Abstract: A protective device for protecting the fingers of a user from cuts while hair threading is presented. The protective device has a guard configured to overlie at least a portion of a finger of a user. The thread for hair threading is wrapped around a portion of the guard so that the thread does not directly come into contact with the skin. The guard has an attachment member configured to maintain the thread in the desired position relative to the finger of the user.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a thermoelectric object for a thermoelectric conversion device in which a powder having a bulk density ds and elements in the ratio of a Half-Heusler alloy with a theoretical density di is provided. The powder is mechanically compressed and a green body with a tap density dK is formed, the tap density dK being up to 30% of the theoretical density di greater than the bulk density ds of the powder. The green body with the tap density dK is sintered at a temperature of 1000° C. to 1500° C. for 0.5 h to 100 h, a thermoelectric object with a density ds of greater that 95% and preferably 99% of the theoretical density di being produced.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing a reliable breaking line for the industrial cutting to length of glass sheets by means of a cutting wheel running on a float glass line under pressure imposed from above, with the following features: a) the location of the beginning of a breaking line is determined and a cutting wheel holder (20) with a cutting wheel (2) is brought into position, b) the cutting wheel holder (20) is lowered and the cutting wheel (2) is lowered onto the glass sheet (1) concerned with the desired pressing pressure, wherein the pressing pressure is set by means of a swing arm (3) and is monitored by means of a strain gauge (4) secured thereto, c) a change in the height of the glass sheet (1) prompts a control signal for an actuating motor (12) to be derived from the change in the resistance of the strain gauge (4), and the actuating motor brings about a corresponding change in the pressing pressure of the cutting wheel (2).

Abstract: A method for producing a thermoelectric object for a thermoelectric conversion device is provided. A starting material which has elements in the ratio of a half-Heusler alloy is melted and then cooled to form at least one ingot. The ingot is homogenized at a temperature of 1000° C. to 1400° C. for a period of time t, wherein 0.5 h?t<12 h or 24 h<t<100 h. The homogenized ingot is crushed and ground into a powder. The powder is cold-pressed and sintered at a maximum pressure of 1 MPa for 0.5 to 24 h at a temperature of 1000° C. to 1500° C.

Abstract: A container arrangement includes a plurality of flexible disposable bags (20a, b, c) which each have an inlet element to which a flexible connecting tube (18a, b, c) is attached, wherein each connecting tube (18a, b, c) branches off from a flexible common main line (12, 14, 16) which has a common inlet section (12) on the intake end. The main line (12, 14, 16) has a common gas outlet section (14) at the discharge end. A non-return valve (146) which closes against the gas outlet direction and a gas-permeable, liquid-tight sterile filter (144) are arranged in the common gas outlet section.

Abstract: An insulating part for a plug connector having a base with a bore for receiving an internal conductor of the plug connector, and an aperture which opens in radial direction into the bore, via which the internal conductor can be inserted into the bore, wherein a cover connected to the main body is provided, which in a first position releases the aperture and in a second position covers the aperture.

Abstract: A method and device for controlling a light emission of a rear lamp of a vehicle. The rear lamp includes optical components having emission surfaces having at least three partial emission surfaces. At least a first and a second light function can be produced by the light emission of the emission surfaces. After a switchover process from the first to the second light function, the first partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, emits no light, the second partial emission surface, which emits light for the first light function, continues to emit light, and the third partial emission surface, which emits no light for the first light function, emits light.

Abstract: A bicycle saddle, in particular a bicycle sports saddle, comprises a saddle shell. On the lower side of the saddle shell reinforcing ribs are provided. The present design and the arrangement of the reinforcing ribs make it possible to realize a light bicycle saddle having a high inherent flexibility.

Abstract: A bicycle handlebar system comprises a control element for controlling an electric auxiliary motor, said element being adapted to be fastened to the handlebar. The control element has a housing, wherein a plurality of switching elements is arranged in recesses in the housing, one membrane button is arranged in the housing per switching element, the switching element acting on said membrane button, and the membrane buttons are interconnected through a common flexibly conductor path.

Abstract: A filling system has a filling apparatus (200) and a container arrangement inserted into the filling apparatus. A main line includes a feed line (102), connected to a supply container (304), and a trunk line (104), connected linearly downstream of the feed line (102). Outside the trunk line (104), at a branching point (114), a branch line (116) branches from the main line (102) to a compressed-gas source (306), and the main line (102) and the branch line (116), on that side of the branching point (114) which is directed away from the trunk line, pass through a double-valve arrangement (214) having two hose-clamping valves (214a, 214b) controlled oppositely to one another.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator device having axial first cooling channels, and second and third cooling channels. The third cooling channels are arranged in the first cooling channels and extend at least substantially along an entire axial length thereof. The stator device is configured for inflow and outflow of a liquid cooling medium at least partially through the second cooling channels and for the liquid cooling medium to be conducted through the third cooling channels. A rotor is arranged on a rotor shaft for rotation around a rotational axis. Limiting elements are mounted on the stator device axially on both sides to thereby bound an internal rotor space which is in communication with axial ends of the first cooling channels of the stator device to thereby establish an internal air-cooling circuit from the internal rotor space through the first cooling channels and back into the internal rotor space.

