Abstract: A hermetically sealed package includes: a heat-dissipating base substrate configured for dissipating heat from the hermetically sealed package; a cap arranged on the heat-dissipating base substrate, the cap and the heat-dissipating base substrate jointly forming at least a part of the package; at least one functional area hermetically sealed by the package; at least one laser bonding line configured for hermetically sealing the package, the laser bonding line having a height perpendicular to a bonding plane of the laser bonding line.

Abstract: A housing part for an electrical storage installation includes: a main body including a through-opening, which includes a side; a fixing material; a first connector terminal assembly including a connector pin which is routed through the through-opening and, by way of the fixing material, is fixed so as to be electrically isolated in the through-opening, the connector pin including a projecting part which on the side projects beyond the through-opening; an insulation material; and a terminal pad on the side, the terminal pad including an opening, the projecting part engaging in the opening and being electrically connected to the terminal pad, the pad by way of the insulation material being fastened so as to be electrically isolated on the main body.

Abstract: A glass element has, per kg of glass, 50 or fewer inclusions having a size of 2 ?m to 10 ?m. The glass element can be made of borosilicate glass.

Abstract: An electrical lead-through is provided with a main body having a through-opening with an electrical conductor fixed therein by an insulator which closes the through-opening. The insulator includes a leakage path extension which surrounds, at a spacing, a part of the electrical conductor that protrudes beyond the holding portion, wherein the leakage path extension is integral with the holding portion or is materially bonded to the holding portion. The main body surrounds and contacts the leakage path extension at least in part. Further aspects of the invention relate to a lead-through assembly including such a lead-through, and to the use of the electrical lead-through.

Abstract: A glass has a transmittance at a wavelength of 220 nm of at least 30% and a transmittance at a wavelength of 200 nm of less than 4.0%, the glass having a total platinum content of less than 3.5 ppm. A device and a sterilizer include a light source configured to output ultraviolet light and a lamp cover covering the light source and including the glass.

Abstract: Chemically tempered lithium aluminosilicate glasses and methods of tempering are provided. The method allows fast tempering at moderate temperatures, which leads to a deep zone of surface tension with a high level of surface tension.

Abstract: A mounting device for a fiber-optic cable that includes a light guide including an optical fiber and a cladding which fully encloses the light guide at least in portions on its outer circumferential face. The mounting device is formed from one piece or from a first and a second segment, and has a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion spatially separated from the first fixing portion. The second fixing portion is arranged concentrically around the first fixing portion, and the light guide is connected or connectable at least partially or in portions materially to the first fixing portion and the cladding is connected or connectable to the second fixing portion at least partially or in portions with a form fit, a force fit and/or materially, so that fixing of the light guide and fixing of the cladding on the mounting device are separated or separable from one another.

Abstract: A receptacle for a plurality of light-guiding fibres is provided. The receptacle has a glass part with a first end face, a second end face, a plurality of rectilinear channels extending between the first and second end faces, and a lateral surface between the first and second end faces along a longitudinal direction. The glass part has a length defined between the first and second end faces where the length is greater than a largest transverse dimension of the glass part. The rectilinear channels are open at the first end face and/or the second end face so that the light-guiding fibres are receivable therein, respectively. The rectilinear channels have a channel length that is greater than a channel transverse dimension. The lateral surface has a parting surface thereon.

Abstract: A glass article is provided that has two plane-parallel main sides, a thickness between the two plane-parallel main sides of less than 3.0 mm, an average near-surface level of damage (ONSL) on each of the two plane-parallel main sides, and an average location-thickness variation (ODS) normalized with respect to the thickness on the specified measuring area. The average near-surface level of damage is less than 2000 damages with an extension of less than 1.0 ?m. The specified measuring area is 2×2 mm2. The average location-thickness variation (ODS) normalized is less than 10 nm per ?m thickness of the glass article. The average location-thickness variation (ODS) is a difference between a highest thickness and a lowest thickness within the specified measuring area.

Abstract: An assembly with an electric feedthrough is provided, including a main body having an opening, through which an electric conductor is passed and held with a fixing material. The electric conductor surface not covered by the fixing material has a first coating while the surface covered by the fixing material lacks the first coating. The main body surface uncovered by the fixing material omits the first coating and optionally has a second coating, different from the first coating, or is provided completely with the first coating. The main body surface covered by the fixing material lacks the first coating, and the electric conductor surface uncovered by the fixing material lacks the first coating and is optionally provided with a second coating, different from the first coating. The first coating has one or more layers, and the outermost layer is an electrolessly deposited layer of a first coating material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass article with improved surface quality and to a method of making a glass article.

