Abstract: A subassembly for a valve device for controlling air flow in an intake manifold. The subassembly includes a cartridge including a plurality of compartments having partially open opposing sidewalls, wherein adjacent partially open side walls of adjacent compartments are spaced apart a distance to define a groove therebetween, a plurality of partitions each having a through-hole therein and being disposed in the grooves defined between adjacent partially open side walls of the adjacent compartments. The partitions complete the formation of the opposing side walls of the adjacent compartments and each compartment is alignable with an air intake runner of an intake manifold.

Abstract: A slide-valve device sliding in a predetermined axial direction, includes a valve body having two chambers, the first chamber including a lateral fluid-intake opening and a fluid-outlet opening provided with a normally closed, conditionally opening plug device, the second chamber including first and second lateral fluid-outlet openings, mutually offset in the axial direction. Two inner regions of the second chamber are arranged contiguously in the axial direction and communicate with one another via an opening or an internal passage, and in that the sliding drawer includes a first plug member suitable for selectively plugging the communication opening or the internal communication passage or opening between the two regions and a second plugging member suitable for preventing fluid communication between the second lateral fluid-outlet opening of the second chamber and a first region of the second chamber, within a predetermined range of translation of the sliding drawer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an actuator for regulating the flow of fluids in first and second flow paths of an internal combustion engine. The actuator includes a motor having a rotatable drive shaft, a gear assembly driven by the drive shaft of the motor, and first and second output shafts rotated in opposite directions by the gear assembly. The first and second output shafts are operatively linked to valves in the first and second flow paths, respectively, to regulate the flow of fluids in the first and second flow paths.

Abstract: A method of modifying an air intake manifold to control air intake runners. The method includes the steps of providing a cartridge including a plurality of compartments, each spaced apart to define a groove therebetween, snap-fitting a bushing carrier having a rotatable bushing into each of the grooves, positioning a flap having a slot over each of the compartments, inserting a shaft through each slot and each bushing thereby rotatably retaining each of the flaps within one of the plurality of compartments, positioning the cartridge over the air intake manifold so that each of the plurality of compartments is substantially axially aligned with one of the air intake runners, and removably connecting the cartridge with the air intake manifold.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an intake manifold assembly that comprises a first outer covering, a second outer covering connected to the first outer covering that together define a chamber having an intake port, and a flow channel insert. The second outer covering has an outlet port positioned within its interior surface and the flow channel insert is nestingly connected to the outlet port with the rest of the flow channel insert received within the chamber. The flow channel insert being a single piece that defines a channel having a first end and a second end.

Abstract: An extruded multilayer seal member having an expanded temperature range and an improved compression set resistance wherein the seal member comprises a first fluoroelastomer as the inner layer of the multilayer seal member and a second elastomer as the outer layer of the multilayer seal member; and a method for manufacturing the multilayer seal member which comprises extruding a multilayer tubular structure, crosslinking the extruded multilayer tubular structure on a mandrel, cutting the multilayer tubular structure to provide a plurality of uniform seal members and recovering the seal members, are described.

Abstract: A method for producing a support plate (1) for valve bodies includes: i) providing a base armature (22) including an even number of portions of pipes (4, 4?); ii) arranging a valve body (5) on portions (19) of the base armature (22) forming temporary reception zones for a valve body (5); iii) mounting the control axis through bearings (7 and 9) and the transverse groove of each valve body (5); iv) molding onto the control axis a bearing support for each valve body (5) and a mounting insert in the corresponding guide bearing (7); v) mounting each valve body (5) on the corresponding bearing support by sliding on the control axis, and vi) inserting mounting inserts in the corresponding guide bearings (7).

Abstract: Apparatus includes a motor-vehicle, internal-combustion-engine air intake manifold having an intake-manifold first shell attachable or monolithically joined to an intake-manifold second shell to surround an internal manifold volume. The first shell has a wall with at least a portion having undulating concave and convex regions as defined exterior to the internal manifold volume of the attached or monolithically-joined first shell and second shell.

