Abstract: A shock absorber useful in motor vehicles which includes a piston inside of which an entire quantity of a damping fluid exchanged between two work chambers flows via a throttle cross section the size of which is defined by an electromagnetic adjusting device comprising primarily a magnet coil and an armature. The armature is annular and merges with an annular control slide provided with a slide control edge, which slide, in cooperation with a piston control edge on the piston determines the size of the throttle cross section. The control slide and armature are statically in pressure equilibrium, and because of their annular embodiment they have only a slight weight of their own, so that the shock absorber operates with short adjusting times. By way of a defined profile of the slide control edge or piston control edge, certain damping characteristics are attainable.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the mass of a flowing medium and a method for producing the apparatus. The apparatus includes a carrier, to which at least one resistor layer is applied. To calibrate the resistance value of the resistor layer, material can be removed in a calibration zone on the end of the resistor layer remote from the incident direction of flow. To this end, the resistor layer is connected with a current source furnishing a constant current. The temperature of the resistor layer is measured by means of a temperature measuring device and compared in an electronic device with a predetermined temperature, and the electronic device, upon a deviation of the measured temperature from the predetermined temperature triggers a material removing device for the removal of resistor material in the calibration zone (trimming zone).

Abstract: A reflector, made from a thermosetting plastic, has three tightening faces on its crown neck that act as a catch, into which three protrusions, such as pawls, dig in a thread-like manner with teeth of the ring. As a result, the ring secures an incandescent bulb in the reflector. By means of this unilaterally acting friction catch, lateral slides, in particular, become unnecessary on an injection holder of the reflector, which is a considerable advantage in the processing of thermosetting plastics.

Abstract: For generating an electrostatic field, a coagulator for an exhaust gas scrubbing system for internal combustion engines has an electrode, which extends in an insulated manner within a housing. The electrode is braced on the housing via at least one insulator. To prevent the formation of a short-circuiting bridge between the electrode and the housing as a consequence of the deposition of so-called agglomerates on the insulator surface, the insulator is heated to a surface temperature of over 400.degree. C. In order to attain an extremely compact insulator and so that heating it will require little energy, the insulator is embodied in disk-like fashion and has a spiral heating conduit, through which hot gases flow, disposed in its interior. The hot gases are diverted from a partial flow of the engine exhaust gas, or are drawn from the exhaust gas of a soot burner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brake cylinder suitable for a hydraulic vehicle brake system, having at least one brake chamber and a brake booster, actuatable by a piston rod, with a brake valve assembly that has an inlet and an outlet for power brake fluid and communicates with a pressure chamber of the brake booster. The pressure chamber is located in a longitudinally bored housing section and is defined in the axial direction by one end of a sealed and displaceable sheath and of a rod that is sealed and displaceable within the sheath. The sheath and rod form two servo pistons for generating brake pressure in the brake chamber. The rod is displaceable in an emergency by means of the coaxially aligned piston rod. In a space-saving manner, the brake valve assembly is built into the rod and piston rod.

Abstract: The proposed vehicle brake system includes a brake fluid pressure device embodied as a brake booster, front wheel brakes rear wheel brakes and an anti-skid apparatus having values for maintaining, reducing and increasing brake pressure. One of the brake pressure maintenance valves is associated with the rear wheel brakes and is further developed into a valve combination, which additionally includes a brake pressure regulating valve. The valve combination includes only one valve seat and one valve element, which serves both for keeping braking pressure constant in the anti-skid situation and to limit the rear wheel braking pressures during braking. The valve element is controlled on one side by a control piston acted upon by brake pressure and on the other by an electromagnet.

Abstract: In known fuel injection valves, perforated bodies are secured downstream of the valve sealing seat and are provided with injection openings the size of which meters the quantity of fuel injected. The novel perforated body is intended to enable simple adjustment of the size of these injection openings. The perforated body has a plurality of injection openings, which by their geometry meter the quantity of fuel flowing through them and aim the injected fuel stream. The provision of steps in the form of grooves, blind bores or wedge-shaped notches, in flat sides of the perforated body defines the length of individual injection openings. The perforated body is suitable for use in fuel injection valve of fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: A master brake cylinder including a re-aspiration valve which is disposed as a central valve in pistons of the master brake cylinder. The re-aspiration valve has a porous body, comprising porous metal, which forms a flat valve seat at one end. The sealing body of the re-aspiration valve is raised gently from the valve seat even at high ambient pressure, which makes a re-aspiration valve embodied in this way particularly suitable for use in master brake cylinders of brake systems having slip control. Because the porous body comprises porous metal which differs in length from its wall surface at one end to its axis to form a conical void space. The porous body has an axial flow resistance that decreases from the outside wall inward to its axis.

