Abstract: A pliers includes a first handle and a second handle. A first jaw is fixed with respect to the first handle and includes a distal tooth, a cone portion, and a blade portion. A second jaw which is fixed with respect to the second handle includes a distal tooth, a cone portion, and a blade portion. A pivot pivotably connects the two handles such that when the pliers are shut, the two teeth are aligned, the cone portions are aligned, and the blade portions are aligned.

Abstract: A method (100) for operating a gas bearing (1), wherein the gas bearing is formed by a rotor (11) and a stator (12), wherein when there is rotation against a stator (12) with a lift-off rotational speed nL the rotor (11) changes from mixed friction with the stator (12) into fluid friction with a medium (13) located between the stator (12) and the rotor (11), wherein the rotational speed of the rotor (11) is kept at or above an idling rotational speed nI, wherein—in response to a first information item (21), on the basis of which a change ?F is to be expected in the acceleration forces F acting on the gas bearing (1), a new value of a safety factor rN:=nI/nL between the idling rotational speed nI and the lift-off rotational speed nL is determined (110), and/or—in response to a second information item (31), on the basis of which a change ?nL is to be expected in the lift-off rotational speed nL, a new value nL,neu is determined for the lift-off rotational speed nL (120), wherein the idling rotational speed nI o

Abstract: A device and a method for warning a driver of a vehicle. The vehicle includes one or multiple surroundings sensor(s) that detect objects in the vehicle surroundings, and an evaluation device is provided in which a surroundings model is created from the object detections by the one or multiple surroundings sensor(s). Also provided is an actuator system that informs the driver of recognized objects of the surroundings model, in that the actuator system for informing the driver contains a piece of spatial warning information, and the driver is haptically informed of the position of the object.

Abstract: An interferometer device includes an interferometer unit with at least two mirrors disposed in parallel, wherein at least one of the mirrors is actuatable parallel to the other mirror and a first distance between the two mirrors is alterable. The interferometer device further includes at least one deflection mirror disposed downstream of the interferometer unit in a light transmission direction of light from the interferometer unit and a detector device, onto which the light is able to be aligned by the deflection mirror. The detector device includes at least two differently sensitive detection regions for transmitted wavelengths or wavelength ranges of the light, which detection regions are spatially separated from one another and able to be irradiated separately by the deflection mirror.

Abstract: A method classifies dynamic or static objects in a surrounding area with a control device. Sound echoes are generated by at least one sensor over a defined time period. The sound echoes are emitted into the surrounding area, and are detected by the at least one sensor in order to acquire measurement data. The measurement data of the at least one sensor are received by the control device. The received measurement data are recorded in a two-dimensional array. At least one echo trace is extracted from the array. A relative speed of the detected sound echoes with respect to the at least one sensor is determined using a derivative over time of the measurement data of the array. The at least one echo trace is classified based on the determined relative speed.

Abstract: A radar sensor device in a motor vehicle, in particular in a car, is provided, the radar sensor device including a plurality of antenna elements which are situated at least partially at different heights, in which the antenna elements are situated at least partially at different distances from a plane which runs perpendicularly to the moving direction of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for detecting a position of a vehicle having a high level of automation, the method comprising a first reading step, at least one position data signal being read by means of a vehicle-side receiver and the position data signal representing a position of an antenna device of a different vehicle and/or a high building. The method also comprises a determining step, in which a position of the vehicle is determined using the position data signal. Finally, in a provision step, a position signal is provided, using the determined position of the vehicle, to a controller of the vehicle in order to control the vehicle.

Abstract: An injector is described for injecting a fluid, in particular a fuel, comprising a solenoid actuator for operating a closing element, which releases and closes a through opening, the solenoid actuator including an armature which is connected to the closing element, an internal pole and an external magnetic circuit component, and the magnetic circuit component is a rolled magnetic sleeve made from a strip material.

Abstract: A system and a method of controlling the temperature of fuel injected into combustion engines, which provides a reduced amount of fuel injected into engines propelled with either pure gasoline or ethanol or any bi-fuel mixture by precisely controlling the amount of heat supplied to the fuel.

Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust-gas burner (B) of a vehicle (100) which has at least an internal combustion engine (V) and a catalytic converter (C1, C2), wherein exhaust gases (22, 24) of the exhaust-gas burner (B) are merged, upstream of the catalytic converter (C1, C2), with exhaust gases (12) of the internal combustion engine (V), forming an exhaust-gas mixture, wherein a lambda value of the exhaust gases (22, 24) of the exhaust-gas burner (B) is set in a manner dependent on a lambda value of the exhaust gases (12) of the internal combustion engine (V).

