Abstract: For a cam follower for the valve drive of an internal combustion engine, including a housing in the form of a lever body (2) and a cam roller (6) arranged between two parallel lever walls (3, 4) of the housing (2), wherein the cam roller includes an outer ring (7) and an inner ring (8) arranged therein, and is mounted on a bolt (5) retained on the lever cheeks (3, 4), the invention proposes that inwards extending guidance sections (9, 10) are formed on the lever body (2) for the axial positioning of the outer ring (7) and for the guidance thereof in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: Directing exhaust gas around a catalyst may pre-heat the catalyst and may thereby bring the catalyst quickly in its operating temperature range. An exhaust gas treatment system for treating the exhaust gas may include a first flow path, a second flow path, and a control system. The first flow path may include a catalyst. The second flow path may be coaxially arranged in heat exchange relation with respect to the first flow path. The control system may be configured to control the flow of exhaust gas through the first flow path or the second flow path dependent upon the catalyst temperature.

Abstract: A device for applying a pasty mass having an at least two-component, curable adhesive or sealant includes a housing, a lance, which is accommodated in the housing and can be rotated about a longitudinal housing axis and in the interior of which a material supply channel extends to a lance tip bounding the lance in the axial direction for each component of the adhesive or sealant, and a rotary feed-through for introducing the component of the adhesive or sealant into the respective material supply channel through a jacket of the housing, wherein a closing valve is associated with each material supply channel, which closing valve can close the material supply channel at a valve seat.

Abstract: A clamping body for an electrical conductor includes a clamping body pocket. The clamping body pocket forms a receiving space for receiving the electrical conductor. The clamping body pocket is formed from a copper zinc alloy that has a lead content of less than 0.1 percent by weight, a tensile strength that is at least 640 Newtons per square millimeter, and an elongation A10 at rupture that is at least 5 percent. The clamping body also includes a threaded bore for receiving a screw, the threaded bore being formed in a side wall of the clamping body pocket.

Abstract: A field device for determining or monitoring a process variable in automation technology, wherein the field device meets a safety standard, which is required in a predetermined safety-critical application, comprising a sensor, which works according to a defined measuring principle, and a control/evaluation unit, which processes and evaluates measurement data delivered by the sensor along at least three redundantly and/or diversely designed measuring channels, and wherein there is associated with the control/evaluation unit a voter, which is composed of a plurality of components, which are at least partially double redundantly designed.

Abstract: A scissors-type crimping tool for crimping a female contact onto an electrical conductor, comprising a planar base member having body and first lever portions; an annular crimping die member connected for rotation between die-open and die-crimping positions relative to the base member body portion; a toggle link arrangement connecting a second lever for pivotal movement relative to the base member body portion; and a cascade spring arrangement operable by the toggle arrangement from a non-stressed condition to a stressed caged condition during initial movement of the second lever in the closed direction, and to a stressed condition during further movement of the second lever, thereby to afford processing of different cross-sections of ferrules and conductors in the crimping die, and to apply the force of the stressed cascade spring arrangement to the crimping die member during the final stage of the crimping operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing compressed air or other pressurized gases, having at least one high pressure compressor (12) and one low pressure compressor (11), and, in particular, a downstream gas store (reservoir 13). According to the invention, the high pressure compressor is a turbomachine with adjustable guide vanes and is flowed through alternately in one direction as a compressor or in the other direction as an expansion machine.

Abstract: A contact element having an outer conductor and an inner conductor, which is arranged within the outer conductor, wherein the outer conductor has, in one of its longitudinally axial end faces, at least one contact point for a contact with a contact point on a component part with which contact is to be made. In this case, the contact point is mounted in a spring-like manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for insulation monitoring between a low-voltage supply system and a high-voltage supply system, wherein the apparatus can be connected both to a high-voltage positive connection and also to a high-voltage negative connection and also to the low-voltage supply system, wherein the apparatus has a plurality of electrical contacts for coupling monitoring connections to the high-voltage circuit by means of a respective high-voltage positive connection and by means of a respective high-voltage negative connection, it being possible for said contacts to be connected in different sections of the high-voltage supply system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the homogenization and separation of media (10), comprising a centrifuge (40, 70) having a centrifuge rotor (14, 44, 74) which can be rotated about a motor axis (A) of a centrifuge motor (12, 42, 72) and which includes a rotor body, connected to which is at least one rotation unit (16, 48, 80) in such a way that it is additionally adapted to be rotatable about an axis of rotation of a rotation unit, which axis is different from the motor axis (A), and that it can be driven via a rotation unit drive, with means being provided which can be used to set at least two different rotation speeds of the rotation unit (16, 48, 80), and furthermore the rotation unit (16, 48, 80) has toothing (8) on its periphery by which the rotation unit (16, 48, 80) can be driven. The invention is characterized in that the rotation unit drive comprises toothing which is associated with the centrifuge motor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for charge air cooling for an internal combustion engine based on an engine family, wherein an intake module is arranged between a throttle valve and a combustion chamber. A first cooling device of the system is shaped to be structurally integrated into the intake module. Furthermore, in accordance with the system, a second cooling device is available, which supplements the first cooling device and which is designed to pre-cool charge air before said charge air enters the intake module and which is adapted for use with at least one engine model of the engine family. The second cooling device is intended for top engine types and can be arranged between the throttle valve and a charge air compressor.

Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine (4) with an electrohydraulic valve train (1) for variable-lift drive of a gas exchange valve (3), including a camshaft (6) and a hydraulic system arranged in a drive path between the camshaft and the gas exchange valve, said hydraulic system being connected to a pressure medium supply (14) of the internal combustion engine, a first hydraulic piston (8) which is driven by a cam (5) of the camshaft and a second hydraulic piston (9) which drives the gas exchange valve in an opening direction, a variable-volume pressure chamber (10) which is delimited by the hydraulic piston and a control channel (12) which connects the pressure chamber to a pressure relief chamber (11), an electrically actuated hydraulic valve (15) which is arranged in the control channel and which, in an open position, permits a flow of hydraulic medium through the control channel and, in a closed position, blocks a flow of hydraulic medium through the control channel, and an electronic contr

Abstract: An axle drive system for a motor vehicle, having a dynamoelectric drive motor (1), a shiftable superimposing transmission having a first and a second gear stage (3, 4), a shift actuator system (5) for shifting the superimposing transmission, as well as a power divider (8) driving two output shafts (10, 12). The drive motor (1), power divider shafts (9, 11), output shafts (10, 12) and dynamoelectric drive motor (1) are arranged coaxially to each other and perpendicular to the direction of travel of the motor vehicle. A particularly compact design is achieved for the axle drive system of the aforementioned type in that the shift actuator system (5) having an electric motor (14) provided for actuation purposes is in its entirety disposed in a space bounded by the first gear stage (3) on one side and the second gear stage (4) on the other side in the axial direction of the drive system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air-conditioning system, in particular for a motor vehicle, in which a fan takes in air which flows through an evaporator and/or a heater, wherein the fan has arranged downstream of it an air-bypass channel, which contains a bypass damper and guides air past the evaporator. In the case of an air-conditioning system in which the air-mass flow which flows through the air-bypass channel and/or evaporator can be adjusted in a particularly variable manner, an air-throttle element is arranged in and/or on the air-bypass channel and/or upstream or downstream of the evaporator.

Abstract: A connecting contact for SM D-components includes a metal material and the metal material at least partially comprises a coating with a different metal material. The connecting contact has a substantially laminar contact area for solderable contact to a board and comprises edge regions. At least one segment of the edge region is at a distance from the laminar contact area, so that a soldered fillet is formed for a soldered contact to a board. Also, a method for producing connecting contacts for SM D-components for solderably contacting a board includes the steps of punching metal strips, bending the metal strips so that a conducting region and a laminar contact area are produced, and forming the edge areas at the laminar contact area. At least one segment of the edge area is at a distance from the laminar contact area.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid container (1) for a motor vehicle, in particular a fuel container (1), having at least one filler tube (4) and having operational and filling ventilation, comprising at least one operational ventilation line (7) which is connected to an equalizing volume of the liquid container (1) and at least one filling ventilation opening (9) which opens into the equalizing volume. The fuel container (1) according to the invention is distinguished by the fact that the operational ventilation opening (7) is connected to the filler tube (4) outside the container volume, in a manner which forms a siphon (8), and that the connection of the operational ventilation line (7) to the filler tube (4) is arranged in such a way that liquid is collected in the siphon (8) during each filling operation and closes the operational ventilation line (7).

Abstract: A sound generator 103 for an anti-noise system for influencing sound waves propagating in exhaust systems or intake systems of vehicles driven by an internal combustion engine includes a loudspeaker basket 123, a membrane 122 supported by the loudspeaker basket 123, a permanent magnet 121 supported by the loudspeaker basket 123, a voice coil 126 supported by a voice coil carrier 125 and a membrane stop 150. The voice coil 126 is located within a constant magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet 121. The voice coil carrier 125 is supported by the membrane 122. The membrane stop 150 is located on the loudspeaker basket 123 adjacent to the membrane 122. The membrane stop 150 includes a projection 151 extending towards the membrane 122. An anti-noise system using the sound generator and a vehicle using the anti-noise system are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a motorized flap, wherein the flap arrangement comprises a flap which may be a pivotable flap, a drive arrangement associated with the flap and a control arrangement associated with the drive arrangement, wherein the deflection of the flap is limited in at least one first direction of movement, by a mechanical end stop on the motor vehicle side, wherein the motorized flap movement in the first direction of movement is limited by means of the control arrangement by an end stop provided by control technology, in order to prevent the flap from running in a motorized manner in the first direction of movement into the mechanical end stop.

Abstract: A Sub-D connector has a base sheet, to which a plug connector is fastened, and positioning journals for positioning on a printed circuit board and lateral fastening openings for receiving fastening screws or fastening pins, wherein the base sheet comprises lateral tabs which are bent twice essentially at a right angle and surround a plug connector housing at the edges. In the state where the tabs are bent twice, the fastening openings on the front and rear side of the connector are covered by the tabs and the positioning journals are arranged on the part of the tabs which is bent once.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Heuchera plant named ‘Inheuredfu’, characterized by its compact and uniformly mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; densely foliated and bushy appearance; ruffled dark burgundy-colored leaves that become dark brown with development; and excellent garden performance.