Abstract: In an embodiment an acoustic transmission system includes a primary side having a transmitting unit configured to provide a transmit signal, a receiving unit configured to receive a received signal in response to the transmitted signal and an electroacoustic transducer configured to convert the transmit signal into an acoustic signal and an acoustic signal into the receive signal and a secondary side having a transponder configured to receive a receive signal and transmit a transmit signal and an electroacoustic transducer located between the primary side and the secondary side, the electroacoustic transducer having a medium permeable to acoustic signals.

Abstract: In an embodiment a coil includes a tube comprising a tube wall composed of an electrically conductive material, wherein the tube wall has an inductive portion in which a gap is arranged that shapes the tube wall so the tube wall forms a helix in the inductive portion, and wherein the tube wall has two contact portions, each contact portion forming an electrical terminal.

Abstract: A ceramic electrode comprising a support member as a mechanically stabilizing component, a dielectric layer having a thickness (D) which is less than or equal to 150 ?m, and an electrode layer.

Abstract: In embodiments a housing includes a first housing component and a second housing, the second housing component having a first guide groove, wherein the first housing component comprises a first complementary element, and wherein the first complementary element and the first guide groove are designed such that the housing components are connectable to form the housing by sliding one inside the other along a guide direction.

Abstract: In an embodiment a coil includes a tube having a tube wall of an electrically conductive material, wherein the tube has an inductive portion in which a gap is arranged in the tube wall which shapes the tube wall in the inductive portion to form a helix, wherein the tube has at least one contact section including a connection region and at least one terminal region, wherein the connection region has the same contour as an adjacent portion of the helix, wherein the terminal region is an electrical terminal of the coil, and wherein the connection region electrically connects the terminal region to the inductive portion.

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor arrangement includes a ceramic-based substrate, at least one sensor chip connected directly to the substrate in a horizontal position by a bonding material, at least one first contact element and at least one second contact element configured to act as outer electrodes of the sensor arrangement, wherein the first contact element comprises a contact member configured to electrically contact the sensor chip by the bonding material and an insulating body enveloping the sensor chip and at least parts of the contact elements, wherein the substrate is mainly free from a material of the insulating body.

Abstract: A solder connection that connects a contact pad on a first surface to a strip-shaped conductor. The strip-shaped conductor has a widening at one end and a through opening therein. A solder ball is located in the opening and connects the end of the conductor to the contact pad.

Abstract: A control element for use, for example with a vehicle is disclosed. The control element includes at least one tubular section with a cavity at least partially surrounded by a wall, and a piezoelectric component. The piezoelectric component is arranged in the cavity and generates a haptic signal at at least one partial region of the control element and/or detects the action of pressure on at least one part of the piezoelectric component. Furthermore, the vehicle with the control element is also specified.

Abstract: In an embodiment a device includes a thermoelectric component, an electrode arranged opposite the thermoelectric component and a high voltage source configured to generate a high voltage between the thermoelectric component and the electrode sufficient to ignite a dielectric barrier discharge.

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor arrangement includes a mounting element configured to mount the sensor arrangement directly to a surface, a basic body removably attached to the mounting element, at least one sensor element arranged in an interior of the basic body and a separating element which is at least partly arranged in the basic body, wherein the separating element is configured to hold the sensor element in a fixed position with respect to the basic body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic material for a multilayer capacitor. The ceramic material has a composition according to the following general formula: Pb(y?1.5a?0.5b+c+0.5d?0.5e?f)CaaAb(Zr1?xTix)(1?c?d?e?d)EcFedNbeWfO3, where A is one or more of the group of Na, K and Ag; E is one or more of the group of Cu, Ni, Hf, Si and Mn; and 0<a<0.14, 0.05?x?0.3, 0?b?0.12, 0<c?0.12, 0?d?0.12, 0?e?0.12, 0?f?0.12, 0.9?y?1.5 and 0.001<b+c+d+e+f applies. Further, the invention includes a capacitor comprising the described ceramic material.

Abstract: In an embodiment a coil element includes a first core element and a first winding body arranged around a winding carrier part of the first core element with a winding axis, wherein the first winding body includes a first film conductor element and the first film conductor element includes a plurality of conductor films stacked on top of each other along a stacking direction and arranged electrically insulated from each other, wherein the stacking direction is parallel to the winding axis, and wherein the first core element includes a plurality of windings of the first film conductor element arranged in a spiral around the winding axis.

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor element includes a carrier having an electrically insulating material, a top side and a bottom side, an NTC thermistor arranged on the top side of the carrier and at least two first electrodes configured for electrically contacting the sensor element, wherein the first electrodes are arranged on the top side of the carrier, wherein the sensor element is configured to measure a temperature, and wherein the sensor element is configured for direct integration in an electrically insulating manner.

Abstract: In an embodiment an anode lead tab is configured for externally contacting an anode foil in an electrolytic capacitor, wherein the anode lead tab has a roughened surface configured to protect the anode lead tab from surface dissolution.

Abstract: In an embodiment a mechanical reinforcing element includes two end regions, two angular regions, wherein the end regions are located at two opposite end faces of the reinforcing element, wherein each angular region connects to one of the end regions via a first joint, and wherein the angular regions have a stiffening structure, and a connecting portion interconnecting the two angular regions and connecting to the angular regions through second joints, wherein the mechanical reinforcing element is configured such that, upon a relative movement of the end regions with respect to each other, the connecting portion performs a movement perpendicular thereto.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for generating a dielectric barrier discharge for treatment of an object to be activated with non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma, comprising a dielectric working chamber which has a wall of a dielectric material and which encloses a working space, wherein a metallization is applied to an outer side of the wall facing away from the working space, wherein the working space is an open volume, and a high-voltage source which is configured to apply a high voltage to the metallization or to the object to be activated when the object to be activated is in the working space. According to a further aspect, the invention relates to a method of treatment of an object to be activated with a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma.

Abstract: In an embodiment a switching device includes at least two fixed contacts and one movable contact in a switching chamber and at least two auxiliary contacts, two spring contacts and a contact plate in the switching chamber, wherein each of the spring contacts contacts one of the auxiliary contacts with a first contact region and has a second contact region, wherein the contact plate is movable together with the movable contact, and wherein the contact plate is configured to contact the second contact regions of the spring contacts in a first switching state of the switching device and is configured to be arranged at a distance from the second contact regions of the spring contacts in a second switching state.

Abstract: A component having a winding carrier, at least one winding, a magnetic core and first and second connections. The winding carrier surrounds at least regions of the core in such a way that an insulation section between the connections along an underside of the component cannot be bypassed via the core. In particular, an underside of the winding carrier is designed to be closed.

Abstract: In an embodiment a method for producing a substrate includes forming a green sheet stack including first green sheets and second green sheets, wherein each of the first green sheets and the second green sheets contains a ceramic material as a main component, and wherein the second green sheets further contain a sintering aid in addition to the ceramic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a switching device which has two stationary contacts and a movable contact in a switching chamber. The stationary contacts are arranged next to each other along a longitudinal direction, and the switching chamber has a switching chamber wall with opposing transversal lateral wall parts and opposing longitudinal lateral wall parts. Each of the two stationary contacts is arranged at a distance to one of the transversal lateral wall parts, said distance being shorter than the respective distance to the longitudinal lateral wall parts.