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Method for producing a solar cell comprising - a crystalline silicon core, - at least one n- or p-doped silicon or silicon alloy layer (3, 3') and - at least one passivation layer (4, 4') consisting of silicon or a silicon alloy between at least one surface (21, 22) of the silicon core and the at least one n- or p-doped silicon or silicon alloy layer (3, 3'), wherein the passivation layer (4, 4') is deposited in such a way that the passivation layer (4, 4') produced comprises silicon monohydride molecular groups (Si-H) and silicon dihydride molecular groups (Si-H 2) and that a ratio of the number of silicon dihydride molecular groups (n Si-H2) to the total number of silicon dihydride molecular groups (n Si-H2) and silicon monohydride molecular groups (n Si-H) is greater than 0.4 in a comparison volume of the passivation layer (4, 4') Q = n Si − H 2 n Si − H 2 + n Si − H > 0.4, wherein the passivation layer (4, 4') is deposited in a plurality of sub-steps of a plasma discharge process, characterized in that, in a first variant of the method, during the deposition of the passivation layer (4, 4'), an alternating sequence of silane plasma deposition steps and H 2 plasma treatment steps are used or, in a second variant of the method, during the deposition of the passivation layer (4, 4'), a continuously burning plasma acting on the passivation layer (4, 4') is used during all sub-steps of the plasma discharge process, and in a subsequent sub-step of the plasma discharge process for the deposition of the passivation layer (4, 4'), which follows a previous sub-step of this plasma discharge process, at least one changeable deposition parameter, selected from the deposition parameters of process pressure, electrical power and precursor gas flow, is changed by comparison with the corresponding deposition parameter of the previous sub-step in each case. - a crystalline silicon core, - at least one n- or p-doped silicon or silicon alloy layer (3, 3') and - at least one passivation layer (4, 4') consisting of silicon or a silicon alloy between at least one surface (21, 22) of the silicon core and the at least one n- or p-doped silicon or silicon alloy layer (3, 3'), wherein
A process for the preparation of C 8 -C 22 acyl amido compounds which comprises: (i) reacting an amino compound or salt thereof having a structure with a fatty acid ester in a medium which is a polyol of molecular weight ranging from 76 to 300, wherein R 2 is hydrogen, CH 2 COOX or a C 1 -C 5 alkyl radical; R 3 is hydrogen; R 4 is selected from the group consisting of (CH 2) m CO 2 X, (CH 2) m SO 3 X, CH 2 NR 2 (CH 2) m OH and glucosyl radicals; R 5 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyphenyl, C 1 -C 6 hydroxyalkyl, C 1 -C 10 alkyl, benzyl, hydroxybenzyl, alkylcarbamido, thioalkyl, and carboxylic radicals; X is selected from hydrogen, metal ions, amine salts and C 1 -C 4 alkyl radicals; and m ranges from 0 to 6; and (ii) heating reactants from step (i) in the presence of a basic metal salt containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of alkali and alkaline earth metal containing hydroxides, phosphates, sulphates and oxides to form the C 8 -C 22 acyl amido compounds having a structure and recovering a resultant mass from the process wherein R is a C 7 -C 21 saturated or unsaturated alkyl radical provided by the fatty acid ester; and the resultant mass has a Hunter Lab Color Scale value L ranging from 70 to 100. (i) reacting an amino compound or salt thereof having a structure with a fatty acid ester in a medium which is a polyol of molecular weight ranging from 76 to 300, wherein R 2 is hydrogen, CH 2 COOX or a C 1 -C 5 alkyl radical; R 3 is hydrogen; R 4 is selected from the group consisting of (CH 2) m CO 2 X, (CH 2) m SO 3 X, CH 2 NR 2 (CH 2) m OH and glucosyl radicals; R 5 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyphenyl, C 1 -C 6 hydroxyalkyl, C 1 -C 10 alkyl, benzyl, hydroxybenzyl, alkylcarbamido, thioalkyl, and carboxylic radicals; X is selected from hydrogen, metal ions, amine salts and C 1 -C 4 alkyl radicals; and m ranges from 0 to 6; and (ii) heating reactants from step (i) in the presence of a basic metal salt containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of alkali and alkaline earth metal containing hydroxides, phosphates, sulphates and oxides to form the C 8 -C 22 acyl amido compounds having a structure and recovering a resultant mass from the process wherein R is a C 7 -C 21 saturated or unsaturated alkyl radical provided by the fatty acid ester; and the resultant mass has a Hunter Lab Color Scale value L ranging from 70 to 100.
