Abstract: A method for sealing-in a gas in a bag that has therein a gas filling compartment, including the steps of: placing a blow-out port of a nozzle, which is connected to a pressurized gas supply source, against a cut-in or a hole of the bag and holding the back surface side of the bag with a backing member; blowing a gas from the nozzle into the gas filling compartment of the bag through the cut-in or the hole; gripping and thus closing the gas flow path in sealed portions surrounding the periphery of the cut-in or the hole by a blocking gripper while the gas blow-in continues, thus cutting off the flow of the gas between the cut-in or the hole and the inside of the gas filling compartment; and then sealing the cut-in or the hole, thus allowing the gas to be sealed in the gas filling compartment.

Abstract: A vacuum sealing process of a micro-electrical-mechanical-system (MEMS) package is provided. Solder is applied to the rimmed bottom of a lid for the package. A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device is attached to a substrate for the package. Solder is applied to a lipped top of the substrate. The lid and the substrate are sealed in an elevated temperature and vacuum environment.

Abstract: A container for a compressible article is disclosed, wherein the container includes first and second opposed sides having a first length, a first pair of flaps or edge attached to an end of the first and second opposed sides defining an end of the container, third and fourth opposed sides capable of having a second shorter length; and a second pair of flaps or edges attached to the third and fourth sides, the second pair of flaps having a fold line approximately aligned with the end of the container.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a process for the production of a container surrounding an interior, comprising the steps a. provision of a planar composite comprising i. a carrier layer, ii. a barrier layer of plastic joined to the carrier layer, iii. at least one layer of thermoplastic plastic KSa joined to the barrier layer of plastic, the at least one layer of plastic optionally being a plastics mixture of at least two plastics, b. folding of the planar composite to form a fold with at least two fold surfaces adjacent to one another and c. joining of respectively at least a part region of the at least two fold surfaces by heating the part region to form a container region, and a container obtainable by this process.

Abstract: A tire pressure sensor storage unit and method by which tire pressure sensors which have been removed from the original wheels installed on a motor vehicle are stored. The storage unit is pressurized from a source of gas (e.g., air) so that the tire pressure sensors can be maintained at a pressure corresponding to the normal operating pressure of the tires associated with the wheels from which the sensors have been removed. The tire pressure sensors are located within respective storage chambers of the storage unit. The storage chambers are covered by a flexible, optically-transparent chamber cover that is adapted to permit signals generated by the tire pressure sensors to be transmitted to an onboard computer of the motor vehicle so as to avoid low tire pressure warning messages being sent to the vehicle operator.

Abstract: Multilayer film which comprises a core layer (C) and two outer layers (O—, O-2) sandwiching the core layer, wherein (i) the core layer (C) comprises a bimodal ethylene/1-butene/C6-C12-alpha-olefin terpolymer, (ii) one outer layer (O-1) comprising (ii-1) a low density polyethylene or (ii-2) the bimodal terpolymer as defined for the core layer (C) or (ii-3) a metallocene produced linear low density polyethylene and optionally a low density polyethylene (iii) the other outer layer (O-2) comprising (iii-1) a metallocene produced linear low density polyethylene and optionally a low density polyethylene, and its use for packaging, especially for frozen food packaging.

Abstract: A vibrating device for uniformly filling granular ornaments includes a base, a vibration platform, a motor, a first vibrating assembly for generating vibration in an up-down direction, and a second vibrating assembly for generating vibration in a left-right direction. The vibration platform is articulated at the base and provided with multiple through-holes for holding workpieces, such as pen caps. The motor is fixedly mounted at the base. The first vibrating assembly and the second vibrating assembly both are provided between the motor and the vibration platform. The motor drives the first vibrating assembly to make the vibration platform vibrate in the up-down direction, and at the same time drives the second vibrating assembly to make the vibration platform vibrate in the left-right direction. Thus, granular ornaments can fill the cavities of pen caps located within the through holes in the vibration platform.

