Abstract: A traffic control monitoring and abnormality determination system and associated methods are disclosed for receiving and analyzing traffic controller input/output data during a learning phase to determine a model indicative of normal or healthy operation of the traffic controller in regulating traffic flow at an intersection and receiving and evaluating additional traffic controller input/output data against the model during an evaluation phase to determine whether an abnormality exists in operation of the traffic controller. If an abnormality is detected during the evaluation phase, the system may initiate a corrective action to resolve the abnormality such as sending an alarm signal to a traffic controller to cause the traffic controller to alter an operating state to resolve the abnormality.

Abstract: A method for calculating an optimized trajectory with a simulation program and an optimization routine includes making available a trajectory and adjusting it to boundary conditions, implementing a loop having the steps of a provision of one first trajectory, a modification of a (further) trajectory and adjustment of the (further) trajectory on the basis of boundary conditions, using as the optimized trajectory a trajectory which has been made available on the basis of an extremal or predetermined parameter, and, after being calculated, making available the optimized trajectory to a control device in order to move a holder for a component part.

Abstract: A cooling jacket includes a jacket having an axial end provided with an opening, and a sealing structure which is arranged in the opening. A member selected from the group consisting of the jacket and the sealing structure has a radial deformation to connect the jacket to the sealing structure. The radial deformation is configured to extend into the opening.

Abstract: A drive for adjusting the damper of a building air vent has a main body formed with a receiving aperture. A bearing ring is arranged in the receiving aperture and secured to the main body. The bearing ring has a circumferential direction, wherein the bearing ring has a first end and a second end in circumferential direction. The first end and the second end can be spaced apart in the circumferential direction such that there is a gap between the first end and the second end. A hub for actuating the drive shaft of the damper is fixed to the bearing ring such that the hub is rotatably mounted on the main body relative to the bearing ring.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the galvanically separated energy transmission, in which the energy is transmitted via a dielectric waveguide.

Abstract: Embodiments of a bypass system for a multi-cell power supply are provided. An aspect includes a plurality of power cells, each of the plurality of power cells comprising a respective bypass device comprising one or more contactors. Another aspect includes a central control. Yet another aspect includes a fiber optic ring comprising a plurality of fiber optic links that connect the respective bypass device in each of the plurality of power cells and the central control in series, wherein the fiber optic ring starts and ends at the central control, and the central control is configured to communicate with the one or more contactors in the plurality of bypass devices via the fiber optic ring.

Abstract: Support strut assembly for supporting a casing of a functional unit of gas turbine is provided having a strut body for supporting the casing to ground, a ball pivot element mounted to the strut body and a rocker lever mounted to the ball pivot element. The rocker lever inserts into a bearing bore of a support body as part of the casing or ground, the rocker lever inserts into the bearing bore via clearance fit so a pivotal point is generated at a first contact area between the rocker lever and an inner surface of the bearing bore, the rocker lever pivots within the bearing bore around the pivotal point. An elastomeric springing damping element is mounted to the rocker lever between the rocker lever and the a support body providing centering force and damping pivoting of the rocker lever with respect to the support body around the pivotal point.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power semiconductor modules. The teachings thereof may be embodied in modules with a power semiconductor component and methods, as well as a circuit arrangement. For example, a method may include: developing a thermal model of the power semiconductor module at a reference time point; establishing a reference temperature based on the thermal model; measuring a temperature-sensitive electrical parameter of the power semiconductor module during operation of the power semiconductor module; determining a current temperature from the measured temperature-sensitive electrical parameter of the power semiconductor module; calculating a temperature difference between the current temperature and the reference temperature; and determining a deterioration of the power semiconductor module based on the calculated temperature difference.

Abstract: Method for detecting short-circuits in a coil in an electric machine, includes: a) arranging a coil in an air gap between the rotor and stator; c) recording signal curves generated by the coil; d) determining zero crossings of the curve and storing the times thereof; e) determining zero crossings of the curve corrected by an offset c, identifying a pair of immediately consecutive zero crossings, the time separation of which is longer than the minimum duration; f) in no pair is identified, repeating step e) until identified, wherein the offset c is varied from the zero point to a global extreme value of the curve; g) identifying at least one of the two stored times, which lies between and closest in time to the pair and; h) extracting two half-waves from the curve using times identified in step g), wherein each half-wave corresponds to half a revolution of the rotor.

Abstract: A subsea housing assembly, in particular for a subsea sensor, is provided. A subsea housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a first electrical connection for data communication and the second housing portion includes a second electrical connection for data communication. A wall provides separation between the first housing portion and the second housing portion of the subsea housing. An inductive coupler, that includes a first coupling section disposed in the first housing portion and a second coupling section disposed in the second housing portion, is provided. The inductive coupler is configured to provide inductive coupling across the wall for providing at least a data communication between the first and second electrical connections.

Abstract: A method for preheating untreated water in a power plant having a water/steam circuit, the power plant has a steam producer, a steam turbine, and steam lines, of which at least some connect the steam producer to the steam turbine, wherein untreated water for producing deionized water is heated by means of wastewater from the water/steam circuit and the wastewater is added to the untreated water in order to heat the untreated water. A power plant is adapted for preheating untreated water by the method.

