Abstract: A controllable piston valve for a shock absorber in a piston cylinder structure includes a piston valve member controlling a throughflow area is actuated by a differential control piston. Oppositely directed effective surfaces of the control piston are subject to the pressure of the piston chamber and the annular chamber of the cylinder. The control piston and/or the piston valve member are additionally loaded with a pressure of a pressure source opposite to the larger of the effective surfaces, the pressure source being formed by a combination of a fluidic resistance and a fluidic capacitance and are supplied by the pressure in the piston chamber or the annular chamber of the piston cylinder structure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a plastic article. The plastic is introduced into a mold that can be tempered and that has at least one hollow chamber, the contour of which corresponds to the outer contour of the article. During manufacture, the mold is heated up and removal of the article is effected with a cooled mold. To shorten the cycling time, the inner region of the mold that adjoins the hollow chamber is cooled and heated at least partially independently of the outer region that is remote from the hollow chamber, while the outer region is held at a temperature that is higher than the temperature during removal.