Abstract: A method for ascertaining an anomaly in a communications network. In a first phase, a discriminator is trained to recognize whether messages transmitted over the communications network are indicative of the anomaly existing; during training, normal data and artificial data produced by a generator are fed to the discriminator, and, in response, the discriminator is trained to recognize that normal data being fed thereto connotes no anomaly, and artificial data being fed thereto connotes an anomaly. In a second phase, the generator is trained to produce artificial data which, when fed to the discriminator, are classified with the greatest possible probability as normal data. In a third phase, contents of messages received over the communications network are fed as an input variable to the discriminator; an output variable is ascertained, and the decision as to whether the anomaly exists or not being made as a function of the output variable.

Abstract: A device for operating a braking system of a motor vehicle, including a first control unit for operating an ABS unit of the braking system and including a second control unit for operating a brake booster unit of the braking system. The control units are designed as application-specific integrated circuits and are connected to a microprocessor for their control, the microprocessor including a separate shut-off path for each of the circuits.

Abstract: A method/device for recognizing a microprocessor hardware error, including comparing a first application's first result, running on a first microprocessor, with a second application's second result, running on the first/second microprocessor, with a microcontroller, providing comparison strategies, the hardware error being recognized as a function of the comparison, the microcontroller receiving a first message from the first microprocessor, and receiving a second message from the first microprocessor if the second application runs on the first microprocessor, or receives a first message from the second microprocessor if the second application runs thereon, the first message containing first comparison strategy information and first result information of a first function calculation, the second message containing second comparison strategy information and second result information of a second function calculation, the first and second strategy information being compared, the first and second result informatio

Abstract: A method is provided for protecting a vehicle network of a vehicle against manipulated data transmission. The vehicle network includes multiple network nodes. At least one first network node in the vehicle network compares received messages with messages assigned to the first network node and detects the manipulated data transmission if one of the received messages coincides with a message assigned to the first network node, but the first network node did not send the message. At the same time, the first network node compares only selected messages of the received messages with the messages assigned to the first network node or compares the received messages only with selected messages assigned to the first network node.

Abstract: A weighing bar assembly includes a hollow structural part (1), with two load cells (2) positioned therein. The assembly further includes two ground support shoes (4). Each of the load cells (2) is attached at one end to the structural part (1) by a securing block (3) and at its other end to a corresponding ground support shoe (4).

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sampling system and method for imaging and non-imaging systems to conserve power consumption is provided. The ADC sampling system performs only two comparisons for each pixel based on a background value and a threshold value to determine whether the light detected by the pixel is different from a background image.

Abstract: A filament cutting device for a three-dimensional (3D) printer, the 3D printer including an extruder assembly that is configured to extrude filament onto a printing platform, the filament cutting device including: a first portion attached to the extruder assembly of the 3D printer and a second portion, where each of at least one of the first and second portions includes a respective cutting edge for cutting the filament.

Abstract: A system and method for verifying a connection between a first and second connector. The system includes a transducer and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a velocity of the first connector when the first connector is moved to the second connector to form a coupling, calculate a time interval to the coupling based on the velocity detected at the set point and a position of the second connector, and receive, from the transducer, a signal during the time interval. The signal includes the sound generated when the coupling is formed. The processor analyzes the signal and identifies the sound of the coupling within the signal. The signal is filtered in the frequency domain and in the time domain, resulting in a filtered spectrogram. The spectrogram is compared to a pattern. The processor determines if the first and second connector are properly coupled based on the comparison.

Abstract: A battery module (100) comprising at least one battery cell system (1) having at least two battery cells (11), wherein the battery cell system (1) comprises a pouch film (3) and at least two electrode composites (5), wherein an electrode composite (5) comprises at least one anode and at least one cathode, and wherein the pouch film (3) forms pockets (12) separated from one another, in particular situated alongside one another, for introducing respectively at least one electrode composite (5), such that each pocket (12) together with electrode composite (5) forms a pouch cell (10), and wherein the pockets (12) are connected to one another physically in a foldable manner via the pouch film (3) and wherein the battery module (100) has a movement-flexible, foldable enclosure (20), which encloses the entire battery cell system (1) and the voltage tap of the battery module (100).

