Abstract: An electric motor having a stator and a rotor, with the rotor having at least one permanent magnet and one rotor shaft and with the stator having at least two coils which produce a rotating magnetic field when alternating currents flow through them, by which the rotor can be driven, and wherein the rotor shaft is mounted radially and axially. The rotor (4) is mounted by at least one elastic thrust ring (1a, 1b), with one thrust ring (1a) being arranged axially on one side of the rotor (4).

Abstract: In a pointer-type instrument (1) having a pointer with a pointer shaft (5) that deflects a pointer vane (2), power is supplied to a light source (3), which is connected to the pointer for rotation in common, by a flexible, spiral film (11) provided with conductor tracks (12, 13). For this purpose, the pointer shaft (5) has an enlargement (9), which supports the film (11) and secures it against sliding off axially. As a result, the film (11) can be made particularly thin, thereby making it possible to reduce the driving torque required to deflect the pointer shaft (5).

Abstract: In an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, with the rotor having at least one permanent magnet and one rotor shaft and with the stator having at least two coils which produce a rotating magnetic field, when alternating currents slow through them, by which the rotor can de driven, and the rotor shaft is mounted radially and axially, the invention provides that the rotor (4) is mounted by at least one elastic thrust ring (1a, 1b), with one thrust ring (1a) being arranged axially on one side of the rotor (4).

Abstract: In a pointer instrument (1) having a pointer shaft (12) that deflects a pointer flag (10), the pointer flag (10) can be illuminated by means of a light source (14). For this purpose, the light source (14) is formed, for example, as a light-emitting polymer (13), which is applied between the pointer flag (10), which is formed at the same time as an electrode, and a further, transparent electrode (15), and emits light of any desired coloration under appropriate electrical excitation. The pointer flag (10) can assume any desired shape as the result of using such a light source (14) that can be shaped. In particular, multiple curvatures can be represented without differences in brightness occurring in this case.

Abstract: In order to code its light intensity class, a light-emitting diode (1) has a number of contact elements (3-8) which are connected to series resistors (13-16) situated outside a physical unit comprising the contact elements (3-8), a connection element (2) and the light-emitting diode (1). Depending on the code, series resistors (13-16) are combined and thus compensate for the fluctuations in light intensity which are unavoidable in light-emitting diode manufacture. The light-emitting diode (1) is therefore automatically connected to the requisite series resistor (13-16) by connecting the connection element (2).

Abstract: A pointer instrument (1) has two pointer flags (3, 4) which can pivot in a common plane about a common axis (2). For this purpose, the pointer flags (3, 4) can each be deflected independently of each other in the region of a separate sector of a circle by a pointer drive (6, 6′), by of a mechanism (5, 5′). By this means, the pointer instrument (1) has a compact overall size and, at the same time, is easy to read.