Abstract: An electrical feedthrough includes: a fixing material; a main body including an opening; and a connecting pin, which is passed through the opening in the main body and which is held in place by the fixing material which seals the opening, the fixing material being a glass material, glass-ceramic material, or a ceramic, the connecting pin including or consisting of a core, the core directly adjoining the fixing material and including a copper material, the copper material in an annealed state after forming the electrical feedthrough having a 0.2% yield strength of at least 150 N/mm2.

Abstract: A socket for an electronic component includes: an electrically insulating material; a base body including at least one opening configured for accommodating an electrically conductive pin configured for being electrically connected to the electronic component, the at least one opening being sealed with the electrically insulating material such that the electrically conductive pin is fed through the at least one opening while being electrically insulated from the base body; and a shell part including a pedestal configured for accommodating the electronic component, at least the shell part of the socket including a metal with a thermal conductivity of at least 100 W/mK.

Abstract: A method for determining an axial run out of a circular elongated element includes: providing a circular elongated element by a providing unit; illuminating a first end of the circular elongated element; acquiring one or more images of the first end of the circular elongated element with a camera, an angle ? being between a centerline of the camera and a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of an ideal circular elongated element is more than 0° and less than 90°; determining at least a part of a circumference of the first end in each of the one or more images to obtain a determined at least a part of the circumference of the first end; and comparing the determined at least a part of the circumference of the first end with at least a part of an ellipse to determine the axial run out of the first end.

Abstract: A sheet-like glass element has a thickness less than or equal to 0.5 mm and an edge with an edge face intersecting opposite glass faces along two edge lines. The edge face has strip-like sections with each one adjoining a respective one of the edge lines. The strip-like sections interface along a boundary line that extends between the edge lines. The strip-like sections have a first section with a width ranging from 2 ?m to 8 ?m and have a first waviness that is lower than a second waviness of a second strip-like section. The second waviness decreases towards the edge line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coated glass substrate or glass ceramic substrate with resistant, multi-functional surface properties, including a combination of anti-microbial, anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint properties, or a combination of anti-microbial, anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint properties where the substrate is chemically pre-stressed, or a combination of anti-microbial and anti-reflective properties where the substrate is chemically pre-stressed. The coated glass substrate or glass ceramic substrate exhibits a unique combination of functions which are permanently present and do not exert a negative effect on each other.

Abstract: A method for producing structured glass articles is provided by removing glass material from a glass element. The method includes the step of etching the glass element to remove the glass material from using an etching medium. The etching medium has a basic aqueous etching solution with a pH of more than 12 and a complexing agent. The complexing agent complexes a leached constituent of the glass element.

Abstract: The invention relates to an infrared image system having a lens for generating an image of a motif having at least two different temperatures T1 and T2, an image guide associated with the lens at a distal end for image transfer and a detector unit for image capture. The detector unit is associated with a proximal end of the image guide and the ratio of the shared thermal resolution (NETD) of the image guide and the detector unit to the thermal resolution (NETD) of the detector unit is less than 10, preferably less than 5, particularly preferably less than 2.

Abstract: A glass composition includes oxides which form non-volatile fluorides at a temperature of 150° C. and a pressure of 5 Pa or less and are present in an amount of less than 0.5 mol % in the glass composition, based on all oxides present in the glass composition. A working point of the glass composition is 1400° C. or less. The glass composition has a hydrolytic resistance characterized by a leachability of GeO2, P2O5 and/or B2O3 from the glass composition determined as concentrations in an eluate prepared according to ISO 719 of at least one of the following: less than 70 mg/l GeO2 in the eluate per 1 mol % GeO2 in the glass composition; less than 70 mg/l P2O5 in the eluate per 1 mol % P2O5 in the glass composition; or less than 300 mg/l B2O3 in the eluate per 1 mol % B2O3 in the glass composition.

Abstract: A glass tube has a center axis, where for the glass tube a specific cross-sectional plane is defined which includes the center axis and which is parallel to the center axis. Within the specific cross-sectional plane, for each pair of outer diameters d1 and d2 of the glass tube at any two arbitrarily selected first axial position x1 and second axial positions x2 along the center axis, respectively, the following relation is 60 or smaller: |(d2?d1)/(x2?x1)|*(10{circumflex over (?)}6 mm)/d1.