Abstract: The counterelectrode (16) of an electrochromic indicator device is made of a paste of activated carbon and an organic binder baked on a metal plate (15). The shape of the metal plate can be dished after the layer is baked on without damage. Activated carbon in the counterelectrode, operating with the usual electrolyte and a transition metal oxide electrochromic electrode, makes possible a high-charge density from migration of ions with the application of very small voltages. The electrochromic effect can be extinguished simply by a short-circuit, especially if polyvinyl alcohol is provided as a supplementary binder by dipping the baked counterelectrode therein and baking again, and even more so if the activated carbon paste contains finely divided gold from decomposition of a gold compound during baking. The counterelectrode layer can be applied by screen printing.

Abstract: To prevent transfer of firing or ignition shocks or jolts, and variations in torque transmitted due to compression and decompression of the driven pistons of an IC engine from causing damage to the starter motor, in which the starter motor includes a planetary gearing, (20-25-27), the annulus, or ring gear (20) of the planetary gearing is held in an intermediate bearing structure (10) extending transversely to the starter motor by elastic cushions, or pillows or plugs (18), fitted in recesses (17) of the intermediate bearing structure, and coupled to the annulus, or ring gear (20) by projecting stubs or pins (21) extending radially into openings (19) formed in the cushions or plugs.

Abstract: To permit reliable turn-OFF of the motor when the torque of the motor is sufficient to provide for reliable seating of a screw or nut being driven thereby, start conditions of the motor are sensed, either in form of low-current condition or high power factor; high-torque conditions are sensed by low power factor, or high-current, in dependence on the desired torque level which results, respectively, in a comparatively steep phase angle-torque or current level-torque curve. A switch control is energized to turn-OFF the motor current if the phase angles, or the motor current, respectively, are beyond predetermined levels. To prevent in-rush current, or high power factors from affecting the operation of the turn-OFF system, timing circuits are provided to disable the turn-OFF system when the motor is first turned-ON or if the phase angle difference, as determined by time-comparator networks, between current and voltage, is below a predetermined value.

Abstract: A cooling plate, the hybrid electronic circuit and a circuit board connection plate, are mounted flat at the bottom of a cup-shaped vessel with a reentrant tube for an iron core leg, in which vessel the secondary winding on its spool and a primary winding set inside the spool are put for being imbedded in a casting resin. The vessel and its contents fits over the central core leg of an E-shaped stationary armature of a magneto generator for a one-cylinder internal combustion engine.

Abstract: To increase the resistance against high-voltage flash-over or arc-over of a distributor rotor with a built-in radio noise suppression resistor (5), the radio noise suppression resistor (5) is formed together with the distribution terminal (1) and a central contact terminal (4) in form of a plate (11) in a unitary subassembly, for example by rivet connection of the terminals to end caps (8, 9) on the resistor, the subassembly then being molded into the rotor body (6) during an injection-molding step. To provide for mechanical strength, the resistor preferably includes fiber-reinforced epoxy as a substrate or carrier, or as a jacket. Preferably, the contact plate (11) is placed at a level below that of the resistor (5) and surrounded by an insulating jacket of increasing thickness towards the plate, so that the thickness of insulating material with respect to adjacent grounded or chassis connection elements, such as an attachment flange or screw bushing (17) is increased.

Abstract: Corrosion of a water sensor resulting from the passage of considerable electric current through it while it is in contact with water is prevented in a motor fuel filter equipped for water separation by interrupting or greatly reducing the current passing through the sensor after the sensor has given a signal indicating the presence of water in sufficient quantity to require draining soon. The warning provided to the vehicle driver is maintained thereafter either by a signal storage circuit (flipflop) or by causing current diverted from the sensor to flow through a substitution resistor or a shunt transistor.

Abstract: An insert provides for varying the inside diameter of a hole in a device such as a bowling ball. The insert has a co-axial pair of telescoping tubes joined by a thread so that the tubes may be made longer or shorter by turning one of said tubes relative to another of the tubes. The inside tube terminates at its upper end in a conical wedge shape. A flexible tube or sleeve is cemented to the outside telescoping tube to be engaged by the inside tube as it telescopes. The flexible tube has a conical wedge on its outside surface for confronting the conical wedge shaped end of the inside tube. By turning one of the tubes, the two conical wedges advance toward or retract from each other to construct or relax the diameter of the flexible tube over a continuous range extending from a fully relaxed maximum diameter hole to a fully constricted minimum diameter hole.

Abstract: A control device for protecting an internal combustion engine in the case of malfunction of its fuel regulating system is disclosed. The control device includes means which in response to the occurrence of the first braking mode of operation of the engine after start activates a suction or pump connected to the suction chamber of a fuel injection pump. Then the reaction of the engine to the suction pump is tested. If, the engine does not react to a displacement of the control rod of the fuel adjusting mechanism, then an error is present and the engine is either stopped or switched over to an emergency mode of operation. The control device is suitable particularly for a Diesel engine.

Abstract: A person emergency rescue assembly comprising a container attachable to a person with an automatically inflatable flotation device stored in the container. The container is readily opened by pulling on a release so that the flotation device automatically inflates.

