Abstract: An airbag system for a motor vehicle includes an airbag arrangement with at least one airbag and a gas generator for filling the airbag arrangement. A base body includes two end regions, and an ignition element protrudes from the base body between the two end regions. The folded airbag arrangement in a packed state envelops at least one of the end regions in multiple layers on one part of its outer periphery.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electrode may include at least one layer including a chemical compound including aluminum and titanium.

Abstract: An aircraft including a device for influencing the directional stability of the aircraft is provided. The device includes a control-input device; a flight control device; a sensor device for acquiring the rotation rates, including the yaw rates, of the aircraft; and at least one actuator, which is coupled with ailerons, spoilers, an elevator and a rudder. The flight control device includes a control function generating adjusting commands for the actuators for controlling the aircraft according to control commands. The aircraft includes two tail-mounted flaps, each including an actuator connected with the flight control device, situated symmetrically to each other and on opposite sides of the fuselage, and movable between retracted and extended positions. The control function is designed such that the adjusting commands that are generated on the basis of the control commands depending on the acquired rotation rates include adjusting commands to the actuators of the tail-mounted flaps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a rolling stand (100) for cold rolling rolled stock. The rolling stand (100) comprises at least one upper and one lower backup roll (110-1, 110-2) and also an upper and a lower work roll (120-1, 120-2), which define a roll gap (128). Optionally, a lower and an upper intermediate roll (130-1, 130-2) may also be provided between the work rolls and the backup rolls. In order to ensure an absolutely equal circumferential speed of the upper and lower work rolls when cold rolling in skin-pass mode, it is proposed according to the invention to decouple the upper or lower work roll from its associated drive device.

Abstract: An installation for folding and stacking an endless web of corrugated cardboard comprises at least one corrugated cardboard production device for producing an endless web of corrugated cardboard, a squeezing device which is arranged downstream of the at least one corrugated cardboard production device for embossing folds into the web of corrugated cardboard, and a folding device which is arranged downstream of the at least one squeezing device for folding the web of corrugated cardboard along the folds. The folding device has a first engagement member which is guided for displacement so as to carry along the web of corrugated cardboard in the region of a first fold and at least one second engagement member which is guided for displacement independently of the first engagement member so as to carry along the web of corrugated cardboard in the region of a second fold which is arranged upstream of the first fold.

Abstract: A lift arrangement for an aircraft includes an aircraft fuselage section with an outside, an aerodynamic lift body attached to the aircraft fuselage section and extending from the aircraft fuselage section outwardly, and a pair of movably held add-on bodies arranged upstream of a leading edge of the aerodynamic lift body. The add-on bodies include an aerodynamically effective surface and are equipped with incoming airflow to generate vortices that impinge on the aerodynamic lift body, thus leading to an increase in lift on the aerodynamic lift body. Thus the lift generation on a lift body is effectively influenced, in particular to compensate for loss of lift as a result of icing. The add-on bodies are moveable, and, can be moved to a neutral position in which they do not project into the flow around the aircraft, and are thus not effective from the point of view of fluid dynamics.

Abstract: The invention relates to a splicer device comprising a first unwinding device to unwind a non-endless first material web and a second unwinding device to unwind a non-endless second material web as well as a joining device for joining together the non-endless material webs to form an endless material web. The splicer device further has a storage carriage, which comprises at least one deflection roller to deflect the endless material web and is displaceable between two end positions to form or loosen material web loops of the endless material web. The at least one deflection roller has a respective central longitudinal axis and is tiltable between two tilt end positions to influence a running direction of the endless material web. The splicer device further has an information processing unit to cause tilting of the at least one deflection roller depending on positional information regarding the endless material web and/or another endless material web to be joined thereto.

Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for managing a location database are described. A server computer can receive location information from location-aware mobile devices (e.g., GPS-enabled devices) located within a communication range of access points of a wireless communications network. The server computer can calculate average geographic locations using the received locations for each access point. Based on the average geographic locations, the server computer can assign the access points to cells of a geographic grid. The server computer can filter the access points in each cell based on popularity, stability, longevity, and freshness of the access point and the received data. When a second mobile device connects to an access point in a cell, the server computer can transmit locations of the access points in the cell and in neighboring cells to the second mobile device such that a location of the second mobile device can be estimated.

Abstract: A process for the production of at least one analytical device is disclosed. The analytical device comprises at least one capillary element. The process comprises providing at least one carrier layer; providing at least one spacer layer; applying the spacer layer on top of the carrier layer; providing at least one cover layer; and applying the cover layer on top of the spacer layer. The process further comprises at least one cutting step. At least one capillary channel of the capillary element is cut out from the spacer layer. The cutting step is performed by using at least two cutting tools. The cutting tools complement one another to form a contour of the capillary channel.

