Abstract: An electronically controllable braking system includes a hydraulic brake-pressure generator which generates the brake pressures for the wheel brakes. In the hydraulic connection to the brake-pressure generator, a valve arrangement has been assigned to each wheel brake in order to adjust the brake pressures demanded for the wheel brakes in the multiplex mode, for the purpose of operating the braking system. A method has the following steps: establishing for which of the wheel brakes the adjusting of the brake pressure demanded for it has priority in a current multiplex cycle; generating the brake pressure demanded for the wheel brake that has been set to priority; opening the valve arrangement that has been assigned to the wheel brake that has been set to priority; and closing the valve arrangements that have been assigned to the wheel brakes that have not been set to priority.

Abstract: An electronically controllable braking system includes a hydraulic brake-pressure generator which generates the brake pressures for the wheel brakes. In the hydraulic connection to the brake-pressure generator, a valve arrangement has been assigned to each wheel brake in order to adjust the brake pressures demanded for the wheel brakes in the multiplex mode, for the purpose of operating the braking system. A method has the following steps: establishing for which of the wheel brakes the adjusting of the brake pressure demanded for it has priority in a current multiplex cycle; generating the brake pressure demanded for the wheel brake that has been set to priority; opening the valve arrangement that has been assigned to the wheel brake that has been set to priority; and closing the valve arrangements that have been assigned to the wheel brakes that have not been set to priority.

Abstract: A device for predicting a loss of control over a muscle of a human being has a detector for detecting a sound of the muscle, an acquirer for acquiring an acceleration of the human being and an evaluator for evaluating the sound and the acceleration to determine an imminent loss of control over the muscle from the sound and the acceleration.

Abstract: A method and device (10) for dynamically checking the teeth of a part (1) including a first motorized spindle (22), supporting the part (1) to be checked, is controlled by a first encoder (25), and a second motorized spindle (32), supporting a master pinion (2), is controlled by a second encoder (35). The two spindles (22, 32) are parallel and separated from one another with the master pinion (2) meshing with the part (1) to be checked. The master pinion (2) has a small thickness, compared to the part (1) to be checked, and the spindle (32) is mounted on a first carriage (43) which is movable in order to move the master pinion (2) along the profile of the teeth of the part (1) to be checked. This method and device allows characterizing both the radial defects and the angular defects of the teeth, and these defects being differentiated.

Abstract: A method and device (10) for dynamically checking the teeth of a part (1) including a first motorized spindle (22), supporting the part (1) to be checked, is controlled by a first encoder (25), and a second motorized spindle (32), supporting a master pinion (2), is controlled by a second encoder (35). The two spindles (22, 32) are parallel and separated from one another with the master pinion (2) meshing with the part (1) to be checked. The master pinion (2) has a small thickness, compared to the part (1) to be checked, and the spindle (32) is mounted on a first carriage (43) which is movable in order to move the master pinion (2) along the profile of the teeth of the part (1) to be checked. This method and device allows characterizing both the radial defects and the angular defects of the teeth, and these defects being differentiated.

Abstract: The invention proposes a sanitary valve device in which a temperature limiting valve is used to protect a user from water that is too cold. The valve device is designed such that when a water outlet, for example a shower, is switched on, the water is first passed through a first water duct containing the temperature limiting valve, in which duct the temperature limiting valve permits the passage of water below a limit temperature, but blocks it off when above the limit temperature. The fact that either no water or a heavily reduced quantity of water is discharged from the outlet of the sanitary fitting indicates to the user that the cold water has flowed away. He can now operate the changeover valve to directly draw hot water, the temperature limiting valve now being switched off.

Abstract: A method, a device and a computer program product, by means of which sensor values of redundant sensors in vehicles can be compared with each other to carry out a plausibility check, the measured values of said sensors not being synchronized with each other, are described. On the basis of a first measured value in time, and using the physical properties of the vehicle, a plausibility window, in which a second, subsequent measured value of a different sensor must be to count as plausible, is formed. The determined plausibility of the measured values is indicated by means of a plausibility signal.

Abstract: A device for predicting a loss of control over a muscle of a human being has a detector for detecting a sound of the muscle, an acquirer for acquiring an acceleration of the human being and an evaluator for evaluating the sound and the acceleration to determine an imminent loss of control over the muscle from the sound and the acceleration.

Abstract: A method, a device and a computer program product, by means of which sensor values of redundant sensors in vehicles can be compared with each other to carry out a plausibility check, the measured values of said sensors not being synchronised with each other, are described. On the basis of a first measured value in time, and using the physical properties of the vehicle, a plausibility window, in which a second, subsequent measured value of a different sensor must be to count as plausible, is formed. The determined plausibility of the measured values is indicated by means of a plausibility signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to the iron and steel industry. More specifically, the invention describes the manufacture of steel strip intended to be converted into thin packaging, such as for drinks and preserved food.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for identifying tires of a vehicle, tire pressures of the tires of the vehicle being measured and analysed for the driving-dynamic states of the vehicle with the use of parameters which indicate the driving-dynamic states. Individual tires of the vehicle are unambiguously identified on the basis of the analysis of the measured tire pressures or their variations.