A control device of a hybrid system which can output a power output from an internal combustion engine by its operation and a power output from an electric motor by its operation selectively or simultaneously, the control device selectively performing first and second modes for concomitantly useing an EV mode for performing the operation of the electric motor with the operation of the engine being stopped and an HV mode for selectively performing the operation of the engine and its stop with the electric motor being operated by switching the EV mode and the HV mode according to a predetermined switching condition, and the predetermined switching condition being set such that a proportion of an operation time of the engine occupying a total time of the first mode is smaller than that occupying a total time of the second mode, wherein referring to the power output from the hybrid system as hybrid system power when the first mode is selected and an actual acceleration peda manipulation amount is smaller than a predetermined first manipulation amount, an increase amount of the hybrid system power relative to the increase amount of the actual acceleration pedal manipulation amount is made larger than that when the second mode is selected.
Method for providing driving instructions for a driver of a motor vehicle during a parking manoeuvre in a parking space, having the steps of: - planning a driving trajectory which describes the parking manoeuvre by means of a manoeuvre planning unit of a control device, - using a display unit to display a planned direction of travel determined on the basis of the planned driving trajectory by means of the manoeuvre planning unit, - capturing a distance between the motor vehicle and an obstacle inside and/or beside the parking space by means of a sensor device while the driver is driving the motor vehicle in the displayed direction of travel, - initially changing the direction of travel displayed by means of the display unit from the planned direction of travel to an avoidance direction of travel by means of a monitoring unit of the control device if the captured distance undershoots a predetermined distance value (Dmin), wherein, after the initial change, at least one predetermined further change of the displayed direction of travel, as signalled by the manoeuvre planning unit and/or the monitoring unit, is suppressed by the control device, characterized in that the signalled change of the displayed direction of travel is suppressed until at least one predetermined change condition has been met. - planning a driving trajectory which describes the parking manoeuvre by means of a manoeuvre planning unit of a control device, - using a display unit to display a planned direction of travel determined on the basis of the planned driving trajectory by means of the manoeuvre planning unit, - capturing a distance between the motor vehicle and an obstacle inside and/or beside the parking space by means of a sensor device while the driver is driving the motor vehicle in the displayed direction of travel, - initially changing the direction of travel displayed by means of the display unit from the planned direction of travel to an avoidance direction of travel by means of a monitoring unit of the control device if the captured distance undershoots a predetermined distance value (Dmin),
A workpiece processing system comprising: a robot arm to which a tool for processing a food product as a workpiece is attached; an imaging device for capturing an image of the workpiece, the robot arm being configured to process the workpiece by the tool based on results of image analysis of the captured image of the workpiece; and a tool checking device for checking the tool attached to the robot arm, the tool checking device comprising: a tool movement control unit configured to control the robot arm so as to move the tool attached to the robot arm to a defined position; an imaging control unit configured to control the imaging device so as to capture an image of the tool moved to the defined position; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the tool satisfies a tool condition regarding a tool type or tool state that needs to be satisfied, on the basis of a captured image of the tool moved to the defined position imaged by the imaging device. a robot arm to which a tool for processing a food product as a workpiece is attached; an imaging device for capturing an image of the workpiece, the robot arm being configured to process the workpiece by the tool based on results of image analysis of the captured image of the workpiece; and a tool checking device for checking the tool attached to the robot arm, the tool checking device comprising: a tool movement control unit configured to control the robot arm so as to move the tool attached to the robot arm to a defined position; an imaging control unit configured to control the imaging device so as to capture an image of the tool moved to the defined position; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the tool satisfies a tool condition regarding a tool type or tool state that needs to be satisfied, on the basis of a tool movement control unit configured to control the robot arm so as to move the tool attached to the robot arm to a defined position; an imaging control unit configured to control the imaging device so as to capture an image of the tool moved to the defined position; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the tool satisfies a tool condition regarding a tool type or tool state that needs to be satisfied, on the basis of a captured image of the tool moved to the defined position imaged by the imaging device.
A sounder configured to be located between a base for fitting to a ceiling and a detector, the sounder comprising a base plate and walls (86, 88, 90) upstanding from the base plate, characterized in that the walls (86, 88, 90) define a plurality of mechanical horns having throats which open into a space at the centre of the base plate, the mouths of the mechanical horns being at the outer periphery of the base plate, said walls (86, 88, 90) bounding sound paths which are longer than the straight line distance from the throat of each mechanical horn to the mouth of that mechanical horn, wherein each sound path is of spiral form and extends from the throat through one or more turns to the mouth thereof.
