Abstract: An igniter of a passenger protection device has at least one metal pin for contacting the tripping unit of the passenger protection device. The metal pin has a contact end that can be coupled to the tripping unit. The metal pin has a gold coating with a layer thickness. A maximum layer thickness is present at a distance of at least 1 mm from the contact end.

Abstract: A process for producing a glass tube includes: applying a glass melt onto an outer surface of a rotating conical mandrel by guiding the glass melt from a feed tank through an outlet, the glass melt forming a strand of molten glass that flows from the outlet onto the outer surface; forming a hollow glass melt body on the conical mandrel; drawing the hollow glass melt body from the conical mandrel in a predetermined direction toward a front end for forming a glass tube, the outer surface having a wetting zone where the strand of molten glass first contacts the conical mandrel, the wetting zone being at a vertical distance from the outlet and a vertical movement of the conical mandrel is monitored; reducing vertical movement of the conical mandrel; cooling the hollow glass melt body; and cutting the cooled glass melt body into glass tubes.

Abstract: A coated glass container includes: a glass surface; and a coating that coats at least part of the glass surface to form a coated glass surface. The coating includes at least one layer. The coated glass container fulfills the following parameter: leaching of [Na] ions after an alkaline treatment is 10 mg/l or less [Na] ions.

Abstract: A cover glass is provided that includes a silica based glass ceramic with a thickness between 0.4 mm and 0.85 mm. The glass ceramic has a transmittance of more than 80% from 380 nm to 780 nm and a stress attribute selected from: an overall compressive stress (CS) of at least 250 MPa and at most 1500 MPa, a compressive stress at a depth of 30 ?m (CS30) from one of the two faces of at least 160 MPa and at most 525 MPa, a depth of the compression layer (DoCL) of at least 0.2 times the thickness and less than 0.5 times the thickness, and any combinations thereof. The glass ceramic has at least one silica based crystal phase having in a near-surface layer a unit cell volume of at least 1% by volume larger than that of a core where the crystal phase has minimum stresses.

Abstract: A coated sintered body is provided that includes a sintered body and electrically conductive coating. The sintered body is made of glass or glass-ceramic and has a surface formed by open pores having an open porosity in a range from 10% to 90%. The electrically conductive coating is bonded to the surface of the sintered body. The electrically conductive coating is configured to heat the sintered body and is on an entire internal pore surface area of the sintered body. The electrically conductive coating has a layer thickness with a variance of not more than 50%.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a beam splitter and a method of manufacturing such a beam splitter. The present invention also relates to a stack comprising two or more such beam splitters.

Abstract: A mirror, a mirror substrate, a method for producing are provided. The mirror substrate is made of a material having a coefficient of mean linear thermal expansion of less than or equal to 1*10?6/K. The mirror substrate includes at least one feature selected from a group consisting of: a ratio of a lateral dimension to a maximum thickness of at least 100, a ratio of the lateral dimension to the maximum thickness of at least 150, a ratio of the lateral dimension to the maximum thickness of at least 200, a ratio of the lateral dimension to the maximum thickness of at least 300, a weight per unit area of 100 kg/m2 or less, a weight per unit area of 50 kg/m2 or less, a weight per unit area of 30 kg/m2 or less, a weight per unit area of 15 kg/m2 or less, a mirror surface with a roughness (Ra) of at most 3.5 ?m, and a mirror surface with a roughness (Ra) of less than 1.2 ?m.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a glass tube with closed ends includes: providing a glass tube with open ends including a first open end and a second open end; closing the first open end of the glass tube while introducing a gas into the glass tube through the second open end; opening a ventilation hole in a wall of the glass tube near one of the open ends; and closing the second open end.

Abstract: An electrical feedthrough, in particular for an electrical storage device, is provided. The electrical feedthrough comprises a main body with a through-opening and a terminal pin, which is arranged in the through-opening and is held in the through-opening in an electrically insulating manner by a fixing material. It is also provided that the terminal pin has a core of a first electrically conductive material and that, at least on a first side of the electrical feedthrough, a first end face of the core is covered by a covering material of a second electrically conductive material, wherein the terminal pin and the fixing material are formed and arranged in such a way that, on the first side of the electrical feedthrough, the first electrically conductive material of the core is inaccessible.

Abstract: A mirror substrate is made of a material having a coefficient of mean linear thermal expansion of less than or equal to 1*10?6/K. The mirror substrate includes at least one of: a ratio of a lateral dimension to a maximum thickness of at least 100,, a weight per unit area of 100 kg/m2 or less,, and a mirror surface with a roughness (Ra) of at most 3.5 ?m.

