Abstract: A method for operating a brake system with an automated parking brake for a motor vehicle, includes detecting a defined fault. The method further includes activating a parking mode of the parking brake automatically when the defined fault is detected. The automated parking brake is operable in different operating modes, a first operating mode corresponding to a drive mode and a second operating mode corresponding to the parking mode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the position of an actuating element (3) in a positioning system (1), having the following steps: —continuously detecting a signal profile of a sensor signal from an acceleration sensor (7) which is fitted to an electric-motor actuating drive (5) of the positioning system (1), in order to detect an acceleration on account of a force excitation by a detent torque and/or an imbalance of a rotor of the electric-motor actuating drive; —evaluating the signal profile in order to detect an oscillation; —determining the position of the actuating element (3) on the basis of the detection of the oscillation.

Abstract: A compressor having a housing and a rotor, the rotor having an impeller at least on one side; a compressor chamber being formed between the impeller and the housing, the rotor being rotationally mounted, an annular sealing channel being formed between the rotor and the housing, the sealing channel being routed from the compressor chamber to a zone having a lower pressure; a throttling section being provided in the sealing channel; the sealing section being configured in closer proximity to the low-pressure zone than to the compression chamber.

Abstract: An oscillating gardening device includes a drive unit and at least one cam gear that is configured to be driven by the drive unit and has at least one guide section configured to guide at least one element. The guide section is rotatable about an axis of rotation and closed relative to the rotation axis in the circumferential direction. The guide section is arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation and deviates at least substantially from one or more of a circular shape and a circular ring shape in the circumferential direction. The oscillating gardening device in at least one embodiment is configured as one or more of hedge shears, grass shears, and branch shears.

Abstract: A saw blade includes a blade base with an arcuate cutting edge. The cutting edge is curved to a lesser extent than a circular arc with a radius that corresponds to the distance between the axis of rotation of the saw blade and the cutting edge.

Abstract: A method for producing an electromigration-resistant crystalline transition-metal silicide layer of a layer sequence, for example, to provide a micro heater includes, supplying a semiconductor substrate including an electrically insulating layer; physically depositing a transition metal on the electrically insulating layer; carrying out a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition while forming an inert gas plasma; conveying monosilane to the inert gas plasma, with the monosilane decomposing into silicon and hydrogen and the silicon in the gaseous phase entering into a chemical reaction with the transition metal in order to form the electromigration-resistant crystalline transition-metal silicide layer.

Abstract: A device for determining the concentration of a predefined gas in a medium includes a first sensor for determining the gas concentration in a flow of the medium; a second sensor for determining a physical parameter of the medium in the flow of the medium; and a processing device, which is set up to determine the quality of the determination using the first sensor on the basis of a signal from the second sensor.

Abstract: A method is described for determining a pose of a vehicle that is driving in an at least partially automated manner, with the aid of different landmark types, and in order to determine the pose of the vehicle, a vehicle control system processes landmark data of the detected landmark types with the aid of at least one detector algorithm. At least one detection algorithms is selected and used for processing the landmark data of certain landmark types as a function of environmental influences.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes a tool receiver, a tool housing, and a drive motor arranged in the tool housing. The drive motor is configured to be switched on and off via an electric On/Off switch for driving the tool receiver. The hand-held power tool also includes an actuating device configured to actuate the On/Off switch. The actuating device has a pivotably mounted actuating element and a pivotably mounted pawl that is configured to be coupled to the actuating element. The pawl is further configured, in a free-running state, to move pivotably relative to the actuating element and, in an actuation state, to exert upon the actuating element an actuating force that actuates the actuating device.

Abstract: A method for digging out a motor vehicle at a standstill, in which the driver predefines a startup direction for the motor vehicle with the aid of an operating element; in which a reciprocating motion of the motor vehicle is generated with the aid of chronologically consecutive drive force pulses which are independent of the driver and have a first intensity; in which the spatial amplitude of the reciprocating motion is ascertained and compared to a predefined threshold value; and when the spatial amplitude of the reciprocating motion of the motor vehicle exceeds the threshold value, a startup movement of the motor vehicle is subsequently generated in the predefined startup direction using at least one drive force pulse which is directed in the predefined startup direction and which has a second intensity, which is greater than the first intensity.

