Abstract: Light is projected from a light source in a first direction towards a tooth. The light source generates at least infrared light in the wavelength range of 950 nm to 2500 nm. A colloidal quantum dot (CQD) sensor records one or more surface light distribution images produced at the surface of the tooth by the projected light and the one or more surface light distribution images are used to compute a defect condition of the tooth.

Abstract: A vehicle having an active chassis system with curve tilting function, comprises a control unit, which when negotiating a curve determines a vehicle tilting angle on the basis of a current vehicle transverse acceleration or a correlated driving operation parameter, by which the vehicle transverse acceleration can be reduced, wherein the control unit uses the vehicle tilting angle so determined to trigger actuators of a suspension/shock absorbing system in order to adjust the vehicle tilting angle. The curve tilting function incorporates a prediction unit which provides the curve negotiation data for an upcoming curve. The vehicle tilting angle is set in consideration of the curve negotiation data.

Abstract: An ultrasonic tool including a first end face and a second end face opposite the first end face. A tool lateral surface connects the first and second end face. The ultrasonic tool is elongate in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is designed as a connection contact surface that is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connection component, wherein the ultrasonic tool has an end region having the connection contact surface, which end region extends from the connection contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most one third of a length of the ultrasonic tool, toward the opposite end face, and wherein a pocket-shaped and/or blind-hole-like recess having a recess lateral surface and having a recess floor facing the connection contact surface is formed at the tool lateral surface in the end region.

Abstract: A device for heating and determining the actual temperature of a bonding tool of an ultrasonic bonder, comprising the bending tool, which has a first end face, a second end face, a lateral surface, which connects the first end face to the second end face, and an absorption region, comprising a temperature measuring unit for determining an actual temperature of the bonding tool at a temperature measuring point, which is provided on the lateral surface of the bonding tool and preferably at a tip of the bonding tool, and comprising a laser generator, a laser beam being provided with the aid of the laser generator, and the laser beam striking the bonding tool in the absorption region, and the bonding tool being heated as a result of the absorption of the laser beam.

Abstract: An ultrasonic tool comprising a first end face and a second end face, which is opposite the first end face, as well as a tool cover surface connecting the first end face and the second end face, wherein the ultrasonic tool is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is formed as a connecting contact surface, which is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connecting component, and wherein the ultrasonic tool comprises an end region comprising the connecting contact surface, which extends from the connecting contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most extends one third of the length of the ultrasonic tool in the direction of the opposite end face, and wherein in the end region, a first partial surface of the tool cover surface is formed as a surface-structured absorption surface.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle includes minting a non-fungible token (NFT), which links an identifier for a first, in particular prominent, user with an identifier for the motor vehicle, and with data for describing a setting made by or for the first user, as well as the later reading of the data describing the settings made from the NFT based on the identifier for the motor vehicle, and the setting is restored for use by a second user on the same motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method for operating a chassis of a motor vehicle according to the principle of a skyhook control, the chassis having at least one adjustable damper according to which body movements of the motor vehicle body resulting from road bumps are damped using the skyhook damping value (dsky). When driving over a road bump, a classification is made as to whether a critical body movement of the motor vehicle body is to be expected, and that in case of a classification as a critical body movement, the critical classified body movement is compensated for using a stored critical skyhook damping value (dsky-crit) which is greater than the skyhook damping value (dsky).

Abstract: A plug unit for connecting capillary tubes includes a plug housing that has an axial borehole, a plug capillary tube that projects through the axial borehole, and a sealing element that surrounds the plug capillary tube. The front end of the plug capillary tube is sealed by an elastic and/or plastic deformation of the sealing element against the capillary tube receptacle opening of a bushing unit. A hollow cylindrical pressure piece is provided that surrounds the sealing element in an axial region facing away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube, and the pressure piece has a rearward end side that faces away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube and that can be loaded by the plug housing with an axial pressure force when the plug unit and bushing unit are connected.

Abstract: An active chassis control for a motor vehicle with an adaptive control circuit for reducing body vibrations (Aactual) of the motor vehicle, in which a control unit is integrated, which, depending on a current body vibration (Aactual) or a parameter correlating therewith (a), controls a chassis actuator. The control unit is followed by an adaptive unit which adapts an actuating signal (S) generated by the control unit with a driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)), in particular by generating an adapted actuating signal (S?) with which the chassis actuator can be controlled. Depending on the situation, a factor allowance (?f) can be added to the driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)) in the event of a significantly greater body vibration (Ao) in order to effectively dampen the significantly greater body vibration (Ao).

Abstract: The present invention, a handheld intraoral dental 3D camera comprising: a hand-held housing which includes: an optical unit comprising: an illuminating means for producing light, and a projecting means for projecting the light produced by the illuminating means onto a region of a tooth surface of a patient; a sensing unit for sensing an image of the projected light reflected by the region, characterized in that the illuminating means comprises a semiconductor laser for producing the light; and the projection means comprises phosphor which is arranged to receive the light produced by the semiconductor laser, wherein the projection means is further adapted to project the fluorescing light from the phosphor onto the region of the tooth surface of the patient.

