Abstract: A battery cell arrangement for a motor vehicle, having multiple battery cells, which each include two cell poles, a first side, a second side, a height in the direction from the second side to the first side, and a releasable degassing opening for discharging gases from the relevant battery cell in case of a thermal runaway. In case of a thermal runaway, a respective battery cell includes at least one thermal hotspot area, which is provided by at least one of the cell poles and/or the degassing opening, and the battery cell arrangement includes at least one potting compound layer, in which a section of a respective battery cell is embedded in the direction of the height.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a machine learning system to learn a new skill without catastrophically forgetting an existing skill and to continually learn in a self-supervised manner during operation, without human intervention.

Abstract: A gas control valve (1) has a central module (40), a control module (20) and a sensor module (30). Gas can flows through the central module (40) from a valve inlet (41) to a valve outlet (42). The control module (20) is directly on the central module (40) and controls a flow of the gas through the central module (40). A throttle element (23) is fluidically arranged between the valve inlet (41) and the valve outlet (42). The sensor module (30) is arranged directly on the central module (40) and has at least one sensor (31, 32) in operative connection with the gas flowing through the central module (40) through a gas inlet (44) fluidically arranged between the throttle element (23) and the valve outlet (42). In order to control the pressure, it detects a pressure difference between the gas flowing through the central module (40) and air having a reference pressure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having carbonic anhydrase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dummy object for functional testing of child presence detection (CPD) systems, including a torso having a chest region, an abdominal region, and a back region, further including an upper body part movable relative to the torso for imitating a breathing movement. The upper body part forms at least a part of a chest-abdomen contour of the dummy object to be detected by the CPD system, and includes an actuator that is arranged to deflect the upper body part from a basic position into a deflected position. The dummy object includes at least one elastic reset element that is arranged to return the upper body part from the deflected position to the basic position.

Abstract: An adjustable door pull to be installed on a first surface of a door that opens an entrance through which a user can walk, the adjustable door pull including a grip to allow the user to pull the door open such that the user is able to walk through the entrance, at least one detachable standoff, including an attachment portion having an aperture into which the grip is inserted, and a protruding portion disposed at a first end on at least a portion of the attachment portion to extend from the attachment portion and the grip to contact the first surface of the door on a second end opposite with respect to the first end, the protruding portion including an aperture to allow the attachment portion to be coupled to the grip, and a set screw to be inserted fully into the aperture of the protruding portion until the set screw also inserts at least partially into the aperture of the attachment portion to couple the attachment portion to the grip, and a through bolt to be inserted through a hole from a second surface o

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a position of an entity of a wireless communication network, the comprises a position determining processor to determine a position of a first entity (gNB, UE, IoT) in the wireless communication network using one or more position measurements between the first entity and one or more second entities (gNB, UE, IoT), each of the first and second entities comprising one or more antennas to transmit and/or receive a radio signal for the position measurement. The position determining processor is to determine the position of the first entity using a transmission reception reference point, TRRP, of the radio signal at the one or more antennas of the first entity and/or the one or more second entities.

Abstract: A method for connecting an energy storage module to a module support, in particular a cooling element, The energy storage module is fastened on the module support by multiple connecting screws, which are each screwed into threaded bores provided on the module support. A gap is provided between the bottom of the energy storage module and the bottom of the module support, into which a thermally-conductive compound is introduced, which is distributed to fill the gap due to a reduction of the gap width when the energy storage module is screwed down.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for a packaging process, wherein the device is provided in the form of a step-by-step packaging machine, or is configured as a step-by-step packaging line. The device is configured to perform a recipe change from a first packaging recipe to another, second packaging recipe step by step at a plurality of work stations provided on the device. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: A surface sensing device is mounted on an articulating probe head of a coordinate measuring machine. The device includes an elongate probe holder which is rotatable about an axis. An elongate sensing module includes a surface finish or surface roughness probe with a stylus tip. This is connected to the probe holder via an adjustable knuckle joint. To determine the geometry of the surface sensing device, including the tip normal and drag vector of the stylus tip, the orientations of the probe holder and the sensing module are determined by probing points which are spaced along their lengths, using a separate probe.

