Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle assistance system is described. In one embodiment, when the vehicle is in the autonomous driving mode, encountering an obstacle is prevented independent of the passage height, due to a control unit if is determined that the obstacle is a load supported by a working machine, where the load projects into a driving corridor of the vehicle or moves in the driving corridor. Also described is a device for carrying out the method and to a vehicle having such a device.

Abstract: A reconfigurable coupled inductor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the reconfigurable coupled inductor comprises metal rings and switches coupled to the metal rings to control at least one inductor property (e.g., coupling coefficient) based on a closed (e.g., on) or open state (e.g., off) of each switch.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a Z-directed component for insertion into a mounting hole in a printed circuit board according to one example embodiment includes simultaneously extruding a plurality of materials according to the structure of the Z-directed component to form an extruded object and forming the Z-directed component from the extruded object. In one embodiment, the extruded object is divided into individual Z-directed components. In one embodiment, the timing of extrusion between predetermined sections of one of the materials is varied in order to stagger the sections in the extruded object.

Abstract: In an inverter-integrated electric compressor (1) provided with an inverter accommodating section (9) on the periphery of a housing (2) and an inverter (20) provided therein, the inverter accommodating section (9) is divided into a first accommodating section (9) accommodating an inverter module (21) equipped with a power system board on which semiconductor switching devices etc. are mounted and a CPU board on which a control and communication circuit etc. are mounted, and a second accommodating section (40) accommodating high-voltage-system components (30), such as a common-mode coil (35), a normal-mode coil (36), and a smoothing capacitor (37), provided on a high-voltage line (34) for supplying DC power from a high-voltage power supply to the inverter module (21), the accommodating sections (9) and (40) being separately provided on the periphery of the housing (2).

Abstract: RF generators including active devices driving series resonant circuits are described. The series resonant circuits include a self-resonant dual inductor. The RF generators can be used to drive capacitive loads.

Abstract: An interface circuit, which uses electromagnetic induction to perform a signal transmission, comprises a transmission coil and a transmission circuit that provides a signal to the transmission coil, thereby causing the transmission coil to output a triangular or roughly triangular magnetic field signal.

Abstract: A load coil is disposed along a local loop for conditioning POTS signals while permitting passage of higher frequency DSL signals with low attenuation. In one embodiment, the load coil includes a coupled inductor having multiple capacitive elements coupled thereto, the capacitive elements facilitating passage of the DSL signals across the load coil.

Abstract: A load coil device for a twisted pair telephone line is disclosed. The device is for compensating distributed stray capacitance in telephone lines that are longer the 18,000 feet. Typically, a load coil device would be inserted in the line every 6,000 feet. The device includes two windings, each winding to be connected in series with one of the conductors of the telephone line. The windings flatten the frequency response of the line in the voice frequency (VF) band. The device further has a capacitor connected in parallel across each winding. The values of the capacitors are chosen to provide a low impedance path that bypasses the windings for frequencies in the range of 20 kHz to 1.1 MHz. The device is particularly useful for long telephone lines over which high speed services such as asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) are to be provided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of a stylus relative to an active area of a display screen. The method includes the steps of providing a number of sensors which are positioned to define a boundary surrounding an active area of the display screen, and transmitting an electromagnetic signal from the stylus to the sensors wherein the signal is indicative of the presence of the stylus relative to the active area.

Abstract: A pressurizable telephone load coil assembly is made by placing groups of load coils in enclosure packages, connecting conductors of a length of telephone cable to the load coils, binding the enclosure packages together, placing the bound enclosure packages in a closed end heat-shrinkable tube, encapsulating the enclosure packages, and heat shrinking the open end of the tube over hot-melt glue applied to the end of the length of telephone cable. A heat shrinkable cap including an air valve is shrunk over the opposite end the length of telephone cable to pressurize the load coil assembly to exclude moisture until the telephone cable is spliced into a pressurized telephone system.

