Abstract: Disclosed is a pressure valve connectable between a fuel injection pump and the fuel injection valve of an internal combustion engine. The valve includes a cylindrical valve closing member which moves due to the pressure of fuel from the pump and expells a quantity of fuel to the injection valve. A throttling passage is provided as a bypass to the closing member and guarantees a stable pressure in the fuel supply conduit when the closing member is in open position. To neutralize reflected pressure waves in the supply conduit after injection the valve closing body is delayed by the throttling passage during its return movement into closing position. In addition, a check valve is arranged in the closing member which controls the stable pressure to a desired value.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for the formation of an air-fuel mixture for an internal combustion engine, including an oxygen sensor exposed to the exhaust gas and responsive to the oxygen content of the exhaust gas, a signal-processing unit processing the output signals of the oxygen sensor, and a memory store for storing a set of characteristic curves dependent on at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine, the characteristic values thereof (F.sub..lambda.) determining the amount of fuel to be metered. In this method, a time-variable perturbation (.DELTA.F.sub..+-.) is superposed on the characteristic values (F.sub..lambda.), the oxygen sensor output signals (U.sub..lambda.) are evaluated with regard to their change due to the perturbation (.DELTA.F.sub..+-.), and the characteristic values (F.sub..lambda.) are suitably corrected to achieve an optimum air-fuel ratio. In this arrangement, the modulation frequency of the characteristic values (F.sub..lambda.

Abstract: A guide device for hand-held machine tools includes a foot plate in which a guide rail, provided with a parallel guide, can be clamped. The foot plate has guide openings in its edge portions. The guide rail is insertable into these openings. The clamping device is displaceable on the guide rail and can be clamped to the latter. The clamping device includes a clamping element with an overhanging clamping projection, which is engageable with the edge portion of the foot plate, and a clamping bolt for clamping the clamping element to the guide rail. The clamping bolt can be moved out from the narrow space between the foot plate and the machine housing and can be easily accessible.

Abstract: A device is proposed for monitoring the function of electronic equipment, in particular equipment controlled by microprocessors. In such devices, the regular occurrence of control pulses is monitored in that a capacitor which can be charged or discharged in accordance with the control pulses is connected to a threshold stage, which in the case of a persistent absence of control pulses generates a signal having a reset phase of predetermined duration and an active phase also of predetermined duration for the equipment in a periodic sequence. The durations, of the reset phase and the active phase are freely selectable independently of one another, the duration of the active phase preferably being substantially shorter than that of the reset phase.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device for measuring the pressure of a gas like medium comprises two oscillators disposed opposite to each other in a substantially closed system by intermediate introduction of the gas to be measured. The measuring is performed by defining a transfer factor from the first piezoelectric oscillator to the second piezoelectric oscillator, whereby the first piezoelectric oscillator is definitely excited and the measuring signal is picked up by the second piezoelectric oscillator.

Abstract: A modular, space-saving vehicle data acquisition and dashboard display system, comprising analog and/or digital sensors (30, 31, 32) connected to a central control logic (14) which is in turn connected over a single digital data line to a plurality of control modules (26) including microprocessors (28) and connected to individual display elements (29) such as liquid-crystal displays. The system includes a travel data read-out (21) which can be interrogated using a keyboard (27).

Abstract: To permit use of asbestos-free insulating material in the manufacture of commutators, while insuring reliable retention of the commutator segments, the commutator segments are formed with projecting leg portions which are embedded in the insulating body, a first leg portion being formed with a projection which extends circumferentially towards the second leg portion of a neighboring segment and overlaps, at least in part, the neighboring segments and forms therewith an interlocking fit, interlocking at least in radial direction, the interlocking fit leaving a gap between the first leg portion of one segment and the neighboring segment to provide for insulation between the segments.

Abstract: An aggregate for delivering fuel from a fuel supply tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprises an electric drive motor, on the output shaft of which an inner rotor, having teeth on the peripheral surface, is positioned, and a ring-shaped outer rotor surrounding the inner rotor and having inner teeth meshing with the teeth of the inner rotor to form a gear pump. Fuel-conveying vanes are provided on at least one rotor to form a regenerative-type pump. The regenerative-type pump is connected in series to the gear pump as seen in the direction of the fuel supply.

Abstract: Sterile packages are produced which have a shaped depression and a closure sheet sealed onto this depression. In order to furnish sterile inner surfaces for the packages, two tubes of packaging material each of which have a sterile inner surface are slit lengthwise and opened out into flat strips in order to form the depressions and the closure strip. Depressions are produced in one strip, which is underlaid with a reinforcing strip; thereafter the depressions are filled and sealed with the closure strip, which has one layer comprising the strip made from the other tube and another layer from another strip. The sterile surfaces of the strips are arranged so that they face one another.

Abstract: In order to define more precisely the pivot line (25) on which the armature (17) swings about the magnet yoke (12) at its line of contact therewith, the armature restoring spring (28) is made of spring wire (29) bent into meander shape. One end of it is attached to the magnet yoke and the other to an extension (31) of the armature that extends across the pivot line. A spring clip (34) is snapped over the restoring spring and onto the sides of the magnet yoke pushes the restoring spring against the magnet yoke and opposes lengthwise shifting of the armature across the edge (32a) on which it is pivoted.