Abstract: A projector is provided, which has a plurality of operating modes, including a first operating mode in which a beam of electromagnetic waves is emitted by the projector. In addition, a detection unit is configured in such a way that in the first operating mode of the projector the presence of an object in the optical path of the beam is detected. Moreover, the projector includes a processing unit which is developed to switch from the first operating mode to a second operating mode that differs from the first operating mode when an object is detected in the optical path of the beam.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery pack for a hand-held power tool, including a rechargeable battery pack housing, the rechargeable battery pack housing accommodating at least two rechargeable battery cells. The rechargeable battery pack is mechanically and electrically connectable to a hand-held power tool and/or to a charging device via an interface. The interface includes contact elements for electrically and/or mechanically contacting corresponding countercontact elements on the hand-held power tool and/or corresponding countercontact elements on the charging device. It is provided that the rechargeable battery pack housing includes at least one first rechargeable battery cell string for accommodating at least one first rechargeable battery cell, and at least one second rechargeable battery cell string for accommodating at least one second rechargeable battery cell. The rechargeable battery pack housing includes at least two electrical contact elements for each rechargeable battery cell string.

Abstract: In a pushbelt for a continuously variable transmission that includes at least one endless carrier and a number of transverse segments, which are mounted on the endless carrier. The transverse segments include a bearing surface that contacts the radial inside of the endless carrier, as well as a convexly curved tilting edge that is a part of a main body surface of the transverse segment. According to the present disclosure the convex curvature of the tilting edge extends both radially inward or below and radially outward or above the bearing surface, at least as seen in radial or height direction relative to the endless carrier.

Abstract: A method for producing thin MEMS wafers including: (A) providing an SOI wafer having an upper silicon layer, a first SiO2 layer and a lower silicon layer, the first SiO2 layer being situated between the upper silicon layer and the lower silicon layer, (B) producing a second SiO2 layer on the upper silicon layer, (C) producing a MEMS structure on the second SiO2 layer, (D) introducing clearances into the lower silicon layer down to the first SiO2 layer, (E) etching the first SiO2 layer and thus removing the lower silicon layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a camera module, the camera module including a circuit carrier, an image sensor and an optical system holder, including: mounting the image sensor on the circuit carrier; applying a protective layer to the circuit carrier, in which the image sensor is not covered by the protective layer and the protective layer simultaneously forms the optical system holder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a battery module having a multiplicity of battery cells (4), wherein the battery module (1) has a housing (2) with an interior space (3) in which the multiplicity of battery cells (4) is accommodated, wherein a housing wall (5, 6) of the housing (2) has a multiplicity of projections (7) facing toward the interior space (3) of the housing (2), wherein in each case two adjacent projections (7) delimit a flow channel (8) designed for a flow of temperature-control fluid, wherein the multiplicity of battery cells (4) makes direct contact in each case with the multiplicity of projections (7).

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a micromirror-based laser system for detecting an incident laser beam. Two sensor diodes are situated on a shared substrate in the micromechanical component, only one of the two sensor diodes being designed as a photodiode. The further sensor diode supplies an output signal independent of an incidence of light. By comparing the two output signals of the two diodes, an incidence of light in the micromechanical component may be inferred.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of animal weighing. The invention relates to an animal-weighing platform (1) comprising a plate (2) and at least one load cell (5). The platform (1) further includes: an accelerometer (9) fixed on said plate (2); and a processing unit (6) capable of identifying and processing the data provided by at least one load cell (5) and which includes a diagnostic module (14) capable of identifying and processing the data provided by said accelerometer (19). The present invention further relates to an animal-weighing process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wearable device, comprising: a power source; a position sensor electrically connected to the power source, for sensing a position of a wearer of the wearable device and generating a position signal; a signal transceiver electrically connected to the power source, for receiving the position signal, sending the position signal to a monitoring apparatus, and receiving an indication signal from the monitoring apparatus; and a body of the wearable device comprises a first part and a second part, wherein a relative position of a moveable end of the first part and a moveable end of the second part can switch between a first relative position and a second relative position.

Abstract: A controller and a control method of a brake system for a motorcycle are obtained, the controller and the control method capable of improving behavior stability of a motorcycle at a time when a road surface is a steep upward slope. The invention also obtains a brake system for a motorcycle that includes such a controller. In the controller and the control method of the brake system for a motorcycle and in the brake system for a motorcycle according to the invention, in the cases where it is determined that a user's operation of a first brake operation section 11 is present and it is determined that the motorcycle 100 is in a slip-down state where the motorcycle travels backward while a front wheel 3 is braked when the road surface is the upward slope, an emergency braking action that causes a rear-wheel brake mechanism 14 to generate a braking force that brakes a rear wheel 4 is executed.