Robert Boschgmbh

Trumpf Photonic Components Gmbh

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Alexander Herrmann

Wolfgang Woernle

Stefan Weiss

Benjamin Bertsch

Robert Wolf

Stephan Henzler

Sören Sofke

Jens-Alrik Adrian

Matthias Falk

Bernd Mueller

Alexander Marc Van Der Lee

Gunther Lang

Johannes Meyer

Michael Schmid

Matthias Ludwig

Conrad Haeussermann

Hans Spruit

Uwe Guenther

Thomas Hanses

Balazs Jatekos

Dieter Schwarzmann

Robert Weiss

Christian Lammers

Susanne Weidenfeld

Thomas Wieja

Hansjoerg Markus Hild

Michel Walz

Christian Klein

Beate Leibbrand

Steffen Reinhardt

Marco Martini

Daniel Schoenfeld

Antonio Bruna Fernandez

Wolfram Johannes Martin Lyda

Dominik Moser

Christopher Haug

Denis Mader

A method for recognizing a state of an eye for a laser device. The method includes reading in an eye parameter using the laser device, which represents a movement of the eye. The eye parameter is compared with a first and/or with a second reference parameter in order to obtain a comparison result. A type of movement of the eye is determined using the comparison result, which represents a saccadic eye movement when the eye parameter has a greater value than the first reference parameter. The type of movement represents a smooth eye movement when the eye parameter has a value which corresponds to the second reference parameter and at most to the first reference parameter. A viewing direction is ascertained as a function of the determined type of movement.

Method and device for recognizing a viewing direction and/or a state of an eye using a laser device and laser device

The present invention provides an optical fire sensor device and a corresponding fire detection method. The optical fire sensor device is equipped with an optical particle detection unit (), which is configured to ascertain measured values of a particle number in a measurement volume range (FA) as a function of a particle size in a predetermined particle size range and/or as a function of a particle speed in a predetermined particle speed range, a fire detection unit (), which is configured to ascertain respective distributions of the measured values and to compare at least one parameter of the ascertained distributions to at least one predetermined criterion. The fire detection unit () is configured to detect a fire (B) in consideration of the comparison. An alarm unit () is used to output an alarm signal in response to the detection of the fire (B) by the fire detection unit ().

Optical fire sensor device and corresponding fire detection method

An optical particle sensor apparatus is equipped with a housing (MD) having an optical exit region (OF); an optical emitter device (LD) in the housing that is set up to emit an optical measurement beam (OB) for capturing particles; a focusing lens device (LE) in the housing for directing the optical measurement beam through the optical exit region to outside the housing in a focus region (FA), within which particle capturing is performable; an optical detector device (DD) arranged in the housing and set up to capture the measurement beam (OB') scattered by particles (P) and to output information produced using an algorithm relating to the presence of the particles; and a controllable adaptation device (C, E), which is set up to adapt at least one optical property of the lens device and/or of the optical emitter device and/or of the optical detector device based on an input signal (ES; ES&#x2032;) that provides information relating to a presence and to optical properties of an external optical window (EF) arranged between the optical exit region and the focus region, to capture a particle beyond the external optical window.

Optical particle sensor apparatus and corresponding particle measurement method

A system for determining a particle contamination and a method for determining a particle contamination in a measurement environment is provided in which individual particles in the measurement environment are detected (S), wherein a) an estimate of the number of particles per volume in the measurement environment is ascertained (S), b) an estimate of the number of particles per volume and characterization information describing the particle source in the measurement information are taken as a basis for ascertaining an output value for the particle contamination in the measurement environment (S), and c) context-related data are made available and the characterization information is estimated on the basis of the available context-related data (S). The estimation of the characterization information on the basis of the available context-related data avoids the conventional restriction of the evaluable characterization information to firmly prescribed information and instead provides flexible adaptation of the characterization information to be evaluated to the context-related data.

System and method for determining a particle contamination

Method for checking a device for a vehicle for detecting an impact, in particular an impact with a pedestrian, by means of at least one impact-sensing means which is based on at least a first volume, in particular by means of an impact-sensing means which is based on at least one hose, a device having means for carrying out such a method and a corresponding system, in which at least one first variable is acquired, wherein the at least one first variable represents a pressure and/or a volume and/or a change in pressure and/or a change in volume in the first volume, and a result of the checking of the device is determined as a function of a profile of the at least one first variable.

Method, device and system for checking a device for a vehicle for detecting an impact

A method for producing a sensor housing comprises forming three seals including a first annular seal and a second annular seal connected to each other by a connecting web formed materially integral in a unipartite fashion with the first annular seal and the second annular seal, and positioning the first annular seal and the second annular seal on a housing shell of the sensor housing.

Method for producing a sensor housing and corresponding sensor housing

A pressing element is configured for an electrical component which needs to be pressed against another element for contact. The electrical component includes at least one electrically conductive touch contact. The pressing element has an annular pressing surface for the electrical component. An outer contour of the pressing surface is greater than an outer contour of the electrical component which needs to be pressed. The pressing surface has an annular elevation which forms a bearing surface for the electrical component.

Pressing element, electrical/electronic component

A method is provided for controlling the current intensity of the electric current flowing through an inductive consumer, the consumer being connected in series to a switching device and a current measuring unit, and in parallel to a free-wheeling element, and the switching device being activated for adjusting the current intensity during a pulse width modulation period. It is provided that a mean load voltage to be set during the pulse width modulation period is determined from an input current intensity with the aid of a first controller, the mean load voltage being set in the pulse width modulation period with the aid of the switching device at the consumer, the mean load voltage or a setpoint load voltage determined with the aid of a second controller from a predefined setpoint current intensity being fed to a model adapted to the consumer, and the input current intensity being ascertained from the difference between the predefined setpoint current intensity and a difference variable between an actual current intensity through the consumer and a model current intensity determined with the aid of the model. A circuit configuration for implementing the method is also provided.

Method for controlling the current intensity of the electric current flowing through an inductive consumer and a corresponding circuit configuration

The invention relates to a sensor device (), in particular for use in a motor vehicle, having a housing () for accommodating a sensor element (), wherein the sensor element () has electrical contact areas () which are connected to electrical plug connections () arranged in the housing () in an electrically conductive manner in the region of contacts () of the plug connections (), wherein a force is applied to the sensor element () for the purpose of making electrical contact with a housing element in the direction of the plug connections (). The invention provides for the electrical plug connections () to be arranged in a stationary manner in the housing () in the region of the contacts () with the electrical contact areas () of the sensor element (), and for a support to be formed between the sensor element () and the housing () in such a manner that the sensor element () has three-point contact in the housing ().

Sensor device, in particular for use in a motor vehicle

A fastener for fastening and/or temporarily fixing a component on a retainer provided with an opening, having two flexible catch pins which are situated at a distance from one another and are each provided with catch lugs in the proximity of their free ends, which project beyond opposing exterior sides of the catch pins and engage behind an edge of the opening after they pass through the opening of the retainer. It is provided that the two catch pins are situated in recesses of a projection.

Fastener for fastening and/or temporarily fixing a component on a retainer provided with an opening, as well as a component having a fastener

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Reutlingen, Germany

Alexander Herrmann