Abstract: A method is described for manufacturing a three-dimensional product, in particular a hydraulic element, the method encompassing at least the following method steps: Providing a first section of the product to be manufactured, which includes at least one first connection point for a second section of the product to be manufactured; and producing the second section by an additive manufacture in which the at least one first connection point of the first section is used as a substrate for the additive manufacture of the second section.

Abstract: A motor vehicle braking system cuboidal hydraulic block includes at least one wheel connector to which at least one wheel brake cylinder is connectable, a master brake cylinder receiving borehole connected to the at least one wheel connector such that a master brake cylinder is at least partially providable in the master brake cylinder receiving borehole, and a plunger receiving borehole that extends from an engine side of the hydraulic block in the direction of an opposite side of the hydraulic block and that is connected to the at least one wheel connector such that a plunger of a motorized plunger device is providable therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump, in particular for injection systems for motorized two-wheeled vehicles and/or for motorized three-wheeled vehicles, having a compression chamber, a piston, an inlet valve, and an outlet valve. A fluid can flow into the compression chamber via the inlet valve, and the fluid can flow out of the compression chamber via the outlet valve. A region in the form of a channel, which is arranged fluidically upstream of the outlet valve, in particular directly upstream of the outlet valve, has a cross-section which is reduced compared to a compression chamber region at a distance from the outlet valve. The invention is characterized in that a piston end face facing the channel has a region which can be immersed into the channel.

Abstract: A method for recognizing a seat occupancy of seats in a motor vehicle including a) preparing a checking sequence of the seats at least using a probability of occupancy of the seats, and b) sequentially checking the occupancy of the seats using the checking sequence prepared in step a).

Abstract: A vertical SiC MOSFET having a source terminal, a drain terminal, and a gate region, as well as an epitaxial layer disposed between the source terminal and the drain terminal and having a doping of a first type, is furnished, a horizontally extending intermediate layer, which has regions having a doping of a second type different from the doping of a first type, being embedded into the epitaxial layer. The vertical SiC MOSFET is notable for the fact that at least the regions having doping of a second type are electrically conductively connected to the source terminal. The gate region can be disposed in a gate trench.

Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor device and a cover device. The sensor device includes an external surface on which at least one electrical test contact is arranged. The cover device includes at least partially an electrically insulating material and is mechanically connected to the sensor device. The cover device is configured to cover the at least one electrical test contact of the sensor device so as to prevent contact from being made to the at least one electrical test contact from outside the sensor system.

Abstract: A braking system is described for a vehicle, including a master brake cylinder, a first brake circuit with a first storage chamber, a first wheel brake cylinder, and a second wheel brake cylinder, the first wheel brake cylinder being hydraulically connected to the first storage chamber via a first wheel outlet valve, and the second wheel brake cylinder being hydraulically connected to the first storage chamber via a second wheel outlet valve, and including a second brake circuit with a second storage chamber, a third wheel brake cylinder, and a fourth wheel brake cylinder, the third wheel brake cylinder being hydraulically connected to the second storage chamber via a third wheel outlet valve, and the fourth wheel brake cylinder being hydraulically connected to the second storage chamber via a fourth wheel outlet valve. The first wheel outlet valve and the third wheel outlet valve are in each case continuously adjustable valves. Moreover, also described is a method for operating a braking system of a vehicle.

Abstract: A method for adapting a vehicle velocity of a vehicle, the method including determining a required steering torque for guiding the vehicle along a curved driving trajectory, and ascertaining a permissible velocity of the vehicle for guiding the vehicle along the curved driving trajectory using the required steering torque and an available steering torque.

Abstract: A pouch cell includes a generally rectangular cell housing formed of a metal laminated film that includes a box portion and a lid portion that is formed separately from the box portion. The active material including the electrode and an electrolyte is placed into the box portion and the lid portion is welded to the box portion. The box portion and the lid portion are formed and assembled together without using a drawing or a punching process. Instead, the pouch cell housing is formed via a series of folding and welding steps, whereby the pouch cell size is not limited by the draw depth of the metal laminated film.

Abstract: An electronically pressure-controllable braking system and methods for controlling an electronically pressure-controllable braking system. Each wheel brake of the braking system is connected respectively to at least two brake circuits, pump units and valve devices of one brake circuit are operable respectively independently of the pump units and the valve devices of the respective other brake circuit. This provides a cost-effectively and compactly designed redundant braking system, which is suitable for use in autonomously, i.e., driverlessly drivable, motor vehicles.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a MEMS element, including the following: forming a least one stationary weight element and at least one moving weight element in the MEMS element, and positioning at least one fixing element at the stationary weight element and at the moving weight element, the fixing element being formed so as to be able to be severed.

