Abstract: A method is provided for identifying an obstacle during a work operation of a tractor and attached implement combination. The method includes detecting an object during the work operation, and identifying the detected object as an obstacle in dependence on the predefined classification parameter for classification of the detected object or a predefined work parameter of the tractor or the implement.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing hydrogen in an steam methane reformer (SMR) via ammonia cracking, wherein the SMR can include a furnace, a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit, waste heat recovery sections, and a water scrubber, wherein the furnace has a plurality of SMR tubes and a plurality of burners. The method can include the steps of: withdrawing ammonia from an ammonia storage vessel; preheating the ammonia to form a warm ammonia stream; introducing the warm ammonia stream into the SMR tubes of the furnace under conditions effective for catalytically cracking the ammonia, thereby forming a crude stream comprising hydrogen, nitrogen, and unreacted ammonia; treating the crude stream with a water wash in order to remove the unreacted ammonia from the crude stream, thereby resulting in an aqueous ammonia stream and a washed crude stream; and introducing the washed crude stream into the PSA unit to produce a hydrogen product stream and a PSA off-gas.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for producing hydrogen in an existing steam methane reformer (SMR) via ammonia cracking, the apparatus comprising: an ammonia storage vessel; a furnace having a plurality of reactor tubes and a plurality of burners, wherein the reactor tubes and the burners are in fluid communication with the ammonia storage vessel, such that the reactor tubes and the burners are configured to receive a flow of ammonia gas sourced from the ammonia storage vessel, and catalytically crack the ammonia within the reactor tubes to produce a crude process gas and a flue gas; a plurality of waste heat recovery sections; a boiler feed water preparation system; means for treating the crude process gas in order to reduce the amount of the unreacted ammonia in the crude process gas, thereby resulting in an aqueous ammonia stream and a washed crude stream; and a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit disposed downstream the means for treating the crude process gas.

Abstract: A method for controlling an operation of the gear mechanism of a motor vehicle having a freewheel device coupled to an electrical machine and configured to couple the electrical machine rotation speed-dependently to an output of the freewheel device or decouple it therefrom. The gear mechanism depending on a state change signal, starting from a decoupled state of the freewheel device, is operated in a pre-synchronization phase in which the rotation speed of the electrical machine is regulated to a target rotation speed, in particular below an actual rotation speed of the output, and on reaching a nominal rotation speed below the target rotation speed, a coupling phase is implemented in which the target rotation speed is increased and the transition to the coupled state of the freewheel device is performed.

Abstract: A coupling for a double-walled pipe having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall having an inner lumen, and the inner wall and the outer wall delimiting an outer lumen. The coupling comprises an inner section forming a passage in fluid communication with the inner lumen, and an outer section arranged radially adjacent to the inner section. A material of the outer section is interrupted in a radial direction multiple times in an area corresponding to a radial range between the inner wall and the outer wall. A further exemplary coupling may have an outer section that is interrupted multiple times in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions tangibly stored thereon, wherein when executed by a processing entity, the instructions cause the processing entity to carry out a method of evaluating influence of an action performed by an external entity, the method comprising: receiving sensor data; determining a signal reliability factor for the received sensor data, wherein the signal reliability factor represents a statistical quality indication between the received sensor data and an expected value or an expected range of values; and associating the signal reliability factor with the received sensor data. There is also provided a system configured to communicate with an autonomous driving system.

Abstract: A battery of a hybrid or purely electrically driven motor vehicle has a first battery element, which includes at least two spatially parallel-running first battery cell strings, which have first battery cells connected in series along a first extension direction of the battery. In addition, the battery has a second battery element, which includes at least two spatially parallel-running second battery cell strings, which have second battery cells connected in series along the first extension direction. The battery is designed in such a way that, for all of the first battery cell strings, it holds true that two consecutive strings of the first battery cell strings are spaced apart from each other along a second extension direction of the battery at least via one of the second battery cell strings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile device, preferably a cell phone, comprising a module holder for a camera module for capturing still images and/or moving images, said camera module having a coupling section and being releasably connectable to the module holder, wherein the module holder has a recess in which the coupling section is received when the camera module is connected to the mobile device. In the mobile device in accordance with the invention, provision is made that the recess of the module holder has a peripheral contour that is formed by a circular arc section and a secant section. The invention further relates to a corresponding camera module and to a mobile device system.

Abstract: A component system for an aircraft, having at least one furnishing component, a plurality of component rails, a plurality of guide elements engageable with and movable relative to the component rails, a plurality of retaining elements connected to the guide elements and configured to be coupled to a hull structure of the aircraft or the at least one furnishing component, and a plurality of locking units arranged on the component rails and/or on the guide elements and configured to lock the guide elements to a particular rail. At least two component rails are arranged on the at least one furnishing component or the hull structure at a distance and parallel to each other such that the furnishing component is retractable via the component rails on guide elements or component rails that are spatially fixed in the aircraft and can be locked in a retracted position by the locking units.

Abstract: A device (1) for connecting a toothing part (3) to a shaft (5) for conjoint rotation with the latter, having a toothing part (3) with a circular bore, a shaft (5) which has: a cylindrical receiving portion (4) for receiving the toothing part (3), and a cylindrical recess (8) in the shaft (5), which cylindrical recess (8) extends at least substantially over the entire length of the receiving portion (4), and a press-in cylinder (10) which can be pressed into the recess (8) and which has an oversize in relation to the recess (8).

