Abstract: An internal combustion engine that can be operated in compression ignition mode, comprising a fuel injector (2) for each cylinder; a fuel injection control unit (4) for controlling fuel injection quantity and a piston (5) in each cylinder whose compression action causes a mixture of air and fuel to be ignited. The engine is further provided with inlet and outlet valves (6, 7) and sensors (12-16) for measuring various engine operating parameters, is disclosed. During compression ignition mode, the control unit controls the fuel injector to perform a first fuel injection before, and a second fuel injection after top dead center of the piston stroke during or after a negative valve overlap period. A method for operating the engine and a computer readable storage device (4) having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a computer to implement a compression ignition for an internal combustion engine is also described.

Abstract: An aircraft, aircraft system and air fractionization device are provided. The air fractionization device is provided for use on board an aircraft. The air fractionization installation functions according to the principle of pressure swing adsorption and is supplied by the air conditioning and pressurization system with which also the aircraft cabin may be supplied with air.

Abstract: A snap connection is provided between a push rod, e.g., of brakes, to an actuating element, e.g., a brake pedal. A fastening clip (2) is detachably fastened to the pedal. The push rod includes a spherical end (10) which can be held in an articulated manner by the fastening clip (2) for transmitting actuating forces. The interior of the fastening clip has two elastically deformable locking lips (4) acting as barbs, which fix the spherical end of the push rod (10) in the pedal (1) after the insertion of the push rod (10) into the fastening clip (2). The fastening clip (2) is preferably a plastic part with essentially closed sides, which are closed off on the pedal side by a front surface with an opening for the spherical end of the push rod. The opening has an insertion area (13) for inserting the spherical end of the push rod (10) and a removal area (14) for removing the push rod (9).

Abstract: A method and a commissioning system are provided for commissioning articles (A1) which are suitable for a central belt in a central belt commissioning system and articles (A2) which are not suitable for a central belt, preferably manually from an article warehouse or shelf (5), wherein articles which are suitable for a central belt (1) are commissioned and automatically fall directly onto the driven central belt (1) in a targeted manner, and at the end of the central belt they fall into a stationary container or immediately into a container (10) arranged on the driven central belt. The articles (A2) which are not suitable for a central belt are commissioned manually in containers (10) in a commissioning path to the right and/or left of the central belt (1) of the central belt commissioning device and are directly fed to a dispatching station or preferably to the central belt commissioning device for commissioning with articles (A1) which are suitable for a central belt.

Abstract: A method of feeding fuel to an engine, comprising the steps of determining whether or not the engine is decelerating based on a time-lapse change rate of an engine speed of the engine, and reducing an amount of the fuel to be fed to air taken into the engine from outside to less than a reference amount preset according to the engine speed when it is determined that the engine is decelerating.

Abstract: An operating room light fixture with a light fixture housing, in which at least one lighting unit with at least one light source is arranged, with a handle, which is arranged on a side of the light fixture housing facing the operating area, wherein the handle comprises a control element for setting and/or adjusting the luminous intensity of the light source.

Abstract: Swivel motors have a large number of tightness problems on the inside, in particular in a broad operating temperature range. Therefore, to improve the tightness over a temperature range of ?40° C. to +130° C., a sealing device (20) is provided with an inner soft sealing element (20) and a plurality of outer rigid sealing elements (21, 22, 23, 24). The soft sealing element (20) and the rigid sealing elements (21, 22, 23, 24) are undetachably connected to one another. The circumferential sealing surfaces of the rigid sealing elements (21, 22, 23, 24), in the unloaded state, close flush with the sealing surface of the soft sealing element (20). The rigid sealing elements (21, 22, 23, 24) are spaced apart from one another by at least one radial compensating groove (25) and at least one axis-parallel compensating groove (26).

Abstract: A low cost and mass-producible fire protection zone penetrating member is provided which can be set on piping or the like with a one-touch operation as well as a method of injection-molding the fire protection zone penetrating member. One expanding slot is provided on a cylindrical body made from thermally expanding graphite, thermally expanding rubber, or thermally expanding resin as a main ingredient thereof. The slot extends in a longitudinal direction. A piping inlet section is formed at an entrance of the expanding slot so that piping can be set in or taken out from inside the member by means of a one-touch operation. The fire protection zone penetrating member has the configuration as described above and is manufactured with an injection molding machine. The cylindrical body as a main body of the fire protection zone penetrating member may have an oval cross section, so that the fire protection zone penetrating member can be applied to piping having a diameter in a wide range.

