Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an insulation system suitable as main insulation of an electrical rotating machine of rated voltage greater than 700 volts. The insulation system may include a powder coating applied using a powder coating formulation with at least two components. A first component includes an uncrosslinked polymer component polyimide-containing polymer. A second component includes an uncrosslinked siloxane-containing polymer. The first component and the second component are each in solid form at room temperature under standard conditions.

Abstract: Various teachings of the present disclosure include a slot insulation system of an electrical rotating machine. For example, the system may include: a main insulation for a coil of the rotating machine or for an individual bar for the coil; a resin formulation serving as a slot adhesive forming a solid film. At room temperature and under standard conditions, the solid film is in the A-state. Heating the electrical rotating machine to a curing temperature for the resin formulation, the solid film firstly melts and flows within an occupied slot, then cures and solidifies to form a thermoset material.

Abstract: A method of a transportation vehicle for context-dependent processing of a potential error of a vehicle component. The method includes determining a current context of the transportation vehicle and of at least one vehicle component of the transportation vehicle that is heterogeneous in the current context. In response to at least one heterogeneous vehicle component being determined, a heterogeneous verification of the potential error is performed taking into account the at least one heterogeneous vehicle component. In response to no heterogeneous vehicle component being determined, a context-dependent relevance of the vehicle component is determined. Based on the determined context-dependent relevance, then either the potential error of the vehicle component is handled or an emergency operating mode of the transportation vehicle is initiated. Also disclosed is a transportation vehicle having a control unit to perform the method.

Abstract: An alignment system for approaching a vehicle to a target object spatially spaced therefrom, including an object detection device attached to the vehicle and a coupling element, which in an end position detachably holds the target object, the object detection device being aligned in the direction of the target object and the data from the object detection device being used to generate an image in which the target object together with a guide marker can be seen during the approach of the vehicle. The guide marker is applied to at least one component of the vehicle arranged in an entry area of the coupling element.

Abstract: An optical device includes: a transparent substrate and a coherent transparent layer enclosing the substrate in at least three places, which: forms a plurality of first optical lenses on a first surface and forms a plurality of second optical lenses on a second surface of the substrate arranged opposite the first surface, the transparent layer having a predetermined thickness. A method of manufacturing the optical device is also provided.

Abstract: A coupling device for a towing vehicle with an object detection device attached to the coupling device, wherein the coupling device has a coupling body in form of a fifth wheel plate and a locking mechanism, with which a coupling device in form of a kingpin is releasably held on the coupling body in its end position (E), wherein the coupling body includes an available space which is limited by a coupling device guiding contour and extends along a longitudinal axis (x), wherein the coupling device is at least partially immersed during coupling into the available space until reaching an end position (E).

Abstract: A biopsy site marker includes a marker element. The marker element includes a base portion and an anchor portion. The anchor portion extends distally from the base portion. The anchor portion includes a plurality of arms. Each arm of the plurality of arms is configured to be responsive to heat to transition from a pre-deployment configuration to a post-deployment configuration. Each arm of the plurality of arms extends outwardly from a longitudinal axis defined by the marker element when the plurality of arms are in the post-deployment configuration.

Abstract: A biopsy site marker includes a marker element. The marker element includes a base portion and an anchor portion. The anchor portion extends from the base portion. The anchor portion includes a plurality of arms. One or more arms of the plurality of arms is configured to be responsive to heat to transition from a pre-deployment configuration to a post-deployment configuration. Each transitioned arm of the plurality of arms extending outwardly from a longitudinal axis defined by the marker element when in the post-deployment configuration.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for the at least the partially automated driving of a motor vehicle. A first application and at least one redundant second application provide output data depending on motor vehicle operating data and/or environmental data. Vehicle driving data for the at least partially automated driving of the motor vehicle are determined depending on the output data. Vehicle operating data from another vehicle are received, and, depending on the vehicle operating data, the at least one redundant second application switches from an active state to a standby state in which a computer instance of a computer unit used by the at least one redundant second application is at least executed at a lower frequency than in the active state.

