Abstract: Catalyst for the polymerization and/or copolymerization of olefins which has a chromium content of from 0.01 to 5% by weight, based on the element in the finished catalyst, is supported on a finely divided inorganic support and is obtainable by concluding calcination at temperatures of from 350 to 1050° C. and has a zinc content of from 0.01 to 10% by weight, based on the element in the finished catalyst.

Abstract: A high-pressure mercury vapor discharge lamp has an envelope which contains two electrodes made from tungsten and a filling in a discharge space. The filling essentially consists of mercury, rare gas, and a halogen that is free in the operating condition. The envelope further has a second space.

Abstract: In an electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving automotive power accessories such as front and rear wipers, power window units, or the like, having transmission casing, that can be closed by means of a casing cover, and having a socket that is disposed in the casing cover and can be contacted by means of a connector plug in order to connect the electric motor to the electrical system of the vehicle, for the sake of a uniform, single design of the socket when there are structurally varied designs of connector plugs, the socket is attached to an interchangeable adapter which has a first group of electrical contacts adapted to the socket and a second group of electrical contacts adapted to the connector plug. The contacts of the two contact groups, which are comprised of plug tabs, are connected to one another in an electrically conductive manner inside or along a surface of the adapter.

Abstract: There is described a sharpener, in particular for cosmetic soft lead pencils, comprising a conical sharpener passage (10) and a sharpener blade (12) which is set approximately tangentially with respect to the sharpener passage (10) and which includes a clearance angle (18) with the sharpener passage (10). In order to achieve an excellent cutting behaviour or to avoid unwanted chatter during the cutting operation, the sharpener blade (12) includes with the sharpener passage (10) a clearance angle (18, 18?, 18?) which becomes continuously greater towards the tapering front end (20) of the sharpener passage (10).

Abstract: A sharpener for pencils, and especially for pencils with a rotation-symmetrical cartridge or for pencils whose cartridge is arranged inside of a cartridge carrier, whose cross-section runs perpendicular to the length axis is non-hexagonal and non-circular, includes at least one housing, a cutting device that is connected with the housing, a holding device for the pencil that is at least partially contained in the housing, and a force feed device which guides the holding device along a pre-determined movement path in the housing.

Abstract: Ethylene homopolymers and copolymers are prepared in a tube reactor at from 160° C. to 350° C. and pressures in the range from 500 to 5000 bar, with or without use of molar mass regulators, using a peroxide mixture comprising from 1 to 95 mol %, based on the total amount of the peroxide mixture, of at least one cyclic peroxide of the formula I, where the radicals R are identical or different and are selected from among alkyl groups and aryl groups, as polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Ethylene homopolymers and copolymers are prepared in a tube reactor at from 160° C. to 350° C.

Abstract: An electric drive unit for windshield wipers of a motor vehicle, including a drive motor having an armature accommodated in a substantially cup-shaped pole housing, a substantially cup-shaped gearbox, secured on a face end to the pole housing, for receiving gear elements that convert the rotation of an armature shaft of the armature, supported on one end in the pole housing and on the other end in the gearbox. The armature shaft, adjacent to a bottom of the pole housing, is supported in a cylinder bearing mounted with a press-fit, whose outer diameter is greater than or equal to three times a length of the cylinder bearing.

Abstract: A high-pressure gas discharge lamp with a cooling arrangement is described, which is characterized in particular in that the lamp can be operated at an increased power, an increase in the temperature of the coldest spot in the lamp interior generating a higher gas pressure, while the cooling arrangement (7, 71, 83, 82) is constructed and dimensioned such that a devitrification of the lamp bulb and a condensation of the filling gas are substantially prevented at said increased power. A lighting unit with such a high-pressure gas discharge lamp is further described, as is a power supply unit for operating the lamp. This not only considerably improves the spectral properties of the light, but the lamp also operates at a higher operating voltage because of the higher gas pressure, so that a correspondingly higher lamp power is achieved for a given lamp current. On the other hand, given the same lamp power, a weaker current is required, so that the electrodes will have a substantially longer useful life.

Abstract: In an electric-motor drive device for auxiliary devices in motor vehicles, such as sliding roofs, window controls, windshield wipers, and the like, having a gear housing (17) and a cup-shaped motor housing (13) that is slipped with its opening edge (131) onto the gear housing (17) and fixed thereon, to reduce manufacturing costs and the requisite installation space and improve force introduction from the motor housing (13) to the gear housing (17), the motor housing (13), in its slip-on region, is roller-burnished into the gear housing (17).

Abstract: A method of and a device for operating a gas discharge lamp which is fed with an alternating voltage or an alternating current and wherein the instantaneous power of the lamp is increased at given time intervals are used to form the electrodes. The value of an operational datum of the lamp which varies in time is continuously or discontinuously measured and the frequency of the alternating voltage or the alternating current (operating frequency) is selected in dependence on the measured values.

