Abstract: In a method of operating an internal combustion engine by supplying a gaseous fuel from a gaseous fuel tank to a combustion air feed line in which a compressor is arranged to the engine, part of the gaseous fuel is added to the combustion air feed line upstream of the compressor so as to form an intense pre-mixture with the air in the compressor and additional fuel is added to the gas/air pre-mixture downstream of the compressor.

Abstract: A cylinder liner (2) for a cylinder block has a contouring (6) at one end. The contouring (6) serves to support the liner (2) on a sleeve (4) inside a die-casting tool. When the liner (2) is cast in, recesses (10) of the liner (2) are filled by the material of the cylinder crankcase whereby preventing the liner (2) from seating toward an oil chamber (14). The invention also relates to a method for producing a cylinder liner of the aforementioned type.

Abstract: In a camshaft adjuster for an internal combustion engine comprising a control valve having a control piston slidably supported in a valve housing, an operating unit for adjusting the angular position of the camshaft relative to a crankshaft of the engine and a drive unit with an electric motor and a transmission structure for actuating the control piston, the transmission is non-self-locking so that backward movement of the valve piston can be achieved by a backward force on the valve piston.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, having a cylinder head and an engine block, each with a coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port which is common to the cylinder head the engine block, a main coolant pump having an intake side connected to the coolant outlet port and a pressure side connected to a first control valve via which coolant reaches the inlet port of the cylinder head and the inlet port of the engine block depending on the temperature of the coolant, and to a method for operating such an internal combustion engine, wherein the main coolant pump is selectively actuated to pump the coolant through at least one of the cylinder head and the engine block or is shut down depending on the engine operating state.

Abstract: In order to make warning devices more efficient, it is known to design parameters to be variable and therewith to be adaptable depending upon the state or condition of a user of the warning information. Herein, for example, warning start points are changed or multi-stage warnings are engineered depending upon urgency. The disadvantage of such an adaptive system can however reside therein, that the mechanistic detection of the condition of the operator using various sensor systems and the subsequent output to the operator or the operator assistant system is not always acceptable, which can irritate the vehicle operator or occupants. In order to increase the acceptance by the user of the warning information it is proposed that in the lead-up to a planned change in the mode and manner of the output of the warning information, communication is initiated with at least one of the users. In the framework of this communication a user can indicate his acceptance or declining with respect to the planned change.

Abstract: A system for coupling a trailer (2) to a motor vehicle (1), in particular a trailer (2) to a motor tractor (1), is provided with an image sensor (5), which is located in the coupling area. The coupling process involves connecting a trailer coupler (4) of the motor vehicle (1) and a tow bar (3) of the trailer (2), which is detected by an image sensor (5) detecting a movement of a locking element (8) associated with the trailer coupling (4). Thereupon a process of braking of the motor vehicle (1) is initiated.

Abstract: A gear-changing device for a motor-vehicle gearbox, including a gear-changing lever which is pivotable arranged with respect to a support part about a bolt. The bolt is held in an axially nondisplaceable manner with respect to the support part. In order to provide a cost-effective and easy-to-install gear-changing device, the bolt is held by a catch.

Abstract: The invention provides a structural member for a vehicle transmission formed with an annular recess in fluid communication with a fluid source and at least partially enclosing and defining an interior space of the transmission. An interior component, such as a motor/generator, is located in the interior space. The annular recess directs cooling fluid provided from the fluid source onto the interior component. The end cover includes structure defining a flow passage in fluid communication with a fluid source and also defining an annular recess in fluid communication with the flow passage. The flow passage and the annular recess are cooperatively configured for directing fluid provided from the fluid source onto an interior component in the interior space for cooling the interior component. Preferably, the interior component is an electric motor/generator that includes a stator having electric windings. The fluid is directed from the annulus onto the electric windings.

Abstract: In a method for ascertaining the position of a mobile closing element of an injector valve in a motor vehicle engine, in which the closing element is driven by a piezoelectric element for opening or closing the injection valve and a voltage signal allocated to an electrical voltage recorded on the piezoelectric element, the position of the closing element is ascertained from the ascertained voltage signal. Through a two-way valve arranged on the injection valve, a change in the voltage signal is brought about based upon a change in the electrical voltage on the piezoelectric element as a function of the position of the closing element.

Abstract: A vehicle seat for a motor vehicle has a cushion core and ventilation ducts which run along and inside a seat surface and/or backrest surface, and each have a constant cross section ventilation channels are essentially arranged transversely to the ventilation ducts, have a constant cross section, penetrate the entire thickness of the cushion core and extend from the ventilation ducts as far as a rear wall facing away from the seat surface and/or backrest surface. A predetermined arrangement of the ventilation ducts and/or ventilation channels defines regions in the cushion core which are ventilated to different extents and are adapted to a ventilation requirement of a standard vehicle occupant.

