Abstract: A rotary electrical machine, comprising a stator (100) having at least one armature winding (140) mounted in slots which define stator poles, and a rotor (200) mounted for rotation inside the stator, the rotor having at its outer periphery magnetic poles comprising, firstly, North-South magnets (210N-210S), and secondly, magnetic reluctance pieces (215-215′), wherein the North-South magnets of two consecutive n, n+1 poles are grouped side by side, and in that the magnetic reluctance pieces of two consecutive n+1, n+2 poles are also side by side.

Abstract: A friction clutch comprises a reaction plate, a friction disc (100), bearing at its outer periphery at least a friction lining (101), a pressure plate (11), a cover (12) fixed on the reaction plate, a diaphragm (13) operating between the cover (12) and the pressure plate (11) via secondary support (17) and primary support (18), a wear take-up device comprising a ramp (14) adapted to co-operate with a counter-ramp (15), a toothing (19) wherewith co-operates a tangentially arranged endless screw (23), the ramp (14) being locked in rotation with the toothing (19), ratchet wheel (20) driving in rotation the endless screw (23) consisting of a ratchet locked in rotation with the endless screw (23) and controlled via a control tab (36) whereof the travel is limited by a so-called control stop (33), the endless screw (23) and the ratchet (20) being borne by a support (22) integral with the cover (12): the control stop (33), as well as the primary support (18), is arranged on the cover (12).

Abstract: A pressure relief valve is disclosed for use in air intake tracts of I.C. engine installations. The air valve includes a tubular member having apertures therein covered over by resilient diaphragm elements that, when a negative pressure (vacuum) within the system exceeds a pre-determined level, deflect and enable relief of the negative pressure within the air intake. When the negative pressure returns to normal operating levels, the diaphragm returns to position. The negative pressure within the intake tract can be raised, for example, by an obstruction at the air inlet of the tract.

Abstract: A heat exchanger (2) with flexible tubes (20), particularly for a motor vehicle cooling installation. The tubes (20), for example made of a plastic material, are designed to carry a heat-exchanging fluid capable of co-operating with an air stream circulating through the exchanger (2). The inventive exchanger (2) comprises means for maintaining the tubes (20) in parallel rows. The tubes (20) are designed to be generally shaped like substantially sinusoidal lines. The sinusoids of two contacting tubes (211, 212) of two consecutive rows, are phase offset relatively to each other such that the two tubes (211, 212) are maintained in two contact zones (210) per sinusoid interval, thereby leaving interstices between the tubes (20) to enhance the penetration of the flux.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for effectuating the multilateral, sponsor driven winning of multiple “collect & win” games by individuals or businesses. The system allows individuals to share information pertaining specifically to so called “collect & win games” where a “piece” is needed in conjunction with other pieces, to win a prize from a game sponsor. The system receives and stores data on its members including their pieces, the game involved, as well as any requested information. The system matches one member's (“player's”) “piece” with pieces of another player or players. The system then sorts the data and alerts our staff of possible winners with “matching” pieces.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a drum brake device which solves a problem of decreasing the strength of a back plate near an anchor block and reduces potential damage to the parking brake cable. A pivot lever 60 is pivotally mounted on one brake shoe 20. Upper and lower portions of the pivot lever functionally engage with the other brake shoe 30 via struts 81, 70. A parking brake actuator 90 which pivotally supports on the upper strut 81 and activates upon an activation of a parking brake is arranged to be adjacent to a service brake actuator which activates upon an activation of a service brake. Preferably an operational part of the parking brake actuator is projected out from the brake back plate.

Abstract: A valve control apparatus is provided for an internal combustion engine having a valve and a camshaft. The camshaft has an axis of rotation, a first raised portion and a second raised portion adjacent to the first raised portion. The second raised portion is angularly spaced-apart about the axis from the first raised portion. The apparatus includes a follower operatively engagable with the camshaft and the valve. The follower has a first operational mode where the first raised portion operatively engages the follower on each revolution of the camshaft to open the valve a first time on each revolution. There is a mechanism for selectively putting the follower in a second operational mode where the second raised portion operatively engages the follower to open the valve a second time on each revolution of the camshaft. The mechanism puts the follower in the second operational mode on each revolution of the camshaft before the second raised portion is fully aligned with the follower.

