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A method for packaging semiconductor chips and a corresponding semiconductor chip system. The method includes making available a semiconductor chip having a diaphragm region; providing a cap over the diaphragm region, while leaving the diaphragm region open; mounting the semiconductor chip on a support frame; and providing a molded housing around the semiconductor chip and at least a partial region of the support frame for packaging the semiconductor chip.

A powershift transmission in a motor vehicle is arranged between a prime mover and driven wheels of the motor vehicle for transmission of propulsive power and selection of different gear speed ratios. The powershift transmission includes at least two factional clutches for alternatively engaging at least two input shafts, a main transmission, a range section and an output shaft. A countershaft in the powershift transmission is rotationally connectable to the output shaft in order to establish a by-pass torque path, passing by the range section, and in which propulsive power can be transferred when the range section is gear shifted between different range speed ratios.

The invention relates to a magazine unit for fitting a brewing device with a portion capsule. The magazine has a storage magazine for storing portion capsules, said portion capsules being stacked one after the other in a stacking direction, and the magazine unit has a transporting means for transporting a portion capsule out of the storage magazine into the brewing device. The transporting means can be pivoted about a pivot axis between a removal position for removing the portion capsule from the storage magazine and a dispensing position for fitting the brewing device with the portion capsule, said pivot axis being perpendicular to the stacking direction.

A radar level gauging system for determining a filling level of a product contained in a tank by transmitting and receiving microwave signals over at least two functionally independent channels. Each channel has an electronics unit with transceiver circuitry arranged on a printed circuit board and processing circuitry connected to the transceiver circuitry for determining the filling level based on a relation between transmitted signals and received signals, and each electronics unit is electronically and galvanically separated from other electronics units. The system further comprises a single antenna for emitting microwave signals into the tank, and a hollow waveguide for guiding microwave signals between each transceiver circuitry and the antenna. Each electronics unit further comprises feeding circuitry arranged on the printed circuit board, the feeding circuitry comprising at least one feeding probe protruding into the waveguide for feeding the microwave signals into the waveguide.The present invention enables a very simple, cost-effective and reliable feeding for each channel.

A radar level gauging system for determining a filling level of a product contained in a tank by transmitting and receiving microwave signals over at least two functionally independent channels. Each channel has an electronics unit with transceiver circuitry arranged on a printed circuit board and processing circuitry connected to the transceiver circuitry for determining the filling level based on a relation between transmitted signals and received signals, and each electronics unit is electronically and galvanically separated from other electronics units. The system further comprises a single antenna for emitting microwave signals into the tank, and a hollow waveguide for guiding microwave signals between each transceiver circuitry and the antenna. Each electronics unit further comprises feeding circuitry arranged on the printed circuit board, the feeding circuitry comprising at least one feeding probe protruding into the waveguide for feeding the microwave signals into the waveguide.The present invention enables a very simple, cost-effective and reliable feeding for each channel.

For determining a space coordinate of a measurement point on a measuring object, the measurement point is approached with a probe head arranged on a displacement mechanism having at least two supports movable parallel to one another. Each support is moved by its own drive. The space coordinate of the measurement point is determined as a function of the respective displacement position of the supports. The two drives are controlled by a common regulator.

For determining a space coordinate of a measurement point on a measuring object, the measurement point is approached with a probe head arranged on a displacement mechanism having at least two supports movable parallel to one another. Each support is moved by its own drive. The space coordinate of the measurement point is determined as a function of the respective displacement position of the supports. The two drives are controlled by a common regulator.

A radial rolling bearing, which has an outer bearing ring, an inner bearing ring, and rollers, which are arranged between the bearing rings and held at uniform distances from one another in a peripheral direction by a bearing cage in individual cage pockets. The rollers are spherical disks that have parallel lateral surfaces which are symmetrically flattened from a basic spherical shape and which roll in groove-type raceways with their faces. The raceways are incorporated into the inner face of the outer bearing ring and the outer face of the inner bearing ring. The rollers are axially guided between the bearing rings via two low-friction line contacts between lateral surfaces and the longitudinal webs of the cage pockets. The rollers are configured to have a defined degree of freedom for self-alignment to the pressure angle of the radial rolling bearing.

