Abstract: A capacitive microelectromechanical device is provided. The capacitive microelectromechanical device includes a semiconductor substrate, a support structure, an electrode element, a spring element, and a seismic mass. The support structure, for example, a pole, suspension or a post, is fixedly connected to the semiconductor substrate, which may comprise silicon. The electrode element is fixedly connected to the support structure. Moreover, the seismic mass is connected over the spring element to the support structure so that the seismic mass is displaceable, deflectable or movable with respect to the electrode element. Moreover, the seismic mass and the electrode element form a capacitor having a capacitance which depends on a displacement between the seismic mass and the electrode element.

Abstract: A power electronics module for an electrical drive machine of a motor vehicle includes multiple bus bars and a potting element supporting the bus bars such that they are spaced apart and electrically insulated from one another. Each bus bar is exposed in a first connection region and a second connection region, opposite the first connection region, for further contact with the environment of the potting element. The bus bars are provided with a sealing sheathing, applied separately to the potting element, on a longitudinal section between the two connection regions arranged in a common recess in the potting element made from a plastic material. The sealing sheathing adhered to the bus bar via a layer of adhesion agent. An electrical drive machine comprising said power electronics module, as well as a method of a power electronics module is provided.

Abstract: An active part of an electric machine, the part being designed as a rotor or a stator for the electric machine, including a main part and a plurality of permanent magnets secured on/in the main part. The active part has one or more securing devices made of sheet metal, each of which holds at least one of the permanent magnets and via which the permanent magnets are secured on/in the main part. A corresponding electric machine and a method for producing a pre-mounted assembly for securing at least one permanent magnet to the main part of an active part of an electric machine, and the use of such pre-mounted assemblies are also provided.

Abstract: A linear actuator for a steer-by-wire system including a component, in particular an axle or a shaft, that can be moved along a linear trajectory, and including a measuring device for determining a position of the component. The measuring device has a coil for inductively determining the position of the component, and the coil is arranged coaxially relative to the linear trajectory of the component.

Abstract: A wafer probe alignment system includes a test probe needle including a body having a tip that is configured to make contact with a surface of a wafer at a first tip position, wherein the body is deformable and includes a sensing area that undergoes a deformation in response to at least one force, including a lateral friction force, applied to the tip; at least one sensor configured to monitor the sensing area for deformation caused by a lateral friction force and generate at least one first sensor information representative of the lateral friction force; and a controller configured to control a position of the tip, wherein the controller is configured to receive the at least one first sensor information and reposition the tip to counteract the lateral friction force in order to maintain the tip at the first tip position.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a chip substrate and a MEMS element, wherein the chip substrate includes a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface, and wherein the MEMS element is disposed at the first surface of the chip substrate and the MEMS element includes a sensitive area; at least one electrical interconnect structure electrically connected to the first surface of the chip substrate; a chip carrier electrically connected to the at least one electrical interconnect structure; a flexible film provided over the second surface of the chip substrate to form a pocket in which the semiconductor chip resides; and a compressible material arranged between the second surface of the chip substrate and the flexible film.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor assembly for simultaneously capturing an angular position and a torque of a rotatable shaft. The sensor assembly comprises, for determining the angular position, a main body, two additional bodies, which are arranged coupled for rotation on the main body, and two angle resolvers, which are arranged on a circuit board in the immediate vicinity of the additional bodies. In this arrangement, the angles of the additional bodies are determined by the angle resolvers and passed as an angle signal to an evaluation unit arranged on the circuit board. The sensor assembly further comprises a direct coating, which captures a torque signal from the rotating shaft and passes this signal over a connection line to the evaluation unit. The connection line has a section wound multiple times around the shaft to permit a rotation of the shaft by at least +/?900°.

Abstract: A drive unit for a powertrain of an electrically drivable motor vehicle, in particular a hybrid motor vehicle, is equipped with a first electric machine as well as a second electric machine and a first shaft as well as an output shaft. The drive unit furthermore has a separating clutch and a connection element for connection for conjoint rotation of an internal combustion engine, and wherein at least the first electric machine is operated in generator mode and the nominal rpm n1 of the first electric machine has the following relationship to the nominal rpm n2 of the second electric machine: n1>1.2×n2.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electromechanical camshaft adjuster comprising an electric motor and an adjusting gear, which has a housing with two housing parts that are sealed off with respect to each other by means of a static seal and with respect to the electric motor and a cylinder head by means of two dynamic seals. A first housing part of the adjusting gear has a pot shape that tapers in a stepped manner towards a housing bottom of the housing part, said pot shape having three different inner diameter regions. In the region closest to the bottom with the smallest inner diameter, a stop plate that acts in the circumferential direction is held. In the region with the middle inner diameter, an output ring gear is mounted with play, and in the region with the largest inner diameter, an input ring gear is secured.

Abstract: A packaged half-bridge circuit includes a carrier having a dielectric core and a first layer of metallization formed on an upper surface of the carrier, first and second semiconductor chips, each including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, and a conductive connector mounted on the upper surface of the carrier and electrically connected to the first layer of metallization. The first semiconductor chip is configured as a high-side switch of the half-bridge circuit. The second semiconductor chip is configured as a low-side switch of the half-bridge circuit. At least one of the first and second semiconductor chips is embedded within the dielectric core of the carrier. The conductive connector is electrically connected to one of the first and second terminals from one or both of the first and second semiconductor chips.

