Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detoxification of the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine 1 using a catalytic system. The main toxic components in the exhaust gas mixture are carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO.sub.x) and hydrocarbons. The main toxic components CO and NO.sub.x are liberated from their interdependent relationship. The production of the main toxic components is quantitatively varied individually by regulation of separate combustion chambers. The toxic components from exhaust gas pipes of the respective combustion chambers are combined, in such a manner that in accordance with the proportions of the main toxic components, the composition of the exhaust gas mixture enables complete catalytic after-combustion conversion thereof in a known manner.

Abstract: A self-adjusting single- or twin-tube shock absorber having a cylinder closed at both ends and filled with at least one damping medium, a piston rod sealingly inserted into the cylinder, and a piston carried on the cylinder side end of the piston rod for dividing a cylinder spaced into two half chambers. The piston rod has a longitudinal bore formed therein and at least one orifice traversing the longitudinal bore for connecting the two half chambers. An electrically controlled distributing slide valve device for opening and closing the orifice includes a slide valve sleeve coaxially surrounding the piston rod and the orifice and movable on the piston rod for opening and closing the orifice. A step motor has a slide valve as a movable part thereof for stepwise adjusting the slide valve and a stator including a plurality of exciter coils and coil formers surrounding the slide valve sleeve and the piston rod.

Abstract: A process for fabricating electronic switching elements and/or circuits in multilayer thick-film technology on a substrate. The electronic switching elements and/or circuits are printed onto the substrate in the form of liquid or pasty mixtures of materials, then heat-treated, whereupon at least one insulating layer is deposited on the thick-film conducting layer. In this process, the surface of any desired insulating interlayer is finished abrasively and subsequently again at least one thick-film conducting layer or at least one insulating layer is deposited on the finished surface. Then, the surface or this insulating layer is again finished abrasively in subsequent printing operations of thick-film conducting layers or in other insulating layers in order to provide upon completion each layer at least the same processing ingredients and conditions as those on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A hydraulic brake having an electrohydraulic antiskid system with a high switching frequency which is speed-proportional. The switching frequency is determined from the number of cross holes in a gear and the gear speed. The cut-in time is electronically determined in a computer and control circuit by a speed comparison of all wheels, whereby the switching frequencies of the passing teeth of a transport gear to a sensor are used as control impulses. If the computer and control circuit determines a deviation, e.g., if a wheel is being braked too sharply and, therefore, runs slower than the other wheels, a camshaft is rotated only in a forward direction, thus activating an antiskid system. If the difference is zero, the camshaft falls back into its initial position, the antiskid system is cut-out and only the braking system of the piston is operating.

Abstract: A method of printing and checking a printing image, e.g., bar codes, of a thermoprinter. The just-printed printing image is scanned after printout of a portion of the printing image on the paper web by means of an opto-electronic sensor which can move relative to the paper web, reading the just-printed printing image in the process. The read result is compared and checked with the originally entered data and, if an error is detected, the remainder of the printing image still to be printed or the just-printed printing image is marked by the printer as unusable, e.g., blackened.

Abstract: A thermal printhead for a thermoprinter having an electrically insulating substrate on which resistors are placed that form impression points and current supply and current discharge leads bonded to the resistors. A structure is provided in this thermal printhead for forming a magnetic field which acts upon the resistors in the immediate proximity of the resistors and along the resistor print line. The magnetic field is directed such that when the current flows through the resistors, the current paths within the resistors are deflected upwardly into the upper part of the resistor to the outer surface thereof. This thermal printhead has the advantage that the single resistor impression points reach their highest temperature at the printing surface, that is, at the site where the single impression point must deliver the heat to the recording medium.