Abstract: A food processor wherein the tool in the bowl is rotated by a spindle, which is driven by an electric motor, through the medium of an insulating sleeve and an adapter which receives torque from the sleeve and transmits torque directly to the tool or through the medium of a tool carrier. The insulating sleeve, the spindle and an inner tubular portion of the adapter are surrounded by a tubular extension which is integral with the bottom wall and extends into the interior of the bowl. An outer tubular portion of the adapter has a coupling device which cooperates with the internal coupling device of a tool when the latter is placed around the outer tubular portion. A shank which extends upwardly from the outer tubular portion of the adapter can be centered at the underside of a cover for the bowl and can have an additional external coupling element which transmits torque to a tool or to the carrier. The selected tool or the carrier can but need not be removed from the bowl with the adapter.

Abstract: To provide control of a vehicle engine computer from a segmental disk transducer by indicating a specific marker angular position of the crankshaft, to, characterize a specific cylinder in a multi-cylinder engine, the disk (1) has uniformly spaced segments (10, 20, 30, 40) thereon, the number of segments corresponding to the number of cylinders; one of the segments is foreshortened, so that the passage of the leading flank (11) thereof past a stationary pick-up transducer (2) will occur at a time later than that of the leading edges or flanks (21, 31, 41) of the remaining segments. The trailing flanks (12, 22, 32, 42) of all the segments are identical, and signals derived by processing the trailing flanks can be used to obtain speed signals; by processing the leading flanks, interrupt signals are applied to an interrupt input (3f) of a vehicle computer (3) to initiate a subroutine or subprogram.

Abstract: A positive displacement device capable of performing the typical positive displacement device functions such as pump, generator, flow meter, etc. is presented. The device comprises a housing having interior surfaces defining an inlet and an outlet separated by two generally circular cylindrical fluid flow chambers. A fulcrum is near the center of the device. A positive displacement barrier separates the inlet from the outlet. The barrier which is the only moving part comprises two circular cylindrical pistons coupled by a generally planar plenum barrier. The plenum barrier slides back and forth and teeter totters on a fulcrum so that each piston is always sealing the inlet from the outlet along the inside of its associated cylinder while each piston orbits its cylinder in a different direction. Fluid is caused to move around the piston by the piston and its sealing point.

Abstract: An athletic monitoring device for attachment to a portion of an athlete'body or to athletic equipment. The device measures a predetermined parameter of the motion of the device while in use and compares the measured parameter to a predetermined range. Intensity of acceleration is measured by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of acceleration data for each of the three axes of motion. This value is compared to a threshold value. If greater than the threshold value, the square root value is stored and added to a second measured intensity value. In this manner, a sum of intensity values throughout a stroke is calculated. If the sum of intensities is above or below a predetermined range, appropriate signalling will so indicate.

Abstract: A method of making a commutator ring (2) for a commutator, which is provided with a plurality of commutator segments (7) with connection lugs (10) and anchoring means (44) and which is cold-formed by reduction and gauging in a single manufacturing step of a forming apparatus from a blank (1) with preformed segmental grooves (6) and a flange (4) which can subsequently be made into connection lugs. The forming apparatus is provided with a single or multi-stage, single or multi-part die. The blank is pressed against the die by radially disposed slides (39, 59) of the apparatus which are adjacent each commutator segment (7) and connection lug (10). Finally, during retraction of the die from the blank, the anchoring means (44) are formed on the commutator segments by a gauging apparatus being drawn through the tubular blank to "mushroom" inner teeth of the blank and shape them to form dovetail shaped anchors in a commutator hub sleeve.

Abstract: To simplify the apparatus and the method steps to reestablish predetermined phase relationship of a chrominance TV signal with a reference, two chrominance derived signals of carrier frequency, respectively phase shifted by plus and minus 45.degree. with respect to the carrier frequency are obtained; chrominance derived signals, likewise phase shifted with respect to the input chrominance signal, are amplitude modulated with set voltages, and the amplitude modulated chrominance derived signals are so added that the phase position of the resulting chrominance signal will match that of the reference carrier.

Abstract: A control unit (7) for an internal combustion engine (ICE) (1) in a motor vehicle includes a control parameter computation unit 6 which provides output signals controlling the ignition instant of an ignition unit (5) and the fuel injection characteristics of the fuel injection unit 4, thereby controlling operation of the ICE. Depending on an operating parameter of the ICE (1), preferably load, the ignition angle is corrected by an ignition angle correction unit (11) by adding a correction factor, dynamically, as the load changes. The correction factor is determined, preferably, by sensing incremental changes in loading and, equally incrementally, changing the ignition angle, repetitively, as the loading changes. The method can be realized entirely by software within a known ignition angle correction unit (7).

