Abstract: A head module for a modular control device includes redundant channel units, each including a processing unit and multiple failure revelation units. The head module includes a bus disconnection unit configured to shut down a communication bus. The failure revelation units are configured to monitor a state of the channel units. The processing units are configured to continuously stimulate the failure revelation units. At least one of the processing units is coupled to signal wires of the communication bus to provide a communication link to one or more peripheral modules of the modular control device. The failure revelation units are further configured to control, based on the stimulation and the monitoring, the bus disconnection unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measurement system for measuring energy cells, for example battery cells, in particular dry monocells, wherein the measurement system has an alternating voltage measuring bridge or a self-balancing measuring bridge (auto-balancing bridge) and is designed to measure the electrical capacitance (C) and/or the ohmic resistance (R) of an energy cell by means of a high-frequency measurement. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: Testing device for testing segments that are suitable for forming a cell stack for the energy cell producing industry, wherein: a conveying apparatus with a plurality of receiving portions is provided for receiving and transporting a segment in each case, wherein the receiving portions are movable relative to a stationary part of the testing device by a movement of the conveying apparatus, characterized in that the receiving portions each comprise at least two contact surfaces for contacting, electrically and/or by signal, a segment received in the respective receiving portion, wherein at least two of the contact surfaces of one of the receiving portions can be connected to at least one measuring device by means of a switching matrix.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for enabling access to data of a data analysis system by a set of one or more external database systems. The data analysis system comprises a source database system and target database system. The data analysis system is configured for synchronizing the data in the source database system with the target database system using a primary source transaction log in the source database system. The method comprises: creating a secondary transaction log. Data changes applied at the target database system may be received from the target database system. At least one log entry that represents each received data change may be creating in the secondary transaction log. The secondary transaction log may be used by the set of external database systems for applying data changes according to the secondary transaction log, thereby storing the data in the set of external database systems.

Abstract: A cryogen supply system for supplying a consumer with a cryogen, comprising a process pipe through which the cryogen can be conducted, a protective barrier, in which the process pipe is received, a gap, which is provided between the process pipe and the protective barrier, a heat conduction device, which is arranged in the gap and which is designed to transfer heat from the process pipe to the protective barrier or vice versa, and a temperature sensor arranged outside the protective barrier for detecting a temperature of the cryogen, the temperature sensor being thermally coupled to the heat conduction device.

Abstract: A brake actuating device for a motor vehicle brake system comprising a hydraulic unit having a side face, on which an electric motor is arranged, wherein the electric motor drives a pressure generator, located in the hydraulic unit, for conveying a hydraulic fluid, wherein the hydraulic unit comprises a number of outlet openings in the side face, wherein an adapter unit which comprises a number of inlet openings is arranged on the side face, wherein the outlet openings of the hydraulic unit are connected in fluid communication via a respective connecting tube with the corresponding inlet openings of the adapter unit.

Abstract: A cutting device for an oscillating multifunction machine tool includes at least one shearing unit with at least one base body, a cutting edge and a backing edge. The cutting edge and the backing edge bound a cutting opening for inserting a workpiece. The cutting device further includes a tool interface for attaching the shearing unit to a tool holder of the multifunction machine tool. The cutting edge and the backing edge are disposed rigidly relative to one another and an angular bisector of a cutting opening angle of the cutting opening is disposed in a plane perpendicular to an oscillation axis of the tool interface, at an angle between 70° and 110° to a radial axis of the tool interface, which is perpendicular to the oscillation axis and passes through an intersection point of the cutting edge and the backing edge.

Abstract: A method is for estimating coefficients of friction for a vehicle, in particular utility vehicle, which can be driven by an electric drive. The method includes the steps of: operating, with a torque, a wheel of the vehicle, in particular utility vehicle, that is arranged on an underlying surface; ascertaining the slip of the wheel; applying a temporally predetermined excitation torque to the wheel, wherein the excitation torque is applied to the wheel periodically with a frequency; ascertaining a change in slip depending on the excitation torque, wherein the change in slip is ascertained taking into account the frequency; and ascertaining a coefficient of friction on the basis of the change in slip.

