Abstract: A device for the automatic, stepped cable length compensation of a Bowden cable system in which a spring-tensioned cable is guided. The spring is supported between a part on the housing side and a part on the Bowden tube side displaceable relative thereto and having several detent elements resiliently pretensioned in the direction of the sleeve face of the part on the Bowden tube side. During displacement of the part on the Bowden tube side the detent elements engage in succession in front of the end face of this part so that a resetting movement of the part on the Bowden tube side is prevented. Each detent element is allocated a pair of stops between which the detent, element is mounted for restricted axial displacement.

Abstract: Twin-shell vehicle door with a double-strand cable window lift mechanism pre-fitted on a support plate, which is preferably to be inserted in connection with a modular constructed motor vehicle door, wherein the support plate sealingly covers a cut-out in the door inner panel. The lower free end of the guide rail on the B-column side does not project right into the fixing area (cover area) of the inner door panel and support plate whereas the lower free end of the guide rail on the A-column side projects into this fixing area or beyond same. The upper edge of the cut-out section in the inner door panel in relation to the extension of the breast runs downwardly inclined in the direction of the A-column at least at such an angle .alpha. that when the support plate swivels about an imaginary swivel point S about the angle .alpha. in the direction of the breast the lower free end of the guide rail on the A-column side is lifted over the fixing area.

Abstract: Apparatus for adjusting a frameless window pane moved by a cable window lifter in an automobile. The apparatus includes a first guide rail which has an unlocked and a locked state, and a second guide rail. The first guide rail is freely movable to a limited degree in the unlocked state and fixed in the locked state. A window pane is connected between the first guide rail and the second guide rail such that movement of the second guide rail causes the first guide rail to move when in its unlocked state. A bolt is provided for moving the second guide rail and for locking the first guide rail.

Abstract: A pane guide for a spherically curved window pane which can be lowered in a door shaft of a vehicle door and forms a component part of an imaginary barrel shaped sleeve surface along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and which can be moved in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle by a double-strand cable window lift mounted in the door shaft. The guide rails have a first and second curvature adapted to the window pane curvature in the transverse direction of the vehicle so that a swivel movement about a swivel point spaced from a guide edge of the window pane in the X-direction is additionally superimposed on the displacement movement of the window pane. The imaginary barrel-shaped sleeve face on which the window pane is displaced swivels with the window pane and during the displacement movement between the extreme positions there are always three corner points of the window pane lying on the barrel-shaped sleeve face.

Abstract: A polarized relay with an electromagnet which consists of an exciter coil and a coil core mounted in the exciter coil. On each of two end sides of the electromagnet is a permanent magnet displaceable along its magnetic axis. The same pole, for example, the north pole (N), of each of the two permanent magnets face the end sides of the electromagnet. The relay is capable of tri-stable behavior, that is, it can switch between three states, with only one exciter coil. Preferably, the tri-stable function of the relay controls a commutator motor between "rest," "clockwise running," and "counter-clockwise running" states.

Abstract: An electromechanical control unit for adjustment devices in motor vehicles which can be used with particular advantage in connection with a window lift drive in a vehicle door. The electromechanical drive, the electronics system and the switch of the electromechanical control unit form one pre-testable modular unit. Preferably each switch is in keyed engagement with a cover and is elastically mounted relative to the electronics system, for example through a flexible flat band cable connection.

Abstract: Apparatus for linking a window pane to a window lifter which includes one or more inner jaws for holding the window pane and a pair of outer jaws for holding the inner jaws. The inner jaw or jaws each have one free end and one end pivotably attached at a junction to a base. The outer jaws have hooked ends to engage the junction in a mounting position in which the inner jaws are splayed to accept the window pane. The assembly consisting of the one or more inner jaws, base and window pane is pushed into the outer jaws until the hooked ends of the outer jaws engage the free ends of the one or more inner jaws, thereby locking the assembly in position.

