Abstract: In a lock-up clutch, an annular piston has a clutch friction disc connected to the annular piston and a seal hub, which is connected to the annular piston and rotatably slipped over a counterseal hub. A damper using a spring and a damper supplying frictional resistance are located on the end face of the annular piston facing towards the casing shell. The dampers are connected, on the drive side, with at least one damper drive part connected to the annular piston and, on the output side, with a radially inner clutch hub positively engaged to a rotor hub connected to the turbine rotor.The pressure surface of the annular piston is designed independently of the dimensions of the dampers because the counterseal hub is fixed on the rotor hub. A front hub protrusion connected rotationally solidly with the clutch hub and facing the rotor hub centers damper discs.

Abstract: A piston for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, in which the piston top (11) is secured to the wrist pin (14) by way of two support bearings (18) independent of the piston skirt (12). The piston ring carrier (16) connected with the piston top (11) is additionally connected with the two support bearings by way of a ring-shaped support element (19). A piston with a piston top (11) results which is capable of resisting high combustion space pressures.

Abstract: In a forklifter with an operator's platform supported at the vehicle frame, the platform is formed by a floor plate underneath which are provided mounting supports for the actuating devices which are accessible from the operator's platform and are connected with the installations to be actuated by way of connecting lines; the actuating devices are supported in a tub-shaped housing open in the direction toward the floor plate which, together with the actuating devices and the connections thereof, forms a preassembled unit which is inserted between cross bearers of the superstructure and is retained thereat in a detachable manner.

Abstract: A coupling for lines carrying gas under pressure in which a tubularly shaped male member is adapted to be inserted into a bore of a sleeve-like female member containing a valve assembly automatically opened upon insertion of the tubularly shaped male member. The tubularly shaped male member which is provided with an annular groove is held in its inserted position by a locking mechanism in the sleeve-like female member which consists of a latching member, a ring-like member surrounding the sleeve-like female member and a spring between the latching member and the ring-like member. For purposes of releasing the locking action of the latching member which is operable to engage in the annular groove by movement in a milled-in recess, the ring-like member is provided with an inwardly projecting actuating element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for damping pendulum oscillations of a trailer hitched to a coupling of a motor vehicle. For this purpose, the coupling at the rear of the motor vehicle is horizontally adjustable at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, and damping means serve for adjusting the coupling, in proportion to the deflection of the trailer drawbar, from a position lying on the longitudinal axis of the vehicle in the direction of the side of the motor vehicle into which the trailer is swerving.Transverse movements of the coupling relatively to the superstructure of the motor vehicle cause a continuous shifting in the instantaneous fulcrum or center of rotation of the trailer drawbar forwardly along the longitudinal vehicle axis, whereby interfering forces impairing the driving direction of the trailer are counteracted and driving stability is ensured.

Abstract: An installation in a passive safety belt actuating mechanism for the displacement of an entrainment member for a safety belt and of an unlocking element for unlocking the entrainment member from a locking mechanism, along a guide profile by means of an elongated flexible member extending in a guide profile, on which the entrainment member is secured for limited longitudinal displacement while the unlocking element is non-displaceably secured thereon; the elongated flexible member consists of a cable rigid in tension and compression with a plastic sleeve which is removed in the longitudinal displacement section of the entrainment member and in a fastening area of the unlocking element adjoining the same.

Abstract: A belt tensioning installation with a control device for the belt tension, which serves to monitor the tension of a belt, especially of a toothed belt, in order to prevent the relative position between driving and driven toothed belt pulley as a result of an excessive decrease of the belt tension. For that purpose an electric contact place is formed on a pressure element by way of which a tensioning roller is pressed against the toothed belt; the contact place is opened by spring force in case of a non-permissively reduced belt tension. An energizing circuit which includes the contact place is thereby interrupted and an optical or acoustic warning signal is triggered at an indicating apparatus by way of a relay.

