Abstract: A method for operating a transponder, and a transponder device is disclosed. Data are wirelessly and bidirectionally transmitted between the transponder and a base station through a first interface that is based on an electromagnetic far-field coupling. According to the invention, data are additionally transmitted wirelessly and bidirectionally between the transponder and the base station through at least one second interface that is based on inductive coupling.

Abstract: An antenna is provided for a backscatter-based RFID transponder with an integrated receiving circuit, having a capacitive input impedance, for receiving a radio signal lying spectrally within an operating frequency range, whereby the antenna has two antenna arms, which extend outwardly in a spiral from a central area, in which the antenna arms can be connected to the integrated receiving circuit. According to the invention, each antenna arm has an arm length along the arm, which is selected so that one of the series resonance frequencies of the antenna is below the operating frequency range and the next higher parallel resonance frequency of the antenna is above the operating frequency range. The invention relates furthermore to a backscatter-based RFID transponder with an antenna of this type.

Abstract: A power dissipation-optimized high-frequency coupling capacitor is provided for a rectifier circuit as well as a power dissipation-optimized high-frequency rectifier circuit. The elements of the rectifier stages of the inventive high-frequency rectifier circuit are disposed in an optimized manner regarding space such that the coupling capacitors are connected directly to the contact area for the antenna terminal and are arranged around the contact area while taking into account the connecting wires.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for archiving of data, that is, for moving a selected data object in a computer system from a first to a second storage location. The selected data object is assigned at least one identifier (ID) that is stored in at least one lock object. The data object is stored at the second storage location and the second storage location is associated with the ID. The data object is then deleted from the first storage location and the ID is deleted from the lock object after the storing of the data object in the second storage location has been completed. Methods and systems can check, by querying the lock object, whether the data to be accessed is subject to a moving process or not. If yes, the access to that data can be postponed until the moving is completed.

Abstract: Devices and methods are used for ascertaining wheel positions of wheels on a wheeled vehicle. Separate wheel units are connected to each other via a vehicle bus and via an additional supply lead, so that for the purposes of learning the separate wheel units, the separate wheel units are connected to the supply lead successively in a predetermined sequence and provided with a new, individual identity code, or subjected to a wheel-unit-specific dc voltage potential as an identity code by using at least one additional connection.

Abstract: The invention concerns a modulator (M) for data transmission between a transponder and a base station, which amplitude modulates and/or phase modulates a received electromagnetic carrier signal as a function of data to be transmitted, having a control input at which a modulation control signal is present, having a rectifier (GL) circuit for rectifying the received electromagnetic carrier signal which has at least one rectifier stage (S1-S3), having at least one switching device (SE) which is controllable through the modulation control signal and whose output side intervenes in at least one rectifier stage of the rectifier circuit, and by means of which a reference voltage can be applied to at least one node (H1-H3) of said rectifier stage. The invention further concerns a transponder with such a modulator and a modulation method for operating such [a modulator].

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for phase modulation in an input circuit of a backscattering transponder includes a varactor and at most one capacitor connected in series between two antenna terminals, as well as a varactor control arrangement applying a control voltage to the varactor to selectively vary the capacitance thereof. One of the antenna terminals is connected directly to one of the varactor terminals without a capacitor therebetween. The other antenna terminal is connected either directly or through a capacitor to the other varactor terminal. One antenna terminal and/or one varactor terminal can be grounded. A DC-decoupling capacitor can be connected between a transponder circuit unit or a circuit ground and the common junction of the antenna terminal with the varactor terminal. The circuit arrangement is simple, economical, and uses minimal chip area by omitting further capacitors between the antenna terminals.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for phase modulation in an input circuit of a backscattering transponder includes a varactor and at least one capacitor connected in series between two antenna terminals, and at least two voltage sources selectively connected through at least two switches to at least one terminal of the varactor. A control unit selectively opens and closes the switches in response to the data to be phase-modulated onto the backscattered signal. By selectively connecting the different voltage values of the respective voltage sources to the varactor terminal(s) through the switches, the capacitance of the varactor and correspondingly the input impedance of the input circuit are thereby varied, so as to provide respective different phase positions of the phase modulation.

Abstract: For transmitting data, a receiving/backscattering arrangement receives, modulates and reflects or backscatters electromagnetic waves emitted by a base station. The modulation corresponds to the data to be transmitted and is carried out selectively using first and/or second different modulation methods depending on the received field strength of the received electromagnetic waves. Preferably, phase shift keying is used especially or at least at low field strengths at far range, while amplitude shift keying is used additionally or alternatively for high field strengths at close range. The two modulation methods can be superimposed. A circuit arrangement includes two different modulator arrangements to perform the two modulation methods depending on the received field strength. The second modulator arrangement preferably comprises a multi-stage voltage multiplier circuit with a modulated switching device intervening in one of the stages to achieve the modulation.

