Patents Assigned to Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 4126820
    Abstract: An antenna adapted to be extended and retracted for car radio receivers, which is actuated by means of an on-off switch of the radio receiver and is driven by an electric motor reversible in its direction of rotation; the control circuit for the electric motor includes two limit switch contacts adapted to be opened by switching cams on a disk that moves proportional to the movement of the antenna, and a further switching contact which is adapted to be actuated by a further switching cam of the disk; the further switching contact is thereby opened at and above a predetermined extended length of the antenna while a manual switch with push-button function and possibly with detent function is provided for the further selective extension or retraction of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernt O. Hormann, Egon Frey
  • Patent number: 4125997
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with an exhaust line in which are arranged a reduction catalyst and downstream thereof an oxidation catalyst, whereby during the starting phase of the internal combustion engine, additional air is supplied to the reduction catalyst, and in the operationally warmed-up condition of the internal combustion engine, additional air is supplied to the oxidation catalyst while at the same time a part of the additional air continues to be fed to the reduction catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jorg Abthoff, Hans-Dieter Schuster, Reiner Kreeb
  • Patent number: 4126111
    Abstract: An Otto internal combustion engine with a high-pressure metering system and with evaporation of the fuel that is heated electrically and/or by means of exhaust gas heat, by way of at least one expansion nozzle; the fuel in the operating phase of the engine is thereby adapted to be heated by means of exhaust gas heat at most to a base temperature lying below the desired design temperature to which the fuel is intended to be heated, and is adapted to be electrically heated from the base temperature to the desired temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther Hafner, Victor Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 4125344
    Abstract: A radial turbine wheel for a gas turbine which consists of two parts and more particularly of a first part adjoining the turbine inlet which includes the outer sections of the blades and of a second part leading to the turbine outlet which includes the inner essentially curved section of the blades whereby the two parts are made of materials having different properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Tiefenbacher
  • Patent number: 4124250
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat, especially a rear seat for a station wagon whose seat cushion is adapted to be folded about a fixed pivot shaft located near its lower forward edge and whose backrest is adapted to be folded about a fixed pivot shaft located near its lower edge in such a manner that these parts can be displaced out of the seating position into a position in which the back side of the backrest forms a horizontal loading surface which is delimited by the bottom side of the seat cushion as forward, vertical abutment surface; a shaft extending transversely to the driving direction is rotatably supported underneath the backrest and to the rear of the seat cushion whereby one lever each is non-rotatably arranged at the two ends of the shaft, which effect the seat cushion locking while a pivot arm is pivotally connected at the lever at a distance from the latter's pivot axis which, during actuation of the lever, is being disengaged from its detent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Manfred Weinich
  • Patent number: 4123104
    Abstract: A headrest for a motor vehicle in which an inflatable bellows forms the headrest which is provided with elastically yielding drawbands that return the bellows into its folded-together position when the bellows is deflated by withdrawing therefrom the pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Andres, Gerhard Busch, Werner Heiss
  • Patent number: 4123111
    Abstract: A snap-in connection, especially a hub cap for wheels of passenger motor vehicles which is adapted to be fastened by the use of a force fit, which covers at least the wheel center, which is elastically deformable and which includes an edge that engages in the installed position under a collar of the wheel fastening bolt heads; the hub cap is thereby provided with material for a detent-engagement in the force-engaging plane of the detents but has a shape differing from the circular shape, whereby a relatively large lever arm is formed between the connecting lines of the points of engagement of the detent-points and the periphery which reduces the spring rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Udo D. Renz, Dieter Memmhardt
  • Patent number: 4121381
