Abstract: Steering wheel having a steering wheel rim which is hollow at least in some places and has ventilation openings for stabilizing the temperature of the steering rim. In the region of the at least one cavity, the steering wheel rim has a holder for fixing a fan module which sucks in environmental air and passes it into the cavity.

Abstract: An endless chain for the transmission of torque between adjustable pulleys of a continuously variable transmission has a series of successive composite links. The neighboring links of the series have overlapping portions with registering openings for composite rocker elements each having two bolts carrying projections at the sides of the chain to abut the adjacent links and/or to oppose unintentional separation of the bolts from the respective links. At least one of the bolts carries a single projection; for example, each bolt can carry a single projection and the projections of the bolts constituting a rocker element can be located at opposite sides or at the same side of the chain. The projections can be of one piece with or can be affixed to the respective bolts. The bolts can be inserted into the respective openings at the one or the other side of the chain.

Abstract: The invention consists in a method of setting up a machine for sealing closure clips between a stamp and a bottom tool, which for coaling the clip are first of all moved towards each other up to a sealing distance and are then moved away from each other, and where the sealing distance between stamp and bottom tool is detected by means of a sensor. The invention also consists in a device for sealing closure clips between a stamp and a bottom tool, where the device includes a sensor for detecting a sealing distance between stamp and bottom tool.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraint system has a gas generator and a gas bag. A method for inflating a gas bag for restraining an occupant comprises the following steps: providing a gas generator for producing gas which is flowingly connected to the gas bag, providing at least one propellant charge within the gas generator, providing at least one igniter within the gas generator, the gas generator blowing gas into the gas bag over more than one second, preferably over more than three seconds, in order to achieve a high service time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the detachable fastening of a steering wheel on a steering shaft having an axis. The steering wheel has a hub provided with a through-bore arranged perpendicularly to the axis of the steering shaft and the through-bore intersects a groove arranged in the steering shaft. The device comprises a fastening means arranged in the through-bore. The fastening means has a bolt with a head and a shaft provided at least partially with an external thread and has a nut able to be screwed onto the shaft of the bolt. The nut is able to engage into the groove and the through-bore has two oppositely directed radial support surfaces arranged between the bolt head and the nut. One support surface is arranged on the bolt head side and the other support surface is arranged on the nut side. A spring element is provided which engages one of the bolt and the nut and exerts a force onto one of the bolt and the nut. The force aims for an increase of a distance between the bolt head and the nut.

Abstract: A gas bag, with several walls (3) of fabric material which delimit the interior of the gas bag, at least one separating cross-piece (23 to 27) which is formed by interweaving opposite wall regions and divides the interior of the gas bag into several chambers (15 to 21), is characterized in that the separating cross-piece (23 to 27) has at least one free end at which it widens and runs out in a drop shape (33, 35) or in a rounding (37).

Abstract: A vehicular side-impact restraint system comprises a gas lance defining a longitudinal direction, a gas bag which is in fluid communication with the gas lance, an ejection channel in which the gas lance and the gas bag are arranged, a cutout provided in the ejection channel and extending transversely to the longitudinal direction, and a cover for the cutout.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas bag having at least one chamber. The gas bag comprises at least two fabric layers arranged opposite one another and delimiting the at least one chamber which can be filled with gas. The fabric layers each form a surface area and consist of threads which comprise warp and weft threads. The gas bag further comprises at least one spacer which is joined to the fabric layers and, in an inflated state of the gas bag, limits a distance between the fabric layers. The spacer is made up of some of the threads which, related to the inflated state of the gas bag, depart from the surface area formed by their associated fabric layer and extend towards the opposite fabric layer to be joined to threads of the opposite fabric layer.

Abstract: A device for eliminating vibrations in motor vehicles, more particularly vibrations occurring in the steering wheel rim, includes a fastening plate and a vibratory body which is elastically connected to the fastening plate. An element is provided for limiting the amplitudes of vibration of the vibratory body, this element being coated with a vibration-damping material and being able to abut at a counter clement. The counter element is provided with a rough surface in a region of contact with the element.

