Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes a water dispenser unit having a serving unit for discharging a cold beverage. The serving unit includes a receiving unit into which at least one container containing a flavoring can be inserted. In the inserted state of the container, the container is coupled to a dispensing container of the water dispenser unit containing a liquid in such a way that the cold beverage can be discharged as a mixture of the liquid and the flavoring when the serving unit is actuated.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance, in particular a household refrigeration appliance, includes a heat-insulating wall which delimits a cooled storage chamber, a reservoir embedded or let in the wall and a conduit for a heat transfer fluid. Part of the conduit forms a first heat exchanger which is disposed in thermal contact with the reservoir. A shut-off element can be switched between a position allowing circulation of the heat transfer fluid and a position blocking circulation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for introducing, in a firearm comprising a movement space arranged in a housing of the firearm and provided for a moveable component of the firearm or for a fluid moveable within the firearm, a filling material, which, at least in part, fills the movement space and preferably solidifies therein, into the movement space, when there is a condition in which the firearm is to be disabled.

Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a microcontroller processor (410), a peripheral (420) coupled with the processor, an endian circuit (470) coupled with the processor and the peripheral to selectively provide different endianess modes of operation, and a detection circuit (140) to detect a failure to select a given endianess, whereby inadvertent switch of endianess due to faults is avoided. Other circuits, devices, systems, methods of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to sensors, and the teaching may be applied to a device for determining a speed of a sound signal in a fluid in a fluid container. A device may include: a sound transducer for transmitting and receiving sound; a first reflector element and a second reflector element integrally formed in a reference element to reflect sound generated by the sound transducer back to the sound transducer; and a control unit operating to: ascertain a first signal runtime related to a first reflection of the sound signal from the first reflector element; a second signal runtime related to of a second reflection of the sound signal from the second reflector element; and calculate the speed as a function of the two.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance, in particular a domestic refrigeration device, includes a dispenser for ice and/or water. A communication interface transmits at least one operational status message of the dispenser to an external receiver.

Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a microcontroller processor (410), a peripheral (420) coupled with the processor, an endian circuit (470) coupled with the processor and the peripheral to selectively provide different endianess modes of operation, and a detection circuit (140) to detect a failure to select a given endianess, whereby inadvertent switch of endianess due to faults is avoided. Other circuits, devices, systems, methods of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance, includes a storage chamber which can be cooled to below 0° C. A water supply feeding into the storage chamber is formed by a resiliently expandable pipeline, at least inside the storage chamber.

Abstract: A domestic refrigerator includes a housing surrounding a receiving area for food and a dispensing unit disposed in the housing. The dispensing unit is constructed to dispense refrigerated pourable goods and has a container for receiving the refrigerated goods and a discharge channel coupled to the container for discharging the refrigerated goods from the container to the exterior of the housing. A first closure element is provided for closing the discharge channel. A second closure element, which is separate from the first closure element, is also provided for closing the discharge channel. The second closure element lies closer to the container than the first closure element when viewed along the discharge channel.

Abstract: In an ice maker with a tray having at least one water-receiving cavity, a wall of the cavity contains a phase change material. If an ice maker of this kind is pre-cooled, so that the phase change material is solid, a great deal of heat can be removed from water poured into the cavities in a short time by the heat causing the phase change material to melt.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic component can include the following steps: providing a semiconductor arrangement comprising a carrier structure which has at least one semiconductor chip incorporated into a potting compound, and a redistribution layer which comprises a flexible material and at least one strip conductor, wherein the carrier structure at least in regions is connected to the redistribution layer, and the at least one semiconductor chip is electrically conductively connected to the redistribution layer, and separating the carrier structure along at least one trench in a manner such that the carrier structure is divided into at least two singularized carrier elements, wherein two adjacent ones of the singularized carrier elements are connected to one another over the respective trench by way of the redistribution layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for determining a height of a fluid surface in a fluid container. In some embodiments, the device comprises: a first sound transducer and a second sound transducer for transmitting and receiving sound signals; a reference element disposed at a predetermined distance from the second sound transducer in a fluid space of the fluid container; a deflection element in the fluid space to deflect sound signals by a predetermined angle in the direction of the reference element; and a control unit. The two sound transducers are adjacent a base portion of the fluid container and aligned similarly. The control unit is configured to establish a speed of sound within a fluid in the fluid space based at least in part on travel of the second sound signals and thereby to establish the height of the fluid surface over the base portion of the fluid container dependent on the first sound signals and the speed of sound within the fluid.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fluid level sensors in general and an apparatus and a corresponding method for determining a level of a fluid surface in a fluid container. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a first sound transducer, a second sound transducer, a reference element, a first deflection element, and a control unit. The reference element may be disposed at a predetermined distance from the second sound transducer and arranged in a fluid space of the fluid container. The first deflection element may be arranged in the fluid space to deflect the second sound signals by a first predetermined angle toward the fluid surface. The control unit may establish a speed of sound within a fluid in the fluid space based at least in part on the second sound signals and establish the level of the fluid surface over a base portion of the fluid container based at least in part on the first sound signals, the second sound signals, and the speed of sound within the fluid.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has a refrigerator compartment container and an ice container for providing ice. The refrigerator compartment container delimits a refrigerator compartment. A receiving niche for receiving the ice container is formed in an exterior of the refrigerator compartment container. The receiving niche has an opening to the refrigerator compartment, wherein an opening of the ice container and the opening of the receiving niche are aligned flush with one another. The ice container has a container outer wall, a container inner wall and a thermal insulation, which is arranged between the container inner wall and the container outer wall.

Abstract: A millimeter-wave radar device including at least one millimeter-wave circuit and at least one antenna, wherein the millimeter-wave radar device is designed as a module having a multilayered multipolymer circuit board having at least a first layer composed of a polymer material having low dispersion of the dielectric constant, a second layer composed of a high-strength polymer material, which stabilizes the multipolymer circuit board, and a metallization layer, which is arranged between the first layer and the second layer and serves for shielding and for signal carrying, and the multipolymer circuit board carries the at least one millimeter-wave circuit and the at least one antenna.

Abstract: A multifunctional module for a refrigerating apparatus with a module housing, includes a controllable function valve arranged for dispensing water from a water circuit. The module housing includes a leak detection device for detecting water leakage inside the module housing.

Abstract: A device is provided for the air-based solar thermal generation of process heat in order to assist in drying processes. The device may add the solar-thermally generated hot air as a function of the relative temperature of the solar-thermally generated hot air as a partial flow of the process air generated by other systems.

Abstract: Solid mixtures comprising a) an active compound from the group consisting of the sulfonylureas, and b) an alkylpolyglucoside.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes a storage chamber enclosed by a thermally insulating wall and a water dispenser which has an outlet disposed at an inner face of the wall. The outlet is connected by a movable line segment to a line installed in a fixed position in the wall.

Abstract: A refrigerating device is provided that includes a body, a door and a carrier for refrigerated products, the carrier being supported on adapters anchored on movable rails of telescopic extensions and displaceable between an inserted and a pulled-out position. The movable rails of the telescopic extensions are hidden under a tray and the tray of each telescopic extension is clamped between the movable rail thereof and the adapter anchored thereon.