Abstract: An actuator includes first and second structural units arranged independently of one another. An engagement means is arranged in the first structural unit. A drive motor is in driving relationship to the engagement means and arranged in the first structural unit. An anti-backbend chain is in engagement with the engagement means, and a chain depot is arranged in the second structural unit.

Abstract: A mounting device for inserting magnets into magnet accommodating portions of a rotor of an electric machine. The mounting device comprises an aligning device configured to accommodate and align the magnets by means of at least one channel. In this case, a shape of the at least one channel is adapted to a shape of the magnets. The channel comprises a channel inlet, which is disposed at an end face of the aligning device and via which the magnets can be fed to the channel, and a channel outlet, which is disposed opposite the channel inlet and is disposed at an end face of the aligning device opposite the end face and via which the magnets can be discharged from the channel. Furthermore, the at least one channel is twisted.

Abstract: A braking system is proposed for a vehicle, in particular a lightweight vehicle, in particular a pedal cycle, comprising a brake device, a mechanical urging device, and a hydraulic urging device, wherein the mechanical urging device and the brake device form a parking brake device, and the hydraulic urging device takes the form of a hydraulically actuable release device for the parking brake device.

Abstract: A vacuum interrupter includes a housing having at least one annular ceramic insulating element which forms a vacuum chamber. A contact system has two contacts which are movable relative to one another. A capacitive element has two electrodes and a dielectric material disposed between the electrodes. The capacitive element is form-lockingly mounted on the insulating element and has a capacitance between 400 pF and 4000 pF. A high-voltage switching assembly including the vacuum interrupter is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for manufacturing a pouch containing a brewable material accommodated in a wrapping, comprising a pouch manufacturing device adapted to manufacture a water-permeable pouch containing brewable material, and comprising a sealing station with two sealing jaws movable relative to one another for sealing the pouch in the wrapping placed in a U-shape around the pouch, wherein the sealing jaws are configured to form longitudinal seals (L) lying opposite one another and a transverse seal (Q) extending transversely thereto on the wrapping, wherein at least one sealing jaw comprises first and second sealing jaw elements each configured to form one of the longitudinal seals (L) and a segment of the transverse seal (Q).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell, which membrane assembly includes a membrane with a catalyst layer and a frame arranged on the same side of the membrane and a gap between the catalyst layer and the frame. To allow an easy and cost-effective way for manufacturing such a membrane assembly, the manufacturing method may include the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as the first catalyst layer, on the first side of the membrane in a way that the first decal layer overlaps the frame, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as the second catalyst layer, on the second side of the membrane, pressing the first decal layer and the second decal layer against each other with the membrane and the frame positioned in-between.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for at least one user (2) for experiencing a virtual reality simulation in an underwater world, comprising: at least one water resource (10) with at least one flow generator (20), at least one data processing system, and at least one VR display device (40), wherein the data processing system generates a virtual reality simulation, wherein the at least one flow generator (20) is controlled by the data processing system as a function of the virtual reality simulation, and wherein the virtual reality simulation is reproduced on the VR display device (40).

Abstract: A power semiconductor module includes a substrate, having power semiconductor components, further including a housing element, and having a DC voltage connection device having a flat lead connection device and a second flat lead connection element, wherein the flat lead connection device has a first flat lead connection element encased by a plastic element of the flat lead connection device and materially bonded to the plastic element, wherein a connection section of the first flat lead connection element projects from the plastic element, a connection section of the second flat lead connection element is arranged on the plastic element or is at least partly enclosed by the plastic element and bonded to the plastic element so that a section of the plastic element is between the first flat lead connection element and the connection section of the second flat lead connection element.

Abstract: An ROV, diver, or stab, wet mateable connector plug front end housing includes a housing front section; a locator mount section; and a seal section axially in series with one another. The housing front section includes a plug coarse alignment feature on an outer surface of the housing front section, adjacent to a front surface of the housing front section and radially outward of a central axis of the housing. There is a circumferential groove on the outer surface of the housing front section, axially displaced from and rearward of the coarse alignment feature, the groove being adapted to receive a latch of a wet-mateable connector receptacle front end housing. The plug coarse alignment feature includes a bullnose feature. A plug fine alignment feature is formed in the outer surface of the housing front section, aligned with and located radially outward of the central axis of the housing.

Abstract: A cutting machine with a cutting support for material to be cut has a vertically movable, horizontal blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon. A vertically movable, horizontal clamping bar is for pushing down the material to be cut. Two guide plates are arranged adjacent to one another, spaced apart in parallel in the same vertical plane, and in each case said guide plates have an inclined linear slot in which the blade bar is guided, and on the front faces thereof facing one another in each case have a vertical guide on which the clamping bar is guided.

Abstract: A dry mate cable connection includes a data cable. The data cable includes a plurality of electrical conductors and at least one electrically insulating outer layer surrounding each data conductor, whereby the data conductors are electrically insulated from one another. The cable includes a termination end. The outer layer of each conductor is physically in contact with an outer layer of an adjacent conductor, except at the termination end. The plurality of electrical conductors at the termination end are physically separated from one another by a single electrically insulating overmoulded cable termination housing. The housing is in contact with at least part of the electrically insulating layers of each of the electrical conductors.

