Abstract: An electric motor is provided with rotor and stator. The stator includes stator poles radially facing the rotor and surrounded by stator windings. An insulating sleeve is positioned between the rotor and stator. The sleeve includes projections arranged radially with respect to the rotor. The projections project in a direction away from the sleeve and rotor and towards the stator. The projections project between adjacent stator poles and may further serve to anchor the poles. The projections may have a T or elongated T shape. The projections and sleeve are rigid and either or both may be made of plastic. The sleeve provides a moisture or liquid tight insulation for the stator so that the motor can be used in moist or liquid environments.

Abstract: A servo drive for activating a tailgate of a motor vehicle has a drive, a sun wheel driven by the drive and rotatably mounted on a first axle, and a planetary wheel rotatably mounted on a second axle. The sun wheel engages with the planetary wheel. The first and second axles have ends, are movably arranged at their ends facing away from the drive in a common web, and are spaced apart from one another by a constant distance. The planetary wheel engages in a ring gear segment which is fixedly connected to a bodywork, and an end of the web, which faces the ring gear segment, is movably connected to a connecting rod through a third axle. An end of the connecting rod facing away from the third axle is movably connected, via a fourth axle, to an output element which is connected by an end facing away from the fourth axle to the tailgate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a throttle valve arrangement for closing a through flow in a throttle valve connection piece, including a pivotably actuated throttle valve shaft which is mounted in the opening in a perpendicular position with respect to the longitudinal extension thereof projecting into the housing of the throttle valve connection piece with the free end thereof. The through flow opening can be closed by a throttle valve which is firmly connected to the throttle valve shaft. The throttle valve comprises a continuous receiving opening extending on the plane thereof in a perpendicular position with respect to the opening and through which the throttle valve shaft is guided. Additionally, a recess is formed in the throttle valve, extending form the through opening to the receiving opening in the area where the throttle valve is connected to the throttle valve shaft by means of a welded connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for the marking sections of a stack of items, such as mail items, to be sorted in sorting machines according to a distribution order. After reading and allocating a destination address to the stopping points of the distribution order, the last or the first and the last mail item of a section of a stack to be distinguished in a stack is automatically provided with an easily removable sticker, well visible in the stack, by an sticker dispenser, which is placed in the sorting machine after the reading unit for the distribution information and before the distribution unit. The stickers are then removed again during the distribution of the mail items to the receivers of the mail items.

Abstract: An address reading method with processing steps controlled by parameters, in which free parameters which cannot be adapted by learning samples are to be automatically optimized. These parameters are therefore assigned costs. The value of free parameters which are expensive and lie above selectable cost thresholds are maintained and the remaining free parameters are improved by repeatedly modifying their values on the basis of strategies known per se, taking already evaluated parameter settings into account, and training and evaluating the reading method only with these modified values.

Abstract: A drive device enabling a movable element to be driven by an actuator via a gear system comprising a motor pinion gear, an intermediate gear and a partial toothed gear. An aim of the invention is to create a particularly compact device which can capture the kinetic energy of the actuator in a particularly reliable manner. The intermediate gear comprises a pinion and a toothed gear. The pinion and toothed gear are connected via a ratchet in such a way that the opinion which is rotationally fixed to the ratchet can be rotated counter to the toothed wheel in a manner similar to that of a locking ratchet wheel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for ascertaining error types for incorrect reading results from an OCR reader for text units which have a standard content structure and are subdivided into distinguishable sections, using true reference data. Reference data for the respective incorrectly read text unit are used for automatically ascertaining the respective text unit with the associated sections in a dictionary for the text units which contains a text unit, subdivided into individual, distinct sections, for each searchable entry. The reading result data are used to search the dictionary for a text unit with associated sections. The sections found with the respective corresponding reference sections are then compared pair by pair and the respective incorrect reading result is classified into stipulated error classes on the basis of the discrepancies ascertained in the pair by pair comparison.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor. Said stator has an annular stator package having a plurality of stator teeth. An annular interconnection unit is located on the end face of said stator package. Said annular interconnection contains diverting elements. The interconnection unit has a support component which is provided with a cavity and has slots. Provided in said cavity are a multiplicity of mutually electrically insulated connector rings each having contacting elements routed externally through said slots.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a coil unit of a single-acting linear engine. The coil unit includes an iron core with coils that are linked with the iron core by way of a cast compound thereby forming a molded part. The molded part is enclosed by a housing having a narrow circumferential gap formed between the housing and the molded part. Through the gap, cooling air may flow or be blasted. The air extensively cools the iron core with the coils and thermally insulates the housing from the iron core and the coils.

