Abstract: Electrochemical storage cell of the Na/S type with an anode space and a cathode space separated by a solid electrolyte within which a safety container for sodium is arranged which is in communication with the interior of the solid electrolyte via a hole. A flow resistance having several discharge openings for passage of sodium is arranged in the hole of the safety container.

Abstract: Varistor fuse element for protecting an electric circuit against overvoltages, including a thermal fuse, a varistor combined with the thermal fuse for for tripping the thermal fuse with joulean or ohmic heat losses of the varistor, first and second conductors for supplying current to the fuse element, and first and second switch contacts each being connected to a respective one of the conductors for bridging the varistor, the contacts being closed when the thermal fuse is tripped by the varistor.

Abstract: A shunting element includes first and second electrical terminals for shunting an electrical component, a semiconductor component, and at least two electrically conducting parts partly formed in springs being electrically conductingly connected between the semiconductor component and one of the electrical terminals, the terminals being connected to each other with a low resistance through the electrically conducting parts when a current flows which raises the temperature in the semiconductor component to a given value.

Abstract: An intrinsically safe safety barrier for attachment to a standard profiled supporting bar, includes a housing having a narrow shell-shaped housing part with narrow sides and wide sides, one of the wide sides being open, a circuit board disposed in the housing part, terminals disposed in the housing part and connected to the circuit board, a potential-compensating bar disposed in the housing part and connected to the circuit board, casting resin filling the housing part after the circuit board, terminals and potential-compensating bar have been inserted therein, and a cover attached to the housing part closing the open side thereof before the casting resin hardens, one of the narrow sides of the housing part having resilient formed-out portions thereon for snapping the housing part to the standard profiled supporting bar, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: A power transistor module includes a housing having a frame forming a housing wall and a ceramic plate fastened to the frame forming a housing bottom, structured metallizations disposed on the ceramic plate forming conductor runs and terminal pads, components including at least one power transistor and a bypass diode connected to the terminal pads, wiring elements being connected to the components and being freely accessible from the top of the housing, the wiring elements including an auxiliary collector terminal, and an auxiliary diode connected between the auxiliary collector terminal and the collector electrode of the power transistor.

Abstract: Method for the manufacture of a polymer with triaromatic methane units as basic building blocks, the electric conductivity of which is obtained through the formation of charge transfer complexes. Electron donors and/or electron acceptors are added to the synthetic polymer during or after its preparation, for forming charge transfer complexes.

Abstract: In this static converter module, which is equipped with thyristors, diodes or power transistors, mounting lugs (4,11) having mounting holes (5,6,12,13) are used for mounting the module on a heat sink. The housing of the module is essentially formed by a frame (1,10) which is open at the top and at the bottom and by a ceramic plate which is inserted into the base part of the frame. For the purpose of fixing the ceramic plate in place, a peripheral indentation (7,15) is provided in the base part of the frame. In order to prevent mechanical stresses in the area of the mounting holes/mounting lugs from being transmitted to the ceramic plate, slits (9) are provided between the frame walls and the mounting holes. As an alternative to this, the peripheral indentation (15) can be provided with steps in such a manner that in the area of the two frame walls provided with the mounting lugs (11) a slot-shaped recess (16) is produced between the ceramic plate and the peripheral indentation (15).

Abstract: A safety and centering device for rotors suspended in contactless magnetic bearings, which provides almost instantaneous centering support for the rotor if the bearing magnets loose power. In a preferred embodiment, the rotor shaft has a collar with a conical friction surface, and a sleeve controlled by an electro magnet with counter-acting springs and also having a conical friction surface. In case of power failure the springs force the two surfaces together and provide centering support for the rotor. In another embodiment having a vertical rotor, the bearing magnets lift the rotor with the friction collar out of engagement with the matching stationary friction surface when the rotor is operating; but if the rotor bearings become de-energized the rotor drops with the collar falling into engagement with the matching friction surface.

Abstract: A method for performing a bus request or collective acknowledgement on a bus system, in a process bus system for serial data transmission, including subscribers of the process bus system, and a bus control device, includes generating a band-limited signal capable of superposition at all of the subscribers, in accordance with a common given principle, transmitting the band-limited signal with the subscribers for performing a bus request or collective acknowledgement, and analyzing the signal with the bus control device, and a device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: In the high voltage d-c transmission (HGU) power station in a block circuit, a three-phase generator feeds a 12-pulse high voltage d-c transmission (HGU) short coupler through at least one shifting transformer which serves for forming voltages of two three-phase voltage systems phase-shifted relative to each other by 30.degree. el. As compared to a full transformer, the shifting transformer can be constructed for substantially less power, which reduces the cost and the losses of the station. While the voltages of the two phase-shifted voltage systems can be taken off at the external terminals of the secondary windings of the shifting transformer, the center taps of the secondary windings are acted upon by the generator voltage. Advantageously, the high voltage d-c transmission short coupler is formed of a multiplicity of parallel, electrically separate d-c circuits which can be fed by separate shifting transformers.

