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Deep groove ball bearings can be found on the drive trains of a wide range of vehicles, including front-wheel drive compact cars, limousines, small vans, and all-terrain SUVs. Many of the applications in which these bearings are used mean they … Weiterlesen …

When the German communication satellite “Heinrich Hertz” starts operation in space in 2021, technology from First Sensor will ensure contact with Earth. The company is working on the development of a multi-feed array antenna for the satellite as part of … Weiterlesen …

As the company reported, Mercedes-Benz Trucks has taken 3D printing a stage further: the first printed spare part made of metal, a thermostat cover for truck and Unimog models from older model series, has passed all the stages of the … Weiterlesen …

Synthetic fuels, the production and burning of which is CO2-neutral, have the potential to make combustion drives more environmentally friendly. Continental has now successfully conducted tests on a synthetic fuel called oxymethylene ether (OME) in test vehicles. This includes the … Weiterlesen …

With the most recent order to MAN Diesel & Turbo, the company already won the third sub-project contributing to this multinational experimental set-up. The 13 so-called Port Stubs, fabricated for the Italian company Walter Tosto, are to be installed in … Weiterlesen …

Currently used blood pumps have many disadvantages: their mechanical parts are susceptible to complications while the patient lacks a physiological pulse, which is assumed to have some consequences for the patient. “Therefore, our goal is to develop an artificial heart … Weiterlesen …

Material compounds made from plastics and fibers are firmly established in the field of structural lightweight design. Glass and carbon fibers are most commonly used and for example integrated into thin films of thermoplastics as reinforcement. But most of these … Weiterlesen …

Cribellate spiders are those, which in contrast to most other spiders, do not use glue on their threads but rather are capable of turning their silk into complex structures. This takes place by linking up to 40 000 nanofibers. The … Weiterlesen …

Robots are virtually indispensable from nearly all fields of production. Thus, supplier of cables and cable systems Leoni intoduced a thermoplastic material that offers versatile use on robot arms. The company calls the flexible, slip-resistant attachment solution for lightweight robots … Weiterlesen …

Professor Hwang Cheol Seong of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his research team recently invented a type of cloth that is woven with RRAM (resistive random-access memory) technology. The new memory cloth does not use any electricity … Weiterlesen …