Abstract: The invention relates to a clearance compensation unit for a plug connection, in particular an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a plug connector and a counter connector, the clearance compensation unit comprising a clearance compensation spring which has at least two spring portions in such a way that clearance between the plug connector and the counter connector can be compensated in at least two dimensions by means of the spring portions, it being possible to push the plug connector against another spring portion of the clearance compensation spring or against a limit stop of the counter connector. The invention further relates to a plug connector; a counter connector; in particular a plug, a built-in plug, a coupling or a socket; a housing therefor; or a support collar; preferably for an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a clearance compensation unit according to the invention.

Abstract: The light-radiating semiconductor component has a radiation-emitting semiconductor body and a luminescence conversion element. The semiconductor body emits radiation in the ultraviolet, blue and/or green spectral region and the luminescence conversion element converts a portion of the radiation into radiation of a longer wavelength. This makes it possible to produce light-emitting diodes which radiate polychromatic light, in particular white light, with only a single light-emitting semiconductor body. A particularly preferred luminescence conversion dye is YAG:Ce.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a joining arrangement for joining joining partners of a vehicle, including a first joining partner and at least one second joining partner wherein a holding device is provided that serves for connecting the joining partners in order to form the joining arrangement, where the holding device has a receiving structure at which at least one adhesive element is arranged that can be brought into at least two states, where in a first state the adhesive element allows for adjusting the second joining partner to the first joining partner and where a transition from the first state to a second state can be effected by a transformation means, where in the second state the adhesive element is cured, whereby the joining partners can be fixed to each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug connector (1) for an electrical cable (2), with a strand guide (10) which is provided on the electrical plug connector (1) so as to be able to move, wherein the strand guide (10) or the electrical plug connector (1) has a release means (112, 212) which can be used to separate the strand guide (10) from the electrical plug connector (1). The invention further relates to a manufactured electrical cable with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention; and also to an electrical or electronic apparatus or component, with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention or a manufactured electrical cable according to the invention.

Abstract: A sensor element is provided for gas sensors, in particular to determine particles in gas mixtures, the sensor element including at least one electrochemical measuring element exposed to the gas mixture to be determined, and at least one temperature-measuring element integrated into the sensor element. The temperature-measuring element includes a resistor track, which has an electric resistance of less than 180 Ohm at 0° C. The resistor track may thus be produced by thin-foil technology, such as screen printing, for example.

Abstract: The belt device comprises a torso portion, a collar portion, sensor elements and at least a first and a second closure element. The first closure element is part of the collar portion on the front side and a second closure element is part of the torso portion on the front side. The closure elements arranged in such a way that they can be opened by a wearer in a comfortable way. The user is able to put on and off the belt system without help of a third person. By the ability to combine different sized collar portions with different sized torso portions a belt device system is provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a joining assembly for joining partners of a vehicle, including a first joining partner, at least one second joining partner, and a holding device by which the joining partners can be connected to each other to form the joining assembly, where the holding device includes a receiving structure on which at least one adhesive member is arranged, which can be brought into at least two states, where in a first state, the adhesive member allows an adjustment of the second joining partner on the first joining partner, where the change from the first state into a second state can be activated by transformation means, where in the second state, the adhesive member is cured, whereby fixation of the joining partners to each other can be achieved.

Abstract: The invention concerns a procedure to ascertain a concentration of sooty particles in an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine or a depletion of an emission control system of the internal combustion engine due to the loading of sooty particles, whereby the sooty particle concentration in the exhaust gas system is determined by means of a collecting particle sensor, which emits a sensor signal and whereby the depletion of the emission control system due to the loading of sooty particles is determined from the sooty particle concentration. The task is thereby solved, in that the sensor signal is corrected by means of predetermined corrections with regard to a sensor temperature and/or an exhaust gas temperature and/or a flow velocity of the exhaust gas and/or a voltage applied at the particle sensor.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a physiological condition of an individual. The system (1) comprises sensing means (3) arranged to pick up a first signal (M) in a first mode of the system, said first signal being representative of the physiological condition and to forward the first signal to a signal processing unit (33). The system comprises an actuatable control unit (2) positioned remote from the signal processing unit, the control unit (2) being suitable to generate a second signal (T) arranged to be superimposed on the first signal (M). The signal processing unit (33, 37) is arranged to decode the second signal and to make the system enter into a second mode upon receipt of the second signal (T).

Abstract: A cooling element with a sorption agent, that under vacuum can sorb a vapor-like working agent that evaporates from a liquid working agent in an evaporator and with a regulator organ in a working agent vapor channel between the sorption agent and the evaporator, wherein the entire cooling element is hermetically enclosed by a gas-tight multi-layer film, the multi-layer film has a flexible construction and is under vacuum so encloses the regulator organ, the working agent vapor channel and the evaporator, that the evaporator and the working agent vapor channel remain flexible and the working agent vapor can flow to the sorption agent only through the regulator organ.