Abstract: A module has an end part with at least one fixing pin interacting with fixing means carried by a support of a motor vehicle. A device for fixing the module to the support has an elastic fitting with a hollow for the fixing pin of the module, and a removable member with a first end. The first end has two elastic arms with concavities turned towards one another to clamp the fitting accommodating the fixing pin. The removable member also has a second end for interacting with the fixing means for securing to the support with a degree of freedom of movement chosen to provides for mutual movement of the two arms, in which one of them is moved towards the other.

Abstract: A liquid pump for pumping groundwater samples from small diameter sub-terrain wells. The pump comprises a tubular casing having swaged ends and provided with inlet apertures on its side wall, a top cap and a bottom cap each provided with a bladder mandrel, a coil spring biasing the caps, a flexible bladder separating the interior of the pump into a liquid chamber and a gas chamber, and a pair of poppet valves preventing backflow of the pumped liquid. The pump is actuated by alternately pressurizing and de-pressurizing the actuating gas, preferably air, in the gas chamber causing the bladder to alternately contract and relax. The bladder is formed with reduced diameter ends that allows for an increased stroke volume of the pump. The pump is operated by a precision dual range controller, specifically adapted for “low flow” sampling.

Abstract: Residual bones, and ashes from the cremation process of deceased humans and animals are turned into solid objects containing glass, ceramics, clay based materials, or composites such as organic polymer matrix, metal matrix, or inorganic cementaceous matrix, or combination of thereof. In another embodiment, ash is mixed with at least a liquid phase such as paint or coating, which upon dying or heating the mixture becomes solid. The final solid product can be made into any shapes or forms that the matrix can be made into without the addition of the ash. The final form of the product thereof can range from abstractive non-functional to geometrical shapes or functional forms such as containers, vases, or in the form of jewelry stones. Or painting, drawing, coating, and glazing. The objects can be made to contain almost all ash, such as in the case of ceramics or partially loaded with ash as is the case for glass and composites.

Abstract: A device wherein the cylinder (10) comprises a cylinder body (17) wherein a piston (20) slides, and comprising an intermediate element (91) housed in the cylinder body rear part (26), for axial positioning of at least an inner sealing joint (94) co-operating with the side wall (37) of the piston (20, 36), and which is axially maintained in the rear part (26) by a cylindrical annular rear sleeve (50) mounted in the rear part (26, 56) and sealingly fixed therein by bonding or welding, in particular ultrasonic welding. The intermediate element (91) is a tubular element forming joint-holder(s) (94, 96, 120) in the inner peripheral wall (93) of which is formed at least an inner joint housing (100, 106) open radially inwards towards the side wall (37) of the piston (20, 36).

Abstract: A heat-exchange module has a main exchanger and at least one secondary exchanger, each including a body with fluid-circulation tubes and with a clipping device for fixing the secondary exchanger onto the main exchanger so that the same airflow can pass through the bodies of the exchangers. The clipping device has at least one comb-shaped component including a fitting device for fitting onto a first of the exchangers, and at least one first row of teeth having between them, pair by pair, a gap of a shape corresponding to the cross section of the fluid-circulation tubes of the second of the exchangers, so as to clip the body of this second exchanger onto the comb-shaped component.

Abstract: Automobile vehicle fitted with a dedicated communication system provided with an antenna (4) and enabling exchanges of data signals within a communication area corresponding to the antenna radiation area, forming a volume with a chosen shape and dimensions. The antenna is an air antenna that forms an elongated loop around a console (3) located on the floor (5) in the automobile vehicle passenger compartment, and that delimits a communication area with a determined shape and extension inside the passenger compartment.

