Abstract: A commercial vehicle, rail or bus vehicle entry door comprising: a grip recess; a door lock; a closing device; a latching mechanism having at least one latch; a lock carrier area; and a latching mechanism carrier; wherein the door lock is held on the door and the closing device acts upon the latching mechanism in order to move the at least one latch of the latching mechanism into a closed or opened position; and wherein the lock carrier area can be fastened on the door and which, together with the grip recess, forms a one-piece basic component on which the latching mechanism carrier carries the latching mechanism in a detachable and reversible manner for the optional mounting of the door lock for a door hung by one of a right side mounting and one of a left side mounting.

Abstract: The present invention is a process and system for controlling the wagon body of a vehicle which can be used alone or in combination with a steel spring system. The control system has comparatively small geometrical dimensions and requires relatively little energy and includes a pressure accumulator connected in parallel to delivery pump 8 of the hydraulic pressure medium. The two devices working together against the pressure of the hydropneumatic pressure accumulator of the body height system. Thus, the pressure accumulator can be charged during the travel of the vehicle so that the pump does not have to be designed according to the peak load in the case of a fast load change.

Abstract: Disc brake having a caliper displacable on a stationary support to press a pair of brake shoes on each side of a brake disc, a brake operating device having a piston rod acting upon a rotating lever, the rotating lever rotates about a first axis perpendicular to the axis of the brake disc, the rotating lever interacting with a pressure piece by an eccentric bearing having a shaft which can be swivelled about a second axis on the rotating lever which second axis is offset with respect to the first axis of rotation of the rotating lever. The shaft of the eccentric bearing interacts with the rotating lever by coaxial cylindrical shaft situated on both sides of the pressure piece.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sway brace on rail vehicles. The aim of the invention is to find a solution in which the effort and expense needed to produce the sprung sway braces can be reduced and the transverse forces and the resultant wear occurring on deflection can be reduced to the minimum. This is achieved by the invention in that one end of the sprung sway braces in a special design is arranged in a support with defined guide surfaces while the other end is secured to the piston of a hydraulic cylinder via an axial rocker beating. In addition, there is a disc spring column above the sway brace.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated disk brake having a caliper actuated by an application through a traverse member which is displaceably guided with respect to the brake disk, at least one adjusting spindle is adjustably screwed to the traverse member and an adjusting device acts upon the adjusting spindle to maintain a desired ventilating play. A device is provided which prevents any rotating of the threaded spindle up to a specified torque. For a two spindle device the synchronization device can be locked in the released condition of the brake. Another solution is to provide on each adjusting spindle its brake-disk-side end a frontal toothing which engages in a corresponding frontal countertoothing of its pressure piece.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated disk brake wherein a ball socket bearing at the connection of a lever arm to a compressed air cylinder's plunger arm of a caliper includes a slide bearing between the ball and the socket of the ball socket bearing whose sliding surface, consists of at least 70% by volume polyvinylidenefluoride, at least 10% by volume polytetrafluoro ethylene and a remainder of lead.

Abstract: A force generating system including a lever mechanism fixed with respect to and interacting with a varying elastic deformation force take-up system and at a force application point of a given lever arm length; an energy-storing force generating device which acts upon the lever mechanism at a changeable position of its lever arm for supplying a portion of the energy stored in it when the lever arm length is increased and for at least partially taking up again the energy taken up by the force take-up system, when the lever arm length is decreased; and an adjusting arrangement for the controllable changing of the position in which the force generating device acts upon the lever arm of the lever mechanism. The force generating system is used in a disk brake system.

Abstract: A process for the manufacturing of a bearing seat for a half-shell bearing in a metal part, in which the metal part is produced by a forging or casting operation with the simultaneous construction of a half-shell-shaped recess whose diameter is slightly smaller than that of the half-shell bearing. Then the recess is machined by a non-cutting process until the diameter of the recess corresponds to that of the half-shell bearing. This process is distinguished by very low costs and can also be used in limited space conditions.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for determining the overrun force which is produced by a trailer on a tractor during the braking operation without the requirement of a force sensor on the coupling. This process consists essentially of determining the equilibrium of the forces acting upon the tractor in the vertical direction, the equilibrium of forces acting upon the tractor in the horizontal direction, and finally determining the overrun force from the vertical and horizontal equilibrium of forces.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated sliding-caliper disk brake wherein the sliding-caliper is mounted to two fixed guide members by two guide bearings having elastomer bearing bushings of different length bearing surfaces for displacement in the axial direction of the brake disk. The longer elastomer bearing bushing is dimensioned such that a transition fit exists to the its guide member, while the shorter elastomer guide bushing is dimensioned to have a defined play to its guide member.

Abstract: A brake disk includes a ring body in a ring groove on a side of a friction ring which is not acted upon for connecting the mutually opposite ends of friction ring segments with one another. The ring bodies prevent an expanding of the juncture caused by centrifugal force as well as a radial relative displacement of the ends of the ring segments, while a limited relative rotation of the faces of the ring segments is possible when an air gap exists at the juncture.

