Abstract: The present invention is for a sensing device that monitors the conditions of a remote location. The device has a detecting means which detects the conditions at the remote location; a transmitting module that reads and remotely transmits information containing the detected conditions and the power level of a power source powering the transmitting module; a base module that receives, selectively processes and conveys the information telephonically; and an identifying means that identifies the remote location of the call before the call is completed, and thus the information can be passed without completing a call. The invention is also directed to a method of sensing conditions at a remote location in the least possible time.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for posttreatment of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, in which a substance to be mixed with the exhaust gas is sprayed in metered quantities into an exhaust gas line through which the exhaust gas flows. The substance is sprayed onto an impact plate disposed inside the exhaust gas line.

Abstract: A method and a device for treatment of the exhaust of an internal combustion engine in which a fluid is used as an auxiliary agent for the treatment; a partial chemical conversion of the auxiliary agent is at least occasionally stimulated in order to produce a substance that reduces the freezing point of the fluid when the temperature of the fluid falls below a critical value.

Abstract: A common rail fuel injection system having a low-pressure region from which a high-pressure fuel pump acts on fuel with high pressure and delivers it to a high-pressure fuel accumulator from which fuel is supplied to injectors that inject the highly pressurized fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine in which the high-pressure pump, the high-pressure fuel accumulator, and the injectors are associated with a high-pump, pressure region. In order to avoid undesirable delays in the starting of the internal combustion engine, a check valve device is connected between the low-pressure region and the high-pressure region so that when a negative pressure is generated in the high-pressure region, fuel flows from the low-pressure region into the high-pressure region.

Abstract: The apparatus for generating a mixture of reducing agent and air has a pumping agent feed pump having a pump housing and a mixing chamber into which reducing agent and air pumped by the feed pump can be introduced; the mixing chamber is embodied in a mixing chamber body which communicates directly with the pump housing of the feed pump and forms a cap of the pump housing. The feed pump has a drive shaft which protrudes into the pump housing, and the mixing chamber body is disposed at least approximately radially to the drive shaft The apparatus has a compact structural size and only a slight reducing agent-filled idle volume.

Abstract: A fuel injector having a piezoelectric actuator in an injector body and held in contact with the injector body on one side and with a sleevelike booster piston on the other via first spring means. A nozzle body joined to the injector body and a stepped nozzle needle is guided in the body. A second spring disposed inside the booster piston which together with the injection pressure acting on the back side of the nozzle needle keeps the nozzle needle in the closing position. A control chamber on the end toward the nozzle needle of the booster piston communicates, via at least one leakage gap with a fuel supply at injection pressure, and the nozzle needle is urged in the opening direction by the fuel located in the control chamber.

Abstract: To provide a rice-ball making implement by which a properly compacted and good-looking rice ball in a state of being packed can be made easily. Two containers (3), (3) are connected to be openable/closeable by the intermediary of a bend part (5). The container (3) comprises a base element (9) and a standing wall (10) formed on the outer peripheral edge of one side of the base element (9) in a protruding manner. Height of an upper edge of each of two side-part standing walls (16), (16) constituting the standing wall (10) is made to become gradually larger toward the front end. When the two containers (3) (3) are bent in a manner of closing them, a side-part standing wall (16a) and a front-end standing wall (19a) of one container (3a) overlaps an inside of a side-part standing wall (16b) and an inside of a front-end standing wall (19b) of the other container (3b).

Abstract: A brush device for an electric machine having at least one brush and at least one element such as a helical, scroll, or plunger spring for pressing each brush against a rotating contact element, for example a commutator. In at least one further element for example a spring tab, counteracts a lifting of each brush away from the contact element. To this end, the spring tab is inclined at an angle, as a result of which it exerts a weaker action when the brush moves in the direction toward the contact element than it does counter to this direction. As a result, the brush can be repositioned, but is prevented from lifting away from the contact element. This also reduces the danger of vibrations.

