Abstract: A vacuum pressure sensor includes a vacuum-tight electrical feedthrough. The feedthrough has an electrically insulating insulator element with a through-opening, having a first boundary surface adjacent to the through-opening and a second boundary surface also adjacent to the through-opening and opposite to the first boundary surface, and an electrically conductive conductor element which extends through the through-opening and which is connected to the insulator element in a vacuum-tight manner along a circumferential line of the conductor element. The insulator element is transmissive to electromagnetic radiation in an optical wavelength range and the first boundary surface and/or the second boundary surface is formed as a curved surface.

Abstract: An electronic chip is disclosed. In one example, the electronic chip comprises a substrate comprising a central portion and an edge portion around at least part of the central portion. An active region is arranged in the central portion. A crack guiding structure combined with a crack stop structure is provided, both being arranged in the edge portion.

Abstract: In order to create a fuel cell system, comprising at least one fuel cell stack and a channel system for supplying a fluid medium to the fuel cell stack and/or for discharging a fluid medium from the fuel cell stack, a first water collection region in which water collects in a first range of operating positions of the fuel cell system, and a first water discharge port by which water is able to be discharged from the first water collection region, in which fuel cell system a drain operation is performable in any operating position of the fuel cell system, by which drain operation accumulated water is able to be discharged from the fuel cell system, it is proposed that the fuel cell system comprises at least one second water collection region in which water collects in a second range of operating positions of the fuel cell system, and at least one second water discharge port by which water is able to be discharged from the second water collection region.

Abstract: A medical image processing method, performed by a computer, for measuring the spatial location of a point on the surface of a patient's body including: acquiring at least two two-dimensional image datasets, wherein each two-dimensional image dataset represents a two-dimensional image of at least a part of the surface which comprises the point, and wherein the two-dimensional images are taken from different and known viewing directions; determining the pixels in the two-dimensional image datasets which show the point on the surface of the body; and calculating the spatial location of the point from the locations of the determined pixels in the two-dimensional image datasets and the viewing directions of the two-dimensional images; wherein the two-dimensional images are thermographic images.

Abstract: A process includes testing a motor vehicle using a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of hardware components and a plurality of software components. The plurality of hardware components includes first hardware components of the vehicle and second hardware components that are separate from the vehicle. The plurality of software components includes first software components of the vehicle and second software components separate from the vehicle. The process includes, responsive to the testing, generating, by the distributed computing system, an audit record. Generating the audit record includes determining, by the distributed computing system, integrity measurements of the first hardware components, the second hardware components, the first software components and the second software components.

Abstract: A humidifying device for transferring water and/or water vapour from waste air of a waste air flow to supply air of a supply air flow is provided. In the compensating chamber of the housing of the humidifying device, at least one spreading means is arranged, which spreads apart the plate stack of the humidifying device and the housing cover closing the housing in the direction of the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A housing for a traction battery of a hybrid or electric vehicle may include at least two housing parts and at least one coolant tube. The at least two housing parts may include a first housing part and a second housing part, which are separate from one another. Each of the housing parts may include a bottom and a plurality of side walls perpendicularly projecting from the bottom. The at least one coolant tube may be arranged between a first side wall of the first housing part and a second side wall of the second housing part. The at least two housing parts may each be glued to the at least one coolant tube via a respective adhesive layer of a plurality of adhesive layers such that the at least two housing parts are connected to one another via the at least one coolant tube.

Abstract: A headlamp for a vehicle, having: an LED unit for providing a headlamp beam and a control unit for controlling the LED unit. To this end, provision is made according to the invention that the LED unit has a coding resistance that is designed to identify the headlamp as a left headlamp or as a right headlamp.

Abstract: Vacuum-tight electrical feedthrough 10, comprising an electrically insulating insulator element 2 having a through-opening 23, having a first boundary surface 21 adjacent to the through-opening, and having a second boundary surface 22 also adjacent to the through-opening and opposite to the first boundary surface, and an electrically conductive conductor element 1 which extends through the through-opening 23 and which is connected to the insulator element 2 in a vacuum-tight manner along a circumferential line of the conductor element 1, wherein the insulator element 2 is transmissive to electromagnetic radiation 25 in an optical wavelength range, and wherein the first boundary surface 21 and/or the second 22 boundary surface is formed as a curved surface, in particular as a convex or concave surface. The invention further relates to a vacuum pressure sensor having the vacuum-tight electrical feedthrough and a method for measuring a radiation intensity of electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method 100 for determining a pressure in a vacuum system, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a) generating 101 a plasma in a sample chamber which is fluid-dynamically connected to the vacuum system and which is in electrical contact with a first electrode and a second electrode; b) measuring 102 a current intensity of an electrical current flowing through the plasma between the first electrode and the second electrode; c) measuring 103 a first radiation intensity of electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range which is emitted from the plasma, wherein the first wavelength range contains at least a first emission line of a first plasma species of a first chemical element; d) measuring 104 a second radiation intensity of electromagnetic radiation of a second wavelength range which is emitted from the plasma, wherein the second wavelength range contains a second emission line of the first plasma species of the first chemical element or of a second plasma species of th

