Robert Boschgmbh

Peter Rehbein

Thomas Inderwies

Jochen Mueller

Patric Brand

Sebastian Vornwald

Adrien Mouaffo Tiadjio

Michael Schoenfeld

Wolfgang Rueppel

Christoph Maier

Wolfgang Pade

Christian Knoll

Juergen Hackenberg

Sigmund Braun

Roman Ritter

Volker Haas

Juergen Stein

Andreas Simmel

Ulrich Schmatz

Achim Puettner

Hartmut Buschle

Michael Lindner

Gottfried Hendrix

Markus Kroeckel

Eckhardt Philipp

Michael Fleig

Jochen Straehle

Juergen Bauer

Stefan Junker

Frank Mücklich

Peter Stachnik

Alexander Redlich

Michael Heim

Georg Ketteler

Harald Schorr

Georg Voegele

Jens Nowotnick

Gerhard Braun

Jens Hofele

Timo Gaiser

Frank Sellmer

Martin Zimmer

Claus Westphal

Ruediger Bohnsack

Marcus Rinke

Thorsten Smetak

Stefan Keil

Andreas Kulik

Sabas Roman Tena

Refik Alp Tekoral

An apparatus for filtering a liquid includes a filter housing, at least one filter element arranged in the filter housing, and at least one sensor unit. The at least one sensor unit includes at least one sensor and a radio module. The at least one sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter representative of a state of at least the at least one filter element or the apparatus.

Apparatus for filtering a liquid and method for detecting a state of at least a filter element

A method for monitoring operation of a plant via a plurality of sensors includes: a) determining respective temporal waveforms of measurement values recordable with the sensors during normal operation of the plant, b) determining dependencies between the determined temporal waveforms of the measurement values, c) recording respective temporal waveforms of measurement values with the sensors during the operating mode to be monitored of the plant, and d) deciding whether a fault is present in the operating mode to be monitored of the plant by evaluating the recorded temporal waveforms on the basis of the determined dependencies.

Method and arrangement for monitoring an operation of a plant

A device for automatically handling storage units includes a support frame, at least one lifting unit, a gripper device configured to grip, convey, and discharge at least one storage unit, and at least one height adjustment device to which the gripper device is connected and is configured to be moved in the inner space of the support frame therewith. A storage arrangement which is configured to be charged from below for at least one storage unit is arranged above the gripper device so that the same support frame is configured by the lifting unit to convey and to store, by the storage arrangement, at least one storage unit. A method includes automatic handling of storage units via the device.

Device and method for handling storage units

A method for activating an electronic subassembly includes receiving at least one activation signal using a reception module of the electronic subassembly. The electronic subassembly is transferred from an idle state to an active state using the at least one activation signal. The electronic subassembly is intermittently supplied with electric power via the at least one activation signal.

Electronic subassembly and method for activation thereof

A method ascertains a state of a product in a plurality of time periods using a detection unit associated with the product. The method including the following for each of the time periods: setting a configuration of the detection unit at a beginning of the respective time period, the configuration different than a configuration available beforehand, and detecting at least one measured value using the detection unit in the respective time period on the basis of the set configuration.

Method for ascertaining a state of a product

A direct plug element for contacting an electrical contact includes: a two-piece flexible direct contact having a first, separate spring element, and a second, separate spring element, the first spring element and the second spring element being situated one behind the other in a contact direction, and a first spring force of the first spring element and a second spring force of the second spring element is directed in essentially the same direction, and the second spring element includes a contact region.

Direct plug element having improved contacting

In a plug connection for the direct electrical contacting of contact surfaces on a circuit board, having a plug receptacle associated with the circuit board, into which the circuit board extends, having a plug pluggable into the plug receptacle, which has a contact carrier having contact elements for the direct electrical contacting of the contact surfaces of the circuit board, and having a contact pressure spring device for pressing the contact elements of the contact carrier against the contact surfaces of the circuit board, the contact pressure spring device is provided in the plug receptacle.

Plug connection for the direct electrical contacting of a circuit board

In a direct contact plug-in connection having a circuit board, which has contact surfaces on its one side, and having a direct contact plug that is plug-connectible to the circuit board, which has contact elements for the electrical direct contacting of the contact surfaces of the circuit board, the contact surfaces are provided on a circuit board section that runs transversely to the plugging direction of the plug connection, the contact elements each contacting the contact surfaces, using their front end face, in the plugging direction.

Direct contact plug-in connection having end face direct contact

In an electrical contact for plug-in connections, in particular for the direct contacting of contact surfaces of a circuit board, the contact having a contact housing which includes an inwardly deflectable primary lance, which outwardly projects beyond the contact housing, counter to the insertion direction, for retaining the contact inserted into a contact chamber of a mating plug, the primary lance has a free end which is offset inwardly relative to its outwardly projecting lance section and extends counter to the insertion direction, which free lance end is outwardly overlapped by a housing stop of the contact housing.

Electrical contact for plug-in connections

A removable electrical plug-in connection comprising a connector and a mating connector, the mating connector including a contact element, in particular a p.c. board, or similar, having at least one contact area which is connectable at least in part to the connector. It is provided that the connector includes at least one clamping element which grips at least in part around the contact element in its contact position, and this clamping element presses at least a part of the contact element against the contact area for establishing the electrical plug-in connection.

Direct plug-in connection including a cable end sleeve

A contact surface. for electrical contacts may include an Ag layer deposited on a copper-based substrate using galvanic methods. The Ag layer includes finely dispersed graphite particles in a quantity of, e.g., 1 to 3 weight % of the Ag layer, the graphite particles having a length in the range of, e.g., 0.5 to 20 &#x3bc;m.

Contact surfaces for electrical contacts

An electrical contact, especially an electrical contact of a plug connector, includes a metallic substrate on which a contact layer is applied in the form of a gradient layer. The gradient layer is formed by at least two elements of which one is silver and forms a matrix for the second element or forms an alloy therewith, or of which one is tin and the other is phosphorus or of which one is indium and the other is tin.

Electric contact

An electric plug-in connector includes a plug receptacle provided for insertion of a contact pin, a contact lamina pivotally mounted on the plug-in connector housing, its free end being directed in the insertion direction of the contact pin, and a holding arm pivotably mounted on the plug-in connector housing, which protrudes at its free end into the plug receptacle in the ready-to-insert starting state of the plug-in connector and also holds back the contact lamina that is prestressed into the plug receptacle, the contact lamina and/or the opposite housing wall being made of an electrically conducting material for contacting the inserted contact pins.

Electric plug-in connector having a prestressed contact lamina

An electric contact, in particular an electric contact of a plug-in connector, has a metallic substrate to which a contact layer is applied. The contact layer is arranged as a structured layer.

Electrical contact

A fuel supply system, having a housing, in which a pistonlike element is disposed longitudinally displaceably in a bore and is guided sealingly in the bore by a guide portion. On one end, the guide portion adjoins a first fuel-filled chamber, and on its other end it adjoins a second fuel-filled chamber. At least one recess extending at least approximately in the circumferential direction is embodied in the guide portion of the pistonlike element and extends over at least part of the circumference of the pistonlike element and, viewed in the longitudinal direction of the pistonlike element, has an asymmetrical cross section.

Fuel supply for internal combustion engines

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