Abstract: This invention relates to a clutch disc with a torsional vibration damper, in which a control plate is used which, after a specified angle of rotation, comes into contact with the aperture of a spring element. Additional friction surfaces can be activated as a result of the presence of a control plate, which is capable of coming into contact on one of the components, i.e. the input part or the output part, with a friction element which is connected non-rotationally to the other of the two components.

Abstract: An electric road motor vehicle with a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system, a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system in an electric road motor vehicle, and a switchable winding electric motor propulsion system for a motor vehicle. For the optimization of an electric motor propulsion system of a vehicle, the electric motor equipped with a rotary field winding is connected through a switching system to an electronic converter, so that due to the switching system, the number of phase windings of the rotary field winding to be connected to the individual output connections can be changed. The switching system is controlled by a control circuit through a actuator. The control circuit also controls the converter and deactivates the driver currents fed to the rotary field winding, while it switches over the switching system through the actuator. The switching system can thereby be made simpler and smaller.

Abstract: A flywheel with two centrifugal masses has a secondary centrifugal mass assembled from two individual parts, wherein the first part is actively connected to a torsion damping device, and the second part has a friction surface for a friction clutch. To increase the useful life of the flywheel system, the two parts of the secondary centrifugal mass are held at a distance from one another, and are connected to one another in their radially inner area essentially only by means of axially projecting spacer elements, which spacer elements are distributed circumferentially, and by means of rivets or screws. The rear side of the second part of the secondary centrifugal mass can thus be air cooled by the system of air cooling passages.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic torque converter is designed with a lock-up clutch which comprises a piston which can be extended in the axial direction and can be connected by at least one friction lining to the converter housing. The friction lining is designed with a multiplicity of depressions for the flow of hydraulic fluid, preferably oil, from the converter circuit, whereby the depressions extend between the radially outside edge and the radially inside edge of the friction lining in the circumferential direction at a specified angle, with a changing radial distance from the axis of rotation of the friction lining. Each depression changes its longitudinal direction between each inlet and outlet for the oil at least once, so that its radial component is oriented opposite to its orientation before the change.

Abstract: Self-pumping air suspension spring for a motor vehicle, comprising a roller bellows, which form a spring chamber, a spring carrier which consists of a cylinder and a piston rod (which piston rod can move axially in the cylinder, whereby the roller bellows are functionally connected to the cylinder and the piston rod), a vestibule with at least one connection to the spring chamber and at least one connection to the air reservoir, which can be of any appropriate type. In the event of a movement of the piston rod, there is a pumping action via the vestibule in connection with at least one non-return valve in the spring chamber, whereby the vestibule is located inside the spring chamber enclosed by the roller bellows and the cylinder. At least one of the components of the air suspension spring executing the pumping action is formed by the piston rod. It is appropriate if the cylinder is used in conjunction with a vibration damper which is part of an air suspension spring.

Abstract: A telescoping front fork of a bicycle which has a spring system which acts between an upper cylindrical housing and a lower cylindrical housing and includes at least one suspension spring, a supplemental spring and a spring in the rebound direction, each of which is made of a compressible elastic foamed, or expanded cellular elastomer. The spring constant of the supplemental spring is lower than that of the suspension spring. This arrangement has the advantage that acceleration peaks are reduced during the transition from a situation in which the two cylindrical houses are at rest and one in which the two cylindrical houses slide in relation to one another. The breakaway force is oriented to the weaker supplemental spring in connection with the rebound direction spring and as the support force increases, the suspension spring is compressed on a delayed basis, without any measurable additional breakaway force.

Abstract: A pulled membrane spring clutch, whereby the membrane spring is supported with its outside diameter on a plate spring, which membrane spring has a rather large load pressure. The resulting load pressure acts on a mechanism which makes an automatic adjustment to compensate for wear to the friction linings, whereby the membrane spring retains its position relative to the clutch housing.

Abstract: This invention relates to a latching shifter for bicycle transmissions, such as hub transmissions or derailleurs, with a housing, a latch element with notches, a latching spring with a latching lug and two projections, as well as a slide with different bias stages which interact with the projections of the latching spring. By changing the position of the slide, the projections of the latching spring are brought together with different bias stages of the slide, whereupon the latching spring is pressed with varying degrees of pressure by means of its latching lug into the notches of the latching element. The advantage of the externally adjustable bias is that the shifter can be individually adjusted in terms of the retention force which prevents unintentional shifting when the bicycle is in motion.

Abstract: A divided flywheel apparatus has a first centrifugal mass connected to a driving mechanism, a second centrifugal mass engaged with the first centrifugal mass my means of a torsional vibration damper, whereby the second centrifugal mass is capable of a limited relative rotation with respect to the first centrifugal mass, and a damping device which contains at least one vibration damper, by means of which, under specified operating conditions, a frictional connection can be established between the two centrifugal masses. The damping device has a sensor apparatus, by means of which the occurrence of at least one measurement corresponding to a specified operating condition can be measured, and by means of a signal transmitted to a switching apparatus, the actuation of the vibration damper can be triggered by means of an actuation device which can be actuated by means of the switching device, resulting in an effective action which is a function of the value measured.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic torque converter consists of a pump wheel driven by an internal combustion engine, a turbine wheel coupled to a drive shaft, and a stator which can be blocked in one direction of rotation. These wheels, together form a converter circuit filled with a hydraulic fluid, preferably oil, which interacts with a lock-up clutch.

