Abstract: A vehicle bumper which includes a shaped member supporting part that is open toward the front and is braced on fixed vehicle parts. The supporting part exchangeably accepts at least one energy-absorption member and includes at least one skirt that extends downwardly. The shaped member supporting part and at least a middle zone of the skirt are made in one piece and are formed of a filament-reinforced plastic. A filament content of the shaped supporting part is increased by a predetermined multiple with respect to a filament content of the skirt.

Abstract: An acceleration pickup or detector which is provided with a cable outlet located at right angles to a direction of the main vibrations to be detected, especially for detecting knocking signals in internal combustion engines. Connecting elements linking leads of the connecting cable with the acceleration pickup are disposed on a side of the acceleration pickup opposite to the axis of symmetry with respect to the cable outlet. An additional mass is provided on the side of the connecting elements, which mass forms a common counter mass with the connecting elements for the connecting cable.

Abstract: A load rod for vehicles, especially motor vehicles, which rod is constructed so as to be a tow rod, an impact rod, a mounting rod, or similar rod. The load rod includes a loop portion as well as force distributing legs that diverge from the loop portion and extend at a distance from each other. The force distributing legs are provided with a mounting section for enabling a mounting of the force distribution legs at portions of a body of the motor vehicle that have greater rigidity. The mounting sections are joined to the body portion of the motor vehicle by a welding. The load rod, formed as a connecting rod, includes at least two individual shaped rods having a predetermined cross section. The individual shaped rods are, within a connecting level, placed against each other with their rod loop portions and are welded together, while the individual force distributing legs diverge outwardly in a direction from both sides of the connecting level.

Abstract: A vane for a hydraulic vane pump, with the vane being adapted to be inserted, with sliding movement, into a guide slot provided in a rotor so as to be symmetrical and parallel to a central plane of the slot. The plane forms a setting angle at an outer jacket of the rotor together with an axial plane containing the rotor axis so that an opening of the slot located at the outer jacket of the rotor leads the bottom of the slot in a direction of rotation. A convex sliding sealing surface cooperates with inner jacket of the stator and a pressure surface is located in the plane directed toward a bottom of the slot. A crown of the sliding sealing surface is displaced, with respect to the principle plane of the vane, in a direction opposite the rotational direction of the rotor. The sliding sealing surface forms, in a direction of rotation of the rotor, a wedge-shaped transistional area located at a plane which forms a complimentary angle combined with an addendum angle to the principle plane of the vane.

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat which includes a seat retention device. The seat retention device is constructed such that, in the event of a lateral impact, the seat is permitted to move laterally with respect to a seat runner toward an interior of the vehicle in a direction of action of the lateral impact. Devices are provided which act upon the seat in reaction to the lateral motion thereof.

Abstract: A friction lining for a multiple disk clutch or a multiple disk brake, with grooves extending in a direction from a radially inner lining edge to a radially outer lining edge. Individual ones of these grooves exhibit pronounced rectangular or orthogonal transistion areas between the groove and a surface of the friction lining with the remaining grooves exhibiting non-rectangular transistion areas of the groove edges to the friction surface of the friction lining. A plurality of grooves provided non-rectangular transistional areas extend linearly and are not connected to the grooves having the rectangular transistional areas. At least one groove having a rectangular transistional area and being open at least toward the outer lining edge is disposed between two circumferentially adjacent or neighboring grooves having a non-rectangular transistional area.

