Abstract: A motor vehicle body includes an A-pillar panel, an outer skin body panel, which together with an edge of the A-pillar panel delimits a gap. A windshield is adjacent to a longitudinal edge of the A-pillar panel. A filler piece has a first portion which fills out the gap and a second portion which conceals a gap between the longitudinal edge of the A-pillar panel and the windshield.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of porous materials by the expansion of polymer gels and to the porous materials produced by such a method and to a moulded body.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle, and to a control device for carrying out the method and a computer program product having program code for carrying out the method. In order to improve the safety of use of the motor vehicle, it is provided that functions of the motor vehicle are enabled as a function of stored data relating to the driver.

Abstract: A method for producing a hollow valve of an internal combustion engine may include providing a hollow valve stem, a valve cone, and a valve bottom; pushing the valve cone over the valve stem via a press fit, wherein the valve cone includes an outer surface transitioning to the valve stem to define a testing surface; and welding the valve cone to the valve stem via at least one of a laser beam and an electron beam, wherein the welding occurs such that no melting of the outer surface in the region of the testing surface of the valve cone occurs.

Abstract: A method for operating a head-up display of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, in which at least one information item is presented by the head-up display and the method encompassing the following: ascertaining the gaze direction of at least one eye of a driver; checking whether the gaze of the at least one eye of the driver is directed toward the head-up display; and modifying the presentation of the head-up display, in order to improve the readability of the at least one information item, if the gaze of the at least one eye of the driver is directed toward the presentation of the head-up display.

Abstract: In a method for operating a motor vehicle which is configured to autonomously drives to a predefined travel destination, a driver's line of view is detected, and the autonomous driving operation is influenced as a function of the detected driver's line of view.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for processing a workpiece, said device including the following features: a punch on one side of the workpiece, a die on the opposite side of the workpiece, and a conductive electric heating system for generating an electric current that flows through the workpiece starting from a component situated on one side of the workpiece outside of the punch to a component situated on the opposite side of the workpiece outside of the die.

Abstract: Reactive dyes of, for example, formula (101) especially suitable for dyeing synthetic polyamide fibre materials and which yield dyeings or prints having good wet-fastness properties, and a process for their preparation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gearwheel arrangement (1) comprising a first component (3) and a second component (4), wherein the first component (3) comprises a toothing (6), the second component (4) is arranged at least partly inside the first component (3), and wherein between the first component (3) and the second component (4) at least one elastically deformable element (5) is arranged which on elastic deformation in circumferential direction (19) opposes a different resistance than in radial direction.

Abstract: In a method for detecting the face of a driver of a motor vehicle having a camera, in order to ensure that an unfavorable posture of the driver or an unfavorable position of the steering wheel or of the driver's seat of the motor vehicle does not prevent recognition of the face using the camera, provision is made that a positioning signal for the steering wheel, for the driver's seat, or for a pedal is generated if the face is not detectable in the image data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a linear brake (LBR) for attachment on a slide that can be moved along a guide rail (F), having a brake housing (1), which at least partially surrounds the guide rail (F), a force store arranged on or in the brake housing (1) and a brake piston (3), which is loaded by the force store, surrounds the guide rail (F) in a fork-like manner and is moved by the force store against the guide rail transversely to the movement direction between the slide and the guide rail (F). The brake piston presses the two clamp jaws (7), which are connected with a U-shaped transfer plate (6), against the guide rail (F) by means of piston bevels (3.2) and wedge bevels (5.1), which are arranged on both sides of the guide rail (F) and are opposite each other. The brake piston (3) is configured as a cylindrical annular piston, which is loaded on one end face by the force store (2) arranged centrally in the annular piston and has on the other end face the piston ends (3.6) with the bevel faces (3.2).

