Robert Boschgmbh

Ant Nachrichtentechnik Gmbh

Klaus-Michael Mayer

Roland Mueller-Fiedler

Wolf-Henning Rech

Albrecht Kuke

Heiner Hauer

Thomas Schwander

Willi Nagel

Werner Gruenwald

Peter Dominke

Lothar Weber

Gerhard Benz

Armin Verhagen

Annette Seibold

Bernhard Schwaderer

Ansgar Traechtler

Markus Brandstetter

Friedrich Schoepf

Sylvia Futterer

Gerd Muehlnikel

Hans-Peter Stumpp

Monika Lorkowski

A device for connecting an energy-converting terminal to an electric power supply network and for exchanging data via the power supply network, a network connection for connecting to the power supply network, a communications unit for receiving and sending data over the power supply network, a logic unit for controlling the data exchange and for controlling or regulating the power of the energy-converting terminal, sensors and an associated signal processing unit for monitoring the energy-converting terminal, as well as a power section for controlling the energy flow to the energy-converting terminal are provided. The network connection, the communications unit, the logic unit, a sensor unit having sensors and the signal processing unit associated with the sensors and the power section are combined in an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). A corresponding method is also described.

Device and method for connecting an energy-converting terminal

A method for controlling a braking system of a vehicle is described, in which the braking system has at least a first control unit for controlling a first braking force on at least one wheel brake of a wheel of the vehicle, and an accumulator for receiving a pressurized medium, the method including generating the first braking force by at least one of a first hydraulic component and a first pneumatic component, filling the accumulator with the medium independently of the at least one of the first hydraulic component and the first pneumatic components via a relative movement between at least one wheel and a vehicle body, and generating a second braking force at predefinable times on the at least one wheel brake as a function of the filling of the accumulator.

Chassis-supported secondary braking system or emergency braking system

The optical signal transmission system includes one or more optical wave guide switches ( to ) for switching between transmission paths for transmission of light signals and an optical level adjusting device ( to ) connected with the one or more optical wave guide switches in at least one of the transmission paths. The optical level adjusting device ( to ) controls its own light transmittance with a thermooptic device ( ) and the one or more optical wave guide switches ( to ) switch between transmission paths by a similar thermooptic device ( ). The one or more optical wave guide switches and the optical level adjusting device are arranged in an integrated thermooptic circuit in a common substrate.

Optical signal transmission with thermooptically controlled optical switching

Arrangement for converting optical signals into electrical signals and

An optical, beam-splitting component has a prism carrier plate which supports a prism member upon which a deflecting layer is applied. At the same time, the prism member juts into a groove between two optical waveguides carrying the light signals.

Optical, beam-splitting component and a method for producing a prism

In the case of the above devices, exact adjustment is very important; however, the devices ought to be very compact. It is not sufficient to utilize the silicon etching technique for the precision. The optical transmitting element (LD) is situated on a first carrier (T1), the optical receiving element (PD) and the transmission fiber (Fa) are situated on a third carrier. Provided in between them is a second carrier (T2) which is transparent to the wavelength of the light emitted by the transmitting element (LD). The carriers are structured by means of anisotropic etching in order to make possible the accommodation of the individual components. In addition, the carriers lie flat on one another and can thus be adjusted. A monitor diode (MD) is provided. Application of the arrangement in all transmission systems having optical waveguides.

Optical fiber transmitting and receiving communications device

Method for producing optical polymer components having integrated

Optical polymer element for coupling photoelements onto

Method and optical device produced of optical polymer components having

A method of planarizing trench-like structures, particularly on semiconductor substrates, by filling in the trench-like structures. For this purpose, a pre-polymer is selectively filled into the trench-like structures, is hardened and is then expanded.

Method of planarizing trench structures

Proposed is an integrated optical component, particularly a modulator, directional coupler, switch, polarizer, distributor or the like, as well as a method of producing such a component. The component has a light waveguide (17) of an optical polymer which is disposed on a silicon substrate (10) that has at least one optical buffer layer (14) having a low refraction index, wherein a positioning trench (12) that is anisotropically etched into the substrate (10), is essentially aligned with the light waveguide (17) and has a V-shaped cross-section is provided for receiving a glass fiber (11) to be coupled to the coupling end surface (18) of the light waveguide by means of end-to-end coupling. The positioning trench (12) is filled with a plastic material (15) at the end region on the coupling side, wherein the light waveguide (17) extends on the plastic material (15) up to an end surface (18) of the plastic material (15) which extends perpendicular to the axial direction of the light waveguide (17) and lies in the plane of the coupling end surface. This end surface (18) is disposed outside of a diagonally-extending end region (13) of the positioning trench (12). The end surface (18) and thus the coupling end surface can therefore be created in a simple manner by means of laser machining processing, in which the established technology for producing the positioning trench by means of anisotropic etching can be used.

Integrated optical component

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Gerlingen, Germany

Klaus-Michael Mayer