Abstract: Coil cartridge intended for use in a load coil assembly comprises a cylinder housing having a stack of toroidal coils therein. The coil wires extend through a seam in the coil housing to terminal housings mounted on the surface of the coil housing. The terminal housings contain terminals to which the coil wires are connected by wire-in-slot connections and the terminals also have slots dimensioned to receive lead wires. The coil housing is a hinged member consisting of two semi-cylindrical parts so that the coils having the terminal housings associated therewith can be placed in the coil housing when it is open. When the coil housing is closed, interengaging means on the coil housing and on the terminal housings latch the coil housing in its closed condition.

Abstract: A terminal housing having integral coil supporting means for a toroidal coil comprises a coil support portion having a coil locating post extending therefrom which is received in the center opening of the coil. The housing is integral with a deformable housing support arm which is spaced from and extends parallel to the locating post. The housing has terminal-receiving cavities therein which receive the terminals that connect the coil wires to the insulated wires extending from a cable. After these connections are made, the housing is moved against one side of the coil and is latched to the upper end of the locating post by integral latching means so that it extends across the coil. The housing and the lower end of the locating post have additional latching means so that a coil having a support and housing thereon can be stacked against identical coils and housings, and latched to the adjacent coils.

Abstract: A toroidal coil (21) having two windings (23, 24) is packaged in a housing (22) which includes a first portion (39) having a cylindrical cavity (41) that extends between an open end and a closed end (43) of the first portion for receiving the coil. The housing also includes two arms (51-51) which extend from the first portion between planes which are substantially coincident with the open end and the closed end of the first portion. Each arm is connected to the first portion and has a free end with internally formed nests (72-72) for receiving contact elements (30-30). Each contact element has aligned, spaced slots (94, 101) at an inner end for terminating a lead of the winding and aligned, spaced slots (107, 111) at an outer end adjacent the free end of the arm in which it is mounted for terminating a conductor (31) of a cable to be loaded inductively. The nests are formed so that the inner and outer slots of the contact element are aligned along an axis transverse of an axis of the cylindrical cavity.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for mounting and aligning electrical components in a generally cylindrical protective housing including a plurality of generally annular mounting trays having upstanding mounting pins concentrically disposed thereon for receiving annular electrical components with means on the trays for orienting the components on vertically stacked trays in staggered circumferential relation and preferably with radial slits in the trays to permit radial insertion of electrical leads from the outer periphery of the trays to the centrally disposed apertures therein.

Abstract: A holder for providing coils for compensation of local connections of cores of a cable within a cable sleeve characterized by a holding member having a ring-shaped cross section with a splicing space disposed in the interior and with a portion of the holding member being movable to enable access to the splicing space from the exterior of the member, a detachable connecting device to enable forming a connection to a cable inserted into the splicing space from an end of the holding member and coil cups disposed on the outer surface of the holding member to surround the splicing space.

Abstract: A plurality of inductive coils (FIG. 4; 10--10) are mounted in a coil module (30) which is comprised of an elongated housing (31) having a substantially oval cross section. A potting compound (44) encapsulates the mounted coils (10--10) and a layer of epoxy (46) covers the compound. Leads (11 and 12) from the coils (10--10) are attached to a pair of connectors (42 and 43) which are partially embedded in the epoxy (46) and project through an opening (32) in the housing (31).

Abstract: Two stacks of individual loading coils are mounted on the arms of a U-shaped bracket which is supported on a divider wall of a contoured plastic case having a pair of compartments for receiving the coil stacks. The crossarm of the bracket is shaped to fit within a correspondingly shaped notch formed in the divider wall to centrally position the stacks of coils within the compartments. In another embodiment spacer ribs project from the inner walls of the housing to provide means for accurately locating the stacks within the compartments. Encapsulating medium is introduced into the case to protect the coils and provide electrical isolation between the coil stacks.

Abstract: A plurality of individual toroidal loading or inductive coils mounted on a fiberglass dowel are positioned within a D-shaped case so that wiring spaces are provided between the peripheries of the coils and the junctures of the arcuate and straight sections of the case. Terminal strips are laid in the wiring spaces so that coil and stub cable wires may be secured to terminal posts projecting from the strips. The case is provided with openings to permit encapsulation of the coils. The D-shaped configuration of the case permits compact assembly of a number of cases within an outer casing.