Abstract: An explosion-proof housing for a power electronics unit includes a housing pan and a cover that closes the housing pan via a seal, wherein the cover and the housing pan are pressed against each other at two opposing sides formed by edge regions of the cover and the housing pan via a plurality of fasteners that are configured to be released by rotation and that engage in latching structures. The plurality of fasteners are arranged in a central third of the respective sides. The explosion-proof housing can be used, for example, for a photovoltaic inverter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel heteroaryl-triazole compounds of the general formula (I), in which the structural elements X, R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the meaning given in the description, to formulations and compositions comprising such compounds and for their use in the control of animal pests including arthropods and insects in plant protection and to their use for control of ectoparasites on animals.

Abstract: The present invention describes methods of generating a modified viral genome, producing infectious RNA, and generating modified viruses. The modified viral genome, infections RNA, and modified viruses comprise deoptimized nucleic acids; for example, codon-pair deoptimized or synonymous codon deoptimized. These modified viruses can be used in vaccines and methods of eliciting a protective immune response.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes deoptimized foot and mouth viruses and their use for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of mammalian subjects. The recombinant viruses provided herein include alterations in several genomic regions as well as Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals (DIVA) markers.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transceiver device, an electronic control unit and an associated method. The transceiver device is suitable for communicating between one or more network protocol controllers and a network bus and comprises: first interface circuitry configured to communicate with the one or more network protocol controllers; second interface circuitry configured to communicate with the one or more network protocol controllers; and selector circuitry configured to switch communication with the one or more network protocol controllers from the first interface circuitry to the second interface circuitry in response to a communication error in data carried on the first interface circuitry.

Abstract: Example apparatus are disclosed for a magazine for a self-loading firearm, the magazine comprising a magazine housing, and a magazine floor plate movably mounted to the magazine housing. The magazine floor plate is slidable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the magazine floor plate is pivotable relative to the magazine housing when in the open position.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for operating an automatically driving vehicle, wherein application instances are executed over several computational nodes, wherein recognized faults are reacted to by switching to redundant application instances and then reconfiguring the configuration to restore specified redundancy conditions and/or segregation conditions, wherein the vehicle is transitioned to a safe state using at least one failover apparatus when at least one specified redundancy condition and/or at least one segregation condition cannot be met by the reconfiguration, and/or a specified time for reconfiguration is exceeded, and/or an unrecoverable malfunction has been recognized, wherein the at least one failover apparatus plans an emergency trajectory using a trajectory planner, wherein sensor data are detected via separate signal lines and supplied to the at least one failover apparatus, and wherein control signals are generated and transmitted via separate control lines to an actuator system of the v

Abstract: A method for calibrating an apparatus includes, in the case of a known process value, measuring a detector value of a first type only based on captured gamma rays that are not scattered or are scattered little; calculating a calibration assignment based on a process model; in the case of at least one unknown process value, measuring a detector value of the first type and measuring a detector value of a second type at least based on captured gamma rays that are scattered; determining the unknown process value by using the calculated calibration assignment based on the measured detector value of the first type; and modifying the calibration assignment by assigning the measured detector value of the second type to the determined process value.

Abstract: A method for measuring counting rates or measured variables dependent on the counting rates for determining a density profile of at least two substances with different densities arranged within a container by using a plurality of detectors is provided. The method includes recording respective gamma rays which have penetrated at least partially through at least one of the substances by using the detectors, and generating a respective counting rate or a respective measured variable dependent on the counting rate only on the basis of respectively recorded gamma rays of which the respective gamma energy is greater than or equal to an energy threshold value, the energy threshold value being a minimum of 0.5 times a Compton energy value of a Compton gap of the gamma rays.

Abstract: Technologies and techniques for the at least the partially automated driving of a motor vehicle. A first application and at least one redundant second application provide output data depending on motor vehicle operating data and/or environmental data. Vehicle driving data for the at least partially automated driving of the motor vehicle are determined depending on the output data. Vehicle operating data from another vehicle are received, and, depending on the vehicle operating data, the at least one redundant second application switches from an active state to a standby state in which a computer instance of a computer unit used by the at least one redundant second application is at least executed at a lower frequency than in the active state.

Abstract: A method for measurement of the casting level in a mould incudes the steps of: a) impressing a temporal current profile into a transmitting coil that is arranged at the mould, during a measuring time interval; b) measuring a temporal signal profile resulting in a receiving coil during the measuring time interval, wherein the receiving coil is coupled inductively to the transmitting coil; c) selecting a time window within the measuring time interval, and d) evaluating the measured temporal signal profile within the selected time window to determine the casting level.