Abstract: An electrical feedthrough assembly suitable for an e-compressor is provided which includes a base body which attaches to a housing and has an electrical feedthrough. The electrical feed-through has an opening in the base body for a conductor fed through the opening and embedded in a fixation material which seals the opening of the electrical feed-through. The assembly further includes an insulation element adhesively affixed to the base body. The insulation element has an insulation section which includes a conductor opening through which the conductor is fed. The insulation element is configured and arranged such that a contact portion of the insulation section contacts the adhesive material. For each insulation section, an air channel is formed, wherein a top wall of the air channel is formed by the insulation element, and the air channel surrounds the contact portion of the insulation section.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a solid-state lithium ion conductor material in which the use of water and/or steam is a medium when the obtained intermediate product is cooled or quenched and, if needed, comminution of the intermediate product and/or carrying out of a cooling process with the production of a powder in one comminution step or in a plurality of comminution steps leads or lead to especially advantageous production products. The subject of the disclosure is also the solid-state lithium ion conductor material that has an ion conductivity of at least 10?5 S/cm at room temperature as well as a water content of <1.0 wt %. The disclosure further relates to the use of the solid-state lithium ion conductor material in the form of a powder in batteries or rechargeable batteries, preferably lithium batteries or rechargeable lithium batteries, in particular, separators, cathodes, anodes, or solid-state electrolytes.

Abstract: A glass has a maximum crystallization rate (KGmax) of at most 0.20 ?m/min in a temperature range of 700° C. to 1250° C. and a hydrolytic stability according to a hydrolytic class 1 HGA1 according to ISO 720:1985. In the case of a sample thickness of 2 mm of the glass, a ratio of a minimum transmittance in a wavelength range of 850 nm to 950 nm to a maximum transmittance in a wavelength range of 250 nm to 700 nm is in a range of 1.9:1 to 15:1.

Abstract: A chemically temperable or chemically tempered glass includes SiO2, Al2O3, Li2O and B2O3 as constituents. The following applies for the constituents (in mol % based on oxide): 0.8<Li2O/(Li2O+K2O+Na2O)?1 and 0.1<B2O3?8.5.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connector pin, in particular a metal pin, for feedthroughs, in particular glass-metal feedthroughs, with at least one first, elongated portion, as well as at least one adjoining end portion, and the end portion has a rounding with at least radius R. The disclosure is further characterized in that the cone and/or radius R is preferably a cone and/or radius according to a specification and is obtained by means of a material-removing method and/or a non-material-removing method.

Abstract: A bundle of tubular and/or rod-shaped glass articles is provided that includes a longest dimension, a plurality of layers (NL) of the glass articles, and a thread-like element. The longest dimension extends in a first direction. The glass articles in each layer are arranged side by side in a second direction. The plurality of layers are arranged side by side in a third direction. The first, second, and third directions being perpendicular to one another. The thread-like element is around two of the glass articles in at least one layer so that the two glass articles are spaced apart.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a glass substrate for vehicle glazing, in particular for a windscreen of a vehicle, which comprises hot forming of a borosilicate glass, wherein in a hot forming section, at least during stretching of the glass (8) in the flow direction or longitudinal direction of movement of the glass (8), an aging velocity Av of the glass (8) to be hot formed does not exceed 10 mm/s and an aging velocity Av of the glass preferably does not undershoot 3 mm/s, and also relates to glass substrates for vehicle glazing produced by such method as well as to windscreen projection devices and driver assistance systems comprising such glass substrates.

Abstract: At least one glass tube has an azimuthal wall thickness deviation WTD of not more than 6.0%, the azimuthal wall thickness deviation being determined based on a lowest wall thickness value and a highest wall thickness value measured within a cross-section of the at least one glass tube, the azimuthal wall thickness deviation WTD being calculated according to the following formula: W ? ? T ? ? D = 100 - ( lowest ? ? wall ? ? thickness ? ? value highest ? ? wall ? ? thickness ? ? value * 100 ) ? ? % .

Abstract: An optical layered composite includes: a substrate having a front face, a back face, a thickness ds between the front face and the back face, and a refractive index ns; and a coating applied to the front face, the coating having two regions, the two regions being a region A and a region B. The region A comprises one or more coating layers, each of which satisfies one or both of the criteria: a thickness below 5 nm; or a refractive index of 1.6 or more. The region B comprises one or more coating layers, each of which satisfies one or both of the criteria: a thickness below 5 nm; or a refractive index below 1.6.

Abstract: The invention relates to an encapsulated optoelectronic component having a housing and at least one optoelectronic component, which is arranged in a cavity which is formed by a main element and is covered on an upper side by a cover element, and therefore the optoelectronic component is arranged between the cover element and the main elements and the main element forms side walls which laterally enclose the cavity. A one-part plate element with at least one tongue-shaped deflecting element is arranged between the cover element and the main element in such a way that, in the cavity, the deflecting element is arranged with at least one optical surface by which electromagnetic radiation emitted or received by the optoelectronic component can be deflected. The invention also relates to at least one wafer with deflecting elements, to a composite assembly of encapsulated optoelectronic components and to a method for the production thereof.