Abstract: A hot wind supplying apparatus having high energy consumption efficiency for packaging a product by use of a heat shrink film, capable of promoting the economics of a packaging work, the hot air supplying apparatus including at least one hot wind unit configured to discharge hot wind to a packaging surface of the product, wherein the hot wind unit includes a body having a discharging hole, at least one blower fan configured to blow air to the discharging hole, at least one fan motor configured to drive the blower fan, a heater configured to heat air that is to be discharged from the discharging hole, and at least one recycling flow path configured to collect the air discharged from the discharging hole and to supply the air collected to an intake side of the blower fan.

Abstract: A strapping device 1 for strapping flat objects stacked in bundles for a packing machine. A strap applicator attaches together the flat objects of each bundle. A first conveyor 60 moves each bundle from the entrance of the strapping device 1 to the strap applicator, and a second conveyor 70 moves each strapped bundle from the strap applicator to the exit of the strapping device 1. The strap applicator is integrated into a standalone unit 10 which is independent of the first and second conveyor 70, and which is mounted so as to be extracted from the strapping device 1.

Abstract: A filter assembly may include a housing, a filter element, and a layer of air-permeable material. The housing may include an inlet and an outlet. The filter element may be disposed within the housing and may include an upstream face, a downstream face, a first end face facing the inlet and extending between the upstream and downstream faces. The layer of air-permeable material may be attached to the filter element and may cover the upstream face and a portion of the first end face that is exposed to the inlet.

Abstract: An air cleaner arrangement or assembly is provided. The air cleaner arrangement includes a serviceable filter cartridge. The air cleaner assembly also includes an arrangement for positioning the filter cartridge into a preferred, sealing, orientation and for securing the filter cartridge in that location. Preferred serviceable filter cartridges are provided, as well as methods of assembly and use.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sealing device 20 for a control rod 17, passing through an aperture 15c in a wall 15, wherein the control rod 17 is connected between an actuator 13, placed on one side of the wall, and a controlled entity 9a, placed on the other side of the wall, such that the actuator can control the controlled entity with motion of the control rod. The sealing device 20 includes a packing box 37 through which the control rod 17 passes and a seal 41 which provides a sealing function between the control rod 17 and the packing box 37. The packing box 37 is moveable with the control rod 17 in relation to the wall 15. Wall aperture 15c is sized to allow movement of the control rod 17 within aperture 15c. A flexible member 39 surrounds a portion of control rod 17 and extends between the packing box 37 and the wall 15, in a gastight communication with each. As such, the subject sealing device allows movement of the control rod without compromising the sealing function efficiency thereof.

Abstract: A V-bank filter assembly and a replaceable air filter are provided. In one embodiment, the V-bank filter assembly includes a top panel and bottom panel coupled in a spaced apart relation, each of the top and bottom panels having a first edge and a second edge, a plurality of panel end seal struts extending between the top and bottom panels, each panel end seal struts having a first mating sealing feature facing the first edge of the top and bottom panels, the first mating sealing feature configured to sealingly engage a replaceable filter panel, wherein the plurality of panel end seal struts are located adjacent the second edge, and a plurality of filter panel receiving tracks defined between the top and bottom panels configured to align filter panels disposed in the tracks with a respective first mating sealing feature.

Abstract: the present invention is characterized in that a filter made of resin comprises a through-hole film portion (14); and a structure reinforce portion (13), wherein a through-hole (15) is provided in a through-hole film portion (14), the thickness of the through-hole film portion (14) is from 0.5 to 2.0 ?m, the bore of the through-hole (15) is from 0.05 to 0.5 ?m, the thickness of the structure reinforce portion (13) is bigger than the thickness of the through-hole film portion (14), the structure reinforce portion (13) encloses the through-hole film portion (14), a damage-reduction structure is provided on the upper surface of the structure reinforce portion (13), and wherein, the damage-reduction structure may be an uneven structures.

