Abstract: A connection bearing with a line connection comprises an annular bearing body with a through-opening which receives a bearing pin. The connection bearing has a receiving channel for receiving a line penetrating the connection bearing. The receiving channel is constructed at least up to the annular bearing body. Therefore, one end of the line can be grasped to hold it in a coaxial arrangement relative to the longitudinal axis of the connection bearing. The receiving channel in the bearing body for the line has an extension which extends along a direction that passes outside of the through-opening for the bearing pin.

Abstract: A transmission mechanism has an outer casing. A hollow tube is connected to a bottom of the outer casing. A main frame has a panel having a round aperture. A shock absorbing assembly has a buffer device, a positioning seat disposed on the buffer device, and a screw rod fastening the positioning seat and the hollow tube together.

Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle includes a pedal unit through which activations of a brake pedal are sensed, two central units and electromechanical brake actuators assigned to wheels. Sensor signals are transmitted to the central units by the pedal unit. In the central units, brake engagement setpoint values are calculated and serially encoded together with the sensor signals, and control signals for supplementary brake functions are generated. The encoded signals are each transmitted to two respective brake actuators through data buses. The control units of the brake actuators make a majority decision and control the brake actuators accordingly.

Abstract: The invention is uniquely "passive-active" in that it brings to bear, sequentially and complementarily, passive vibration control followed by active vibration control. A conventional mount (such as an air mount) is accommodated so as to include, at the mount's foundation-securing plate, at least one motion sensor and at least one vibratory actuator. Each sensor is correlated with an actuator. For each sensor-actuator pair, the electrical feedback loop includes generation by the sensor of a signal resulting from the local vibration of the foundation-securing plate, generation by a processor/controller of a signal derived from the sensor's signal, and exertion upon the foundation-securing plate by the sensor's paired actuator of a vibratory force commanded by the processor/controller's signal. Many preferred embodiments of the inventive apparatus, system and method collocate each sensor with its paired actuator and implement a conventional vibration suppression algorithm involving collocated velocity feedback.

Abstract: The invention relates to shock-absorber pistons which have a piston body mountable on a piston shaft, the piston body having on both faces a circumferential chamber and these chambers being covered by valve spring disks which rest on circumferential shoulders around the circumferential chambers. The piston body has counterflow channels each leading from the circumferential chamber on one face to an aperture outside the circumferential shoulder on the opposite face.

Abstract: A high speed feeder for cartons being fed into a cartoner includes both mechanical and fluid flow environments for precisely delivering cartons. A preferably inclined conveyor receives cartons stacked on their edges and in a generally vertical orientation. A rotating metering wheel at the downstream end of the conveyor engages the top edges of the cartons and separates them one at a time from the incoming stack. A blower is provided to direct air onto the cartons adjacent the metering wheel to (a) blow the cartons against the metering wheel, (b) blow air between the first and second cartons of the stack as the metering wheel separates the first from the second, and (c) blow the cartons down to a horizontal attitude. Horizontal feed chains having feed lugs receive the horizontal cartons and advance them one at a time into the cartoner. Vacuum nozzles are provided to aid in controlling carton placement on the feed chains and lugs throughout a broad range of feed speeds. Methods are included.