Abstract: A valve assembly for controlling cooling fluid flows in a motor vehicle, the valve assembly including: a valve housing having a main housing body and a housing cover connected to the main housing body, a valve body receiving space being developed in the valve housing, which is enclosed by the main housing body and the housing cover, a fluid line system having at least two fluid lines, which run in different spatial regions starting from the valve body receiving space, a valve body, which is accommodated in the valve body receiving space rotatable about an actuation axis, the valve body being designed to taper along the actuation axis in such a way that by rotating the valve body about the actuation axis, a fluid connection situation of at least two fluid lines of the fluid line system is changeable, and a prestressing means, which applies a pressure onto the valve body along the actuation axis in the tapering direction, both the valve body as well at least the main housing body to be formed as injection m

Abstract: An air intake device with a variable-length intake duct, comprising: a base duct component with a base duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the base duct component, an extension duct component with an extension duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the extension duct component, a guidance arrangement which guides the extension duct component and the base duct component to relative movement between a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein in the first operating position the base duct and the extension duct form, in mutually prolonging abutment, a continuous duct section, and wherein in the second operating position the extension duct is arranged at a distance from the base duct, and a first centering arrangement which when the duct components approach the first operating position is configured to decrease a radial distance in relation to a virtual base duct path conceived as passing centrally through the base duct between an end section of the base

Abstract: An air intake device with a variable-length intake duct, comprising: a base duct component with a base duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the base duct component, an extension duct component with an extension duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the extension duct component, a guidance arrangement which guides the extension duct component and the base duct component to relative movement between a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein in the first operating position the base duct and the extension duct form, in mutually prolonging abutment, a continuous duct section, and wherein in the second operating position the extension duct is arranged at a distance from the base duct, and a first centering arrangement which when the duct components approach the first operating position is configured to decrease a radial distance in relation to a virtual base duct path conceived as passing centrally through the base duct between an end section of the base