Abstract: A positive displacement rotary gas compressor pump comprising a ring piston having an annular wall with a gap forming confronting inlet and outlet ends, the outlet end, during the compression of the gas in the inner and/or outer pumping chambers, cooperating with a bridging wall portion joining two concentric cylinder walls, or with the end of the inner cylinder wall near its transfer port, so that the gas is compressed before being discharged from the pump.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary pump based on the spiral principle in which the piston is given a complex orbital motion by a crankshaft drive, the piston being also pivoted to a second guide element, this pivot point reciprocating along an open path. The second guide element is constructed to provide compactness and ease of manufacture.

Abstract: In a vane pump a hollow cylindrical rotor (7) is mounted for rotation about its axis within a housing (1) and is arranged to be driven by a belt driven pulley (54) mounted on one end (19) of the rotor. Extending eccentrically within the rotor (7) is a shaft (11) which has its opposite ends (10) and (24) fixed in passages (9) and (23) respectively in the end portions (5) and (15) of the housing (1) so that the shaft (11) is not rotatable. The vanes (27) of the pump are rotatably mounted on the shaft (11) so that they extend axially of the shaft and project radially through axially extending openings in the cylindrical wall of the rotor (7). The vanes (27) are thereby rotated on the shaft (11) when the rotor is driven, and the portions of the vanes projecting through the cylindrical wall of the rotor sweep a pump chamber (13) surrounding a portion of the rotor to convey fluid from an inlet to an outlet of the pump.

Abstract: In a method of regulating the delivery of the combustion fluid (i.e. air or mixture of air and fuel) to an internal combustion engine (1), the combustion fluid is conducted through a gas engine or positive displacement device capable of operating as a fluid motor or a fluid compressor (2) which is drivingly coupled with the internal combustion engine, and the flow rate through the device (2) is varied in the sense of the desired load change by means of a control device (3, 23) on the device. The positive displacement device (2) may be operated as a fluid motor and/or as a supercharger. As a fluid motor the work done by the expansion of the combustion gas is used to assist the engine (1), whereas the engine (1) drives the gas engine (2) when operating as a supercharger. In a preferred embodiment the device (2) is of the rotary vane type (FIG.

Abstract: In a coupling for a drive device, such as an internal combustion engine, a rotor and an entraining disc are connected. The entraining disc is movable relative to a drive disc so that it can be selectively coupled with the drive disc. A housing at least partly encloses the drive disc and supports a pressure chamber adjacent the entraining disc. The pressure chamber includes a movable cover interconnected with the entraining disc. By regulating the pressure within the chamber, the entraining disc can be coupled or decoupled relative to the drive disc. When coupled to the drive disc, the entraining disc drives the rotor.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine a rotary gas motor, driven by the intake gas of the engine, drives pump providing secondary air to the engine exhaust at low engine load, and at high load a clutch connects the pump and the motor to the engine shaft, the output of the pump and the motor being delivered to the engine intake.

Abstract: Rotary positioning apparatus for a member movable through an angle of rotation of less than 360.degree. comprising a rotor including windings thereon and a stator including a permanent magnet establishing a magnetic circuit providing magnetic flux through which the rotor is movable, the rotor and stator constituting a DC motor. The stator includes a stationary hollow shaft on which the rotor is rotatably supported by bearings. The rotor includes a neck adapted for being coupled with the member to be moved. A plurality of flexible current carrying wires extend through the hollow shaft and through slots provided in the neck to the windings for energization thereof. The hollow shaft has opposite open ends at one of which the wires enter the hollow shaft and at the other of which the wires exit from the shaft and extend through the slots to the windings such that the wires undergo twisting within the confines of the shaft as the rotor rotates with respect to the stator.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for controlling exhaust return quantities of an automatic-ignition, internal combustion engine comprising a camshaft-driven piston injection pump and an exhaust control element in an exhaust return pipe. Pressure pulses occurring in an output pressure line of the injection pump during the injection-active delivery stroke are directly or indirectly detected as regards their pulse duration as the injection duration T.sub.E and their pulse intervals as the injection period T.sub.P. A certain injection stroke or a certain quantity of fuel to be injected per work cycle may be assigned, pump-specific, to each pair of values of these quantities through a known pump stroke curve. To control the return quantity of exhaust in dependence upon the quantity of fuel injected, the dependence between the pairs of values of T.sub.E, T.sub.P on the one hand, and control quantities for the return quantities of exhaust on the other hand, are stored in an at least two-dimensional identification field.

Abstract: In a reciprocating internal combustion engine of the spark ignition type the idling rotational speed of the engine is controlled by a system in which a secondary air flow through a passage bypassing the main air intake throttle valve (1) of the engine is controlled by a valve having a conical valve member (3) co-operating with a seat (2) to form a Laval nozzle at all open positions of the valve. The valve member (3) moves in response to the pressure difference across a diaphragm (9) separating two chambers (6) and (7). The chamber (7) communicates through a throttling element (8) with the pressure P.sub.s downstream of the throttle valve (1) and contains a spring (11) biassing the diaphragm (9) to open the valve (2, 3). The chamber (6) communicates through a throttling element (12) with the pressure P.sub.a upstream of the throttle valve (1) and also communicates through a more restricted throttling element (13) with the downstream pressure P.sub.s . The communication of the chamber (6) to the pressure P.sub.

Abstract: A method of controlling a pneumatically operated servo-motor (1) having a linearly movable operating rod (6) is described in which the actual position of the operating rod is monitored continuously during each stroke, and when the rod reaches a position which lies a predetermined amount in front of a limit position reached during the preceding stroke the speed at which the operating rod travels towards the corresponding limit position of the current stroke is modified. In particular the method is used in a clutch actuating servo-motor to brake the speed of the operating rod at a position which corresponds to the initial contact between the clutch friction surfaces when the rod is moving to engage the clutch, so that the free travel of the clutch is taken up as quickly as possible, but the actual engagement is slowed in order to avoid undesirable jerkiness and wear.

Abstract: A waterproof watch having a case and a base which are sealed in a water tight manner without the use of screw threads, is provided. The watch base is composed of a memory form alloy which may or may not be reversible. The watch base is deformed while in its Martensitic state and loosely fit adjacent a sealing portion of the case. The base is then permitted to rise above the Martensit/Austenit conversion temperature into its Austenitic state so that it returns to its undeformed shape and engages the sealing portion of the case in a water tight pressure fitting manner. The conversion temperature should be -20.degree. C. or below. A tubular conduit for the winding stem may also be composed of memory form alloy for sealing engagement with the case.

Abstract: An arrangement for indicating the on-going fuel consumption of an operating internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle having a multi-stage transmission. An engine operating parameter indicative of the quantity of fuel being supplied to the engine per engine revolution, is sensed or detected, and a signal representative of the sensed parameter is transmitted to an indicating instrument. The signal is modulated, furthermore, as a function of the currently engaged stage of the transmission. The modulating action may be carried out by a pressure transducer and the signal may be transmitted through a passage connecting the output of the transducer with the indicating instrument. The sensing procedure may be carried out through another passage connecting an input of the transducer with the intake manifold of the engine downstream of the throttle valve.

Abstract: An apparatus for recycling exhaust gas for reducing noxious portions in the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, wherein the flow of exhaust gas between an exhaust gas tapping point on the exhaust manifold and a tapping point on the intake manifold is controlled by an EGR-valve subjected to a controlled suction pressure at the intake manifold through the intermediary of a pressure converter, such that the amount of exhaust gas recycled at low engine loads is proportionately reduced in relation to engine mixture rate to provide a lower ratio of recycled gas to mixture rate at low loads as compared to the ratio at high loads.