The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a rigid block with two rigid arms such that there is at least one flexible flap extending from each of the arms in mutual convergent attitude and biased toward a center of the space between the rigid arms. The space between the rigid arms provides integral convexly curved surface such that it enables the invention to advantageously accept a downwardly facing surface of the rocker in line contact. The invented device, wedged between a rocker of a chair and a floor surface, receives the rocker in the space between the rigid arms, upon which the flexible flaps, having by construction bias sufficient to grip of the rocker, hold the invention on the rocker so that the chair is precluded from a rocking motion and thus is immobilized. Additionally, the apparatus' surface facing a floor surface is adapted with an anti-skidding device for contact with the floor. For partial immobilization, the invented device may be used on the front or back rocker to immobilize the front or back rocking motion, respectively. Alternatively, the apparatus may be used wherein two rigid blocks placed in opposing positions on the rocker of the rocking chair and in contact with the floor surface, thus rendering the rocking chair fully immobilized.

A superconductive magnetic coil arrangement has a superconducting magnetic coil and a circuit for quench protection. The quench protection circuit includes at least one diode connected in parallel with a portion of the superconductive magnetic coil. The at least one diode is in thermal contact with the superconductive magnetic coil A magnetic resonance tomography apparatus embodies such a magnetic coil arrangement.

A substrate assembly for use in a lamp has a main printed wiring board and a standoff board. The main printed wiring board has a main surface with one or more LED packages disposed on the main surface and electrically connected thereto. The standoff board is disposed on the main surface of the main printed wiring board. The standoff board has an LED package disposed thereon and conductors to provide an electrical connection between the LED package disposed on the standoff board and the main printed wiring board.

Electromagnetic fuel injector for gaseous fuels comprising: an injection nozzle controlled by an injection valve; a movable shutter to regulate the flow of fuel through the injection valve; an electromagnetic actuator, which is suitable to move the shutter between a closed position and an open position of the injection valve and comprises a fixed magnetic pole, a coil suitable to induce a magnetic flux in the magnetic pole, and a movable anchor suitable to be magnetically attracted by the magnetic pole; an absorption element, which is made of an amagnetic elastic material and is arranged between the magnetic pole and the anchor; and a protective element, which is made of a magnetic metal material having high surface hardness and is interposed between the absorption element and the anchor.

The invention relates to a radial rolling bearing, especially a single-row deep groove rolling bearing, which substantially consists of an outer bearing ring and of an inner bearing ring as well as of a multitude of rollers, arranged between the bearing rings and held at uniform distances from one another in the peripheral direction by a bearing cage which is assembled from two ring halves. The rollers of the radial rolling bearing are configured in the form of spherical disks that each have two parallel lateral surfaces which are symmetrically flattened from a basic spherical shape and which roll off in two groove-type raceways with their faces. Said raceways are incorporated into the inner face of the outer bearing ring and into the outer face of the inner bearing ring. The bearing cage according to the invention is characterized by having individual cage pockets for each roller, said pockets encircling the roller on a reference line. The rollers are axially guided between the bearing rings via two low-friction line contacts between their lateral surfaces and the longitudinal webs of the cage pockets. The rollers are configured to have a defined degree of freedom for self-alignment to the pressure angle of the radial rolling bearing.

A light module (5, 6) for a lighting device (1) of a motor vehicle includes at least one semiconductor light source (17), a control module (7) connected to the light source (17) and including an electric circuit and a connection element (9) adapted to be connected to a higher-level controller and / or power supply of the motor vehicle, and a substantially highly thermally conductive carrier module (10) to which the light source (17) and electric circuit are arranged. A lighting device (1) of a motor vehicle includes the light module (5, 6).

A radial roller bearing, which has an outer bearing ring and a multiplicity of cylindrical roller bodies which roll on the inner lateral surface of the outer bearing ring and the outer lateral surface of an inner bearing ring or a shaft. The roller bodies are held at uniform intervals by a bearing cage with inwardly directed radial rims for axial guidance. Lubricating openings, which lead from the outside into the bearing interior, supply lubricant, and are arranged on the outer or inner bearing ring axially at both sides. The lubricating openings are cutouts which are formed into one or both axial sides of the bearing rings, outside a load zone of the bearing rings, which extend into the outer or inner raceway of the roller bodies and in which the roller bodies are arranged so as to be partially freely accessible for receiving oil form the bearing surroundings.