Abstract: A fuel injector with direct needle control has a nozzle needle guided in a nozzle body, and an actuator and a hydraulic pressure boosting unit that has an actuator pressure boosting piston connected to the actuator and a nozzle needle pressure boosting piston connected to the nozzle needle. The actuator pressure boosting piston and the nozzle needle pressure boosting piston both act on a coupler chamber. The nozzle needle pressure boosting piston contains a cylindrical chamber in which a control piston is axially guided, whose coupler chamber pressure surface is exposed to the coupler chamber and whose differential pressure chamber pressure surface is exposed to an inner differential pressure chamber contained in the cylindrical chamber. At its end oriented away from the coupler chamber, the nozzle needle pressure boosting piston is associated with an outer differential pressure chamber that communicates with the inner differential pressure chamber via a hydraulic connection.

Abstract: A stamped screen according to the invention has at least one fastening element integral with the screen and is fastened to the associated component without further accessories at the same time as it is inserted into place.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having a valve body and at least one injection opening embodied in it, through which opening, controlled by a valve needle that cooperates with a valve seat embodied in the valve body, fuel can be injected into the combustion chamber of the engine. The valve body comprises a high-alloy hot-work steel, which has been hardened by a case-hardening process.

Abstract: A common rail injector having an injector housing with a fuel inlet connected to a central high-pressure fuel source outside the injector housing and to a pressure chamber inside the injector housing from which pressure chamber depending on the pressure in a control chamber fuel is injected when a nozzle needle lifts away from its seat and in which the pressure in the control chamber is controlled in a direct, inverse fashion by an actuator in particular a piezoelectric actuator. The combustion chamber end of the actuator or an actuator head provided on the actuator is guided in actuator guide section of a coupler sleeve, which has a larger inner diameter than a nozzle needle guide section of the coupler sleeve in which the end of the nozzle needle oriented away from the combustion chamber is guided.

Abstract: An actuator unit suitable for actuating a fuel injection valve of an injection system for internal combustion engines is comprised of a piezoelectric actuator and a hollow body embodied in the form of a spring. Embodying the hollow body according to the present invention can extend the service life of the actuator unit.

Abstract: A hydraulic assembly for slip-controlled brake systems of motor vehicles, having a valve block with receiving bores, each for a hydraulic part of electromagnetically actuated valves, each of which contains magnetically active elements and a respective electric part having an electric coil encompassing the valve dome, a coil housing, and a washer that is contained at least indirectly in the coil housing, on the side oriented toward the hydraulic part. The washers of at least some of the valves are interconnected to form a multi-washer component. The production of the hydraulic assembly then includes the production of a structural unit, which supports the respective electric parts of at least some of the valves, by connecting the coil housing to the associated washers of the multi-washer component, and the placement of this structural unit onto the valve block by introducing the valve domes into through openings of the washers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector has an injection valve member that can be actuated directly by a piezoelectric actuator. This injection valve member is contained in a nozzle body of the fuel injector and can be moved into its closed position by a spring element. A hydraulic boosting device is provided between the piezoelectric actuator and the injection valve member in order to adapt the force to be exerted by the piezoelectric actuator to the opening force curve of the injection valve member.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator, for example for actuating a mechanical component, has a multilayered structure of piezoelectric layers and, in a piezoelectrically active region, can be acted on with an electrical voltage by means of internal electrodes that are situated between the layers. The layer structure of the piezoelectric actuator includes inactive regions; at least the top part or bottom part, as an inactive region without internal electrodes, is comprised of a material whose dielectric constant is less than the dielectric constant of the active region.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump with a pressure relief valve which has improved hydraulic properties and a reduced number of high-pressure sealing points.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel reservoir of a fuel injection system of a motor vehicle, having at least one fastening portion and one connecting element for fastening to an internal combustion engine, in which the connecting element has at least one first bearing face, which in the installed position points essentially toward the engine, and at least one second bearing face, which in the installed position points essentially away from the engine; and that the fastening portion is received in at least some portions between the bearing faces.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical, self-boosting friction brake, in particular a disk brake. The friction brake is embodied with a wedge element for exerting contact pressure on a friction brake lining; a wedge angle (?) is selected such that a brake parameter C* is located at or near a pole point. As a result, a high self-boosting that tends toward infinity and consequently a low actuating force are attained. To avoid blocking of the friction brake, an actuating device is embodied to block an independent motion of the wedge element, or has a regulating device for regulating a contact pressure of the friction brake lining against a brake body (brake disk).

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel metering unit for high-pressure pumps of fuel injection systems, whose leakproofness in zero delivery operation has been further improved and whose manufacture and assembly have been simplified.