Robert Boschgmbh

Karsten Funk

Markus Lutz

Wilhelm Frey

Franz Laermer

Andrea Schilp

Reinhard Neul

Sharmila Ravula

Joerg Hauer

Michael Fehrenbach

Andreas Thomae

Burkhard Kuhlmann

Jochen Franz

Wolfram Bauer

Christian Doering

Rainer Willig

Udo Bischof

Yao Meng

Madhuri Raya

Gerhard Wucher

Siegbert Goetz

Udo-Martin Gomez

Michael Offenberg

Juergen Kurle

Andreas Niendorf

Jochen Schaefer

Detlef Clawin

Hans-Martin Kulcke

Werner Uhler

Andreas Kynast

Hauke Schmidt

Bernhard Elsner

Bhaskar Srinivasan

Johannes Artzner

Georg Bischopink

Arne Dietrich

Manfred Moellendorf

Michael Kupzig

Udo Gomez

Gunar Lorenz

Gero Guenther

Burhard Kuhlmann

A junction box of a solar cell array/solar module, having a plurality of solar cells connected in multiple strings and including a separate top part mechanically connected to a bottom part, and in one of the bottom and top parts, first contact elements, some being connected in the installed state to solar cells and two of which are connected to a connecting cable of the solar cell array, and in another one of the bottom and top parts, interconnected second contact elements electrically contact first contact elements in the installed state and join them are situated there, and an actuator for releasing the mechanical connection between the bottom and top parts, for completely separating the top and bottom parts and for disconnecting the contact between the first and second contact elements and a control unit assigned to the actuator at the input side for generating an actuator control signal.

Junction box and solar cell array

A method of teaching pronunciation is provided which includes communicating by a voice portal server to a user a model word and detecting a response by the user to the voice portal server. The method also includes comparing the response word to the model word and determining a confidence level based on the comparison of the response word to the model word. The method further includes comparing an acceptance limit to the confidence level and confirming a correct pronunciation of the model word if the confidence level one of equals and exceeds the acceptance limit.

System, method and device for language education through a voice portal

A method and a system for controlling a wireless sensor network from a user interface coupled to the Internet are provided. A user accesses an Internet-based portal from the user interface and establishes a secure broadband Internet connection between a remote control module coupled to the wireless sensor network and the portal. The connection is established by manually triggering a connection between the remote control module and the portal from the remote control module.

Secure control of a wireless sensor network via the internet

A method of protecting a micro-mechanical sensor structure embedded in a micro-mechanical sensor chip, in which the micro-mechanical sensor structure is fabricated with a protective membrane, the micro-mechanical sensor chip is arranged so that a surface of the protective membrane faces toward a second chip, and the micro-mechanical sensor chip is secured to the second chip.

Method for protecting encapsulated sensor structures using stack packaging

Secure control of wireless sensor network via the internet

A method and system for controlling a home automation system by voice input provided via a telephone unit. A voice portal server receives a signal transmitted by the telephone unit, processes the signal to interpret the voice input, and generates command signals for controlling a home device in the home automation system based on the interpreted voice input. The voice portal server transmits the command signals over a data network or a telephone network to a home interface for receiving the command signals transmitted by the voice portal server. The home interface controls the home device in accordance with the received command signals.

Voice control of home automation systems via telephone

System, method and device for language education through a voice portal server

A method for configuring a wireless network includes pointing a first end of a network configuration device at a wireless device and actuating the network configuration device to add the wireless device to the wireless network. The method may include positioning the first end in close proximity to the wireless device. A device is provided for configuring wireless networks that includes a transmitter configured to transmit at least one of an initiation signal and a connection table to a wireless device. The initiation signal is sent by the device to the wireless device to add or delete the wireless device from a network that is being configured. The connection table includes information about each wireless device that has previously been added to the network. A receiver is included in the device that is adapted to receive at least one of the connection table and a unique identifier from the wireless device. A memory is included in the device that is configured to store the connection table and electrically coupled to the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter includes an infrared transmitter or a radio frequency transmitter and the receiver includes an infrared receiver or a radio frequency receiver. A system is provided that includes a pointing device including a connection table and a plurality of wireless network devices wirelessly couplable with the pointing device and with each other.

Secure and intuitive method for wireless network set-up and associated device and system

A sensor node arrangement in a wireless network, includes a sensor to sense information, an RF transceiver to communicate the information to at least one element of the wireless network, and a coil to establish a secondary communications channel with a handheld device via inductive coupling, the secondary communications channel used, for example, to receive, during installation of the sensor node arrangement, a node identifier of the sensor node arrangement.

Secure method and apparatus for retrieving network node identifier in wireless networks

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention creates a micromechanical rotational rate sensor having a first Coriolis mass element and a second Coriolis mass element which may be situated over a surface of a substrate. An exemplary embodiment of a micromechanical rotational rate sensor may have an activating device by which the first Coriolis mass element and the second Coriolis mass element are able to have vibrations activated along a first axis. An exemplary embodiment of a micromechanical rotational rate sensor may have a detection device by which deflections of the first Coriolis mass elements and of the second Coriolis element are able to be detected along a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, on the basis of a correspondingly acting Coriolis force. The first axis and second axis may run parallel to the surface of the substrate. The detecting device may have a first detection mass device and a second detection mass device. The centers of gravity of the first Coriolis mass element, the second Coriolis mass element, the first detection mass device and the second detection mass device may coincide at a common mass center of gravity when they are at rest.

Micromechanical rotational rate sensor

A micromechanical yaw rate sensor having: a substrate having an anchoring device provided on the substrate; and an annular flywheel that is connected, via a flexural spring system, with the anchoring device in such a way that the area of connection with the anchoring device is located essentially in the center of the ring, so that the annular flywheel is able to be displaced, elastically from its rest position, about an axis of rotation situated perpendicular to the substrate surface, and about at least one axis of rotation situated parallel to the substrate surface. The anchoring device has two bases that are situated opposite one another and are connected fixedly with the substrate, connected with one another via a bridge. A V-shaped flexural spring of the flexural spring system is attached to each of the opposite sides of the bridge in such a way that the apex is situated on the bridge and the limbs are spread towards the flywheel with an opening angle.

Micromechanical rotation rate sensor

A yaw-rate sensor is proposed having a first and a second Coriolis element ( ) which are arranged side-by-side above a surface ( ) of a substrate. The Coriolis elements ( ) are induced to oscillate parallel to a first axis. Due to a Coriolis force, the Coriolis elements ( ) are deflected in a second axis which is perpendicular to the first axis. The first and second Coriolis elements ( ) are coupled by a spring ( ) which is designed to be yielding in the first and in the second axis. Thus, the frequencies of the oscillations in the two axes are developed differently for the in-phase and antiphase oscillation.

Rotation speed sensor

A micromirror ( ), a micro-oscillating mirror in particular, having an at least largely cantilevered mirror surface ( ) which may be displaced from the rest position about at least one torsional axis ( ) is described. The mirror surface ( ) is linked to at least one support body ( ) by at least two torsion beams ( &prime;), which are arranged at least approximately parallel to each other. Also described is the displacement of the micrometer from its rest position by an electrostatic or magnetic interaction.

Micromirror

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