Abstract: A semiconductor chip having a crack stop structure is disclosed. The crack stop structure includes one or more recesses formed in the semiconductor chip. The one or more recesses extend adjacent to and along a periphery of the semiconductor chip. The one or more recesses are filled with a metal material. The metal material has an intrinsic tensile stress at room temperature that induces compressive stress in at least a region of the periphery of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A membrane assembly for a humidification device of a fuel cell system may include a membrane. The membrane may be permeable to water and impermeable to air. The membrane may extend in a flat form in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction that is transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction in an extent plane. The membrane may include in a height direction extending transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction and transversely with respect to the transverse direction a top side and a bottom side averted from the top side. The membrane may include an encircling outer margin in the extent plane. The outer margin may have an upper edge at the top side and a lower edge at the bottom side, between which an encircling face surface extends.

Abstract: A humidifying device for transferring water and/or water vapour from waste air of a waste air flow to supply air of a supply air flow is provided. In the compensating chamber of the housing of the humidifying device, at least one spreading means is arranged, which spreads apart the plate stack of the humidifying device and the housing cover closing the housing in the direction of the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A computerized automated diagnostic system including a cartridge configured to contain reagents for carrying out a diagnostic biological process and to receive a biological sample to be tested using the reagents and an instrument operative to interact with the cartridge to carry out multiple steps in the diagnostic biological process, the cartridge having multiple operative states including a non-functionalized state in which the cartridge does not include the reagents and does not include the biological sample, a partially functionalized state in which the cartridge does include the reagents and does include the biological sample and in which a carbon array assembly is mounted onto the cartridge and forms part of the cartridge and a fully functionalized state upon insertion of the cartridge, onto which the carbon array assembly is mounted, into clamped engagement with the instrument.

Abstract: A flat filter element for filtering a fluid may include a filter body made up of a folded filter material. The filter element may also include a circumferential edge and a side edge running in a circumferential direction along the circumferential edge. The side edge may have at least one strip portion, running along the side edge, with a side strip that may be separate from the filter body and arranged on the filter body. The side edge may also have at least one adhesive portion running along the side edge for sealing the filter body. The at least one adhesive portion may be formed by gluing of least two folds, adjacent along the side edge, in a region of the side edge.

Abstract: A filter element having a longitudinal center axis for a fresh air system of an internal combustion engine may include a first plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material and a separate second plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material. The filter element may include first wall body and a second wall body, and a first end body and a second end body. The first wall body, the second wall body, the first end body and the second end body may be connected to the first plate body and the second plate filter body to define an inner space. At least one of the first plate filter body and the second plate filter body may include a curvature projecting to the interior space in a profile extending transversely to a longitudinal direction with respect to the longitudinal center axis.

Abstract: A flat filter element for filtering a fluid may include a filter body made up of a folded filter material. The filter element may also include a circumferential edge and a side edge running in a circumferential direction along the circumferential edge. The side edge may have at least one strip portion, running along the side edge, with a side strip that may be separate from the filter body and arranged on the filter body. The side edge may also have at least one adhesive portion running along the side edge for sealing the filter body. The at least one adhesive portion may be formed by gluing of least two folds, adjacent along the side edge, in a region of the side edge.

Abstract: A filter element for at least one of a fresh air system and a ventilation and/or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle may include a filter body including a folded filter material that laterally surrounds an internal space. A first end plate and a second end plate may be sealingly attached to the filter body at sides that are facing away from one another. A front plate may be arranged in a lateral region of the filter body. The front plate may include a first end plate joining region and a second end plate joining region facing the first end plate and the second end plate. The first and second end plate joining regions may be fused with a front-side end of the first and second end plates.

Abstract: A filter element for at least one of a fresh air system and a ventilation and/or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle may include a filter body including a folded filter material that laterally surrounds an internal space. A first end plate and a second end plate may be sealingly attached to the filter body at sides that are facing away from one another. A front plate may be arranged in a lateral region of the filter body. The front plate may include a first end plate joining region and a second end plate joining region facing the first end plate and the second end plate. The first and second end plate joining regions may be fused with a front-side end of the first and second end plates.

Abstract: A filter element having a longitudinal center axis for a fresh air system of an internal combustion engine may include a first plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material and a separate second plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material. The filter element may include first wall body and a second wall body, and a first end body and a second end body. The first wall body, the second wall body, the first end body and the second end body may be connected to the first plate body and the second plate filter body to define an inner space. At least one of the first plate filter body and the second plate filter body may include a curvature projecting to the interior space in a profile extending transversely to a longitudinal direction with respect to the longitudinal center axis.