Abstract: An active chassis control for a motor vehicle with an adaptive control circuit for reducing body vibrations (Aactual) of the motor vehicle, in which a control unit is integrated, which, depending on a current body vibration (Aactual) or a parameter correlating therewith (a), controls a chassis actuator. The control unit is followed by an adaptive unit which adapts an actuating signal (S) generated by the control unit with a driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)), in particular by generating an adapted actuating signal (S?) with which the chassis actuator can be controlled. Depending on the situation, a factor allowance (?f) can be added to the driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)) in the event of a significantly greater body vibration (Ao) in order to effectively dampen the significantly greater body vibration (Ao).

Abstract: A method for operating a chassis of a motor vehicle according to the principle of a skyhook control, the chassis having at least one adjustable damper according to which body movements of the motor vehicle body resulting from road bumps are damped using the skyhook damping value (dsky). When driving over a road bump, a classification is made as to whether a critical body movement of the motor vehicle body is to be expected, and that in case of a classification as a critical body movement, the critical classified body movement is compensated for using a stored critical skyhook damping value (dsky-crit) which is greater than the skyhook damping value (dsky).

Abstract: A wire guide module for an ultrasonic wire bonder, comprising a body made of a thermally stable metallic and/or ceramic material, wherein an elongated wire feed-through channel having a wire inlet opening and having a wire outlet opening is provided on the body, and comprising a guide tube provided in the wire feed-through channel. In addition, the invention relates to a thermosonic wire bonder having a wire guide module.

Abstract: A vehicle having an active chassis system with curve tilting function, comprises a control unit, which when negotiating a curve determines a vehicle tilting angle on the basis of a current vehicle transverse acceleration or a correlated driving operation parameter, by which the vehicle transverse acceleration can be reduced, wherein the control unit uses the vehicle tilting angle so determined to trigger actuators of a suspension/shock absorbing system in order to adjust the vehicle tilting angle. The curve tilting function incorporates a prediction unit which provides the curve negotiation data for an upcoming curve. The vehicle tilting angle is set in consideration of the curve negotiation data.

Abstract: An ultrasonic tool including a first end face and a second end face opposite the first end face. A tool lateral surface connects the first and second end face. The ultrasonic tool is elongate in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is designed as a connection contact surface that is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connection component, wherein the ultrasonic tool has an end region having the connection contact surface, which end region extends from the connection contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most one third of a length of the ultrasonic tool, toward the opposite end face, and wherein a pocket-shaped and/or blind-hole-like recess having a recess lateral surface and having a recess floor facing the connection contact surface is formed at the tool lateral surface in the end region.

Abstract: A device for heating and determining the actual temperature of a bonding tool of an ultrasonic bonder, comprising the bending tool, which has a first end face, a second end face, a lateral surface, which connects the first end face to the second end face, and an absorption region, comprising a temperature measuring unit for determining an actual temperature of the bonding tool at a temperature measuring point, which is provided on the lateral surface of the bonding tool and preferably at a tip of the bonding tool, and comprising a laser generator, a laser beam being provided with the aid of the laser generator, and the laser beam striking the bonding tool in the absorption region, and the bonding tool being heated as a result of the absorption of the laser beam.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrically conductive connection between a contact surface of a functional component and a connection component. The connection component is pressed against the contact surface of the functional component with a normal force using a bonding tool. The bonding tool and the connection component are brought in contact with same to vibrate ultrasonically. A laser beam is generated by a laser generator and directed onto the bonding tool, and preferably onto a tip of the bonding tool, whereby the tip of the bonding tool is heated. An actual temperature of the tip is contactlessly measured and the laser generator is operated intermittently and/or with an adjustable laser output such that a predefined target temperature is adjusted at the tip of the bonding tool.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the temperature of a bonding tool during laser-assisted ultrasonic bonding, comprising an automatic bonding machine having the bonding tool, having a displacement and/or positioning module for the bonding tool and having a device for exciting the bonding tool to ultrasonically vibrate, comprising a laser generator for providing a laser beam, and comprising an optical waveguide for guiding the laser beam from the laser generator to the bonding tool, wherein the optical waveguide has a multi-part design, that a deflecting and beam-splitting unit is provided between at least two adjacent parts of the optical waveguide and that furthermore a temperature sensor is provided.

Abstract: An ultrasonic tool comprising a first end face and a second end face, which is opposite the first end face, as well as a tool cover surface connecting the first end face and the second end face, wherein the ultrasonic tool is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is formed as a connecting contact surface, which is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connecting component, and wherein the ultrasonic tool comprises an end region comprising the connecting contact surface, which extends from the connecting contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most extends one third of the length of the ultrasonic tool in the direction of the opposite end face, and wherein in the end region, a first partial surface of the tool cover surface is formed as a surface-structured absorption surface.

Abstract: A bonding arrangement comprising a bonding tool, having a tool shank which is designed to extend in a longitudinal direction of the tool, and a tool tip which connects to the tool shank. A first end side of the bonding tool is provided on the tool tip, which is designed to come into contact with a connection part. A second end side of the bonding tool is provided on the tool shank. The bonding tool has a casing surface connecting the first end side and the second end side, said bonding arrangement comprising a laser generator for providing a laser beam and comprising a light guide designed to guide the laser beam to the bonding tool. A functional recess is formed on the bonding tool on the casing side and the light guide is associated with the bonding too on the casing side from the outside and at a distance.