Abstract: A brake disk for a motor vehicle, particularly made of a fiber-glass-reinforced material, includes two disk elements with ribs forming air ducts, which can be connected with one another. The ribs of the disk elements have mutually corresponding hook-type connections on opposite front surfaces.
Abstract: A receiving arrangement is suggested for a hard roof, particularly for a hardtop of a motor vehicle, which is arranged on a movable stand. The movable stand has a carrying device formed of struts which has at least four bearing receiving devices for the hardtop. These bearing receiving devices are arranged to correspond to locks and push-in tongues of the hardtop. The carrying device, together with the bearing receiving devices, is constructed to be separable from the stand and forms a separate, locally fastenable carrying device. Furthermore, it is provided that the stand can be adjusted into a horizontal working position, for which a supporting tube is used which can be supported on the basic stand.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 5, 1997
Date of Patent:
May 22, 2001
Assignee:
Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
Inventors:
Anton Piller, Klaus Hübert, Dieter Reuter
Abstract: A method for determining optimum controller parameters for a digital rotational speed control is described, in which various test signals are applied to a speed control loop and the resulting speed characteristic is determined. The speed characteristic is subsequently weighted with respect to rise time and transient response for various controller parameters, and the most favorable controller parameters are subsequently set in the controller of the control loop. The integral-action time of the control loop is used as a criterion in performing the weighting operation.
Abstract: An operating element is provided for a proximity regulating device for vehicles with an actuating lever. The operating element actuating lever has a rotatably mounted head that can assume a plurality of radial switch positions. If the head is in its initial switch position, the proximity regulating device sets an initial distance from a leading vehicle. As the result of the rotary movement from this initial switch position, one or more additional radial switch positions can be set for a near distance in which the proximity regulating device sets a set distance from a leading vehicle that is shorter than the initial distance. Finally, one or more radial switch positions are provided in which the proximity regulating device sets a far distance that is greater than the initial distance.
Abstract: A positional encoder assembly including a plug-in connector, a circular connector spaced from the positional encoder, a ribbon cable connected, at one of its opposite ends, with the plug-in connector and, at another of its opposite ends, with the circular connector, and an adaptor board arranged between the another end of the ribbon cable and the circular connector for connecting electrical conductors of the ribbon cables with the contact pins of the circular connector, with the adaptor board transforming an arrangement of the electrical conductors in the ribbon cable into an arrangement of the contact pins of the circular connector different from the arrangement of the conductors in the ribbon cable.
Abstract: A wheel for a motor vehicle has a rim spider provided with air openings and is connected with a rim well. The wheel comprises at least two shell parts which are constructed as a rim well and a rim spider and assembled and which each have an interior wall and an exterior wall. In the area of the air openings, these are connected with one another and each form hollow spokes between one another which, on respective end sides, lead into concentric annuli of the wheel.
Abstract: An arrangement for the automatic adjustment of headlights consists of an adjusting element which interacts with an angle sensor. This arrangement can be connected with at least one control arm of a wheel suspension by means of a holding element which can be fastened to the control arm by means of a clamping pin and which has on its one free end extending beyond the control arm at least one bearing for an adjusting rod of the angle sensor.
Abstract: The present invention relates to the compounds of general formula
used as medicaments possessing therapeutic activity for the treatment of anxiety, psychosis, epilepsy, convulsion, motoricity problems, amnesia, cerebrovascular diseases or senile dementia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 26, 1998
Date of Patent:
May 15, 2001
Assignee:
Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve, S.A.
Inventors:
Ramon Merce-Vidal, Jordi Frigola-Constansa
Abstract: A nozzle array for levitational guidance of web material. The nozzle array includes a sequence of nozzle areas in the transport direction of the web which are peripherally encompassed at least in part by fanned jets and their width varies in the direction transversely to the web transport direction. The nozzle areas may be equipped with orifice nozzles. Located between the nozzle areas are return flow zones which may be configured as return flow passageways open towards the web, whereby their cross-section is flared in the direction of the edges of the nozzle array. The nozzle areas may be v-shaped relative to their longitudinal axis oriented in the transport direction of the web. Clusters of nozzle areas may be arranged juxtaposed as viewed in the web transport direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 1999
Date of Patent:
May 15, 2001
Assignee:
Ingenieurgemeinschaft WSP, Prof. Dr.-Ing. C. Kramer, Prof.
Dipl.-Ing. H. J. Gerhardt M. S.
