Abstract: A clutch master assembly made of plastic material for an automotive vehicle. The assembly a plastic cylinder housing (1) and a piston (2) and a plastic bushing (3). The plastic bushing is arranged to allow it to be screwed in by means of a thread portion (4) which is located in the housing. By the screwing-in of the bushing a grooved disc (5) and a grooved cup (6) are secured in the assembly. The grooved cup is furnished with knobs (21, 22, 23) which exert a force in axial direction on the arrangement consisting of the grooved cup (6) and the grooved disc (5). The piston-side enlarged end of the piston rod (31, 104) is secured within the piston (2, 103) by a back injection.

Abstract: An anti-lock-controlled brake system for automotive vehicles is described, with a braking pressure generator (6), connected via a main pressure line (5) to a wheel brake (1) with an auxiliary hydraulic pressure pump (2) connected to an auxiliary pressure line (12), and a pressure medium accumulator (19) connected to a pressure limiting valve (3) control-lable in dependence on the hydraulic pressure of the wheel brake (1). A control of the accumulator pressure and volume within a closed hydraulic system is thereby provided which will take place in dependence on the wheel brake pressure to be in conformity with actual requirements.

Abstract: A floating-caliper disc brake is described of a type having brake shoes (3, 4) which are positioned on either side of a brake disc (2) and with a brake caliper (1) which straddles the brake shoes (3, 4) and the edge of said brake disc (2), which brake caliper is axially slidingly supported on a brake carrier (5). A brake piston is mounted in the brake caliper (10) adjacent one brake shoe (4). A spring element (12) is disposed extending between the brake piston and a facing surface of the brake caliper adjacent the other brake shoe and acts to retract each brake shoe to create a clearance with the brake disc. The spring element is elastically and plastically deformable by an actuating stroke of the brake piston (10), the elastic deformability being limited to an actuating stroke which corresponds to the brake clearance of both brake shoes (3, 4), the plastic deformation compensating brake lining wear.

Abstract: A brake pressure proportioning controller is described for the rear wheel brakes of an automotive vehicle with a brake unit equipped with an anti-locking control, the brake pressure controller being provided with a lockout arrangement in which an electromagnetic drive prevents the brake pressure controller from performing its pressure reducing function as long as the anti-locking control is functioning. The lockout arrangement includes an actuating element (6) which is axially slidable by the drive (1), an intermediate bushing (8) is formed with radial round holes (34, 34') in which interlocking ball elements (31, 31') are guided in radial directions which are thicker than the wall of the intermediate bushing (8) and which are normally retained by the actuating element (6) in a position in which they lock any axial movement of the control element (9) in the direction of the electromagnetic drive (1).

Abstract: A piston pump is described which adapts the output flow to the supply flow which is intended in particular for use in a hydraulic brake slip control apparatus, the pump having a pump housing (2) with working chambers (9, 10) which are connectible to supply lines via an inlet valve (5) and an outlet valve (6). Working pistons (15) defining in part the working chambers are cyclically movable to increase and decrease the volume of the working chambers (9, 10) and are guided in cylinder bores (11, 12) and driven by a an eccentric (14) in order to perform stroke movements. The cylinder bores (11, 12) also receive charging pistons (18) which also define in part the working chambers (9, 10) and which are movable to decrease the volume of the working chambers (9, 10) by way of compression springs (20) supported on the pump housing (2) and which, via a pin (21), can be pressed against the working pistons (15).

Abstract: Resetting of the actuator piston of a disc brake by an adjusting device is enabled by sliding movement of the piston so that a piston position may be reset without any special arrangement for turning an adjusting spindle (5), or by turning the piston itself. The adjusting spindle (5) is released for rotation during resetting, while the adjusting spindle (5) is normally fixed against rotation yet axially slidably during the time of hydraulic actuation and during manual braking.