Abstract: An electronic module has a first circuit board element, a second circuit board element, and a spacer. Together, the first circuit board element, the second circuit board element, and the spacer enclose a central cavity, in which components attached to the first circuit board element are accommodated. Respective annular circumferential microstructures are provided on a surface of the first circuit board element directed outward and on a surface of the second circuit board element directed outward, adjacent to an outer periphery of the first circuit board element. In this region, a sealing ring is formed, which has a form-closed connection to both the first and the second circuit board element by means of the microstructures of the first and the second circuit board element.

Abstract: A method for determining a presently existing driving situation in which a vehicle finds itself at the moment. The method includes receiving of driving-environment data based on a sensed vehicle driving environment, extracting of features from the driving-environment data with the aid of pattern recognition, classifying the presently existing driving situation based exclusively on the features extracted by the pattern recognition, and providing a result of the classification. A corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system as well as a computer program, are also described.

Abstract: A method of encapsulating a sensor device includes providing at least one sensor device that has a sensor portion on a substrate. An exclusionary zone is formed above an upper surface of the sensor portion. An outer boundary is formed on or about the sensor device with the outer boundary encircling the exclusionary zone. A mold material is deposited into a volume defined in part by the sensor device, the exclusionary zone, and the outer boundary to encapsulate portions of the sensor device. The exclusionary zone in one embodiment is an inner boundary that is formed on the sensor portion. The inner boundary encircles a portion of the upper surface of the sensor portion. The exclusionary zone in another embodiment is a selectively removable material deposited on the upper surface of the sensor portion. The selectively removable material occupies a space above a portion of the upper surface.

Abstract: A method for monitoring an area ahead of a vehicle, the vehicle including a first sensor oriented in the direction of the area and a second sensor oriented in the direction of the area, the second sensor having a greater vertical detection angle than the first sensor, in a step of associating, an item of distance information detected by the first sensor is associated with an object detected by the second sensor in the area. In a step of tracking, a position of the object is tracked while using the second sensor when the object leaves the detection angle of the first sensor due to a pitch angle of the vehicle.

Abstract: A sensing part, a sensing unit, a wheel speed sensing device and a vehicle using said wheel speed sensing device. The vehicle comprises a vehicle wheel and the wheel speed sensing device. The wheel speed sensing device is mounted on the vehicle wheel for timely detecting a speed of the wheel. The sensing device comprises a magnetic-field generating unit and the sensing unit. The sensing unit comprises a fixed part and a sensing part detachably provided on the fixed part. A snapping slot and a snapping part, which can be elastically snapped with each other or released from each other, are provided between the sensing part and the fixed part. The sensing part comprises a housing and a sensing circuit board secured by the housing.

Abstract: A steering gear for a vehicle includes a steering pinion and a master rack. A toothing of the master rack includes a constant helix angle and a toothing of the steering pinion includes a changing helix angle.

Abstract: An abrasive particle includes at most three surfaces and at least one edge which has a corner at at least one end. The abrasive particle may contain a ceramic material, particularly polycrystalline ?-Al2O3. Abrasive particles as a whole, methods for producing abrasive particles, moulds, abrasive articles, methods for producing abrasive articles, and methods for abrading a surface are also disclosed.

Abstract: A control device is described for a brake system of a vehicle, having an electronics device that is designed to operate a motorized piston-cylinder device in a pressure buildup mode and simultaneously to control or to hold at least one first separating valve, via which at least one wheel brake cylinder is connected to a master brake cylinder, in its closed state, and to control or to hold at least one second separating valve, via which the at least one wheel brake cylinder is connected to the motorized piston-cylinder device, in its open state, and to operate the motorized piston-cylinder device in a suctioning mode, and at the same time to control the at least one second separating valve to its closed state, the electronics device being in addition designed to control the at least one first separating valve to its open state at least at times during the suctioning mode. A method is also described for increasing at least one brake pressure in at least one wheel brake cylinder of a brake system of a vehicle.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical component having a disengaged pressure sensor device includes: configuring an electrically conductive sacrificial element in or on a first outer surface of a first substrate; applying a second substrate on or upon the outer surface of the first substrate over the sacrificial element; configuring a pressure sensor device by anodic etching of the second substrate; configuring in the second substrate at least one trench that extends to the sacrificial element; and at least partly removing the sacrificial element in order to disengage the pressure sensor device.