Abstract: Motors with high power densities and ignition pressures, for example diesel motors, require crankshafts with combined gear wheels, which can withstand high stresses, especially in their connection areas. As a consequence, forged steel crankshafts, to which tempered gear wheels are fixed by means of screws or welding, are usually employed. The aim of the invention is to provide a method comprising fewer method steps for producing a crankshaft with a combined gear wheel and to provide a crankshaft that has been produced according to said method. To achieve this, the crankshaft comprising the combined gear wheel is cast in one piece. Tempered ductile iron is used as the starting material. The strength and wear resistance is increased locally by peening, or by the application of coatings containing carbide.

Abstract: A method and a device for performing inter-vehicle distance control on a vehicle is provided, an actual value (dact) of a distance variable which describes a distance between the vehicle and a vehicle traveling in front being determined and in which a plurality of weighting values (gi) for the distance variable are determined as a function of input variables (xi) which describe the driving situation of the vehicle and/or the ambient situation of the vehicle and/or the driving behavior of the driver, the weighting values (gi) being combined in a first computing step to form a combined value (f) for the distance variable. From which combined value (f) in turn a set point value (dsetp) for the distance variable is determined, a braking device and/or driving device of the vehicle being actuated in such a way that the determined actual value (dact) of the distance variable assumes the determined set point value (dsetp).

Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas purification system. Intake air throttling is carried out in order to raise an exhaust gas temperature in a low-load mode and in a traction mode. The amount of intake air throttling is determined as function of an expected load demand so that, with an expected unchanged or decreasing load demand, an increased or maximum possible intake air throttling is set. With an expected rising load demand, however, no or reduced intake air throttling is set, and the expected load demand is estimated based on operating and ambient parameters of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A tool for cutting a hollow profile is designed both for cutting a flange on the hollow profile and for forming the hollow profile using an internal high pressure forming process. The tool has at least one cutting device which extends parallel to the longitudinal extent of the hollow profile, has a cutting edge and is displaceable transversely to the hollow profile. A side of the cutting device that faces the hollow profile is designed as a shaping die wall, against which the hollow profile bears at least during the internal high pressure forming. In addition, the tool my have an integrated embossing punch and also a perorating punch formed coaxially thereto, thereby also enabling optional embossing and/or perforating of the hollow profile in addition to the cutting and the internal high pressure forming.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for three-dimensional photogrammetric capture of an object with time resolution, comprising a first auxiliary assembly set on the object to be captured, a second auxiliary assembly and a single camera. The first auxiliary assembly is mobile relative to the second auxiliary assembly. The camera is placed, relative to the first and second auxiliary assemblies, so as to capture a relative movement between said two auxiliary assemblies and hence the position of the object according to a single perspective. The inventive method is characterised in that it comprises the following steps: preparing a first auxiliary assembly set on the object to be captured; preparing a second auxiliary assembly, relatively to which the object can move; and capturing, according to a single perspective, the relative position of the object, on the basis of the initial position of the first and second assemblies.

Abstract: A process for forming a high-strength, wear-resistant composite layer on the surface of an aluminum alloy substrate from an applied additive material. The additive material consists of an alloy or powder mixture which contains aluminum, silicon and at least 15% by weight of iron. Irradiating the alloy powder or powder mixture which has been positioned on the surface of the aluminum alloy substrate using a laser melts together with the alloy or powder mixture and a superficial part of the aluminum alloy substrate.

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying voltage to a number of loads for example, in a vehicle includes a vehicle power supply system (6) which has at least two energy stores. A first energy store is connected in a starter circuit element (6a) to a starter (8) for starting an engine; and a second energy store is connected in a load circuit element to the load. The starter circuit element is connected to the load circuit element via a coupling element, and loads which are classified as being safety-relevant can be connected to the starter circuit element via an additional coupling element.

Abstract: In a locking device for a camshaft adjuster comprising a drive housing with a rotor with spaced rotor vanes disposed in the drive housing between circumferentially spaced axial walls projecting radially inwardly so as to form operating chambers at opposite sides of the rotor vanes to which hydraulic fluid can be selectively admitted for controlling the relative angular position between the rotor to which a camshaft is connected and the drive housing which is driven by the crankshaft of the engine, wherein locking bolts are provided for interlocking the drive housing and the vane rotor and disposed in one of the housing and the rotor elements while a recess is formed in the other for receiving the locking bolt in order to interlock the drive housing and the vane rotor, the locking bolt is arranged in the hydraulic fluid supply path to the operating chambers upstream of the operating chamber in such a way that hydraulic fluid admission to the operating chambers is controlled by the locking bolt and is admitted