Abstract: A method and a system for recongnizing both a driving-dynamic state of a vehicle and a surface quality of the carriageway of which the vehicle is moving. The pressures of the tires of the vehicle are measured and evaluated so that conclusions can be draw on both current driving-dynamic states and existing surface qualities of the carriageway.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for recognizing both a driving-dynamic state of a vehicle and a surface quality of the carriageway on which the vehicle is moving. For this purpose, the pressures of the tires of the vehicle are measured and evaluated so that conclusions can be drawn on both current driving-dynamic states and existing surface qualities of the carriageway.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for identifying tyres of a vehicle, tyre pressures of the tyres of the vehicle being measured and analysed for the driving-dynamic states of the vehicle with the use of parameters which indicate the driving-dynamic states. Individual tyres of the vehicle are unambiguously identified on the basis of the analysis of the measured tyre pressures or their variations.

Abstract: A vehicular anti-lock braking system includes a source of pressurized brake fluid connected to a pair of diagonally opposed wheel brakes. First and second normally open isolation valves are connected between the source of pressurized brake fluid and the wheel brakes so that fluid reaches one of the wheel brakes after passing through only one of the isolation valves and reaches the other of the wheel brakes after passing through both of the isolation valves. A normally closed dump valve is connected between the source of pressurized fluid and one of the isolation valves so that fluid is selectively routed from both of the wheel brakes and passed through the dump valve to relief fluid pressure at the wheel brakes.

Abstract: A method for preventing the driven wheels of an automotive vehicle from spinning provides that whenever one of two driven wheels of one axle of the vehicle has a lower friction coefficient with the road surface than the other wheel of said axle and the one wheel shows a spinning tendency, brake pressure is built up at said wheel, with the rotational speed of the other wheel being measured, and whenever the rotational speed exceeds a specified value with respect to a vehicle reference speed, the brake pressure at the one wheel is reduced or maintained constant.

Abstract: An anti-lock braking method to retard the wheels of a vehicle provides thatbrake pressure be augmented or reduced or maintained constant in response to slip and/or the change in the rotational speed (positive or negative deceleration) of a retarded wheel as related to at least one threshold value, andthe respective renewed accelerations of the retarded wheels be measured during successive control cycles of the anti-lock braking so as to raise the threshold value or prevent a reduction of the brake pressure for a predetermined period of time in order to suppress undesired control operations which are releasable above all by oscillations of the vehicle axle.

Abstract: In a method of regulating the braking pressure in an antilock brake system it is provided that the rotational velocity of a wheel is compared with the rotational velocity of another wheel on the other vehicle side. When the rotational or angular deceleration of the one wheel exceeds a predetermined value, indicating a tendency to lock, but its rotational velocity is greater than that of the wheel on the other vehicle side, reduction of the braking pressure in an antilock regulation does not yet take place. This avoids wasting braking distance when negotiating a curve. It is only when thereafter the rotational velocity of the one wheel is a predetermined differential amount smaller than that of the other wheel that the braking pressure at the one wheel is lowered in conventional manner.

Abstract: A method of controlling the brake pressure in an antilock (ABS) vehicle brake system provides for adapting the wheel at which the brake is applied to the optimum course of the coefficient of friction/slip curve by determining the rotational retardation of the braked wheel, upon initiation of a braking action, after given time intervals each and comparing it with the rotational retardation of the preceding time interval. Moreover, the brake pressure is varied in response to the result of the comparison. The renewed acceleration of the retarded wheel also is monitored accordingly so as to effect further lowering of the brake pressure if the renewed acceleration or the gain in acceleration is too small.

Abstract: A method of removing ash components from coals, particularly high-ash content coals, comprises grinding the coal into ground particles and suspending the ground coals in an aqueous alkali carbonate solution. The solution is maintained in a reactor for 45 to 120 minutes at a temperature range of from 250.degree. to 280.degree. C and under a pressure of from 50 to 80 atm in order to cause the CO.sub.2 to be set free by dissociation. The CO.sub.2 is discharged from the reactor by directing an inert gas stream through the reactor and discharging the CO.sub.2 with the gas stream. The suspension is stirred and agitated at elevated temperatures and increased pressures in order to fuse the ashes. The aqueous solution containing the dissolved ash components is then separated from the coal. The removed carbon dioxide is introduced into a solution for reforming the alkali carbonate in order to cause the contents of the solution to become insoluble and separated and the alkali solution to become regenerated.