Abstract: An improved rear axle suspension system wherein independently suspended wheels are supported from an extremity of a trailing wheel arm by a wheel spindle thereof, the wheel arms having extensions aligned transversely of the vehicle and constituting semi-axles, the adjacent ends of which engage in rotatable fashion with one being disposed at least partially inside the other, while the other ends are rotatably supported by bracing elements fastened to longitudinal frame members of the vehicle, the shock absorbers being attached at their upper ends to extensions of these lateral bracing elements and at their lower ends to the shanks of the wheel spindles, such that the axes of rotation of the wheel arms and of the shock absorbers are as far apart as possible, the extensions of the lateral bracing elements to which the upper ends of the shock absorbers are attached being disposed so that the shock absorbers are slightly inclined to the horizontal, whereby a sensibly variable reduction ratio between the displaceme

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for D.C. motors operating by chopping the supply current. Said device comprises a voltage-frequency converter, a frequency divider, a monostable multivibrator, an analog-digital converter, a pulse down-counter and a bistable flip-flop, arranged to chop the direct current supply by means of a hit or miss control signal of which the cyclic ratio is a linear function of a control voltage U.

Abstract: A belt-drive speed reducer, particularly for driving an airplane propeller from a standard automobile engine, features a protective housing attached to the motor, being supported by suitable borings 22 and 40 of the shaft of a drive pulley 10, on the one hand, turned by the motor crankshaft and, on the other hand, the propeller shaft supporting a driven pulley turned by a belt which, in section, exhibits V-shaped ribs. The bearing of the propeller shaft has on its periphery a disk eccentric with respect to the propeller shaft, the rotation of which disk in the boring of the housing regulates the tension of the belt.

Abstract: An anti-pollution system for internal combustion engines, in particular for avoiding the emission of unburned fuel during changes of motor speed in deceleration. A pneumatic capsule acts to open the throttle under the action of the vacuum in the induction pipe by the intermediary of a spring-loaded valve set to open at a given level of vacuum. The capsule has a diaphragm which tends to close the throttle of the carburetor under the action of an elastic member over its entire return travel and under the additional action of a second elastic means of return, called a compensator spring, over a part of the return travel, from the position of maximum opening of the throttle under the action of the diaphragm, when the compensator spring is compressed against an adjustable stop under the action of the vacuum.

Abstract: An arrangement for filling and venting a safety fuel tank of the type characterized by two elastomer sheets joined at their peripheries, for use in automobiles, wherein a venting tube is disposed in the upper region of the tank with one of its ends inserted in a spout situated at the top of the tank where gases tend to accumulate and the other end opening into the upper part of the filler pipe of the tank just below an auto-blocking valve having an orifice therein for receiving a pump nozzle for filling the tank, and wherein a movable plate is provided for normally blocking the valve orifice.

Abstract: A safety device for blocking a fuel line leading from an automobile gas tank having an outer elongate sleeve passing through the wall of the gas tank and having a lateral hole therein opening into the gas tank, and a tubular assembly slidable within the sleeve. The tubular assembly features a lateral opening which, at a given position of the assembly within the sleeve, opens through the lateral opening in the sleeve into the gas tank. The tubular assembly has a stop at one end limiting its movement toward the outside of the gas tank by engagement with the sleeve and has a peripheral constriction at one point for breaking during a violent collision, whereby the openings in the sleeve and the tubular assembly are not aligned and fuel cannot escape from the gas tank during such collisions.

Abstract: A seat having a headrest wherein a side pad is mounted on a support attached to a lateral portion of the seat, bracketed to the back, and an adjusting mechanism permits setting the height of the pad.

Abstract: Nozzle for blowing molds or cores for sand casting where the sand is injected under pressure into the core boxes. The injection orifices in the plate of the machine for blowing sand under pressure into the core boxes are threaded holes onto which are screwed closely coiled spiral springs forming injection conduits, the injection nozzles being screwed onto the said springs by means of threaded holes of suitable diameter and thread.

Abstract: A tip for a pipe of the type used in foundries for the fabrication of molds and sand cores by sand blasting in an appropriate foundry installation is made of plastic material and has its exterior portion in the form of an essentially cylindrical part on the side connected to the blast pipe and of a coupling cone in one of the filling holes of the core molds on the other side of his pipe. It is distinguished by the fact that this coupling cone is connected to the essentially cylindrical external portion by an elastically supported essentially circular shoulder on the upper wall of the core mold, thus achieving a tight fit by exerting a horizontal thrust on the core mold. Application to mass production of sand cores by blasting, particularly by means of rigid metal blast pipes, is attained through this invention.

