Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor system includes a housing, an electronic circuit and an ultrasonic distance sensor, wherein the electronic circuit and the ultrasonic distance sensor are arranged in the housing, and wherein the sensor system is configured to measure a distance between the sensor system and a surface of a material in a container by an echo propagation time of an ultrasonic burst in air.

Abstract: In an embodiment a connecting element includes a base configured to be fixed to a housing, an electrical conductor and a retainer for guiding and fixing the electrical conductor, the retainer being connected to the base, wherein the electrical conductor is in direct contact with the retainer, wherein the retainer is shaped such that a first contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a first functional part of an electrical component and a second contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a second functional part of the electrical component, the first functional part and the second functional part being located spatially distant from each other in an interior space of the housing, and wherein the connecting element is configured to connect the first functional part and the second functional part.

Abstract: A device (1) comprising an electro-ceramic component (2) which has a first electrical contact (3A), provided on a first side face (2A) of the electro-ceramic component (2) in the excitation zone (11), and a second electrical contact (3B) provided on a second side face (2B) of the electro-ceramic component (2). A sealing compound (20) is placed around the electro-ceramic component (2) so that the first electrical contact (3A) and the second electrical contact (3B) are covered by the sealing compound (20) and a free end (26) of a section (24) of the high-voltage zone (12) of the electro-ceramic component (2) projects beyond a free end (22) of the sealing compound (20).

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor device includes a sensor element, a media supply configured to transport a medium to the sensor element and a surface, wherein the surface is configured to be exposed to the medium during operation of the sensor device, and wherein the surface comprises a surface structure configured to reduce a wettability of the surface by the medium.

Abstract: A relay is disclosed. In an embodiment a relay includes a first switching contact having a first main contact, a second main contact and a first movable contact; a second switching contact having a third main contact, a fourth main contact and a second movable contact, wherein the second switching contact is electrically isolated from the first switching contact; and an actuator configured to move both the first and second movable contacts from a first switching state into a second switching state by moving a drive element of the actuator from a first position into a second position.

Abstract: In an embodiment a 3D printer for additive manufacturing of a multilayer component includes a work surface, at least two movable dispensers configured to coat the work surface with one of at least two different raw materials in each case, wherein at least a part of the respective raw material is addable to the component as a layer in a manufacturing step, and at least two movable recovering devices configured to selectively recover the respective raw material which is not consumed when a layer is added to the component and return the recovered raw material to a respective associated dispenser.

Abstract: An electrical component includes a base body having a contact surface on which a contact element is fastened by a solidified molten material, wherein the material is formed by a molten region of the contact element.

Abstract: Assembly to protect a sensing device including a pipe configured for transportation of a fluid, a sensing device arranged on a peripheral surface of the pipe and in thermal contact with the pipe and a protection element for protection of the sensing device against mechanical impacts and for thermal isolation of the device against the environment.

Abstract: A measuring assembly for measuring a temperature of a test body is provided, wherein at least two separate wires suitable for thermal conduction are led away from a test body and combined into a wire bundle at a distance from the test body, and wherein a temperature sensor is attached to the wire bundle by clamping action by means of a holder. Preferably, the holder comprises a holder base having an inner side and an outer side, and spring clips connected thereto, wherein a recess for receiving a temperature sensor is arranged on the inner side of the holder base, and wherein two of the spring clips are arranged opposite each other with respect to the holder base and are adapted to generate a clamping force towards the inner side of the holder base.

Abstract: A method of operating a piezoelectric plasma generator including applying an input signal to a piezoelectric transformer of the piezoelectric plasma generator. An absolute value of a peak amplitude of the input signal is periodically reduced and increased to a level smaller and larger than an ignition voltage of the plasma generator, such that plasma generation periodically collapses.

