Abstract: A method for the prevention of turnover of rear wheel steered vehicles includes providing a vehicle with a plurality of sensors, and providing slip angle restriction software adapted to receive as inputs the outputs of the plurality of sensors. The software calculates an estimated sideslip angle based on sensor outputs, calculates a slip angle on the rear wheels based on the estimated sideslip angle, calculates a maximum allowable slip angle, compares the slip angle and the maximum allowable slip angle, and determines a steering angle correction value if the actual slip angle is greater than the maximum allowable slip angle. Any steering angle correction value calculated is applied to the rear wheels of the vehicle.

Abstract: A four wheel chassis for a floor conveyor, a counterweight stacker in particular, in which the ends of the front and rear axle or the wheels, respectively, are supported with respect to the vehicle frame via double-acting hydraulic cylinders, which on their turn co-operate with hydraulic accumulators and constitute a hydraulic chassis system, wherein first controllable on-off valves separate the hydraulic accumulators from the hydraulic cylinders at option, and wherein a hydraulic lifting equipment for a load supporting means is provided, wherein a hydraulic system for the lifting equipment co-operates with the hydraulic chassis system via a pressure intensifier, and the pressure in the chassis system and with this a compression movement is changed as a function of the taken-up load.

Abstract: In an industrial truck, in particular a fork-lift truck, having a vehicle frame and a load pickup means (16), which can be displaced in relation to the vehicle frame, at least one wheel which is closer to the load pickup means and, at a distance from this, at least one wheel (20) which is further away from the load pickup means being provided on the vehicle frame, the wheel axle (18) of at least one wheel (20) being capable of moving in relation to the vehicle frame along a movement trajectory with a movement component which is orthogonal with respect to the standing area of the industrial truck, in addition a loading force (B), which is caused by the tare weight of the industrial truck and a load (L) which may have been picked up by said industrial truck, acting on the at least one moveable wheel axle (18), which loading force changes operationally, the at least one moveable wheel axle (18) in addition has or can have an arbitrarily variable additional force applied to it.

Abstract: Counterbalanced forklift truck with a device for an electro-hydraulic or electric steering of at least one wheel of the counterbalanced forklift truck, with a steering wheel, which is pivoted by means of a shaft section about an axis, whereby the maximum steering angle of the steering wheel on each side of a neutral position (straight position) is smaller than 180° and is limited by fixed limit stoppers, the steering transmission ratio is progressive with increasing steering angle of the steering wheel and the steering transmission ratio becomes more indirect with increasing travel speed.

Abstract: A lifting mast, in particular for a high-bay stacker lift truck, having a fixed mast and at least one extendable mast section with two parallel lift drives arranged laterally on the mast for extending the mast section from the fixed mast and a control for the lift drives, wherein a regulating device is provided for the two lift drives for measuring a path difference in the lifting paths of the lift drives and the lift drives are controlled such that the path difference remains zero.

Abstract: A four wheel chassis for a floor conveyor, a counterweight stacker in particular, in which the ends of the front and rear axle or the wheels, respectively, are supported with respect to the vehicle frame via double-acting hydraulic cylinders, which on their turn co-operate with hydraulic accumulators and constitute a hydraulic chassis system, wherein first controllable on-off valves separate the hydraulic accumulators from the hydraulic cylinders at option, and wherein a hydraulic lifting equipment for a load supporting means is provided, wherein a hydraulic system for the lifting equipment co-operates with the hydraulic chassis system via a pressure intensifier, and the pressure in the chassis system and with this a compression movement is changed as a function of the taken-up load.

Abstract: A steering transmitter assembly for an electronic steering system of an industrial truck, wherein a steering element is coupled to a hub which is rotatably mounted an a bearing component fixed to the vehicle, and wherein an attenuation device is disposed between the bearing component and hub, wherein the hub or bearing component is provided with a gearing portion which is in a driving communication with the pinion of a rotation attenuator and the rotation attenuator, in turn, is located within the bearing component or within the hub in an offset relationship with the axis of rotation of the hub.

Abstract: Method for the prevention of turnover of rear wheel steered vehicles, wherein the rear wheels are steered to attain desired steering angles driven with a desired speed in which method actual slip angles are determined which are compared with pre-set slip angles, in order to intervene in a vehicle steering when an actual slip angle is in a predetermined relation to the pre-set slip angle, in which method further only the slip angles of the steered rear wheels of the vehicle are determined and compared with a predetermined slip angle maximum value, and the steering angle being controlled such that the slip angle is below the predetermined maximum value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of antibodies recognizing Fetal Antigen-1 (FA1/dlk1) for the detection and isolation of cell populations in mammalian muscle. In one embodiment, myogenic progenitor cells are detected in developing, diseased or regenerating muscle. In another embodiment, muscle stem and progenitor myogenic progenitor cells are isolated from muscle tissue or from cultures containing muscle cells. The isolated cells may be used for transplantation, drug screening, production of cell type specific antibodies, and gene therapy and discovery. Transplantation of these cells may provide treatments for degenerative diseases of muscle, and for regeneration of muscle following trauma or ischemia such as myocardial infarction.

Abstract: Counterbalanced forklift truck with a device for an electro-hydraulic or electric steering of at least one wheel of the counterbalanced forklift truck, with a steering wheel, which is pivoted by means of a shaft section about an axis, whereby the maximum steering angle of the steering wheel on each side of a neutral position (straight position) is smaller than 180° and is limited by fixed limit stoppers, the steering transmission ratio is progressive with increasing steering angle of the steering wheel and the steering transmission ratio becomes more indirect with increasing travel speed.