Abstract: In a bearing unit for a drive shaft mounted cantilevered in a housing by means of two rolling bearings and having a driving bevel gear wherein the drive shaft is mounted in the drive housing via a bearing bush and the bearing bush is axially supported at one end by a bearing bush support part and the rolling bearings are supported in the bearing bush spaced from the one end thereof so that, during heating, the bearing bush expands inwardly toward the driving bevel gear mounted on the shaft whereas the drive housing expands outwardly away from the driving bevel gear, the gear drive housing and the bearing bush consist of a light metal alloy and the bearing bush support part consists of an iron material.

Abstract: In a loading platform system for mounting on vehicles, particularly trucks, comprising at least one lift support arrangement consisting of two essentially parallel spaced support structures, an essentially plate-like loading platform for lifting and lowering a load, at least one lift actuator for lifting and lowering the loading platform and a slide unit, which is movable back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and mountable on the vehicle and on which at least the lift support arrangement, the loading platform and the lift actuator are mounted. The slide unit is adapted to be mounted on the support frame of the vehicle by transverse frame members, which are fitted to the spacing of the vehicle support frame members and include means at their ends for mounting them to the vehicle support frame members.

Abstract: In a piezo-electric motor with alternately electrically actuated clamping piezo packs arranged between a reference part and a drive part and with two stepping piezo packs arranged in an opposite sense and assigned to each clamping piezo pack or to one clamping piezo pack or a support structure, the stepping piezo stacks are connected via quasi-pivotal joint structures to a foot at locations which are spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the clamping piezo pack and from the drive part.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine having air intake ducts and exhaust gas discharge ducts including a compressor and a turbine with at least two inlet flow passages, a flow adjusting device (15) arranged in the exhaust gas discharge ducts upstream of the turbine and including a rotary slide valve for controlling the exhaust gas flow first and second flow channels extending through the rotary slide, a third flow channel extends axially partially through the rotary slide valve via inlet openings at the circumference of the rotary slide which can be brought into overlapping relationship with rotary slide housing openings for controlling the exhaust gas flow from the engine to the turbine.

Abstract: In an arrangement and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine including a control unit, an injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of the engine, connecting lines interconnecting the engine control unit and the injector for transmitting signals therebetween and an intelligent electronic component provided with the injector for an integral structure, the electronic component comprises an electronic storage unit for storing data, a computing unit, a measuring unit for determining momentary actual injector values and an energy storage device for storing electric energy which is supplied to the electronic components and to the injector unit during engine operation via the connecting lines either constantly or only during the fuel injection procedure.

Abstract: In a shaft bearing comprising outer and inner parts with an elastic element carrier disposed therebetween, the elastic element carrier includes first and second elastic elements disposed on opposite radial sides thereof and is movable with respect to one of the outer and inner parts in axial direction and with respect to the other of the outer and inner parts in radial direction, and the elastic elements disposed between the element carrier and the outer, and respectively, the inner parts have selectable elasticities so as to provide for distinct selectible radial and axial resiliencies of the shaft bearing.

Abstract: In an apparatus for the electrographic printing or copying using liquid coloring agents consisting of a carrier liquid and toner particles, including a latent image carrier and at least one supply element in the form of a slot-like supply nozzle via which the liquid toner is applied to the latent image carrier and a suction element by which excess liquid coloring agent is removed from the latent image carrier, a de-coupling channel is arranged between the suction element and the supply element.

Abstract: In a frame element for placement onto an aquarium container so as to extend around the top opening thereof, wherein the frame element includes a frame member of rectangular cross-section having at least one web which extends around the top edge area of the walls of the container so as to abut the top edges thereof, at least one transverse element extends between opposite areas of the frame member for retaining the opposite areas of the frame member and the side walls of the container.

Abstract: In a mobile telephone/PDA holder (mechanism) having a hollow body with clamping jaws supported therein by guide legs which are disposed in the hollow body so as to be slidable in unison toward, and away from, one another under control of an operating mechanism including a coupling wheel rotatably supported in the hollow body and being coupled to the guide legs, and locking elements biased into engagement with the locking wheel, the locking wheel is provided with a circumferential layer of a resilient material and the locking elements are disposed adjacent the locking wheel and have saw-tooth like projection firmly engaging the resilient material layer and the locking wheel for preventing rotation thereof in one direction but permitting its rotation in the opposite direction and a release key connected to the locking element and extending from the hollow body for releasing the locking wheel.

