Abstract: A device for connecting an energy-converting terminal to an electric power supply network and for exchanging data via the power supply network, a network connection for connecting to the power supply network, a communications unit for receiving and sending data over the power supply network, a logic unit for controlling the data exchange and for controlling or regulating the power of the energy-converting terminal, sensors and an associated signal processing unit for monitoring the energy-converting terminal, as well as a power section for controlling the energy flow to the energy-converting terminal are provided. The network connection, the communications unit, the logic unit, a sensor unit having sensors and the signal processing unit associated with the sensors and the power section are combined in an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). A corresponding method is also described.

Abstract: A device for connecting an energy-converting terminal to an electric power supply network and for exchanging data via the power supply network, a network connection for connecting to the power supply network, a communications unit for receiving and sending data over the power supply network, a logic unit for controlling the data exchange and for controlling or regulating the power of the energy-converting terminal, sensors and an associated signal processing unit for monitoring the energy-converting terminal, as well as a power section for controlling the energy flow to the energy-converting terminal are provided. The network connection, the communications unit, the logic unit, a sensor unit having sensors and the signal processing unit associated with the sensors and the power section are combined in an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). A corresponding method is also described.

Abstract: A method for controlling a braking system of a vehicle is described, in which the braking system has at least a first control unit for controlling a first braking force on at least one wheel brake of a wheel of the vehicle, and an accumulator for receiving a pressurized medium, the method including generating the first braking force by at least one of a first hydraulic component and a first pneumatic component, filling the accumulator with the medium independently of the at least one of the first hydraulic component and the first pneumatic components via a relative movement between at least one wheel and a vehicle body, and generating a second braking force at predefinable times on the at least one wheel brake as a function of the filling of the accumulator.

Abstract: A method and a device which, when a pneumatic and/or hydraulic or electromechanical braking system of a vehicle is controlled, make it possible to set a second braking force on at least one wheel brake of one wheel in a defined manner in addition to the defined setting of a first braking force. The first braking force is generated by a first control unit using first hydraulic and/or pneumatic components, whereas the second braking force is generated at predefinable times as a function of the filling of an accumulator with a pressurized medium. The accumulator is a device separated from the first hydraulic and/or pneumatic components which is preferably mounted in the proximity of the wheel brakes and which is filled via a relative movement between at least one wheel and the vehicle body. It is therefore conceivable that, with the aid of a working cylinder attached to a wheel, the accumulator is filled with volume of a medium by utilizing the relative movement between wheel and body.

Abstract: A control device in a vehicle is used for controlling a plurality of vehicle functions. An air interface is provided, via which the control device in the vehicle may be accessed from an input device.

Abstract: The optical signal transmission system includes one or more optical wave guide switches (11 to 15) for switching between transmission paths for transmission of light signals and an optical level adjusting device (16 to 24) connected with the one or more optical wave guide switches in at least one of the transmission paths. The optical level adjusting device (16 to 24) controls its own light transmittance with a thermooptic device (22,24) and the one or more optical wave guide switches (11 to 15) switch between transmission paths by a similar thermooptic device (14,15). The one or more optical wave guide switches and the optical level adjusting device are arranged in an integrated thermooptic circuit in a common substrate.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for producing an arrangement for converting optical signals into electrical signals, the arrangement comprising a substrate having structures for guiding an optical fiber and for deflecting light transmitted by way of the optical fiber. The structures (11, 12, 13) on the substrate (10) are created through the production of a mold of the contour of a molding tool. A ceramic base material is advisably used as the starting material for the substrate (10). The molding is effected through pressing, injection pressing, slip casting, injection molding or reaction casting.

Abstract: An optical, beam-splitting component has a prism carrier plate which supports a prism member upon which a deflecting layer is applied. At the same time, the prism member juts into a groove between two optical waveguides carrying the light signals.

Abstract: In the case of the above devices, exact adjustment is very important; however, the devices ought to be very compact. It is not sufficient to utilize the silicon etching technique for the precision. The optical transmitting element (LD) is situated on a first carrier (T1), the optical receiving element (PD) and the transmission fiber (Fa) are situated on a third carrier. Provided in between them is a second carrier (T2) which is transparent to the wavelength of the light emitted by the transmitting element (LD). The carriers are structured by means of anisotropic etching in order to make possible the accommodation of the individual components. In addition, the carriers lie flat on one another and can thus be adjusted. A monitor diode (MD) is provided. Application of the arrangement in all transmission systems having optical waveguides.

Abstract: A method is proposed for producing passive and/or active optical polymer components having integrated fibre-chip coupling by means of casting technology. For this purpose, the master structure is produced in common on a silicon substrate both for accommodating an optical waveguide and a fibre-guiding structure anisotropically etched into the substrate [sic], this master structure is cast by electroplating and the negative mould thus produced is used to produce daughter structures identical to the master structure, the anisotropically etched V-shaped positioning trenches being filled with polymer materials, so that a planar surface is produced, the planar surface is coated with a photoresist or another structurable polymer, trench-shaped openings which subsequently produce the optical waveguides are structured into the polymer coating, and the trench structures are opened by means of laser ablation.

Abstract: An integrated-optical device in polymer technology, having a photoelement coupled onto an optical waveguide, with only the evanescent field components of the optical waveguide being coupled by an optical coupling element into the photoelement, wherein the photoelement (23) is incorporated into a polymeric upwardly closed cover plate (51), the cover plate (51) is fitted exactly onto a base plate (50) having an optical waveguide (20), and the coupling element is an optical buffer layer (54) disposed between the cover plate (51) and base plate (50). Preferably, the buffer layer (30) has a refractive index in the region opposite the photoelement (23) which is less than or equal to the refractive index of the optical waveguide (20), but greater than the refractive index of the buffer laser (30) outside the region opposite the photoelement (23).

Abstract: A method of producing passive and/or active optical polymer components (10) having vertical coupling structures (45), wherein at least one structure (22) for receiving a light waveguide (40; 46), and at least two fiber guide structures (14) and at least two adjusting structures (36) are produced on a substrate plate (32) and on a lid plate (34) such that both the plate and the lid plate possess fiber guide structures (14) with which the adjusting structures (36) located opposite in the lid plate or substrate, plate respectively are associated after assembly, and wherein the light waveguide structures (22) of the substrate plate (32) and the lid plate (34) which connect the fiber guide structures (14) extend parallel to each other in at least one region (45) such that the optical fields in the respective light waveguides (40) can be coupled with one another.

Abstract: A method of planarizing trench-like structures, particularly on semiconductor substrates, by filling in the trench-like structures. For this purpose, a pre-polymer is selectively filled into the trench-like structures, is hardened and is then expanded.

Abstract: Proposed is an integrated optical component, particularly a modulator, directional coupler, switch, polarizer, distributor or the like, as well as a method of producing such a component. The component has a light waveguide (17) of an optical polymer which is disposed on a silicon substrate (10) that has at least one optical buffer layer (14) having a low refraction index, wherein a positioning trench (12) that is anisotropically etched into the substrate (10), is essentially aligned with the light waveguide (17) and has a V-shaped cross-section is provided for receiving a glass fiber (11) to be coupled to the coupling end surface (18) of the light waveguide by means of end-to-end coupling.