Abstract: An automatic braking device for a vehicle and a method for automatically braking a vehicle. The vehicle is automatically braked using at least one friction brake of the vehicle in such a way that a brake force that is effectuated by the at least one friction brake is increased, at least at times, with a predefined maximum brake force buildup gradient and/or up to a predefined maximum brake force. At least when no emergency braking situation is present, it is ascertained prior to the automatic braking whether the vehicle at that moment is traveling through a specified or self-determined particulate matter protection area, and, if necessary, the brake force that is effectuated with the aid of the at least one friction brake is increased at most with a predefined or set limiting brake force buildup gradient and/or at most up to a predefined or set limiting brake force.

Abstract: An automatic braking device for a vehicle and a method for automatically braking a vehicle. The vehicle is automatically braked using at least one friction brake of the vehicle in such a way that a brake force that is effectuated by the at least one friction brake is increased, at least at times, with a predefined maximum brake force buildup gradient and/or up to a predefined maximum brake force. At least when no emergency braking situation is present, it is ascertained prior to the automatic braking whether the vehicle at that moment is traveling through a specified or self-determined particulate matter protection area, and, if necessary, the brake force that is effectuated with the aid of the at least one friction brake is increased at most with a predefined or set limiting brake force buildup gradient and/or at most up to a predefined or set limiting brake force.

Abstract: A positioning table assembly for a crash test dummy includes a table bed adapted to be attached to an impact table for the crash test dummy and a table top adapted to support the crash test dummy and movably attached to the table bed for independent movement in X and Y axes and rotationally about a Z axis to position the crash test dummy relative to the table bed.

Abstract: A positioning table assembly for a crash test dummy includes a table bed adapted to be attached to an impact table for the crash test dummy and a table top adapted to support the crash test dummy and movably attached to the table bed for independent movement in X and Y axes and rotationally about a Z axis to position the crash test dummy relative to the table bed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a selection of components of a disc brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, having a brake caliper having an installation opening for installing a brake shaft, a first brake shaft and a second brake shaft, wherein the two brake shafts are coordinated with the brake caliper in such a manner that they can be used to apply the brake. According to the invention, the first brake shaft, but not the second, fits through the installation opening. The further invention relates to a disc brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, having a brake shaft and a brake caliper having an installation opening for installing the brake shaft, wherein the brake shaft is coordinated with the brake caliper in such a manner that said brake shaft can be used to apply the brake. According to the invention, the brake caliper and the brake shaft each have a coding, which allows installation of the brake shaft through the installation opening only if the two codings match.

Abstract: A power split transmission includes a hydraulic power branch having two hydraulic machines arranged in a hydraulic circuit, at least one of which comprises an adjustable displacement. The transmission comprises a control device for controlling the transmission ratio, and is configured to actuate at least the one adjusting device at a displacement setting. The displacement setting is adjusted in relation to a displacement setting oriented to a current demand, at least in a drive mode or drive mode section in which the displacement of one of the hydraulic machines reaches a maximum or is reduced from this maximum.

Abstract: A brake disc, in particular for utility vehicles, having a brake pad, having a brake-application device for pressing the brake pad against a brake disc, and having a pressure plate via which the brake-application device presses the brake pad against the brake disc during braking. A projection is provided on the pressure plate and a recess is provided on the brake pad. In the assembled state, the recess receives the projection and has the at least one first inner delimitation which constitutes a stop for the lateral outer delimitation of the projection in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a disc brake, in particular for utility vehicles, comprising a brake lining that comprises a first protrusion located eccentrically in the thickness direction, a tensioning unit for pressing the brake lining against a brake disc, a pressure plate, via which the tensioning unit presses the brake lining against the brake disc when braking, and a first retainer spring for retaining the brake lining, which retainer spring comprises an opening for accommodating the first protrusion, wherein a projection on the retainer spring extends in the mounted state over the brake lining on one side in the axial direction of the brake disc.

Abstract: A lighting device for streets, paths, and the like, includes a lighting unit containing a lighting element and a lens arranged in front of the lighting element in the main emission direction to produce a specified light distribution characteristic. The lens includes a light entrance surface on a light entrance side facing the lighting element and a light exit surface on a light exit side facing away from the lighting element, at which surfaces the light is refracted. The light entrance surface and/or the light exit surface of the lens is shaped in a direction transverse to the optical axis of the lighting element in such a way that the luminous intensity of the coupled out light, starting from a center plane that intersects with the optical axis, rises with an increasing emission angle from the optical axis at least partially according to a tangent function.

Abstract: The invention relates to a selection of components of a disc brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, having a brake caliper having an installation opening for installing a brake shaft, a first brake shaft and a second brake shaft, wherein the two brake shafts are coordinated with the brake caliper in such a manner that they can be used to apply the brake. According to the invention, the first brake shaft, but not the second, fits through the installation opening. The further invention relates to a disc brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, having a brake shaft and a brake caliper having an installation opening for installing the brake shaft, wherein the brake shaft is coordinated with the brake caliper in such a manner that said brake shaft can be used to apply the brake. According to the invention, the brake caliper and the brake shaft each have a coding, which allows installation of the brake shaft through the installation opening only if the two codings match.