Abstract: An assembly for controlling an air intake runner of an air intake manifold. The assembly includes a cartridge including a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments has a plurality of that are joined to define a central opening and an outer perimeter. Adjacent compartments are spaced apart to define a groove between each of the compartments. The assembly also includes bushing carriers that are configured to be snap-fit into one of the grooves of the cartridge. The assembly further includes bushings configured to rotatably fit within the central openings of the bushing carriers. Each of the bushings has an outer rim and an open center. Flaps including a slot and having a shape configured to substantially adjustably seal the central opening are also included and a shaft is included that extends through the slots of the flaps and the open centers of the bushings.

Abstract: An air-filter device for a motor vehicle, having a casing and a filtering body separating the clean and dirty compartment, and also having a supporting body for the filtering body and a compression body designed to co-operate mechanically with the supporting body, these bodies being mounted in the manner of sliding drawers in an intermediate mounting compartment; the contact surfaces in mutual sliding bearing of the support and compression bodies are inclined in such a way that the forced stress position leading to a compression of the seal of the filtering body is achieved by displacement of the compression body in the direction of extraction and in that the control device, bringing about this displacement, stresses the supporting body and/or the casing in order to achieve the displacement of the compression body in a forced stress position, at least at the end of displacement.

Abstract: A water outlet chamber-type regulating device includes a chamber component having an inlet and an outlet for a fluid to be regulated, and including a member for regulating the flow, the member having a valve component translatingly movable and configured to close a passage cross-section between the inlet and the outlet, and is rigidly fixed to a control shaft. The chamber component includes at least one opening formed in its lateral wall, and the control shaft carries a second closing component, which is integral in translation with the shaft and is positioned on the shaft and has a shape that is configured to regulate the flow of water passing through the opening as a function of the regulation of the flow in the region of the passage cross-section.

Abstract: A cooling circuit comprises a cylinder block and a cylinder head block, these blocks each including cooling elements the form of integrated portions of circuit. The cooling circuit also includes at least a first, a second and a third separate external loops for external recirculation or reinjection mounted in parallel and looped on the integrated cooling elements. A circulating pump is connected fluidically to the integrated cooling element and to the three recirculation loops causing the fluid to circulate in the integrated cooling element and in the three recirculation loops. The at least three recirculation loops offer at least one common fluid node and are at least partially overlapping. A single actuator controls the flow of liquid circulating in the at least three recirculation loops.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multifunctional module for an internal-combustion engine, forming a structural assembly and incorporating the functions of cooling the exhaust gases, regulating the re-injection of the exhaust gases and regulating, at least in part, the circulation flows in the cooling circuit of said engine, said structural assembly being in the form of a constructional and functional unit intended to be fitted to the engine block and incorporating, on the one hand, at least a portion of an exhaust gas recirculation circuit and a heat exchanger for cooling said gases and, on the other hand, at least a portion of the engine cooling circuit, with at least the water-outlet housing, multifunctional module characterised in that the heat exchanger has a tank arranged in the region of an end of the constructional and functional unit and made from a synthetic thermoplastic material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a valve device for regulating a fluid, particularly a gaseous fluid, in a conduit portion, comprising a valve body fixed to a support spindle extending transversely into said portion and mounted with the ability to rotate therein, said conduit portion comprising, on either side of said spindle, opposing internal steps forming two bearing surface portions for corresponding edge parts of said valve body, in the closure position thereof, each step extending substantially over approximately half of the internal circumference of the conduit portion in the region of the mounting position of the support spindle.