Abstract: A self-propelled lawn mower has an on-board battery, an electric blade motor for rotating a grass cutting blade, said blade motor being operationally connected to the battery, an electric drive motor for propelling the lawn mower along a grass surface to be cut, said drive motor being operationally connected to the battery, and a control unit for controlling at least the operation of the electric drive motor and of the blade motor. There is provided a speed monitor for monitoring the speed of the drive motor. This monitor is also connected to the control unit. There is also provided a motion speed selector for selecting a predetermined speed for the drive motor. The motion speed selector is also connected to the control unit. A total energy monitor is provided for monitoring the total energy consumption of the battery. The total energy consumption is the electrical energy consumed by the drive motor plus the electrical energy consumed by the blade motor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining substantially pure hybrid cereal seed and a machine for use thereof. In particular the invention describes a method for separating hybrid barley seed from a mixed population of inbred barley seed and hybrid barley seed on the basis of a difference which is detectable via the use of near infrared light.

Abstract: A cutting unit for agricultural machines, including a rotor carrying on a base body spaced apart tine arrangements with circumferential phase shifts between adjacent tine arrangements. Each tine arrangement includes at least one tine with a base secured to the rotor base body and an outwardly protruding triangular tine tip forming a conveying flank leading in the rotor rotation direction and extending from the tine end to a transition into the base. A cutting unit bottom forms a lower boundary of a conveying channel. Cutting blades protrude from the cutting unit bottom through the conveying channel besides moving paths of the tine tips. Scrapers are placed in a conveying direction through the conveying channel behind the rotor. A compression surface provided at the base of the tine ahead of the conveying flank in the rotor rotation direction gradually ascends at least substantially up to the transition into the conveying flank.

Abstract: An agricultural implement having an infeed cutter is operable to automatically accommodate large objects that pass through the infeed cutter and detect and counteract jams that occur or might otherwise occur in the infeed cutter. The implement includes a plurality of knives mounted on a vertically moveable knife bed. The bed is associated with a hydraulic load-sensing system that is operable to lower the bed if a load threshold has been reached and raise the bed when the load has decreased sufficiently. Each knife is also associated with a hydraulic load-sensing system that is operable to lower the respective knife if a load threshold has been reached and raise the respective knife when the load has decreased sufficiently.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a reel assembly for a pickup assembly of an agricultural machine, the reel assembly comprising: a rotatable bulkhead; plural rows of tines rotatable with the bulkhead; and a reel cover coupled to the bulkhead and comprising plural slots through which the tines extend.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a reel assembly for a pickup assembly of an agricultural machine, the reel assembly comprising: a rotatable shaft; a bulkhead rotatable with the shaft, the bulkhead comprising alternating tine occupying and non-tine occupying areas; a first row of tines extending from a first of the tine occupying areas according to a first orientation at a given moment in time; and a second row of tines offset from the first row, the second row of tines extending from the first of the tine occupying areas according to the first orientation at the given moment in time.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a camless pickup assembly comprising a cam independent, rotatable reel having a plurality of tines affixed thereto and spaced apart from each other by a respective predefined first gap radially on the reel and spaced apart by a respective predefined second gap transversely across the reel; and a plurality of tine wrappers distributed transversely along the reel and occupying each of the respective second gaps, wherein a first of the plurality of tines is configured to extend past a plane of the tine wrapper surface according to a substantially constant length throughout a first arc of rotation and a second of the plurality of tines is configured to extend past the plane of the tine wrapper surface according to a gradually decreasing length throughout a second arc of rotation, the second of the plurality of tines spaced radially from the first of the plurality of tines by the predefined first gap.