Abstract: The invention relates to a toothed wheel arrangement (1) comprising a main toothed wheel (2) and a toothed wheel (4) that can be rotated relative thereto in the circumferential direction (3), wherein the main toothed wheel (2) comprises a toothed wheel body (25) on which a hub (5) is arranged in a projecting manner in the axial direction so as, firstly, to accommodate a shaft and, secondly, to arrange the rotatable toothed wheel (4) thereon, for which purpose the rotatable toothed wheel (4) has a cutout (17) coaxial to an axially extending center axis of the main toothed wheel (2), and wherein the main toothed wheel (2) is connected to the rotatable toothed wheel (4) by means of a bayonet fastening (14). The bayonet fastening (14) is formed between the hub (5) and the rotatable toothed wheel (2) and/or between the hub (5) and a spring element (9) bearing on the rotatable toothed wheel (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a synchronizer hub (1) comprising a hub body (4) that, on the outer circumference (5) thereof, has a sleeve toothing (6) for engagement of a sliding sleeve (6a), said sleeve toothing being interrupted by at least one first axial recess (7) and by at least one second axial recess (8), wherein the first axial recess (7) has first lateral faces (14, 15) and the second axial recess (8) has second lateral faces (17, 18), and wherein the first lateral faces (14, 15) are inclined to the axial direction at a first angle (20). The second lateral faces (17, 18) of the second axial recess (8) run at a second angle (21) to the axial direction, wherein the second angle (21) is not equal to the first angle (20) of the first lateral faces (14, 15).

Abstract: The invention relates to a spur gear wheel with a gear body (4, 5) made from a sintered material, which has a circumference around which teeth (6, 7) are distributed projecting in the radial direction, and which is delimited by two end faces (8, 9, 10, 11) in the axial direction. At least one shaped element (12) in the form of a recess (13) and/or an elevation (14) and/or a compacted area is provided on at least one end face (8, 9, 10, 11) in the region of the teeth (6, 7) and/or in the radial direction underneath the teeth (6, 7).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a stator winding (18) of an electric machine (10), in particular of an alternator, the stator winding (18) comprising at least n phase windings (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) and a phase winding (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) having several directly consecutively wound coils (82) having coil sides (88) and coil side connectors (91), the coils (82) being divided into first coils (82.1) and second coils (82.2), by means of a forming tool (100), in which grooves (105, 106; 105?, 106?) suitable for accommodating the coils (82) are provided, a first coil (82.1) being arranged in one groove (105; 105?) and a second coil (82.2) being arranged in another groove (105; 105?), characterized in that n?1 grooves (105, 106; 105?, 106?) are arranged between the first coil (82.1) and the second coil (82.2).

Abstract: The present document relates to audio coding systems. In particular, the present document relates to efficient methods and systems for parametric multi-channel audio coding. An audio encoding system (500) configured to generate a bitstream (564) indicative of a downmix signal and spatial metadata for generating a multi-channel upmix signal from the downmix signal is described. The system (500) comprises a downmix processing unit (510) configured to generate the downmix signal from a multi-channel input signal (561); wherein the downmix signal comprises m channels and wherein the multi-channel input signal (561) comprises n channels; n, m being integers with m<n. Furthermore, the system (500) comprises a parameter processing unit (520) configured to determine the spatial metadata from the multi-channel input signal (561).

Abstract: A dye mixture, comprising at least one blue dyeing dye of the formula (1), wherein Q1 represents a bivalent radical of formula (4a), (4b) or (4c), wherein X1 denotes chlorine or fluorine, R1 is hydrogen or C1-C8 alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, C1-C8alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or sulfo, Y1 is vinyl or a radical —CH2—CH2—U and U is a leaving group removable under alkaline conditions, R3 is hydrogen or C1-C8alkyl that is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxy, sulfo, sulfato, cyano, carboxy, C1-C4alkoxy or phenyl, r and s are each independently of the other the number 0 or 1, and t is the number 0, 1 or 2, and the sum of r, s and t is 2 or 3 and at least one yellow or red dyeing reactive dye is suitable especially for the dichromatic or trichromatic dyeing or printing of natural or synthetic polyamide fibre materials and yield dyeings or prints having good reproducibility and good all-round fastness properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a synchronizing device between two revolving components, comprising a clutch (3) between a hub (4) arranged on a shaft (1) in a rotationally fixed manner and a coupling member (2) that is rotatably mounted in relation to the hub (4), the clutch (3) having a selector sleeve (5) with an internal claw gear (6) which extends along the axial length of the selector sleeve (5) and by means of which claw gear the selector sleeve (5) is mounted in an axially displaceable manner on a claw rim (9) of the hub (4) and can be slid up onto a claw rim (9) of the coupling member (2) for coupling purposes. In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is proposed that the hub (4) forms at least one stop (19) for the selector sleeve (5) on the front side facing away from the coupling member (2), the stop (19) protruding radially over the claw rim (7) and the selector sleeve (5) receiving the stop (19) in a frontal stop recess (20).