    Abstract: An articulated window lifter, especially for motor vehicles, whose windowpane is to be not only lowered within predetermined boundaries but also has to be laterally displaced and pivoted for purposes of avoiding door frame parts and the like which lie in its way; a pinion supported on a base plate engages with a toothed sector which is pivotally supported on the base plate while linkage parts are pivotally connected with the toothed sector; two four-jointed transmissions with a common fixed pivot point on a base plate are thereby used in superposed relationship, whereby one of the four-jointed transmissions has a further pivot point on the base plate and includes two pivot arms pivotally supported in the two pivot points on the base plate and a rod connecting the two pivot arms with each other; the other four-jointed transmission includes a first pivot arm connected at a fixed angle, with a first one of the two pivot arms of the one four-jointed transmission; the first pivot arm of the other four-jointed tran
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Grantz, Heinz Faix
  • Patent number: 4121682
    Abstract: A radiator mounting of a vehicle in which the radiator rests by means of at least one mounting support fixed at the radiator on a corresponding mounting support fixed at the vehicle and in which at least one hold-down member secured at a fixed part of the vehicle and cooperating with a corresponding counter-support member at the radiator prevents the lifting of the mounting support fixed at the radiator from its mounting support fixed at the vehicle; the tilting of the radiator about a reference axis in one circumferential direction is thereby counteracted by at least one abutment fixed at the vehicle and cooperating with a counter-abutment fixed at the radiator while a connecting element opposes the tilting of the radiator in the other circumferential direction; a center section of the connecting element thereby additionally cooperates with the counter-support member to perform itself the hold-down function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Schaal, Wolf-Dieter Kurz, Ulrich Breitling
  • Patent number: 4122436
    Abstract: An installation for the protection of a line, according to which the line is surrounded at least within its area endangered by external influences by a coaxially arranged tubular member and the annular space disposed between the line and the tubular member is filled by a control medium which triggers a warning indication in case of an unusual pressure change caused, for example, by mechanical damage to the outer tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Gmeiner, Hermann Moller
  • Patent number: 4121417
    Abstract: A gas turbine with a turbine housing which includes at least one regenerative chamber for the accommodation of a regenerative heat-exchanger adapted to be set into rotation and closed against the outside by a housing cover whereby the housing separating surface is adapted to be brought into abutment with a corresponding cover separating surface of the cover, and in which at least one sliding seal adapted to be brought into sliding contact with the heat-exchanger is arranged in the chamber and is secured at one of two mutually elastic fastening members of a mounting means, whose other fastening member is anchored at a chamber wall of the turbine housing; the housing separating surface is thereby located in a plane at least approximately perpendicular to the axis of rotation, while the sliding seal with an unstressed mounting means is disposed recessed with respect to the housing separating surface in an assembly position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietrich Koppenhofer, Leopold Olbrich, Friedrich Wefing, Lothar Scholz, Horst Barwaldt, Walter Chudaska
  • Patent number: 4121613
    Abstract: A vehicle with operationally conditioned vacuum loads and comfort vacuum loads, in which a central distributor box is provided that is equipped with a feed connection to connect a distributor chamber with a vacuum source; at least two load chambers are also provided in the distributor box, whereby each load chamber is connected with the distributor chamber by way of a protective valve opening in the direction to the distributor chamber against a spring force, and with a load connection which is in communication with a test connection that opens into the atmosphere after overcoming a spring-loaded valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Theodor Reinhard, Rudiger Hoffmann, Ernst Haug
  • Patent number: 4120481
    Abstract: An electromagnetic control valve for pressure media, in which the throttled inflowing pressure medium is controllable with the aid of an excess pressure valve whose valve body is displaceable with respect to the coordinated valve seat by means of an armature extending essentially transversely thereto as a function of the energization of a ring-shaped electromagnet; the armature is thereby pivotal about an axis disposed outside of the magnetic gap, and the system formed by the armature and by the valve closure body is sealingly suspended at a diaphragm essentially in the mass center whereby the diaphragm sealingly separates the magnetic part from the valve part; the pivot axis of the system thereby lies essentially in the plane of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Arwed VON Koch
  • Patent number: 4119178
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with a dry sump lubrication, in which for purposes of emptying the separate oil reservoir tank and the oil sump, a common oil discharge bolt is provided, and in which the line coming from the oil reservoir tank terminates in the bore for the oil discharge bolt ahead of the thread for the oil discharge bolt--as viewed from the outside--provided in the bore leading to the oil sump; the thread for the oil discharge bolt is thereby covered off on the side facing the engine oil sump by an oil seal formed by collected spray oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jurgen Hass