Abstract: Thermoset polymer composite wires including a multiplicity of substantially continuous fibers embedded in a solidified polymer composite matrix and forming a substantially continuous filament, the solidified polymer composite matrix further including a polymer formed by curing a polymer precursor from a liquid state and a multiplicity of nanoparticles having a median diameter of one micrometer or less substantially uniformly dispersed throughout the polymer composite matrix, and optionally, a corrosion resistant sheath surrounding the substantially continuous filament. In some embodiments, the multiplicity of particles includes surface-modified particles having a core and a surface modifying agent associated with the core and reacted with the polymer cured from a liquid state. Stranded cables including one or more such thermoset polymer composite wires, and methods of making and using such thermoset polymer composite wires and stranded cables are also described.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid fiber fabricated with a low production cost while having excellent mechanical properties, as well as a method for fabricating the same. The disclosed hybrid fiber includes; a first filament, and a second filament different from the first filament, wherein a strength-strain curve of the hybrid fiber measured according to ASTM D 885 has at least one peak, provided that, if the strength-strain curve has at least two or more peaks, a difference in strain between a first peak having the lowest strain and a second peak having the highest strain, among the above two or more peaks, is 3% or less.

Abstract: A method for regulating a short-term power increase of a steam turbine with an upstream waste-heat steam generator is provided. The steam turbine has a number of economizer, evaporator and super heater heating surfaces forming a flow path for a flow medium. The flow medium is tapped off from the flow path in a pressure stage and is injected into the flow path on the flow-medium side between two super heater heating surfaces of the respective pressure stage. Amount of flow medium injected is regulated with a characteristic value which is a discrepancy between the outlet temperature of the final super heater heating surface and a predetermined temperature nominal value. The temperature nominal value is reduced and the characteristic value is temporarily increased more than in proportion to the discrepancy for a time period of the reduction for achieving a short-term power increase of the steam turbine.

Abstract: A primary seal assembly for a variable area fan nozzle (VAFN) equipped turbofan engine includes a deformable seal and a seal retainer attached to the seal. The seal includes an inner wall and webs attached to the inner wall and extending transversely there-from. The inner wall and the webs extend circumferentially at least partially around a bypass duct of the turbofan engine. An inner surface of the inner wall interfaces with the VAFN when the VAFN is in the stowed position. The seal is compressed between the VAFN and the seal retainer when the VAFN is in the stowed position. And each of the webs is deformed into a non-planar configuration when the VAFN is in the stowed position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and an exhausting apparatus for an internal combustion engine including: a central exhaust passage; a first expansion chamber in an upstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage; a second expansion chamber in a downstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage and the first expansion chamber, forming a continuous expansion chamber throughout a length of the exhausting apparatus.

Abstract: In a diesel engine equipped with a system for automatic regeneration of a particulate filter, an automatic regeneration mode is inhibited in the case where there is recorded a number higher than a pre-set threshold of unfavorable event. When the automatic regeneration mode is inhibited, an on-demand regeneration mode is simultaneously enabled, which can be activated manually by the driver. If an on-demand regeneration is not performed before the vehicle has covered a certain mileage since the automatic regeneration mode was inhibited, the vehicle is set in a condition of limited performance.

Abstract: A control device of a diesel engine is provided. The device includes an engine body having a cylinder, a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into the cylinder, a valve timing control module for changing opening and closing timings of at least an intake valve or an exhaust valve, an oxidation catalyst arranged within an exhaust passage for purifying HC discharged from the cylinder, and a DPF arranged downstream of the oxidation catalyst for capturing soot within exhaust gas. The device also includes a DPF regenerating module for supplying, when a predetermined DPF regeneration condition is satisfied, HC to the oxidation catalyst to regenerate the DPF by heat generated from an oxidation reaction of HC, and a fuel cutting module for stopping, when the diesel engine is in a deceleration state, a main injection of the fuel that is performed on a compression stroke of the cylinder.

Abstract: A control device of a diesel engine with a turbocharger is provided. The device includes an engine body having a cylinder, a fuel injection valve, a turbine of the turbocharger, a bypass passage for bypassing the turbine, a bypass valve for opening and closing the bypass passage, an oxidation catalyst for purifying HC, and a DPF for capturing soot. The device includes a fuel cutting module for stopping, when the diesel engine is in a deceleration state, a main injection of the fuel performed on compression stroke, a DPF regenerating module for performing, when a predetermined DPF regeneration condition is satisfied, a post injection on expansion stroke to supply HC to the oxidation catalyst and regenerate the DPF by heat generated from an oxidation reaction of HC, and a bypass valve control module for controlling the bypass valve.