Abstract: In brake systems with a large boosting factor, relatively high pressures in the tandem master cylinder during an anti-lock control operation caused by start-up of a pump are prevented by an adjusting member which is controlled in response to the wheel braking pressure, to act upon a pressure-reducing valve inserted upstream of a power booster, so as to limit the booster pressure.

Abstract: A method and a device for mounting a wiper system on a motor vehicle includes individual structural members of the wiper system fitted in places on the motor vehicle body which are remote from each other. Thereby the individual structural members (19) are at first secured to a device serving as a transportation support (30) in proper position to the fastening points (26) on the motor vehicle body (25) and the premounted unit of wiper system and transportation support (30) is then put on the vehicle body (25) in proper mounting condition and thereafter the connection between the structural members (19) of the wiper system and the transportation support (30) is released again.

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat recliner (10) includes upper and lower attachment members (12 and 14) joined at a hinge point (16). An adjuster (58) operates to establish a substantially fixed angular position between the members. An inertia latch (60) operative to disengage the adjuster from the upper attachment member as a function of recliner attitude and acceleration includes elements (52 and 62) defining cooperating engagement surfaces (98 and 99) which are relatively displaceable upon incipient movement of one of the members in a predetermined direction from a pre-latched position to a release position when the movement is relatively slow and to an engaged position when the movement is relatively fast.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spot-type disc brake, in particular for automotive vehicles, with two brake carrier arms being positioned at a distance from each other in the direction of a secant in respect of the brake disc, with two brake shoes resting radially on the brake carrier arms, with a brake housing which straddles the brake shoes and the brake disc in a U-shaped manner, with a piston-and-cylinder unit being positioned within a first, internal stem of the housing and by means of which the first brake shoe allows to be urged directly against a first side of the brake disc, and with a second, external stem being coupled to the first stem through a bridge section and urging the second, external brake shoe indirectly against the other side of the brake disc. According to the invention, the external stem has a continuous and uninterrupted bearing surface which bears against the second, external brake shoe resulting in a closed design of the external stem.

Abstract: A fitting arrangement and process for the guidance and the fixing of one or more electric lines passing into a cover lid, as far a valve block for electromagnetically switchable hydraulic valves. The lines are individually molded into a conductor accommodating element, which in turn is fit and sealed in an opening within the cover lid. The conductor accommodating element is retained in the cover lid opening by a protective cap having protrusions to lock the element in the opening, drawing a collar against the opposite side of the cover lid. The lines are bent over and exit an open end of the protective cap, which is locked in position by a ridge snapping into a depression in the cover lid as the cap is slid into grooves on the accommodating element.

Abstract: A hinge pivotally moves a closure panel between two positions to open and close an access opening formed in a structure. The hinge includes a mounting plate connected to the structure. A strap is pivotally connected at a first end to the mounting plate and is fixedly connected at a second end to the closure panel. A clock biasing spring is connected at a first end to the mounting plate and has a second end rotationally and radially movable with respect to the first end. A link is pivotally connected at a first end to the strap at a position spaced from the pivot connection of the first end of the strap to the mounting plate.

Abstract: A process and a system for multi-channel gathering and evaluation of measured data in which measured data channels are distinguished into analog data channels and into digital or event channels. By means of a signal derived from the events, or rather from event signals, and processed in the event channels the analog measured data are synchronously sampled, (i.e. picked up, converted into a digital value and stored). Each time an identification number is stored for the event signal triggering the sampling operation, or rather of the corresponding event channel, the phase time between this sampling signal and the preceding sampling signal, the associated sampled measured data and the time sequence of the sampling operations. The signal triggering the synchronous sampling operation is preferably formed by OR-linking of all event signals which are scaled down, if applicable.

Abstract: For the elimination of distortion of a thin walled cold formed brake piston the piston (1) perimeter wall (5) is stiffened by one or more formed grooves (3) and one or more inwardly projecting ridges each formed by a corresponding groove. The shaping of the groove is carried out so that the wall thickness within the critical range (2) is at least equal to the wall thickness of the piston wall (4). The grooves may be used for securing a sealing cup, a rubber seal and/or a retaining spring for the brake pads.