Abstract: A high-pressure gas discharge lamp (HID or UHP lamp, or in general lamps with mercury fillings of between approximately 0.05 and 0.5 mg/mm3) is described with at least one electrode (7, 8) which is provided with a thickened, for example globular portion (9, 10) at its end lying inside a lamp vessel (2). This portion is so dimensioned in dependence on operational parameters of the lamp and/or the diameter of the electrode rod that an electrode tip (19) forms itself independently at said portion during the first hours of operation. This tip grows from the portion until its free end starts melting. The electrode tip is self-adjusting in this manner, so that an optimum electrode interspacing is maintained throughout lamp life. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing such a lamp is described.

Abstract: The invention is based on a windshield wiper system with a wiper motor (10), which is fastened to a vehicle body by means of a linkage housing (12) connected to the wiper motor and by means of a wiper support (48,50,52) with a hollow profile (86,88,90). The linkage housing (12) has at least one screw fitting (16,18), which is disposed spaced apart from a drive-side bearing dome (28) and extends in its direction. The hollow profile *86,88,90) of the wiper support is guided between the at least one screw fitting and the bearing dome and is supported against the circumference surfaces (30,32,34) of the at least one screw fitting and/or the bearing dome (28).

Abstract: A high-pressure gas discharge lamp with a cooling arrangement is described, which is characterized in particular in that the lamp can be operated at an increased power, an increase in the temperature of the coldest spot in the lamp interior generating a higher gas pressure, while the cooling arrangement (7, 71, 83, 82) is constructed and dimensioned such that a devitrification of the lamp bulb and a condensation of the filling gas are substantially prevented at said increased power. A lighting unit with such a high-pressure gas discharge lamp is further described, as is a power supply unit for operating the lamp. This not only considerably improves the spectral properties of the light, but the lamp also operates at a higher operating voltage because of the higher gas pressure, so that a correspondingly higher lamp power is achieved for a given lamp current. On the other hand, given the same lamp power, a weaker current is required, so that the electrodes will have a substantially longer useful life.

Abstract: An electric drive unit for windshield wipers of a motor vehicle, including a drive motor having an armature accommodated in a substantially cup-shaped pole housing, a substantially cup-shaped gearbox, secured on a face end to the pole housing, for receiving gear elements that convert the rotation of an armature shaft of the armature, supported on one end in the pole housing and on the other end in the gearbox. The armature shaft, adjacent to a bottom of the pole housing, is supported in a cylinder bearing mounted with a press-fit, whose outer diameter is greater than or equal to three times a length of the cylinder bearing.

Abstract: An electric motor-and-gear assembly for driving vehicle aggregates such as windshield and rear window wipers, power-window units and the like, having a transmission housing that can be closed by a housing cover. A motor housing that contains a commutator motor whose commutator protrudes into the transmission housing and cooperates with a brush holder fixed in the transmission housing. For the sake of a more reasonably priced manufacture and a time-saving, more rapid assembly of the brush holder, the commutator brushes are embodied as hammer brushes with spring leaf actuators prestressed toward the commutator. The spring leaf actuator are respectively fixed with their one actuator end in a U-shaped plastic carrying part of the brush holder, which is inserted into the transmission housing radial to the commutator, through the housing opening and is positioned in the transmission housing in a positively engaging manner by means of the housing cover.

Abstract: A high-pressure gas discharge lamp (HID or UHP lamp, or in general lamps with mercury fillings of between approximately 0.05 and 0.5 mg/mm3) is described with at least one electrode (7, 8) which is provided with a thickened, for example globular portion (9, 10) at its end lying inside a lamp vessel (2). This portion is so dimensioned in dependence on operational parameters of the lamp and/or the diameter of the electrode rod that an electrode tip (19) forms itself independently at said portion during the first hours of operation. This tip grows from the portion until its free end starts melting. The electrode tip is self-adjusting in this manner, so that an optimum electrode interspacing is maintained throughout lamp life. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing such a lamp is described.

Abstract: An electric drive unit for vehicle systems, such as power windows and windshield wipers, having a commutator motor that has a commutator and at least two commutator brushes. The electric drive unit includes electrical components of an electronic system for the motor. To reduce production costs and simplify assembly, the electrical components are electrically secured to a lead frame that makes the electrical connection between the components and the commutator motor and the commutator brushes are embodied as hammerhead brushes, whose carrier plates are bent in one piece out of the lead frame.

Abstract: A method of and a device for operating a gas discharge lamp which is fed with an alternating voltage or an alternating current and wherein the instantaneous power of the lamp is increased at given time intervals are used to form the electrodes. The value of an operational datum of the lamp which varies in time is continuously or discontinuously measured and the frequency of the alternating voltage or the alternating current (operating frequency) is selected in dependence on the measured values.

Abstract: An electric drive unit for windshield washers of a motor vehicle, including a drive motor having an armature accommodated in a substantially cup-shaped pole housing, a substantially cup-shaped gearbox, secured by its face end to the pole housing, for receiving at least one transmission gear wheel that meshes with a worm connected to an armature shaft of the armature. The armature shaft has a mushroom-shaped stop face on its face end, against which a spring for generating a defined initial stress comes to rest. The spring is a curved bendable spring, which has a substantially V-shaped profile, with a tensioning plate secured in the gearbox and with a leg that yields in the axial direction of the armature shaft, which in the installed state of rest, the spring exerts a spring force, on the mushroom-shaped face of the armature shaft.