Abstract: A wetmate connector includes a plug and receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and the receptacle includes a receptacle body. The plug includes a recess circumscribing its forward end, adjacent to a coarse alignment feature and rearward of a front surface of the plug body. The coarse alignment feature includes a series of three truncated cones, the first and third of the cones including substantially congruent faces, the first and second cones being joined at their maximum diameter and the second and third cones being joined at their minimum diameter. The receptacle body includes a fastener adapted to cooperate with the recess in the forward end of the plug, to latch the plug and receptacle together when mated.

Abstract: A microphone array system or microphone array unit for a conference system is provided that includes a front board, side walls and a plurality of microphone capsules arranged in or on the front board mountable on or in a ceiling of a conference room. The microphone array system or unit is adapted for generating a steerable beam within a maximum detection angle range. The microphone array system or microphone array unit includes a processing unit which is configured to receive the output signals of the microphone capsules and to steer the beam based on the received output signal of the microphone array. The processing unit is configured to control the microphone array to limit the detection angle range to exclude at least one predetermined exclusion sector in which a noise source is located.

Abstract: A vehicle door handle is formed with a multi-part housing, with at least one cavity for receiving an electronic component being formed in a first housing part. An insert part for the first housing part has holding elements for holding the electronic component and the insert part is fitted in its shape into a portion of the cavity of the first housing part in such a way that, together with the first housing part, it delimits a portion of the cavity of the first housing part so that a potting trough is formed for receiving a potting agent. This formed potting trough has a base which is formed partly from the insert part and partly by the first housing part. The holding elements for holding the electronic component are placed inside the formed potting trough.

Abstract: An optimized method of monitoring a circuit breaker containing a gas with at least one gas characteristic providing a numerical value includes the steps of a) collecting a dataset referring to the at least one gas characteristic inside the circuit breaker, wherein the dataset contains the numerical value of the at least one gas characteristic during a specific condition or specific time of the day, b) calculation of a standard deviation of the at least one gas characteristic of the datasets of at least 3 days of the last 10 days, c) comparing the standard deviation of the gas pressure with a predefined threshold value, and d) triggering a first action in case the standard deviation exceeds the threshold value.

Abstract: A device for performing or enabling an electrical measurement on a measurement layer includes: at least one measurement layer having a layer thickness, and electrical connections connected to and/or adjacent to and serving to determine the electrical resistance of the at least one measuring layer. At least some electrical connections are connected to or adjacent to different length portions of the at least one measuring layer, whereby a measurement for determining the electrical resistance of the at least one measuring layer in the direction of its layer thickness is carried out or made possible. At least some of the electrical connections are connected to or adjacent to different, preferably mutually opposite, surfaces of the at least one measuring layer, whereby a measurement for determining the electrical resistance of the at least one measuring layer is carried out or made possible in the direction transverse to its layer thickness.

Abstract: A method for the cutting of material is to be cut by means of a cutting machine which includes a horizontal cutting support for material to be cut, a horizontal cutting blade displaceable in height above the cutting support for cutting the material to be cut supported on the cutting support, a drive motor for the height displacement of the cutting blade, a manual control for the drive motor, and a protection device safeguarding the working region of the cutting machine. The method has the steps of: lowering the cutting blade, when the protection device is not interrupted, by actuating the manual control; and stopping the cutting blade which is being lowered when the protection device is interrupted. Immediately after stopping the cutting blade which is being lowered, the drive motor is operated to reverse the cutting blade under safety monitoring into a nondangerous upper safety location.

Abstract: A subsea wet mateable connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and a shuttle pin moveably mounted in a socket contact. The receptacle includes a receptacle body and a receptacle pin. The connector further including a secondary diaphragm mounted to the plug body and a primary diaphragm mounted to the plug body outside the secondary diaphragm. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are spaced from one another in a demated state, allowing fluid flow in the space formed therebetween. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are sealingly engaged in a mated state, forming a continuous protective layer over the receptacle pin in a mated state.

Abstract: A cutting machine has a cutting support for material to be cut, with a vertically movable blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon. A cutting drive is for vertically moving the blade bar. A blade depth adjustment is for vertically adjusting the blade bar relative to a vertically movable drive element of the cutting drive. The blade depth adjustment includes a deflection lever which is pivotably mounted about a horizontal axis on the blade bar. The drive element can be articulated thereon at a first radial distance to the horizontal axis. An adjusting mechanism may act on the deflection lever at a second radial distance to the horizontal axis, for rotating and fixing the deflection lever.

Abstract: A pipetting device for taking up and dispensing volumes of fluid, which has an ejector mechanism which is actuable by means of an actuating means to eject or release a pipette tip plugged onto the pipetting device. The pipetting device has a coupling mechanism which is configured such that, in the unactuated state, actuating means and ejector mechanism are decoupled, and, when the actuating means is actuated, the latter is coupled to the ejector mechanism, causing a force exerted on the actuating means to transfer to the ejector mechanism. Also, the pipetting device can have a positioning mechanism which, when a pipette tip is not plugged on and the actuating means is unactuated, holds an ejector means, of the ejector mechanism in a basic position which is located between an ejection position and a plug-on position with a pipette tip plugged on.