Abstract: A high-voltage insulator which is suitable for use in chambers carrying gas highly charged with solid particles and is used particularly in electrostatic filters used for cleaning an exhaust gas derived from internal combustion engines used to drive motor vehicles. The high-voltage insulator is columnar in structure, having shield-like ribs succeeding one another at intervals, adjacent to each of which in the insulator is one recess. With the remaining insulator parts having a smaller diameter, this recess forms a sharp edge, which defines discharge paths toward the flank of the shield-like ribs. Inside these paths, the insulator is kept free of soot coatings or conductive coatings, so that the insulator itself offers high resistance to leakage currents, which would cause insupportable power losses.

Abstract: To control the fuel injection pressure, in particular in high-pressure injection in self-igniting internal combustion engines, the pumping or supply phase of a cam-driven, intermittently operating pump piston of a fuel injection pump is determined by the closing time of a relief-metering valve and controlled in such a manner that the closing of the relief-metering valve for the supply onset (FB) is earlier, by the amount .DELTA..alpha., than the opening of control valves by way of which the fuel pumped by the pump piston is supplied to the individual injection locations. By means of the initial pumping amount or pre-stroke (.DELTA.h or .DELTA..alpha.), fuel is pumped into a closed system, and the injection pressure present at the injection valve at the instant of the opening (SB) is thus controlled.

Abstract: In a headlight of a motor vehicle, having a housing and a diffusing lens enclosing with the housing an interior of the headlight, the interior is vented by means of a conduit exposed to air streams caused by travelling of the motor vehicle. The conduit is formed as an integrated part of the diffusing lens made of plastics.

Abstract: An injection nozzle for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines is proposed, the nozzle being arranged to inject fuel into the intake tube of the engine. The injection valve includes a valve housing of ferromagnetic material, in which a tubular connection element which functions as a core and with which an armature is arranged to cooperate. Joined to the valve housing is a nozzle body having a valve seat with which a sealing section of a nozzle needle also is arranged to cooperate. The nozzle needle is guided by a plurality of guide sections in a guide bore of the nozzle body, and metering grooves are embodied on the second guide section disposed upstream of the first guide section. By metering fuel upstream of the valve seat, the fuel metering operation is prevented from being impaired by deposits.

Abstract: To improve TV image reproduction, and to suppress interference in the luminance channel of a color TV decoder, a controlled portion of the amplitude of a part of a TV signal, which part is within the frequency range of the chroma subcarrier, is subtracted from the TV signal. The portion of the luminance signal which is within the frequency range of the chroma subcarrier is rectified to derive a control signal and the amplitude of the controlled portion which is subtracted is controlled as a function of the controlled signal. Non-linearities of reproduction by the TV tube and of human perception can be compensated within the circuit which includes, for example, a matrix, and a non-linear signal transfer channel, or derived from the TV tube itself.

Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the spring characteristic of a helical spring has a manually actuatable adjusting element, which comprises a rotational support for the windings of a spiral spring. The apparatus further has a retaining member and an arresting member for retaining and securing the adjusting element in the adjusted positions. To provide a separate adjustability of the spring pitch and the spring biasing, the retaining member and arresting member are embodied such that the adjusting tang is rotatable without its axial position being varied, and is fixable in any rotated position.

Abstract: A hydraulic lifting apparatus for harvesting machines, the apparatus having a plurality of lifting cylinders connected to the undercarriage of the harvesting machine which support a mower table so that it rests on the ground with a minimal resting weight, and also having energy storing tanks to provide different suspension of the mower table. To accomplish this a hydraulically actuatable stop valve is located in a first circuit of working lines running between a distributing slide valve and the lifting cylinders. This stop valve is actuated by a control pressure which is branched from a second circuit of working lines. The second circuit of working lines runs from the distributing slide valve over a pressure relief valve to a reservoir, and is able to be disconnected by a solenoid valve. The stop valve has a valve element with a series of bores through which the pressure set by the pressure relief valve passes through the blocked first circuit of working lines into the lifting cylinders.

Abstract: A dual-circuit pressure medium brake system is equipped with relay valves disposed ahead of the brake cylinders. Each brake circuit is equipped with a control also acting in the other circuit and overlapping each other, and a primary brake circuit is designed in such a way that it contains all control elements necessary for optimal brake pressure adaptation, while a secondary brake circuit is merely an auxiliary brake circuit without control elements. In this manner each brake pressure metering can be simultaneously adjusted. During the loss of the primary brake circuit, the secondary brake circuit guarantees a minimal brake pressure. Such a pressure medium brake system is preferably used in air brake systems of motor vehicles.

Abstract: A method and a device for target tracking of land vehicles are suggested, in particular for use in heavily meshed city road systems. Thereby, a motor vehicle device is used with an input device for a desired target location and an output device for vehicle instructions. The vehicle location (determination of travel path and travel direction) is carried out by picking up and evaluating the wheel rotations of a nondriven vehicle axis.

Abstract: A skeining machine has a looping member arranged to move in an elongated endless track having recurvate ends with a pair of looping needles arranged within said path to have a filament looped thereon during revolution of the looping member about the path with one of the needles being a spinner needle mounted on a rotatable shaft at an acute angle extending away from the other needle, and the spinner needle being disposed adjacent one of the recurvate ends of the looping member path and having the root of the connection between the spinner needle and the rotatable shaft on which it is mounted being disposed between the path of movement of the looping member and the center of recurvature of the looping member path.

