Abstract: An arrangement for supplying cooling air to a brake disk of a front wheel brake comprises an air guiding duct that is developed to be partially flexible and, on the inlet side, has an air opening in the front end of a motor vehicle and, on the outlet side, has another air opening that is directed at the brake disk. Two air inlet openings in a brake disk guard plate are opposite said air opening and form a separate transversely directed air guiding system to the brake disk. The air guiding duct is provided with several rigid duct portions that are held so that they are be fixed at the vehicle, namely at the vehicle body, as well as at the wheel, namely at the wishbone, as well as adjacent to the brake disk at a guard plate. They are each connected with one another via flexible intermediate duct portions, in which case the rigid duct portions can be moved relative to one another together with their assorted vehicle components.

Abstract: An incremental or absolute rotation encoder with a clamping device for connecting the encoder shaft to the drive shaft of a drive unit by means of a radial clamping action. A clamping element with a first sliding surface which is inclined relative to the axis of the encoder shaft is provided resting against a corresponding second inclined sliding surface at the end of the encoder shaft facing the connection with the drive shaft. An actuating element is capable of acting on the clamping element in axial direction. Since the two inclined surfaces rest slidingly on each other, the clamping element and the end of the encoder shaft are pressed in opposite radial directions against the drive shaft.

Abstract: A compound of formula 1, or a solvate or salt thereof: ##STR1## in which: RCO is an acyl group in which the group R comprises a substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic ring and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently C.sub.1-6 alkyl groups or together form a C.sub.3-6 polymethylene or alkenylene group, is useful for treating pain.

Abstract: A cam control connection arrangement is disclosed for influencing the control times of inlet valves of an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine comprises two parallel camshafts that per cylinder actuate two inlet valves and two outlet valves. The camshaft for the outlet valves, with the insertion of the cam control connection arrangement, drives the other camshaft by means of which the inlet valves are actuated.

Abstract: A laser diode imagesetter having multiple resolution operating modes, includes means for stabilizing the optical output power from the semiconductor laser diode during the scan trace interval across a photosensitive material so as to maintain a high extinction ratio for the laser diode even when its driving current is changed to a different level in order to operate the imagesetter at a different resolution mode.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): ##STR1## or a salt or solvate thereof in which R. CO is an acyl group containing a substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic ring, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently C.sub.1-6 alkyl or together form a C.sub.3-6 polymethylene or alkylene group, and p is 1, 2, 3 or 4, is useful for treating pain.

Abstract: A removable folding roof for a motor vehicle, especially for a passenger motor vehicle, which extends between a windshield frame and a roll bar and which includes laterally disposed longitudinally extending girders, several struts extending parallel to the girders and a roof covering. The folding roof is detachably retained at the windshield frame and at the roll bar by means of locking mechanisms. To achieve an effective support of the folding roof and a simple assembly operation for latching and tensioning the folding roof to the vehicle body, the longitudinally extending girders are placed on the upwardly extending tensioning levers of the locking mechanisms which are then pivoted downwardly along with the edges of the top to a latched position. An automatic tensioning of the folding roof in the vehicle transverse direction and simultaneous latching of the roof to the vehicle body is achieved by the pivoting of the tensioning lever to a lowered position.

Abstract: A hydraulically controlled disk brake of a motor vehicle having at least one hydraulically actuable brake piston that is arranged in a caliper and is guided in at least one cylinder. The brake has a duct which continuously serially connects the cylinders in each half of the caliper, this duct having separate inlet and outlet openings. A check valve for each inlet and outlet opening is respectively arranged in front of the first cylinder after the inlet opening and behind the last cylinder before the outlet opening with respect to flow direction.

Abstract: A valve guidance for an exhaust gas valve in the form of a disk valve of an internal combustion engine which is used for the control of an exhaust gas channel of an internal combustion engine; a guide body with good heat-conducting and sliding properties serves as valve guidance. The guide body is coated at the inlet place of the valve stem either with a hard metal coating applied by plasma-spray process or with a hard metal sleeve.

Abstract: A control mechanism for a door of a motor vehicle is described that is actuated via an inside and outside handle and comprises a piston-cylinder unit arranged between a door post and the vehicle door. It has a piston provided with passage openings for a pressure medium, the piston interacting with an interior valve that separates two working chambers of the cylinder from one another. The control mechanism is equipped with a blocking valve controlling the medium flow, this blocking valve being arranged in a control circuit connecting the two working chambers of the cylinder, acting against the flow direction. This blocking valve, via a control element at a door handle, can be controlled in such a way that the door is blocked in at least one intermediate position. The cylinder has at least one overflow duct between the two working chambers, the flow-through of which is controlled by the piston of the unit. The duct extends over an area into which the piston dips, up to a door opening angle of about 30.degree.

