Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor comprising an electronics housing having motor electronics accommodated therein and a stator housing arranged axially at a distance from the electronics housing, wherein, axially between the electronics housing and the stator housing there is arranged a twin-flow cooling wheel which, during operation, generates a first cooling air stream along the electronics housing and a second cooling air stream along the stator housing and/or at least one bearing shield adjoining the stator housing axially.

Abstract: The invention provides improved backpack and waist bag carrying systems in which a waist bag rotates through a lower compartment of a backpack to allow the bearer of the backpack to access the contents of the receiver of the waist bag by rotating the waist bag to the front of the bearer's torso. One or more doors are provided in one aspect to secure the receiver of the waist bag in the lower compartment of the backpack but permit the egress of the receiver through the opening covered by the door, which may be tensioned away from the opening by a tensioning element when the free end of the door is released.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cover device for an electronics housing of an electric motor with at least one base segment and at least one rib formed on the base segment, wherein the base segment is geometrically configured so as to cover at least part of the surface of an electronics housing opening for drawing in a cooling air volume flow in order to close the electronics housing opening at least for a portion against the intrusion of solids, and the base segment forms with the at least one rib at least one flow duct, which can be fluidically connected to the electronics housing opening, and wherein the cover device is designed as a modular insert for the electronics housing.

Abstract: A method for operating an engine is disclosed. The method may include supplying air from a primary air supply unit to an intake conduit. The method may also include supplying air to the engine from the intake conduit. The method may further include selectively supplying air from a secondary air supply unit to the intake conduit. In addition, the method may include maintaining an air fuel ratio between a first threshold value and a second threshold value during an increase in engine load increase by controlling a supply of air from the secondary supply unit to the intake conduit.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an electronic housing for an electric motor, consisting of a housing holder part with a housing floor and a housing wall comprising the housing floor. A housing opening lies opposite the housing floor. Arranged in the housing holder part is a motor electronic component with an electronic printed circuit board, which is arranged parallel to the opening plane of the housing opening. Detachably arranged on the electronic printed circuit board or on the motor electronic component, on a side of the electronic printed circuit board facing away from the housing floor is a contact protecting component, which covers this surface, from an electrically insulating material, which has at least partially a grid structure as an air outlet.

Abstract: An electronics unit and an electromotor with such an electronics unit is provided with a sealing arrangement which seals an interface structural group mounted on a printed circuit board against an inside of the electronics housing as well as on the front side in the area of the plug interface in such a manner that the inside of the electronics housing is sealed against the entrance of a liquid even in the not-in-use state of a connection box of the electronics unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for calibrating a distance measuring device, comprising: a measuring track, on which the distance measuring device is mountable; an areal reflector mountable shiftably on the measuring track for reflecting a measurement signal transmitted from the distance measuring device back to the distance measuring device, so that by means of the distance measuring device a distance measurement for determining a distance (D) between the distance measuring device and the reflector is performable; and a laser distance measuring device mountable on the measuring track for registering tilt of the reflector; wherein means for orienting the distance measuring device are provided, so that measurement signals of the distance measuring device reflected back to the distance measuring device by means of the reflector are received with maximum intensity by the distance measuring device.

Abstract: A fan includes a sealed electronics housing, in which a printed circuit board having electronic components is arranged. The electronics housing is divided into an upper region and a lower region. A cooling wheel which is arranged in the lower region is axially adjacent to the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has at least one central opening and a plurality of peripheral-edge openings or gaps in order to bring the upper region into fluid communication with the lower region. Air is drawn out of the upper region into the lower region by the cooling wheel via the at least one central opening and, via the plurality of peripheral-edge openings or gaps. The air is fed back into the upper region. An air circuit having at least one air flow develops along a surface of the printed circuit board on which the electronic components are arranged.

Abstract: A motor, comprising an electronics housing having integrated motor electronics, a stator, and a rotor. The stator comprises a stator bushing and a laminated stator core having motor windings. The stator bushing is arranged axially between the electronics housing and the rotor. The motor according to the invention has an air-conveying element connected to the rotor in a rotationally fixed manner and at least one axially extending passage opening arranged in the stator bushing. The air-conveying element is arranged axially between the stator bushing and the rotor and has a circumferential axial intake opening on the side of the stator bushing. During motor operation, the air-conveying element sucks in an axial volumetric air flow at an external wall of the electronics housing through the intake opening and the passage opening.

Abstract: The invention provides improved backpack and waist bag carrying systems in which a waist bag rotates through a lower compartment of a backpack to allow the bearer of the backpack to access the contents of the receiver of the waist bag by rotating the waist bag to the front of the bearer's torso.