Abstract: A method, comprising purging a storage catalytic convertor of stored NOx by diverting only a portion of incoming exhaust flow around the catalytic device while increasing injection of reductant to the storage catalytic convertor; and responsive to the diverting, adjusting injection of an ammonia-containing fluid into recombined exhaust flow upstream of an SCR catalytic convertor. Bypass of the storage catalytic convertor reduces available oxygen and air flow through the storage catalytic convertor, providing a more advantageous environment for reduction of NOx in the storage catalytic convertor.

Abstract: A method for operating a sensor element, in particular a lambda sensor, for determining the concentration of a gas component of a gas mixture, in which the gas component is removed from a measuring gas chamber by applying a pump voltage and the concentration of the gas component in the gas mixture is inferred therefrom. Oscillations of the pump current caused by dynamic pressure variations are taken into consideration for a correction of the sensor signal in that a frequency analysis of the pump current is carried out.

Abstract: A method for operating an exhaust gas treatment device having at least one reservoir for a reducing agent and at least one delivery device for a reducing agent, includes at least checking a filling level of the at least one reservoir, checking a current exhaust gas mass flow, and delivering reducing agent if the filling level of the at least one reservoir is below a minimum filling level and the exhaust gas mass flow is in a low-load range. A motor vehicle having the exhaust gas treatment device is also provided.

Abstract: Apparatuses described herein relate to a diesel particulate filter for use in a diesel engine exhaust system. The diesel particulate filter comprises a particulate filter having a plurality of filter flow channels configured to remove diesel exhaust particulates from a diesel exhaust stream. The plurality of filter flow channels are disposed for contact with the diesel exhaust stream and are coated with a three-way catalyst coating. The three-way catalyst coating may be configured to assist in soot oxidation during regeneration events as well as for the reduction of NOx from the exhaust stream. The three-way catalyst coating may replace, or be used in addition to, a three-way catalyst of a diesel oxidation catalyst.

Abstract: In an electrically heated catalyst, an electrode is connected to a heat generating element while passing through a through-hole which is formed through a case and an electrode chamber which is formed between an inner wall surface of the case and an outer circumferential surface of the heat generating element. Further, a support member, which is formed of an electric insulator material and which supports the electrode in the through-hole formed through the case, extends along the electrode to the inside of the electrode chamber.

Abstract: An exhaust heating apparatus has a housing defining a firing chamber jointed to an exhaust pipe, a fuel supply valve for injecting fuel to the firing chamber communicated with the exhaust passage through a junction port, a glow plug for igniting the injected fuel. A part of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust passage flows into the firing chamber and again flowing out to the exhaust passage together with a combustion gas generated in the firing chamber. An angle between a wall surface in the exhaust pipe positioned upstream of the junction port and an upstream wall surface in the housing, and an angle between a wall surface in the exhaust pipe positioned downstream of the junction port and a downstream wall surface in the housing, are set to an obtuse angle, respectively.

Abstract: Arrangement for introducing a liquid medium into exhaust gases from a combustion engine, comprising a mixing duct, a first flow guide for creating a first exhaust vortex in the mixing duct such that the exhaust gases in this first exhaust vortex rotate in a first direction of rotation during their movement downstream in the mixing duct, an injector for injecting the liquid medium in the form of a finely divided spray into exhaust gases which are led into the liquid medium in an exhaust flow at the centre of the first vortex, and a second flow guide for creating a second exhaust vortex in the mixing duct concentrically with and externally about the first vortex, such that the exhaust gases in this second vortex rotate in a second direction of rotation, which is opposite to said first direction of rotation, during their movement downstream in the mixing duct.