Abstract: To simplify the construction of a telescopic antenna which is projected and retracted, respectively, by a flexible wire, a rotatable wind-up drum (10) is formed with an inner space (17) to provide for wind-up of the flexible wire, the inner space, likewise, retaining a gear ring (20) in which gear projections (41) of the wire are engaged. The wire, preferably, is an elastic plastic wire element, coupled to the projecting telescoping element (A2) of a telescoping antenna (A), the drum (10) being driven by a motor (35) which receives rotation coupled thereto by a worm drive (29-34).

Abstract: An apparatus is proposed which serves to control the position of a throttle device disposed in the intake tube of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes a lever, which is joined to a shaft of the throttle device and has both a stop screw arranged to cooperate with a stop and an adjusting screw arranged to cooperate with a feeler pin. The feeler pin traces the position of a control body provided with a cam track and the control body can be displaced to a variable extent in a guide bore by means of an expansion element and thereby bring about a variably large rotation of the throttle device and hence a variably large opening of the cross section for the aspirated air during engine idling in the warm-up phase.

Abstract: The injection pump includes a pump cylinder, a pump piston moving into it and a hydraulic device for adjusting the instant of injection. The adjusting device has an adjusting cylinder, which is directed parallel to the pump cylinder and is accommodated in the housing of the injection pump, and adjusting piston and a restoring spring and adjusts a control sleeve, which opens the pump piston provided with at least one control recess in the longitudinal direction of the pump piston. This orientation and disposition of the adjusting cylinder effects a space-saving and inexpensive design of the injection pump and improves the precision of adjustment. The adjusting piston and the control sleeve may be directed coaxially and embodied as a single component, as a result of which a further space saving and increase in adjustment precision are attained.

Abstract: A differential pressure operated electrical switch construction is provided and has a housing carrying a pair of rigid terminals and an electrical switch for electrically interconnecting the terminals together under the control of an actuator that is responsive to differential pressure acting across the same. The terminals have free ends angled toward each other and the switch comprises a movable contact member and a spring operatively associated therewith for urging the contact member into bridging contact with the free ends of the terminals to thereby place the terminals in electrical contact with each other.

Abstract: A method for converting a movement into an analog or digital variable, in particular into an electrical voltage, and an apparatus for performing the method are proposed. The apparatus includes at least one measuring spring element having windings and fabricated of electrically conductive material, which is disposed together with a supplementary spring element of identical structure and serving as a supplementary resistor in a bridge branch of a carrier-frequency measurement bridge. A deformation of the measuring spring element by a movement causes a change in the spacing between windings and thus causes a change in the inductive resistance of the measuring spring element which serves as a standard for the movement.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for rapidly adjusting an electromagnetic load associated with internal combustion engines. The output signals of two control systems are combined in a logic circuit such that priority is assigned to one of the two control systems. Dependent on the output signal of the higher-order control system, an evaluation circuit acts on a switch arrangement to thereby suitably influence the signal resulting from the combining operation of the output signals of the two control systems. This arrangement makes it possible to speed up the delivery of the output signal of the higher-order control system to the electromagnetic load which may be an injection valve, for example. The higher-order control system may be a smooth-running control system.

Abstract: A flow rate meter which serves to measure a quantity of air aspirated by an internal combustion engine via an air intake tube. The flow rate meter includes a housing, in which a flow conduit having a measuring body is disposed, the measuring body being pivotable about a bearing shaft in accordance with the flow of the medium counter to a restoring force and being joined via at least one strut to a damping body, which in the form of a movable wall defines a damping chamber with respect to the flow conduit. A retaining groove is embodied in the damping chamber wall and is form-fittingly engaged by a retaining section of an elastic stop body. A stop section of the stop body protrudes into the damping chamber and limits the movement of the damping body.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed for internal combustion engines having a control slide displaceable on the pump piston. The control slide cooperates with an oblique groove on a pump piston. The oblique groove is arranged to communicate via a conduit with a pump work chamber. The pump piston is rotatable and has a longitudinal groove of predetermined length on its jacket surface, which groove is adapted to communicate with the oblique groove and with its end remote from the pump work chamber determines the supply onset of the pump by plunging into the control slide.

Abstract: A driving device for a reciprocating control member, preferably for a keyboard in a lock for doors of a motor vehicle, has a reversible electric motor controlled by a switching device. The electric motor controls the control member via a reduction gear. The switching device includes a stop member connected for joint rotation to the output of the reduction gear and having a convex stop surface. A contact disc is provided with two adjacent concave recesses cooperating with the stop member. A tension spring couples the contact disc to the transmission gears so as to oscillate the contact disc from one limit position in which the stop member is in engagement with one concave surface into another limit position in which the stop member is brought in engagement with the other concave stop surface.

Abstract: To reduce the transmission requirement of transmitting data between brake controlled microprocessors (7, 8, 9; 20-25) and a reference microprocessor, or reference microprocessor section (15) within one of the wheel speed microprocessors, the microprocessors are connected in a ring connection, or ring bus (13; 26, 27). The microprocessors generate, in each processing cycle, a code number based on the then pertaining operating conditions of the wheel or axle with which the respective microprocessor is associated. A code number determines one of several slopes for changing the reference signal. The code numbers are applied to the ring connection and thus to the reference microprocessor, where they are compared with stored code numbers, in which the stored code numbers are arranged in a predetermined priority sequence.