Abstract: The inertia locking mechanism for a rotatably mounted belt reel includes a support member mounted for rotation about the axis of reel rotation. A lock bar is pivotally mounted on the support member and has locking teeth on one side adapted to engage the reel and locking teeth on the other side adapted to engage a set of arcuately displayed teeth on the retractor housing so that the lock bar blocks rotation of the reel relative the frame. A pendulum is mounted on the support member and is actuated by inertia stimulus to move the lock bar to the locking position. Gravity causes the support member, lock bar, and pendulum to rotate about the axis of reel rotation so that the pendulum attains its normal vertical depending position irrespective of the mounting orientation of the retractor housing about the axis of reel rotation.

Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector nozzle assembly has a pressure balanced poppet valve controlled discharge outlet supplied with pressurized fuel, with a return spring normally maintaining the poppet valve in a closed position.

Abstract: A push-pull rotary switch for controlling a plurality of lighting circuits on a motor vehicle that includes a longitudinally movable rod adapted to control at least one switch means during its longitudinal movement and an additional switch means when the rod is rotated.

Abstract: A process of making a locking collar for retaining bearings on a shaft by first compacting and sintering powdered metal to form a collar having an eccentric counterbore with a relative precise chamfered surface on the collar end around the counterbore. The collar end is then swaged forming a back taper on the counterbore inner peripheral surface while providing a predetermined counterbore inner diameter.

Abstract: A sensor for engine vibrations at a predetermined frequency characteristic of detonation comprises a housing adapted at one axial end for attachment to an internal combustion engine, a magnetostrictive element axially compressed in said housing with a source of permanent magnetic flux and a pickup coil on a spool around the magnetostrictive element. The spool engages the magnetostrictive element in a force fit characterized by a predetermined push-out force. The sensor housing comprises a first resonant assembly having a first resonant frequency slightly higher than the predetermined frequency. The spool and coil are coupled to the magnetostrictive element by the force fit to comprise a second resonant assembly having a second resonant frequency slightly lower than the predetermined frequency. The overall output characteristic of the sensor thus has a single resonant peak at substantially the predetermined frequency.

Abstract: A liquid additive dispensing device, including interconnected receiving and storage containers, adapted for use with an appliance such as a washing machine with the additive storage container located remotely in the washer cabinet from the additive pour-in or receiving container readily accessible to the operator. The receiving container has a generally funnel-like configuration operative, upon additive being poured into its top inlet, to cause the additive to gravity flow by means of a connecting tube into the first of a series of reservoir portions of the storage container. The storage container is separated into upper and lower chambers with the lower having an outlet discharging gravitationally into conduit means in communication with the treating zone of the appliance. The receiving container has additive level indicating means in the form of stepped surfaces disposed at predetermined descending additive storage levels corresponding to their associated storage container reservoirs.

Abstract: Testing method for the early detection and assessment of metal fatigue damage prior to the initiation of fatigue cracks. Test parts are anodized to form an oxide coating thereon. The anodized parts are fatigue tested. Microcracks created in the oxide coating occur at the situs of deformations induced at the surface of the parts during testing. The location and extent of the microcracking is determined electrochemically by reanodizing the parts such as to anodically heal the microcracks and measuring the reanodization charge required for healing. Reanodizing incremental portions of the part point up areas of the part which allow higher current transients which in turn indicate the locations where fatigue damage is accumulating.

Abstract: The drawings illustrate a switch and latch arrangement responsive to vehicular odometer movement and including means formed at a predetermined location on one of the odometer number wheels, indicative of a predetermined cumulative vehicle travel, for pivoting suitable magnetic shunt means from a first position out of the path of lines of flux extending from a permanent magnet to a magnetically actuated reed switch to a second position in the path of the lines of flux, in order to selectively control an external device electrically connected to the reed switch.

Abstract: Mechanism for retracting a vehicle seat belt and locking the belt against extension includes a track mounted on the vehicle body and a belt carriage mounted on the track for movement in the belt extending and retracting directions. A locking pawl is mounted on the belt carriage and is selectively actuatable to a locked position engaging teeth on the track to lock the belt carriage against belt extending movement. A spring biases the carriage in the belt retracting direction. An actuating element extends alongside the track and is mounted for rotary movement into engagement with the locking pawl to move the locking pawl to the locked position. A pendulum supports the actuating element in a normal position and rotates the actuating element in response to a sensed condition of vehicle deceleration to actuate the locking means and thereby lock the carriage against belt extending movement along the track.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine having variable geometry flow controllers therein for controlling mass flow in accordance with engine operation includes a rotor with a wide variation in thrust forces thereon during different phases of engine operation countered by a variable axial load integrating device having a rotating hydraulic thrust compensating piston mounted forwardly of the rotor in association with a rotor thrust bearing and further including means for generating a centrifugal head in accordance with engine speed by means of rotating oil trapped between the rotating piston and a nonrotating counter piston; depth of rotating oil is automatically regulated by an integral, flow regulator having flow area therethrough varied in accordance with axial position of a thrust bearing carriage that has the variable rotor thrust loading imposed thereon.

