Abstract: An automotive vehicle, especially a passenger motor vehicle, with front body sections yielding with respect to forces of a magnitude of a pedestrian impact acting from the front and/or from above the body sections. The body sections are constructed so as to be impact-resilient along their boundary edges. The vehicle body sections include a front hood and/or body portions surrounding the front hood, with the hood and surrounding body parts being supported on reinforcing parts of the vehicle body structure by way of permanently deformable deformation members.

Abstract: A preliminary heating installation for glow plugs in air-compressing internal combustion engines, in which a delay circuit is provided that enables from the beginning of the preliminary heating and for a predetermined duration a superincreased heating current by at least partially short-circuiting a series resistance; a heating spiral is selectively provided in the suction air path.

Abstract: A cast crankshaft with recesses or apertures provided in crank webs of the crankshaft and are formed in adjoining inner area of the casting material forming the main and crank pins by cores inserted therein prior to casting for the reduction of the weight and of the rotating out-of-round masses as well as of the counterweights thereof. A ratio of the smallest distance of the fillet of the crank pin from the outer surface line of the recess to the diameter of the crank pin lies between the values of 0.45 and 0.66, preferably at a ratio of about 1:2 with such distance being approximately as large as the distance between adjacent fillets at the crank and main pins from one another.

Abstract: An actuation device for use with a linearly actuated control element. The actuation device comprises a take-up body, a housing enclosing the take-up body, a shaft extending outwardly of the housing for rotating the take-up body, a flexible tension and compression element secured at one end thereof to the take-up body and a tube member extending outwardly of the housing and enclosing at least a part of the tension and compression element. The tension and compression element comprises a flexible guide strand and a plurality of elongated, rounded compression bodies wherein each compression body is threaded onto the flexible guide strand and positioned closely adjacent one another to form a tight packing.

Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger having inlet channels combined only directly ahead of a turbine rotor at the periphery thereof. An annular gap is arranged within the area in which the back surface and an periphery of the turbine rotor form a circumferential circular edge. A part of the exhaust gas flows from the spiral housing through the annular gap into an annular channel arranged at the rotor back surface, from which branch off a return line to the charging air channel of the compressor, and a by-pass line to a turbine exhaust gas line, by-passing the turbine.

Abstract: A wheel suspension for driven wheels, especially rear wheels of a motor vehicle, by means of approximately triangular tilted control arms. Each of the control arms includes a longitudinal control arm and a transverse control arm, the transverse control arm is articulated on. The vehicle side opposite to the respectively associated wheel supported by the tilted control arm beyond a longitudinal center axis of the vehicle to the vehicle superstructure. A tilted control arm carries an axle gear mechanism connected to the wheel carried by this tilted control arm through a jointless shaft. The wheel of the other tilted control arm is connected to the axle gear mechanism through a jointed or universal shaft.

Abstract: A control device for controlling a recycling of exhaust gases into an intake system of a self-igniting internal combustion engine which includes a signal generator, constructed as a pneumatic control slide valve mounted to a fuel injection pump. The signal generator is controlled by the respective instantaneous load conditions as a function of the rotational speed of the engine and the load on the engine by a non-reactive scanning of a position of a control rod associated with the fuel injection pump. The signal generator is coupled with the control rod and a pneumatic signal is transmitted by the signal generator in dependence upon a position of a control piston of the signal generator.

Abstract: A motor vehicle which includes a rearward body end member which is adapted to be swung upwardly about a transverse axis of the vehicle. The body end member consists essentially of a synthetic resinous material and includes a rear window and an end wall. Lighting elements such as, for example, taillights, brake lights, flashers, back-up lights, or the like, are arranged on a side of the body end member facing an interior of the vehicle. The body end member is transparent in an area of the lighting elements so as to enable light to be visible from an exterior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A combustion chamber for a gas turbine, in particular for motor vehicles, with an atomizer nozzle for the fuel fed to a pre-chamber, in which the inlet cross section for the primary air is changed by the longitudinal movement of a deflection member extending through the inlet opening of the combustion chamber. The deflection member serves as a flame holder for the stabilization of the combustion in the primary air zone while the air-atomizing nozzle is constructed ring-shaped and is provided with swirl slots in such a manner that the mixture of the fuel and of the atomizing air enters as an annular jet the primary air inlet channel, impinges approximately perpendicularly onto the primary air flow, penetrates the same and uniformly mixes with the same on its way to the inlet into the primary zone. The quantity of the primary air to be supplied is thereby automatically adjustable.

Abstract: A viewing angle measuring device for automotive vehicles. The measuring device includes an elliptical template representing a so-called visual ellipse. The template is arranged in the vehicle in a prescribed position with respect to a driver's seat regarding a center position and an axial inclination. A measuring beam projector may be guided with its optical axis and/or with a measuring beam tangentially along a governing curve of the elliptical template. A goniometer, continuously indicating the viewing angle, is connected to the measuring beam projector to determine the beam direction with respect to a reference plane as a measure of the viewing angle.

Abstract: A frequency generator module has a first generator circuit and a second generator circuit, the frequencies of these circuits being variable by a physical parameter, especially a distance or angular value, with two coils arranged coaxially at a mutual spacing on linear or curved, tubular coil holders, the inductance of these coils being variable by a core displaceable in the coil holder. The combined generator module is connected by a control circuit to a changeover switch which alternately switches the output of one of the two coils to the input of the frequency generator module. A short-circuit ring is arranged in an axially normal plane between the two coils, for the duration of a specific number of pulses of the generator circuit formed from the coil and the generator module.

