Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vibration damper with adjustable damping force, comprising an inner cylinder with at least one working chamber which exhibits a flow connection to a damping-valve device, wherein the damper-valve device is arranged outside of an outer cylinder, wherein the flow connection has been realized in a component that is separate from the inner cylinder, wherein the separate component is constituted by a pressure-stage adapter which constitutes a part of the working chamber and which exhibits a coupling to the damping-valve device, wherein a base piece is arranged at the end of the inner cylinder, wherein the pressure-stage adapter and the base piece have been combined to form a pressure-stage adapter device.

Abstract: An electromechanical brake apparatus for a motor vehicle comprises an adjustment apparatus and a brake component which is connected thereto and which can be adjusted by the adjustment apparatus along an axis and brought into braking engagement with a counter-brake component, wherein the adjustment apparatus has a first actuator and a second actuator which is coupled thereto in series, wherein the first actuator has a rotatably drivable first drive wheel by which a first output element and a first drive element which can be adjusted axially relative thereto can be rotatably driven relative to each other, and the second actuator has a rotatably drivable second drive wheel which is coaxial relative to the first drive wheel and by which a threaded spindle which has a spindle thread which engages in an inner thread of the first actuator can be rotatably driven.

Abstract: An electromechanical brake apparatus for a motor vehicle comprises an adjustment apparatus and a brake component which is connected thereto and which can be adjusted by the adjustment apparatus along an axis and brought into braking engagement with a counter-brake component, wherein the adjustment apparatus has a first actuator and a second actuator which is coupled thereto in series, wherein the first actuator has a rotatably drivable first drive wheel by which a first output element and a first drive element which can be adjusted axially relative thereto can be rotatably driven relative to each other, and the second actuator has a rotatably drivable second drive wheel which is coaxial relative to the first drive wheel and by which a threaded spindle which has a spindle thread which engages in an inner thread of the first actuator can be rotatably driven.

Abstract: In a damping system for a motor vehicle including a working cylinder at least partially filled with hydraulic fluid and a pressure adjustment arrangement containing a pump, a hydraulic accumulator, a first valve and a second valve, each of which is connected via hydraulic lines to the first and second working chambers and wherein the valve position of the valves is adjustable, in particular continuously, a method for adjusting a damping force of the damping system includes the valve position of the valves and/or the volumetric flow rate and/or the speed of the pump being controlled/regulated depending on a predetermined force setpoint acting on the piston rod.

Abstract: An electromechanical braking device for a motor vehicle comprises an actuating device and a brake part, which is connected thereto, is adjustable along an axis by the actuating device and can be brought into braking engagement with a counter-braking part, wherein the actuating device has a first actuating drive and a second actuating drive, which is coupled in series thereto, wherein the first actuating drive has a rotationally drivable first drive wheel and the second actuating drive has a rotationally drivable second drive wheel, which is coaxial to the first drive wheel, wherein a clutch device is arranged between the first drive wheel and the second drive wheel. Adjustment of the air gap may be improved by the clutch device being a friction clutch with a friction element, which is frictionally connectable to a counter-friction element during the engagement of the clutch.

Abstract: A device for the thermal activation of mineral materials comprises a calciner, a reduction device, and a material cooler, wherein the calciner and the reduction device are connected to one another for transfer of calcined material, wherein the reduction device is connected to the material cooler for transfer of color-optimized material, wherein the reduction device is a fluidized bed reactor.

Abstract: An ammonia synthesis gas-gas heat exchanger comprises a first gas side and a second gas side, wherein the first gas side has a first gas inlet and a first gas outlet, wherein the second gas side has a second gas inlet and a second gas outlet, wherein the first gas side has a first gas distribution region connected to the first gas inlet, wherein the first gas side has a first gas collecting region connected to the first gas outlet, wherein the first gas distribution region and the first gas collecting region are connected to one another via a plurality of first heat exchange gas ducts, wherein the first heat exchange gas ducts are in thermal contact with the second gas side, and wherein at least one first electric heating element is arranged in the first gas collecting region.

Abstract: A steer-by-wire steering system for a motor vehicle comprises a steering wheel angle detection apparatus, a feedback actuator and a wheel actuator. The wheel actuator has a wheel actuator control device which is communicatively connected to a feedback actuator control device and is designed to calculate an absolute steering angle on the basis of sensor values from at least two first rotational angle sensors on a second gearwheel of the steering wheel angle detection apparatus and sensor values from at least two second rotational angle sensors on a motor shaft of the feedback actuator. A motor vehicle can include such a system and a method for determining an absolute steering angle can use such a system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for thermal treatment of a mineral starting material, wherein the apparatus comprises a calciner, wherein the calciner comprises at least a first calciner section and a second calciner section, wherein the first calciner section is arranged vertically, wherein the second calciner section is arranged at an incline, wherein the second calciner section has an angle ? between the horizontal and the flow direction of the second calciner section, wherein the angle ? is between 20° and 80°, wherein the first calciner section has a first hydraulic diameter dh,1, wherein the second calciner section has a second hydraulic diameter dh,2, wherein the second hydraulic diameter dh,2 is less than or equal to the first hydraulic diameter dh,1 multiplied by the sine of the angle ?.