Abstract: An exhaust gas system includes an exhaust gas pipe with an integrated evaporator. In order to make the evaporator independent of the site of installation and the mounting position, a capillary structure is arranged between the outer sleeve pipe and the exhaust gas pipe. For increasing the efficiency of the evaporator, vapor grooves are provided in an area of an outer sheath surface of the exhaust gas pipe and fluid grooves are provided in an area of an inner mantle surface of the sleeve pipe.

Abstract: A control arrangement for supplying pressure medium to a plurality of consumers. A supply metering orifice and an individual pressure compensator are associated with each consumer of the plurality of consumers. The individual pressure compensator is adjusted via a central control unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a door control system for vehicles, with a compressor (1), an air dryer (3), a door control valve (4) and at least one cylinder (2) which can be actuated by compressed air, and also relates to a method for actuating a cylinder (2) of a vehicle door, in which a piston (13) of the cylinder (2) can occupy a first functional position (O) and a second functional position (X). The air dryer (3), in drying mode, is exposed to throughflow of the air flowing into the cylinder (2) and in regeneration mode is exposed to throughflow by the air discharging from the cylinder (2). The cylinder (2) is pressurised only with compressed air from a compressed air accumulator (7).

Abstract: An engine with an active chamber, having at least one piston (2) mounted in a cylinder (1) in a sliding manner and driving a crankshaft (5) via a slider-crank device (3, 4) and operating according to a four-phase thermodynamic cycle includes: an isothermal expansion without work; a transfer—slight so-called quasi-isothermal expansion with work; a polytropic expansion with work; and an exhaust at ambient pressure, preferentially supplied by compressed air contained in a high-pressure storage tank (12), through a buffer capacity, called a working capacity (11), which is expanded at an average pressure, called a working pressure, in a working capacity, preferentially through a dynamic pressure-reducing device (13), wherein the active chamber is included in the engine cylinder, the cylinder volume being swept by the piston and divided into two separate parts, a first part forming the active chamber (CA) and a second part forming the expansion chamber (CD).

Abstract: A forklift (1) according to the present invention includes: an engine (7); a hydraulically-operated device for cargo handling (2); a pump for cargo handling (5) that is driven by the engine (7); hydraulic piping for cargo handling (8) that connects the pump for cargo handling (5) and the hydraulically-operated device for cargo handling (2); discharge piping (110) that branches from the hydraulic piping for cargo handling (8) and is connected to a tank (4); a switching valve (111) capable of switching the opening and closing of the discharge piping (110); a control device (13) that closes the discharge piping (110) when the rotation speed of the engine (7) is larger than a predetermined value, and opens the discharge piping (110) when the rotation speed of the engine (7) is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and a sub-relief valve (112) that adjusts the flow rate of hydraulic oil that is discharged from the discharge piping (110) to the tank (4), on the bases of the pressure or the flow rate of the h

Abstract: A circuit for driving a hydraulic cylinder of a construction machine includes: a hydraulic pump; a tank; a control valve; a bottom side line; a rod side line; a quick return circuit having a branch line branched off from the bottom side line and led to the tank and a quick return valve which allows hydraulic fluid to be flowed through the branch line only when the control valve is switched to a contraction driving position; and a recycling circuit which supplies a part of return fluid discharged from a bottom side fluid chamber to a rod side fluid chamber of the hydraulic cylinder. The recycling circuit allows the hydraulic fluid to be flowed only from the bottom side fluid chamber into the rod side fluid chamber of the hydraulic cylinder only when the hydraulic cylinder is switched to the contraction driving position.

Abstract: This invention relates to an arrangement for a surface area adjustment of a reciprocating wing system in a wave energy recovery system where the wave energy recovery system comprises at least a body, a set of wings fastened to a support means that is hinged at its lower ends onto the body to make a reciprocating motion in response to kinetic energy of waves or tidal currents, and a power-take-off means. The arrangement comprises at least adjustment means capable to adjust the total effective surface area of the wings.