Abstract: A hydraulic valve control device for internal combustion engines having a magnetic valve for controlling the opening and closing time of an inlet or outlet valve in which the fluid pressed out of the stroke transmission chamber by the engine valve springs is stored in a reservoir chamber integrated with the magnetic valve; the reservoir chamber, by displacing the valve member backward, functions as a reservoir piston in the opening direction. A spring acting upon the valve member in the closing direction of the magnetic valve presses the fluid back into the stroke transmission chamber, which now is expanding one again. The magnetic valve communicates with the stroke transmission chamber through the shortest possible fluid conduit.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump formed as a radial piston pump having an encompassing cam ring, which drives pump pistons and a feed piston, which feed piston is embodied as a feed pump and is urged by a spring in the direction of the cam race. This arrangement results in a small size for the pump, in which sealing problems are substantially reduced and only a small idle fuel volume must be moved. By means of this fuel injection pump, a relatively high fill pressure in a pump work chamber is attained.

Abstract: A speed governor for fuel injection pumps of internal combustion engines has an electric control motor driven via an electronic control unit for actuating a quantity control member of the injection pump. A travel limitating element of the quantity control member is provided in order to determine the maximum injection quantity. The travel limitating element is adjustable independently of the electronic control unit between a position for the starting quantity and a position for the full-load quantity in accordance with engine characteristics. While the operating rpm performance graph is controlled by the electrical portion of the speed governor, the maximum rpm is determined by hydraulic-mechanical means.

Abstract: A feed pump, preferably for anti-skid brake systems, having at least one shaft-driven pump piston and at least one compensation element. Some of the brake fluid fed by the pump piston into the brake system during the compression stroke is received in a compensation chamber of the compensation element. During the ensuing intake stroke of the pump piston, an eccentric shaft that also actuates the pump piston actuates a compensation piston of the compensation element, in order to feed the brake fluid that has been temporarily stored in the compensation chamber into the brake system.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus with a self-monitoring device having a still camera and a video camera sharing a photographic lens each other, a monitoring television device for forming a monitored image thereon from video signals obtained by the video camera, a housing member for accommodating therein the still camera, video camera and the monitoring television device and a device for freezing the video signals from the monitoring television device in connection with a shutter release operation.

Abstract: An air flow rate meter having a support body that protrudes into the air intake tube of an internal combustion engine and has an aperture in which a hot wire is deployed over support points. A support body protrudes vertically into a horizontally extending intake tube with two apertures, one above the other, and includes both a first hot wire in the first aperture and a second hot wire in the second aperture, each in the form of a V, with the required tension. Each hot wire is secured with each of its ends to a respective support point and is guided with a loop over a middle support point. It is particularly advantageous to dispose the ends of each hot wire with the support points on the upper end face of each aperture, because in that case the heat buildup ensuing during a burn-off procedure enables particularly good burnoff of the deposits on the ends of each hot wire and any solder at the intersections of the individual loops is protected from overheating which would destroy the solder.

Abstract: A photographic apparatus having a self-monitoring device, comprising a still camera, a TV camera, a monitor TV for visualizing a vedeo signal corresponding to an image photographed by the TV camera, and means for producing a mirror image of a photographic object to be visualized on the monitor TV. The still camera and the TV camera shares a photographic lens. The still camera, TV camera and monitor TV are housed in one casing. The monitor TV has a screen facing the same direction as the photographic lens faces. The person who is the object to be photographed can monitor the image appearing on the monitor TV screen, adjust his pose or the like and take a photograph to his satisfaction.

Abstract: A midget respirator gas tank apparatus comprising a plurality of small gas tanks each including a pin-penetrable position. The gas tanks are removably mounted in holders with the pin-penetrable position held in a gastight space. A pressure regulator is connected to the holders for communication through gas passages. A pin mechanism is supported in a gas-tight state in one of the holders for perforating one of the gas tanks at the pin-penetrable position. A piston drive pin mechanism is supported in the other holder for perforating the other gas tank under pressure of a respirable gas jetting out the gas tank perforated by the first-mentioned pin mechanism. The pressure regulator regulates the pressure of the respirable gs and supplies the pressure-regulated gas to a mouthpiece.

Abstract: A rotary body of hard material with a plastic supporter and a method of manufacturing therefor, which essentially comprises a coating film coated with the rotary body and removed after molding so as to make a clearance between the rotary body and the supporter, so that rotation of the rotary body may be allowed smoothly. The method of this invention defines steps of molding, coating of film and removing of the film so as to obtain rotation of rotary body relative to the plastic supporter.

Abstract: An engine cooling structure comprises a hood enclosing an engine and defining air inlets and an air outlet, a radiator disposed rearwardly of the engine, a cooling fan disposed forwardly of the engine for drawing cooling air and exhausting the cooling air forwardly. A closed cooling duct system extending from the air inlets to the air outlet is formed by the hood, a guide plate for guiding all incoming air flows to the radiator, and shielding plates extending from a forward body frame and sealing an engine room from below. The cooling air flows through the radiator, past the engine and through the cooling fan.