Abstract: A spray device and a method for spraying a material blank with an adhesive includes a control device; a scanning device, using which a blank feature that characterizes the material blank to be sprayed is recordable, and a corresponding blank-feature data set is providable to the control device. The spray device further includes a conveyor belt using which the material blank to be sprayed is movable along a conveying direction of the conveyor belt through a spray region of the spray device; spray nozzles directed into the spray region, using which the adhesive is sprayable onto the material blank by moving the material blank through the spray region. The spray nozzles are controllable by the control device based on the blank-feature data set. An adhesive layer formed based on the blank feature is generatable on the material blank.

Abstract: Various teachings of the present disclosure include a switchgear cabinet for power electronics. An example cabinet may include a cooling apparatus for cooling the power electronics including a main cooling circuit and a secondary cooling circuit for a cooling medium. The secondary cooling circuit includes a heat exchanger arranged on a rear wall and/or between rails of the switchgear cabinet.

Abstract: A method for assembling a hollow cylinder on, or removing a hollow cylinder from, a further cylinder. The hollow cylinder includes a body with openings for creating an air cushion within a first portion of a shell and a second portion of the shell is gas-impervious or has openings for creating an air cushion of a reduced quantity and/or size compared to the first portion. The openings are connected to a gas feed and a gas inlet inside the body. The further cylinder has openings on a shell and gas is fed though the openings via an internal gas supply. An assembly method includes providing the hollow cylinder, applying a seal to the first portion to prevent escape of gas from the first portion, providing the further cylinder, applying gas to the further cylinder so that gas escapes from the openings, and pushing the hollow cylinder onto the further cylinder.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining, at an operator executed on a server that is separate from an application, whether to perform an update of the application. The operator may perform an upgrade precheck when it is determined that the update to the application is to be performed. The precheck may include determining whether a database migration is to be performed as part of the update to the application, and receiving an update mode and an update type to determine the upgrade to the application. The operator may provide to the application via an application program interface (API), one or more application shutdown configuration parameters for the update based on the received update mode and update type of the upgrade precheck. The operator may deploy the update to the application based on the determined update mode and update type.

Abstract: A brake unit for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle has at least one fluid reservoir for the supply of a hydraulic pressure medium to the brake unit. The brake unit has a housing with at least one receiving seat for receiving a connector piece formed on the fluid reservoir and at least one form-fitting fastening point for securing the fluid reservoir in position relative to the housing. The fastening point comprises at least one reservoir interface formed on the fluid reservoir and at least one counterpart interface, which is situated outside the fluid reservoir. The counterpart interface is arranged on a separate installation component that is connected to the housing.

Abstract: A materials handling vehicle including a battery receiving space, and a removable battery assembly, wherein: the removable battery assembly includes a battery body and a battery locking mechanism; the battery locking mechanism includes a spring-loaded battery handle and a spring-loaded locking pin; the battery receiving space includes a battery latch positioned to receive the spring-loaded locking pin; the spring-loaded battery handle includes a planar handle cam surface and the spring-loaded locking pin includes a planar pin cam surface such that the handle cam surface engages the pin cam surface with movement of the battery handle relative to the battery body; the spring-loaded battery handle is spring-biased in a locked position; and the spring-loaded locking pin is spring-biased in an extended position and is movable to a retracted position in response to movement of the battery handle from the locked position to an unlocked position.

Abstract: An electronic assembly has a circuit board and two or more heat sinks arranged on the printed circuit board, each having a straight air duct section from an air inlet opening of the heat sink to an air outlet opening of the heat sink. The heat sinks are spaced apart from each other one behind another in a row by intervening spaces, with their air duct sections lying in a straight line and forming an air duct. Through-hole-mounted THT components, which in each case rest against an outside surface of one of the heat sinks, have connecting pins secured in the printed circuit board. A fan generates an air stream that enters the air inlet opening of the heat sink that is located at the beginning of the row and flows through the air duct.

Abstract: In some examples, a sheet-fed printing unit is configured as a screen printing unit and includes at least one screen printing forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder cooperating therewith. A cylinder barrel of the impression cylinder includes a supporting surface for sheets, and which includes at least one impression portion having a constant barrel radius that extends over an angle of at least 170 degrees about the axis of rotation of the impression cylinder. The screen printing forme cylinder has an effective screen radius that is smaller than a barrel radius of the impression cylinder, and the effective screen radius is larger than half the barrel radius.

Abstract: A method for controlling a measuring device includes monitoring external influences on the measuring device by a sensor device and evaluating the monitored external influences by a controller of the measuring device. A measuring device and a system are disclosed including at least one measuring device.