Abstract: An apparatus for injecting fuel into combustion chambers, in particular of self-igniting internal combustion engines, is proposed, in which a fuel injection nozzle generates an aimed fuel spray and in which an air guide device and a heating device are provided. The fuel being injected is accompanied by an air flow which passes the heating device. The heating device has at least two heating elements of different effectiveness, of which at least one element serves for rapid heating and the other element is provided for continuous use.

Abstract: A lumbosacral support includes an elastic belt adapted to be worn around a person's waist and includes Velcro fasteners at its ends. The belt carries a double layer foam pad adjacent the middle thereof which is adapted to lie against the wearer's lower back. A vertically extending trough-like groove is cut away from the central portion of the pad. The pad directly overlies the wearer's spine whereby when the wearer presses against a seat back, the pad puts pressure on the supporting lumbosacral musculature on either side of the spine but does not put pressure directly on the spinal column.

Abstract: To reliably provide ignition energy only to specific spark plugs (11, 12; 14, 15) of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine (ICE), a double-E core has primary windings (6, 8) located on a main or central branch, and separate secondary windings (10, 13) located in shunt branches, each secondary winding being associated with respective spark plugs. The primary windings are so energized that, at any one time, only one of the primary windings is conductive. In accordance with the invention, permanent-magnet biasing magnets (18, 20) are located in air gaps in the shunt magnetic paths (17, 19), and so polarized that the flux generated upon current flow through the respective branches of the primary windings is counter the bias magnetization of the respective magnet (18, 20) in the respective shunt path (17, 19) on which the secondary winding (10, 13) is wound which is associated with the respectively energized primary winding (e.g.

Abstract: A roller for heat- and/or solvent-treatment of fibrous materials has circumferentially extending annuli or spirally arranged rows of coherent or discrete neighboring protrusions each of which has a larger frustopyramidal section nearer to and a smaller frustopyramidal section more distant from the peripheral surface of the cylindrical body of the roller. The taper of facets of the smaller frustopyramidal sections is less pronounced than the taper of the facets of the larger sections, and the distance between the bases of two neighboring larger sections is less than half the height of a protrusion. The top lands of the smaller sections are relatively large and, due to the less pronounced taper of the facets of such smaller sections, the top lands can be reground a large number of times without unduly increasing their areas so that the rate of transfer of heat from the cylindrical body to the top lands and thence to the adjacent fibers is not unduly affected by repeated grinding.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines having a cartridge filter provided with two groups of longitudinal grooves, disposed in a fuel conduit one of which groups of longitudinal grooves originates at one end of the filter while the other group originates at the opposite end of the filter. All longitudinal grooves terminate in a central section of the filter. The fuel conduit and the reduced diameter of the central section of the filter define an annular slit. The longitudinal grooves have a cross-section decreasing over the extent thereof to their termini, so that any excess and harmful amounts of fuel in the filter can be decreased, while maintaining the same external diameter of the filter for purposes of filter replacement in existing fuel injection nozzles.

Abstract: The underfloor assembly for a building comprises corrugated metal flooring units preferably side-by-side with cable distribution ducts, over which is mounted cable trenches. Each distribution duct has a bottom plate and a preferably inverted U-shaped top, the tops extending between adjacent intersections of the trench with the ducts to thus leave the duct open under the trenches. The bottoms of the trenches are open where they intersect the ducts, and the trenches are formed by field assembly of trench subunits that have a U-shaped bottom pan with cut-outs on either side of a preferably centrally located bottom portion, as well as a cover removably closing the pan.

Abstract: To prevent, cross-talk and other signals from being applied from the magnetic transducer head (6, 7) to an output circuit (12, 13; 28, 29) in a video tape reproduction system, in which one of the heads, only, is in contact with the tape, and the other head runs free, a synchronizing signal recognition stage, responding to the first appearance of a synchronizing signal at one of the heads, is connected to control a switch, typically an electronic switch, to transmit the signals from the specific head to the output circuit and disable signal transfer of any signals from the other one of the heads since those signals, usually, would be noise or disturbance signals.

Abstract: The desired acceleration, a value required to determine shift points in an automatic transmission, is computed on the basis of the measured speed, output torque of the transmission, and the tractive resistance at rated load on a level road. Additionally, a shift which is otherwise indicated is suppressed when the computed output torque of the transmission in the new gear is less than the actual tractive resistance. Preferably an incremental value is added to the tractive resistance prior to comparison with the output torque in the new gear, so that hunting is prevented. The incremental resistance value, which is added to the tractive resistance, may be a constant or may vary as a function of speed.

Abstract: To prevent undue low operating speed of an automotive vehicle engine if slippage of a driven wheel is sensed, the speeds of the driven wheels are sensed, and, when one of the driven wheels first exceeds a reference level, a braking effort is applied thereto, the other wheel, however, being permitted to slip or spin until the other wheel has reached either a predetermined speed, at which it is then selectively braked, or the engine has reached a predetermined engine speed level (n.sub.min), after which time the other wheel then can also be braked, or the spinning decreases due to lesser power being applied by the engine.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with an ion current sensor in the exhaust conduit. The sensor may be simply a spark plug across which is applied the vehicle battery voltage. The operation of the engine at various values of mixture composition yields characteristic curves for the ion current and for the fluctuations in the ion current as a function of the air number. These characteristic data are used to provide set point values against which the prevailing ion current is compared. If a set point value is exceeded, the fuel-air mixture is adjusted accordingly by an integral controller.