Abstract: A method for adapting a leveling control of a road finishing machine comprises: detecting first ground profile data of a first ground profile of a foundation in a surrounding area of the road finishing machine at point in time t0, wherein the road finishing machine is located at position x0; detecting second ground profile data of a second ground profile of the foundation in a surrounding area of the road finishing machine at point in time t1, wherein the road finishing machine is located at position x1, and the second ground profile partially overlaps the first ground profile; determining a translational and rotational matrix which maps a movement of the road finishing machine in space from the point in time t0 to the point in time t1; creating corrected ground profile data from the ground profile data by means of the matrix; determining an analysis region LA comprising at least a section of the first ground profile data L0 and/or a section of the corrected ground profile data; analyzing the analysis re

Abstract: A method of valuation of raw fines materials, comprising selectively screening, biotreatment or composting of raw fines materials or selection as fillers in composites. The method comprises screening the raw fines materials to Grade 1 comprising fines materials of a size of at most about 5 mm and Grade 2 comprising fines materials of a size larger than about 5 mm; and at least one of: A) bio-oxydating organic contaminants of the Grade 1; by adding and mixing organic amendment under controlled temperature, nutrients content and water content conditions and monitoring a content of organic contaminants until the content of organic contaminants stops decreasing; and B) composting the Grade 1; by adding and mixing organic amendment under controlled temperature, nutrients content and water content conditions, and monitoring pathogens content and respiration rate; and stopping the addition of organic amendment upon detection of absence of pathogens at a predetermined respiration rate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of finding optimized analog measurement hardware settings of a measurement system for a target measurement. The method can include one or more of the following steps: applying initial settings to the measurement system; varying the settings over a power sweep while processing a test signal used for the target measurement or a representative signal; performing the target measurement during the power sweep, thereby determining a hardware contribution of the measurement system over the power sweep; and identifying the respective settings that lead to a minimum hardware contribution of the measurement system at various powers.

Abstract: A battery arrangement having a housing base arrangement and at least one battery unit which is arranged on the housing base arrangement and is arranged above the housing base arrangement with respect to a first direction and which comprises at least one battery cell. The at least one battery cell has a first side having a releasable degassing opening which is releasable for discharging a gas from the at least one battery cell. The housing base arrangement has at least one predetermined breaking point, which is designed, in dependence on a gas escape of a gas from the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell, to release an opening penetrating the housing base arrangement with respect to the first direction, in order to discharge the gas escaping from the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell through the released opening.

Abstract: The breathing assistance apparatus of the present invention includes a manifold that is provided with or retrofittable to gases supply and humidifying devices. The manifold allows gases from an oxygen concentrator to be combined with the flow through a gases supply and humidifying device, most usually air. The combined output of oxygen and other breathing gases (air) is then humidified. The breathing assistance apparatus and manifold of the present invention provides a safe method to add oxygen to the input air stream of a gases supply and humidifying device and reduces the amount of accumulation of oxygen within the gases supply device, reducing fire risk should sparking occur within the device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a breathing assistance apparatus that has a convenient and effective method of cleaning internal conduits inside the apparatus. The breathing assistance apparatus is preferably a gases supply and humidification device. The cleaning method is a method of disinfection that is automated so minimal training is required to disinfect in particular an internal elbow conduit within the device. It is therefore not necessary to dismantle the gases supply and humidification device, therefore, inadvertent damage to the internal parts of the device is avoided. The present invention also provides a method of disinfecting a heated breathing conduit and a patient interface.

Abstract: A surface sensing device is mounted on an articulating probe head of a coordinate measuring machine. The device includes an elongate probe holder which is rotatable about an axis. An elongate sensing module includes a surface finish or surface roughness probe with a stylus tip. This is connected to the probe holder via an adjustable knuckle joint. To determine the geometry of the surface sensing device, including the tip normal and drag vector of the stylus tip, the orientations of the probe holder and the sensing module are determined by probing points which are spaced along their lengths, using a separate probe.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. The invention also relates to compositions comprising the polypeptides of the invention and the use of the polypeptides of the invention to release xylose and in animal feed.

Abstract: A method for the content capture of an environment of a vehicle is disclosed. The method uses an artificial intelligence neural network, on the basis of a point cloud generated by an environment sensor of the vehicle. The method involves performing reference measurements by the environment sensor to capture reference objects depending on positions in the environment in relation to the environment sensor, generating confidence values depending on positions in the environment in relation to the environment sensor on the basis of the reference measurements by the environment sensor to capture the reference objects, training the artificial intelligence for the content capture of the environment on the basis of training point clouds for the environment sensor, capturing the environment by the environment sensor to generate the point cloud, and processing the point cloud generated by the environment sensor using the trained artificial intelligence for the content capture of the environment.