Abstract: The disclosure relates to a dust suction device for a hand-held power tool, comprising a housing, a fan unit accommodated in the housing for generating an air volume flow, at least one suction opening for suctioning off drill cuttings from a borehole, and at least one suction intake opening for generating a negative pressure in an adhesion region between the dust suction device and a workpiece on the basis of the air volume flow.

Abstract: An accumulator piston device having an accumulator piston which, on a circumference of a first shaft portion, has a first guide ring which surrounds the piston shaft and which protrudes radially over an externally dimensionally larger second shaft portion of the piston shaft.

Abstract: A vehicle access system is disclosed having the plurality of system nodes for localizing a target portable device. In addition to Passive Entry/Passive Start (PEPS) features, the vehicle access system is configured to provide a variety of additional intelligent features depending on which zone of the vehicle the target portable device is located, depending on an identity of the person carrying the target portable device, and depending on other parameters or conditions.

Abstract: A brake force generator for a brake system having an electric motor for generating a drive speed. The electric motor cooperates with an input side of a planetary gearing, the planetary gearing including a ring gear, which is accommodated in a ring gear holder. Tolerance compensating elements are arranged between the ring gear and the ring gear holder in the axial direction, via which tolerance compensating elements the ring gear is held, without play, between the ring gear holder and a ring gear supporting element arranged on a side of the ring gear which is axially remote from the ring gear holder. The brake force generator additionally includes a hydraulic module connected to an output side of the planetary gearing to generate a brake pressure. An elastically hardening material is arranged between the ring gear and the ring gear holder to absorb axial forces of the ring gear.

Abstract: The invention relates to a print head (1) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional workpieces, comprising a housing (3), a device (28) for feeding a metal (14), a piston (5), a reservoir (7) with an outlet opening (10) and an actuator device (12) for displacing the piston (5), wherein the reservoir (7, 27) has a melt region (20) and a displacement body chamber (21) for a liquid phase (8) of the metal (14), wherein the melt region (20) adjoins the inert atmosphere (22) and is connected to the displacement body chamber (21) such that, as a result of the displacement of the piston (5), the liquid phase (8) of the metal (14) can be stimulated to pass through the outlet opening (10), said outlet opening (10) being mounted on an insert (11) of the print head (1). The invention is characterised in that the print head (1) comprises a device (50) for feeding a protective gas (60) to the outlet opening (10) of the print head (1).

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating linker code for generation process of executable code for a processing unit from a source code, in particular in a control unit of a vehicle. The control unit includes at least one memory unit each including at least one memory area in each case, and a processor unit including at least one processor core. As a function of predefined pieces of information relating to the memory areas of the processing unit, a predefined configuration of the existing memory areas as to which applications are assigned to which memory areas, and a predefined configuration of the macros which describe accesses of applications to memory areas according to specific properties, data arrays are generated, according to which an initialization of the memory areas takes place.

Abstract: A device for managing communication via interfaces in a virtualized system in which a plurality of virtual machines shares a hardware platform which is virtualized with the aid of a hypervisor, and interfaces assigned to the hardware platform access to the interfaces taking place with the aid of a gateway implemented in hardware. A method for operating the device is also described.

Abstract: A method for providing time information in a GNSS receiver includes receiving at least one time counter variable from a GNSS satellite. The at least one time counter variable describes a number of time intervals that have passed since a time start value, and a data length of the time counter variable limited to a maximum number of countable time intervals. The method also includes reading an offset variable out of a non-volatile memory held in the GNSS receiver. The offset variable describes a time previously received and reconstructed by the GNSS satellite, and a data length of the offset variable exceeds the data length of the time counter variable. The method further includes carrying out a remainder division of the offset variable with a maximum number given by the data length of the at least one time counter variable in order to determine an offset time counter variable.

Abstract: A method for checking a processing of payload data. The method includes: ascertaining, for each one of multiple sequences of data processing blocks, reference result data that result when predetermined meta data are processed by the sequence of the data processing blocks; receiving payload data result data and meta data result data for a data processing of the payload data and of the meta data; checking whether the meta data result data for at least one sequence of the sequences admissible for the data processing of the payload data agree with reference result data ascertained for the sequence; and triggering a safety measure if the meta data result data for no sequence of the sequences admissible for the data processing agree with the reference result data ascertained for the sequence.

Abstract: A linear actuator has a screw drive having a threaded nut connected to an extension arm tube and a threaded spindle couplable to a motor. A first end of the spindle always projects into the tube and is connected to a piston which partitions an interior space formed by the tube into a first region on the side of the piston opposite to the nut and a second region on the side of the piston facing the nut. The regions are separated in a fluid-tight manner. The spindle is held in position since the nut comprises an annular piston that delimits an annular fluid space between a housing of the linear actuator and the tube in a fluid-tight manner, the hydraulically effective surface of which is the same size as that of the first region. The first region and the annular fluid space are fluidically connected by a switching valve.

Abstract: A method for finding an emergency parking position for safe parking of a motor vehicle includes generating a plurality of control signals for controlling a drone having a monitoring facility. The control signals are output to control the drone to monitor an environment of the motor vehicle using the monitoring facility and to output a monitoring data based on the monitoring. After outputting the control signals, the monitoring data is received from the drone, the monitoring data is analyzed to find an emergency parking position for safe parking of the motor vehicle in an emergency, and an analysis result of the analysis of the monitoring data is output.

