Abstract: A micromechanical system which includes a movably suspended mass. The micromechanical system includes a damping system, the damping system including a movably suspended damping structure, the damping structure being deflectable by applying a voltage. The damping structure is designed in such a way that a frequency response and/or a damping of the movably suspended mass are/is changeable with the aid of a deflection of the damping structure.

Abstract: A test unit for an actuation device of an electrical apparatus is configured as an ASIC and includes a test circuit configured to generate a voltage test sequence, a memory configured to store a response pattern, and an analysis unit configured to compare the response pattern with a reference pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is the fabrication and implementation of prefabricated volumetric construction modules that include transitioning members that adjust between vertical support columns and structural trusses via lateral joints. Modification of vertical support columns to trusses enables open space configurations in volumetric construction. Each volumetric module includes a habitation zone and a truss zone. Folding or transitioning a vertical support column at the lateral joint positions a lower region of the support column from the habitation zone into the truss zone. The vertical support columns are transitioned in a specified order where within a given row of vertical support columns. Beginning from a first interior column on an edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, workers fold half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a first direction toward the edge-positioned transforming volumetric module.

Abstract: Method for safeguarding a communication between a first vehicle 3 and a second vehicle 4, wherein the first vehicle 3 has a first communication device and the second vehicle 4 has a second communication device, wherein the first vehicle 3 forms a leading vehicle and the second vehicle 4 forms a following vehicle, wherein data are interchanged between the first communication device and the second communication device by way of a wireless communication connection, wherein the communication connection has a transmission quality, wherein a future transmission quality is estimated and/or determined for the communication connection, wherein if the future transmission quality is below a minimum transmission quality then a countermeasure to improve the transmission quality is performed.

Abstract: An integrated electro-hydraulic unit including a hydraulic machine having a shaft configured to rotate about an axis and a cylinder block. The cylinder block includes a distal portion spaced from the axis. The distal portion includes an axial span measured parallel to the axis. An electric machine has a stator and a rotor with an axial span measured parallel to the axis. The axial span of the rotor is larger than the axial span of the distal portion. A drive flange is situated between the distal portion and the rotor to define an interface. The rotor is secured to a rotor-receiving portion of the drive flange, and the distal portion is secured to a cylinder block-receiving portion of the drive flange. The axial span of the distal portion extends outside the axial span of the rotor.

Abstract: A fuel injector assembly includes a valve housing, a valve stem that is disposed in the valve housing, a magnetic coil that surrounds the valve housing and is used to displace the valve stem within the valve housing, and a terminal blade. The terminal blade includes a bus bar that provides an electrical connection between the magnetic coil and an external connector. In addition, the terminal blade includes a clip that is connected to the bus bar at a clip first end and to the valve housing at a clip second end. The clip includes a sacrificial portion that is configured to part, for example by dissolving, when the terminal blade undergoes an overmolding process. As a result of the overmolding process, the clip is separated into multiple, spaced portions.

Abstract: A method for determining a trajectory function to represent an aging state trajectory for at least one electrical energy storage unit of one or more devices includes determining uncertainty-containing model values of aging states of the at least one electrical energy storage unit, cleaning error-containing model values of the determined uncertainty-containing model values, determining the aging state trajectory based on the cleaned model values, and determining the trajectory function based on the determined aging state trajectory.

Abstract: A machine control system including a first data processing device having a first central processing unit, which implements a control agent, the first data processing unit communicating control commands to the machine and receiving process and environmental data from the machine, which contain state information about the state of the machine and/or an environment of the machine. A second data processing device receives the state information from the first data processing device and implements a copy of the control agent. The second data processing device ascertains, with the aid of one or multiple graphics processing units and/or one or multiple tensor processing units, an update of the copy of the control agent by reinforcement learning, using the state information, and communicates the update to the first data processing device.

