Abstract: An actuating apparatus for a flap which is mounted on a component for movement has a first actuating element, fastenable fixedly to the flap so as to rotate with it, and a second actuating element, fastenable to the component, and rotatable about a first rotational axis, the second actuating element has a first end and a second end, the first end configured to interact with a drive, the second end has a first locking or release geometry, the first actuating element has a second locking or release geometry, the second actuating element can be rotated between a first orientation and a second orientation, wherein the first and second locking or release geometry are configured to interact such that, in the first orientation, the first actuating element is locked to the second actuating element and, in the second orientation, the first actuating element is released from the second actuating element.

Abstract: A beading tool for working retaining arms of pieces of jewelry comprises a cylindrical shank and a head. In this case, the head comprises a cylindrical portion and a transition portion. The shank and the head are arranged along a shared central axis. In this case, the external diameter of the shank is greater than the external diameter of the cylindrical portion. Furthermore, the cylindrical portion is arranged on a first end of the beading tool, wherein the transition portion is arranged between the cylindrical portion and the shank. The head comprises an indentation on its front face on the first end.

Abstract: A system, comprising: a processing circuitry that is configured to: receive a signal S1 and a signal S2, the signal S1 being generated by a first receiving coil in response to a first magnetic field, the signal S2 being generated by a second receiving coil in response to the first magnetic field, receive a signal S3 and a signal S4, the signal S3 being generated by a third receiving coil in response to a second magnetic field, the signal S4 being generated by a fourth receiving coil in response to the second magnetic field; calculate a first electrical angle based on signals S1 and S2; calculate a second electrical angle based on signals S3 and S4; and generate an output signal based on the first and second electrical angles.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing structured data of an additive manufacturing process includes providing a first type of data (i) with coded information about a machine set up and/or about a prepared build job, providing a second type of data (ii) with coded information about a build area, providing a third type of data (iii) with coded information about a quality monitoring during the manufacturing process, the information from each type of data being different from one another, and mapping the first, the second and the third type of data to a voxel field (Vn). Each voxel of the field, representing a three-dimensional portion of a 3D-model of the component to be manufactured, is correlated to the first, second and third type of data in a coded way. A related data structure product, apparatus, communication apparatus, and additive manufacturing device are provided.

Abstract: A method by a node (101), for handling signals. The node (101) operates in a wireless communications network (100). The node (101) determines (502) a distribution of one or more wireless devices (130) served by the node (101) into a plurality of groups. The determining (502) is based on a division of resources available to the node (101) into a corresponding plurality of groups. The resources comprise at least one of: code resources, frequency resources and time resources. The determined plurality of groups determines a corresponding plurality of sets of one or more signals to wake-up the one or more wireless devices (130), to be respectively monitored by the one or more wireless devices (130). The node (101) then initiates (504) transmitting the corresponding plurality of sets of one or more signals to wake-up the one or more wireless devices (130), based on the determined distribution to at least one of the wireless devices (130).

Abstract: A stator arrangement for an electric machine includes a stator comprising a stator core on which a stator winding has been arranged. The arrangement also includes an interconnection module for electrically interconnecting winding wire ends of the stator winding. The interconnection module is positioned on the stator on the end side. The interconnection module comprises integral electrical terminal conductors which are embedded at least partially in a body including an electrically insulating material. The terminal conductors each form a terminal contact to which an external power supply and/or control of the stator arrangement can be connected and a winding contact which is electrically conductively connected to a winding wire end.

Abstract: A new catalyst hydroisomerizes C18 paraffins from fatty acids to a high degree to produce a composition with acceptable freeze point which retains 18 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon molecule for jet fuel. We have discovered a fuel composition comprising at least 14 wt % hydrocarbon molecules having at least 18 carbon atoms and a freeze point not higher than ?40° C. The composition also may exhibit a exhibiting a final boiling point of no more than 300° C. The hydroisomerization process can be once through or a portion of the product diesel stream may be selectively hydrocracked or recycled to hydroisomerization to obtain a fuel composition that meets jet fuel specifications.

Abstract: System for interconnecting a urea-based reducing agent injector to an exhaust gas post-treatment device including an injector, a flange arranged to couple the injector to an exhaust gas line, a gasket arranged between the injector and the flange, wherein the gasket is a sandwich, formed by two external layers and an intermediate layer formed by insulating material.