Abstract: A lighting device for streets, paths, and the like, includes a lighting unit containing a lighting element and a lens arranged in front of the lighting element in the main emission direction to produce a specified light distribution characteristic. The lens includes a light entrance surface on a light entrance side facing the lighting element and a light exit surface on a light exit side facing away from the lighting element, at which surfaces the light is refracted. The light entrance surface and/or the light exit surface of the lens is shaped in a direction transverse to the optical axis of the lighting element in such a way that the luminous intensity of the coupled out light, starting from a center plane that intersects with the optical axis, rises with an increasing emission angle from the optical axis at least partially according to a tangent function.

Abstract: A method and arrangement is provided to support both fast Programmed Input/Output (PIO) and third party Direct Memory Access (DMA) data transfers between a system memory and Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) drives. A DMA controller attached to an ISA bus supplies address, read and write signals in third party DMA data transfers. An IDE controller provides control signals to support the DMA data transfers. The IDE controller additionally provides address and control signals to support the PIO data transfers at local bus speeds. A local bus-ISA bridge is incorporated to support the system memory that resides on the local bus. An arbitration circuit arbitrates access to the ISA bus, and allows the IDE controller to seize the ISA bus for fast PIO data transfer.

Abstract: A bridge for interfacing buses in a computer system having an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus and a peripheral controller interconnect (PCI) bus is coupled between the ISA and PCI buses. The bridge has a direct memory access (DMA) control circuit programmable by programming signals to perform a DMA transfer. The DMA has registers for storing base addresses and registers for storing current addresses. The base addresses and the current addresses indicate destinations of transfer data in the DMA transfer. A power management device is coupled to the DMA control circuit and has logic for causing the computer system to enter a suspend mode. A base address register read circuit is coupled to the base address registers. Prior to entering the suspend mode, the base address register read circuit provides one of the base addresses to be read by a central processing unit (CPU) onto disk storage.

Abstract: A system having an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus with a 24-bit memory addressing capacity and a peripheral controller interconnect (PCI) bus with a 32-bit memory addressing capacity, is provided with a bridge coupled between the ISA and PCI buses. The bridge has a direct memory access (DMA) controller circuit that generates 32-bit memory addresses for DMA transfer operations over the PCI bus. The DMA controller circuit includes a pair of cascaded DMA controllers that generate the 16 least significant bits of the 32-bit memory addresses, and address extension logic having a low page register that provides the 8 next most significant bits of the 32-bit memory addresses, and a high page register that provides the 8 most significant bits of the 32-bit memory addresses. The 16 bits provided by the low and high page registers are concatenated with the lower 16 bits to form the 32-bit addresses.

Abstract: A bridge interface for buses in a computer system has a direct memory access (DMA) controller that controls memory transfers in the computer system. The DMA controller has a pair of cascaded DMA controller chips that provide a plurality of DMA channels. A multiplexer circuit receives memory address signals from the DMA controller chips. The memory address signals are received in both a shifted form and an unshifted form at the multiplexer inputs. By selection of the shifted or the unshifted memory address at the multiplexer, either even or odd addresses are produced at the multiplexer output for each DMA channel, thereby selectively providing 8-bit or 16-bit memory accesses. The control of the multiplexer is programmable for each DMA channel, providing dynamic configuration of the DHA channels as either 8-bit or 16-bit channels.

Abstract: A bridge is provided between an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus and a peripheral controller interconnect (PCI) bus and performs memory cycles on both buses simultaneously when a master on the ISA bus initiates a memory transfer. Data is steered between the ISA and PCI buses when a slave on the PCI bus claims the memory address within a predetermined time period after the memory cycle is initiated on the PCI bus. The ISA bus is isolated from the PCI bus when no slave on the PCI bus claims the memory address. This allows the memory cycle to be completed on the ISA bus, and the memory cycle on the PCI bus is terminated.

Abstract: A bridge interface for a computer system having an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus and a peripheral controller interconnect (PCI) bus is coupled between the ISA and PCI buses. The bridge has a direct memory access (DMA) control circuit programmable by programming signals to perform a DMA transfer, and a scatter/gather unit coupled between the ISA bus and the DMA control circuit. The scatter/gather unit selectively provides the programming signals to the DMA control circuit directly or causes the programming signals to be provided over the ISA bus. Providing the programming signals to the DMA control circuit directly from the programming controller of the scatter/gather unit takes advantage of the location of both the DMA control circuit and the scatter/gather unit on the bridge chip.

Abstract: A bridge for interfacing buses in a computer system having an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus and a peripheral controller interconnect (PCI) bus is coupled between the ISA and PCI buses. Devices coupled to the buses are either PCI bus-compliant devices or are non-PCI bus-compliant devices. A power management device in the computer system is able to place the computer system into a low power suspend mode, a resume mode and an active mode. The bridge has a multi-tiered arbitration device for arbitrating among the PCI bus-compliant devices and the non-PCI bus-compliant devices for control of the computer system. The arbitration device is responsive to the power management device to controllably suspend arbitration when the power management device indicates that the suspend mode is being entered.