Abstract: A pedal travel simulator for a hydraulic power vehicle braking system. For the purpose of adapting to different main brake cylinders and of changing a spring characteristic curve, a stop is provided to be pressed into a piston of the pedal travel simulator. A pressing-in depth of the stop delimits a piston stroke.

Abstract: A device and method for determining the storage capacity of an electrical energy store, as for example a rechargeable battery, based on the phase of the complex impedance of the electrical energy store. The impedance of the electrical energy store is determined in that the energy store is loaded with a specified periodic load and the system response setting in as a result is ascertained. On the basis of the correlation between the phase of the complex impedance of the electrical energy store and the storage capacity of the electrical energy store, it is thereupon possible reliably and in a simple manner to ascertain the storage capacity of the electrical energy store.

Abstract: A method for lateral dynamic stabilization of a single-track motor vehicle during cornering; on the left side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one first nozzle, which is mounted at a first position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a first container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the left side of the vehicle; and on the right side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle including at least one second nozzle, which is mounted at a second position located between the wheels, and through which a medium situated in a second container may escape into the surroundings of the motor vehicle, with a speed component pointed in the outer direction of the right side of the vehicle; —where a presence of an unstable driving condition in a lateral direction of the vehicle is detected, and—as a function of this, with the aid of an actuator system, on only one side of the vehicle, the medium is caused

Abstract: In a method and a device for diagnosing a differential pressure sensor of a particle filter of an internal combustion engine, where the differential pressure sensor is connected via a first pressure line to an exhaust-gas system upstream from the particle filter and via a second pressure line to the exhaust-gas system downstream from the particle filter and upstream from a rear muffler, a diagnosis of the first or second pressure lines is performed by evaluating a comparison of a differential pressure signal from a differential pressure sensor with modeled pressure values.

Abstract: A vehicular airborne particulate detection system in one embodiment includes a particulate matter concentration sensor positioned in a passenger space of a vehicle. The particulate matter concentration sensor generates a signal associated with an airborne particulate matter concentration in the passenger space which is analyzed by a controller to identify a cyclical particulate matter concentration pattern which is classified as a smoking event. The controller then generates an output using a user interface based upon the classified smoking event.

Abstract: A search framework for finding effective architectural building blocks for deep convolutional neural networks is disclosed. The search framework described herein utilizes a building block which incorporates branch and skip connections. At least some operations of the architecture of the building block are undefined and treated as hyperparameters which can be automatically selected and optimized for a particular task. The search framework uses random search over the reduced search space to generate a building block and repeats the building block multiple times to create a deep convolutional neural network.

Abstract: A device for operating an electrical consumer, in particular a solenoid valve, including at least one first circuit which encompasses an activatable first switch and a first freewheeling unit connected or connectable in parallel to the consumer, and including a control unit which is designed for activating the first switch in order to energize the consumer with a predefinable electric current with the aid of pulse width modulation. It is provided that the circuit encompasses at least one second switch and one second freewheeling unit, which is connected or connectable in parallel to the consumer, and that the control unit is designed for activating the second switch in a phase-shifted manner with respect to the first switch in order to energize the consumer.

Abstract: An actuator device and a method for tilting an actuator device. The method includes the steps: conducting electrical current through an electrical conduction device, which is guided via a tilting device of the actuator device, within a first magnetic field that is generated by a permanent magnet device of the actuator device, so that an actuator element of the tilting device is tilted along a first tilting axis as the result of a Lorentz force; and generating a second magnetic field by an electromagnet device of the actuator device in the area of the permanent magnet device, so that the tilting device is tilted along a second tilting axis as the result of magnetic attraction and repulsion.

Abstract: A hydraulic flushing valve arrangement includes a flushing valve having a housing, flushing piston, and at least one spring. The housing includes a valve bore, two circular housing control edges, two inlet channels fluidically connected to the bore, and an outlet channel opening into the bore between the inlet channels. The piston includes two control collars, a piston neck, and piston control edges that delimit the collars from the neck, and that have circular shapes with a recess. The recess has a portion that, in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to an axis of the piston, is constant and sized such that a flushing quantity is reduced when the portion of the recess is situated in a region of a corresponding housing control edge relative to a quantity when the piston is in an end position. The collars guide the piston so as to be longitudinally displaceable in the bore, and are spaced apart by the neck.