Abstract: A method for processing workpieces, in particular by painting, using a robot to simplify planning of the robot path or to make it fully automatic. The method can be used individually and together particularly advantageously. For example, not only can a painting strategy developed on at least one sample workpiece be transferred in a specifically adapted form to a large number of workpieces or workpiece sections of the same shape without having to position the workpieces exactly the same, but also deviations in the assembly of individual workpiece sections can be compensated.

Abstract: A cell separating element for arrangement between two battery cells of a cell stack, the cell separating element is elastically compressible at least in a first direction and includes at least one fire protection layer. The cell separating element includes a flexible outer shell enclosing an interior space in which a fluid is located, the at least one fire protection layer is arranged in the interior space and comprises an intumescent material.

Abstract: Methods for assessing the result of a surface treatment carried out on a workpiece by particle blasting are disclosed. It is generally common to known automatic methods that they directly determine the covered portion of the surface. Proceeding from the usual definition of the usual 98% degree of coverage as “completely blasted” results in an error in the determination of the corresponding area of 1% to a distortion of the measurement result by 0.98%. In the disclosed method measuring points are identified as not hit by a particle of the particle beam when both a detected surface level is above a level located about a predetermined height threshold value lower than a target level, and a detected gradient falls below a predetermined gradient threshold value.

Abstract: A cell separating element is for arrangement at a prismatic battery cell. The cell separating element includes a first wall and a second wall opposing the first wall, between which a cavity filled or fillable with a fluid is formed to provide a pad filled or fillable with the fluid. The cell separating element divides into a pad area and a cell separating element peripheral area surrounding the pad area in closed manner in a circumferential direction, in which the first wall and the second wall are connected to each other. A first part of a first peripheral area of the first wall is formed as an attachment flap to attach the cell separating element to the battery cell and is arranged angled at an angle (a) to a second part of the first peripheral area adjoining to the pad area and situated in a pad plane of the pad.

Abstract: A cell separating element for thermally shielding two battery cells and for arrangement between the two battery cells, of a battery, may include a first wall and a second wall opposing it, between which a cavity filled or fillable with a fluid is formed, to provide a pad filled or fillable with the fluid. In an example, the walls may be shell-shaped. At least the first wall may include an embossed, depressed structural pattern with at least one embossed, depressed structural element. The structural pattern, when the pad is compressed such that the at least one structural element has contact with an inner side of the second wall adjoining to the cavity, is elastically deformable and/or plastically deformable such that a cavity volume of the cavity increases by a plastic deformation of the structural pattern.

Abstract: A battery cell which has a cell housing which encloses a cell interior. The cell housing has a first housing side in which a releasable cell degassing opening is arranged, and which includes an electrode layer arrangement arranged in the cell interior, and an insulation element made of an electrically insulating material arranged between the electrode layer arrangement and the first housing side in the cell interior. The insulation element has a bursting area which is directly opposite to the releasable cell degassing opening.

Abstract: An adjusting device is provided for positioning an object. The adjusting device includes a base and a supply line. The base is configured to move an object that is connectable to the base in the connected state along a path of motion in a position-controlled manner. The supply line supplies the energy and/or signal transmission to and/or from the base. The supply line is coupled to the base in a reversibly detachable manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a double-leaf vehicle door device comprising at least the following: two door leaves, each of which can be moved between an open position and a closed position in the form of a respective end position and into any intermediate position between the first open position and the first closed position, wherein a first movement of the first door leaf between the first open position and the first closed position is carried out without mechanically coupling the first door leaf to the second door leaf in contrast to a second movement of the second door leaf between the second open position and the second closed position, and a common locking device is provided which locks the first door leaf in the closed position when the first door leaf is located in the closed position and which locks the second door leaf in the closed position when the second door leaf is in the closed position.

Abstract: A cage nut for connection to a support element having a screw nut which is arranged in a captive and/or twist-proof manner in a nut cage which can be fastened to the support element and has play. The screw nut can be displaced between axial stops in the non-screwed state, and at least one spacer is formed on the screw nut front side facing toward an axial stop, via which the screw nut can be brought into contact with the axial stop, due to which an adhesive bond between the screw nut and the axial stop of the nut cage can be reduced. The spacer is produced in a forming process in which the screw nut is deformable to produce the spacer.

Abstract: A prismatic battery cell including a cell housing made of a first material. The cell housing includes a first cell wall with a releasable cell degassing opening. The battery cell includes a heat protection element with a base element which is formed from a second material which has a higher melting point than the first material, and which has two opposing side tabs and a base plate which connects these via a respective protective edge and has a through-opening. The base plate is arranged flat against the first cell wall or is integrated into the first cell wall so that the through-opening overlaps with the releasable cell degassing opening, and the respective first and second protective edges overlap with at least part of the respective first and second edges or are integrated into them.

Abstract: A vehicle sliding door device includes at least one sliding door which can be moved in a movement direction or a pivoting and sliding door which can be pivoted in a pivoting direction and which can be moved in a movement direction relative to a door frame that has a door opening, and a locking device for locking the at least one sliding door at least in the closed position that includes an emergency unlocking device, by which the at least one sliding door which is locked in the closed position can be unlocked in the event of an emergency. An emergency opening device is provided for at least partly opening the at least one sliding door or the pivoting and sliding door in the event of an emergency in an emergency unlocking state.