Abstract: The invention relates to an additive manufacturing method in which a component (10, 42, 43, 44, 45) is produced in layers using an energy beam (8, 41, 58) which solidifies a starting material (4) and is irradiated by energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61) while the starting material (4) is held by a base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) arranged on a base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51). While the starting material (4) is being irradiated with the energy beam (8, 41, 58), the base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51) is moved by a rotational component which has a base element rotational axis, wherein the starting material (4) is held on the base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) by a centrifugal acceleration generated by the rotational component. The invention is characterized in that a rotational movement is produced for at least some of the energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61).

Abstract: The invention relates to an additive manufacturing method in which a component (10, 42, 43, 44, 45) is produced in layers using an energy beam (8, 41, 58) which solidifies a starting material (4) and is irradiated by energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61) while the starting material (4) is held by a base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) arranged on a base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51). While the starting material (4) is being irradiated with the energy beam (8, 41, 58), the base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51) is moved by a rotational component which has a base element rotational axis, wherein the starting material (4) is held on the base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) by a centrifugal acceleration generated by the rotational component. The invention is characterized in that a rotational movement is produced for at least some of the energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61).

Abstract: A component system for an aircraft, having at least one furnishing component, a plurality of component rails, a plurality of guide elements engageable with and movable relative to the component rails, a plurality of retaining elements connected to the guide elements and configured to be coupled to a hull structure of the aircraft or the at least one furnishing component, and a plurality of locking units arranged on the component rails and/or on the guide elements and configured to lock the guide elements to a particular rail. At least two component rails are arranged on the at least one furnishing component or the hull structure at a distance and parallel to each other such that the furnishing component is retractable via the component rails on guide elements or component rails that are spatially fixed in the aircraft and can be locked in a retracted position by the locking units.

Abstract: The invention relates to a battery box for accommodating at least one battery for an electric vehicle, having an outer circumferential frame and a base. Below the frame, a circumferential frame reinforcing element is arranged for reinforcing the frame, wherein the material thickness of the frame reinforcing element corresponds to its cross-sectional height.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recording a transcriptome of a cell, the method comprising the steps of: providing a test cell comprising: a first transgene nucleic acid sequence encoding a fusion protein comprising a reverse transcriptase polypeptide and a Cas1 polypeptide and a second transgene nucleic acid sequence encoding a Cas2 polypeptide, wherein said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence are under transcriptional control of an inducible promoter sequence, and a third transgene nucleic acid sequence comprising a CRISPR direct repeat (DR) sequence; wherein said CRISPR direct repeat sequence is specifically recognizable by a RT-Cas1-Cas2 complex formed by the expression products of said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence, exposing said test cell to conditions under which expression of said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence is induced, wherei

Abstract: A method for allocating a workload to a cluster machine of a plurality of cluster machines which are part of a computer cluster operating in a cluster computing environment, includes the step of collecting values from hardware performance counters of each of the cluster machines while the cluster machines are running different workloads. A value of a hardware performance counter from a system which executed the workload to be allocated in isolation and the values from the hardware performance counters of each of the cluster machines which are running the different workloads are used as input to a machine learning algorithm trained to provide as output in each case a prediction of a performance of the workload on each of the cluster machines which are running the different workloads. The cluster machine is selected for placement of the workload based on the predictions.

Abstract: Device (1) for connecting a toothing part (3) to a shaft (5) for conjoint rotation with the latter, having a toothing part (3) with a circular bore, a shaft (5) which has: a cylindrical receiving portion (4) for receiving the toothing part (3), and a cylindrical recess (8) in the shaft (5), which cylindrical recess (8) extends at least substantially over the entire length of the receiving portion (4), and a press-in cylinder (10) which can be pressed into the recess (8) and which has an oversize in relation to the recess (8).

Abstract: A method for monitoring resources in a computing system having system information includes transforming, via representation learning, variable-size information into fixed-size information, and creating a machine learning neural network model and training it the machine learning model to predict future resource usage of an application. The method further includes providing the prediction of further resources usage of the application as an input to an action component, wherein the action component is one of an anomaly detector or a reinforcement learner that drives a scheduler. The method additionally includes performing, by the action component, at least one of scheduling resources within the computing system or detecting a resources usage anomaly.

Abstract: A method for operating virtual machines on a virtualization platform includes: embedding control information in a predetermined memory area of a front-end virtual machine where at least one virtual device is to be initialized, the control information being required for initiating a communication with a back-end virtual machine where at least one back-end driver runs; retrieving, by the front-end virtual machine, the control information from the predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine; and performing the communication between the front-end virtual machine and the back-end virtual machine via a direct communication channel to exchange information for initializing the at least one virtual device of the front-end virtual machine, by communicating with the at least one back-end driver via the direct communication channel. The direct communication channel is established based on the control information embedded in the predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine.

Abstract: A method for operating virtual machines on a virtualization platform, the method comprising: embedding, preferably by a toolstack of the virtualization platform, control information in a predetermined memory area of a front-end virtual machine where at least one virtual device is to be initialized, wherein said control information is required for initiating a communication with a back-end virtual machine where at least one back-end driver runs; retrieving, by the front-end virtual machine, said control information from said predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine; and performing the communication between the front-end virtual machine and the back-end virtual machine via a direct communication channel in order to exchange information for initializing said at least one virtual device of the front-end virtual machine, in particular by communicating with said at least one back-end driver via said direct communication channel, wherein said direct communication channel is established based on sai