Abstract: A power steering apparatus with a pressure supply for additional loads, the steering pump of which has a plurality of feed chambers separate from one another. The additional loads, such as a brake booster and/or a level regulating device, are connected to one of these separate feed chambers. A reversing valve enables a greater supply capacity to the steering gear by shutting off the additional loads.

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 plurality of inverted U-shaped members with less than all of the members having portions cut away to thus leave the members open under the trenches. The bottoms of the trenches are open where they intersect the ducts, thereby providing easy access between the trenches and the ducts and additional space below the trench to accommodate splices and bends in the cables.

Abstract: A pressure control valve which serves to control a determined medium pressure. The pressure control valve includes a medium chamber with an inlet opening and an outlet opening for the medium to be controlled, separated by a membrane from a spring chamber with a valve spring. On the membrane, a valve member is floatingly disposed via a ball-shaped support member, which acts together with a valve seat. The outlet opening is disposed upstream of the valve seat in such a manner, that during a medium pressure to be controlled the valve member lies upstream of the outlet opening and together with the latter controls the flow of the medium to the valve seat, while during a medium pressure below the valve member descends with throttling action to a greater or lesser degree into the outlet opening and blocks the valve seat at a predetermined lower medium pressure.

Abstract: A rod-like electrical heating element is incorporated in the interior of a tubular solid electrolyte sensor connecting zones of the heating element are disposed on the end face thereof remote from the sensing end. Electrical connecting parts are pressed against the connecting zones of the heating element by means of a spring element. These electrical connecting parts are in electrical contact with the connecting cable of the gas sensor via conductor wires, leads or other connecting means.

Abstract: A displacement pickup for detecting positions of an adjusting device, in particular an adjusting device of fuel injection pumps. In an advantageous manner, an adjustment of the displacement pickup can be performed with the aid of a cylindrical tang, which is displaceable and fixable in a through bore in the wall of a housing receiving the adjusting device and through the interior of which an adjusting device of the displacement pickup can be adjusted from outside the housing. In a displacement pickup advantageously embodied as a rotary potentiometer, a contact means of a resistor (R.sub.a) of the resistance course of the potentiometer can thus be adjusted.

Abstract: To assure a durable bonded joint between the two substrates on which the respective electrodes of an electrochromic device are joined together by an adhesive to form a cavity between them for an electrolyte, a baked-on layer of polyvinyl alcohol or polyvinyl butyral is provided to promote adhesion, allowing a commercially available two-component adhesive to provide a firm joint even if the non-transparent substrate is of metal. The adhesion promoting coating is also used to line the cavity, except where the electrodes are, thus providing insulation and chemical isolation which is important, at least for the metal substrate. The electrolyte is filled through a hole in the metal substrate, which is thereafter plugged with a low-melting solder.

Abstract: The actuation speed of an electromagnetic consumer is increased by means of a charged capacitor which is connected in series with a consumer at such a polarity that its voltage is added to that of the power source. In one embodiment, the capacitor is switched across the power source until it is charged and then it is connected in series with the consumer at such a polarity that its positive pole is grounded while the negative pole is connected to the consumer. In another embodiment, the capacitor is first charged through the electromagnetic consumer and then it is connected with its positive pole to ground and with its negative pole to the consumer.

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 sub-units 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 provide for reproduction of video signals from a magnetic recording tape in which the video signals have been recorded at a speed different from the reproduction speed, so that, upon passage of the tape about a reproducing drum, in a spiral path, the recording angle of the inclined tracks differs from the reproducing scan track (compare tracks 3-7 and 11, 12 of FIG. 1b), a further magnetic head is provided and so positioned that the signals which are not scanned by one head are, effectively, scanned by another head; by use of a programmed memory, the signals can be stored in proper sequence for reproduction as essentially complete TV signals, for read-out in accordance with a desired TV scanning standard, in analog or digital signal form.

Abstract: In a pressure control valve for a fuel injection pump, which includes a piston displaceable in the cylinder by the pressure fluid admitted in the cylinder and against the force of a restoring spring which biases the piston, the piston is closely guided in the cylinder with an annular gap which can be maintained constant. The piston includes one portion which forms the annular gap with the wall of the cylinder and two lateral guide portions closely guided in the cylinder. The annular gap is in communication with the pressure control chamber and the spring chamber formed in the cylinder. A throttle is formed at the discharge of the spring chamber. The amount of fuel flowing through the annular gap builds up a compensation pressure at the throttle to compensate for the influence of temperature fluctuations in the fluid admitted in the pressure control chamber of the cylinder.

Abstract: An electro-pneumatic brake system with a pressure control valve switched ahead of the brake cylinders is proposed, which connects the brake cylinders either with outside air or with a storage tank. The pressure control valve is directly operable by an electro-magnet or, in the case of its loss, by an operating piston and is formed as a double-seat valve with large flow-through diameters. It can be combined with stop valves in order to make possible a multichannel pressure control. The compressed brake system is intended for use in motor vehicles, especially in utility vehicles.