Abstract: A planetary gear change-speed transmission for vehicles, in which a torque transmission train is operable to be drivingly connected by way of an input transmission with an input shaft, and by way of a main transmission, with an output shaft; the input transmission is operable to be shifted into direct speed ratio by a clutch and into a reduced speed ratio by braking a rotatable member by means of a brake; the main transmission includes a planetary gear reversing transmission which, by braking a rotatable member thereof, causes two other rotatable members to rotate in mutually opposite directions of rotation, whereby one of these two rotatable members is drivingly connected with the output shaft and the other of these two rotatable members is adapted to be drivingly connected, by way of a reverse speed clutch, with the torque transmission train; the rotatable member of the input transmission which can be braked, is operable to be drivingly connected with one of the two rotatable members of the reversing transm

Abstract: A window arrangement for motor vehicles, especially a rear window wherein a window pane, through an adhesive connection, is held at an opening formed by flanges connected by spot welding. The flanges form a part of at least an outer covering of a vehicle such as, for example, an outside sheathing of the roof, and an inside closing sheet or portion of a roof frame or similar device. The adhesive connection is covered by a moulding and the flanges are extended or lengthened beyond the spot welded connection in a direction of the opening. A free end of at least the upper flange is bent to an outside behind the spot weld connection but at a position forwardly of the adhesive connection.

Abstract: An engine unit adapted to be lubricated by a liquid lubricant with a lubricant reservoir as well as a lubricant cooling. The cooling takes place by way of at least one heat pipe, with the heat pipe having a heat absorbing portion adapted to be exposed to the lubricant and a heat transmitting portion adapted to be exposed to surrounding air. The engine unit may be an internal combustion engine, a gear system such as a change-speed transmission or differential transmission of a vehicle drive axle.

Abstract: An electrode for an electrochemical metal removing process, with the electrode consisting of a metal sheet extending at right angles to a sinking direction of the electrode. To enable the production of end face contours the metal sheet is provided with perforations which extend laterally beyond an edge of the workpiece being processed. A resiliently mounted plate of an insulating material may be provided for covering a rear side of the perforations.

Abstract: A control system for a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine with a throttle flap valve disposed in an intake manifold and an idle channel bypassing the throttle flap valve. An additional channel, terminating downstream of the idle channel in the intake manifold, with the additional channel merely forming an air channel. A valve is provided for controlling a communication between the additional channel and the intake manifold. The valve is connected with a diaphragm a back surface of which is adapted to be exposed to the intake manifold vacuum through a line connected to the intake manifold. A three/two-way on-off valve, influenced by a control device, is disposed in the line connected to the intake manifold. The on-off valve is adapted to vent the backside of the diaphragm when the intake manifold vacuum is above an idle value during a coasting of the engine so as to enable air to be introduced into the intake manifold through the additional channel.

Abstract: A spark plug for internal combustion engines, especially a spark plug deeply arranged in a spark plug recess of the engine. The spark plug includes a mounting portion, a center electrode, and an insulating body. An extension arrangement is adapted to be attached to the spark plug for facilitating access thereto. The extension arrangement includes a center electrode, an insulating body, and a tubular jacket. The tubular jacket is provided at a first end with an inner cross section corresponding to a cross section of the mounting portion of the spark plug, with the inner cross section being adapted to be mounted over the mounting portion of the spark plug. A second end of the tubular jacket is provided with a further mounting portion.

Abstract: A lock tongue for safety belts with a belt strap of the safety belt being adapted to pass through the lock tongue and be firmly attached to the belt strap so as to be safe against displacement at a certain location of the belt strap due to a loop-around friction occuring under load. The attachment is effected by repeated deflection of the belt strap by means of a component separate from the lock tab or tongue cooperating with the later. The lock tab or tongue includes two passage openings which are separated from each other by a central web, with the passage openings being adapted to accommodate the belt strap. A clamping bracket may be attached, preferably in a releasable fashion, into one of the passage openings.

Abstract: A self-igniting internal combustion engine which includes at least one piston having a rotational symmetrical piston trough arranged therein. The piston trough has a conical side wall and an inlet port which is less than a largest diameter of the piston trough. An eccentrically arranged injection nozzle is provided for injecting fuel in a wall wetting phase into the piston trough. At least one fuel jet from the injection nozzle impinges approximately in a plane centrally onto the side wall. To avoid a wetting of the bottom of the trough with still liquid fuel, an annular bead is provided having a sharp annular bead edge. A collar is arranged at the neck of the inlet port, with the collar constituting a discontinuous transistion to the inlet port and causing in the area of the collar a swirl formation counteracting the wall-wetting fuel rising toward the inlet port.