Abstract: A turbomachine component having an aerofoil, such as a blade or a vane for a gas turbine engine, includes a suction side wall and a pressure side wall bordering an aerofoil cavity, and meeting at a leading edge and a trailing edge. The turbomachine component also includes a circumferentially extending first platform wherefrom the aerofoil extends radially. The first platform includes a first-platform cavity corresponding to a shape of the aerofoil and continuous with the aerofoil cavity. The first-platform cavity has a leading-edge end and a trailing-edge end corresponding to the leading edge and the trailing edge, respectively, of the aerofoil. The first-platform cavity at the trailing-edge end forms a protuberance within the first platform. The turbomachine component may optionally include a second-platform cavity in a circumferentially extending second platform. The second-platform cavity at its trailing-edge end forms an additional protuberance within the second platform.

Abstract: The present invention relates to n-dopants for doping organic electron transport materials, wherein the n-dopants have at least one aminophosphazene group of formula 1 having 4 nitrogen atoms bonded to a phosphorus atom.

Abstract: A blade for a fan that can be arranged on a rotor shaft of a rotor of a rotating electric machine, in particular a generator, wherein the blade is at least partially formed from a fiber composite material that has a polymer matrix with mineral fibers embedded therein. A method for producing a blade for a fan arrangeable on a rotor shaft of a rotor of a rotating electrical machine, in particular a generator, wherein the blade is produced using an injection molding method, and wherein a fiber composite material of a polymer matrix with mineral fibers embedded therein is used as injection molding material.

Abstract: A detector for high-energy radiation, e.g., for x-radiation and/or UV radiation, may include (a) a substrate having a first electrical contact, (b) optionally a first intermediate layer, (c) a layer including an organic matrix of a photoactive material and insoluble scintillator particles distributed substantially homogeneously in the organic matrix, (d) optionally a second intermediate layer, and (e) a second electrical contact, wherein the mixture ratio between the scintillator particles and the organic matrix in layer (c) is selected in such a way that the intermediate space filled with the organic matrix has a distance between two scintillator particles that corresponds to at most five times the depth of penetration of the emitted radiation of the scintillator particles. A method for producing a corresponding detector is also disclosed.

Abstract: A congestion notification element for indicating a congestion status of a mesh node may include at least one field specifying a mesh destination for which an intra-mesh congestion control is to be applied. This may allow for forwarding data frames on paths that share some links but not the bottleneck link with a path that is congestion controlled, which has not been possible with currently specified congestion notification techniques.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing which accommodates a stator and a rotor rotationally supported about an axis of rotation, and has a front/rear air inlet opening on a top face and an air outlet opening therebetween. A front/rear air conveying element draws into the air inlet openings air which is discharged from the air outlet opening during operation. A cooler is mounted on the top face of the housing, covering the air inlet openings and the air outlet opening in a hood-like manner, such that discharged air is fed back to the air inlet openings. The cooler has a front/rear partition arranged between the air outlet opening and the corresponding air inlet opening and extending upward from the top face. Air guiding elements are arranged in the housing and/or in the cooler for feeding discharged air at least partially to the respective other air inlet opening.

Abstract: A method is described for setting the detection of a macropixel signal of an x-ray detector with a plurality of pixels, each combined to form at least one macropixel. The geometrical efficiency and the signal drift factor of the individual pixels are first established. A target drift value is established. A parameter, which sets a compromise between an allowed drift of the macropixel signals and the achievable dose efficiency, is also defined. Based on the established parameters, the weighting of the individual pixel signals, taking into account a function taking account of the signal drift and the dose utilization of the resulting macropixel signal depending on the weightings of the pixel signals, is established. A weighted addition of the individual pixel signals to form macropixel signals is defined on the basis of the weightings. A signal detection device, an x-ray detector and a computed tomography system are also described.

Abstract: Absorption spectrometer and method for measuring the concentration of a gaseous component of interest in a measurement gas, wherein to compensate influence of changes in an optical path length in the absorption spectrometer on a measured result, light from the laser is modulated with at least one pilot frequency in the MHz range, the measurement signal is analyzed in a phase-sensitive manner for the pilot frequency, phase information obtained during this analysis is compared with phase information obtained during calibration of the absorption spectrometer, where the measured result is corrected as a function of the difference between the two items of phase information. Alternatively, light from the laser is modulated with two pilot frequencies, where signal components contained in the measurement signal with the pilot frequencies are detected in a phase-sensitive manner and the difference between the phase information of the two signal components obtained in this operation is analyzed.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a water/fat image identification method and device including obtaining a water/fat image pair calculated by a Dixon method, and marking these as a first image and a second image; calculating grayscale histograms for the first image and the second image, respectively, to obtain a first grayscale histogram and second grayscale histogram; subtracting the second grayscale histogram from the first grayscale histogram to obtain a water/fat relationship graph; searching for the highest peak and lowest trough in the water/fat relationship graph, and if the highest peak is located behind the lowest trough, determining the first image as being a water image and the second image as being a fat image; and otherwise, determining the opposite.