Abstract: A drive device with an electric motor with permanent magnets and a pole top more particularly for use with servo drives in motor vehicles. A relay is provided for switching the motor current with at least one electromagnet, which contains a relay coil and a relay armature, and with at least one relay contact. The relay is mounted in the pole top of the electric motor and the magnetic field lines of the electromagnets are closed through the permanent magnets and the pole top of the electric motor.

Abstract: A manual drive for producing rotary movement in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions includes a drive lever which has a neutral position from which it can move into a first or second rotary direction. Attached to the drive lever are a pair of detent elements, one controlling clockwise rotation of the drive wheel and the other controlling counter-clockwise rotation. The detent elements have teething elements on a free end for engagement with a drive wheel which has counter teething about its circumference. The detent elements engage the drive wheel in the neutral position. The detent elements slide in a slide guide which lifts one of the detent elements out of engagement with the drive wheel when the drive lever moves in the opposite rotary direction. Springs located on either side of the slide guide lift the detent element on the drive side out of engagement with the drive wheel as the drive lever returns to the neutral position.

Abstract: A cable drum assembly comprises a cable drum for a cable-driven apparatus such as a cable window lifter, in particular of a motor vehicle, which automatically compensates for cable slackness without deforming the window lift system. The cable drum has the advantage that it only removes the so-called genuine cable slackness present when the window lifter is in the relaxed state. The cable drum has a part for compensating the cable slackness which can be moved in relation to the outer cable drum wall and is disposed in a guide inside the cable drum. The part may be connected with one cable end of the cable loop, and that when a load is placed on the cable drum by the cable, the part is arrested on the cable drum. When the cable drum is unloaded, a spring urges the part so as to take up cable slackness.

Abstract: An adjustable cross-divided backrest for a vehicle seat having of a lower backrest part which is mounted for swivel movement on a lower seat frame in an axis running across the travel direction, and an upper backrest part fixed so that it is displaceable on the lower backrest part, wherein the upper backrest part has an area supporting the head. The backrest is characterized in that the upper backrest part is both height adjustable and able to swivel relative to the lower backrest part, wherein the areas of the shoulder support and head rest are integrated in one piece in the upper backrest part. The lower backrest part has an upwardly directed projection in the area of the user's spinal column which can engage in a matching downwardly open recess of the upper backrest part. This projection of the lower backrest part substantially fills out the recess when the upper backrest part is located in its lowermost height adjustment position.

Abstract: A vehicle seat constructed in accordance with principles of this invention comprises stopping means that serve to conduct forces introduced via a movable belt mounting point during a frontal impact directly to the side rail, without having to transmit the entire load via the adjusting mechanism. A vehicle seat includes a seat frame having a seat belt mounting point, and an upper rail that is connected to the seat frame by at least one adjusting lever and at least one compensating lever extending from the upper rail to the seat frame. The seat includes a height adjusting mechanism for adjusting the height of the seat frame. The height adjusting mechanism includes a drive shaft connected to an end of the adjusting lever, wherein rotation of the shaft effects vertical movement of the adjusting lever and height adjustment of the seat frame.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for detecting the position, direction of rotation and rotational speed of a rotatably seated part, which are employed, for example, in particular in externally-operated locking parts of motor vehicles (e.g., with an electric window opener with protection against jamming). The method allows a reduction in the number of components and installation space. The method of the present invention has the feature that control commands and the state of the motor are provided to a logical evaluation device. Either the high and low edges of the digitized signal, or one of the high or low edges, together with the signal level at the time of motor start or reversal of the direction of rotation of the motor are assigned to the one or the other direction of movement (direction of rotation).

Abstract: An arrangement for connecting a window regulator to a movable window of a motor vehicle, using a hole in the window, in which an external expandable or spreadable insertion part rests, whose length corresponds essentially to the thickness of the window, and an internal insertion part connected with a basic part. The internal part can act on the external insertion part by expanding or spreading, whereby a tension- and/or form-fitting engagement with the contour of the hole in the window is produced, and is characterized in that the external insertion part has a slot-shaped opening, in which the internal insertion part rests movably in the assembly position at least until the internal insertion part is braced with the external insertion part.