Abstract: A vent cap for a container of housing which accommodates a hydraulic operating medium. The vent cap includes a housing type cover which has labyrinth walls. The cover is adapted to be closed by a base insert which includes a vent passage. The vent cap is adapted to be mounted on a vent opening of the container or housing. The housing type cover is rotatably mounted on the base insert.

Abstract: A kick-down circuit for automatic change-speed transmissions, with a kick-down control member transmitting a kick-down control signal when an accelerator pedal is "floored" and with at least one gearshift valve for the operating pressure of a shift-actuating member participating in a shifting-over between a higher gear and a lower gear. The gearshift valve is actuatable by a control pressure dependent upon a driving speed along the lines of an "upshifting" and by a control pressure dependent upon a position of the gas pedal along of the lines of a "downshifting." Upon the occurrence of the kick-down control signal, under elevation of the control pressure dependent upon the position of the accelerator pedal, the gearshift valve may be brought into a position for the lower gear. The elevation of the control pressure acting along the lines of the "downshifting" triggered by the kick-down control signal is temporally limited independently of a position of the accelerator pedal.

Abstract: A transverse guide roller arrangement for a vehicle which can be guided mechanically along a guide track or the like provided on the side of a lane. The transverse guide roller arrangement includes at least one rolling surface which is approximately vertical when the guide roller is in an operating position. The rolling surface is formed by a rubber tire mounted on a rim having a hub rotatably supported on a fixed journal attached to an end of a supporting arm or the like. The hub forms radially, without transistion on an outside thereof the rim without a wheel disk, spokes, screw on flange, or the like. The hub and rim are combined structurally into one piece, with the journal being exchangeably attached to the supporting arm.

Abstract: A control member for regulating a flow of fuel to fuel injection devices of an air-compressing internal combustion engine. The control member is adapted to be arranged in one of a zone of the injection valve or within the injection valve. The control member includes a flow-controlling axially movable control piston having an axial bore with the control piston being urged, by a compression spring, into an end position for preventing a full flow of fuel through the control member. A spring chamber is provided for accommodating the compression spring with a throttle being arranged in an end face of the control piston, which throttle communicates the inlet line means with the spring chamber through the axial bore in the control piston. An arrangement is provided for minimizing an open volume of the spring chamber and at least one first bore is provided in the control piston for selectively communicating the axial bore with the outlet duct.

Abstract: An electric drive mechanism for vehicles, especially buses with overhead trolley routes, which routes are provided with relatively short interruptions in the overhead trolley. The drive mechanism includes a flywheel two externally excited electric motors which are adapted to be switched over from prime mover operation to generator operation, and which motors are effective as a Ward-Leonard drive during flywheel operation. The first electric motor is constructed for half of a maximum drive power and the second electric motor is likewise constructed for half or for .sqroot.2/2 times the maximum drive power. Both electric motors are connected electrically in parallel during operation from the main electrical supply. The first and second motors are electrically connected in parallel during operation of the vehicle from the main electrical supply when a change-speed transmission is provided for connecting a drive shaft of one of the motors with driven vehicle wheels.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a defined fuel vapor-air mixture for engines with an intake manifold. The apparatus including a float chamber and a vaporizing chamber accommodating a heated vaporizer surface. The intake manifold is provided with a first fixed restrictor or nozzle and a liquid space of the float chamber and a liquid space of the vaporizing chamber are connected with each other by a conduit. A gas space of the float chamber, as seen in a flow direction upstream of the first restrictor or nozzle, and a gas space of the vaporizing chamber as seen in a flow direction downstream of the restrictor or nozzle, are respectively connected to the intake manifold by means of conduits. A conduit from the gas space of the vaporizing chamber into the intake manifold is provided with a second fixed restrictor or nozzle causing a pressure drop of about 85%-99.99% of the first restrictor or nozzle.