Abstract: The temperature of an airflow cooled by an evaporator of a closed loop air-conditioning system, determined by means of a sensor, is compared with a theoretical value corresponding to the control current of an external-control, variable-displacement compressor, in order to detect a low level of refrigerant fluid in the system or any blocking of a compressor valve.

Abstract: A clutch control device (10) comprising a cylinder body (17) and a piston (21, 42) axially sliding in an inner bore (22) of the cylinder body (17) and at least a dynamic seal (59A, 59C) borne by the cylinder body (17, 17B). The cylinder body (17) comprises, axially arranged successively from the front rearwards, a blind front component (17A) comprising a base (24), a central component (17B) and a rear component (17C) open rearwards made of plastic material and assembled together sealed by welding (58A, 58C) with indirect heat input, and the inner bore (22) comprises a front portion (22A) and a rear portion (22C), and the dynamic seal (59A, 59C) is housed in the central component (17b) of the cylinder body (17).

Abstract: In a method for joining workpieces, in particular press fittings (24) to a pipe (23), the pressing device (1) is placed with its at least two pressing jaws (21, 22) in the open position against the joining point of the workpieces 23, 24), and the pressing jaws (21, 22) are then moved with respect to one another by means of a jaw drive (7, 50), while the workpieces (23, 24) deform plastically, into a terminal pressed position in which, at the latest, the application of power to the press jaws (21, 22) ends. According to the invention, the power of the jaw drive (7, 50) is controlled in such a way that, at least toward the completion of pressing, the pressing jaws (21, 22) have less kinetic energy than without a power controller. The invention further concerns a pressing unit (1) for carrying out said method.

Abstract: A paper machine clothing, in particular a dryer fabric having a paper side provided for the support of a paper web and a machine side facing away therefrom, the paper machine clothing having a fabric made of longitudinal and transverse threads, the transverse threads including a paper-side thread system made up of flat transverse threads and a machine-side thread system made up of round transverse threads arranged such that at least two round transverse threads on the machine side lie in contact with at least some of the flat transverse threats, and such that one flat transverse thread and its round transverse threads lying in contact with it are together engaged by at least some of the longitudinal threads.

Abstract: The invention concerns a plate clutch device (5) for locking or unlocking an elastic coupling between said turbine wheel (1) and a radial wall (2a) of said case, via a set of helical shock absorber springs (22) with circumferential action held in place in the arc-shaped housings (24) integral with the turbine wheel (1) and opening in axial direction towards the radial wall (2a). The housings (24) are directly arranged in the thickened peripheral part (25) of the turbine wheel (1) made of mouldable material which for example can be overmoulded on a central metal disc (23) for connection with the driven shaft, the opposite radial ends (26) of the housings (24) acting as supports for the corresponding ends of the springs (22).

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate transfer apparatus which can hold the substrate without contacting the surface of the substrate while the substrate is transferred and which does not require the additional prealignment mechanism. The substrate is transferred by a handler. The handler comprises a substrate holding apparatus and a substrate contact apparatus. The substrate holding apparatus includes a noncontact chuck for holding the substrate without contacting the surface of the substrate, and an elevating mechanism for lowering and lifting the noncontact chuck. The substrate contact apparatus includes a contact member to be in contact with the end face of the substrate, a moving mechanism for moving the contact member away from the end face of the substrate when the noncontact chuck is lowered and moving the contact member towards the end face of the substrate when the noncontact chuck is lifted.

Abstract: The element has a first component of the general shape of a channel exhibiting opposite free edges, and a second, plastic component overmoulded onto the first component. Each free edge is divided, in its longitudinal direction, into segments which are offset with respect to one another alternately inwards and outwards in the sideways direction of the channel. The second component forms, on each free edge, a longitudinal bead which covers over the outer face of the segments which are offset inwards and the inner face of the segments which are offset outwards. This element can be used as a front-face support for a motor vehicle.