Abstract: A component having an active volume, the active volume not being centrally positioned along a height of the component, and/or not being centrally positioned along a width of the component. Use of the component is also disclosed. Further aspects relate to a use of the component and to a component. The component can be an NTC thermistor or a PTC thermistor or a temperature measurement element. Use of the component for monitoring a temperature of a battery or in a vehicle is also disclosed.

Abstract: An NTC thin film thermistor that includes at least a first thin film electrode, at least an NTC thin film, and at least a second thin film electrode. A further aspect relates to a method for producing an NTC thin film thermistor.

Abstract: In an embodiment a switching device includes two fixed contacts and a rotary contact bridge in a switching chamber in a gas-tight region, wherein the rotary contact bridge is rotatable about an rotation axis, wherein, in a first switching state, the fixed contacts are electrically conductively connected by the rotary contact bridge, wherein, in a second switching state, the rotary contact bridge is rotatable about the rotation axis relative to the first switching state, and the fixed contacts are electrically insulated from one another, and wherein the gas-tight region includes H2.

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor element includes at least one carrier layer having a top side and an underside and at least one functional layer, wherein the functional layer is arranged at the top side of the carrier layer and includes a material having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance, wherein the sensor element is configured to be integrated as a discrete component directly into an electrical system, and wherein the sensor element is configured to measure a temperature.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for fabricating a Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) microphone includes depositing, on a frontside of a wafer, a first oxide layer over a silicon nitride thin film and over and adjacent the wafer, wherein the silicon nitride thin film is disposed over the wafer, depositing a membrane protection layer over the first oxide layer between a first side of a first cavity formed in the wafer and a second side of a second cavity formed in the wafer, depositing a second oxide layer over and adjacent the membrane protection layer, depositing a first membrane nitride layer over the second oxide layer, depositing a membrane polysilicon layer over the first membrane nitride layer, depositing a second membrane nitride layer over the membrane polysilicon layer, depositing a third oxide layer over the second membrane nitride layer and depositing a fourth oxide layer over the third oxide layer.

Abstract: In an embodiment a switching device includes at least one stationary contact and a movable contact movable from a first switching state to a second switching state by a magnetic armature, wherein the magnetic armature has a spring configured to reset the movable contact from the second switching state to the first switching state, and wherein the spring has a first spring region with a first spring constant and a second spring region with a second spring constant which is greater than the first spring constant.

Abstract: A device including an electroceramic component having a first area and a second area, a potting compound at least partially surrounding the electroceramic component, and a sleeve-shaped housing which at least partially surrounds the potting compound. The housing has, in a first housing section that surrounds the potting compound in the first area of the electroceramic component, a material wherein the thermal conductivity of said material is greater than the thermal conductivity of a material of the housing in a second housing section. The housing in the second housing section surrounding the potting compound in the second area of the electroceramic component includes a non-conductive material.

Abstract: A 3D printer for additively manufacturing a multilayer component. The 3D printer includes at least two separate dispensers coating a conveyor belt with respectively different raw material, a manufacturing unit in which at least part of the raw material is added to the component as a new layer, at least two separate recovery devices for selectively recovering the respectively different raw material, which is not consumed when a layer is added to the component, and for returning the raw material to the respective associated dispenser, and conveyor belt that transports the raw material from the dispenser to the manufacturing unit and further to the recovery device in the lateral direction.

Abstract: In an embodiment a capacitor includes a dielectric layer including a polyamideimide, the dielectric layer being uniform and a first electrode disposed directly adjacent to the dielectric layer.

Abstract: In an embodiment a device includes a housing with at least a first housing part, a second housing part and an interior space at least partially surrounded by the first and second housing parts and a sealing element, wherein the first housing part includes a first sealing surface and the second housing part includes a second sealing surface, wherein the sealing element abuts the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface, wherein the sealing element has an inner surface in contact with the interior space and an outer surface in contact with a surrounding atmosphere of the housing, and wherein the sealing element includes a material through which gas is exchangeable between the interior space and the surrounding atmosphere.