Abstract: A cutter insert for a tool for the finish machining by chip removal of bore surfaces in workpieces is proposed, the cutter insert being inserted in a recess introduced into the peripheral surface of the tool and being held by means of at least one clamping shoe which interacts by means of a clamping lip with at least one clamping surface of the cutter insert, which is distinguished by the fact that the cutter insert, which preferably has a substantially rectangular configuration, has a hypothetical center line (39) with which the clamping surface (21; 21′) encloses an acute angle (&agr;; &agr;′).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 9, 1999
Date of Patent:
May 1, 2001
Assignee:
Mapal Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge, Dr. Kress
KG
Abstract: A bioactive surface layer with 0.01 &mgr;m to 5 mm thickness is suitable for a metallic bone implant. The surface layer has the following composition: (A) calcium compounds (CaX) consisting of crystalline calcium phosphate (CaP), calcium apatites (CaAp) and/or calcium carbonate (CaCO3), in a proportion expressed by the following equation: 100% (CaX)=&Sgr;[x % (CaP)+y % (CaCO3)], in which x+y+z=100, 0≦x≦100; 0≦y≦100; 0≦z≦100, and in the form of particles 20 nm to 4 mm; and (B) amorphous or crystalline metal oxide (MeO). The ratio between CAX and MeO in the surface layer can be preferably varied as a result of the specific coating process. The thickness of the surface layer lies between 0.01 &mgr;m and 5 mm and the CaX particles are 20 nm to 4 mm large.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 23, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 24, 2001
Assignee:
Dr. H. C. Robert Mathys Stiftung
Inventors:
Laurent Dominique Piveteau, Beat Gasser, Louis Schlapbach
Abstract: A tool for the machining of workpiece surfaces, especially of drilled-hole surfaces, has at least two parts which are displaceable relative to each other. The tool for the machining of the workpiece surfaces is rotatable and includes at least one control member (19) which is displaceable relative to the tool (1) substantially perpendicularly to the axis of rotation (9) of the tool. The control member, preferably from a preset threshold speed of rotation, effects a movement of one part (5) relative to the other (3).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 16, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 24, 2001
Assignees:
Mapal, Fabrik für Präzisions-werkzeuge, Dr. Kress KG
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cooling extruded profiles (2) comprising slotted air nozzles (6U, 6O) arranged above and below the extruded profile moving on an exit runway (1) and oriented transversely to the direction of movement of the profile, and water impingement nozzles (12) for impinging the extruded profile with water, wherein the water impingement nozzles are arranged separately from the slotted air nozzles (6U, 6O) in tubes (12) oriented in the direction of movement of the profile such that the impingement portions of the individual water impingement nozzles (12) supplement to achieve a homogenous impingement of the extruded profile (2).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 17, 2001
Assignee:
Ingenieurgemeinschaft Wsp Prof. Dr. Ing. Carl Kramer, Prof.
H.J. Gerhardt M.SC.
Abstract: According to the invention thin sheets of foil are stiffened in a particular way by means of vault-structuring. The vault-structuring occurs either by self-organizing or following a self-organized design with a spade-shaped or drop-shaped pattern.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 1998
Date of Patent:
April 17, 2001
Assignee:
Dr. Mirtsch GmbH
Inventors:
Frank Mirtsch, Olaf Büttner, Jochen Ellert
Abstract: A circuit arrangement allows a converter to be operated with supply voltages oscillating within broad limits. The intermediate circuit voltage of the converter is controlled to avoid unacceptably high currents, so that the intermediate circuit voltage is always higher than the peak value of the rectified supply voltage. For at least this purpose, the peak value of the rectified supply voltage is determined and compared to that of the intermediate circuit voltage. If the intermediate circuit voltage is less than the peak value of the rectified supply voltage, the intermediate circuit voltage is increased to exceed the originally set setpoint value. This prevents free-wheeling diodes from becoming conductive at undesirable times and causing excessive currents.
Abstract: Novel water soluble C-ring analogues of 20(S)-camptothecin having the general formula 1.
All the compounds of the formula 1 are prepared from the compounds of the general formula 2 having 20(S)-chiral carbon. The compounds of the formula 1 possess potent anti-cancer and anti-viral properties. The invention also provides an alternate process for the preparation of known C-5 substituted compounds of the formula 1.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 19, 1996
Date of Patent:
April 10, 2001
Assignees:
Dr. Reddy's Research Foundation, Reddy Cheminor, Inc.
Abstract: A sealing device for at least one frameless window of a motor vehicle includes at least one sealing body with at least one embedded supporting rail, with elastomer profile strands being provided that are formed by areawise sheathing of the supporting rails and which cooperate with the inside and the outside of the window. To improve the sealing action of the sealing device and to make manufacture less expensive, provision is made such that the elastomer profile strands of each sealing body that cooperate with the inside of the window and with the outside of the window have separate supporting rails associated with them, in that both supporting rails are connected with one another at legs that are directed in the same direction and are mounted one on top of the other, and in that the areas of the elastomer profile strands that are in an operating relationship with the window overlap one another areawise in the transverse direction of the vehicle when the sealing bodies are mounted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 20, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 10, 2001
Assignee:
Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
Inventors:
Dieter Raisch, Friedrich Depfenhart, Dirk Arnold, Wilfried Kalb
Abstract: The system according to the invention for the relative rotating position change of a shaft with respect to a driving wheel has an adjusting device with two pressure spaces which act against one another and which can be acted upon by a pressure medium pump. In order to achieve a uniform controlled adjusting operation and a secure position fixing, the pressure space connected with the pressure medium pump is acted upon by pressure at the start of the adjusting movement before the opposite pressure space connected with the pressure medium tank is relieved.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 4, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2001
Assignees:
Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, Hydraulik Ring GmbH