Abstract: A method for operating a primary communication device designed to transmit data packets via a transmission medium to at least one secondary communication device, said method comprising the following steps: at least temporarily modifying a transmission configuration for transmitting data packets; and transmitting at least a first data packet to the at least one secondary communication device using the transmission configuration.

Abstract: In accordance with the present disclosure there is provided an angioplasty catheter system and method for using such angioplasty catheter system that facilitates controllably delivering focalized pressure to complex lesions.

Abstract: A chuck for a laser beam wafer dicing equipment includes a wafer support plate having an upper surface for holding a wafer disposed on a dicing tape. The upper surface includes a topographically structured surface region that partly or completely overlaps an edge of the wafer when the wafer disposed on the dicing tape is placed on the upper surface. The topographically structured surface region provides for a reduction in an area of contact between the upper surface and the dicing tape.

Abstract: A method is for operating a trailer vehicle having an electric drive and friction brakes. The method includes determining a differential mass between a first mass of a driven axle of the trailer vehicle and a second mass of a non-driven axle of the trailer vehicle, and determining a deceleration torque depending on the differential mass. The method further includes generating at least or exactly the determined deceleration torque with the electric drive when the friction brakes are activated. A trailer brake control unit is for the trailer vehicle. The trailer vehicle includes the trailer brake control unit. A combination includes a towing vehicle and a trailer vehicle having the trailer brake control unit.

Abstract: A building infrastructure and a method for controlling the position of the terminal using a control system in a building.

Abstract: A method for transmitting an audio signal from a first communication node to a second communication node using an audio system and use of mobile communications infrastructure.

Abstract: A magnetic memory device is provided. The magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, a second MTJ stack, and a spin-orbit torque (SOT) electrode. The second MTJ stack is adjacent to the first MTJ stack. The SOT electrode is connected to the first MTJ stack and the second MTJ stack, wherein the SOT electrode has a first electrode section along a first axis and a second electrode section along a second axis, and the second axis is spaced apart from and parallel to the first axis.

Abstract: A device for controlling a flow and distributing a fluid, in particular a refrigerant, in a fluid circuit. The device exhibits a housing with connections for connection to fluid lines that are connected to one internal volume of the housing via a pass-through opening, and one valve element that is arranged in the internal volume of the housing and exhibits a drive element for moving the valve element relative to the housing. The valve element exhibits one pass-through opening and is mounted in such a way that it can be moved linearly in the axial direction along a longitudinal axis such that a passage for the fluid is opened between a first connection produced as an inlet and a second connection produced as a primary outlet or a third connection produced as a secondary outlet.

Abstract: A method for preparing a motor vehicle for a journey includes recording, using a mobile electronic device, at least one piece of first information, which is representative of at least one piece of journey information, before the journey, and ascertaining a piece of second information that is representative of at least one actual state of the motor vehicle. The method also includes determining at least one piece of preparatory information on the basis of the first information and the second information. The method further includes displaying the preparatory information on the mobile electronic device in order to prepare the motor vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new aptamer molecules for use in treating, curing or preventing disease symptoms associated with long COVID in a patient having overcome an infection with a virus from the Coronaviridae family, a pharmaceutical composition and a kit comprising such aptamer molecules.

Abstract: A device for sequentially switching at least one first and at least one second Venetian blind, the slats of which can each be synchronously rotationally moved by means of at least one coupling rod in order to open and close the blinds. The device includes an actuator for generating a rotational movement of the slats through 80° to 90°, a coupling for rotatably coupling the actuator to a slat of the first blind, a link rod which has a partially-circular link, and a transmission rod. The actuator has an eccentric pin parallel to its axis of rotation which engages in the partially-circular link of the link rod, and the linear movement of the link rod is transmitted to the coupling rod of the at least second blind.

Abstract: An air guidance control unit having a frame, which surrounds at least one air opening for air flowing along an air flow direction to flow through, a closing device including adjustable flaps, which closing device can be adjusted by means of an adjusting element between an open position in which the air opening is exposed and a closed position in which the air opening is at least partly closed. The invention devises various solutions for especially compact and reliable flap arrangements.