Abstract: A component with inner teeth (3) and outer teeth (6). The component (7) comprising a basic body (2) provided with the inner teeth (3) and a sheet component (5) provided with the outer teeth (6). The sheet component (5) is connected to the basic body (2), during the manufacturing process, by positive interlock in both the tangential and radial directions.

Abstract: A MEMS component includes a chip that has a rear side having a low roughness of less than one tenth of the wavelength at the center frequency of an acoustic wave propagating in the component. Metallic structures for scattering bulk acoustic waves are provided on the rear side of the chip and a material of the metallic structures is acoustically matched to a material of the chip.

Abstract: A carrier substrate has a mounting location with a number of electrical connection pads on a top side and external contacts connected thereto on an underside. A metal frame encloses the connection pads of the mounting location. A MEMS chip has electrical contacts on an underside. The MEMS chip is placed on the mounting location of the carrier substrate in such a way that the MEMS chip is seated with an edge region of its underside on the metal frame. Using a flip-chip process, the electrical contacts of the MEMS chip are connected to the connection pads of the carrier substrate by means of bumps the metal frame is connected to the MEMS chip such that a closed cavity is formed between MEMS chip and carrier substrate.

Abstract: A stable electrical component includes a carrier substrate and a chip (2) mounted thereon. The component has a reactance element and a supporting element, which are at least partly arranged between the carrier substrate and the chip. The reactance element is at least partly realized by means of at least one conductor track. The reactance element includes a coil, a capacitor or a transmission line.

Abstract: A magnetic field array for measuring spatial components of a magnetic field is proposed, in which with at least one magnetic field sensor utilizing the XMR effect in a magnetoresistive film structure, a further component, perpendicular or nonparallel to the film structure of the magnetic field to be detected, is detectable in that at least one flux concentrator is disposed above the film structure in such a way that the magnetic field lines in the peripheral regions of the flux concentrator are deflectable in such a way that there, the field lines embody a horizontal component of the magnetic field.

Abstract: The electrical and mechanical connection between a component chip and a carrier substrate having electrical wiring is realized by means of bumps. A support frame that is adapted in its height to the height of the bumps is arranged between the carrier substrate and the component chip and has a planar or planarized surface, so that it contacts closely to the bottom side of the component chip. Different covers are proposed for the additional encapsulation.

Abstract: A retaining member for holding and supporting an elongated element from a support includes a base portion and a holding portion. The base portion is attachable to the support. The holding portion is connected to the base portion and has a recess for holding the elongated element therein. The recess includes a tubular portion and a plurality of spaced ribs extending radially inwardly from the tubular portion to have different radial heights.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sensor array for evaluating the signals of a magnetically sensitive sensor, in which the changes in the magnetic field caused by a moved transmitting element (10) are evaluated by forming the difference. The transmitting element (10) is fitted with a plurality of magnetic poles (14, 16). A soft magnetic collecting element (18, 20) is provided which taps the magnetic field of at least two magnetic poles (14, 16) of the same kind and feeds said magnetic field to the sensor element (22).

Abstract: The invention relates to a tensioner assembly for a traction medium drive, specifically a chain drive, with at least two traction medium wheels and a flexible traction medium, comprising a tensioning rail which can be pressed against the traction medium by means of a tensioning device, wherein the tensioning rail is applied against at least one sliding guide and can be displaced along the at least one sliding guide by means of the tensioning device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tensioning rail for a chain drive, in particular a timing chain drive of an internal combustion engine, comprising a base body (11) and a pressure body (1) connected to the base body which provides a pressing area (2) for pressing a chain tensioner, wherein a pressing surface (4) of the pressure body (1) which faces the chain tensioner during use is formed with a channel device (5). The invention also relates to a tensioning device for an endless drive element, in particular a timing chain of an internal combustion engine, comprising a tensioning rail which can be pushed on the endless drive element having a base body (11) and a pressure body (1) which can be connected to the base body (11) and which provides a pressing area, and having a chain tensioner which presses on the pressing area (2) of the pressure body (1).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tensioning device for an endless drive element, in particular a timing chain of an internal combustion engine, comprising a tensioning rail which is adapted to be operatively connected to the endless drive element, and a tensioning piston which is supported in a housing in an axially displaceable manner and which presses against the tensioning rail, wherein an end face of said tensioning piston is adapted to be connected to a cap element extending beyond the tensioning piston and forming a pressure face which is in engagement with the tensioning rail.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor system (1) is provided that contains sensor elements (5, 6) that are sensitive to magnetic fields, the electrical properties of said sensor elements being modifiable according to a magnetic field that can be influenced by a mobile, passive transmitter element (8). The magnetic sensor system (1) includes two sensor elements (5, 6) in a gradiometer system, each of which is assigned to one of two permanent magnets (2, 3) having a predetermined separation. In terms of their dimensions, separation and position relative to the sensor elements (5, 6), the permanent magnets (2, 3) are located such that the offset of the output signal of the sensor elements (5, 6) is minimized in the gradiometer system.

Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) component includes a panel, a chip having an underside containing active component structures, where the chip is mounted on the panel via bumps, a frame structure on the panel and enclosing an installation site of the chip, and a jet-printed structure closing a seam between frame structure and chip. The jet-printed structure has an upper edge that is above a lower edge of the chip.

Abstract: A decoupling device for the bearing arrangement of a shaft carried in a housing, in particular a shaft of a belt-driven conical-pulley transmission with a chain that functions as the belt. The decoupling device includes an outer bearing ring configured with a circularly cylindrical outer surface and within which the shaft is mounted, and an inner surface of a housing that encloses the bearing ring outer surface. At least one radial ondular washer is arranged between the bearing ring outer surface and the housing inner surface, which allows a limited relative radial movement between the housing inner surface and the bearing ring outer surface by elastic deformation of the washer.

Abstract: The electrical and mechanical connection between a component chip and a carrier substrate having electrical wiring is realized by means of bumps. A support frame that is adapted in its height to the height of the bumps is arranged between the carrier substrate and the component chip and has a planar or planarized surface, so that it contacts closely to the bottom side of the component chip. Different covers are proposed for the additional encapsulation.

Abstract: In a metal/glass base or feedthrough of an ignition device for personal safety systems in motor vehicles, including a ring manufactured from a metal material, having at least one insulating body provided in a ring opening of the ring and tightly sealing said opening, and including at least one pin forming an electrical conductor and leading tightly sealed through the insulating body and electrically insulated from the ring, the ring is manufactured from a metal material by means of cold forming.

Abstract: A decoupling device for the bearing arrangement of a shaft carried in a housing, in particular a shaft of a belt-driven conical-pulley transmission with a chain that functions as the belt. The decoupling device includes an outer bearing ring configured with a circularly cylindrical outer surface and within which the shaft is mounted, and an inner surface of a housing that encloses the bearing ring outer surface. At least one radial ondular washer is arranged between the bearing ring outer surface and the housing inner surface, which allows a limited relative radial movement between the housing inner surface and the bearing ring outer surface by elastic deformation of the washer.

Abstract: A method for cultivating tendon cells from non-embryonic pluripotent cells of mesenchymal origin is described, wherein the isolated cells are cultivated in a culture medium under standard culture conditions in a culture vessel. In order to increase the collagen secretion, it is proposed that before their complete confluence, the cells are on the one hand further cultivated in a culture medium mixed with ascorbic acid and/or ascorbic acid-2-phosphate in a concentration of 25 to 75 ?g/ml and on the other hand, subjected to hyperosmolar treatment in a culture medium whose osmolarity is adjusted to 350 to 500 mosmol/l.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor arrangement (1), having magnetically sensitive sensor elements (7, 8) whose electrical properties are changeable as a function of a magnetic field that a moving, passive transmitter element (11) is able to influence. The magnetic sensor arrangement (1) has two sensor elements (7, 8) in a gradiometer arrangement that are each respectively associated with one of two magnetic regions (4, 5) of a permanent magnet embodied in the form of a gap magnet (2; 20; 23), which regions are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance (sa). The regions (4, 5) and the gap magnet (2; 20; 23)—in terms of the for example wedge-shaped embodiment, the dimensions (h, b, t), the gap width (sa), the gap depth (st), and their positions in relation to the sensor elements (7, 8)—are situated so as to minimize the offset of the output signal of the sensor elements (7, 8) in the gradiometer arrangement.

Abstract: A commutator machine and a sliding body holder for electrically contacting a rotor has at least one sliding body and a leaf spring which centrally supports the sliding body and is fixed on its end to a carrier which is stationary relative to the rotor and which generates a radially oriented contact-pressure force at the sliding body for pressing the sliding body against the rotor. To attain good noise decoupling of the sliding body with regard to the carrier, the geometry of the leaf spring is designed such that the sliding body and the carrier are largely vibrationally decoupled from one another.