Abstract: A steering device for a motor vehicle, in particular a “steer-by-wire” steering device, comprises a steering wheel, which is able to act on a steering sensor for measuring the rotation angle position of the steering wheel, an electromechanical actuator, which is able to act on a rack for steering wheels, and an electronic controller, which is adapted to detect the steering wheel angle position and to control the electromechanical actuator, wherein the steering device further comprises a feedback actuator acting on the steering wheel, wherein the controller is adapted to measure natural oscillations of the motor vehicle and to apply them with a corresponding amplitude to the feedback actuator.

Abstract: A hydraulic vibration damper includes a housing assembly and a rod assembly. The housing assembly includes a main housing, an end cap and a rebound cut off (RCO) assembly. The rod assembly includes a hollow piston rod coupled to a main piston assembly. The main piston assembly includes a main piston that is displaced along the main housing between extension and compression directions. The RCO assembly is disposed between the main housing and the hollow piston rod and includes an RCO piston and an RCO flask. The RCO flask has a flask body including at least one flask passage defined therein that communicates hydraulic fluid along the flask body.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a track link assembly comprising a track link body with at least one window opening for receiving a nut. A track shoe is attached to the track link body by means of at least one screw. The nut includes an internally threaded section for receiving the screw. A sensor arrangement comprises a sensor element attached to the track link body and electronic elements for operating the sensor arrangement. In order to provide an improved track link assembly with a sensor arrangement which is less vulnerable to damage and failure while at the same time not raising the production costs for the improved track link assembly, the nut has an internal receiving space in which the electronic elements for operating the sensor arrangement are arranged.

Abstract: A radial piston pump, in particular radial piston compressor, including a drive shaft with an eccentric, and at least one piston/working chamber combination, wherein the piston/working chamber combination includes a working chamber and a piston, wherein the radial piston pump includes at least two piston/working chamber combinations extending radially from the drive shaft, wherein each working chamber is closed with a cover, wherein the radial piston pump is equipped with a housing component with an integrated retaining ring for fixing all of the covers of the radial piston pump.

Abstract: A rotary sensor for a steering system of a motor vehicle comprises a ring gear which is rotatably mounted in a housing about an axis (A), having an internal toothing, and a coupling element designed for connection to a steering shaft that can be rotated about its longitudinal axis (L), wherein the housing has an axial end wall, an axial inner wall, and a coaxially running circumferential wall, wherein the ring gear is arranged axially between the end wall and the inner wall and is circumferentially enclosed by the circumferential wall with respect to the axis (A), and wherein at least one measuring wheel, which has a magnetic element, is rotatably mounted in the housing and meshes with its external toothing in the internal toothing of the ring gear, and wherein measuring elements cooperating with the magnetic elements of the measuring wheel are mounted in the housing.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an electrically adjustable steering column for the vehicle, the electrically adjustable steering column comprising a rocker arm, a shield sleeve and a steering shaft. The rocker arm comprises a rocker arm inner surface which defines a rocker arm inner hole. The shield sleeve is configured to be slidably received in the rocker arm inner hole, and comprises a shield sleeve outer surface. The steering shaft is rotatably received in the shield sleeve and projects from one end of the shield sleeve. The rocker arm inner surface comprises a rocker arm sliding surface, the shield sleeve outer surface comprises a shield sleeve sliding surface, the rocker arm sliding surface is in sliding contact with the shield sleeve sliding surface, and at least one of the rocker arm sliding surface and the shield sleeve sliding surface comprises a recess.

Abstract: A method can be employed to regulate and stably operate a steam reforming system that is operated by steam reforming, that has a capacity utilization level that can be regulated, and that comprises a steam reformer, a hydrogenating and desulfurizing unit that is positioned upstream of the steam reformer and is configured for feedstock desulfurization, and a firing unit of the steam reformer. According to the method, a mandated capacity utilization level for the steam reforming system is established with automated regulation of the following continuously monitored parameter ratios: a hydrogen-to-feedstock ratio in the hydrogenating and desulfurizing unit, a steam-to-carbon ratio in the steam reformer, and a fuel-to-air ratio in the firing unit of the steam reformer.

Abstract: A radial piston pump, including a drive shaft having an eccentric and at least one piston-and-working chamber combination, wherein the piston-and-working chamber combination includes a working chamber and a piston. The radial piston pump includes at least two piston-and-working chamber combinations which extend radially from the drive shaft, wherein each working chamber is closed by a cover. The radial piston pump is equipped with at least one retaining ring for fixing all of the covers of the radial piston pump; and to a method for producing a radial piston pump.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an application apparatus for applying a sealing profile to a bodywork part, comprising a roller head, which is designed to apply the sealing profile to a receiving surface of the bodywork part, and at least one further functional unit for performing a further station step, wherein the at least one further functional unit is respectively designed as a functional module from a set of functional modules.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a process for CO2-neutral hydrogen production and subsequent further processing to afford ammonia.

Abstract: An adjustment device for a damper valve comprises at least one adjustment shaft and at least one adjustment element, which have a common axis of rotation, wherein the adjustment element is connected in a rotationally conjoint manner to the adjustment shaft, and wherein, for setting of a damping force, at least one control disc is connected or connectable to the adjustment shaft, wherein the adjustment element is rotatable about the axis of rotation without a stop in such a way that a rotational movement of the adjustment element is realized free of a delimitation in any direction of rotation.