Abstract: Device for electronically controlling the ignition of an internal combustion engine comprising a sequencer coupled through a first output to one input of a first binary rate multiplier coupled in turn through a series of parallel-connected inputs to a pressure sensor-converter, the output of said multiplier being connected to one input of another binary rate multiplier connected through a series of parallel-connected inputs to a memory coupled in turn via a set of parallel-connected inputs to a counter connected to the sensor associated with the engine-driven member.

Abstract: In a method of producing iron by direct reduction of the ore, compaction into agglomerates and fusion, where the ore is reduced by a gaseous process with pre-reduction to monoxide FeO at 1000.degree. C, followed by a final reduction at 700.degree.C. The resultant powder is compacted into agglomerates and dumped, in successive loads after each pour, into an induction melting furnace and melted by contact and mixing with a preexistent charge of liquid metal. An amount equivalent to the newly-melted charge is poured into a refining ladle, after skimming off the slag.

Abstract: Pipes undergoing torsion stresses at one fixed extremity, the other extremity being flexibly supported, and in particular, exhaust pipes for motor vehicles. The concentration of stresses at the fixed end are eliminated and distributed in the center of the pipe by reinforcing its moment of inertia and its rigidity at the fixed extremity, and by creating a series of localized zones with a reduced moment of inertia in the center area, where the stresses undergone by the pipe at its fixed end are distributed in limited fashion. The invention is especially applicable to the exhaust pipes of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: A combination device permitting filtering of an air-sand mixture or an air-metal liquid mixture at the moment of filling a foundry mold, as well as ejection of the molded part, wherein a filtering element, composed of a spiral spring with spaces between its turns, is mounted and centered in the mold. This filtering element centers and guides an ejector, driven by an ejection striker plate. In the process of ejection, the elongation of the spring widens the spaces between its turns, thus freeing bits of sand or metal caught between the turns, to provide self-cleaning. The device can be used in foundries to make mold cores and to mold light-alloy parts by gravity or low pressure in metal molds.

Abstract: A rapidly attachable and adjustable safety buckle for a chin strap of a protective helmet having a catch rotatably fixed to the helmet, a hook having one end attached to the chin strap and the other end terminating in a special protuberance, the catch having a cavity therein for receiving the specially shaped protuberance, and means for biasing the buckle toward a closed position with the protuberance being locked into the cavity.

Abstract: An electronic fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine wherein the amount of fuel injected is metered according to variations in the injection pressure. Mechanical injectors having a preset opening pressure are fed from a distribution chamber which, in turn, is fed by a fuel circuit pressurized by an electronically controlled fuel supply flow. The fuel supply flow is the difference between the flow through an inlet injector receiving fuel under pressure and that through an outlet injector regulating the return flow of fuel to the reservoir, these injectors being of the continuous flow electromagnetic type. The fuel supply is frequency controlled by a computer and regulated by a servo loop to assure a constant richness. The preferred embodiment is particularly adaptable to a low priced electronic fuel injection system using mechanical devices whose precision is relatively unimportant.

Abstract: A system for regulating the injection of auxiliary air into the intake of internal combustion engines includes a pressure-regulating stage feeding an intermediate compartment with an intermediate pressure proportional to that in the engine's intake manifold, and an opening-regulating stage through which air flows from the intermediate compartment toward the intake chamber communicating with the manifold. The opening-regulating stage includes a metering valve activated by a membrane which is controlled by a control pressure obtained by joining a compartment on one side of the membrane to intake pressure through a conduit having a metering orifice or choke thereon and also joining the compartment to an intermediate compartment through an electrically-activated valve the opening of which is controlled by a current at the frequency of the engine.

Abstract: This instrument panel comprises at least two small rules or display panels of which one comprises a luminous member for displaying the values supplied from a pulse counter and the other comprises pilot-lamps carrying illuminated symbols corresponding to the magnitudes displayed for the various functions or physical conditions being measured, the device further comprising an electronic assembly consisting of a member adapted to emit periodic signals, of members for converting the signals transmitted from pickups or probes into modulated-frequency pulses, of switching members, of further display apparatus, of apparatus for adjusting the luminous intensity and of apparatus for actuating alarm devices.

Abstract: A bearing having an outer race, an inner race with a mounting flange formed thereon, two corresponding bearing grooves formed in each of the races, and two sets of rolling elements disposed in parallel relation in the bearing grooves of the inner and outer races and within two holding and guiding cages of the same continuous circular configuration arranged in parallel relation between the inner and outer races. The bearing is formed by mounting one of the cages on the inner race on the side thereof having the mounting flange, placing a first row of the rolling elements in the cage, slipping the outer race over the inner race while holding it slightly inclined and off-center with respect thereto, placing the second row of rolling elements into the corresponding bearing groove while moving the outer race towards a centered position and reducing the inclination thereof, and mounting the second cage.