Abstract: A system includes a power driver, configured to generate an electric excitation; an oscillating system, configured to perform an oscillation induced by the electric excitation; a feedback detector, configured to detect a feedback measurement signal with to the oscillation; and a controller configured to operate: in a closed loop mode, to control the power driver to generate the electric excitation as a discontinuous electric excitation according to timing information obtained from the detected feedback measurement signal, to synchronize the discontinuous electric excitation with the detected feedback measurement signal; in a learning mode preceding the closed loop mode, to control the power driver to generate the electric excitation as a continuous electric excitation, to obtain timing information from the feedback measurement signal to be used, at least once, in the subsequent closed loop mode, to synchronize the discontinuous electric excitation with the detected feedback measurement signal.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a hybrid drive train comprising a first partial drive train including an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft and a second partial drive train, which is separated from the first partial drive train by a torsional elasticity having an electric machine with a rotor A rotational characteristic value of the first partial drive train is detected via a sensor arranged on the torsional elasticity A rotational characteristic value of the rotor is detected via a device engaged with the rotor. A quality index is determined based on the rotational characteristic value of the first partial drive train and the rotational characteristic value of the rotor. The electric machine is controller to optimize the quality index.

Abstract: A stabilizer bar has a first connected position and a second disconnected position. One side-bar is fixed to a housing while the other side-bar is fixed to a tulip within the housing. The housing has a plurality of axial grooves. The tulip defines a plurality of slots which are aligned with the grooves when the vehicle is level. A nut has a plurality of pins that extend radially such that the nut is torsionally coupled to the housing. In a first connected position, the pins fit within the slots of the tulip to torsionally couple the nut and the housing to the tulip. To facilitate a second disconnected position, a motor driven actuator moves the nut axially such that the pins no longer engage the slots. When motor power is withdrawn, a spring pushes the nut back to the first connected position.

Abstract: A method and software is provided for machining a workpiece, including for determining a machining path for material-removing machining of a workpiece using a multi-axis machine tool, wherein control commands for controlling a number of N different machine axes of a machine tool can be generated from the machining path with computer support, according to which a tool can be moved continuously along the machining path, wherein the machining path comprises a first engagement path segment and a second engagement path segment along which the tool engages with the workpiece at least in sections, and wherein the machining path further comprises a connecting path segment along which the tool does not engage with the workpiece and which connects an end point of the first engagement path segment to a starting point of the second engagement path segment continuously and collision-free with the workpiece.

Abstract: A thrust bearing cage includes a piloting feature to radially locate a thrust bearing with respect to one of the shafts. Specifically, the bearing cage includes an axial extension at an outer diameter that extends beyond the rollers and around an outer diameter of end of the shaft. This feature permits elimination of a washer.

Abstract: A handling device for transferring workpieces includes a workpiece carrier arranged to receive workpieces and a rotatable workpiece-conveying apparatus arranged to receive the workpieces from the workpiece carrier in a first angular position and to transfer the workpieces to a storage station in a second angular position. The workpiece-conveying apparatus includes an axis of rotation, a first linearly displaceable feed element and a second linearly displaceable feed element, intersecting the first feed element at the axis of rotation and simultaneously actuatable with the first feed element. The apparatus also includes first and second non-rotatable linear actuators. The first and second feed elements have end pieces, each arranged for direct interaction with the workpiece and a respective linear actuator. The feed elements may intersect at an angle of 90°. The first feed element may have a straight shape and the second feed element may have an offset shape.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving radar signals with a millimeter-wave radar; generating range data based on the received radar signals; detecting a target based on the range data; performing ellipse fitting on in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals associated with the detected target to generate compensated I and Q signals associated with the detected target; classifying the compensated I and Q signals; when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a first class, determining a displacement signal based on the compensated I and Q signals, and determining a vital sign based on the displacement signal; and when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a second class, discarding the compensated I and Q signals.

Abstract: A method includes providing a carrier, mounting a plurality of semiconductor dies on the carrier, forming a region of electrically insulating encapsulant material on the carrier that covers each of the semiconductor dies, removing sections of the encapsulant material to form gaps in the region of electrically insulating encapsulant material between each of the semiconductor dies, forming electrically conductive material within the gaps, and singulating the region of electrically insulating encapsulant material along each of the gaps to form a plurality of discrete encapsulant bodies. Each of the packaged semiconductor devices comprises a sidewall-facing terminal that is disposed on a sidewall of the encapsulant body. For each of the packaged semiconductor devices the sidewall-facing terminal is electrically connected to the semiconductor die of the respective packaged semiconductor device.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an adapter assembly of a generator and an axle-end generator assembly. An adapter assembly includes a first part configured to mount to a wagon bogie and a second part connecting to the first part. The first part and the second part are configured to form a base for mounting a stator of a generator together.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a motor includes motor circuitry and neural network circuitry. The motor circuitry is configured to generate, based on an error compensated rotor angle and current at a plurality of phases of the motor, a d-axis instant current value and generate a d-axis instant voltage value based on the d-axis instant current value. The motor circuitry is further configured to generate voltage at the plurality of phases based on the d-axis instant voltage value. The neural network circuitry is configured to generate a rotor angle offset based on an instant rotor speed at the motor. The neural network circuitry has been trained to generate the rotor angle offset to minimize the d-axis instant voltage value for each of a plurality of rotor speeds at the motor. The error compensated rotor angle is based on the rotor angle offset.