Abstract: A dual-circuit brake system including a diagonal division is provided by the invention. The brakes of the driven wheels, on the one hand, through inlet valves are in communication with the brake pressure generator and, on the other hand, through intake valves, are in direct communication with a pressure source. Moreover, communication is established with a reservoir through the outlet valves. For brake slip control purposes, pairs of inlet and outlet valves are actuated, while for traction slip control purposes, pairs of intake and outlet valves are actuated; during a traction slip control, the inlet valves and separator valves in bypass conduits leading to the inlet valves are closed. This circuit configuration involves the advantage that the intake and inlet valves may be provided with different diaphragms that are adjusted to the respective control mode.

Abstract: A wiper blade for a windshield wiper system of motor vehicles is described, in which wiper blade a reinforcing rail is secured against longitudinal movement in its central area on the wiper lip. The securement is performed by a cam pressed from the blade and received in a recess of the reinforcing rail. The relative movement between the reinforcing rail and the rubber wiper strip, which cannot be prevented when bent windshields are being wiped, is thereby evenly distributed over the two ends of the wiper strip. This improves the wiping effect of the wiper blade in comparison to known models, where the reinforcing rail is coupled to one end of the wiper strip.

Abstract: A process for adjusting the travel sensor for a brake power booster movable wall is disclosed to compensate for tolerance variations, in which a fixed stop is installed to engage the output member upon applying a predetermined input force to shift the movable wall to a test location. The distance to the test location of the movable wall from a booster housing reference surface is measured with a measuring instrument installed temporarily in the booster housing opening normally receiving the travel sensor. The tips of the travel sensor is positioned at the test location with the travel sensor in the corresponding signal condition either by using an appropriately dimensioned replaceable tip or sensor holder, or by use of an adjustable length sensor holder.

Abstract: A tool for releasing a male fitting from a mating female connector coupled together by a retaining element includes an elongated H-shaped handle, a bifurcated body including complementary body halves resiliently carried by one end of the handle in a spaced-apart relationship which embraces an outer surface of the connector in a fixed orientation substantially overlying a radial opening therein which exposes the retaining element, and an abutment member which extends from one or both of the body halves operable to radially penetrate the opening to displace the retaining element from an engaged position to an O.D. release position. A second bifurcated body including a second set of complementary body halves is carried on the other end of the handle. Finger members carried by the second body axially engages the retaining element to effect I.D. release of the connector.

Abstract: An insertion indication device for use with a quick connect fitting includes a generally annular base member which is adapted for positioning about the male portion of the fitting within the female portion such that in a first position the annular member is disposed between a step formed in the axial female portion opening and a tapered male portion retaining element, and in a second position the annular member is disposed between an abutment surface formed by the retaining element and a housing seat formed within female portion. A number of circumferentially spaced, axially extending legs are visible prior to engagement of the fitting and are hidden from view upon full engagement thereof.

Abstract: A vacuum brake power booster with a connecting member (23) for the connecting nozzle (2) of the vacuum line and for the vacuum non-return valve (3). The connecting member is configured in the shape of a housing for a sensing device which detects the position of the diaphragm retainer (16) within the servo-cylinder (15). The sensing device consists of a scanning pin (22) which allows rotation of a gear (9) by means of a flexible toothed rack (6). The gear allows rotation of a tap (12) on an ohmic resistance. The different voltage values generated in this manner indicated the position of the diaphragm retainer within the servo-cylinder. By an appropriate selection of components, by their configuration, by their mutual adaptation, and by the appropriate assembly of these components into a compact overall assembly unit, the contour of a conventional vacuum brake power booster is not exceeded. The mounting space requirements of the booster are thus reduced. The booster is universally applicable.