Abstract: In a vehicle door with a cross-arm type window lift and a lock assembly, which can be produced more easily and cost-effectively by employing modular construction and by using individual components for several different functions. The invention is distinguished by the guide rail of the cross-arm window lift simultaneously functioning as the support for the lock assembly, by the guide for guiding the window being integrated in the base body of the lock assembly and by the outer edge of a base plate supporting a window lift having a circumferential profiled sealing section in the interior sheet metal door panel for sealing a mounting opening, so that the protection of electrical/electronic components is provided in the dry space without additional steps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for connecting a window to a window lifter and is distinguished by a simple design, using only a few component parts. In addition, the invention guarantees a simple assembly process. It is characterized in that the gripping jaws can be loaded toward the window by a spring element. According to one preferred variant, the gripping jaws (11, 11a, 11b, 12, 12a, 12b) are connected to an essentially U-shaped spring clasp (2, 2a, 2b). Between at least one gripping jaw (12, 12a, 12b) and one end of the spring clasp (2, 2a, 2b), a tension lever (4, 4a), a tension cam (4b), or the like is disposed, which in its tensed position presses the ends of the spring clasp (2, 2a, 2b) apart and as a result, produces the gripping power.

Abstract: The invention concerns a two-strand cable window regulator for motor vehicles having two guide rails which is specifically designed to control spherically curved windows. The invention ensures exact conformity with a predefined raising/lowering path with extremely different radii of curvature of the window at the locations of the two guide rails.The present invention ensures exact conformity by modifying the travel distance of the window near at least one guide rail such that the travel distance of the window is either larger or smaller than the distance traveled by the respective carrier connected to the guide rail.

Abstract: A manual passive continuous action quick adjustment device for adjusting elements in or on motor vehicles without a separate drive unit comprises a worm rotatably disposed within a housing. The worm comprises a locking region that is configured to engage a locking element disposed within the housing. The worm comprises a toothed section that is threadably engaged with a toothed section of an oppositely oriented toothed segment lever that is connected to the particular device requiring adjustment. The locking region may comprise a circumferential groove near an end portion of the worm and the locking element may comprise a slide configured to accommodate frictional engagement with the groove. The locking region may comprise the front faces of the toothed section of the worm frictionally engaged by a slide. A second locking region may comprise front faces adjacent to ends of the worm frictionally engaged by edge portions of the housing upon radial displacement of the worm by activation of the slide.

Abstract: A seat cushion adjustment device depends on an adjustment path of at least one main adjustment of the seat and serves to define a development curve of the seat cushion adjustment individually and ergonomically. The seat cushion adjustment device includes a first adjustment device for a main adjustment of the vehicle seat within a defined adjustment area and a second adjustment device coupled to the first adjustment device for adjusting the seat cushion in dependence on a main adjustment of the seat cushion in dependence on a main adjustment of the vehicle seat. The seat cushion adjustment device also includes a separate adjustment device coupled to said first or second adjustment device for fixing the development curve of the seat cushion adjustment device within a restricted adjustment area, whereby the extreme positions of the seat cushion are associated with the extreme positions of at least one main adjustment of the vehicle seat.

Abstract: A manually operable mechanical memory device comprises at least one slider slidably mounted within a slider rail attached to one member of a seat guide system. The slider includes at least one stop face adjacent an end of the slider. A stop element is retractably attached to a second seat guide member that is movable relative to the first seat guide member. The stop element is movable from a neutral position outside of the slider to a stop position capable of placement within the slider and engagement against the stop face. The slider includes a catch to prevent the stop element from entering the slider from the neutral position. The slider includes a striker that locks the stop element within the slider and against the stop face.