Abstract: A valve regulating device intended to regulate the circulation of a fluid in the region of an opening, said device consisting of a pivoting valve body, of an annular support body integrating two opposing bearings mounting said valve body in a rotational manner, and of a control pin, wherein said valve body may be displaced in rotation between a totally open position and a closed position, in which it rests against the annular seat provided by the support body; the support body is provided with a seal with a first extending functional segment and a second extending functional segment having protruding lateral extensions, for example in the form of ribs, on the face of the support body that bears against the edge of the opening, said extensions also being interconnected by intermediate joining portions, which also extend in a protruding manner over the bodies of the two opposing bearings so as to provide a continuous peripheral seal around the opening when the regulating device is mounted on said opening.

Abstract: A multifunctional module for internal combustion engine, forming a structural assembly and incorporating the functions of exhaust gas cooling and regulation, at least in part, of the circulation flows in said engine's cooling circuit, comprising a first functional unit incorporating, on the one hand, a part at least of an exhaust gas recirculation circuit and a heat exchanger for cooling the gases, preferably of elongated form, together with at least one gas flow regulation/diversion component, and, on the other hand, a part at least of the engine cooling circuit, with at least the water outlet casing and a thermostatic component for regulating the flow therein; the structural assembly comprises a second functional unit in the form of a substantially flat, plate-shaped body, consisting of a stiffening and fixing plate for the first functional unit and a thermal isolation interface between the first functional unit and the engine block; the plate-shaped body comprises on one of its faces sites for fitting and

Abstract: A water out-let box comprising a regulating thermostat principally made up of a valve to block an opening of a passage emerging in the box, the valve being stressed against its seat, formed by the peripheral edge of the above-mentioned opening, by an elastic loading means and moved away from the seat by a pressure means that reacts to heat, the means with opposed actions resting, directly or indirectly, on a stress-absorbing clamp which also ensures that the thermostat is mounted and positioned in cooperation with an opposed bearing. Box is produced in a thermoplastic material and comprises, on the internal face of its constitutive wall (1?), at least two internal protrusions (10, 10?) providing permanent support surfaces (10?) for the clamp (9) of the thermostat (2), before and after installation of the box (1).

Abstract: A control device for the throughput in a conduit portion a is provided. The device comprises a valve or a flap composed of a body mounted on a rotary support shaft and being displaceable between a position of maximum closure and a position of minimum closure by pivoting about said shaft. The device is characterised in that at least one shape or structure (4,4?) which is at least partially obstructive, by projecting into the internal passage of said conduit portion (1) and locally reducing the passage section thereof, is present in the region of the internal face of the wall of said conduit portion. The device includes at least one cooperating surface zone (5) which intimately mates with the shape of at least one part of the imaginary surface swept by at least one segment of the external peripheral edge (6) of the body (2) of the valve or flap when pivoted.

Abstract: An air inlet module incorporating, in one structural unit, on the one hand, a supply manifold, on the other hand, an exhaust gas reinjection circuit and, finally, a gas/liquid heat exchanger designed to cool the exhaust gases, the module consisting of a sealed assembly of at most four parts, namely, a first part comprising the inlet manifold, the outlet manifolds, a portion of the supply conduit, and a hollow body forming the tank of the exchanger, a second part comprising the many circulation manifolds and a support body for assembling said manifolds in the tank, and a third part of which one portion forms a cover for the hollow open container and comprising several conduit portions forming at least partially the exhaust gas circulation circuit and conveying these gases to the inlet manifold, also incorporated in said third part.

Abstract: A method of controlling a device comprising an adjusting component which is associated in its operation with a means for actuating the movable element of said component, a means for sensing the actual position of the movable element and a control means, characterised in that it comprises, at the beginning of any operating cycle, initialising the adjusting device by determining the “fully clsoed” and “open to the maximum” positions of the movable element (1?), and indexing the control means (5) and setting its parameters accordingly then, during the consecutive running of the operating cycle, continously or at regular intervals putting the open/closed state of the adjusting component (1?) under the control of the reference signal (SIGN), by adjusting the control signal (IN) which is applied according to the result of comparing the indicated positions of the movable element (1?), obtained firstly from the reference signal (SIGN) and secondly from the (OUT) signal delivered by the sensing means (4).