Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding/pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or of a domestic appliance for pulling out and raising the shelf from a body of the piece of furniture or of the domestic appliance, which sliding/pivoting mechanism has at least two pivoting arms, which are fastened by means of a first end to at least one of the side walls of the body in such a way that said pivoting arms can be rotated parallel to the plane of the side walls and which are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, wherein at respective second ends of the pivoting arms, a guide rail is fastened in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position inside the body to a raised upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail, which is linearly displacable in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened, wherein a damping unit that damps the

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and/or, authenticating, and/or authorizing a first radio station in a radio network, comprising the steps of (a) at the first radio station, transmitting to a second radio station a first radio station identifier computed from a set of identity parameters based on the identity of the first radio station, comprising at least one identity parameter, (b) at the first radio station, transmitting at least one identity parameter from the set of identity parameters, (c) at the second radio station, comparing an authentication identifier computed on the basis of the transmitted identity parameter to the first radio station identifier for enabling a subsequent communication between the first and second radio stations.

Abstract: A cooking appliance apparatus includes at least one mechanical switch having at least one armature element and at least one driver coil, with the at least one driver coil being configured to at least initiate at least one switching operation of the at least one armature element. At least one mean coil voltage is supplied by at least one driver circuit configured for the at least one driver coil. A control unit supplies at least one control signal for controlling the at least one driver circuit. The control unit is configured to divide the at least one switching operation into at least one first time subrange and at least one second time subrange and to operate the at least one driver coil differently via the at least one driver circuit in the first and second time subranges.

Abstract: A cooking appliance apparatus includes at least one mechanical switch, and at least one driver circuit configured to activate the at least one mechanical switch. The at least one driver circuit includes a protection unit and a bypassing unit, which bypasses the protection unit at least partially in at least one operating state. The bypassing unit is configured as self-controlling.

Abstract: A cooking appliance apparatus includes an inductor, an inverter to supply a high-frequency heating current for the inductor, and a switch to break and/or establish at least one conduction path between the at least one inverter and the at least one inductor. A control unit is provided to deactivate the inverter during a first time interval and to initiate a switching of the switch, with the switching starting and ending within a second time interval, which in a normal operating state is arranged within the at least one first time interval and which in an incorrect operating state has at least one time point, which lies outside the at least one first time interval. The control unit is configured to match the first time interval and the second time interval dynamically to one another.

Abstract: A multiplexed multilevel converter amplifier. The converter is configured to generate a converter voltage. The converter voltage varies among a plurality of voltage levels. A multiplexer is comprised of at least four switches configured to generate a positive output voltage and a negative output voltage according to a configuration of the at least four switches. The positive output voltage varies between the converter voltage and a positive supply rail and the negative output voltage varies between the converter voltage and a negative supply rail. An amplifier is supplied by the multiplexer, and the amplifier generates an output voltage that varies between the positive output voltage and the negative output voltage. A control module is configured to control the configuration of the at least four switches of the multiplexer and the plurality of voltage levels of the converter voltage, such that the converter voltage is synchronized with the output voltage.

Abstract: The invention relates to the control of networked lighting systems, particularly large scale networked lighting systems, and more specifically to an efficient transmission of messages to control luminaries of a networked lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an efficient and flexible multicast, particularly groupcast message that addresses several or a group of luminaires, and that can control the addressed luminaries in an efficient way by compressing the distributed light settings using a function in order to reduce the communicational overhead.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and/or, authenticating, and/or authorizing a first radio station in a radio network, comprising the steps of (a) at the first radio station, transmitting to a second radio station a first radio station identifier computed from a set of identity parameters based on the identity of the first radio station, comprising at least one identity parameter, (b) at the first radio station, transmitting at least one identity parameter from the set of identity parameters, (c) at the second radio station, comparing an authentication identifier computed on the basis of the transmitted identity parameter to the first radio station identifier for enabling a subsequent communication between the first and second radio stations.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device comprising a routing controller for routing messages to a plurality of node devices of a network, the routing controller comprising at least one global instance enabling the routing of messages to a routing set of node devices, at least one local instance for routing packets to a neighbor node device neighboring the device, wherein the neighbor node device is selected regardless whether the neighbor node device belongs to the routing set of node devices, and wherein the routing controller is configured to use the local instance for routing of multicast messages to the node devices.

Abstract: An insect control system has a light source arrangement (10) comprising one or more light sources with tuneable spectrum, polarization, intensity and or flickering pattern. The system enables a particular type of insect to be attracted or repelled in a particular time period.