Abstract: A lock for vehicle closures or flaps, especially doors, trunk lids and fuel tank caps or lids, wherein the cylinder of the lock includes a drain opening in the lower part thereof which communicates with the interior of the cylinder and through which moisture, especially water, can be drained from the interior of the lock. A drain line formed as a moisture absorbing wick provided with an electric heating element powered by the vehicle electric system is connected to the drain opening with the line being guided from the cylinder through an element, such as a door handle, containing the cylinder, to the interior of the closure. A water deflecting shield overlies the portion of the drain line within the closure. The drain line terminates in a vertically disposed drain section from which moisture drained from the cylinder can evaporate or drip off. The drain line may be operatively associated with a vacuum source on the vehicle to assist in drawing off moisture from the cylinder.

Abstract: An air-compressing internal combustion engine which includes a cylinder block, a plurality of cylinders in the cylinder block, a piston reciprocably mounted in the respective cylinders, and a cylinder head disposed on the cylinder block. A precombustion chamber is arranged in the cylinder head and associated with the respective cylinders and a number of approximately radially extending burner holes are provided around a periphery of an end of the precombustion chamber. A depression is arranged in the head of each of the pistons and stellate depressions emanate from the depression in the cylinder head. Each of the stellate depressions ascend continuously in a radially outward direction and a further substantially axially extending burner hole is provided at the end of the precombustion chamber.

Abstract: A prechamber for an air-compressing injection internal combustion engine which includes an enlarged space portion in communication with the cylinder space by way of a channel-shaped space portion; fuel is injected into the enlarged space portion essentially in the direction of the channel-shaped space portion while a baffle member is provided in the enlarged space portion which has a surface curved in the direction toward the fuel jet; the bottom side of the baffle member or of the insert pin thereof is constructed at least within the area of the baffle member as guide surface for the in-flowing combustion air flowing into the enlarged space portion of the prechamber.

Abstract: A process for the separation of paint mists from the exhaust gases of lacquer painting plants includes a step wherein the exhaust gases containing paint particles comprising the mists are conducted through a microwave field which cures and dries the paint particles to convert the paint particles into a nonsticky dust and a step wherein the thus-produced paint dust is separated from the exhaust gases by a filter device such as a fabric filter.

Abstract: A bi-modal mechanically trackable vehicle adapted to be rail driven with or without a guide track, the vehicle including at least one non-steerable axle having non-steerable wheels mounted thereon, a plurality of tracking transverse guide rollers are provided for guiding the vehicle along the track. The transverse guide rollers are at least indirectly mounted at the non-steerable axle in an area of the respective wheels so as to be transversely displaceable. The non-steerable axle is mounted on the vehicle so as to be freely pivotable about a vertical axis. An arrangement is provided for automatically selectively locking the at least one non-steerable axle in an exact transverse position for driving without a guide track and for unlocking the at least one non-steerable axle from the exact transverse position.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting undesirable combustion characteristics in spark-ignited internal combustion engines. A sensor and band-pass filter tuned to the frequency of the knock vibration are provided with an output of the band-pass filter being compared with a reference value. The result of the comparison is correlated with undesirable combustion characteristics to be recognized. A rectifier is provided for solid borne sound signals received by the sensor with the signals passing through the band-pass filter. The signal is rectified in the rectifier to a knock signal and a series circuit composed of a band-stop filter tuned to the frequency of the knock vibration, an r.m.s. rectifier, and an amplifier is provided by means of which the sound signal received by the sensor is converted into a reference signal. A comparator is provided when the reference signal and the knock signals are compared and an output signal is generated if the knock signal exceeds the reference signal.

Abstract: A soot filter in the exhaust gas flow of air-compressing internal combustion engines, with a preferably cylindrically shaped filter housing arranged in proximity of the exhaust of the internal combustion engine, to which are connected radial or tangential inlet connections and in which is arranged ceramic fiber material; the fiber material forms hollow spaces together with the inner wall surfaces of the filter housing, which hollow spaces receive the exhaust gases after flowing through the filter parts and which conduct the exhaust gases in the axial direction of the filter housing to the exhaust line axially connected thereto.

Abstract: An on board vehicular data processing system samples vehicular operating parameters such as fuel level, distance travel, etc. The system calculates values of other parameters such as range and travel time. Under control of the position of the ignition key, which assumes positions representative of modes of operation, OFF, PARK, TRIP, START, the system displays indications of a limited number of sensed and calculated parameters, the particular indications being those which are most useful for the instant mode of operation represented by the position of the ignition key. After a trip, system parameters may be stored for future reference by a predetermined sequencing of the ignition key position. Such storage may be cleared by a second sequencing of the ignition key positions. Parameter reference values may be stored as maximum or minimum and present values for a parameter may be compared with the maximum or minimum and an alarm indication given, acoustical or optical.

Abstract: A guide device for a safety belt of a safety belt system for a motor vehicle. A delivery roll is provided from which and onto which the safety belt is wound in a region of the downstream deflector fitting, whereby the guide device, as viewed in a pull out or withdrawal direction of the safety belt, is upstream of a deflector crosspiece of the deflector fitting and is fastened together with the deflector fitting. A guide slot is provided that is narrower than a doubled thickness of the safety belt with a free end of the guide device presenting a runner for the safety belt which runner defines the guide slot with the free end of the guide device.