Abstract: The wavelength-converting casting composition is based on a transparent epoxy casting resin with a luminous substance admixed. The composition is used in an electroluminescent component having a body that emits ultraviolet, blue or green light. An inorganic luminous substance pigment powder with luminous substance pigments is dispersed in the transparent epoxy casting resin. The luminous substance is a powder of Ce-doped phosphors and the luminous substance pigments have particle sizes ?20 ?m and a mean grain diameter d50?5 ?m.

Abstract: The invention relates to a clearance compensation unit for a plug connection, in particular an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a plug connector and a counter connector, the clearance compensation unit comprising a clearance compensation spring which has at least two spring portions in such a way that clearance between the plug connector and the counter connector can be compensated in at least two dimensions by means of the spring portions, it being possible to push the plug connector against another spring portion of the clearance compensation spring or against a limit stop of the counter connector. The invention further relates to a plug connector; a counter connector; in particular a plug, a built-in plug, a coupling or a socket; a housing therefor; or a support collar; preferably for an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a clearance compensation unit according to the invention.

Abstract: A method is described for controlling the soot deposition on sensors. A sensor element is provided, which includes a first electrode and a second electrode. Different measuring voltages U1 and U2 can be applied to the sensor element. During a first time period t1, the sensor element is operated at a higher voltage U1 until a triggering threshold AP of the sensor element is exceeded, while it is operated at a voltage U2, which is different from higher voltage U1, U2 being lower than voltage U1, during a second time period t2.

Abstract: A method and a particle sensor for measuring particles, especially soot particles, in which the particles to be detected accumulate in a measuring region of the particle sensor. The particles located in the gas stream or the particles already accumulated in the measuring region are burned by a combustion device, the combustion being controlled via a control signal from a control unit, which is electrically connected to a measuring device, in such a way that the quantity of the particles adhering in the measuring region remains constant. The physical variable of the combustion device, which leads to the controlled combustion of the particles, is drawn upon as the signal amplitude of the particle sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug connector (1) for an electrical cable (2), with a strand guide (10) which is provided on the electrical plug connector (1) so as to be able to move, wherein the strand guide (10) or the electrical plug connector (1) has a release means (112, 212) which can be used to separate the strand guide (10) from the electrical plug connector (1). The invention further relates to a manufactured electrical cable with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention; and also to an electrical or electronic apparatus or component, with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention or a manufactured electrical cable according to the invention.

Abstract: An impedance measurement circuit comprises a current source arrangement, a voltage measurement arrangement and a processor. The circuit is operable in a two-point measurement mode and a four-point measurement mode and the processor as is adapted to derive the impedance to be measured by combining the measurement voltages from the two-point and the four-point measurement modes. This combines the results of both two-point and four-point measurement techniques to provide improved accuracy. In particular, the two results enable the effect of the electrode resistance to be cancelled.

Abstract: A sensor element is described that includes at least one semiconductor component having a gas-sensitive layer which is attached to a substrate by the flip-chip method, the gas-sensitive layer facing the substrate and a supply arrangement being provided to supply a gas to be examined to the gas-sensitive layer. The semiconductor component is enclosed in a casing. Also described is a method for manufacturing the sensor element, in which a semiconductor component having a gas-sensitive layer is attached by the flip-chip method to a substrate in such a way that the gas-sensitive layer faces the substrate. After that, the casing is applied by a plasma sputtering method, in particular an atmospheric plasma sputtering method. Finally, a use of the sensor element in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine is also described.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for the defined regeneration of a sooty surface, in particular a ceramic sensor surface, in which the soot particles adhering to the surface are burned off by a dielectrically hindered discharge by of a discharge device, power of the dielectrically hindered discharge is set such that a higher rate of removal of the soot particles than their rate of deposition on the surface is effected, after the regeneration phase, the remaining soot deposit is detected by a measuring device mounted on the surface, wherein an undefined state of the sensor surface does not occur, and the discharge device and the measuring device may be mounted very compactly on one or two ceramic substrate elements.

Abstract: A sensor element for gas sensors for determining the concentration of particulates in gas mixtures, in particular soot sensors having at least one first measuring electrode applied to an electrically insulating substrate and at least one second measuring electrode, a voltage being applicable to the first and second measuring electrodes. The first measuring electrode is at least partly covered by a porous material open to diffusion of the particles to be determined.

Abstract: A sensor for determining the concentration of particles in gases, in particular of soot particles, has at least one substrate element, and a measuring area between at least one first and one second measuring electrode, the two measuring electrodes being configured so that by applying a voltage between the measuring electrodes, an asymmetric electric field is formed on the measuring area. The sides of the first and second measuring electrodes, facing one another, may not be parallel to one another, for example. Furthermore, at least one measuring electrode may have a structure along the side facing the other measuring electrode or along the finger electrodes.