Abstract: A quick-hitch for coupling a tool to an excavator arm or to a similar tool manipulator, including two hitch halves that can be latched together and that comprise at least one pair of latching parts with which a displaceable latch is associated, an actuating cylinder being provided for actuating the latch. The actuating cylinder has a mechanical blocking unit for locking the latching position of the bolt, having a lead screw which is in a threaded engagement with the piston and/or the piston rod of the actuating cylinder, so that the piston is only displaceable by turning the lead screw, as well as a releasable anti-rotation device for the lead screw.

Abstract: A sensor device. The sensor device includes: a substrate; an electrical insulation layer on the substrate; an edge structure disposed on the electrical insulation layer and that delimits an internal region above the substrate; a membrane anchored on the edge structure and at least partly spanning the internal region, the membrane encompassing in the internal region a region movable by a pressure; a first intermediate carrier that extends in the movable region below the membrane and is electrically and mechanically connected to the membrane by contact points, and encompasses at least one spacing element that extends from the intermediate carrier toward the substrate; and a first counter electrode on the electrical insulation layer, the first counter electrode extending under the intermediate carrier, and a first distance between the intermediate carrier and the first counter electrode being modifiable by the pressure on the movable region.

Abstract: A production method for a micromechanical component for a sensor or microphone device. The method includes: patterning a plurality of first trenches through a substrate surface of a monocrystalline substrate made of at least one semiconductor material using anisotropic etching, covering the lateral walls of the plurality of first trenches with a passivation layer, while bottom areas of the plurality of first trenches are kept free or are freed of the passivation layer, etching at least one first cavity, into which the plurality of first trenches opens, into the monocrystalline substrate using an isotropic etching method, in which an etching medium of the isotropic etching method is conducted through the plurality of first trenches, and by covering the plurality of first trenches by epitaxially growing a monocrystalline sealing layer on the substrate surface of the monocrystalline substrate made of the at least one identical semiconductor material as the monocrystalline substrate.

Abstract: A MEMS sensor including a diaphragm, a base surface area of the diaphragm being delimited with the aid of a peripheral wall structure, and the base surface area including at least two subareas, of which at least one of the subareas is deflectably situated, and the at least two subareas being separated from one another with the aid of at least one separating structure or being delimited by the latter. The separating structure includes at least one fluid through-opening for the passage of fluid.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes obtain circuitry that obtains a stream of instructions. The stream of instructions includes a barrier creation instruction and a barrier inhibition instruction. Track circuitry orders sending each instruction in the stream of instructions to processing circuitry based on one or more dependencies. The track circuitry is responsive to the barrier creation instruction to cause the one or more dependencies to include one or more barrier dependencies in which pre-barrier instructions, occurring before the barrier creation instruction in the stream, are sent before post-barrier instructions, occurring after the barrier creation instruction in the stream, are sent. The track circuitry is also responsive to the barrier inhibition instruction to relax the barrier dependencies to permit post-inhibition instructions, occurring after the barrier inhibition instruction in the stream, to be sent before the pre-barrier instructions.

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a capacitive pressure sensor device, including a diaphragm that is stretched with the aid of a frame structure in such a way that a cantilevered area of the diaphragm spans a framed partial surface, and including a reinforcement structure that is formed at the cantilevered area. A first spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface is definable in which the cantilevered area has a minimal extension, and a second spatial direction oriented in parallel to the framed partial surface and oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first spatial direction is definable in which the cantilevered area has a greater extension. The reinforcement structure is present at a first distance from the frame structure in the first spatial direction, and at a second distance in the second spatial direction, the second distance being greater than the first distance.

Abstract: A method for sealing entries in a MEMS element. The method includes: providing a functional layer having a functional region; producing a cavity underneath the functional region of the functional layer with the aid of a first entry outside of the functional region of the functional layer; sealing the first entry; producing a second entry to the cavity outside of the functional region of the functional layer; melting sealing material in the region of the second entry; and cooling off the melted sealing material to seal the second entry.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a MEMS unit for a micromechanical pressure sensor. The method includes the steps: providing a MEMS wafer including a silicon substrate and a first cavity formed therein, under a sensor membrane; applying a layered protective element on the MEMS water; and exposing a sensor core from the back side, a second cavity being formed between the sensor core and the surface of the silicon substrate, and the second cavity being formed with the aid of an etching process which is carried out with the aid of etching parameters changed in a defined manner; and removing the layered protective element.

Abstract: A micromechanical component, whose diaphragm is supported and has support structures on its inner diaphragm side. Each of the support structures includes a first and second edge element structure, and at least one intermediate element structure positioned between the first and second edge element structures. For each of the support structures, a plane of symmetry is definable, with respect to which at least the first edge element structure of the respective support structure and the second edge element structure of the respective support structure are specularly symmetric. In each of support structures, a first maximum dimension of its first edge element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry and a second maximum dimension of its second edge element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry are greater than the maximum dimension of its intermediate element structure perpendicular to its plane of symmetry.

Abstract: A micromechanical pressure sensor device including a semiconductor base substrate of a first doping type on which an intermediate layer of the first doping type is situated, a cavity sealed by a sealing layer of a second doping type and including a reference pressure, a first grating of the second doping type, suspended inside the cavity on a buried connection region of the second doping type, the buried connection region laterally extending away from the cavity into the semiconductor base material, a second grating of the second doping type, situated on a side of the diaphragm region pointing to the cavity and suspended on the diaphragm region, the first grating and the second grating being electrically insulated from each other and forming a capacitance, a first connection electrically connected to the first grating via the buried connection region, and a second connection electrically connected to the second grating.