Abstract: A method for controlling a system having measuring devices includes receiving a request to determine a desired measured value by a controller of the system, creating, by the controller, a proposal as to which of the measuring devices is suitable for determining the specific measured value, and outputting the established proposal to a user of the system by the controller. A system is disclosed including the measuring devices.

Abstract: A method for controlling a measuring device includes receiving, by a controller, a request to perform a specific measurement, establishing, by the controller, a measurement schedule of the steps to be performed for the specific measurement, and outputting, by the controller, the established measurement schedule to a user of the measuring device. A measuring device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for controlling a measuring device includes receiving a request to determine a specific measured value by a controller, establishing by the controller a parameter list of parameters of the measuring device to be set in order to be able to determine the specific measured value, and outputting the established parameter list to a user of the measuring device by the controller. A measuring device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for controlling a measuring device includes selecting a sample to be examined, creating conditions under which the sample is to be examined by the measuring device, and establishing measured values regarding properties of the sample, wherein the method steps are autonomously controlled by a controller. A measuring device is disclosed for performing the method.

Abstract: A materials handling vehicle including a battery receiving space, and a removable battery assembly, wherein: the removable battery assembly includes lateral battery faces, each including a longitudinal guide structure; the battery receiving space includes opposing guide blocks, each arranged on opposite sides of the battery receiving space, and each including a securement portion and a replaceable portion; the replaceable portion of each guide block including a friction-inducing surface and a guiding surface; each friction-inducing surface facing an opposing one of the lateral battery faces; and each guiding surface facing an opposing surface of the longitudinal guide structure, with the removable battery assembly seated in the battery receiving space.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an Al—Mg—Mn aluminium alloy plate product having a final gauge in the range of 3 mm or more, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a rolling feedstock material of an aluminium alloy having a composition comprising of Mg 3.5-5.3% and Mn 0.20-1.2%; (b) preheating and/or homogenisation; (c) hot rolling of the rolling feedstock to a rolled final gauge; (d) a first cold working operation selected from the group consisting of (i) stretching in a range of 3% to 20%, and (ii) cold rolling with a cold rolling reduction in a range of 5% to 25%; (c) annealing of the cold worked plate at a temperature in a range of 200° C. to 280° C.; (f) a second cold working operation selected from the group consisting of (i) stretching in a range of 0.4% to 3%, and (ii) cold rolling with a cold rolling reduction in a range of 0.5% to 5%.

Abstract: A cylinder device for a hydraulic lifting device has a housing and a piston rod axially movable relative to the housing. A rotary element is mounted on the housing in such a way that a rotary movement of the rotary element relative to the housing is possible and an axial movement of the rotary element relative to the housing is prevented. The piston rod has a movement transmission element, wherein the movement transmission element translates an axial movement of the piston rod into a rotary movement of the rotary element. A sensor unit is attached to the housing, which detects the rotary movement of the rotary element. Furthermore, a hydraulic lifting device with such a cylinder device, a chassis of a mobile device with a lifting device and a mobile device with a chassis are provided.

Abstract: A method for producing a target compound includes distributing a feed mixture containing ethane to multiple reaction tubes of a shell-and-tube reactor arranged in parallel, and subjecting to an oxidative catalytic conversion of the ethane in the reaction tubes. The catalytic reaction is carried out by means of catalysis zones with different activity arranged in series in the reaction tubes. One or more catalytically active materials and one or more catalytically inactive materials are provided in each of the catalysis zones. The different activity of the catalysis zones is effected by providing the one or more catalytically active materials having identical or essentially identical basic formulation, wherein the one or more catalytically active materials is or are prepared using different calcination intensities.

Abstract: A materials handling vehicle including a battery receiving space, and a removable battery assembly, wherein: the removable battery assembly includes a battery body and a battery locking mechanism; the battery locking mechanism includes a spring-loaded battery handle and a spring-loaded locking pin; the battery receiving space includes a battery latch positioned to receive the spring-loaded locking pin; the spring-loaded battery handle includes a planar handle cam surface and the spring-loaded locking pin includes a planar pin cam surface such that the handle cam surface engages the pin cam surface with movement of the battery handle relative to the battery body; the spring-loaded battery handle is spring-biased in a locked position; and the spring-loaded locking pin is spring-biased in an extended position and is movable to a retracted position in response to movement of the battery handle from the locked position to an unlocked position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel alkylamide substituted, annulated imidazole derivatives of the general formula (I), in which the structural elements A1; A2, A3, A4, R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the meaning given in the description, to formulations and compositions comprising such compounds and for their use in the control of animal pests including arthropods and insects in plant protection and to their use for control of ectoparasites on animals.

Abstract: A disc brake for utility vehicles includes a brake disc, a first brake lining on a first side of the brake disc and a second brake lining on a second side of the brake disc opposite the first side. A spreading device is also provided which generates a force that moves the first and the second brake lining away from one another.