Abstract: The invention relates to a system for protecting an electrical source or an electrical load, having a module comprising an input and an output, and an electronic safety device for the load that can be connected to the source. The module also comprises a voltage monitoring unit, a current monitoring unit, and semiconductor switching units and controllers associated therewith. According to the invention, in order to selectively apply the protection to the source or the protection to the load, a unit for electrical mirroring on the circuit side is provided so that in the event of source protection, the current monitoring unit is applied at the input end and the voltage monitoring unit is applied at the output end, and in the event of load protection, the voltage monitoring unit is applied at the input end and the current monitoring unit is applied at the output end.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor-adjustable steering column may be employed by a motor vehicle with an actuating unit supported by a supporting unit. A steering spindle may be rotatably supported in the actuating unit. The actuating unit may be adjustable relative to the supporting unit by means of at least one adjustment drive. The adjustment drive is controlled by a control unit, and the adjustment speed caused by the adjustment drive is determined based on measurement data of a sensor. The control unit controls the adjustment drive in a control loop based on a control deviation between a specifiable speed profile and the determined adjustment speed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating and utilizing three-dimensional terrain maps for vehicular control. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A substrate having a surface coated with a piezoelectric coating I, the coating including A-xMexN, wherein A is at least one of B, Al, Ga, In, Tl, and Me is at least one metallic element Me from the transition metal groups 3b, 4b, 5b 6b the lanthanides, and Mg the coating I having a thickness d, and further including a transition layer wherein the ratio of atomic percentage of Me to atomic percentage of Al steadily rises along a thickness extent ?3 of said coating for which there is valid: ?3?d.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure for a container with a base element (100), a flip-top lid (200) attached to said base element (100) by a hinge (150) such that the flip-top lid (200) can be moved between an opened and a closed position, and with a tamper evident unit (400) for indicating whether the flip-top lid (200) had been opened at least once by a user or not. Said tamper evident unit (400) comprising a first tamper evident element (420) and a second tamper evident element (440), which are, when said closure is in its as-manufactured status or when said flip-top lid (200) has not been opened yet by the user, connected to each other by at least one frangible bridge (430).

Abstract: A medical device includes a device frame, including a proximal portion and a distal portion and configured to selectively transition between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The medical device also includes at least one cover, wherein at least one cover is coupled to at least one of the proximal and distal portions.

Abstract: A distributed acoustic system (DAS) may include an interrogator that includes two or more lasers, a pulser module disposed after and connected to each of the two or more lasers, a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM), wherein each of the pulser modules are connected to the WDM as inputs, and a downhole fiber attached to the WDM as an output and wherein the downhole fiber includes at least one sensing fiber. A method for increasing a sampling frequency may include identifying a length of a downhole fiber connected to an interrogator, generating and launching a light pulse from each of the two or more lasers the pulser module, and delaying an output from the pulser module into the downhole fiber by k N seconds, where k is a pulse repetition interval of the pulser module and N is equal to the two or more lasers.

Abstract: The invention concerns a circuit for transferring a data from one clock domain to another clock domain, the circuit comprising: a digital circuit configured to generate a data signal synchronized with a source clock signal, and to receive such data by sampling the data signal synchronized with a target clock signal; a phase comparator which is configured to determine a phase relationship between the source clock signal and the target clock signal; and a data signal synchronization circuit configured to receive data signal transitions that are synchronized with the source clock signal, and to provide a synchronized data signal transitions of which are synchronized with the target clock signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an acoustically and thermally effective engine and/or aggregate capsule which completely encloses the engine and/or aggregate.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to stabilizer compositions comprising at least one oxalanilide UV absorber, at least one hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS), at least one phenolic antioxidant and optionally further components. Said stabilizer compositions are preferably used in sealants or adhesives based on silyl-modified polymers (SMP). The invention is also directed to a polymer composition based on silyl-modified polymers (SMP) comprising the inventive stabilizer combination of oxalanilide UV absorber, hindered amine light stabilizer (HAL S) and phenolic antioxidant.

Abstract: The invention relates to various aspects of a ?-LED or a ?-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The ?-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few ?m.

Abstract: The invention concerns a mirror (14), in particular for a photovoltaic cell (10), comprising a stack of layers (SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4, SC5, SC6), the layers (SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4, SC5, SC6) being superimposed along a stacking direction, the stack comprising: a first layer (SC1) of transparent conductive oxide, a second optical reflection layer (SC4) of metal, and a third layer (SC6) of conductive oxide.

