Abstract: A preliminary heating control installation for air-compressing internal combustion engines, especially in motor vehicles, with a device for the control of the preliminary heating time as a function of engine temperature and of a time limit, with a relay whose energizing winding is connected in the heating circuit and whose contact controls an indicating lamp, and with an additional circuit that detects the failure of at least one or several heater plugs and renders this defect visible by engagement of the indicating lamp during the duration of the starting operation or therebeyond.

Abstract: A change-speed transmission which includes an input shaft and an output shaft which are drivingly connected by a forward and rearward planetary gear system. The forward planetary gear system includes two planetary gears one of which meshes merely with a sun gear with the other planetary gear meshing with a further sun gear as well as with a ring gear. The planetary gears are carried by a double carrier which is drivingly connected with one transmission member of the rearward planetary gear system with the ring gear being drivingly connected with another member of the rearward planetary gear system by way of respective torque transmitting coupling trains. A change-speed clutch for producing a direct transmission of the rearward planetary gear system is operatively connected with the double carrier which is also drivable through a gear shifting clutch by way of the input shaft.

Abstract: A bumper for motor vehicles which is displaced in the vehicle longitudinal direction in case of an impact and which is provided with end portions laterally drawn about the vehicle, rigidly connected with the bumper center portion and extending approximately parallel to the vehicle outer surfaces. For purposes of longitudinally guiding the end portions at a distance from the vehicle outer surface, mounting brackets are rigidly connected to each end portion and have free which engage guide members projecting from the vehicle outer surface. A support part of each end portion terminates at a distance from an associated wheel casing cutout and includes on its top side a cover member rigidly connected to the end portion and the remaining area of the end portion is covered by a downwardly projecting apron. In case of a unilateral yielding of the bumper, the apron at first engages a deflection edge of the guide member and then is guided along the same past the wheel while being bent.

Abstract: An arrangement of a three-point automatic belt for a front seat with a preferably tiltable backrest in two-door motor vehicles with rear seats, whereby the roll-up mechanism of the belt is disposed within the area of the fixed vehicle side wall and a support member for the accommodation of the fixed point of the lower belt section is provided which, together with the belt band, is adapted to be transferred from a forward operating position into a rear position opening up the ingress to the rear seat places. The pivot movement of the coordinated door or of the backrest is utilized either directly or indirectly for transferring the support member from the one into the other end position.

Abstract: A traffic system for track-guided vehicles with steerable wheels, in which a guide groove, guide web or the like, which determines the track and is adapted to be mechanically detected by the vehicles, is provided on the side of the road and a guide lever detecting the guide groove course is provided on the side of the vehicle, whereby the movements of the guide lever are adapted to be transmitted indirectly to the steerable wheels by interconnection of a force and movement transmission mechanism supplied with auxiliary energy; the guide lever which is pivotally connected at the axle member of the vehicle having the steerable wheels is deflectable within a small angular space that corresponds only to a fraction of the maximum deflection angle of the steerable wheels while additionally all parts that participate in the force flow of the movement transmission of the guide lever between the guide groove, on the one hand, and the axle member, on the other, are constructed so strong that the vehicle can be form-loc

Abstract: A cylinder lock, especially for motor vehicles, consisting of a rotor with tumblers, which is operatively connected with locking elements; with a key pulled off in the locking position, the tumblers engage in a tumbler channel provided in the inner wall of a stator receiving the rotor; a cut-in or groove constructed as intentional breaking or rupturing place is provided in the rotor adjoining the last tumbler, as viewed in the key insertion direction, which ruptures when a springily engaging locking action between the rotor and the stator not accessible from the outside has taken place during a forcible pulling out of the rotor.

Abstract: A control arrangement for a supercharged diesel engine, which is equipped with an injection pump and with a governor at the injection pump, as well as with a full-load abutment movable as a function of the engine rotational speed for the limitation or release of the injection quantity. The full-load abutment is thereby constructed as three-dimensional cam which is dependent in the direction of its second dimension on a magnitude changing analogously to the supercharging degree or on the supercharging pressure.

Abstract: A windshield wiper installation for motor vehicles, in which wiper arms together with wiper blades which are driven from an electric motor by way of linkage members and wiper shafts, are disposed in the parked position thereof inside of a well in the cowl of the body in front of the windshield; the driving members for the wiper arms are thereby so constructed that the wiper arms together with the wiper blades are manually movable out of their parking position in the wiping direction through a predetermined angular path and subsequently are movable back into the parked position.

Abstract: A reel arrangment for automatic safety belts of motor vehicles which include a roller rotatably mounted in a housing with the roller being subjected to the action of a spring in such a manner that the spring counteracts a withdrawal of the belt. A locking device is provided for locking the roller at high belt forces with a drag disk being mounted eccentrically with respect to a gear nonrotatably connected to the roller. The drag disk includes an engagement arrangement on a bearing surface thereof which cooperates with the gear in a belt take-up direction and is subject to the action of an additional spring in the belt extraction direction. A stop is provided on the reel housing for delimiting the rotational movement of the drag disk with the stop cooperating with two matching stops on the spring-loaded drag disk. The reel housing includes a curved control and guide track or surface which cooperates with a guide pin on the drag disk.

