Abstract: a piezoactuator having at least one outer surface comprises a multilayer structure of at least one piezoelectric ceramic layer and at least two electrodes, with the at least one outer surface of the piezoactuator being coated with a passivation material.

Abstract: A method for the determination of the arrangement of electrodes in the manufacture of a piezoelectric component, in particular of a piezoactuator, comprises the steps of making available of a base body consisting of a multilayer structure of at least one piezoelectric ceramic layer and at least two electrodes, wherein the base body has at least two outer surfaces and at least one electrode extends at least regionally up to at least one of the outer surfaces and is exposed at one end there, whereas the at least two electrodes on at least one further outer surface are not exposed, and removal of the material from the outer surface on which the electrodes are not exposed, using an electrically conductive stripper, wherein, on the removal of the material from the one outer surface, an electrical voltage is applied between the stripper, which is adapted so as to facilitate the removal of the material and at least one electrode and the electrical current flowing through the at least one electrode on the removal of

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the monitoring and evaluation of the operation of a piezoelectric actuator, wherein electrical discharging and charging processes of the actuator are monitored and the operation of the actuator is evaluated with reference to the time course of the discharging and charging processes. The invention further relates to an apparatus for the carrying out of the method.

Abstract: A rubber sleeve spring of two independently made parts each including two supporting sleeves one radially surrounding another, as well as a spring body of rubber joining the supporting sleeves and with two recesses corresponding to one another in the spring body. The two parts are so configured and assembled in a unit such that the recesses combine to form liquid-filled, sealed chambers which are in liquid-carrying communication with one another through a passage-like opening. The opening includes, in tandem, a first passage and a second passage of two branch passages which are connected parallel. The two branch passages differ from one another by having cross sections of different magnitude and/or different length and/or different cross-sectional variation over their length. They are preferably disposed in the plane of separation of the rubber sleeve spring.

Abstract: An engine mount with hydraulic damping has a partition wall penetrated by a throttle port and the partition wall is located between a working chamber and a compensating chamber. The throttle port can have several channel-shaped individual ports of different lengths and/or different cross sections. The partition wall carries an absorption mass mounted by an elastic annular diaphragm which can be moved between the working chamber and the compensating chamber within an area of play limited by stops.

Abstract: An engine mount with hydraulic damping has a partition wall located between a working chamber and a compensating chamber and the partition wall is penetrated by a throttle port means. The throttle port means comprises several channel-shaped individual ports of different lengths and/or different cross sections.

Abstract: A hydraulically damped engine mount comprising a working space bounded by a mounting bracket, a supporting spring and a partition wall, and an equalizing space bounded by the partition wall and by a resilient buffer wall, which are interconnected through a throttle opening and are filled with a liquid, as well as a gas-filled chamber which is disposed within the partition wall and is closed relative to the working space by a circular first disk suspended from an elastic annular diaphragm, the gas-filled chamber being further closed relative to the equalizing space by a second disk suspended from an annular diaphragm, and the first and second disks being formed by first and second neutralizing masses.

Abstract: A two-chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping, includes a housing, an intermediate plate disposed in the housing dividing the housing into an upper chamber above the intermediate plate and a lower chamber below the intermediate plate to be filled with fluid, the intermediate plate having a damping opening formed therein hydraulically interconnecting the chambers for preventing a hydraulic response upon the occurrence of high frequency and low amplitude vibrations, upper and lower rubbery elastic peripheral walls at least partially defining the upper and lower chambers, respectively, a motor support plate adjacent the upper chamber, the support plate having a membrane chamber centrally formed therein, and a rubbery membrane separating the membrane chamber from the upper chamber, the rubbery membrane including a solid central quenching mass.

Abstract: A hydraulically damped engine mount comprising a working space bounded by a mounting bracket, a supporting spring and a partition wall, and an equalizing space bounded by the partition wall and by a resilient buffer wall, which are interconnected through a throttle opening and are filled with a liquid, as well as a gas-filled chamber which is disposed within the partition wall and is closed relative to the working space by means of a circular disk suspended from an elastic annular diaphragm thereof, the disk being a chain vibrator which comprises at least two successive, radially interposed neutralizing masses that are elastically secured to each other and to the partition wall by means of annular diaphragms.