Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the power consumption of a telephone (10), (310). A power saving mode is automatically switched on or off for the telephone (10), (310), depending on: at least one given timespan, within which the telephone (10) is predicted not to be used or another terminal (380).

Abstract: A laser processing head comprising a focusing device for focusing a processing laser beam onto a workpiece, the focusing device arranged in a processing beam path, an optical imaging device comprising a detector, wherein the optical imaging device is configured to image observation radiation from a processing region of the workpiece onto the detector along an observation beam path passing through the focusing device, a beam splitter for separating the observation beam path from the processing beam path of the processing laser beam, imaging optics arranged in the observation beam path between the beam splitter and the detector; and a stop arranged between the imaging optics and the detector, wherein the imaging optics produces an image of the stop in the processing beam path of the processing laser beam between the beam splitter and the workpiece.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus for an automated or partially automated vehicle, having a light module, which contains a light source unit having a number of light sources and an optical unit assigned to the light source unit for generating a light signal, a surroundings sensor unit for detecting road users in surroundings of the vehicle, a control unit for controlling the light module, so that the light module generates the light signal as a function of the road users detected by the surroundings sensor unit and/or a relative position thereof with respect to the vehicle, the light module being positioned in a defined location of the vehicle and being designed in such a way that the light signal may be radiated at different horizontal and/or vertical spatial angles.

Abstract: A rotary ultrasonic motor includes an ultrasonic actuator, a driven element, an inner casing member and an outer casing member. A piezoelectric or electrostrictive or magnetostrictive material is arranged between an excitation electrode and at least one general electrode. The ultrasonic actuator is between the inner and outer casing members of a casing, and is directly or indirectly in contact with the element to be driven, so that periodic deformations generated in the ultrasonic actuator by electrical excitation are transferable to the drive element. The ultrasonic actuator is mounted by a retaining device arranged on the casing with at least one retaining section which engages in a recess associated with a respective retaining section.

Abstract: A wheel removal tool for a toy vehicle wheel has a tool base body and at least one rear-engagement portion. The latter is connected fixedly to the tool base body and is embodied so that it, in a removal starting position, engages behind an assigned removal portion of the toy vehicle wheel. A removal lever of the removal tool has a supporting portion for support on a vehicle component fixed on the chassis. The removal lever is adjustable relative to the tool base body between the removal starting position and a removal end position. In the latter, the at least one rear-engagement portion is displaced relative to the supporting portion in a removal direction. This results in a removal tool with which a simple detachment, which is in particular close to reality, of the toy vehicle wheel from a chassis-side vehicle component is enabled.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus for vehicles with a housing sealed by a transparent covering panel, containing a light source unit and an optical unit for producing a predetermined light function, wherein the optical unit has a hologram element and/or diffractive element in which diffraction information for producing the light function is contained, wherein optics are disposed downstream of the hologram element and/or the diffractive element in the light beam path, so that light of different orders of diffraction emerging from the hologram element and/or the diffractive element produce different light functions.

Abstract: In a method for producing a cooling plate, a workpiece in the form of a flat material blank with uniform material thickness is precisely centered in a tool. A substantially radially extending flat peripheral edge of the workpiece is formed by an outer punch of the tool, as the workpiece is held down by an inner punch of the tool and the outer punch is pressed against the peripheral edge to thereby reduce the material thickness of the peripheral edge. Pins are formed on a coolant-swept effective surface of a base of the workpiece by the inner punch through pressing in cooperation with pin forming openings of the tool as the outer punch is held down, such that the pins protrude approximately perpendicular beyond the base and are surrounded by the peripheral edge.

Abstract: A method and a circuit arrangement for damping stepper motor resonances during operation of a stepper motor, in particular in the medium and high speed range, is described, wherein the coils of the stepper motor are each connected into a bridge circuit comprising semiconductor switches, in order to impress into the coils a predetermined target coil current. The resonance damping is achieved by activating a passive FD-phase in the zero crossing of the target coil current, during which all semiconductor switches are opened or switched blocking, in order to thereby feed a coil current flowing in the related motor coil back into the supply voltage source either via inverse or body diodes and/or via diodes connected in parallel to the semiconductor switches in the reverse direction between the positive supply voltage and ground potential.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor device for determining alignment/misalignment of a laser beam relative to a gas nozzle of a laser machining head which comprises a sensor housing provided with mounting means adapted to mount the housing to a laser machining head, a camera device comprising a camera, the camera device is provided in the sensor housing, so that the camera faces the tip of the gas nozzle when the sensor housing is mounted to the laser machining head for visualizing an orifice of the gas nozzle and a pilot laser simultaneously, and output means for outputting image signals obtained by the camera.

Abstract: A method and device for the control and regulation of actuators of a robot, taking environmental contacts into consideration, wherein the robot comprises at least two parts, which are connected by an articulated joint drivable by an actuator. The method comprises: by way of a sensor system, ascertaining and storing a time-dependent variable, as a function of the time, of one or more external contact forces and/or of one or more external moments on the parts, providing a condition for the variable, classifying the feature vector based on predefined categories, which each indicate a contact type between one of the parts or the articulated joint and an object in a surrounding environment, which are each imparted by corresponding external contact forces and/or external contact moments, to generate a classification result, and open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the actuator as a function of the classification result.