A system for conversion between analog domain and digital domain with mismatch error shaping, configured to receive an input analog value (Vi) and to output an output digital value (Do) converted from the input analog value (Vi) comprising: a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate a second analog value (vb(k)); a first injection circuit; a second injection circuit configured to combine a digital injection value (z -1 D) with the output digital value to produce a digital value Ds; a second digital-to-analog converter configured to generate an analog injection value (va(k)); a third digital-to-analog converter configured to generate an internal analog value, and a sum block configured to combine the analog injection value, the second analog value and the internal analog value to form a third analog value (Vo); wherein the system further comprises: a dynamic element matching circuit coupled to the third digital-to-analog converter, configured to receive an internal digital value, to code the internal digital value from a binary code to a thermometer code, and accordingly to control the third digital-to-analog converter to digital-to-analog convert the internal digital value to the internal analog value, wherein the digital value Ds is split to the internal digital value and a second digital value, with the internal digital value being formed by the most significant Ms bits of the digital value Ds, and the second digital value being formed by the least significant Ns bits of the digital value Ds, and a loop filter coupled to the sum block, configured to filter a difference (Vd) between the input analog value (Vi) and the third analog value (Vo) to generate a filtered analog value (Vf); an analog-to-digital converter coupled between the loop filter and the second injection circuit and configured to convert the filtered analog value (Vf) to the output digital value, wherein the first injection circuit comprises an operator coupled between a first port and a second port, and configured such that: during each cycle, the operator, in response to the second digital value received via the first port, provides the digital injection value via the second port, wherein the first injection circuit, during a current cycle, routes the second port to the second digital-to-analog converter and routes the first port to the digital-to-analog converter; and during a subsequent cycle after the current cycle, the first injection circuit routes the second port to the digital-to-analog converter and routes the first port to the second digital-to-analog converter. arranged to combine the digital injection value (-D(k-1)) and the related value (Do), which is the third digital value, to form the output digital value (Dop).
Stabiliser (1, 26), which has at least two stabiliser components which are coupled with one another materially by thermal joining, wherein a heat-affected zone produced by the thermal joining is heat-treated after coupling, characterised in that the heat treatment is performed in several stages and/or steps and the heat treatment is particularly targeted on the heat-affected zone, wherein the heat-treated heat-affected zone is post-treated by shot-peening.
A dielectric waveguide for transmission of millimeter-wave signals, comprising: an inner core comprising a dielectric medium adapted to transmit a millimeter-wave signal by carrying an electromagnetic field along the dielectric waveguide; wherein the dielectric medium comprises a dielectric material having dielectric properties adapted to confine the propagating electromagnetic field to the inner core while adding low transmission loss at signal frequencies in a millimeter-wave frequency range; wherein said dielectric medium comprises one or more bundles of a plurality of fibers made of a dielectric material which includes quartz and/or alumina, wherein the plurality of fibers of at least one bundle forms a yarn that extends along the inner core, each fiber in the yarn having a length shorter than the length of the inner core. an inner core comprising a dielectric medium adapted to transmit a millimeter-wave signal by carrying an electromagnetic field along the dielectric waveguide; wherein the dielectric medium comprises a dielectric material having dielectric properties adapted to confine the propagating electromagnetic field to the inner core while adding low transmission loss at signal frequencies in a millimeter-wave frequency range; wherein said dielectric medium comprises one or more bundles of a plurality of fibers made of a dielectric material which includes quartz and/or alumina, wherein the plurality of fibers of at least one bundle forms a yarn that extends along the inner core, each fiber in the yarn having a length shorter than the length of the inner core.
A seat cushion for resting on or being incorporated into a piece of seating furniture, having a plate-shaped basic shape which has a width, a length and a height, wherein the seat cushion comprises a seat surface which is located on an upper side of the basic shape and extends along the width and length of the basic shape and has a three-dimensional surface shape with elevations and depressions in the direction of the thickness with respect to a plane spanned by the width and length, wherein the seat surface possesses, along the width direction, a front side, at which the user's legs can be disposed when sitting, and a rear side, at which the user's back can be disposed when sitting, wherein the seat surface has at least one, preferably two, sitting-bone depressions for receiving the sitting bones of a user, wherein the seat surface has, in a plan view of the seat surface, a U-shaped ridge having a U-shape with a base and two limbs (14, 15) disposed thereon, said ridge arranged with respect to the sitting-bone depressions in such a way that the user sits with the thighs and the buttocks within a region which is enclosed in a U-shape by the ridge in such a way that the sitting bones project into the sitting-bone depressions, wherein, in the region enclosed in a U-shape between the limbs of the U-shape, a base surface is formed which slopes down towards the sitting-bone depressions and which in plan view has the shape of an isosceles and/or symmetrical trapezium, characterised in that the ridge has a depression in the centre of the base of the U-shape for receiving the coccyx.
