Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengsellschaft

Oliver Hennig

Martin Bischoff

Ingmar Schule

Karl-Heinz Kufer

Kai Plociennik

Terrence Chen

Carsten Schuh

Georg Bachmaier

Jens Dahl Jensen

Hellmut Freudenberg

Bernhard Gottlieb

Jörg Zapf

Randolf Mock

Christoph Hamann

Thomas Hammer

Heiner Bayer

Matthias Gerlich

Günter Lugert

Erhard Magori

Klaus Pistor

Reinhard Freitag

Ralph Grothmann

Daniel Evers

Axel Ganster

Christian Tump

Jens Weber

Eberhard Ritzhaupt-Kleissl

Johann Kim

Sven Eisen

Frederik Brandes

Robert Baumgartner

Andreas GÖDECKE

A method for defining a structure of a photovoltaic system on a system surface with a local topology is provided, including: first placement of a block at a location on the system surface with the local topology; placing additional blocks at additional locations on the system surface without overlapping previously placed blocks, wherein prior to each placement, row spacing of the solar panels of each additional block is adapted to the topology at the location at which the respective additional block was placed, resulting in a change in the extension of the additional block in the direction of the column of solar panels of the additional block, and ending the placement of additional blocks if, by the placement of an additional block, the nominal capacity of a photovoltaic system corresponding to the structure were to be exceeded, or if no additional block can be placed without overlapping previously placed blocks.

Simplified construction of a photovoltaic system with a consecutively placed system block

A method and a device for controlling an energy-generating system are operated with a renewable energy source. In the method, a prediction about an energy yield of the energy-generating system is made for a predefined prediction time period, and a predefined area, using a learning system with an input vector and an output vector. The output vector includes operating variables for a multiplicity of successive future times of the time period. The input vector includes variables, influencing the operating variables, for a point in time from a multiplicity of points in time of a predefined observation time period. The input variables include at least three items of information for the observation time period and the predefined area. The energy-generating system is controlled on the basis of the generated prediction such that weather-conditioned fluctuations in the energy yield of the energy-generating system are reduced.

Method and device for controlling an energy-generating system which can be operated with a renewable energy source

A method for creating a physical layout of a photovoltaic system in a specified field is provided where the photovoltaic system is specified by a plurality of technical properties. The method includes reading out more than 20 pre-calculated, completed layouts for the photovoltaic system from a memory; presenting the completed layouts in a graphical presentation wherein each of the completed layouts is represented by at least one partial amount of the plurality of technical properties; modifying value ranges of the presented technical properties, in order to present a modified number of completed layouts in a comparable manner; and selecting an optimized layout that has been optimized with regard to the presented properties from the modified number of completed layouts. Thereby a photovoltaic system having a high nominal power can be established in the best possible manner. The physical layout of the entire photovoltaic system is adapted to the specified field.

Method for designing a physical layout of a photovoltaic system

For monitoring a combustion process in an internal combustion engine wherein a fuel-air mixture is ignited with a high-frequency plasma it is provided to determine the impedance of the plasma. A high-frequency signal is applied to the resonator with a capacity that is so low that no arcing-over forms on the electrodes and the high-frequency current and the high-frequency voltage are measured. The impedance of the ignited mixture is determined from the high-frequency current and the high-frequency voltage.

Method and device for monitoring a combustion process in an internal combustion engine

In a method for producing a multilayer encapsulation () of a piezo actuator () such that the piezo actuator () is protected towards the outside without having to use an additional enveloping housing-type structure, in order to produce the multilayer encapsulation (), an electrically insulating elastic layer () is first applied to the surface of the piezo actuator (), whereupon a metallic layer is applied to the electrically insulating elastic layer () so as to planarly cover the same.

Piezo actuator comprising a multilayer encapsulation, and method for the production thereof

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