Abstract: A device and a method for determining a side position of wheels during cornering of a motor vehicle include a plurality of sensor devices each being installed at a tire of a wheel for detecting mechanical deformation of the tire when it rolls forward on a road surface. Electronic wheel units are each connected by signal to an assigned sensor device. A central evaluation device is connected to the electronic wheel units for receiving detected deformation data and determining the side positions of the individual wheels during the cornering of the vehicle, from contact area lengths determined from deformation data.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable medium and systems are provided for moving data objects from a first storage location to a second storage location. One or more data objects may be selected having an identifier from a first storage location. The ID may be stored in at least one transactional type lock object. Systems and methods consistent with the invention may determine whether a permanent type lock exists for a data object. If the permanent type lock does exist, systems and methods consistent with the invention may store the data object, the ID of which is contained in the at least one transactional type lock object, at the second storage location, store the ID of that data object in a permanent type lock object, assign the second storage location to the ID in the at least one permanent type lock object, and delete the ID of that data object in the transactional type lock object.

Abstract: A device under test—DUT—, comprising the steps of receiving a first data sequence from the DUT in response to a first stimulus signal, wherein the data of a plurality of internal data sequences of the DUT is compressed into the first data sequence, comparing the first data sequence with expected data and for detecting errors in the first data sequence, and providing a second stimulus signal to the DUT in order to instruct the DUT to generate a second data sequence that comprises uncompressed data of the plurality of the internal data sequences at the positions where the errors have been detected.

Abstract: A heating device for heating a yarn, in particular in a texturing machine. The heating device comprises a thin-walled heating tube, which can be evenly heated on its circumference by a heating jacket. Fitted within the peripheral wall of the heating tube is an insert, which forms a yarn channel extending between a yarn inlet and a yarn outlet for guiding the yarn. The insert is formed by a special section rail that is open along one long side, and fitted with its opposite long side to the wall of the heating tube. As a result, the yarn channel is formed between the open long side of the special section rail and the wall of the heating tube, so that it is possible to supply heat to the yarn channel directly via the wall of the heating tube.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for detecting a received signal includes a rectifier with an input connected to a receiving antenna for rectifying an encoded received signal, a signal capacitor connected to an output of the rectifier, a discharge current sink connected to the signal capacitor, and a signal evaluating circuit connected to the signal capacitor. The discharge current sink includes a current mirror circuit of cascode-connected transistors. Thereby, the discharge current is substantially independent of the signal voltage over a larger range of voltages. This signal detection circuit is useful in transponders or remote sensors that receive and detect a signal transmitted by a base station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 2-substituted 4-heteroaryl-pyrimidines, their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and hence their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders such as cancer, leukaemia, psoriasis and the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to modified and truncated forms of the membrane transport vector penetratin. Such truncated forms include 7-mer peptides that may in themselves include further variation.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable medium and systems are provided for moving data objects from a first storage location to a second storage location. One or more data objects may be selected having an identifier from a first storage location. The ID may be stored in a second lock object. Systems and methods consistent with the invention may determine whether the ID is stored successfully, and upon a successful storage, may store the ID in a first lock object. The data object is stored at a second storage location and the data object is deleted from the first storage location. After the ID has been stored in a first lock object, the ID is then deleted from the second lock object.

Abstract: A data structure is provided for preventing access, in a computer system, to a data object having an identifier (ID). The data structure comprises a first lock object, in which the ID of the data object is stored, and in which a link to a storage location of the data object is assigned to the ID, and a second lock object, in which the ID of the data object is stored. In one embodiment, the ID is stored in the second lock object before storing the ID in the first lock object or before assigning the storage location of the data object to the ID in first lock object. Further, the ID is deleted from the second lock object after storing the ID in the first lock object or after assigning the storage location of the data object to the ID in the first lock object. The data object may be accessible by a software application, whereby the access of the software application to the data object is prevented if the ID is stored in the first or second lock object.

Abstract: Methods, a computer readable medium, and systems are provided accessing a data object having an identifier in a computer system. The ID may be stored in a second lock object. Systems and methods consistent with the invention may determine whether the ID was stored successfully, and upon a successful storage, may check, before accessing the data object, whether the ID is contained in a first lock object. If the ID is contained in a first lock object, systems and methods consistent with the invention may determine whether a link to a storage location is assigned to the ID in the first lock object. If the link is not assigned to the ID, the ID may be deleted form the first lock object and a read and/or write access may be performed on the data object.

Abstract: Catalysts produced by electroless deposition of at least one platinum metal on a nonporous nonmetallic support can be used for the synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from the elements and for the hydrogenation of organic compounds.