Abstract: A shifting device for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, in which a selector lever is pivotable within a shift gate around a selection axis located deeper than the said shift gate and is held by spring forces acting at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the shift gate against locking elements. The locking elements are laterally offset in relation to one another and are associated with the shift positions, in the shift positions P, R, N, and D. The selection axis of the selector lever is mounted in a universal joint-like manner in an intermediate part. The intermediate part is mounted pivotably around the selection axis on a housing that is a rigid part of the body, and--in the auxiliary shift position (M) for stepwise, manual shifting in the shift position (D) associated with automatic shifting--the selector lever is pivotable manually in relation to the intermediate part around a drag bearing located higher than the selection axis in the direction of the selection movement.

Abstract: A longitudinally adjustable coupling rod for central buffer couplings of rail-borne vehicles. The coupling rod has a longitudinally adjustable section, which is formed by four shear elements fastened to a support body in an articulated manner. Two shear elements form front shears and two shear elements form rear shears. The two shear elements of the rear shears are associated extensively mirror-symmetrically with the shear elements of the front shears. The shear elements of each of the shears, which are arranged opposite each other, are connected to one another in their front area by hinges.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a clamping device for an adjustable steering column in motor vehicles, in which a tubular housing adjustable in the direction of its longitudinal axis can be clamped between two holders rigidly connected to the vehicle body by a clamping mechanism with a clamping bolt, which passes through the two holders at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tubular housing and can be actuated by a handle. A locking member is additionally provided, which is supported by an abutment fixed axially at the clamping bolt, on the one hand, and has a sword edge directed obliquely downward toward a component rigidly connected to the tubular housing, forming an angle with the longitudinal axis of the clamping bolt, on the other hand.

Abstract: An insulation displacement contact element of a blade-type, resilient contact material having a contact slot provided with an insertion opening. The outer edges generally parallel to the contact slot are provided in an area of a wire contact zone of the contact slot with cutouts.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a safety system for steering shafts, in which shaft parts non-rotatably engage each other and are secured against relative displacement in relation to one another by injected shear materials, which are designed for maximum axial forces in the steering shaft and engage recesses on the outer circumference of the inner shaft part and on the inner circumference of the outer shaft part. Such a safety system has an at least double telescoping shaft system, in which at least two shaft parts are connected to one another by an intermediate shaft part, and the inner shaft parts engage a radial expansion of the corresponding outer shaft part, and a cross section of the shear material designed for shearing is arranged between the shaft parts in the area of the expansion.

Abstract: A method for uniting an exhaust treatment body (2) surrounded by a bedding mat (6) with a metal case (8) forming a housing for the exhaust treatment body, characterized in that one or two preformed metal blanks are pressed by means of a form tool (10) against the exhaust treatment body (2) surrounded by the bedding mat (6) and thereby brought into the final case form; and the thus formed metal blank or blanks are welded to the case (8) along one or two longitudinal seams (28). An afflux funnel (44) and a discharge funnel are preferably welded on by means of a special triple seam (56).

Abstract: The present invention pertains to the problem of chopping, drying and compressing into pellets--which shall be used especially as a fuel--freshly harvested biomass, especially cereal plants, in one operation. The chopped stalk material is moved forward for this purpose according to the present invention over a broad surface in a thin layer (32) in the manner of an accordion, while a warm air flow passes through it, before the stalk material is fed into the intake wedge of a pelletizing device (15). Screw conveyor groups (11, 12, 13) arranged at different levels are preferably used as the conveying means, and their direction of conveyance (23) is at right angles to the direction of travel (24) of the harvester (1), whereas the gaseous heating medium flows through the layers (32) being conveyed vertically (29) from bottom to top.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reverse conducting (RC) thyristor of a planar-gate structure for low-and-medium power use which is relatively simple in construction because of employing a planar structure for each of thyristor and diode regions, permits simultaneous formation of the both region and have high-speed performance and a RC thyristor of a buried-gate or recessed-gate structure which has a high breakdown voltage by the use of a buried-gate or recessed-gate structure, permits simultaneous formation of thyristor and diode regions and high-speed, high current switching performance, and the RC thyristor of the planar-gate structure has a construction which comprises an SI thyristor or miniaturized GTO of a planar-gate structure in the thyristor region and an SI diode of a planar structure in the diode region, the diode region having at its cathode side a Schottky contact between n emitters or diode cathode shorted region and the thyristor region having at its anode side an SI anode shorted structure fo

Abstract: To provide a vehicle combination consisting of at least two railborne vehicles with single-wheelset chassis with a coupling for the single-wheelset chassis, which guarantees the most accurate alignment possible of the single-wheelset chassis in the direction of the center of the track under all travel conditions, a serf-steering device (self-steering elasticity e), which permits self-steering of the single-wheelset chassis in combination with the steering mechanism, is connected to an essentially rigid steering device.

