Abstract: A cooling device for a power converter for a vehicle includes a heat sink having a heat discharging structure on a first side for discharging heat acting on the heat sink, and a connecting surface on the second side opposite the first side for absorbing heat from a semiconductor connected to the connecting surface, wherein the semiconductor has a discharge surface for discharging heat to the connecting surface, and an insulating layer having a polymer with ceramic particles that is located between the connecting surface on the heat sink and the discharge surface on the semiconductor, and is designed to mechanically and thermally connect the heat sink to the semiconductor and to insulate them from one another.

Abstract: A high-current element for high-current printed circuit boards is formed from at least two metal sheets which are connected to form a sheet-metal stack and which have a plurality of pins at least at an end region thereof, and wherein the sheet-metal stack has a terminal region, a pin region, and a connection region, and wherein the metal sheets are connected to one another in the connection region, and the pins are arranged in the pin region and formed for contacting with the high-current printed circuit board, and the terminal region is set up to be used as a terminal region for connecting the high-current element to external power terminals.

Abstract: A symmetrical DC-to-DC boost converter includes a DC input voltage source with a negative DC voltage input and a positive DC voltage input, a negative DC and positive DC voltage output, at least four switches, and two chokes, one of which is connected to the negative DC voltage input and two adjacent switches, and the other of which is connected to the positive DC voltage input and two other adjacent switches, such that a symmetrical topology with separate DC voltage inputs is obtained. Furthermore, there is an input capacitor between the voltage inputs and a first symmetry capacitor connected to the negative DC voltage input and the negative DC voltage output, as well as a second symmetry capacitor connected to the positive DC voltage input and the positive DC voltage output.

Abstract: A capacitor unit for a power converter, wherein the capacitor unit has a first busbar and a second busbar, and at least one capacitor element placed in between the first busbar and the second busbar, wherein the capacitor element is electrically connected to the first busbar at a first side, and wherein the capacitor element is electrically connected to the second busbar at a second side, lying opposite the first side, and a cooling device, wherein the cooling device is thermally coupled to the first busbar with a surface area contact, wherein the cooling device is designed to remove heat from the first busbar.

Abstract: A link capacitor for a motor vehicle has a housing, a first busbar and a second busbar for electrical contact to the link capacitor, and at least one coupling element. The housing accommodates a winding for the link capacitor. The first busbar and second busbar are connected to the winding. The coupling element is on the housing and designed to couple the link capacitor to an adjacent link capacitor and/or to a support element.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for deburring at least one borehole opening of a metal workpiece, wherein the device has a rotationally symmetrical countersink bit. The countersink bit of the device is designed to remove at least one burr of the at least one borehole opening. The countersink bit can be introduced into an opening forming the at least one borehole opening and rotated. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: A power distribution includes first and second inputs, first and second outputs, and a third output configured to connect to a low-voltage vehicle power supply, a high-voltage distributor is connected to the first input and forms the connection between the energy storage and further components of the power distribution. A controller monitors at least the high-voltage distributor and can control components of the power distribution. At least one inverter is arranged in the current path between the high-voltage distributor and at least one of the contacts for the first output, the second output or the second input, a first converter is arranged between the high-voltage distributor and the third output and converts a DC voltage provided by the high-voltage distributor to a lower DC voltage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method on a radar measuring system for determining a uniform speed, in which method two antenna pairs, each consisting of a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna, are mapped to the same position within a virtual antenna arrangement.

Abstract: A method for operating a drive train of a working machine, wherein a traction drive of the drive train is driven by an electric traction motor via a transmission and wherein, when a gear stage of the transmission is changed, a rotational speed of the traction motor is synchronised with the gear stage being engaged. The method further includes a computational model of the traction motor that is used for the rotational speed synchronisation. The model, taking into account a moment of inertia of the traction motor, describes a torque to be delivered for the rotational speed synchronisation. A corresponding drive train and a working machine is also disclosed.