Abstract: A ball and socket joint is provided, preferably for use in vehicles, especially in the area of the chassis of motor vehicles. The ball and socket joint includes a ball and socket joint housing having a joint opening, with a ball pivot, which is arranged in the ball and socket joint housing, extends through the joint opening and with which a shaft is made integral. A support ring is arranged on the shaft of the ball pivot. A sealing element is arranged between the support ring and a connection component surrounding the shaft of the ball pivot. The function of the sealing element is preserved over comparatively long periods of time without being adversely affected by corrosion phenomena in the area of the ball pivot.

Abstract: A method for electric braking of a vehicle trailer and a device for vehicle trailers is provided. The vehicle trailer has a rigid hitch or drawbar arrangement (7) and is braked by the overrun forces generated as a result of braking of the tractor vehicle (2). The brake device (1) has a force measuring arrangement which can be mounted at the rigid hitch arrangement (7) and statically records the compression and tension forces acting axially on the hitch arrangement (7) using tensometer strips (24, 25) to determine the wheel brake force needed for braking via a controller that correspondingly actuates the electrical wheel brakes.

Abstract: A method of controlling an internal combustion engine system. The method comprises supplying a first amount of electric energy to heat to an upstream sensor located in an exhaust gas passage upstream of an exhaust gas after-treatment device and adjusting an air-fuel mixture supplied to the internal combustion engine based on an output of the upstream sensor during a first engine operating condition, and supplying a second amount of electric energy, which is smaller than the first amount, to heat the upstream sensor and adjusting the air-fuel mixture based on an output of a downstream sensor located in the exhaust gas passage and downstream of the exhaust gas after-treatment device during a second engine operating condition.

Abstract: There is provided a method of stopping an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber and an intake valve which opens during an intake stroke of an engine cycle to allow air to be inducted into the combustion chamber. The method comprises advancing closing timing and reducing a lift of the intake valve to reduce air charged in said combustion chamber and shutting off fuel to the combustion chamber upon a request of engine stop, maintaining a speed of the internal combustion engine within a predetermined range without supplying fuel to the combustion chamber and with the advanced closing timing and the reduced lift of the intake valve at least for one intake stroke of the combustion chamber, and decreasing the speed of the internal combustion engine with the advanced closing timing and the reduced valve lift of the intake valve from the predetermined range.

Abstract: A resonance drive actuator includes a casing; an electromagnetic drive section supported in the interior of the casing; a plunger to be reciprocatively driven at least in a rotational direction or in an axial direction by the electromagnetic drive section; an output shaft on which the plunger is fixed; and a spring which acts between the output shaft and the casing. The actuator resonantly drives a load connected to an end of the output shaft. The spring is a plate spring which integrally includes a casing inner-surface abutment portion fixedly abutting the inner surface of the casing, an output-shaft abutment portion fixedly abutting an outer surface of the output shaft, and a connection portion having the form of a strip and connecting the output-shaft abutment portion and the casing inner-surface abutment portion. The plate spring is fixed to both of the inner surface of the casing, and the output shaft.

Abstract: A material processing plant comprises a first screw-type extruding machine and a second screw-type extruding machine downstream thereof. The screw-type extruding machines are connected to one another by means of a function casing which is embodied for displacement substantially to the side of a direction of flow out of a position of operation in a push-out direction.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling a power-train of a hybrid electric vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, a first electric machine directly driven by the internal combustion engine for generating electricity, and a second electric machine driven at least partly with the electricity for driving the vehicle wheel. The method comprises adjusting the speed and adjusting the torque of the internal combustion engine, while substantially maintaining the intake manifold pressure, in response to a change of the desired electricity from the first electric machine. According to the method, the higher engine efficiency can be maintained, because the engine intake manifold pressure is maintained during adjusting the engine speed and torque. The engine speed may be adjusted corresponding to a speed of the first electric machine with higher efficiency and the desired output electricity. Therefore, both the engine and the first electric machine may achieve the respective higher efficiencies.

Abstract: A ball joint, is provided in the form of a cross axis joint with a housing, a bearing shell in the housing and a ball sleeve. The ball sleeve includes a ball portion with a bearing surface cooperating with the bearing shell and a first pivot pin and a second pivot pin extending from said ball portion in an axial direction. The ball sleeve has an inner surface defining a through hole (50) for receipt of a connection bolt. The first pivot pin has a first end with a first outer surface (42) and a first annular end face (41) and the second pivot pin has a second end with a second outer surface (44) and a second annular end face (43). Sealing rings (60, 60?, 60?, 90, 95) are provided, each having a first axially extending portion extending along the first outer surface and having a sealing area outer surface defining a bellows seal seat (64, 98) and a radially extending portion extending along the end face.

Abstract: A combination screen. The combination screen can be configured to provide both light diffusion functionality and light redirection functionality.