Abstract: A micromechanical component for a sensor or microphone device, including a substrate, a frame structure, which is situated on the substrate surface and/or at least one intermediate layer, and a diaphragm, which spans an inner volume, which is at least partially framed by the frame structure. The micromechanical component includes a bending beam structure, which is situated in the inner volume and includes at least one anchoring area, which is attached to the frame structure, to the substrate surface and/or to the at least one intermediate layer, and at least one self-supporting area, which is connected via at least one coupling structure to the diaphragm inner side of the diaphragm in such a way that the at least one self-supporting area is bendable by way of a warping of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A micromechanical sensor unit, including: a substrate and an edge layer, which is situated on the substrate and laterally frames an inner area above the substrate; at least one diaphragm, which spans the inner area and forms a covered cavity above the substrate; at least one support point, which is situated between the substrate and the diaphragm inside the cavity and attaches the diaphragm to the edge layer and/or to the at least one support point. The support point separates the diaphragm into at least one measuring area that is movable through force action and at least one reference area that is not movable through force action. The substrate and the diaphragm, inside the cavity, include electrodes, which face one another in the measuring area and the reference area.

Abstract: A pallet lifter for use with a crane enables lifting of materials on a pallet, and then unloading of the materials at one or more locations, such as on a roof of a building. The pallet lifter may include a cage or a retainer frame that contains the material, with a pusher of the lifter used to push out individual portions of the materials. The pusher may unload the material from the top of the pallet of material, such as by sliding it down a ramp. The pusher alternatively may unload the material from the bottom of the stack on the pallet, by pushing it through a slot in the cage. For top-unloading embodiments the pallet lifter may include an assembly for changing the position of the pusher relative to the frame and the pallet, for example moving the pusher downward layer by later as the materials are unloaded.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micromechanical structure and a micromechanical structure. The method includes: forming a first micromechanical functional layer; forming a plurality of trenches in the first micromechanical functional layer, which include an upper widened area at the upper side of the first micromechanical functional layer and a lower area of essentially constant width; depositing a sealing layer on the upper side of the first micromechanical functional layer to seal the plurality of trenches, a sealing point of the plurality of trenches being formed below the upper side of the first micromechanical functional layer and the first trenches being at least partially filled; thinning back the sealing layer by a predefined thickness; and forming a second micromechanical functional layer above the thinned-back sealing layer.

Abstract: A multiple-circuit, hydraulically open brake has two single-circuit pressure generators hydraulically connected in parallel between at least one fluid container and at least two wheel brakes and a modulation unit for individual brake pressure modulation in the at least two wheel brakes. A first pressure generator is assigned to a main system which has a first energy supply and a first evaluation and control unit, and a second single-circuit pressure generator is assigned to a secondary system, which has a second energy supply which is independent of the first energy supply, and a second evaluation and control unit. The second evaluation and control unit controls the second pressure generator. Components of the modulation unit are assigned to the main system so that the modulation unit and the first pressure generator are controlled by the first evaluation and control unit and supplied with energy by the first energy supply.

Abstract: A charging harness unit for a battery of a motor vehicle includes a charging harness which has at least one lead and respective ends, one end being on the battery side and and the other end being for connecting to a vehicle-external charging station. A cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is arranged in the charging harness. The cooling channel can be supplied with the coolant via a cooling device arranged on the vehicle side.

Abstract: A method for producing a wafer connection between a first and a second wafer. The method includes providing a first and second material for forming a eutectic alloy, providing a first wafer having a receiving structure for a die structure, filling the receiving structure with the first material, providing a second wafer having a die structure, the second material being situated on the die structure, providing a stop structure on the first and/or second wafer, so that when the two wafers are joined, a defined stop is provided, heating the first and second material at least to the eutectic temperature of the eutectic alloy, joining the first and second wafer so that the die structure is at least partly introduced into the receiving structure, the stop structure, the receiving structure, the die structure.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a hydraulic brake system for a highly automated or autonomous vehicle which includes three pressure generators which provide sufficient braking force even in a case of a fault. Two of the pressure generators are assigned in a redundant manner to one axle and a modulation unit is configured to hydraulically connect the two pressure generators to the wheel brakes of the first axle, and to perform individual brake pressure modulation in the wheel brakes. The third pressure generator is hydraulically separate from the other pressure generators, and another modulation unit is configured to hydraulically connect the third pressure generator to wheel brakes of another axle, and to perform individual brake pressure modulation in the wheel brakes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a controllable actuator unit (1) having an electronic connecting device (AN), the actuator device (1) being connectable to a drive axle of an electrically operated vehicle (2), such that a braking or locking effect for a rotary movement of the drive axle can be produced, the actuator device (1) being controllable by a control device (SE) via the electronic connecting device (AN).

Abstract: A hydraulic braking system for a vehicle has two sub-braking systems hydraulically separated from one another. A first sub-braking system of a first axle has a first circuit, a main system with a first power supply and a first ECU, and a secondary system with a second power supply and a second ECU. The first circuit includes first and second pressure generators assigned, respectively, to the main system and the secondary system, in parallel between a fluid container and wheel brakes. A modulation unit connects the pressure generators to the wheel brakes. A second sub-braking system of a second axle includes a second circuit and an auxiliary system with a third power supply and a third ECU. The second circuit includes a pressure generator assigned to the auxiliary system arranged between a fluid container and wheel brakes, and a modulation unit connecting the pressure generators to the wheel brakes.