Abstract: A lifting sliding roof for a vehicle having a cover that is inserted into a cover opening and that, starting from a closed position, while lifting its rear edge, is tiltable into a tilted position and in this position is moved over the fixed part of the roof toward the rear into an open position. When the cover is lifted but rests against a front edge of the roof opening, air can flow via lateral gap areas and a rear gap area between the cover and the roof into the passenger compartment, but when the cover is tilted and is pushed to the rear at least partially, a sealing frame is provided that closes off the lateral gap areas and the rear gap area so that in this cover position, the air reaches the passenger compartment only through the area of the roof opening that is located in front of the cover.

Abstract: The artificial breast prosthesis of the present invention comprises an ou shell of silicone material having a concave cavity formed at its rear surface. Nested within this concave cavity is a plastic foam shell which in turn has a concave cavity at its rear surface. The outer silicone shell and the foam body member nested within the outer shell are both enclosed within a fabric pocket having a rear slit therein for permitting removal of the silicone and foam body members.

Abstract: In a level measuring device for electrically non-conductive liquids comprising a sensor which is positioned in a vessel and is in contact with the liquid, and further comprising an evaluation circuit connected to this sensor both compensation of a changing dielectric constant and a high degree of accuracy and resolution are achieved by placing a driver electrode 5 in the lower part of the vessel 1 at a position essentually coaxial to the sensor electrode 3, 4, and by placing a compensating electrode 6 between the driver electrode 5 and the wall 8 of the vessel 1, such that further capacitors are formed between the two electrodes 5 and 6 themselves as well as between them and the sensor electrode 3, 4 and between them and the wall 8 of the vessel 1.

Abstract: An instrument for measuring the relative position of two objects comprises a scale with an incremental graduation defining a measuring direction X. A plurality of identical reference marks are positioned along the graduation, each reference mark allocated absolutely to the graduation. To determine the absolute value of a reference mark, two successive spacings between the two reference marks preceding in the measuring direction X are determined. The two spacings are determined by scanning the incremental graduation.

Abstract: Image setting apparatus is disclosed for producing two-dimensional image on photosensitive material. The apparatus includes a device for transporting the photosensitive material past an imaging line to provide a first dimension of the two-dimensional image, a controllable source of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for producing a modulated EMR beam, a scanning device for converting the EMR beam into a scanning beam, and a scan lens in the path of the scanning beam to focus the beam spot on the photosensitive surface. The beam spot thus moves repeatedly along the imaging line to provide the other dimension of the two-dimensional image. According to the invention, the EMR source is controlled to switch the EMR beam on and off at a frequency which is adjusted to compensate for variations in the scanning speed of the beam spot along the imaging line.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine equipped with at least one exhaust gas turbocharger whose compressor is connected by way of a charging pressure line to a suction manifold of the engine and whose turbine is inserted into an exhaust gas line coming from an exhaust gas manifold. A controllable blow-off valve (waste gate) is installed into a by-pass line coming from the exhaust gas line and by-passing the turbine while the compressor is adapted to be short-circuited by way of a vent valve. During the transition of the internal combustion engine into the coasting operation, the blow-off valve is activated into the closed condition for at least a limited time span. A loss of exhaust gas energy during a shifting operation is avoided thereby so that the internal combustion engine accelerates more rapidly after termination of the shifting operation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an embodiment of a measure including a bending resistant graduation carrier member and a base member and fastening elements for fastening the graduation member on the base member. The material of the graduation carrier member has a lower temperature coefficient than the material of the base member. The graduation carrier member is placed on the base member in a floating manner. Subsequently, the graduation carrier member and the base member are heated to a predetermined temperature. The end faces of the graduation carrier member are then fixed by means of the fastening elements to the base member in such a way that the graduation carrier member is in a compressed state when cooled to normal temperature.

Abstract: A guiding link bearing arrangement for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle has an elastic link bearing that is supported at a carrier of the body structure of the vehicle. This link bearing is held at the free lower end of a supporting arm extending in a vertical plane and is fastened at walls of the carrier that are separated a distance from one another.

Abstract: In a photoelectric measuring device for measuring the position of two objects which can be rotated relative to each other, a grid located on a graduation support, which is connected with one of the objects, is scanned by a scanning device connected with the other object. To eliminate the eccentricity between the grid and the rotational axis of the graduation support, the light beam emitted by a light source is split in a first graduation area of the grid into two first order diffraction beams, at two diffraction angles. After two-fold deviation by two parallel mirrors, the first order diffraction beams are again joined, in a second graduation area of the grid that lies diametrically opposite the first graduation area. The first order diffraction beams join at the same diffraction angles at which they were emitted from the first graduation area of the grid. Consequently, the beams at the second graduation area are parallel to themselves as they were emitted at the first graduation area.