Abstract: Test stands for automotive vehicles at the present are required in most cases to permit dynamic tests wherein an essential criterion consists of the simulation of the actual vehicle inertia moment, in order to obtain a realistic acceleration behavior. The test stand normally has a constant inertia moment. A process and a circuit layout is proposed for the simulation of vehicle inertia moments, whereby the test stand and the test specimen represent a n-mass oscillator, the masses of which are elastically joined together. By means of electronic functional elements (24, 25, 27, 32, 33, and 34), an m number of further masses are imitated electronically so that the regulation technical structure corresponds to the differential equation system of a (n+m) mass system. An air gap moment controlled electric machine is used as the transmission element (34) between the electric functional elements (24, 25, 27, 32, 33, and 34) and the mechanical masses. By setting the time constants (T.sub.Kfz, T.sub.

Abstract: A high pressure accumulator for supplying working fluid of a hydraulic control system includes a cylinder, walls disposed on ends of the cylinder, a piston movable within the cylinder defining a space for the working fluid on one side of the piston and a space for gas forming a gas spring on the other side of the piston, a support tube disposed at one of the walls in the gas space, a spring disposed on the support tube, and a stop disposed on the spring for limiting movement of the piston upon the occurrence of a gas loss in the gas space.

Abstract: Circuit arrangement using carrier frequency control voltage on low voltage power lines for radio interference suppression in brightness control devices using the phase gating principle, comprising a radio frequency interference filter including an interference suppression choke coil and wherein a semiconductor switch combined with the interference suppression choke coil is connected in series with the load circuit which includes at least one incandescent lamp and wherein a capacitor is shunted in parallel with the series-connection of the interference suppression choke and the semiconductor component, including a further choke in the load circuit which presents a high impedance to the carrier-frequency control voltage, thereby preventing the loading of the control voltage on the power lines caused by the low impedance of the capacitor at the carrier frequency when the semiconductor component is in the non-conducting state.

Abstract: Method for bonding metallic structural elements to form a component, in particular for stationary gas turbines, wherein at least one intermediate layer with a defined thickness is located between the structural elements and is heated together with the structural elements to a temperature which can be specified in advance, and pressure of a magnitude which can be specified in advance is exerted on the structural elements before or after this heating. The temperature and the pressure are maintained sufficiently long that isothermal solidification of the intermediate layer and/or of the alloying material of the structural elements is attained in the joint zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to a joining method for the production of a component from two or more constructional elements which are manufactured from a highly distortion-resistant metallic material, in particular a material based on nickel or iron. The constructional elements and the interlayer are manufactured from an oxide dispersion-hardened material, and are joined together with insertion of the interlayer to give the component. The interlayer is in an unrecrystallized fine-grained plastic state before the joining process, and undergoes recrystallization, as a result of heat treatment, only after the joining process, which is carried out at a temperature of 800 to 1,100 degrees centigrade and under a pressure of 1 to 200 Mpa.

Abstract: Thermal insulation with a double-walled housing, between the two housing walls of which an evacuated space is provided which contains at least one fiber-like insulating material which retards the heat flow between the two housing walls and is arranged perpendicularly to the temperature gradient. The insulating material is formed by glass fibers which are made of at least two different glass materials, and the modulus of elasticity of which remains large at temperatures above 400.degree. C.

Abstract: In directly bonding a metal to ceramics, in accordance with the invention, that surface of a metal component which is to be bonded by heating to a ceramic substrate is provided with parallel-running grooves before the preoxidation. The grooves make it possible to optimize the quantity of oxygen available at the bonding location and provide good flow behavior of the melt. As a result, a bond with good adhesion is obtained. Moreover, there is no formation of a thicker oxide layer on the free smooth surface of the metal component.

Abstract: Electrochemical storage cell of the alkali metal and chalcogen type with at least one anode chamber and one cathode chamber which are separated from each other by an alkali ion-conducting solid electrolyte and are bounded at least in some regions by a metallic housing, the solid electrolyte being fastened at its open end to the housing via a connecting element. At least one connecting element as a pressure ring and at least one compensating ring taking up the forces emanating from the pressuring ring are fastened at the open end of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: A method for controlling flatness in cold-rolling mills having a roll stand with at least six rolls including intermediate and working rolls capable of being deflected, includes measuring tensile stress distribution over the width of a strip to be rolled having central and edge regions, comparing the measured tensile stress distribution with a desired predeterminable tensile stress distribution, determining a deviation at the central region of the strip between the measured and desired tensile stress distribution, determining a deviation at the edge region of the strip between the measured and desired tensile stress distribution, forming a strip center coefficient from the central region deviation in the form of a deviation control for influencing deflection of the intermediate roll, and forming a strip edge coefficient from the edge region deviation in the form of a deviation control for influencing deflection of the working roll, and a circuit for carrying out the method.

Abstract: Control method for a liquid-cooled cable installation with a hollow conductor, through which a coolant flows, as the cable conductor. The hollow space is divided in the longitudinal direction by partitions forming separate canals for the outgoing flow and the return of the coolant and in which canals the coolant is in contact with the conductor at high-voltage potential. Heat exchangers are provided at the start and the end of the cable system or at intermediate stations. The cable flow temperature (.theta..sub.Z *) of the coolant is lowered with increasing load of the cable by influencing the heat exchanger and is conversely raised with falling load in such a manner that the mean value of the coolant (.theta..sub.m) remains constant.