Abstract: A motor vehicle encompassing a chassis which includes a front and rear axle and a vehicle body which is supported upon the chassis by at least two connecting parts in such manner that the body may move in a translatory manner with respect to the chassis while being capable of pivoting about an axis located in the driving direction. Additionally, the support of at least one of each wheels springs is coordinated between the corresponding axle and the vehicle body. The connecting part includes a support column which, at its upper end, is elastically connected to the vehicle body by a substantially central bearing support and, at its lower end, is supported upon the chassis by several bearing supports.

Abstract: An ignition lock unit with a disassembly which can be cancelled only by means of an associated key rotated into a predetermined position and with a coupling connected to cable ends which is adapted to be mounted over the coordinated contact pins of the ignition starter switch part of the ignition lock unit. The coupling includes a contact carrier plate with a centrally arranged aperture for a locking rod extending out of the ignition starter switch, whereby the latter during the assembly and disassembly of the coupling, passes through this aperture when a corresponding position is reached by means of the key. In every other position of the key or with a removed key, the free end of the locking rod engages the aperture hook-shaped from behind.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement for a removable cargo floor provided with a covering such as a carpet in vehicles, especially in station wagons, in which the cargo floor rests on a mounting frame formed at least in part by bearers. A fastening construction is provided which, on the one hand, locks the cargo floor in the vertical direction by at least one lug engaging under prestress in a guide opening of the mounting frame and by at least one detent mechanism arranged opposite this lug, and on the other hand, retains the cargo floor in the horizontal position by causing the carpet pulled over all of the edges of the cargo floor to abut under pressure at the vertically extending frame part of the mounting frame which is also provided with a carpeted surface.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine with walls delimiting the working space or spaces of the internal combustion engine, in which a hydrogen-impervious, encapsulated metal hydride storage device is provided which is in heat-conducting contact with these walls; the interior of the encapsulation is adapted to be selectively connected to a source of hydrogen and/or to a separate further hydrogen storage device.

Abstract: A thermally stressed heat-conducting structural part with a temperature gradient that forms during operation, in which at least one layer of metal hydride is embedded in a hydrogen-impervious and heat-conducting manner transversely to the temperature gradient.

Abstract: An air-compressing injection internal combustion engine with a main combustion space arranged in the piston and with an auxiliary chamber equipped with an injection nozzle and with a glow plug, which is in continuous communication with the main combustion space by way of a channel-shaped constriction. The pressure chamber of the auxiliary chamber is thereby disposed eccentrically in relation to the injection nozzle and the constriction while the injection nozzle injects with a first jet into the constriction and with a second jet in the direction or into the area near the glow plug which is located in the eccentrically offset part of the pressure chamber.

Abstract: A combustion engine with internal combustion, exhaust gas return and inlet and exhaust systems separate as regards their gas paths, in which the exhaust gas return system is essentially independent in its gas paths from the inlet system.

Abstract: An arrangement for the accommodation of winter sport equipment items, such as skis and accessories, e.g., ski poles and ski boots, on carriers secured to the roof of a motor vehicle. Two luggage-like containers disposed adjacent one another are thereby arranged on the carriers, of which one is provided on the inside with mounting supports for skis and is open toward the rear while the other is constructed for receiving ski poles and ski boots.

Abstract: A vertical or height adjustable mounting arrangement for safety belts of a vehicle which enables a stepwise variable adjustment of an abutment height of a deflecting or end member of the safety belt. The mounting arrangement includes a mounting plate having a vertically extending slot and a plurality of lateral slots extending from the vertically extending slot. The lateral slots extend obliquely downwardly and toward a front of the vehicle so as to define a plurality of individual catching points for an adjusting member of the safety belt and for holding the deflecting or end member of the safety belt. A drop slot is provided at the end of each of the lateral slots with the drop slot being offset downwardly with respect to the lateral slot and having a length which is at least twice a width of the lateral slots so as to form an automatically effective gravity-caused locking of the adjusting member in an end position of the lateral slots.

Abstract: A traffic system consisting of vehicle and road, in particular for the public local passenger traffic, with automatically cross-controllable vehicles, with a track-determining guide device extending along a desired track and with a cross-positional controller in the vehicle detecting the course of the guide device and acting on the steerable wheels of the vehicle; for purposes of catching a vehicle that deviates from the track, an emergency safety channel delimited by vertical side webs is provided along the road between the support wheels of the vehicle, whose width corresponds to the maximum permissive cross-positional tolerance of the vehicle on the road without lateral collision; at least one emergency safety bolt which is normally taken along in the raised position and is adapted to be rapidly lowerable, is provided centrally of the vehicle at the bottom side thereof; the safety bolt is able to support itself at the side webs of the emergency safety channel while feelers provided at the vehicle on both s

Abstract: A securing arrangement for planet bolts in planetary gear change-speed transmissions, especially those for motor vehicles, in which all planet bolts are secured against axial displacement on one side by means of a common sheet metal locking plate adapted to be fixed at the planet gear carrier. Each planet bolt is provided on its side facing the locking plate with an annular groove for mounting therein a securing ring while the bores in the planet gear carrier intended for the accommodation of the planet bolts are enlarged on the side facing the locking plate into an axial groove open toward the outside so that after the insertion of the bolts together with the securing rings, the locking plate can be mounted axially over all bolts.