Abstract: A method for providing a datum in a receive buffer memory. The method includes storing the datum to be provided in the receive buffer memory, and retrieving an old datum from the receive buffer memory, if the receive buffer memory overflows as a result of storing the datum to be provided.

Abstract: A housing frame for a control unit for controlling an electrical machine is disclosed. The housing frame has at least one connection pin for electrically contacting a circuit carrier of the control unit. The connection pin has a connection base and is injected into the housing frame such that the connection pin can be electrically connected to the circuit carrier at the connection base by way of laser beam welding. Also disclosed is a control unit having a housing frame, an electrical machine having a control unit, and to a method for electrically connecting a connection pin of the housing frame to a circuit carrier of a control unit.

Abstract: A user station for a bus system and a method for transmitting a message at different bit rates in a bus system. The user station includes a transmitting stage for transmitting a message on a bus line of the bus system. The transmitting stage switches between a first operating mode and a second operating mode when transmitting different phases of a message. The transmitting stage, in the first operating mode, generates a first data state as a bus state having different bus levels for two bus wires of the bus line, and generates a second data state as a bus state having the same bus level for the two bus wires of the bus line. The transmitting stage, in the second operating mode, generates the first and second data state in each case as a bus state having different bus levels for the two bus wires of the bus line.

Abstract: Battery management systems and methods for use with lithium-ion batteries that employ silicon-based negative electrodes. The battery management systems and methods consider the lithiation/delithiation properties of silicon-based anode materials by considering voltage relaxation behavior. The battery management systems and methods may also be applied to other materials that similarly display an apparent hysteresis in the lithiation/delithiation processes and/or form multiple phases with different electrochemical properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a control system and a control method capable of appropriately supporting driving of a motorcycle by a rider. The control system includes an execution unit that causes the motorcycle to execute an automatic decelerating operation in a case where an obstacle is located in a predetermined range where a collision avoiding operation of the motorcycle is required, a lane position information acquiring unit that acquires relative position information of a lane boundary with respect to the motorcycle during traveling, and a detection angle range setting unit that set a detection angle range of a forward environment detecting device to be wide in a case where a determination reference is satisfied, in which the determination reference includes a condition that the lane position information acquired by the lane position information acquiring unit satisfies a prescribed condition.

Abstract: A method for producing an electronic sensor module includes applying first soldering material onto electrical soldering pads of a printed circuit board element and/or electrical soldering pads of a printed circuit board element contact side of a sensor carrier, arranging the sensor carrier with the electrical soldering pads of the printed circuit board element contact side on the electrical soldering pads of the printed circuit board element to produce electrical connections between connecting lines and the printed circuit board element, applying second soldering material onto electrical connecting elements of a sensor element and/or soldering pads of the sensor receptacle, arranging the sensor element in the sensor receptacle such that the second soldering material produces electrical connections between the electrical connecting elements of the sensor element and the soldering pads of the sensor receptacle, and reflow-soldering the first soldering material and the second soldering material in a joint reflow

Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive charging device for a vehicle and to a method for monitoring an inductive charging device for a vehicle, wherein a metal object is detected in each case. The method has the steps of: carrying out a passive metal object detection, MOD, while a battery of a vehicle (1) is inductively charged by generating an electromagnetic field in order to induce a charge current (I2) in a receiving coil structure (2) of the vehicle (1); and carrying out an active MOD at points in time at which no inductive charging process is being carried out.

Abstract: A method for operating an engine system that includes an internal combustion engine and an exhaust aftertreatment device. The method includes: carrying out a filling control in order to regulate a filling level of the exhaust aftertreatment device as a function of a predefined filling level setpoint value, a lambda setpoint value for a lambda regulation being predefined as a manipulated variable, adapting the filling control with the aid of an adaptation variable that indicates a correction value for the lambda setpoint value, and storing an adaptation value as a function of an operating range of the engine system, the adaptation value in question being updated with the value of the adaptation variable for the instantaneous operating range.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for analyzing and/or at least partially compensating steering wheel torsional vibrations, particularly during operation of a steering device in a vehicle, wherein at least one sensing signal is acquired and at least one interference characteristic variable which is correlated to the steering wheel torsional vibration is extracted from the sensing signal. It is proposed that during a monitoring time interval a change over time in the interference characteristic variable and a change over time in a wheel frequency which is correlated to a current wheel rotational speed characteristic variable is monitored and said changes are combined in order to analyze and/or to at least partially compensate steering wheel torsional vibrations to form a common evaluation dataset.