Abstract: A resistance welding apparatus in which an actuatable swivel arm carries a welding electrode approximately perpendicular thereto which operates preferably against a fixed counter electrode. In order to significantly reduce bending stresses and wear at the electrode tip, a welding electrode 1 is pivotal within limits with respect to the swivel arm against the action of a spring element by way of a hinge joint arranged approximately in the electrode axis.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting measuring devices of axle measurement equipment with a fastening plate that is adapted to be installed at the vehicle wheel aligned parallel to a flat reference surface of the vehicle axle by means of abutment pins extending through the wheel disk by way of through-openings. An incorrect alignment of the plane of the fastening plate which causes an incorrect adjustment of camber, toe-in or caster, is avoided with a completely satisfactory abutment of all abutment pins at the reference surface.

Abstract: A motorcycle in which the forward nose-diving during braking is to be prevented. For that purpose, the motorcycle includes a spring-damping system which acts upon a pressure gas space; the pressure gas space is supplied during the braking operation with compressed gas from a pressure reservoir, by way of a control valve. The pressure which builds up in the gas pressure space thereby acts opposite the nose-diving of the motorcycle.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for comminuting and/or eliminating constricted areas in vessels of all types whereby fissures and cracks in the vessel walls during the treatment of stenosis in blood vessels and also coronary obstruction are to be avoided. A treatment catheter is used which is equipped with two inflatable balloons which seal off a constriction place in a vessel on both sides thereof whereby the degree of expansion of both balloons is externally regulatable. An inlet member for the supply of means dissolving the material of the constriction area or comminuting the same into smaller particles and an outlet member for the removal of the dissolved or comminuted material of the constriction place are provided in the walls of the treatment catheter within the area delimited by the two balloons. These inlet and outlet members are in communication with a channel accessible from the outside.

Abstract: A diesel internal combustion engine in which during the starting and partial load operation, a number of the cylinders are operated as compressor cylinders and a number as engine cylinders. The supplied charging air of one compressor cylinder (26) is used as actuating medium for the valves (35 to 42) which are to be controlled corresponding to the operating condition of the internal combustion engine, in the connecting lines (27 to 34) between the compressor cylinders (19 to 26) and the engine cylinders (11 to 18) in the absence of a compressed air network. As a result thereof, auxiliary energy of the internal combustion engine (10) is needed only for the initiating control and a rapid shifting of the operating conditions is attained with minimum expenditures.

Abstract: A reversible conveyor wherein transmission of power is effected by a driving source to the conveyor, the conveyor being divided into two sections, wherein intermediate rollers are thrown from a drive position to a neutral position by a unit-load-controlled sensor in order to stop the unit load. Reversibility of the conveyor track is effected by placing in each section of the conveyor two intermediate rollers which act in opposite directions but always with only one of the intermediate rollers assuming the drive position.

Abstract: An electrically dimmable rear-view mirror for motor vehicles of simple and robust construction, suitable for use as an outside mirror or as an interior mirror possessing a transmission layer which is composed of a PLZT ceramic, on which a linear birefringence can be imposed by means of a controlling electric field. The transmission layer is located between a linear polarizer and a reflective layer, the latter being designed as a dielectric multilayer arrangement. Suitable comb-type electrodes are located on that side of the reflective layer which faces away from the transmission layer and, if appropriate, on that side of the polarizer which faces the transmission layer, the function of these comb-type electrodes being to generate the controlling field. The polarizer defines the direction of polarization, which is inclined at 45.degree. with respect to the field direction and/or the optical axis of the transmission layer.

Abstract: An arrangement for the lowering and lifting of a window of a motor vehicle door which includes a window lifter mechanism with a driving motor and an operating switch; for improving the closing operation of the vehicle door, particularly with regard to noise, the driving motor is adapted to be influenced by a control installation in such a manner that preferably during the opening of the door the window is displaced into a lowered position and after completion of the closing of the door is again raised into its upper end position.

Abstract: A front wheel suspension for a motorcycle in which the nose-diving during braking is reduced; for that purpose, an auxiliary spring is additionally connected with the spring element of the spring system during the braking operation. In a preferred embodiment, brake means act on a bolt which in turn supports a thrust rod stressing the auxiliary spring during the braking.