Abstract: 3-carbamoyl-(3'-picolyl)-4-methoxy-1-benzamide of formula ##STR1## is a pharmaceutical agent for the prevention and treatment of thromboelmbolic disorders due to increased blood platelet aggregation.

Abstract: A packaging medium comprises:(a) a flexible support wall, and(b) fins integral with that wall to project generally toward a structure to be packaged, to confine same during such packaging,(c) the fins being resiliently and yieldably deflectible to bend relative to the support wall in response to squeezing relatively toward the structure,(d) the fins extending in generally parallel planes and having terminal edges that define a positioning plane relative to which the fin planes are out of perpendicularity.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump has a work space which at a certain position of the pumping piston communicates with a tapping opening through which delivered fuel flows into an offtake space. The angular position at which the connection between the pumping space and the fuel offtake space is established, is adjustable in order to control the amount of injected fuel. The fuel offtake space is adjustable by means of a spring-biased piston. The position of the tapping opening to a distributing channel is adjustable by a movable supporting member communicating with a rotary distributor.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for influencing the metering of fuel to an internal combustion engine, wherein the amount of fuel to be delivered to the engine is varied at least in dependence upon the number of revolutions or working strokes of the engine. In this method, the number of revolutions or working strokes of the engine is measured for subsequent storage in a volatile and a non-volatile storage. If a supply voltage failure causes the contents of the volatile storage to be lost, the more essential portion of this number for the engine continues to be available in the non-volatile storage. Embodiments are described explaining how the volatile and the non-volatile storage can be realized and combined. Also, a description is provided as to how the metering of fuel can be influenced in dependence upon the number of revolutions or working strokes of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A low beam headlamp includes a reflector defining an optical axis and an incandescent filament forming a cylindrical coil whose central axis extends in a horizontal plane through the focal point and forms right angles with the optical axis. The light reflecting surface of the reflector is divided into six zones of which two lateral zones when viewed in the direction of the optical axis form together a paraboloid sector. The upper left hand wall portion and a lower right hand wall portion form together a second paraboloid sector whose central axis is inclined upwards relative to a central axis of the first paraboloid sector. An upper right hand wall portion and a lower left hand wall portion form together a composite paraboloid-ellipsoid sector whose sections taken in parallel vertical planes form parts of parabolas whereas sections taken in parallel horizontal planes form parts of ellipses.

Abstract: A control circuit for an ignition system having a magnet generator provides an abrupt adjustment of the ignition time point toward an advanced ignition when a predetermined upper speed range of an engine is reached. The control circuit includes a frequency dependent R-C member coupled to a control switching transistor activated at a preset voltage level to trigger an ignition switching power transistor. The R-C member is preadjusted so as to be charged to the preset voltage level at the time point of the transition from a lower to the upper speed range.

Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement is suggested which is provided with a capacity transistor and a drive transistor in form of a Dralington-circuit. Thereby, the two transistors are monolithically integrated with a planar technique in a common substrate (8), which forms the two collector zones of the two transistors (T1,T2). A passivation layer (14) covers the main face of substrate (8) covering this main surface with the exception of contact windows. A cover electrode (13) is disposed above the passivation layer in the area between the collector zone and the base zone (4) of the capacity transistor (T2), whereby this passivation layer is connected with a resistor strip (2) at a distance from the base zone (4) for adjusting its potential. An additional guard strip (3) is diffused into the main surface between the resistor strip (2) and the base zone (4).

Abstract: A chassis for scaled-down toy vehicles has the battery-powered motor mounted directly over the driven axle at a rearwardly and downwardly extended angle. The battery rests between the stub axles supporting the front, freely rotatable wheels.

Abstract: A method and a fuel injection system for supplying fuel to a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition is proposed. The fuel injection system includes metering valves, downstream of which regulating valves are disposed and at one side of which the fuel pressure downstream of the metering valves prevails and on the other side of which the fuel pressure in a control pressure line prevails. The control pressure line communicates with the fuel supply line and is limited by a control throttle and a return-flow throttle; from it, a branch line leads to an electromagnetic supplementary injection valve, by way of which further fuel, in addition to the fuel injected via injection valves, can be injected. The triggering of the supplementary injection valve can be effected by an electronic control unit for injecting fuel during cold starting of the engine or in the presence of a measurement signal characterizing an acceleration of the engine.