Abstract: A device for a tailgate (80) of a vehicle includes a camera unit for capturing images of the outer region of the vehicle and a control unit for controlling a part of the vehicle. The camera unit and control unit are arranged adjacent each other on the vehicle by means of a carrier element. The camera unit is accommodated in a housing in a protected manner, and a movable closure element is provided to close a housing opening. The closure element can be moved by means of a drive unit into at least two end positions, a closed position and an open position. The housing is constructed in at least two parts, the carrier element forming a first housing part on which the control element and the camera unit can be arranged, and the drive unit arranged on a second housing part.

Abstract: A soft closing damper fitting includes a soft closing damper fastenable to an internal door leaf of a multi-leaf sliding door and can be used for right-hand or left-hand closing. A Z-shaped profiled sheet has a central leg and with two outer legs angled in each case by 90° in opposing directions. For fastening the soft closing damper for right-hand closing the central leg comprises first fastening holes and a first marking for its fastening position on the internal door leaf. For fastening the soft closing damper for left-hand closing the central leg comprises second fastening holes and a second marking for its fastening position on the internal door leaf. The first fastening holes are spaced apart from the second fastening holes and the first marking is spaced apart from the second marking in each case by the same distance A in the longitudinal direction of the profile.

Abstract: In the method for transferring blister packs from a first and a second pick position to a common place position, the blister packs in the first and second pick positions are arranged next to each other in a row and are each outwardly offset from the longitudinal center plane of the transfer unit. Then the two blister packs are picked successively by two suction arms and placed from above in the place position, which is in the area of the longitudinal center plane. After the placing step, the blister packs in the place positions have a rotation of 180° around their centers in comparison to their orientation in the pick positions; and in addition the blister packs acquire a lateral offset during the transfer.

Abstract: A novel vibration absorber for damping vibrations of a building or a machine installation having an inherent frequency of preferably below 1 Hz, preferably below 0.5 Hz, in particular, <0.25 Hz, as may occur, for example, in wind turbines or also other tall slim buildings or installations. The vibration absorber which, besides a main mass which is fixed per se and is moved along a track analogous or similar to a pendulum mass, has a substantially smaller, variably adjustable rotating flywheel mass, which can be moved with the main mass on the track thereof and with the aid of which the frequency of the absorber can be finely adjusted or adapted.

Abstract: A method for analyzing at least one signal by using a measurement and analyzing device is described. At least one measurement on said signal to be analyzed is conducted in order to obtain at least one measurement value. A diagram comprising said at least one measurement value over the time is provided. A curve of said at least one measurement value over the time is derived from said diagram. At least one trigger function is applied to said derived curve such that a trigger event is generated in case said at least one trigger function is triggered by said derived curve. Further, a measurement and analyzing device is described.

Abstract: A semifinished product for making a composite fiber molded part is made by first spinning from a row of orifices of a spinning nozzle low-melting fibers of a thermoplastic. These low-melting fibers are then combined into a laminated semifinished product with high-melting reinforcement fibers of the same thermoplastic but having a melting temperature higher than the melting temperature of the low-melting fibers.

Abstract: A proposal is made for a disposal apparatus for disposing of food leftovers. The disposal apparatus comprises at least one comminuter, which has at least one grinding chamber and at least one collecting chamber. The grinding chamber is connected to the collecting chamber via one or more openings. At least one comminuting device having at least one impact tool for comminuting the food leftovers is arranged in the grinding chamber. In addition, at least one mixing device for generating a movement in the food leftovers is arranged in the grinding chamber. A method for disposing of food leftovers is furthermore proposed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical lamp (1) that can be controlled without contact, comprising a control unit and a sensor unit, wherein the control unit is designed to control the surgical lamp (1), wherein the sensor unit is designed to detect a motion of an action element and to convert said motion of the action element into motion data, wherein the control unit is designed to read out the motion data generated by the sensor unit and to control the surgical lamp (1) in dependence on the motion data. The sensor unit is designed in such a way that the sensor unit ensures the detection of the motion of the action element in three dimensions in a measurement space (3), which is arranged below the surgical lamp in an emission direction.

Abstract: Method for detecting a prone/supine position of fish conveyed by a conveying device. The method includes conveying the fish with the conveying device in a longitudinal direction, optically scanning a ventral side and a dorsal side of the fish in order to determine a first brightness value profile of a first side and a second brightness value profile of a second side, determining a first ordered data series and a second ordered data series by ordering brightness values of the first brightness value profile and of the second brightness value profile according to a predefined ordering criterion, determining a first median from the first ordered data series and a second median from the second ordered data series, determining at least one differential value from the first median and the second median, and determining the prone/supine position by comparing the at least one differential value with at least one predetermined reference value.