Abstract: At least one adjustable drive unit for a wheel support which can be set in oscillation, and electronic units which measure and evaluate the oscillating movement of the suspended vehicle with the following process steps:Acceleration of the wheel support by the drive unit to an oscillation measurement point A in an oscillation range above the resonance frequency of the wheel, and maintenance of the wheel support in this oscillating condition, until at measurement point B, the wheel has matched the oscillations of the wheel support with sufficient accuracy;A delayed reduction of the oscillation frequency with simultaneous measurement and storage of the oscillation amplitude to a reverse oscillation frequency at measurement point C, at which, during the reduction of the oscillation frequency, the oscillation amplitude has fallen below a first limit value which is considered an indicator of the faded, or decayed, resonance frequency;An increase in the oscillation frequency with simultaneous measurement and storage

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a clutch disc with an elastic connection between the carrier plate and the hub. The elastic connection is in the form of elastic elements, which elastic elements are fastened parallel to the axis of rotation by rivets.

Abstract: To detect the shift position of a motor vehicle transmission (1), the invention teaches that by means of sensors (17), the position of a shift lever (7) which shifts the transmission (1) is measured in the neutral path of a shift pattern of the transmission which corresponds to the neutral position of the transmission (1). The direction of the displacement into the gears which are located in pairs in the shift paths of the transmission is measured by means of shift lever contacts (23), which respond when the shift lever (7) is displaced from the neutral shift position. An evaluation circuit (25), as a function of the signals from the sensors (17) which, in the neutral shift position of the transmission, detect the shift path which has been selected and the signals from the shift lever contacts (23) which detect the direction of displacement, delivers a shift position signal which identifies the shift position instantaneously engaged.

Abstract: Process for emptying liquids and/or gases from a container, in particular from a shock absorber, in which a tool is used to penetrate the wall of the container to create a drain opening, whereby the tool is driven into the container by means of a pressure pulse. The pressure pulse is thereby generated by means of a controlled propellant charge inside a tool propellant chamber.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a clutch disc for a friction clutch, in which two identical cover plates are used, each of which has areas with different outside diameters, whereby the area with the larger diameter has the openings for fastening rivets for lining carriers and the openings for the location of balancing rivets, and the areas with the smaller diameter make it possible to have access with a tool for peening the rivet heads from the other side. The individual cover plates are also assembled to one another in mirror inversion.

Abstract: A shock absorber with an affixed or clamped-on piston ring for a piston-cylinder unit, whereby the piston ring covers a lateral surface of the piston and creates a seal with respect to the cylinder, characterized by the fact that the piston ring has a width which is greater than the lateral surface, so that there is a projecting end of the piston ring with respect to the piston, which projecting end is shaped into a spring end which is supported on the cover side on the piston.

Abstract: A fluid oscillation damper is provided with an electromagnetically controlled valve for varying the damping force of the oscillation damper. The electromagnetically controlled valve is housed within a compartment confined by two housing parts. A first housing part is fastened to a container of the oscillation damper A second housing part is fastened to the first housing part. Both housing parts are nonreleasably interconnected. The electromagnetically controlled valve is actuated by an electromagnetic coil. The electromagnetic coil is provided with a ferromagnetic core. This ferromagnetic core is constituted by a plurality of components. These components are assembled so as to reduce the magnetic resistance for the magnetic flux.

Abstract: A self-actuating vibration damper for use in a pneumatic suspension system of a motor vehicle having an air spring that defines an air chamber is disclosed. Located within the air chamber is an actuator rod mounted between two air valves. Upon application of a sufficiently heavy load to the vibration damper, a first end of the actuator rod closes the first air valve to prevent release of air from the air chamber to the outside atmosphere, and a second end of the actuator rod opens the second valve to admit compressed air into the air chamber.

Abstract: Pneumatic spring, comprising a spring bellows acting as a rolling bellows, whereby the spring bellows borders a spring chamber filled with gas under pressure. The gas is supplied to the spring chamber by means of a pressure connection, whereby the spring bellows is connected on one hand to an axially-movable outer tube, and on the other hand via a roll-off tube. The roll-off tube is engaged with a spring bracket, and the roll-off tube, together with a mounting device on the spring bracket, forms a locking connection which locking connection defines the axial position of the roll-off tube.

Abstract: A membrane or plate spring clutch on which there is an automatic wear adjustment mechanism, which wear adjustment mechanism takes into consideration only a portion of the wear which has occurred, and guarantees the required application force on the friction linings of the clutch disc, so that the torque transmission capability of the friction clutch remains constant over its entire useful life.