Abstract: A method and a system for subdividing, distributing and storing data associated with a subject in a plurality of distributed memories of a telecommunications network. The system includes a telecommunications network that includes a plurality of network nodes with decentralized architecture. At least one server component connected to the telecommunications network includes a plurality of fragment storage nodes connected to the telecommunications network. Each fragment storage node includes at least one respective non-volatile memory configured to store at least part of a plurality of portions of the data.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic control device for an adjustable hydraulic pump system includes a valve device, an electronic control unit and a first fluid sensor. The valve device includes a pressure inlet, a tank outlet and a first electromagnetically actuated valve. An outlet pressure of the first adjustable hydraulic pump system is applied to the pressure inlet. The first fluid sensor detects an actual value of a fluid parameter of the first adjustable hydraulic pump system and transmits it to the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit includes computer-based modeling of the dynamics of the first adjustable hydraulic pump system, and actuates the first electromagnetically actuated valve based on the actual value of the fluid parameter and the computer-based modeling.

Abstract: A container treatment system for producing and treating preforms, wherein the container treatment system comprises a production machine for producing preforms, at least one container treatment machine arranged downstream of the production machine in a transport direction of the preforms, and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to control a flow of preforms in the container treatment system based on a component of the container treatment system being down.

Abstract: An acoustic component is provided with a flow channel for a fluid. The flow channel has an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. A flow channel section is arranged between the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe, wherein the flow channel section has a silencer volume connected in the flow channel section via openings to the flow channel. A flow deflection device is arranged at least in the flow channel section with the silencer volume, wherein the flow deflection device deflects a flow of the fluid in the flow channel section with the silencer volume away from the openings. The openings in the flow channel section are arranged in a sheltered zone of the flow deflection device.

Abstract: A method for monitoring an energy store in a motor vehicle, wherein the energy store supplies at least one, in particular safety-relevant, consumer, preferably for an automated driving function. In the method, at least one characteristic variable of the energy store is predicted. At least one measured variable of the energy store is recorded and at least one state variable of the energy store is ascertained as a function of at least the measured variable. The characteristic variable is predicted using a variable that has been stored in advance as a function of at least one state variable and that represents an influence of a loading history of the energy store on the characteristic variable. The variable is selected as a function of the state variable.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for position control of an object under investigation before acquiring a projective X-ray image of a region of interest, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving object information of the object under investigation in an examination pose; retrieving an object model relating to the examination pose and the region of interest; adapting the object model to the object under investigation based on the object information; and evaluating the examination pose based on the adapted object model.

Abstract: A method of detecting a stimulus can include detecting an output from a radio frequency identification tag including a sensor. A smartphone-based sensing strategy can use chemiresponsive nanomaterials integrated into the circuitry of commercial Near Field Communication tags to achieve non-line-of-sight, portable, and inexpensive detection and discrimination of gas phase chemicals (e.g., ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, cyclohexanone, and water) at part-per-thousand and part-per-million concentrations.

Abstract: A bone plate includes a bone-contacting surface, an upper surface opposite the bone-contacting surface, and a hole having a circumference and extending from the upper surface to the bone-contacting surface. The hole includes a first portion having a plurality of substantially parallel lips, each lip extends around the circumference of the hole and defines a diameter of the hole. The diameters of the hole, as defined by the lips, decrease in a direction from the upper surface to a center of the hole and increase in a direction from the center of the hole toward the bone-contacting surface.

Abstract: A valve may have a valve body having a lateral wall, a passage opening and a vertical filling opening and a vertical inflow opening. The passage opening may extend from the vertical filling opening to the vertical inflow opening. In a filling position of the valve, the passage opening may be closed from the lateral wall in a media-tight manner and the filling opening may be fluidically connected via the vertical passage opening to the vertical inflow opening. A pressure vessel may utilize the valve.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for generating a digital access element, a corresponding method, and a computer program.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a device for detecting the passage of an infrared, IR, radiation emitting body in a monitoring zone. The device has a first surface and a second surface mutually tilted and configured to face the monitoring zone. The device includes a first IR radiation sensor extending on the first surface and a second IR radiation sensor extending on the second surface. The first IR radiation sensor is configured to detect the IR radiation of the emitting body when the emitting body is in a first field of view of the first IR radiation sensor and the second IR radiation sensor is configured to detect the IR radiation of the emitting body when the emitting body is in a second field of view of the second IR radiation sensor. The first and the second fields of views are configured to be partially superimposed on each other at the monitoring zone.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a method of dry developing a metal-oxide photoresist. In an embodiment, a method of patterning a metal-oxide photoresist, such as a Sn-based photoresist, includes depositing the metal-oxide photoresist over a substrate, exposing the metal-oxide photoresist with an extreme ultra-violet (EUV) exposure to form exposed regions and non-exposed regions, and developing the exposed metal-oxide photoresist using an electron-donor ligand-based dry etch process.