Abstract: An articulated, spring-controlled intake valve, for use in controlling induction flow through an intake port of an induction passage in an internal combustion engine, includes a valve head and a separate valve stem connected together by a hinge member with one end thereof pivotally secured to the valve stem and its opposite end fixed to the valve head with one end of a flexure spring sandwiched therebetween, the opposite end of the flexure spring being secured by a clamp member to an internal wall defining a portion of the induction passage.

Abstract: A passive three-point lap and shoulder belt system has the outboard ends of the lap and shoulder belts mounted on the vehicle body door respectively adjacent the hip and shoulder of the occupant. A retractor mounted on the body generally adjacent the inboard hip of the occupant winds a control belt which is connected with the lap and shoulder belts at the juncture of their inboard ends to establish the lap and shoulder belts in their occupant restraining positions when the door is closed. A door mounted belt stiffener is encased within the lap belt and includes a plurality of stacked abutting elements normally hingedly movable relative one another to allow the lap belt to fall limp across the occupant lap.

Abstract: Torque-equalizing means for a dual section toric or toroidal roller and race type transmission, including a balance lever pivotally mounted on the transmission housing, with oppositely disposed pivot members formed on the balance lever and pivotally connected to first and second reactive or grounding members of the respective dual roller sections for permitting the grounding members to react to any excess torque of either section resulting from a build-up of manufacturing tolerances of the components of the respective sections, the balance lever being caused to pivot as required to equalize the torques in the dual sections.

Abstract: A vehicle body sunroof module includes a stamped sheet metal pan having a forward portion with an opening registering with an opening of the roof and a rearward portion located rearward the roof opening to store the closure panel in its open position. The pan has a generally planar base wall which extends generally parallel to the roof and an upstanding peripheral flange which stiffens the pan against flexure. The flange has a discontinuity, preferably in the form of a pleat, located generally adjacent the juncture between the forward and rearward pan portions to permit flexure of the pan about a transverse axis and mounting of the forward and rearward portions in disparate planes to conform with the contour of a particular roof. A guide track is mounted on the flange along each side of the pan and receives a slide or roller connected with the closure panel to support the closure for sliding movement between open and closed positions.

Abstract: An exhaust system for a front mounted, transverse engine includes an exhaust pipe and tailpipe assembly having an interposed low profile gas converter therebetween supported by a pair of pedestal type suspension assemblies and a converter support bar directed transversely below the converter and wherein each of the suspension assemblies includes a resiliently yieldable insulator of elastomeric material vertically compressed by the supported exhaust system and including a cylindrical hollow end slidably fitted over a converter bar end to vertically support the bar on a vehicle frame and further including a thin web segment that readily bends on either side of the at rest vertical axis of the insulator to accommodate fore and aft engine induced roll movements while serving to isolate inherent exhaust noise transmission from the exhaust system to the vehicle frame or body.

Abstract: A domestic dishwasher is provided with a control system having circuitry including timer switch means adapted to insure automatic wash water at a normal set temperature for all cycles with the user having an option to preselect an elevated wash water temperature. During wash periods, power for the heater is provided through timer switch means connected through a first thermostat whereby if the water in the chamber is below its set temperature, the first thermostat will energize a heater to provide auxiliary heat to the wash water. The timer switch means is operative to stop the timer motor until the water is heated to said set temperature. Once the water reaches the minimum set temperature, or if the water supply is initially above said minimum setting the first thermostat will switch, deenergizing the heater.

Abstract: The drawings illustrate a strut-type suspension system used with a front wheel drive vehicle and including a preassembled shock absorber and elongated coil spring retainer member having the respective upper ends thereof resiliently mounted in juxtaposition on a mounting bracket, and a coil spring connected to the retainer member. The lower end of the shock absorber is adapted to being secured to the steering knuckle behind the drive axle, and the coil spring is adapted to being confined between the bottom end of the retainer member and a retainer seat formed on a control arm in front of the drive axle. The bracket of the subassembly is adapted to being mounted in a laterally extending attitude at the top of the wheel well.

Abstract: An industrial gas turbine engine includes an inclined annular combustor made up of a plurality of support segments each including inner and outer walls of trapezoidally configured planar configuration extents and including side flanges thereon interconnected by means of air cooled connector bolt assemblies to form a continuous annular combustion chamber therebetween and wherein an air fuel mixing chamber is formed at one end of the support segments including means for directing and mixing fuel within a plenum and a perforated header plate for directing streams of air and fuel mixture into the combustion chamber; each of the outer and inner walls of each of the support segments having a ribbed lattice with tracks slidably supporting porous laminated replaceable panels and including pores therein for distributing combustion air into the combustion chamber while cooling the inner surface of each of the panels by transpiration cooling thereof.

Abstract: Airflow through a sharply curved engine cylinder inlet port is increased by provision of a flow detector comprising a particularly shaped free standing bump on the floor of the port's entrance portion and appropriately spaced from the sharply curved wall leading to the port's throat portion. Fairing of a valve guide protrusion in the port roof is also provided to further direct the airflow.

Abstract: A female terminal has a channel shaped median portion provided with a latch tang and a lock tang associated with each side wall. The four tangs project inwardly to avoid damage and tangling during handling. The tangs lock the terminal in a connector body in cooperation with a projecting block in the terminal cavity. A lock bar retained on the connector body provides a positive secondary lock in cooperation with the lock tangs of the terminal.