Abstract: Plate coolers including a plate cooler made of copper or a low-alloy copper alloy for shaft furnaces, especially blast furnaces, with blind holes arranged in the cooling body for passing through cooling water, as well as with vertical side flanges arranged around the cooling body and with horizontal side flanges. The plate cooler can be connected to another plate cooler to form a plate cooler segment or plate cooler ring. Webs and grooves located between them are arranged in the plate cooler in the area of the cooling body on a side facing the interior of the furnace for holding refractory material.

Abstract: The process is used to prepare a leaf-shaped oscillatory spring of a rectangular or square surface shape, made of hardenable spring steel for electric diaphragm pumps, which have as the drive motor an oscillating armature magnet, with is provided with an axially oscillating plunger-type armature arranged coaxially to a system axis in the interior space of a central magnet coil. The oscillatory spring has two spring legs, which are connected by a head-side cross web and are each provided in the free foot area with a fastening hole used for the positioning accommodation of a cylindrical centering pin each, and the oscillatory spring has, approximately in the center of its surface, a flexible tongue cut free on three sides, with a central fastening bore for a plunger-type armature shaft.

Abstract: A respirator is provided with a gas-metering device for respiration gases, a control unit influencing and monitoring the metering of the gas, an input unit connected to the control unit for introducing commands into the control unit, a display unit outputting parameters, a rotary knob changing preselected parameters, and with an acknowledge switch, which takes over the changed parameter as a new set value into the control unit and is actuated by the rotary knob. The display unit is designed as an interactive flat screen with a contact-sensitive surface. Data entry sectors with setting segments and output sectors for parameters to be displayed are provided within the flat screen. The input unit is designed as a keypad arranged on the side of the flat screen. At least preselected data entry sectors on the flat screen can be switched by means of the keypad.

Abstract: An index-feed machining system having such a construction that a plurality of machining units on the bodies of which cassettes incorporating a plurality of machining tools are detachably mounted are disposed at intervals of mP (m being a given positive integer, P being a workpiece-feeding pitch) in the workpiece-feeding direction, corresponding to a plurality of machining processes; the machining processes being sequentially performed by the machining units at the index-feed pitches of the workpiece, in which a drive for driving the machining means are provided in the cassettes comprising any machining units.

Abstract: A brain-wave analysis method for analyzing a brain wave by extracting a power spectrum of the brain wave from detected brain-wave biological signals, detecting the presence or absence of peaks formed in the frequency band of each brain-wave rhythm in the power spectrum, and analyzing the brain wave based on the presence or absence of the peak spectrum; and brain-wave analysis apparatus for realizing the aforementioned method comprising a brain-wave extracting device for extracting a power spectrum with respect to a brain wave from detected brain-wave biological signals, and a peak detecting device for detecting the presence or absence of spectrum peaks formed in each brain-wave rhythm frequency band in the brain-wave power spectrum extracted by the brain-wave extracting device.

Abstract: A load glider has, between the parachute surface and the load, a device in which a reversible transfer of mechanical energy from the main lines to the steering lines takes place, so that essentially only frictional forces are to be overcome during the operation of the steering lines. The device includes two differential gears, which are arranged in parallel and are accommodated in housings in which a steering line is wound up on a roller with a larger diameter and a main line is wound up on the other roller with a small diameter. Gears, which can be driven by pinions driven by electric motors, are flanged onto the larger rollers.

Abstract: A device for measuring the flow of a fluid in a fluid channel, with at least one thermocouple, whose thermojunctions are arranged one behind the other in the direction of flow of the fluid and are maintained at a working temperature higher than the fluid temperature by means of an ac power source 9. The thermocouple is connected to a measuring circuit evaluating the thermocouple voltage U.sub.T. Continuous measurement with high accuracy is possible with a measuring circuit having a switching network, by which the ac power source is connected to the thermocouple at least during the measurement phase, and by which the ac voltage components superimposed to the thermocouple voltage are eliminated by subtraction.

Abstract: A web and sheet sluice adjustable to different material thicknesses for sheets of paper or the like, which are fed to a processing or treating unit. The sluice has a passage gap between a friction roller, which rotates continuously during the working operation, and an axially parallel braking roller, which is radially adjustable in relation to the friction roller. An electric switching element sends a control signal for an electric circuit during the adjustment of the passage gap to the thickness of a sample located in the passage gap. The braking roller is rotatably mounted on the cylindrical eccentric of an eccentric shaft, which can be driven by a first electric motor drive and can optionally be adjusted to both directions of rotation, and with the friction roller stationarily stopped, it can be driven by a second electric motor drive at a speed of rotation that is substantially higher than the velocity of adjustment of the braking roller via a driving gear which can be moved out of its normal position.

Abstract: In a rotary printing press with at least one folder, which comprises at least one cutting cylinder and one folding jaw cylinder, each folder is driven, due to being equipped with at least one separate drive motor, mechanically independently at least from the printing units of the printing press, and can be installed and registered independently therefrom.