Abstract: System using on- or in-body communication technologies such as body-sound communication (BSC) or body-coupled communication (BCC) to obtain information on the body composition of a patient (e.g. water content/hydration level on bone density/joint status). The system, in a preferred embodiment, comprises a transmitter, receiver and processor connected to the receiver. The transmitter is arranged to transmit a signal through a medium (the body of the patient), the signal comprising a plurality of different frequency components and transmission technologies. The receiver is arranged to receive the signal following propagation through the said medium. The processor is arranged to generate, at a first time, one or more transfer functions from the received signal, each transfer function defining values for a predetermined signal parameter at different frequencies.

Abstract: An initiating key-agreement device (100) and a responding key-agreement device (200) are provided, configured to generate a symmetric key shared between them. The devices are configured for generating in electronic form a private random value (112, 212), obtaining in electronic form a public set of bivariate polynomials (122) and computing a univariate polynomial (124, 222) by summing the univariate polynomials obtained by substituting the private random value (112, 212) into the polynomials of the public set (122). The devices are configured to send their computed univariate polynomial to the other device, and to compute or reconstruct the shared symmetric key (214, 312) by substituting its generated private random value (112, 212) in the received univariate polynomial.

Abstract: For load balancing in a large-scale wireless mesh network, a device, a system and a method are provided for controlling data packet transmissions in the wireless mesh network, wherein answers to more than one received data packet are aggregated in one answer-batch.

Abstract: The invention relates to the control of networked lighting systems, particularly large scale networked lighting systems, and more specifically to an efficient transmission of messages to control luminaries of a networked lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an efficient and flexible multicast, particularly group cast message that addresses several or a group of luminaires, and that can control the addressed luminaries in an efficient way by compressing the distributed light settings using a function in order to reduce the communicational overhead.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting a failed luminaire and/or light sensor in a lighting system comprising M luminaires and N light sensors. The elements Dsl of an N×M transfer matrix D expresses how each luminaire l affect a light sensor s with respect to sensed light intensity, wherein s=1, 2, . . . N, and l=1, 2, . . . , M.

Abstract: A system (200) for configuring a network device (300) for sharing a key, the shared key being • bits long, the system comprising:—a key material obtainer (210) for—obtaining in electronic form a first private set of bivariate polynomials (252, {hacek over (z)}?(,)), and a second private set of reduction integers (254, f?), with each bivariate polynomial in the first set there is associated a reduction integer of the second set, and a public global reduction integer (256, . . .

Abstract: An induction hob device includes at least one induction heating element adapted to heat a cooking utensil, and at least one detection circuit which cooperates with the at least one induction heating element to detect a presence of the cooking utensil. The at least one detection circuit is hereby directly connected to the at least one induction heating element irrespective of an operating state.

Abstract: A method of configuring a network device for key sharing and a method for a first network device to determine a shared key are provided. The method of configuring uses a private private modulus, and a modulus (p1) a public modulus (N), and a bivariate polynomial (f1) having integer coefficients, the binary representation of the public modulus and the binary representation of the private modulus are the same in at least key length (b) consecutive bits. Local key material for a network device is generated by substituting an identity number into the bivariate polynomial and reducing modulo the private modulus the result of the substitution to obtain a univariate polynomial. Security may be increased by adding (440) one or more obfuscating numbers to coefficients of the univariate polynomial to obtain an obfuscated univariate polynomial.

Abstract: A sliding and pivoting mechanism of a rack of an item of furniture or domestic appliance for extending and raising the rack out of a body of the item of furniture or domestic appliance, having at least two pivoting arms which are fixed rotatably to at least one of the side walls of the body with a first end parallel to the plane of the side walls, and are arranged spaced apart parallel to each other, wherein a guide rail is fixed pivotably to respective second ends of the pivoting arms parallel to the plane of the side walls in such a manner that the guide rail can be pivoted out of a lower position within the body into a raised, upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail which is displaceable linearly in the guide rail and to which the rack is fastened, wherein the sliding and pivoting mechanism has a locking mechanism which is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivoting arms and is actuable by an activator fixed on the running rail in order to prevent a simul

Abstract: This invention refers to a device and method that permits the evaluation of the quality of the coating applied in the hollow interior of a part, via non-destructive, electro-chemical testing. This device allows the hollow interior of the part to be isolated and sealed from the rest of the part, allowing the electrolyte solution to only be in contact with the hollow interior of the part being tested.