In a method and device for drilling, in particular percussion drilling or rotary percussion drilling, holes in soil or rock material, wherein a borehole is formed by a percussive and / or rotational movement carried out by a drill bit (1) mounted on a drill rod assembly (4) and an envelope tube and / or a jacket tube (15, 18) is introduced into the borehole, it is provided that the impact energy introduced by the drill rod assembly (4) is transmitted partially, particularly centrally, by the drill rod assembly (4) onto the drill bit (1) and partially via an impact shoe (10) cooperating with the drill rod assembly (4) onto the envelope and / or jacket tubes (15, 18), thus enabling the reliable introduction of the excavation or impact energy into the drill bit (1) as well as into the envelope and / or jacket tubes (15, 18).

The present invention relates to electrically conductive materials. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these materials and to electronic circuits, electronic devices and textile garments that comprise them.

In a method and device for boring or drilling, in particular percussion drilling or rotary percussion drilling, holes in soil or rock, wherein a borehole is formed by a percussive and / or rotary movement carried out by a drill bit (2) mounted on a drill rod assembly (3) and a jacket tube (6) coupled with the drill bit (2) is introduced into the borehole, it is provided that the jacket tube (6) is received in a socket (5) provided on the end facing away from the drill bit working surface, of an envelope tube (4) coupled with the drill bit (2), and that the jacket tube (6) is subjected to a percussive and / or compressive stress on its end facing away from the drill bit, whereby directionally precise boring or drilling is rendered feasible.

A hydrodynamic torque converter a hydrodynamic circuit has at least a pump impeller and a turbine wheel. The turbine wheel has a turbine shell with a blading and a turbine hub which is in rotary connection with an output shaft. The turbine shell extends radially inward between an extension region of axial abutments and is provided with stiffeners.

A pilot-controlled valve, having a valve system which switches a pressure medium flow between at least one working connection, a supply pressure connection and a ventilation connection. The invention provides that the valve system includes at least one valve member made of ceramic material that is operated rotationally and / or linearly by the pilot control, at least one connecting channel is developed in the valve member which is able to be brought into flow connection to the working connection, which, as a function of the position of the valve member, produces a flow connection of the working connection to a first flow channel that is in connection to the ventilation connection or to a second flow channel that is in connection to the supply pressure connection, at least one section of the first flow channel and the second flow channel being developed in at least one static valve body that is made of ceramic material, at least the first flow channel is sealed from the second flow channel by at least one seal that is situated in a region outside a direct inflow by the pressure medium.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger which has at least one first Peltier element. The Peltier element has a first semiconductor arrangement and at least one second semiconductor arrangement. Each semiconductor arrangement has a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, and an electric contact. At least one semiconductor of each semiconductor arrangement is made of a p-doped semiconductor material, and at least one semiconductor of each semiconductor arrangement is made of an n-doped semiconductor material. One n-doped semiconductor and one p-doped semiconductor are electrically connected in series in an alternating manner within each semiconductor arrangement, and a voltage can be applied to said semiconductors via the electric contact. The invention is characterized in that the two semiconductor arrangements are electrically connected to each other in parallel.

A wheel disc arrangement having a wheel disc, having multiple vane devices which are fastened along an outer circumference of the wheel disc, having at least one sealing plate received between the wheel disc and the vane devices so as to be displaceable in a circumferential direction, and having at least one securing device designed so as to secure the sealing plate against a displacement in the circumferential direction, wherein the securing device has a bolt, which extends through a passage opening provided in the sealing plate, and a recess, which is provided on the wheel disc or on a vane device, which recess receives the free end of the bolt and the wall of which recess limits a movement of the bolt in the circumferential direction, wherein the bolt is, in an axial direction, secured on the sealing plate against undesired release by way of a detent connection.

A dish washing machine includes a tub, which is open at the front and at the bottom, is at least partially made of non-rusting metal and which has walls, a separate housing, and a mounting floor at least partially made of plastic. The tub is placed on the mounting floor to form a washing compartment, and the washing compartment wall is formed from the mounting floor. According to the invention, the visible surface inside the washing compartment of the washing compartment wall formed by the mounting floor has, at least in part, a different appearance than that of the plastic of the remaining mounting floor. The different appearance is obtained by an insert made of stainless steel on the mounting floor. A stainless steel surface that, to the user, appears highly effective can thus be obtained in the entire interior of the washing container even in the case of a platform for a dish washing machine having a tub made of stainless steel that is placed on a plastic mounting floor.