Abstract: A device is provided for detecting relative movements in a component of a vehicle. The device includes an RFID transponder, which has a first part and a second part as well as a predetermined breaking point between the first part and the second part. The RFID transponder is attached such that relative movements and/or positional changes of this component lead to a fracture of the RFID transponder at the predetermined breaking point.

Abstract: An insulating material for an electrical machine that insulates coiled windings is provided. The insulating material includes a carrier material and adhesive coatings on the front and back of the carrier material. The adhesive coatings are mounted and aligned on the front and back of the carrier material in such a way that in the carrier material in the insulation state a direct frictional connection is developed between the adhesive coatings on the front and back.

Abstract: An arrangement for reducing a DC field component in the core of a transformer includes a compensation winding magnetically coupled to the core of the transformer, and a DC generator arranged in series with the compensation winding and with a reactance dipole. The reactance dipole is formed from a parallel circuit of an inductance and a capacitor to feed into the compensation winding a compensating current opposite in sense to the DC field component in the core. The inductance is formed from magnetically coupled first and second windings having N1 and N2 turns respectively, such that N2/N1<1. The first winding is connected on one end to the DC generator and on the other end to the compensation winding. The second winding is connected in parallel with the capacitor. The magnetic coupling of the first and second windings is established via a soft magnetic core having an air gap.

Abstract: A method for minimizing tread damage and profile wear of wheels of a railway vehicle is provided. The railway vehicle includes two sets of wheels, or a bogie of a railway vehicle with two sets of wheels, wherein setpoint values for parameters characterizing the position of a wheel relative to the track are determined based on measured values of a variable parameter relevant for the creation of tread damage and profile wear during the movement of the railway vehicle, on condition that the tread damage and profile wear on the wheels of the railway vehicle are minimized, wherein the position of one set of wheels is adjusted according to the setpoint values by means of actuation, control, or a combination of both.

Abstract: A covering as a part of a guide carrier on a door rail for a sliding door system of a rail car is provided. The guide carrier runs along a horizontal edge of a door opening of a car body of the rail car and has a guide device for a sliding support of a sliding door. The covering serves to cover at least the door rail and support elements on the outside.

Abstract: A crash-resistant front apron for a rail vehicle is provided. The front apron includes an apron cover, a first support part supporting the apron cover, a second support part attached to a frame of the rail vehicle and a friction coupling release mechanism which connects the first support part to the second support part by a friction connection. In the event of a crash of the rail vehicle, in which a collision force acts on the front apron cover causing a torsion of the first support part relative to the second support part, the friction coupling release mechanism releases the friction connection.

Abstract: An electrical transformer with unidirectional flux compensation is provided. The transformer includes a soft magnetic core on which a primary winding arrangement, a secondary winding arrangement, and a compensation winding arrangement are arranged. The compensation winding arrangement is connected to a current control device which feeds a compensation current into the compensation winding arrangement using a control signal. A magnetic field measuring device measures the magnetic field in the core of the transformer or the stray magnetic field that closes outside the core via an air path and provides the control signal.

Abstract: A crash module for a rail vehicle is provided. The crash module includes a crash element, a frontal impact plate and a rear connecting plate, wherein a guide element is provided between the frontal impact plate and the rear connecting plate. The guide element has the form of a plate and is oriented essentially in a longitudinal direction of the rail vehicle.

Abstract: A method for deriving interference signals from modulated, digital signals is provided. The receiver end reconstructs the modulated digital signals sent by a transmitter. These reconstructed modulated digital signals are then subtracted from the received modulated digital signals, and the result of the subtraction is used to estimate the interference signals without influence by prior filtering at the receiver end. By way of example, it is possible to demodulate the interference signals estimated at the receiver end in order to ascertain possible unauthorized carrier frequencies which disturb the regular carrier frequencies, even if the interference signals are not completely in the bandwidth of the regular carrier frequency or carrier frequencies.

Abstract: A noise generator for generating band-limited noise from a plurality of sinusoidal signals at the same level and equidistant frequency position in the noise spectrum is provided. A noise signal has a low crest factor and for this purpose the phase position of each individual sinusoidal signal is determined.

Abstract: An electrical connector element for connection of a conductor to a circuit board, having a housing, at least one clamp connector for the conductor and at least two connector pins for preferably soldered connection to the circuit board, is disclosed. The housing has at least one separating element made from insulating material, projecting from the lower side, facing away from the circuit board in the assembled position, at least partly arranged between the connector pins and extending through the circuit board in the assembled position, in order to permit the connector pins of the electrical connector element to be arranged closer together.