Abstract: A piston top structural unit for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown structure providing a top surface and a peripheral surface, wherein, regarding a center axis of the piston, the top surface is configured to delimit the piston top structural unit axially with respect to a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine and the peripheral surface is configured to delimit the piston top structural unit radially. The top surface may include a rim surface extending around the center axis, and an inner surface delimiting a piston bowl radially within the peripheral surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for calibrating a distance measuring device (2), comprising: a measuring track (3), on which the distance measuring device (2) is mountable; an areal reflector (4) mountable shiftably on the measuring track (3) for reflecting a measurement signal transmitted from the distance measuring device (2) back to the distance measuring device (2), so that by means of the distance measuring device (2) a distance measurement for determining a distance (D) between the distance measuring device (2) and the reflector (4) is performable; and a laser distance measuring device (5) mountable on the measuring track (3) for registering tilt of the reflector (4); wherein means for orienting the distance measuring device (2) are provided, so that measurement signals of the distance measuring device (2) reflected back to the distance measuring device (2) by means of the reflector (4) are received with maximum intensity by the distance measuring device (2).

Abstract: The invention relates to an earthing device for preventing rotor-induced bearing currents in an electric motor, comprising an electrically conductive annular element having retaining means arranged thereon, to which means fibre bundles are fastened, via which bundles electrical discharge of a static charge to at least one discharge element can be carried out, wherein the fibre bundles are fastened so as to be oriented in an oblique angular position with respect to a radial plane which is perpendicular to an axial centre line of the annular element and/or with respect to an axial plane and have a length protruding from the retaining means of the annular element which is greater than that required to bridge a radial spacing between the annular element and the discharge element.

Abstract: A fan includes a sealed electronics housing, in which a printed circuit board having electronic components is arranged. The electronics housing is divided into an upper region and a lower region. A cooling wheel which is arranged in the lower region is axially adjacent to the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has at least one central opening and a plurality of peripheral-edge openings or gaps in order to bring the upper region into fluid communication with the lower region. Air is drawn out of the upper region into the lower region by the cooling wheel via the at least one central opening and, via the plurality of peripheral-edge openings or gaps. The air is fed back into the upper region. An air circuit having at least one air flow develops along a surface of the printed circuit board on which the electronic components are arranged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radial fan with an impeller (100) and a cylindrical drive unit (200) that can be rotated around the longitudinal axis, whereby the impeller (100) consists of a baseplate and of blades (101) arranged on the baseplate, and whereby the blades are located on the side facing the main air flow, and it is characterized in that the impeller (100) can be operatively connected to the drive unit (200) in two fastening planes.

Abstract: For exhaust gas recirculation in internal combustion engines operating, for example, with low sulphur marine diesel oil, an exhaust gas cooler with a cooling unit may be applied that uses a liquid injection system to maintain clean and/or clean a cooling surface of the cooling unit. The liquid injection system may provide liquid into an exhaust gas passage upstream of and or along a condensation starting region the cooling surface, thereby reducing the formation of films and deposits from particulate matter and condensing liquid of an evaporated liquid within the exhaust gas such as sulphuric acid and/or water, as those deposits could otherwise at least partially block the exhaust gas cooler.

Abstract: The invention provides improved backpack and waist bag carrying systems in which a waist bag rotates through a lower compartment of a backpack to allow the bearer of the backpack to access the contents of the receiver of the waist bag by rotating the waist bag to the front of the bearer's torso. One or more doors are provided in one aspect to secure the receiver of the waist bag in the lower compartment of the backpack but permit the egress of the receiver through the opening covered by the door, which may be tensioned away from the opening by a tensioning element when the free end of the door is released.

Abstract: A motor, comprising an electronics housing having integrated motor electronics, a stator, and a rotor. The stator comprises a stator bushing and a laminated stator core having motor windings. The stator bushing is arranged axially between the electronics housing and the rotor. The motor according to the invention has an air-conveying element connected to the rotor in a rotationally fixed manner and at least one axially extending passage opening arranged in the stator bushing. The air-conveying element is arranged axially between the stator bushing and the rotor and has a circumferential axial intake opening on the side of the stator bushing. During motor operation, the air-conveying element sucks in an axial volumetric air flow at an external wall of the electronics housing through the intake opening and the passage opening.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an electronic housing for an electric motor, consisting of a housing holder part with a housing floor and a housing wall comprising the housing floor. A housing opening lies opposite the housing floor. Arranged in the housing holder part is a motor electronic component with an electronic printed circuit board, which is arranged parallel to the opening plane of the housing opening. Detachably arranged on the electronic printed circuit board or on the motor electronic component, on a side of the electronic printed circuit board facing away from the housing floor is a contact protecting component, which covers this surface, from an electrically insulating material, which has at least partially a grid structure as an air outlet.