Abstract: An internal expansion engine having a housing. Secured to the housing is a cylinder defining an expansion chamber. A piston is provided within the cylinder defining a wall of the expansion chamber. A charge of noble gas is provided within the expansion chamber. A magnetic field generator and radio frequency power generator is provided around the expansion chamber and an initiator system is located within the expansion chamber. The magnetic field generator, radio frequency power generator and initiator system coact to cause the noble gas to expand, pushing against the piston and generating work. The actions of the engine are monitored and controlled by an intelligent electronic control system that provides all switching needed to operate the engine and communicate with outside elements providing external control of information sources.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method to extract more energy from liquid hydrogen than the currently used method in hydrogen fuel cells, to harness the energy efficiently, to cool down hot parts of a vehicle while using that heat to power the vehicle and to extract energy from the ambient air to power the vehicle. The apparatus uses simple thermodynamic rules to take advantage of the waste heat generated in the vehicle. The apparatus (Systematic Application of Liquid Ingredients to Harness energy, SALIH for short) will theoretically double the efficiency of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, allowing it to travel the same distance of the current average family sedan.

Abstract: A rear brake system has a rod extending from a master cylinder that inputs the operational force of a brake pedal to the master cylinder, a coil spring coaxially arranged with the rod and providing reaction force to return the brake pedal to the state before operating the brake pedal, a reaction adjustment mechanism provided on the rod and configured so as to be movable in the axial direction of the rod. According to the position of the reaction adjustment mechanism in the axial direction of the rod, shrinkage of the coil spring in the axial direction of the rod can be adjusted.

Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger housing (10) for an engine includes a main turbine housing portion (14) and a throat portion (12) defining an exhaust gas passageway (20) that is in upstream fluid communication with the main turbine housing. The exhaust passageway (20) communicates exhaust gases (EG) to the main turbine housing portion (14). A flow divider (22) generally bisects the exhaust gas passageway (20) forming a first inlet passageway (24A) and a second inlet passageway (24B). A flow hole (26) is disposed through the flow divider (22) for permitting the fluid communication of exhaust gas (EG) from the first inlet passageway (24A) to the second inlet passageway (24B).

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has first and second non-deactivatable cylinder banks. Each cylinder bank is assigned exhaust lines which extend from exhaust manifolds. First and second exhaust-gas turbocharger in the exhaust line are assigned to the first and second cylinders, respectively. A first catalytic converter in the first exhaust line contains the first exhaust-gas turbocharger, and is arranged downstream of the first exhaust-gas turbocharger as viewed in the flow direction of the exhaust gas of the first cylinder bank. A second catalytic converter in the second exhaust line contains the second exhaust-gas turbocharger, and is arranged downstream of the second exhaust-gas turbocharger as viewed in the flow direction of the exhaust gas of the second cylinder bank. A flow transfer line is arranged between the first and the second exhaust line, and a first control element, by an exhaust-gas mass flow passing through the flow transfer line can be regulated.

Abstract: A method for generating rotational movement including supporting an output shaft for rotational movement wherein the output shaft includes at least two one-way clutch mechanisms attached thereat; positioning an infton assembly, having a weighted member and an inflatable blader, in association with each one-way clutch mechanism such that each infton assembly is surrounded by a buoyancy fluid; and controlling inlet and outlet valves of the infton assembly such that each inlet valve is opened to facilitate flow of a filling fluid having a density less than that of the buoyancy fluid into the respective inflatable bladder as the respective weighted member reaches a lower limit of travel and each outlet valve is opened to facilitate exhausting of the filling fluid within the respective inflatable bladder as the respective weighted member reaches an upper limit of travel.

Abstract: A heat take-out device comprising an external tube, an internal tube and a pressure resistance element is provided. The external tube defines an evaporating region, a condensing region and an adiabatic region. The internal tube is deposed within the external tube and separated from the external tube by a flow channel. The pressure resistance element is deposed within the flow channel and adjacent to a conjoint portion between the adiabatic region and the evaporating region. The length of the pressure resistance element is shorter than that of the adiabatic region.