Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device has a housing and a ventilating device with an air supply line, which has an air intake opening, and which tapers away from the air intake opening in the form of a funnel, and which has an air outlet opening. The ventilating device includes a water collecting chamber, into which the air supply line opens with a transition cross section, and which has a water discharge opening and an air outlet opening, wherein the water discharge opening is disposed lower than the air outlet opening in an intended use of the ventilating device in a motor vehicle. A clearance of the water collecting chamber lying between the transition cross section and the air outlet opening is greater than the transition cross section.

Abstract: A motor vehicle lighting device has a housing and a ventilating device with an air supply line, which has an air intake opening, and which tapers away from the air intake opening in the form of a funnel, and which has an air outlet opening. The ventilating device includes a water collecting chamber, into which the air supply line opens with a transition cross section, and which has a water discharge opening and an air outlet opening, wherein the water discharge opening is disposed lower than the air outlet opening in an intended use of the ventilating device in a motor vehicle. A clearance of the water collecting chamber lying between the transition cross section and the air outlet opening is greater than the transition cross section.

Abstract: The present invention in various embodiments relates to an illuminating device for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, for realizing an asymmetrical light distribution. The asymmetrical light distribution has a greater illumination depth on the vehicle's side of traffic than it does on the side of oncoming traffic.

Abstract: The present invention in various embodiments relates to an illuminating device for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, for realizing an asymmetrical light distribution. The asymmetrical light distribution has a greater illumination depth on the vehicle's side of traffic than it does on the side of oncoming traffic.

Abstract: Circuitry, particularly for function modules that can be fitted in a motor vehicle and can be connected to a voltage supply and/or a control circuit. A central unit (12) is provided that includes at least one circuit arrangement (16, 36) for all of the function modules (22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 56, 58, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 96, 98), for conditioning voltage and/or control signals to be used by the modules; the central unit (12) is connected to the function modules, and the function modules are connected among themselves, by a bus system (62, 66). Moreover, the control unit (12) is coupled to a driver information module (40) by mechanical connections.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation valve having a valve member that cooperates with a valve seat of a connection neck of an exhaust gas recirculation line. The neck protrudes into a tube of the intake system of an internal combustion engine, and the valve seat points toward the inlet side of the exhaust gas recirculation line. A valve member of the exhaust gas recirculation valve is thus acted upon by the exhaust gas pressure in the closing direction, as a supplement to a compression spring counter to an armature of an electromagnet acting in the opening direction. To compensate for the forces acting in the closing direction, the exhaust gas is carried via a conduit in the valve shaft into a control chamber, which is closed off from the pressure in the tube via a movable wall, having an effective surface area that substantially corresponds to the effective surface area of the valve member.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling the idle of an internal combustion engine having an intake channel for conducting air to the engine. The method utilizes sensors for generating signals characterizing the operating state of the engine and for supplying the signals to a control apparatus. A tank-venting valve is provided through which air can be conducted into the intake channel when the tank-venting valve is open. Control quantities are computed in the control apparatus in dependence upon the signals for at least the following: the tank-venting valve, an idle adjuster device, a fuel metering device and an ignition device. The air supplied to the engine is controlled with the aid of the tank-venting valve. The invention is also directed to an arrangement for carrying out the method.

Abstract: Electronic engine control systems have a plurality of individual components on the intake tube, some of them located relatively far from one another. For electrically connecting the individual components to the electronic control unit, relatively long electric connecting lines and a relatively large number of plug connections are therefore necessary. This invention sets forth a preassembled throttle apparatus which includes at least one throttle device, rotatably accommodated in a throttle valve support, and an idling adjuster in a housing; the throttle apparatus has a bypass conduit, which bypasses the throttle device and which can be varied by the idling adjuster, into which a regeneration valve can output fuel, the regeneration valve being triggerable by an electronic control unit that is also accommodated in the housing. The throttle apparatus of the invention is intended particularly for mixture-compressing internal combustion engines with externally supplied ignition.

Abstract: A fuel line connector for producing recirculation of leakage fuel in a fuel injection valve in which communication of a fuel line with a connection bore of a housing, and with the holder of a fuel injection valve is produced. This is achieved by providing that the fuel line connector has elastically deformable retaining arms, which, after a connecting stub of the fuel line connector has been plugged into a connection bore, engage the housing that contains the connection bore from behind.