Abstract: A fluid damper for modulating a retaining force of a seat belt is provided. The fluid damper includes an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder. The inner cylinder encloses an inner space. The fluid damper includes a piston shiftable in the inner space. The fluid damper includes a duct. The duct conductively connects a front fluid chamber disposed in front of the piston to a rear fluid chamber disposed behind the piston and/or a reservoir for the damping fluid. The duct includes an outer duct portion and an inner duct portion. The inner cylinder is deflectable from a rest position by a force acting on the piston so that the deflection of the inner cylinder causes an adjustment of an overlap of the outer duct portion and the inner duct portion depending on the magnitude of the force.

Abstract: An electric vehicle with at least one brake system and an axle and a method to operate the electric vehicle. The at least one brake system is arranged at the axle and includes a wet service brake, a parking brake, and an actuator. The actuator is adjustable and can communicate with a service brake in a service brake region or with the parking brake in a securing region to generate a braking action at the axle in each instance. A neutral region in which the actuator communicates neither with the service brake nor with the parking brake is located between the service brake region and the securing region. A plurality of brake systems are advantageously used jointly in the various configurations.

Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.

Abstract: A semiconductor module arrangement includes a substrate including a dielectric insulation layer and a first metallization layer arranged on a surface of the dielectric insulation layer, wherein the first metallization layer comprises a first section, a second section, and a third section, and a first semiconductor body and an identical second semiconductor body arranged on the first metallization layer, wherein each of the first semiconductor body and the second semiconductor body has a first contact pad, a second contact pad, and a third contact pad arranged on a top side of the respective semiconductor body that faces away from the substrate, wherein the third contact pad of the first semiconductor body is electrically coupled to the third section of the first metallization layer by means of a first electrical connection element, the third contact pad of the second semiconductor body is electrically coupled to the third section of the first metallization layer by means of a second electrical connection elem

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a silicon layer having an electrically insulated backside and a thickness in a range of 10 ?m to 200 ?m between a frontside of the silicon layer and the electrically insulated backside; a high voltage region and a low voltage region formed in the silicon layer and laterally spaced apart from one another; and a first field plate structure extending from the frontside into the silicon layer. The first field plate structure includes a field plate laterally separated from the silicon layer by a dielectric material and/or a pn junction.

Abstract: An electronic device including a master device, the master device including an interface component to a slave device. The interface component includes a sampling circuit having a clock input, a transmit clock generator configured to generate a transmit clock, a first off-chip driver configured to receive the transmit clock and provide the transmit clock to the slave device, a second off-chip driver configured to receive the transmit clock and configured to supply the transmit clock to the clock input of the sampling circuit of the interface component and a data input configured to receive data from the slave device. The sampling circuit is configured to sample the received data in accordance with the transmit clock supplied by the second off-chip driver.

Abstract: A construction machine uses a controller configured to determine a cross-sectional profile of a design surface at a selected position and orientation of a milling drum of the construction machine. The controller automatically determines a preferred sensor sub-set from a plurality of possible sensor sub-sets selected from a set of available sensors. The preferred sensor sub-set must be usable to create at least a portion of the cross-sectional profile of the design surface. The controller automatically maintains or switches control of the milling depth to use the preferred sensor sub-set.

Abstract: An inclination compensating device for a carriage of a conveyor device for the horizontal transport of conveyed material, wherein a drive element is driven via the pivot drive, which drive element is fastened to an end of a pivot lever extending away from the inclination compensating element, which end is opposite the inclination compensating element, and which drive element has a drive axis arranged parallel or perpendicular to the pivot axis, wherein the drive element rolls on at least one guide, in particular extending equidistantly to the pivot axis, in particular in a force-locking or form-locking manner, which guide is mounted or formed on the holding frame.

Abstract: The present invention is related to agents capable of binding to and inhibiting or antagonizing the action of IL-11 and/or IL-11RA for the treatment and/or prevention of abnormal uterine bleeding, which comprises heavy menstrual bleeding, prolonged bleeding, altered bleeding pattern, dysmenorrhea, as well as of the underlying diseases leiomyoma and endometriosis and the use of the agent to inhibit menstruation. Furthermore, the invention provides novel IL-11 antibodies.