Abstract: In a method for cold-running or warm-up operation of a spark-ignition, direct-injection 4-stroke internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas catalytic converter, wherein fuel is injected into the cylinders of the internal combustion engine by means of injectors and is externally ignited by means of spark plugs, in an intake stroke fuel injection a lean, combustible but non-ignitable lean mixture is produced in the cylinders, in a compression stroke fuel injection following the intake stroke injection, by a compression stroke fuel injection, a combustible and ignitable fuel/air mixture is formed in the combustible but non-ignitable lean mixture in the cylinders and, subsequently, in a stratified fuel injection which is close in timing to an ignition time, a rich fuel/air mixture is locally formed in the region of the spark plug and is then ignited by the spark plug so as to provide for rapid heat up of the cold exhaust gas catalytic converter with reliable combustion and smooth engine operation.

Abstract: In a supercharged internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders which are arranged in at least one cylinder bank, preferably a V-type engine with an exhaust gas turbocharger including a compressor, which is arranged in an intake line of the internal combustion engine and a turbine which is arranged in an exhaust gas collection line, the exhaust gas of a plurality of cylinders of the cylinder bank is combined in an exhaust gas collection line, while at least one cylinder of a cylinder bank has a separate exhaust gas line which bypasses the exhaust gas turbocharger and joins the exhaust gas line downstream of the turbine.

Abstract: In a method of operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle during an engine warm-up phase, the engine having a cylinder including a piston defining in the cylinder a combustion chamber, wherein fuel is injected into the combustion chamber in a pilot injection, a main injection and, selectively, a post-injection, and during the heat-up phase of the engine, the center position of the combustion is retarded relative to a center position of the combustion in the normal engine operating mode in order to more rapidly heat the engine and the coolant in the engine cooling circuit for rapid heating of the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: In a method for detecting an inverter hardware failure in an electric power train comprising high voltage cables, at least one electric machine and at least two inverter legs with two power electronic switches respectively for pulse-width-modulating a DC voltage from a high voltage battery for energizing the at least one electric machine, and including at least one mid-pack voltage sensor for detecting isolation faults, wherein all power electronic switches are demanded to open; at least one of the power electronic switches of one of the inverter legs is opened and closed at a time at a given duty cycle and a given frequency; a mid-pack voltage is measured using the mid-pack voltage sensor; the closed switch is identified as functional in case a common mode voltage is detected by the mid-pack voltage sensor or otherwise the closed switch is identified as non-functional.

Abstract: In a process and device for extinguishing metal fires, a totally water-free liquid which reacts with the extinguished metal to form a silicate covering the metal fire source is used as extinguishing agent.

Abstract: In an air filter system for an internal combustion engine having a fresh air line with an air inlet, a filter housing with an upper housing half and lower housing half, a filter element disposed in the filter housing, a clean air outlet opening with an adjoining clean air line opening into the intake system of the internal combustion engine, and means for damping intake noise, the means for damping the intake noise is a sheet configured and arranged adjacent, and clamped to, the upper housing half opposite the clean air outlet whereby the intake noise vibration energy is absorbed by frictional relative movement between the sheet and the upper housing half, the intake noise being damped by a change in impedance, in particular by a jump in impedance.

Abstract: In an arrangement for damping the pivot movement of a furniture component which is supported by a pivot joint on a stationary furniture part and which includes a damping element for slowing the movement of the furniture component near one of its end positions, the damping element includes a cylinder and piston unit forming part of a hinge, which includes a hinge housing in which a piston operating member is slidably supported and operatively connected to the piston, and a hinge lever extends between the movable component and the stationary furniture part in such a way that it engages the piston operating member in the hinge housing when the movable component approaches one of its end positions so as to slow down the movable component.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust gas turbine in the exhaust line and a compressor in the intake tract of the internal combustion engine, and the exhaust gas turbine includes a gas inlet passage with a variable guide vane structure supported on one side of a support ring arranged in the inlet flow passage to the turbine wheel, the support ring is mounted in a floating manner such that the side thereof, which faces away form the guide vanes is exposed to the gas pressure in the inlet flow passage in order to bias the support ring toward the opposite inlet flow passage wall and spacer sleeves with expansion properties similar to those of the guide vanes are provided between the support ring and the opposite flow passage wall for delimiting the clearance between the guide vanes and the opposite flow passage wall.