Abstract: A household appliance including an information light device that allows a user of the household appliance to determine when the household device is in operation, and a method thereof. The information light device may include a light guide structured to indicate an operating status of the household appliance. The light guide may be disposed at a lower portion of the household appliance, and embodied as a wave guide where at least part of the light that exits the light guide is guided in a direction that is perpendicular to the light guide and onto a floor where the household appliance is disposed.

Abstract: A home appliance includes an electronic controller with a trigger port which starts an operating cycle for the home appliance in response to a signal received on the trigger port that indicates availability of an alternative resource.

Abstract: A household appliance including an information light device that allows a user of the household appliance to determine when the household device is in operation, and a method thereof. The information light device may include a light guide structured to indicate an operating status of the household appliance. The light guide may be disposed at a lower portion of the household appliance, and embodied as a wave guide where at least part of the light that exits the light guide is guided in a direction that is perpendicular to the light guide and onto a floor where the household appliance is disposed.

Abstract: A dishwasher, wherein a duct system has a function describing a pressure difference in dependence on the rotational speed of the circulating pump and having a lower rotational speed range in which the pressure difference changes at most in proportion to the rotational speed of the circulating pump and an upper rotational speed range in which the pressure difference changes more than in proportion to the rotational speed of the circulating pump; and wherein the control device has a first rinsing program in which the circulating pump is operated at a normal cleaning rotational speed for normal cleaning of the rinsing stock and a second rinsing program in which the circulating pump is operated at an intensive cleaning rotational speed higher than the normal cleaning rotational speed and lying in the upper rotational speed range for intensive cleaning of the rinsing stock.

Abstract: A dishwasher including a variable spray device operable to spray a liquid into a washing container of the dishwasher, the variable spray device, and a method thereof. The variable spray device may be structured to include a chamber for receiving the liquid therein, such as a dishwashing liquid or water, and a liquid deflector disposed in the chamber. The liquid deflector may have a geometrically shaped perimeter, for example, a conical shape, that allows for the generation of a centrifugal force within the chamber used in directing the spray of the liquid into the washing container. By varying a force or pressure of the liquid as it interacts with the liquid deflector in the chamber, variable spray patterns may be generated.

Abstract: A home appliance includes an electronic controller with a trigger port which starts an operating cycle for the home appliance in response to a signal received on the trigger port that indicates availability of an alternative resource.

Abstract: The invention relates to an overload protection device (1) comprising a housing (2) which is designed to be fixed to a manipulation device. The overload protection device comprises a tool holder (3) for fixing a tool that is attached to the housing in a displaceable manner, a pre-tensioning unit (4) for generating a pre-tensioning force between the housing and the tool holder, the pre-tensioning unit being configured as a piston assembly with a pressure piston which can be loaded by a medium and with a switching unit (5) that operates by means of relative displacement between the housing and the tool holder. The switching unit has a least one electrically conducting switching surface (6) and at least one electrically conducting contact element (7) that can be brought into electrical contact with the switching surface, the switching surface (6) and the contact element (7) being provided on an opposing surface section (8) of the tool holder and the housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gripper device (10) for mounting rubber elastic rings (5) on the inner wall (62) of a workpiece opening and/or on the exterior of a workpiece. Said device comprises a basic housing (12), forming jaws (14) that can be displaced in relation to the basic housing (12) and bearing jaws (16). To displace the plate element together with the jaws that are located on said element in an axial direction, the element is provided with a piston (20) which engages in a piston cylinder (22) in the basic housing. The disclosure is characterized in that the displacement of the jaws that are located on the plate element (18) is mechanically coupled by means of a common actuator (24) and that said actuator (24) is driven by an actuator piston (25) that is located in the piston (20).

Abstract: The invention relates to an overload protection device (1) comprising a housing (2) which is designed to be fixed to a manipulation device. The overload protection device comprises a tool holder (3) for fixing a tool that is attached to the housing in a displaceable manner, a pre-tensioning unit (4) for generating a pre-tensioning force between the housing and the tool holder, the pre-tensioning unit being configured as a piston assembly with a pressure piston which can be loaded by a medium and with a switching unit (5) that operates by means of relative displacement between the housing and the tool holder. The switching unit has a least one electrically conducting switching surface (6) and at least one electrically conducting contact element (7) that can be brought into electrical contact with the switching surface, the switching surface (6) and the contact element (7) being provided on an opposing surface section (8) of the tool holder and the housing.

Abstract: In the case of a mask having a structure which can be imaged on a substrate lithographically at a predetermined exposure wavelength and has at least one structure element with a width in the same order of magnitude as the exposure wavelength, the structure element is subdivided into sections which are separated from one another and whose length is in the same order of magnitude as the exposure wavelength.

Abstract: A parallel gripper includes a housing and two adjustable gripper base jaws which are displacably guided in a jaw guiding recess. The base jaws are moved relative to one another by a wedge hook gearing that is adjusted by a piston guided in the housing. The jaw guiding recess is provided with complementary configured guiding grooves. The ratio of the wall thickness of the housing between the base of the guiding grooves and the outside of the housing to the width of the housing measured vertically in relation to the direction of displacement of the base jaws is at least 0.2. The ratio of the width of inclined traction of the wedge hook gearing to the outside width of the base jaws is at least 0.4.

Abstract: The invention relates to a parallel gripper comprising a housing (4) and two adjustable gripper base jaws (10, 12) which are guided in the housing (4) in a jaw guiding recess (8) in a displaceable manner. The base jaws (10, 12) can be moved towards or away from one another by means of a wedge hook gearing (20) that can be adjusted by means of a piston (30) that is guided in said housing. The aim of the invention is to provide a compact parallel gripper for transmitting and receiving great gripper forces or overturning moments. According to the invention, the parallel gripper is configured in such a way that the piston (30) is provided with an oval or essentially rectangular form having rounded edges and that the base jaws (10, 12) are provided with at least two guiding webs (16) on both sides respectively. Said webs are rectangular, wedge-shaped or trapezoidal in the cross-section thereof and extend in the direction of displacement (6).

Abstract: Deaggregated highly disperse silicic acid, in which the average particle size is less than 100 nm, preferably less than 50 nm, is prepared by extremely high mechanical stress. The deaggregated silicic acid is employed as a filler in silicone rubber mixtures.