Abstract: A prechamber spark plug. The spark plug includes a housing, a cap, which defines a prechamber at least partially, and which includes a plurality of through holes that are configured to produce a connection between the prechamber and a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine; the through holes each having a hole center line; the cap including a recess at a region pointed towards the housing, the recess abutting the housing at a combustion-chamber-side end of the housing; a distance from an exit point of a through hole lying on the hole center line, to a recess, being in a range of 2 mm to 7 mm; and a first angle between a center axis of the prechamber spark plug and the hole center line being in a range of 30° to 70°. An internal combustion engine including such a prechamber spark plug is also described.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a position of a first image region in an image corresponding to a second image region in the image. The method comprises: providing the first image region comprising a reference position; providing the image; determining a plurality of signature values for different image positions in the first image region; assigning relative offsets of a plurality of image positions in the first image region to respectively determined signature values; determining a plurality of correspondence signature values to different image positions in the image; determining relative offsets relative to determined correspondence signature values with use of the assignment; calculating target positions by summing the relative offset and corresponding image position; incrementally assigning a weighting value to a calculated target position, thus forming an incremental weighting value; and determining the position of the first image region by finding an extremum in the incremental weighting values.

Abstract: A sensor system.

Abstract: A valve assembly for use with a main pump, a reserve pump, a steering valve with a second load signaling connector, and a first pressure switch includes an adjustable first orifice and a flow control valve. The valve assembly further includes a fluid flow path running from a first high pressure connector via the first orifice, further via a control point, further via the flow control valve, to a first low pressure connector. The first orifice is loaded in the opening direction by the pressure at the first high pressure connector, and the first orifice is loaded in the closing direction by a spring and by the pressure at the first load signaling connector. The control point is connected permanently to the first measuring connector.

Abstract: A sensor system having a MEMS gyroscope. The sensor system includes a seismic mass for acquiring a measuring signal, a drive circuit, an acquisition circuit for reading out and demodulating the measuring signal, whereby a rate of rotation signal and a quadrature signal phase-shifted relative to the rate of rotation signal is generated, and a digital processing circuit for compensating an offset of the digitized rate of rotation signal using the digitized quadrature signal. The acquisition circuit and the digital processing circuit encompass a rate of rotation circuit, and a quadrature circuit for generating and processing the quadrature signal and generating a compensation signal for the offset compensation of the digitized rate of rotation signal. At least part of the quadrature circuit is operable in at least one other operating mode than the rate of rotation circuit, independently of the operating mode of the rate of rotation circuit.

Abstract: A pump assembly for generating pressure in a brake circuit of a controllable power brake system of a motor vehicle. The pump assembly has, as a pressure generator, a piston-cylinder unit in which a piston is actuated with the aid of a piston drive. The piston drive converts a rotational movement, with which a nut of this piston drive is driven, into a translatory movement of a spindle, which is in turn connected to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner. The piston is a steel component in which a plastic deformation at a piston head forms a device for connecting the spindle to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner.

Abstract: A ceramic carrier substrate for an electrical/electronic circuit. The substrate includes ceramic layers arranged one above the other in an interconnected structure and conductor tracks arranged on and/or in individual ceramic layers and connected to one another as the conductor structure for the electrical/electronic circuit. The interconnected structure is formed by a firing operation. A first conductor substructure is formed in a first interconnected structure subassembly which comprises at least one of the ceramic layers, and a second conductor substructure is formed in a second interconnected structure subassembly which is directly adjacent to the first interconnected structure subassembly and comprises at least one of the ceramic layers. The second conductor substructure substantially consists of high-current conductor tracks and is configured to contact a power circuit.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for training a machine-learning network, wherein the network includes receiving an input data from a sensor, wherein the input data includes data indicative of an image, wherein the sensor includes a video, radar, LiDAR, sound, sonar, ultrasonic, motion, or thermal imaging sensor, generating an adversarial version of the input data utilizing an optimizer, wherein the adversarial version of the input data utilizes a subset of the input data, parameters associated with the optimizer, and one or more perturbation tiles, determining loss function value in response to the adversarial version of the input data and a classification of the adversarial version of the input data, determining a perturbation tile in response the loss function value associated with one or more subsets of the adversarial version of the input data, and output a perturbation that includes at least the perturbation tile.

Abstract: A detection device for an least semiautomated detection of multiple object data sets of at least one object is described. The detection devices includes a movement device for generating a defined relative movement between at least one object data detection unit and the at least one object.