Abstract: Methods for assessing the result of a surface treatment carried out on a workpiece by particle blasting are disclosed. It is generally common to known automatic methods that they directly determine the covered portion of the surface. Proceeding from the usual definition of the usual 98% degree of coverage as “completely blasted” results in an error in the determination of the corresponding area of 1% to a distortion of the measurement result by 0.98%. In the disclosed method measuring points are identified as not hit by a particle of the particle beam when both a detected surface level is above a level located about a predetermined height threshold value lower than a target level, and a detected gradient falls below a predetermined gradient threshold value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a prosthetic foot (10) which has an upper part (11) with a fastening element (13) for a proximal prosthetic component (20) and a foot part (12) mounted thereon so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis (15), comprising a resistance device (40) used to counteract a pivoting movement of the foot part (12) relative to the upper part (11) by way of an adjustable resistance (Am), and comprising a control device (70) which is coupled to the resistance device (40) and to at least one sensor (60) and by means of which the resistance to pivoting is set on the basis of sensor data, wherein ground contact of the foot part (12) with the ground is determined by way of at least one sensor (60), wherein the relative spatial position of the foot part (12) and/or of the upper part (11) is determined using an inertial measurement unit (30) and wherein the resistance (Am) to pivoting is altered on the basis of the presence or lack of ground contact and the determined relative spa

Abstract: An adjusting device is provided for positioning an object. The adjusting device includes a base and a supply line. The base is configured to move an object that is connectable to the base in the connected state along a path of motion in a position-controlled manner. The supply line supplies the energy and/or signal transmission to and/or from the base. The supply line is coupled to the base in a reversibly detachable manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a double-leaf vehicle door device comprising at least the following: two door leaves, each of which can be moved between an open position and a closed position in the form of a respective end position and into any intermediate position between the first open position and the first closed position, wherein a first movement of the first door leaf between the first open position and the first closed position is carried out without mechanically coupling the first door leaf to the second door leaf in contrast to a second movement of the second door leaf between the second open position and the second closed position, and a common locking device is provided which locks the first door leaf in the closed position when the first door leaf is located in the closed position and which locks the second door leaf in the closed position when the second door leaf is in the closed position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reducing the electromagnetic interference produced during the switching to the on state of a transistor for switching a quasi-resonant DC-DC voltage converter. The method includes the steps of: the transistor being initially controlled so as to be in the on state on the basis of a first control current, controlling the driving module by way of the control module so that the driving module switches the transistor to the off state at a first instant; and triggering the timer from the first instant, and, if the timer reaches a predefined duration threshold, controlling, by means of the driving module, the transistor so as to be in the on state on the basis of a second control current the intensity of which is lower than the intensity of the first control current.

Abstract: A vehicle sliding door device includes at least one sliding door which can be moved in a movement direction or a pivoting and sliding door which can be pivoted in a pivoting direction and which can be moved in a movement direction relative to a door frame that has a door opening, and a locking device for locking the at least one sliding door at least in the closed position that includes an emergency unlocking device, by which the at least one sliding door which is locked in the closed position can be unlocked in the event of an emergency. An emergency opening device is provided for at least partly opening the at least one sliding door or the pivoting and sliding door in the event of an emergency in an emergency unlocking state.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reducing the electromagnetic interference produced during the switching to the on state of a transistor for switching a quasi-resonant DC-DC voltage converter. The method includes the steps of: the transistor being initially controlled so as to be in the on state on the basis of a first control current, controlling the driving module by way of the control module so that the driving module switches the transistor to the off state at a first instant; and triggering the timer from the first instant, and, if the timer reaches a predefined duration threshold, controlling, by means of the driving module, the transistor so as to be in the on state on the basis of a second control current the intensity of which is lower than the intensity of the first control current.

Abstract: A joining connection with a weld seam running between a first metal component and a second metal component and produced by a beam welding method. The weld seam has a weld seam main section extending along a joining gap formed between the metal components, the weld seam has a weld seam starting section leading from the direction of the joining gap into the first or second component. The first or second component has a recess in the region of the weld seam starting section that is lowered in relation to the upper edges of the two components forming the joining gap, and/or the weld seam has a weld seam end section leading from the direction of the joining gap into the first or second component.

Abstract: A molded component is produced by heating a non-woven material web to bring it into a plastically deformable state, and then plastically deforming the non-woven material under pressure between two mold tools of a molding apparatus. The mold tools define therebetween at least one or preferably several mold cavities that respectively simultaneously form molded products therein. A cut is formed in the plastically deformable non-woven material web, preferably between two adjacent mold cavities, immediately before and/or during the molding step. The cut facilitates a pulling or flowing of the non-woven material away from the cut and toward a respective mold cavity to facilitate the molding deformation thereof while avoiding excessive stretching and thinning of the non-woven material, especially at the transition area between adjacent mold cavities.