Abstract: A power semiconductor arrangement has a switching facility, a housing, having a load connection facility for connecting in an electrically conductive manner to an external supply line and having a first plug-in connecting facility for plug-in connecting to an external second plug-in connecting facility. The housing has a first opening through which a connecting facility for connecting the load connection facility and the associated external supply line is accessible. A cover facility for covering the first opening is on the housing so as to be mechanically movable from a first end position into a second end position and has a first locking facility which cooperates with the external second plug-in connecting facility, whereby the first opening is closed with the cover facility as long as it is in its first end position, as long as the external second plug-in connecting facility is inserted into the first plug-in connecting facility.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to polymer compositions for extrusion coating of metal sheets, to a method of producing a coated metal sheet using such a polymer composition, to coated metal sheets obtainable in such a method, and to the use of such coated metal sheets for the production of food or beverage containers, preferably beverage cans.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a corresponding system for planning the behavior of a vehicle using a predefined set of rules with prioritized rules for assessing possible behaviors of the vehicle in a given situation. For this purpose, situation-specific information is aggregated, and an environmental model of the given situation is generated based on the aggregated situation-specific information. The set of rules includes a decision-making process structure, which represents the prioritization of the individual rules of the set of rules. On the basis of the environmental mode, boundary conditions for the possible behaviors of the vehicle are determined. The latter are then prioritized by applying the decision-making process structure to the respective boundary conditions.

Abstract: A packaging unit comprises at least one first piece of packaging material, wherein the first piece of packaging material has a coated paper, which has a base paper and at least three coatings applied one on top of the other on the base paper. The at least three coatings have in a sequence in which they are given, starting from the base paper, a first barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophobic polymer, a second barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer, and a third barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophobic polymer. Furthermore, the packaging is closed in a gas-tight manner.

Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire in radial design that is a summer tire or all-season tire, with a profiled tread including rows of profile blocks and/or profile ribs running around the tire in circumferential direction, wherein the total number of sipes within each row of profile blocks and/or profile ribs is not more than 150, wherein the tread is in the form of a single layer or multiple layers with a radially outermost tread layer that extends at least over the width of the ground contact area, wherein the profile depth of the tread is up to 6.5 mm, and the tread or its radially outermost tread layer consists of a rubber material with a Shore A hardness at room temperature in accordance with DIN ISO 7619-1 of 40 ShA to 55 ShA.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for detecting and mitigating ransomware using snapshot-based backups applied to a block-oriented storage device, by performing the following operations: (i) performing, in predetermined time-intervals, snapshot backups of data in a block-oriented storage device; (ii) determining at least one interval malware index value between a last snapshot backup and a next planned snapshot backup, wherein the interval malware index value is indicative of a changed block rate in stored data of storage blocks of the block-oriented storage device; and (iii) in response to determining that the interval malware index value is larger than a predefined interval malware index threshold value, triggering an emergency snapshot.

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

Abstract: Bin and shelf mounting systems including at least one mounting bracket and a bin or shelf and methods of installing said bins or shelves to a wall. The at least one mounting bracket configured with a truncated wedge shape and beveled side edges. The bin and shelf include at least one recess on a rear wall thereof. The at least one recess includes (i) a downward-facing cavity at a top portion of the recess, (ii) side edges that are beveled, and (iii) a truncated wedge shape complimentary to the at least one mounting bracket. The recess is configured to slidably engage the at least one mounting bracket. A multi-hook system including a mounting bracket and a plurality of face plates.

Abstract: A drug delivery device (1) having a delivery unit (3) including a drug container (6), a liquid flow system (7), a pumping system (8), and a casing (9) enclosing therein the drug container, the pumping system and at least a part of the liquid flow system is disclosed. The drug container has a barrel portion (6a) and a plunger (12) slidably mounted within the barrel portion and sealing the drug (78) within the container at one end of the barrel portion. The drug container is contained within a container receiving cavity (75) of a container casing portion (38) and the container receiving cavity is fluidically interconnected to a fluid outlet (31) of the pumping system (8) in a gas tight manner. The pumping system pumps environmental air into the container receiving cavity (75) thus applying pressure on a back end (73) of the plunger for delivery of a liquid drug.

Abstract: A customized in-ear hearing device includes a light source, photodetector, light emission window, and light transmission window. The light source and the photodetector together function as a physiological sensor by emitting light from the light source through the light emission to the skin of a user's ear canal, and detecting at the photodetector light reflected by the skin that passes through the light detection window. The light emission window and light detection window are located at a customized portion of the sidewall of the device that contacts the skin in the ear canal.

Abstract: A radio frequency unit for use in a potentially explosive atmosphere is provided, including: a carrier element, on which a radio frequency element is arranged, the radio frequency element being configured to transmit and/or receive a radio frequency signal; a housing, which delimits the radio frequency element at least in sections; and an excitation element arranged on the radio frequency element and configured to transmit the radio frequency signal, an inside of the housing being potted with a potting compound. A fill level measuring device including the radio frequency unit , and a method of manufacturing the radio frequency unit, are also provided.