Abstract: A sensor device includes at least one first sensor element that generates a first sensor signal based on sensing a varying magnetic field; at least one second sensor element that generates a second sensor signal based on sensing the varying magnetic field; a signal tracking circuit that generates a trigger signal having trigger pulses that are generated based on crossings of the first sensor signal with an adaptive threshold and extracts vibration relevant information using the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal; an output controller that generates an output signal having output pulses that are triggered by the trigger pulses during a non-vibration event and suppress the output pulses during an entire duration of a vibration event; and a vibration detection circuit that detects the vibration event based on the extracted vibration relevant information and indicates the vibration event to the output controller.

Abstract: A method of forming a planetary carrier assembly is disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes providing a first carrier plate and a second carrier plate. The first carrier plate has a first body portion, and the second carrier plate has a second body portion including a plurality of legs. The method includes forming at least one staking element on an axial end of at least one of the plurality of legs. The method includes fixing the first carrier plate and the second carrier plate to each other via application of an axial load such that the at least one staking element on the at least one of the plurality of legs digs into the first carrier plate.

Abstract: A hydraulic fluid control valve (HFCV) configured to recirculate an exiting hydraulic fluid from a first hydraulic actuation chamber to a second hydraulic actuation chamber is provided. The HFCV includes a spring well that combines a hydraulic fluid received from a hydraulic fluid pressure source with a recirculated hydraulic fluid from the first hydraulic actuation chamber and delivers the combination to the second hydraulic actuation chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing packaging, in particular composite packaging for liquid foodstuffs, having a cross-sectional area that decreases in the pour-out direction in the gable region. The packaging is composed of a sleeve having a gable region having a plurality of gable faces and a pouring element. The apparatus has at least one rotatable mandrel wheel having a plurality of mandrels for holding the sleeves. Additionally, a method for producing such packaging and a gable press for use with the aforementioned apparatus. In order to allow easier and more cost-effective production, it is proposed that the apparatus has a gable press, assigned to a single mandrel wheel position, for folding the gable region, for connecting all the gable faces of the gable region of the sleeve to the pouring element and for sealing the protruding ears in the same mandrel wheel position.

Abstract: A rotor for an electrical axial flux machine that can be operated as a motor and/or generator includes a support, a plurality of magnet elements arranged against, on, or in the support and running radially from the interior outward. The magnet elements are magnetized in a circumferential direction and arranged individually or in groups in series around the circumference with alternating opposing magnetization directions. A plurality of flux conduction elements which conduct the magnetic flux are arranged against, on, or in the support and around the circumference, between the magnet elements.

Abstract: A first sensor signal and a second sensor signal are provided by a sensor unit to an evaluation unit. The first sensor signal is dependent on the angular position and is associated with a first detection position, and the second sensor signal is associated with a second detection position lying about the rotational axis perpendicular to the first detection position. An orthogonal error is converted by the evaluation unit into an amplitude difference between respective amplitudes of the first and second sensor signals based on a coordinate transformation of the first and second sensor signals. Each of the first and second sensor signals are adjusted by the evaluation unit based on the amplitude difference. An angular position of a rotational component is determined by the evaluation unit based on output from an a tan 2-function that takes the adjusted first and second sensor signals as input.

Abstract: A friction device for a torsional vibration damper includes an axis of rotation, an input side with a first disc and a second disc, and an output side between the first disc and the second disc and rotatable relative to the input side. The output side has a first friction disc, a second friction disc, and a spring element between the first friction disc and the second friction disc. The spring element has first, second and third contact regions. At a first angle of rotation between the input side and the output side, an axial contact force between the first friction disc and the second friction disc is transmittable via the first contact region and the third contact region. At a second angle of rotation, different than the first angle of rotation, the axial contact force is transmittable via the second contact region and the third contact region.

Abstract: An oscillator control system includes an oscillator structure configured to oscillate about first and second rotation axes according to a Lissajous pattern, wherein an oscillation about the second rotation axis imparts a cross-coupling error onto an oscillation about the first rotation axis, and wherein the cross-coupling error changes in accordance with a Lissajous position within the Lissajous pattern; and a driver circuit that includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to regulate a driving signal that drives the oscillation about the first rotation axis. The PLL is configured to generate a PLL signal based on a phase error of the oscillation about the first rotation axis. The PLL includes a compensation circuit configured to receive the PLL signal and the Lissajous position within the Lissajous pattern, apply a compensation value to the PLL signal to generate a compensated PLL signal used for generating the driving signal based on the Lissajous position.

Abstract: A driver circuit is configured to control a power transistor. The driver circuit comprises a signal generator configured to generate a control signal for the power transistor based on a supply signal and an input signal from a control unit. In addition, the driver circuit includes a ripple detector configured to receive the supply signal and determine whether the supply signal includes a ripple error. In some examples, the ripple detector may be configured to send a warning signal to the control unit in response to detecting the ripple error.

Abstract: A hybrid module comprising a housing, a torque converter, and a resolver assembly is provided. The torque converter comprises a turbine having a turbine shell including at least one blade attached thereto; an impeller having an impeller shell including at least one blade attached thereto; and an impeller hub attached to a radially extending end of the impeller shell. The resolver assembly comprises a rotor connected to an outer surface of the impeller hub and a stator connected to the housing.