Abstract: In a decoding device for a Manchester-encoded signal, at least one moving data average and/or one moving clock average is/are formed relative to mutually differing average times using moving-type averaging units, and from these moving average values, binary output signals are made available as data signal and/or clock signal with the aid of comparators.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator, a rotor interacting magnetically with the stator, a housing surrounding the stator and rotor, and a hollow shaft provided for arrangement of the rotor and mounted on the housing. A radial fan is mounted rotationally fixed on the hollow shaft on the ventilation side. A section of a fan blade of the radial fan extends axially away from the housing to a greater extent than the hollow shaft. A guide element with radially extending plate is arranged in the hollow shaft, wherein the plate is arranged axially further away from the housing than the end side of the hollow shaft on the ventilation side. An inner coolant flow can thus be delivered from the section of the fan blade out of the hollow shaft through a passage between the end side of the hollow shaft on the ventilation side and the plate radially outwards.

Abstract: Thermopile infrared sensor structure with a high filling level in a housing filled with a medium (15), consisting of a carrier substrate (11) which has electrical connections (28, 28?) to the outside and is closed with an optical assembly (13), wherein a sensor chip (14) is applied to the carrier substrate (11) in the housing, which chip has a plurality of thermoelectric sensor element structures (16), the so-called “hot contacts” (10) of which are located on individual diaphragms (3) which are stretched across a respective cavity (9) in a silicon carrying body (24) with good thermal conductivity, wherein the “cold contacts” (25) are located on or in the vicinity of the silicon carrying body (24). The problem addressed by the invention is that of specifying a thermopile infrared array sensor (sensor cell) which, with a small chip size, has a high thermal resolution and a particularly high filling level.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of panel elements for the production of composite shuttering elements, of which each panel element has a shuttering panel of predetermined geometry with predetermined length. The shuttering panel is provided with fastening devices and reinforcement elements. According to the method a plurality of standard panels are lined-up abutting along their longitudinal edges against each other and being joined and glued together with the application of a pressing force. A panel band is created from the glued-together standard panels. Individual longitudinal portions are successively separated from the panel band, resulting in individual panels. The individual panels are successively cut to form the respectively individually predetermined geometries of the respective shuttering panel and are then successively provided with the fastening devices and then with the reinforcement elements.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for pulsed RF power delivery to a plasma load for plasma processing of a substrate. In order to maximize power delivery, a calibration phase using a dummy substrate or no substrate in the chamber, is used to ascertain a preferred fixed initial RF frequency for each pulse. This fixed initial RF frequency is then used at the start of each pulse during a processing phase, where a real substrate is used and processed in the chamber.

Abstract: A method and generator for modifying interactions between a load and the generator are described. The method includes applying output power to the load using a power amplifier, controlling a level of the output power responsive to a power control setting, and adjusting a conduction angle of the power amplifier to reduce a level of sensitivity of the power amplifier to variations of an impedance of the load. The generator includes a compensation subsystem coupled to the power amplifier that controls a conduction angle of the power amplifier to enable a sensitivity of the power amplifier to be adjusted.

Abstract: For controlling a target system, such as a gas or wind turbine or another technical system, a pool of control policies is used. The pool of control policies including a plurality of control policies and weights for weighting each control policy of the plurality of control policies are received. The plurality of control policies is weighted by the weights to provide a weighted aggregated control policy. The target system is controlled using the weighted aggregated control policy, and performance data relating to a performance of the controlled target system is received. The weights are adjusted based on the received performance data to improve the performance of the controlled target system. The plurality of control policies is reweighted by the adjusted weights to adjust the weighted aggregated control policy.

Abstract: A plastic monofilament has a matrix, which includes a first plastic material at least in a first area, and at least one rib, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the monofilament. The plastic monofilament includes a second plastic material. The second plastic material is held in the first area of the matrix in a positive-locking manner.

Abstract: In a decoding device for a Manchester-encoded signal, at least one moving data average and/or one moving clock average is/are formed relative to mutually differing average times using moving-type averaging units, and from these moving average values, binary output signals are made available as data signal and/or clock signal with the aid of comparators.