A gas turbine engine comprising: a compressor section and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order; a shaft rotatable with at least a portion of the compressor section and with at least a portion of the turbine section; a bearing supporting rotation of the shaft; a support element supporting the bearing; and characterized by: a superelastic member formed of a shape memory alloy supporting at least one of the support element or the bearing, the superelastic member installed in a pre-stressed condition. a compressor section and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order; a shaft rotatable with at least a portion of the compressor section and with at least a portion of the turbine section; a bearing supporting rotation of the shaft; a support element supporting the bearing; and characterized by: a superelastic member formed of a shape memory alloy supporting at least one of the support element or the bearing, the superelastic member installed in a pre-stressed condition.
An apparatus for conveyance of fluid comprising: a first tube made of stainless steel and a second tube made of copper, said first tube having a first end, a second end, an inner wall and an outer wall, said inner wall having a diameter in the range of 0.0508 mm to 0.127 mm and defining a passage for fluid, and said outer wall having at least one first receiving section, and said second tube having a first end, a second end, an inner wall and an outer wall, said inner wall defining a chamber for receiving said first tube and having at least one second receiving section for receiving said first receiving section of said outer wall of said first tube, wherein said second tube has been drawn down such that said first receiving section and said second receiving section are apart from each other in the range of 0.254 mm to 0.0508 mm, and sealed by welding. a first tube made of stainless steel and a second tube made of copper, said first tube having a first end, a second end, an inner wall and an outer wall, said inner wall having a diameter in the range of 0.0508 mm to 0.127 mm and defining a passage for fluid, and said outer wall having at least one first receiving section, and said second tube having a first end, a second end, an inner wall and an outer wall, said inner wall defining a chamber for receiving said first tube and having at least one second receiving section for receiving said first receiving section of said outer wall of said first tube, wherein said second tube has been drawn down such that said first receiving section and said second receiving section are apart from each other in the range of 0.254 mm to 0.0508 mm, and sealed by welding.
A domestic appliance, in particular a refrigerator unit and/or a freezer unit, having at least one carcass and a door or flap that is pivotable relative to the carcass by means of at least one bearing, wherein the bearing has a bearing journal and a bearing sleeve in which the bearing journal is rotatably received, and wherein the door has at least one receiver (14, 14') in which the bearing sleeve is releasably received, and wherein the bearing has means for receiving a cable for the power supply and/or for data transfer into the door or flap, characterized in that the bearing sleeve is designed in multiple parts, with a first part having a recess for receiving the bearing journal, and with a second part having guide regions for guiding the cable in the bearing sleeve; in that the bearing journal has a hollow space; and in that the cable extends through the hollow space of the bearing journal, with the second part of the bearing sleeve being designed such that the cable is bent by 180° after leaving the hollow space of the bearing journal, then extends substantially in parallel with the bearing journal and then again undergoes a bend by 180°.
An aircraft wing comprising: a fixed wing portion; a wing tip moveably coupled to the fixed wing portion about a hinge axis, the wing tip moveable between an extended position and a folded position; a first stop pad coupled to the fixed wing portion, the first stop pad having a first contact surface; a second stop pad coupled to the wing tip, the second stop pad having a second contact surface, the first and second contact surfaces (420, 422) to engage each other when the wing tip is in the extended position, a contact plane between the first and second contact surfaces (420, 422) being coplanar with the hinge axis, wherein the first stop pad includes a first wear plate and the second stop pad includes a second wear plate, the first wear plate is constructed of a harder material than the second wear plate. a fixed wing portion; a wing tip moveably coupled to the fixed wing portion about a hinge axis, the wing tip moveable between an extended position and a folded position; a first stop pad coupled to the fixed wing portion, the first stop pad having a first contact surface; a second stop pad coupled to the wing tip, the second stop pad having a second contact surface, the first and second contact surfaces (420, 422) to engage each other when the wing tip is in the extended position, a contact plane between the first and second contact surfaces (420, 422) being coplanar with the hinge axis, wherein the first stop pad includes a first wear plate and the second stop pad includes a second wear plate, the first wear plate is constructed of a harder material than the second wear plate.
A compressor casing assembly, comprising: a barrel defining a bore concentrically-disposed within the barrel; a conduit (106a,b) defined in the barrel and in fluid communication with the bore; and a mounting surface formed around a perimeter of the conduit (106a,b) on an outside surface of the barrel, characterized in that at least a portion of the mounting surface is formed from multiple built-up layers of a weld material and configured to be substantially planar with a remaining portion of the mounting surface. a barrel defining a bore concentrically-disposed within the barrel; a conduit (106a,b) defined in the barrel and in fluid communication with the bore; and a mounting surface formed around a perimeter of the conduit (106a,b) on an outside surface of the barrel, characterized in that at least a portion of the mounting surface is formed from multiple built-up layers of a weld material and configured to be substantially planar with a remaining portion of the mounting surface.