Abstract: A printer includes a printer carrier having a surface for receiving ink for transfer printing onto a carrier material, such as paper. Areas of the surface print carrier are ink attracting and others are made ink repelling. The ink repelling areas are formed by providing the surface with a layer of a substance in a solid phase, such as water in the form of ice. The ice layer repels the ink as it is applied so that the ink is only held on the surface of the print carrier at the areas that are ice free. The ice layer is formed by cooling the surface using a cooling mechanism to form a coating of frost due to condensation. A surface tension reducer for water is coated on the surface prior to cooling the surface. A laser or other radiation emitter structures the ice layer to form the print image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure medium system with at least one valve and one pressure medium supply, whereby a differential pressure can be purposely controlled in a positive and negative pressure area, especially for controlling a torque converter lockup clutch of a hydrodynamic torque converter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a structured layer of defined functional molecules on the surface of a flat substrate, on the surface of which structures having different surface properties, at least as regards their hydrophobicity, are produced. A monolayer of a protein-containing crystalline cell surface layer (S layer) is deposited by recrystallization on said structured surface. Said S Layer binds only to those structured areas of the surface characterized by raised hydrophobicity. Alternatively, a structured S-layer may also be produced on the basis of a monolayer of an S layer deposited on a substrate by irradiating predefined sections of said layer to be structured with radiation of a predetermined intensity and energy. In the irradiated sections of the S-layer this suppresses the binding or intercalating ability of at least one surface.

Abstract: The invention discloses polyvinyl alcohol-stabilized copolymers of 1,3-dienes with methacrylates and/or acrylates in the form of their aqueous polymer dispersions or polymer powders redispersible in water, and to a process for their preparation and their use.

Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter for use with a transmission in the power train of a motor vehicle has a housing rotatable by the engine and containing a pump, a turbine and at least one stator as well as a rotary output device connected to the input shaft of the transmission. The pump is normally rotatable by the housing; the turbine is rotatable (a) by the fluid which is circulated by the pump or (b) by the housing in response to engagement of a lockup clutch; and the stator can be connected to the stationary case of the transmission or is rotatable by the circulating fluid. First and second hubs are non-rotatably but axially movably mounted on the output member and are respectively connectable with the turbine and the stator by suitable clutches.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device for recirculating exhaust gas into a gas feed to engines, especially motor vehicle engines, having an exhaust gas feed, a fresh gas feed and an outlet duct opening into the gas feed, where at least the exhaust gas feed and the fresh gas feed are interconnected via a control means for metering exhaust gas and, on the side of the control means facing the fresh gas feed, there is arranged a pressure plate which minimizes the influence of pressure fluctuations that occur on the exhaust gas side and the fresh gas side and have an effect on the exhaust gas throughput.

Abstract: A printer or copier has a paper feeder provided with a plurality of compartments which hold paper for feeding the paper to the printer and a circuit to control conveying of the paper to the printer. The paper feeder includes a drive to move the paper from the paper compartments to a conveying path where it is carried to the printer. A branching portion is provided in the conveying path. Further paper feeders may be connected in series to the first paper feeder, each paper feeder having a plurality of paper compartments and feeding the paper out of a lower paper feed path to the next paper feeder device.

Abstract: An assembly consists of a first component and of a second component. The first component is provided with at least one opening and with at least one holding projection which is associated with the opening The second component consists of sheet metal and is provided with at least one holding tongue which has a cross-piece and a head. The cross-piece extends through the opening in the first component and is bent around such that the head lies against the side of the holding projection facing away from the opening.

Abstract: A restraint device for vehicle occupants, in particular for the lateral restraining of the occupant, comprising an inflatable gas bag (10) and a tensioning device which is connected with the vehicle, engages the gas bag, pulls the gas bag into an intended position on inflation, and holds the gas bag in this position, is characterized in that the tensioning device has at least one inflatable tightening means (20) which shortens in the pulling direction by the inflation and thereby exerts a tensile force on the gas bag.

Abstract: A belt retractor has a frame (1; 101), a belt reel rotatably mounted about an axis in the frame, a control disc (10; 110) coaxial with the belt reel and a reduction gear unit (7, 15, 16) which translates rotation the belt reel into a reduced rotation of the control disc. The control disc has a cutout window (11; 111) between a pair of detector elements. The first (8; 108) of these detector elements is connected to the belt reel for joint rotation and the second (12; 112, 113, 114, 115, 116) is arranged as fixed relative to the frame. The window is located on the same radius as said detector elements relative to the axis. The arrangement provides a precise measurement of the absolute angle of rotation of the belt reel.

Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter, which exhibits important advantages regarding the consumption of fuel and the operation at low RPM in the power train of a motor vehicle, has a stator, a pump and a turbine which jointly form a toroidal structure having a meridian cross-sectional outline which is asymmetrical with reference to at least one axis other than the rotational axis of the housing of the torque converter.