Abstract: A composite package, in particular a beverage carton package for liquid foodstuffs is depicted and described which consists at least partially of a package laminate, having a package base body including package edges, an at least partially angular package base and package gable wherein the package base body defines, in an idealised manner, a package front side, package rear side and at least two lateral package sides attaching to the package rear side as well as a package laminate and a package sleeve blank for manufacturing such a composite package. In order to improve grip and ergonomy for an easy to manufacture package, provision is made for the package front side to have a positive arching at least in sections which in each case passes into a lateral package side for a grip panel to be formed at least in sections in the region of the package rear side.

Abstract: A power assisted steering system provides a gear reduction between a steering wheel and a steering mechanism and a much larger gear reduction between an electric motor and a steering mechanism. The system is back-driveable from the steering mechanism. The system utilizes a ball-screw, several helical gears, and two bevel gears. A rack fixed to the ball-screw nut drives a sector gear.

Abstract: Example implementations are concerned with magnetoresistive sensors and with corresponding fabrication methods for magnetoresistive sensors. One example here relates to a magnetoresistive sensor having a layer stack. The layer stack comprises a reference layer having a reference magnetization, which is fixed and has a first magnetic orientation. The layer stack comprises a magnetically free layer. The magnetically free layer has a magnetically free magnetization. The magnetically free magnetization is variable in the presence of an external magnetic field. The magnetically free magnetization has a second magnetic orientation in a ground state. One of the first or the second magnetic orientation is oriented in-plane and the other is oriented out-of-plane. The layer stack comprises a metal multilayer. In this case, either the metal multilayer is arranged adjacent to the magnetically free layer, or the metal multilayer constitutes the magnetically free layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes: a lead frame having a plurality of blocks of uniform size and laterally spaced apart from one another with uniform spacing; a first semiconductor die attached to a first group of the blocks; electrical conductors connecting a plurality of input/output (I/O) terminals of the first semiconductor die to a second group of the blocks, at least some blocks of the second group being laterally spaced outward from the blocks of the first group; and a mold compound encapsulating the first semiconductor die and the electrical conductors. Corresponding methods of producing the semiconductor package are also described.

Abstract: A valve includes a valve housing, a piston, a support element, and a spring. The piston and the valve housing are arranged coaxially to each other on an imaginary valve axis. The piston is received in the valve housing in an axially movable manner against the spring force of the spring. The spring is supported on the support element and on the piston. The valve housing is provided with a first opening through which a fluid can flow and which can be closed by a piston base of the piston. The valve housing is provided with a second opening which can be at least partly closed by a piston casing of the piston and through which the fluid can flow. The piston casing extends outwards from the piston base in the axial direction of the support element and surrounds the valve axis.

Abstract: An oscillator system includes an electrostatic oscillator structure configured to oscillate about an axis based on a deflection that varies over time; an actuator configured to drive the electrostatic oscillator structure about the axis, the actuator including a first capacitive element having a first capacitance dependent on the deflection and a second capacitive element having a second capacitance dependent on the deflection; a sensing circuit configured to receive a first displacement current from the first capacitive element and a second displacement current from the second capacitive element, to integrate the first displacement current to generate a first capacitive charge value, and to integrate the second displacement current to generate a second capacitive charge value; and a measurement circuit configured to receive the first and the second capacitive charge values and to measure the deflection of the electrostatic oscillator structure based on the first and the second capacitive charge values.

Abstract: An electrical or electronic device with a housing which includes a rear wall and a side wall peripherally surrounding the rear wall, contains a first region and a second region. The first region includes a shielding from the second region with respect to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). The housing includes a stepped projection on an inner side of the side wall and/or of the rear wall. The shielding for electromagnetic compatibility includes a shielding plate, by means of which the first region is delimited from the second region. An electrical connection of the shielding plate to the side wall and/or to the rear wall is formed in that a peripheral region that delimits the shielding plate areally overlaps the stepped projection, at least along most of its length, and is fastened on it.

Abstract: A method of assembling a modular hybrid transmission (MHT) is provided including (a) assembling an emotor clutch on a clutch shaft to form a clutch assembly, (b) press-fitting a bushing into a centering plate to form a centering assembly, (c) connecting the centering assembly to a torque converter, (d) assembling the torque converter to the clutch assembly with the bushing on an end of the clutch shaft, and (e) inserting the clutch assembly and the torque converter into a transmission housing while maintaining the centering of the clutch shaft to the transmission housing via the centering assembly connected to the torque converter. The assembled MHT is also provided which eliminates the needle bearing according to the prior art, avoiding the potential for damage during assembly.

Abstract: A belt-driven conical pulley transmission includes a first pulley sheave pair arranged on the first shaft, a second pulley sheave pair arranged on the second shaft, a belt means, a first slide rail, and a second slide rail. Each pulley sheave pair includes a first conical pully displaceable along a respective shaft axis and a second conical pulley fixed along the respective axis. The belt means is displaceable in a radial direction along respective contact faces of the pulley sheave pairs from an inner position to an outer position. The belt means includes a traction strand extending through an intermediate space between the first pulley sheave pair and the second pulley sheave pair, and a thrust strand extending through the intermediate space. The first slide rail is guides the traction strand and the second slide rail is designed different from the first slide rail and guides the thrust strand.

Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a flexible membrane disposed over a substrate, and a first backplate disposed over the flexible membrane. The first backplate includes a first plurality of bumps facing the flexible membrane. The MEMS device further includes a plurality of features disposed at the flexible membrane, where each of the plurality of features being associated with a corresponding one of the first plurality of bumps.