Abstract: A steering wheel is provided with an active ventilation device, in particular for a motor vehicle, which includes, but is not limited to a fan arrangement with a fan with which ambient air can be sucked in through at least one air inlet opening of the steering wheel, one air duct for conducting air to at least one air outlet opening of the steering wheel. At least one of these air ducts is formed as a hollow space in a foam element of the steering wheel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a web of corrugated cardboard comprising a first corrugating roller for producing a corrugated web. The device further has a glue application roller for applying glue to the corrugated web. The glue application roller is associated to the first corrugating roller so as to form a gap and is displaceable relative to the first corrugating roller in order to influence the glue application quantity. The device further comprises a displacement device for displacing the glue application roller relative to the first corrugating roller and a pressing device for pressing a laminating web against the corrugated web.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for producing a corrugated board web. The arrangement comprises corrugating rollers to produce a corrugated web. It also has a glue application mechanism and a pressure belt module, which comprises a deflection roller with a deflection roller longitudinal centre axis, a belt tensioning and belt running regulating roller with a belt tensioning and belt running regulating roller longitudinal centre axis and a pressure belt, which is guided about the deflection roller and the belt tensioning and belt running regulating roller, to press a cover web onto the corrugated web provided with glue.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electrode may include at least one layer including a chemical compound including aluminum and titanium.

Abstract: The invention concerns a fluidically operable manipulator made up of several manipulator segments stacked along an extension curve, each comprising at least one connecting plate and at least two fluidically separated fluid chambers spaced apart on the connecting plate at right-angles to the extension curve, wherein each of the fluid chambers has at least one elastically deformable wall section which is designed to make possible, on pressurization of the respective fluid chamber with a fluid, a change in volume of the fluid chamber for a linear movement substantially parallel to the extension curve, and wherein a main extension surface of the connecting plate is provided for an arrangement at least substantially at right-angles to the extension curve, wherein the two or more fluid chambers are made integral with the connecting plate or plates.

Abstract: A restricted ball joint may include a passage that has a sidewall, which restricts the oscillation of the ball joint by restricting the range of motion of a shaft or stud that extends at least partially into the passage and makes contact with the sidewall when the ball joint is at a point of maximum oscillation. The ball joint may be restricted in one, two, or three axes. Restricting the ball joint in one or more axes may reduce stress on the ball joint due to flop because the loading of a vehicle tie rod may be carried by the neck of the shaft or by a stud extending from the ball shaft away from the stud when the passage is located opposite the shaft.

Abstract: Processes and systems are presented, for identifying a set of neighbors of a radio transmitter based on available geo-spatial coordinates of radio transmitters in operation around the world. In one aspect, the identified set of radio transmitters can be have a desired size (in terms of number of neighbors and/or radial range). The identified set of radio transmitters can be further customized to include radio transmitters of a specific type, and/or radio transmitters that belong to specific network carriers, and/or other possible grouping criteria.

Abstract: A backing plate for a sputter target includes a target receiving part for receiving a target to be sputtered, and a structure for exposing the target receiving part through the backing plate.

Abstract: Processes and systems are presented, for identifying a set of neighbors of a radio transmitter based on available geo-spatial coordinates of radio transmitters in operation around the world. In one aspect, the identified set of radio transmitters can be have a desired size (in terms of number of neighbors and/or radial range). The identified set of radio transmitters can be further customized to include radio transmitters of a specific type, and/or radio transmitters that belong to specific network carriers, and/or other possible grouping criteria.

Abstract: Detecting arcing events in a DC driven semiconductor tool is a challenging process. Various embodiments comprise dedicated sensor devices capable of detecting arcing events by observing the slope of voltage and/or current of a DC power supply line. Using the incorporated interfaces, the sensor could be connected to a computer system. Besides the detector arrangement the unit also provides a method and a corresponding computer program product. Furthermore a simple detection, the unit has the capability of separating the events into its severeness.

Abstract: A Flexray gateway comprising a first and a second bus interface for connecting a first and a second Flexray bus, wherein the Flexray gateway comprises coupling means for coupling a first and a second Flexray bus and for transmitting bus messages between the first and the second Flexray bus, wherein the Flexray gateway comprises a Flexray controller with a first and a second channel interface for transmitting and receiving bus messages of a first and a second channel type of a Flexray bus.