Abstract: A suspension system for an exciter device. The exciter device includes a piston extending through an opening of a moveable housing and generates a vibrational force by causing a linear reciprocating movement of the housing relative to the piston. The suspension system includes an axial suspension magnet fixedly coupled to the housing and positioned proximate the opening. The axial suspension magnet is configured to oppose a magnetic field of a permanent magnet that is fixedly coupled to the piston and the opposing magnetic fields dampen movement of the housing relative to the piston as the first axial suspension magnet approaches the permanent magnet. A radial guide bushing is positioned within the opening surrounding a circumference of the piston. The radial guide bushing is formed of a compressible and flexible material and is configured to restrict radial movement of the housing relative to the piston.

Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control unit capable of suppressing application of an external force thereto in comparison with the related art at the time when mounted to a straddle-type vehicle is obtained. A hydraulic pressure control unit (1) includes a base body (10) that is formed with a master cylinder port (11), a wheel cylinder port (12), and an internal channel (13) communicating the master cylinder port (11) and the wheel cylinder port (12) with each other. The master cylinder port (11) is formed in an upper surface (25) of the base body (10), and the wheel cylinder port (12) is formed in a lower surface (26) of the base body (10), the lower surface (26) opposing the upper surface (25). The internal channel (13) is configured not to be able to return a brake fluid in an accumulator (33) to the master cylinder port (11) without interposing an outlet valve (32).

Abstract: A method for determining a state of health of at least one electrochemical energy store includes bringing the electrochemical energy store to a predefined voltage state, after which the electrochemical energy store is discharged for a predefined time period and using predefined electric currents, and determining a rate of voltage change during the discharge, on the basis of which the state of health is determined.

Abstract: A method for provision image recordings in a vehicle. The method include: ascertaining a first image recording of a first image sensor of the vehicle and at least one further image recording of at least one further image sensor of the vehicle; carrying out a merging of the first image recording and the at least one further image recording for a reduction of an amount of data for providing the relevant information, the merging taking place based on a selection from the surrounding regions, whereby at least one merged image recording is obtained; initiating at least one transmission of the merged image recording within the vehicle and at least to a central control device of the vehicle, whereby the merged image recording is supplied to a processing for performing the vehicle function.

Abstract: An ultrasound transducer of a vehicle system includes a support member that attaches to and connects to the bottom portion of a membrane of the ultrasound transducer and supports the membrane, wherein the support member includes one or more cantilevers with a first end attaching to the membrane and a second end attaching to a support portion of the support member that attaches to the substrate, wherein the cantilever extends across and floats above the substrate, wherein the first end of the cantilever includes a stub extending away from a surface of the cantilever, wherein the stub extends away from the surface without contacting the substrate, wherein the one or more cantilevers includes one or more piezoelectric layers on the surface of the cantilever.

Abstract: A LIDAR system for detecting objects within an observation area. The LIDAR system includes an illumination unit for illuminating the observation area using multiple light radiations, each having a different wavelength, multiple separate spatial areas of the observation area, which are presently detected by a detection area of the LIDAR system, being temporally consecutively illuminated in each case with another of the light radiations; and a detection unit for detecting the light radiations reflected by objects, including at least one detection array, which is individually assigned to the particular detection area and is made of up of a detector for detecting the light radiations from the spatial areas presently detected by the detection area, and a holographic imaging optics for focusing the respective light radiations onto the detector.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assessing a robustness of a smoothed classifier for classifying sensor signals received from a sensor. The method includes: providing an input signal depending on the sensor signal, determining, by the smoothed classifier, a first value which characterizes a probability that the input signal, when subjected to noise will be classified as belonging to a first class, wherein the first class is a most probable class, determining, by the smoothed classifier, a second value which characterizes a probability that the input signal, when subjected to the noise, will be classified as belonging to a second class, wherein the second class is a second-most probable class, determining a robustness value on a first inverse value of a standard Gaussian cumulative distribution function at the first value and/or depending on a second inverse value of the standard Gaussian cumulative distribution function at the second value.

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a sensor device, including a seismic mass, which is situated at and/or in a mounting and which includes a first electrode area, a second electrode area electrically insulated from the first electrode area, and a connecting area made up of at least one electrically insulating material. The first electrode area and the second electrode area each mechanically contact the connecting area and are connected to one another via the connecting area. At least one first conductive area of the first electrode area and a second conductive area of the second electrode area are structured out of a first semiconductor and/or metal layer. The first electrode area also includes a third conductive area. The second electrode area also includes a fourth conductive area. The third conductive area and the fourth conductive area are structured out of a second semiconductor and/or metal layer.

Abstract: A method for handling an anomaly of data, in particular in a motor vehicle, is provided. At least one sensor obtains data for the anomaly detection. The sensor examines the obtained data for anomalies, and generates an event as a function of the associated data when an anomaly is detected. An event report is generated as a function of the event. The event report includes at least one variable that changes for each event report and/or is cyclically sent.