Abstract: A method and system for reading an address of a mail piece is set out wherein the address face of the mail piece is scanned and decoded to generate an electronically recognizable or readable destination address. If the destination address is not completely decoded, the image of the address face is temporarily stored in a grouping in a database. The grouping is then forwarded to an encoding clerk who has the highest priority and is available for the grouping. The priority of the deck is based on data such as the clerk's measured professional competence. Herein, factors include experience with a particular destination region, success rate, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an actuating device with an electromotive rotary drive, via which an actuating element can be driven rotatably about an axis of rotation between a first end position and a second end position and can be acted upon out of the first end position by a spring. The electromotive actuating drive includes a reversing drive and the spring action upon the actuating element is effective between the first end position and an intermediate position. The spring action is ineffective between the intermediate position and the second end position. The intermediate position lies between the first end position and the second end position.

Abstract: With a method for processing goods in an automatic reading system, for which an image of the address-containing surface of each item is obtained and transmitted to a first automatic evaluation and, in case of an incomplete evaluation of the address information, is transmitted to a first video coding for evaluation, it is provided that the address information of those images, which are not completely evaluated during the video coding, are transmitted to a further automatic evaluation by making use of the results of the video coding.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a system for the detection of a pressure drop in a tire. Herein an evaluating unit determines the temporal modification of the temperature in the tire and produces an alerting signal if the temporal modification of the temperature falls short of a predetermined temperature modification threshold value. In presence of an evaluating signal, the evaluating unit determines the temporal modification of the air pressure and produces an alerting signal, if the temporal modification of the air pressure exceeds an air pressure modification threshold value.

Abstract: The proposed guide shaft which is formed on a card holder has a support, lateral guides and a holding part. The latter is formed and arranged on the card holder in such a way that a tongue which points toward the entrance of the guide shaft and rests in a sprung fashion on the support or on a chip card which has been introduced is implemented, and a gap which corresponds only to the thickness of the chip card is produced between the card holder and the support in the vicinity of the contact field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing mail to be returned to sender, according to which the extent of video-coding required when great quantities of mail sent by large mailers are to be returned to sender is reduced considerably. According to the invention similarities in the areas containing the senders' addresses are determined at the image level. In the case of mail where the address field images present a defined degree of similarity only one image is video-coded. The remaining mail displaying a defined degree of similarity to the video-coded item of mail is assigned to the corresponding sender.

Abstract: The invention relates to sorting items of mail in a plurality of sorting passes. In order not to have to read the address in each sorting pass and also not to have to print any machine-readable identification code on each item of mail, features characteristic of the items of mail are additionally determined during the first sorting pass and are stored together with distribution codes determined in the reading process. During the subsequent sorting passes only the characteristic features of the items of mail are measured and compared with the stored features. In the event of agreement, the item of mail is assigned the associated distribution code. A particular feed regime with defined orders ensures that in each case only n items of mail have to be compared, where n=maximum multiple delivery rate to be expected.

Abstract: The reading results of an agreed number of images of items, achieved by the OCR reader, are temporarily stored subdivided into reading results which are read unambiguously and reading results which are rejected. Then classes of words or word groups belonging together of the reading results temporarily stored and rejected, consisting in each case of n address words, n=1, 2, . . . , a, with interword gaps m, m=0, 1, . . . b are formed which do not drop below a particular similarity factor referred to in each case a particular n and m value between them. In the dictionary or dictionaries of the associated address areas, representatives, at least, of the classes whose frequency exceeds a predetermined value are included.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact drive system serving to deflect a push force to move a carriage assigned to the chip card and mounted in a chip card receiving unit. A flexible, pressure-transmitting force conductor is provided in the form of individual spheres, the force conductor being assigned a direction-deflecting guide and a push rod provided with an actuating member. The force conductor is driven by a control slide engaging in the duct, the control slide being connected by a gear to a positioning motor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a throttle valve body for an internal combustion engine, including a housing and a cross-flow hole in the housing, which can be blocked by a throttle valve. The throttle valve is arranged on a shaft that can pivotally driven about its longitudinal axis which extends crosswise to the longitudinal axis of the cross-flow hole. The free ends of the shaft are pivotally mounted in bearings arranged in recesses in the housing. The shaft valve is secured against axial displacement by an axial safety device. The throttle valve has bearing surfaces in support areas that are fixed to the housing in the areas in which the shaft projects axially.