and that with respect to traditional coil arrangements the line width is reduced and the number of windings per cross-sectional surface area is increased.

Abstract: A sensor comprises a housing which defines a measuring side and a connection side, a coil (6) which is arranged in the housing (1) on the measuring side, and a cover (14) for closing the housing on the measuring side. The housing (1) consists of ferromagnetic material, in particular ferromagnetic steel. The coil (6) is positioned and fixed in the housing close to the cover (14) or directly on the cover (14).

Abstract: A method for producing a connecting part (30), such as a connecting rod for an aircraft, made from a composite material, the connecting part including at least one hollow body (32) and at least one yoke (34) at each of the ends (36) of the body (32), is characterized in that the body (32) and the yokes (34) of the connecting part (30) are produced from a single section (P, P1, P2) made from a composite material and obtained using a continuous production process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spatial filter measuring arrangement (1) and a spatial filter measuring device (2) comprising at least one sensor (4, 5; 41I-41IV; 51) and a spatial filter, wherein electromagnetic radiation, in particular light, that is emitted or reflected by a measurement object (13), is imaged onto the sensor (4, 5; 41I-41IV; 51, 52) by means of the spatial filter. The invention further relates to a method for spatial filter measurement. The spatial filter measuring arrangement according to the invention is further developed in that the spatial filter is designed as a micro-mirror array which has mirror elements (21-21??) which can be moved about respective angular positions.

Abstract: An inductively operating sensor, particularly for measuring distances and positions of a metallic object, comprising at least a coil, a ferromagnetic or ferritic core and perhaps a housing comprising a sensor element, with the core being embedded in a single or multi-layered ceramic and jointly with the ceramic forming a coil body and with the coil body and the core being connected to each other in a form-fitting fashion. Furthermore, a method is suggested for producing such a sensor.

Abstract: A modular building unit for use in constructing a building comprises a top, a base, two opposed ends and at least one open side. The at least one open side extends between the two opposed ends and is free of upwardly extending structural supports. The modular building unit is configured to be interconnected to a second modular building unit along the at least one open side. The building unit is dimensioned to enable the building unit to be accommodated at or within a predetermined width limit for transportation before assembly and the building unit and the second modular building unit, when assembled, exceeding the predetermined width limit.

Abstract: According to the invention, a method for compensating for temperature related measurement errors in an optical arrangement, comprising at least one lens is designed with a view to an economical and reliable as possible compensation for temperature related measurement errors without significant increased production expense, wherein a multicolored beam is passed through the optical arrangement, which is focused at points at varying distances from the lens as a result of the chromatic aberration of the lens, at least a part of the spectrum of the light beam being at least partly reflected within the optical arrangement and directed to a detector device by means of which a determination of a spectrum is carried out, the temperature of the arrangement is determined from the spectrum recorded by the detection device and a compensation for temperature related measurement errors is carried out based on the temperature determined thus. A corresponding optical arrangement in disclosed.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a process for the production of a tube of high stiffness, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: producing a first internal tube (10) of a first material, placing intermediate members (12) on this first tube, regularly spaced, these intermediate members being made of a composite material producing at least one second tube (14) of a second material, about these intermediate members, at least one of the first or second tubes being made by filamentary winding. The invention also covers the obtained tube.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor arrangement for detecting at least one of the movement and the position of two components of an assembly, which are located close to each other or are disposed one inside the other and can be moved relative to each other, said sensor arrangement comprising at least one first sensor for detecting at least one of the movement and the position of the one component and a second sensor for detecting at least one of the movement and the position of the other component, the sensors functioning according to different measuring principles without affecting each other mutually.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for determining the distance of a conducting surface profiled in a direction of distance determination from a functional surface moving relative to the profiled surface is disclosed. The method includes connecting inputs of a sensor to an oscillator arrangement. The sensor includes a first and a second measuring coil. The method includes further connecting outputs of the sensor to an analog-to-digital converter via a demodulator unit to obtain first and second digital measured values. The first and second digital measured values correspond to the distance between the profiled surface and the first and second measuring coil of the sensor, respectively. The method further includes connecting an arithmetic unit to the analog converter unit. The second measurement coil is arranged at a known distance from the first measuring coil on the side of the first measuring coil that faces away from the profiled surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for non-contacting measuring of a distance and/or a profile of a measured object (9), a light source (2) generating an illuminating light beam for illuminating the measured object (9), and a detector (11) being provided for detecting the reflected portion of the illuminating light beam at the measured object (9), characterized with regard to a potentially robust and nevertheless compact sensor construction in that a first optic (13) and a second optic are disposed in the beam path of the illuminating light beam, wherein the illuminating light beam can first be expanded in an expansion plane parallel to the diffusion direction by means of the first optic (13), and then made nearly parallel by means of the second optic. In a particularly preferable embodiment, the second optic is formed by a Fresnel lens (5). A corresponding method is disclosed.

Abstract: A vehicle safety sensor system (VSSS) includes driver-side and passenger-side sensor means. The VSSS implements multiple safety functions as forward collision warning (or avoidance) and side/rear object detection. Subsystems of both sensor means are placed in the location normally occupied by side-view mirrors providing the driver an unobstructed view of both sensor means.

Abstract: A device for the contactless optical determination of the position of an object. In particular, the present invention provides a method and device for the contactless optical determination of the 3D position of an object wherein an image of the object is generated by means of a camera and the 3D position of the object is calculated from the camera image based on the image information about detected geometrical characteristics. Determination of the 3D position of the object includes determination of the 3D position and the 3D orientation of the object.

Abstract: Method and system for representing a strong of alpha characters, numeral characters and/or delimiters that allows uniform searching procedures, whether or not numerals and/or delimiters are present in the string. Numerical sub strings, containing only numerals and delimiters, are re characterized in binary format and are separated from, and later recombined with, sub strings containing only alpha characters and delimiters, to provide a modified searchable string in binary format Floating point numbers are easily handled in this approach. Delimiters may be any subset of ASCII characters, as distinguished from numerals and from alpha characters. A numeral character, to be transmitted as a sequence of bits, is optimized by expression in a base (power of 2) requiring the smallest bit count.