Abstract: A multipoint link for an undercarriage of a vehicle, having a core element formed from a foamed material and at least one roving of bundled continuous filaments wound around the core element, the at least one roving winding around the core element in at least one layer forming an outer layer of the multipoint link. The recesses serving to guide the at least one roving to be laid by winding are incorporated in the surface of the core element.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a terminal apparatus for connecting at least one electrical or electronica component for an electrical or electronic module includes bending a pre-machined sheet metal element, having a first electric terminal device for connecting to a first electrical potential, a control terminal having at least one control contact, and a second electric terminal device arranged between the first electric terminal device and the control terminal for connecting to a second electrical potential, wherein the second electric terminal device has a path section including a first path for contact-connection with a terminal for the second electrical potential of the electrical or electronic component, and at least one second path arranged in parallel with the first path, and wherein a first bending section of the first path is bent into a lower plane than a second bending section of the second path in order to form the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: A power module for a current converter for an electric drive of a motor vehicle comprises a termination substrate having electrical contact portions that are electrically isolated from one another, a plurality of power semiconductor elements arranged on the termination substrate, each having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, the first terminals of all the power semiconductor elements being electrically connected to a first contact portion of the termination substrate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a terminal apparatus for connecting a component for an electrical module includes bending a pre-machined sheet metal element, having a first electric terminal device for connecting to a first potential, a control terminal having a control contact, and a second electric terminal device arranged between the first electric terminal device and the control terminal and separated from the first electric terminal device by a gap, and for connecting to a second electrical potential, further having a path section including a first path for contact-connection with a terminal for the second electrical potential of the component, and a second path arranged in parallel with the first, and wherein an edge region of the sheet metal is bent such that the first electric terminal device and the path section are brought together such that the first electric terminal device and the path section overlap.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement with a data processing device and a second vehicle (103), which comprises at least one radar sensor (107). The data processing device is designed to recognize at least one radar reflector (105) which is attached to a first vehicle (101), in a signal of the at least one radar sensor (107). The data processing device is designed to locate the at least one radar reflector (105) by means of the signal.

Abstract: A device for detecting airborne sound for use in automobiles may include an acoustic sensor, a protective screen for protecting the device against the ingress of coarse foreign matter, an acoustically permeable, hydrophobic and/or lipophobic first membrane, which is placed behind the protective screen in the airflow direction such that when a stream of water enters the opening, the water flows past the first membrane and out of the opening, a sound chamber parallel to the axial axis, wherein a length of the sound chamber is less than 10 mm, preferably less than 6 mm, particularly preferably less than 3 mm, and a printed circuit board comprising components and their connections for preprocessing analog or digital signals from the acoustic sensor, and wherein the acoustic sensor is located on one side of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Gearwheel for structure-borne sound reduction in electric drives, having a toothed ring and a wheel hub, which has a structured annular or corrugated web between a shaft seat and the toothed ring. The web has a structure designed with deviations from uniform stiffness and mass distribution about an axis of rotation of the gearwheel, and has an axial symmetry to avoid imbalance. The gearwheel has a two-fold, four-fold, six-fold or eight-fold cyclic axial symmetry.

Abstract: Saturation of a secondary system pressure circuit (18) of a hydraulic system (4) of a motor vehicle transmission is earlier, in that an excess amount of oil from a primary system pressure circuit (16) of the hydraulic system (4) is not directed to a suction charging (40), but rather into the secondary system pressure circuit (18). This can take place via a system pressure valve (9) for the primary system pressure circuit (16), which is configured for this function.

Abstract: A transducer magnet assembly (1) on a shifting rail (9) having a transducer magnet (4) which is held by a magnet support (3), and a coupling ring (2). The coupling ring (2) surrounds the shifting rail (9) and the magnet support (3) locks the coupling ring (2) so that the coupling ring (2) is held onto the shifting rail (9).

Abstract: A single-phase module of an inverter of an electric drive system of an at least partially electrically powered vehicle is disclosed, comprising a baseplate, at least two semiconductor packages comprising half-bridges which are arranged on the baseplate and are directly fastened thereto, conductor rails configured in a stacked arrangement on the half-bridges and electrically contact-connected with associated power terminals, comprising a DC-positive conductor rail, a DC-negative conductor rail and an AC conductor rail, wherein the conductor rails, at least in regions at which they are to be electrically insulated from other components, are enclosed in an electrically non-conductive cladding, and wherein components are configured such that each of the latter, in regions at which, upon assembly, they are to be positioned in relation to other components, comprise at least one positioning geometry for positioning, which engages with a corresponding mating structure provided in the other components.

Abstract: An electric-motor-driven rigid axle for vehicles. The axle has a body with wheel carriers and points for attachment to a vehicle frame such that, in a cross-section, an upper end of the body faces the frame and a body axis forms a vertical axis extending toward the upper end and intersecting the wheel axis. The axle has electric motors and offset transmissions. The motors drive respective carriers. The transmissions are respectively interposed between the associated motor and carrier. The transmissions enable the shafts of the respective motors to be offset from the wheel axis. The transmissions are arranged such that, in the cross-sectional view, the motor shafts and the wheel axis form intersection points on an offset line which is at an angle of between 1 and 90 degrees to the vertical axis and the vertex is at an intersection point between the wheel axis and the offset line.