Abstract: A cooling and retaining pin (1) for cooling, by air blowing, and retaining, by air suction, a plastic preform, the pin comprising a body (2), defining a longitudinal axis and having a first opening (5) at a first end thereof, coaxial to said longitudinal axis and adapted to be connected to a handling station; a movable element (3) adapted to slide at least partially inside said body; at least one air passage gap provided at a second end of the body or at said first end; wherein the movable element (3) is adapted to move from a first position, to which a first air passage section corresponds, to a second position, to which a second air passage section corresponds, which is smaller than said first section, so as to adjust a blowing air flow during the cooling step and a suction air flow during the step of retaining the preform.

Abstract: A sensor assembly for equipment for aiding the traceability of agri-food products includes: a casing having a first face, configured to be coupled to a planar structure, and a second face; a weighing device responding to a load on the second face of the casing, an inclinometer, and an accelerometer configured to supply an acceleration signal indicative of accelerations along an axis perpendicular to the first face of the container. A processing unit detects a measured weight bearing on the weighing device based on load signals supplied by the weighing device, on an inclination signal supplied by the inclinometer and on the acceleration signal supplied by the accelerometer.

Abstract: An electronic circuit for converting a signal between digital and analog in a burst mode, including a processor configured to utilize a synchronizing clock signal, a converter configured to convert a signal data between digital and analog using a converter clock signal, a phase comparator configured to determine a phase relationship between the synchronizing clock signal and the converter clock signal, and a digital signal processor coupled to the phase comparator and configured to receive an information about the phase relationship, wherein the digital signal processor is configured to apply a delay to the signal data being exchanged between the processor and. The synchronizing clock signal and the converter clock signal have a predetermined frequency relationship.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic power brake system for a motor vehicle traveling autonomously. An auxiliary brake unit is connected to a service brake unit in such a manner, that in the event of failure of the service brake unit, the vehicle brake system may be operated by the auxiliary brake unit. In order to be able to build up a brake pressure rapidly, using the auxiliary brake unit, in the case of cold and viscous brake fluid, as well, check valves, via which hydraulic pumps of the auxiliary brake unit are connected to a brake fluid reservoir of the service brake unit, are provided in the service brake unit.

Abstract: Provided are approaches for providing multiple user accounts in a same transaction card assembly. The transaction card assembly may include a first card including a first card first side opposite a first card second side, the first card first side including a first pair of magnetic stripes and the first card second side including a first pair of identification chips. The transaction card assembly may further include a second card coupled to the first card, the second card including a second card first side opposite a second card second side, the second card first side including a second pair of magnetic stripes, and the second card second side including a second pair of identification chips. The first and second cards are slidable relative to one another between multiple positions to selectively expose and cover each identification chip of the first and second pairs of identification chips.

Abstract: A system and method for transposing markers added to a first ultrasound imaging mode dataset to a second ultrasound imaging mode dataset is provided. The method includes acquiring a first ultrasound image dataset according to a first mode. The method includes processing the first ultrasound image dataset according to the first mode to generate a first mode image. The method includes causing a display system to present the first mode image. The method includes adding at least one marker to the first mode image in response to a user input. The method includes receiving a selection to switch to a second mode. The method includes causing the display system to present a second mode image having the at least one marker added to the first mode image.

Abstract: A method of examining a fuel cell by means of a cyclic voltammetry analysis, wherein the cyclic voltammetry analysis is used to ascertain a gas composition in the fuel cell. The fuel cell has a first gas space for a first reactant and a second gas space for a second reactant, where no reactant is supplied at least to one of the two gas spaces, especially to either gas space, during the cyclic voltammetry analysis. The cyclic voltammetry analysis is used to ascertain a concentration of hydrogen in the gas spaces.

Abstract: A catalyst article is provided including a substrate including a plurality of passageways, and further including a first and a second oxidation region including a first and a second subset of said plurality of passageways. A first catalyst composition is coating at least a portion of each passageway of the first oxidation region and positioned as a sole PGM-containing catalyst layer, or a zoned portion thereof, or as a top PGM-containing catalyst layer, or a zoned portion thereof, in the first oxidation region. A second catalyst composition is coating at least a portion of each passageway of the second oxidation region and positioned as a sole PGM-containing catalyst layer, or a zoned portion thereof, or as a top PGM-containing catalyst layer, or a zoned portion thereof, in the second oxidation region. The Pt:Pd weight ratio is greater in the first catalyst composition than in the second catalyst composition.