  • Patent number: 4119066
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine operating with applied ignition and with minimum-quantity-injection into an ignition chamber terminating in a main combustion space which is variable in volume, and in which the main combustion space is additionally supplied with fuel; the minimum-quantity injection nozzle coordinated to the ignition chamber is thereby connected in a fuel circulatory system into which is fed a substantially constant fuel quantity exceeding the injection quantity for the minimum-quantity injection nozzle; a throttle cross section is provided in the return of the fuel circulation downstream of the minimum-quantity injection nozzle while the supply of the fuel to the main combustion space takes place by way of a suction-pipe injection system, whereby the suction-pipe injection quantity is branched off from the return of the fuel circulation and is controlled as a function of load by the adjustment of the throttle cross section in dependence on the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Robert Happel
  • Patent number: 4119353
    Abstract: A load-dependent four-circuit brake system is equipped with a hydropneumatic spring system, in which each spring leg includes a connection to a brake pressure regulating valve. In addition to the pressure applied by the brake pedal to the brake pressure regulating valve, also a part of the pressure prevailing in the spring leg is applied to the brake pressure regulating valve and the spring leg pressure acts, with a predetermined position of a relief valve slide member, on the brake cylinder corresponding to the respective position of the brake pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eugen Bihlmaier
  • Patent number: 4114734
    Abstract: A continuous brake (retarder) for vehicles, especially for heavy trucks or the like, which utilizes a hydrodynamic circulatory system in the form of a driven hydrodynamic coupling whose operating fluid is conducted into an external circulatory system by way of a cooler or radiator; a separate cooler is coordinated to the hydrodynamic coupling which serves at the same time as feed pump for the operating fluid; additionally, the hydrodynamic coupling is operatively connected with a turbine in the external circulatory system which serves for the drive of a separate fan coordinated to the separate cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1973
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Friedrich Bultmann
  • Patent number: 4114472
    Abstract: An installation for damping vibrations in the drive connection of motor vehicles with the aid of a vibration absorber whose absorber mass is constructed as annular body and is connected with at least one driving part of the drive connection by means of an elastic member of rubber or analogous material; the connection between the transmission output shaft and the universal joint shaft is thereby split up from a vibrational point of view by an elastic coupling soft in the radial direction while the vibration absorber is coordinated to the input of the universal joint shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Hornig, Bruno Beeskow, Gunter Worner
  • Patent number: 4113925
    Abstract: A battery with at least one filler connection for electrolyte liquid, in which the battery interior space is adapted to be connected with the atmosphere by way of at least one venting connection and the opening of the venting connection which terminates in the battery interior space is located geodetically approximately at the height of the intended liquid level; a fill-in chamber is interconnected between the opening of the filler connection which terminates in the atmosphere, and the battery interior space while the fill-in chamber is connected with the battery interior space by means of a chamber connection whose opening terminating in the battery interior space is located geodetically above the intended liquid level; the free cross section of the chamber connection is dimensioned so small that a liquid seal closing off the chamber connection in a gas-tight manner will form under the influence of the excess pressure which will establish itself in the battery interior space above the liquid level during the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Kohler, Gerhard Drucker, Ulrich Kiess, Manfred Stotz
  • Patent number: 4112897
    Abstract: A rotational speed controller for an injection pump in air-compressing injection internal combustion engines with an abutment member limiting the full-load injection quantity by way of the control rack of the injection pump; during the starting operation of the internal combustion engine, the abutment member releases the travel of the control rack in the direction of the starting quantity while a temperature-dependent control member directly cooperating with the abutment is provided, which above a predetermined temperature cancels the release of the starting quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ernst-Wilhelm Hufendiek