Abstract: A pneumatic brake system for use with an additional brake including a by-pass valve in parallel to a shut-off valve. The by-pass valve is opened only during an actuating or controlling of the pneumatic brake which exceeds a control range and opens up the passage through the brake pressure line irrespective of the switching condition of the shut-off valve. The connection of the brake cylinder line section of the brake pressure line with the atmosphere by the shut-off valve is at least choked when the by-pass valve is opened up.

Abstract: A flowmeter for determining the amount of flowing medium using an orifice (4) and a resistor body (5) in a cavity (6) through which the medium to be measured flows. Not the resistor body (5) but an orifice sleeve (4) is displaced as a consequence of the varying primary pressure and thus the degree of opening of the flow orifice is determined depending on the amount of flow of the flowing medium. A satisfactory linearization of the subregion of the function .DELTA.p (V) is obtained.

Abstract: The electronic brake control simulates by electronic means various real changes over time of the pneumatic pressures in a braking system, in particular the pressure in the main air pipe of the train, the pressure in the R containers of the individual wagons and the pressure in the individual brake cylinders. When the brakes are released, the values are determined from these model values and the actually backfed air volume, from which values the pilot control pressure for a relay valve can be increased in order to release the brakes more rapidly. The train model determines, by an adaptive learning method at the end of a brake releasing process, values for the volume of the main air pipe and the R containers of the train, so that the train model adapts itself to the actually existing train.

Abstract: A rotating drive for an adjusting spindle of a disk brake for motor vehicles, in particular street vehicles, has a cam lever (4), which can be rotated around an axis (19) parallel to the brake disk, comprising one cantilever (23) on each side of said lever comprising angular offset radial boreholes (24, 24') which receive radial pins (17, 17'). The pins (17, 17') reach into the double forked end of a drive lever (15), which can be rotated around an axis (20), crossing at right angles at a distance from the axis (19). The rotational movements of the drive lever (15) are transferred to a reset drive, which belongs to an adjusting spindle extending at right angles to the plane of the brake disk.

Abstract: The electropneumatic control system for the pressure in the main air pipe (37) of compressed air brakes of rail cars is provided with one inlet and one outlet solenoid valve (3 and 4) to control the pressure in a control chamber (26) of a relay valve (19). The inlet solenoid valve (3) and the relay valve (19) are supplied with compressed air from a main reservoir pipe (34). The relay valve controlled by the pressure in the control chamber (26) against the pressure in the main air pipe (37) controls the compressed air lead-in and lead-out for the main air pipe (37). To avoid the undesired response of the relay valve (19) to pressure changes elsewhere in the main air pipe (37), the two sides of the piston (20) of the relay valve (19) are closed without any throttling by way of the secondary valve parts (13 or 14) of the two solenoid valves (3 and 4) in the unactuated state of the control system (2).

Abstract: The electrically controllable pressure medium brake comprises an electric pressure means (EP) converter (1) to convert an electrical brake request signal into a brake pressure. By way of an emergency brake valve (1), this brake pressure (in the normal case) and a vehicle load-dependent emergency brake pressure limited by a limiting valve (12) (in an emergency), is fed to the brake cylinder (14). For vehicle load-dependent limitation of the emergency brake pressure, a second EP converter (1a) generates from a vehicle load-dependent, electrical signal a vehicle load-dependent pressure medium pressure, which is stored in a pressure medium reservoir (18) and is fed to the limiting valve (12) in order to control it. The second EP converter (1a) is closed in the currentless state, during a power failure, whereby the vehicle load-dependent pressure medium pressure is preserved and the limiting valve (12) can thus continue to limit the emergency brake pressure as a function of the vehicle load.

Abstract: In a disk brake actuated preferably hydraulically, a piston (5) is guided within a housing located in a caliper. When pressure is applied, the piston acts in such a manner against a brake shoe (15) bearing a brake lining (17) that the brake shoe (15) is pressed with its brake lining against the brake disk to be braked. The side of the piston facing the brake shoe has a pressure plate (13) which transmits the pressure forces and which moves transversely within its recess in the piston (5). The pressure plate (13) is mounted on the end of a tappet (25) extending axially inside the piston (5) and bracing itself at the end opposite the pressure plate by a disk (27) at the bottom (29) of the bore (31) accommodating the tappet, and is surrounded by a prestressed compression spring (37). Lateral movements of the pressure plate (13) cause tipping of the tappet (25) and, as a consequence thereof, a reset force exerted by the compression spring (37 ) on the tappet (25) and, thus, on the pressure plate (13).

Abstract: In the anti-locking braking system with limiting yawing moment, a first functions generator (1) interrogates the settings of the monitored valves and, from the derivative trends over time of the valve settings and in accordance with a predetermined function derives a signal which represents the brake pressure in the monitored wheel brake cylinders.

Abstract: The railborne bogie vehicle with electrohydraulic brakes and hydropneumatic leveling suspension has in each of its bogies a hydraulic pressure supply unit (9) from which pressure control valves (15, 16) parallel to each other provide pressure to both the hydraulic brakes (19) and the hydropneumatic suspension (20) of that bogie. The back pressure lines (26 and 32) of the electrohydraulic brakes (19) or of the hydropneumatic suspension (20) lead to a hydraulic tank or sump (10) associated with the pressure supply unit (9).