Abstract: A loading coil assembly comprises a casing with an end disc at the inlet end which carries a central column extending axially in the casing. At the end of the column remote from the inlet end a support member is mounted, and a plurality of magazines, each holding a number of coils, hangs from the support member. Additional support members in the form of rings can be mounted on the column, with further magazines hanging from the rings, in one or more circles. The size of casing varies with the number of support members and rings of magazines. The casing is closed by a further end disc and filled with an expanded plastic material. A plastic material outer casing is applied over the casing.

Abstract: A precision capacitor multiplier connected in a communication circuit for balancing transmission facility impedances. The circuit requires only a single precision capacitor, and utilizes a plurality of precision resistors selectable to cause the circuit to exhibit one of a plurality of precision capacitance values.

Abstract: A rectangular loading coil case has front, back, side and end panels, with cable entry and exit provided in one end panel, and with a support structure attached to, for example, the front panel and comprising rods extending across the case with a series of beams extending in opposed pairs and supported on the rods by spacer members positioned on the rods. Assembled magazines of loading coils are supported on the beams, each magazine supported at one end by one of a pair of beams and supported at the other end by the other of the pair of beams. A plurality of magazines are carried by each pair of beams, to form a layer. The number of layers can vary.

Abstract: Loading coils for communications cables are preloaded into magazines and prewired to terminal strips carried on the magazines. A magazine comprises a length of material, typically extruded or molded plastic material, of a channel shaped cross-section to accommodate the coils flat and side-by-side. End caps fit on each end of the magazine to retain the coils in position and also serve as mounting means in a casing. The terminal strips are mounted on an extension of one wall of the channel shaped cross-section. The preassembled magazines are then assembled in the casing a higher packing density is obtained, and the prewiring of the coils to the terminal strips provides effective orientation of the coils relative to each other to give good electrical and electronic separation and reduced cross-talk.

Abstract: A load coil assembly housing for use with multiconductor cable containing a plurality of associated pairs of electrical conductors has connector terminals located along the periphery of the region in which load coils are located. That makes the otherwise conventional housing suitable for use with mass application tooling. Cable wires and load coil or component leads may be respectively attached by solderless and solder techniques to one terminal.

Abstract: A cable end connection to a loading coil case has a lead sleeve crimped over the cable end, with a layer of sealing compound between the lead sleeve and the outer protective sheathing of the cable. The metal sheath of the cable is exposed at the cable end by removal of the protective sheathing for a short distance and the end of the lead sleeve is soldered to the metal sheathing. A tube extending from the end of the loading coil case is a close fit over the lead sheath, the outer end of the tube soldered to the lead sheath.

Abstract: A loading coil assembly comprises a casing having discs at each end. At the inlet end a support disc is mounted on and spaced from the end disc and a plurality of assembled magazines holding loading coils is attached at one end of each magazine to the periphery of the support disc. A similar support disc interconnects the other ends of the magazines, the magazines extending in a circle about the casing axis. Further circles of magazines can be added by providing one or more annular rings attached to the end disc carrying the support disc, for attachment of the magazines at one end, and also interconnecting the other ends of the additional circles of magazines by annular rings. The conductors can be fed along spaces between adjacent magazines. The casings vary in size according to the number of circles of magazines.

Abstract: A case for electrical components is disclosed in which a pair of arms extend outward from the annular wall of the case, the arms being flexible and adapted to allow the case to be attached to a mounting member having spaced apart edges by pressing the free ends of the arms against the spaced apart edges where upon the flexible arms move outward and allow the case to be snapped onto the mounting member.

Abstract: .[.A package for holding a plurality of encapsulated electrical components comprising a cylindrical case having a lengthwise slot through which the leads of the components extend, and an adjustable mounting means carried by the case which is offset from the lengthwise slot..]..Iadd.In a telephone communication system there is provided a plurality of individual encapsulated electrical components for improving the voice transmission which are held in electrical disconnected relationship and in an end-to-end relation in an elongated hollow, flexible elastic case having a continuous slot with the width of the slot and the elasticity of the flexible case cooperating to allow a selected electrical component to be manually removed through the slot. An electrical component assembly which is capable of being disposed within the case and a mounting bar for mounting a plurality of the electrical component packages are also disclosed. .Iaddend.