Abstract: A method of reconstruction of a fault-reduced voltage signal corresponding in frequency, amplitude and phase position to a sinusoidal input voltage fault-prone in frequency, amplitude and/or phase position is provided. The input voltage is fed to a first band-pass filter including an adjustable resonant frequency and amplification, the output voltage being the fault-reduced voltage signal. A controlled variable is determined for a first controller by determining the scanned differential voltage of the output voltage and the input voltage in zero points of the output voltage, the controller adjusting the resonate frequency of the first band-pass filter such that the differential voltage in the zero points disappears.

Abstract: There is described a communication structure for at least two solar inverters, having a transmission medium by means of which each of the at least two solar inverters is connected to a communication network with a first group of the solar inverters each being connected via an LAN interface to the communication network, and with a further group of the solar inverters being connected to the first group via serial interfaces. Two different network types are therefore provided with the first being suitable for standard LAN technologies with rapid data transmission over short distances, and with the second being suitable for interference-insensitive data transmission over long distances.

Abstract: The invention relates to a convoy comprising at least two intercoupled rail vehicles between which an adapter is arranged, said adapter including at least two interconnectable sets of bellows which are respectively provided with a plurality of frames, in addition to adapter sheets , and a support for the adapter sheets, that can be displaced on a sliding plate arranged between the rail vehicles above a coupling device . At least one anti-catching device is provided on the intercoupled end regions of the rail vehicles , said anti-catching devices extending essentially over the entire width of the vehicle, and the two rail vehicle are intercoupled by a spiral sleeve. The sliding plate is embodied as three parts, part of the sliding plate arranged on the spiral sleeve being detachably connected to the coupling device.

Abstract: A bearing for bearing a torsion bar spring of a roll stabilization system of a track vehicle comprises a split bearing bush for the torsion bar spring and a split bearing shell which comprises said bearing bush and which can be connected to the body/bogie. A pair of seals is mounted at one end of the bearing and consists of an inner, flexible inner seal sitting on the torsion bar spring and an outer, flexible outer seal sitting in the bearing shell. Every seal of the pair of seals comprises at least one peripheral sealing lip and the seals interact with each other via the sealing lips in a sealing manner.

Abstract: There is described an illumination unit with a planar carrier part having a plurality of light-emitting semiconductor components, in particular high-power light-emitting diodes, arranged on both sides of a main surface. On each side of the carrier part a heat sink is provided in each case. Each of the semiconductor components is connected in an efficient heat-conducting manner to a heat sink provided on an opposite side of the carrier part by way of a heat conducting means that is fed through an opening in the carrier part. At least one reflector is embodied on each heat sink having a reflective surface which concentrates the emitted light from a semiconductor component which is arranged on the side of the carrier part facing this heat sink.

Abstract: There is described an arrangement for cooling electrical components disposed on a board-shaped mounting substrate, particularly SMD power components on a printed circuit board, wherein at least one heat sink assigned to a component is present which is disposed on the same side as the components and which is connected in a thermally conductive manner to the assigned component by means of a thermally conductive layer implemented on the mounting substrate. The heat sink is implemented as a bent sheet-metal part and is connected to the thermally conductive layer by means of a solder joint, wherein the bent sheet-metal part has at least one heat sink element which extends in a longitudinal direction and said longitudinal direction is oriented obliquely to the plane of the board-shaped substrate.

Abstract: There is described a method for the alignment of an earth station antenna with a satellite antenna, wherein a reference signal, emitted by the earth station antenna is analyzed in a monitoring station, wherein the reference signal is used as a carrier for authentication information about the earth station.

Abstract: An emergency lighting with an electrical illuminant (DL1, DL2, DL3), which, as a power supply drops below a predeterminable value, can be connected to an energy source that can be charged from the power supply by means of a charging connection, for example, by means of an electronic switch (T1), where the energy source consists of at least one high-capacity storage condenser (CS; CS1, CS2) and where light-emitting diodes can be provided as illuminants.

Abstract: There is described a method for operating an electronically controlled inverter. The inverter is controlled during the positive half-wave of the output alternating voltage in such a way that it operates as a SEPIC converter, and during the negative half-wave of the output alternating voltage in such a way that it operates as a CUK converter.