Abstract: A control assembly for a passenger protection system of a vehicle which is tripped upon the occurrence of a side impact traffic accident. The control assembly has at least one detector adapted to detect a pressure rise in a hollow body. The at least one detector is mounted in a largely enclosed side portion on the side of the vehicle body defining a hollow body such as a door. A control unit is connected to and receives signals from the at least one detector. The control unit evaluates a sudden and largely adiabatic air pressure rise detected by the detector upon a side impact collision and determines whether to actuate a passenger protection system such as an air bag.

Abstract: A plug connector housing assembly includes an outer housing and an inner housing to be nested together in a plug-in direction. The housings include sides having approximately parallel opposed side walls with inner and outer surfaces. The side walls of the outer housing define an insertion opening with a peripheral region. A locking mechanism in the form of a rack extends in the plug-in direction on one of the side walls. A lever is associated with another of the side walls. A shaft is perpendicular to the plug-in direction and associated with the lever. A gear wheel segment meshes with the rack, is firmly connected to the lever on the other of the side walls and is rotatably supported on the other of the side walls about the shaft. The rack and the gear wheel segment are disposed at least at one of the sides, between the inner wall surface of the outer housing and the opposite outer wall surface of the inner housing.

Abstract: A sensor unit for controlling an occupant protection system has a sensor which is held in its position on a printed circuit board through the use of an elastic damping holder. The damping holder is soldered onto the printed circuit board together with the sensor. In addition, the damping holder protects the sensor during the production and mounting of the sensor unit.

Abstract: A traffic accident detecting sensor for a passenger protection system in a vehicle includes a low-retentivity seismic mass which can move along a guide member between two extreme positions and is normally held in a first extreme position by a contact pressure. The contact pressure is overcome in the event of deceleration in such a way that the seismic mass then moves toward a second extreme position. A magnet being distinct from the seismic mass has a magnetic field which is deformed to a varying degree by the seismic mass depending on the position of the seismic mass. At least one contact can be controlled by the magnetic field of the magnet. The contact and the seismic mass have such a configuration that in the first extreme position the latter to a large extent constitutes a magnetic shunt diverting the magnetic field away from the contact toward the seismic mass so that the contact is then in its first contact state.

Abstract: In order to provide a simple connection between a shield housing and a strip body, the shield housing has resilient side parts with spring arms being initially bent inwards and then outwards and being pushed over lead-in and sliding inclines on the strip body and automatically latched on an insertion side or front of the strip body. Those sections of the spring arms which are bent outwards form contact elements for the shield housing to make contact on a mounting panel. The invention is suitable for motor vehicle filter plug connectors.

Abstract: One embodiment of a filter plug includes a plug body being constructed as a filter element and being made of insulating material, and a number of parallel plug pins being disposed in a set pattern and being surrounded by the plug body. Another embodiment of a filter plug includes a plug body being made of a compound material having a mixture of insulator and ferrite material, and a number of parallel plug pins being disposed in a set pattern and being surrounded by the plug body. The plug body of the filter plug is made of a mixture of insulating material and ferrite powder in order to suppress undesired interference, such as radio frequency signals. The filter plug may be a pin connector, a blade connector or a jack connector.

Abstract: A housing includes a housing section made of hard thermoplastic material for a circuit, e.g. a motor vehicle locking system, to be protected from harmful substances, and at least one pressure member being made of soft thermoplastic material and being accessible from outside the housing. Each pressure member serves to operate at least one electric switch being disposed or to be disposed inside the housing. Edges of the pressure member provide an all-round watertight and adhesive-free cover for a hole in the housing section, with the edges being injection molded directly onto the synthetic material of the housing section in such a way that the synthetic material of the pressure member and the synthetic material of the housing section are fused together.

Abstract: In order to provide a simple connection between a shield housing and a strip body, the shield housing, which has resilient side parts with spring arms being bent inwards, is pushed over lead-in and sliding inclines on the strip body and automatically latches on an insertion side or front thereof. The spring arms of each side part, which are located alongside one another, alternately form contact elements providing contact between the shield housing and a mounting panel and sliding and latching elements for connecting the shield housing to the strip body. The invention is suitable for motor vehicle filter plug connectors.

Abstract: An RF-shielding multicomponent metallic or metal-coated circuit housing (W, D) contains a printed circuit board (L), and a plug (S) which is connected to plug terminals (P) provided in the printed circuit board (L). A housing section (W) has a bay (E/B) which has metallic or metal-coated walls (B) which are at housing potential in the assembled state of the housing (W, D) and in which (E/B) the plug (S) is mounted. The bay (E/B) is open at one side face (M), the "open side face" (M), facing the inside (Q) of the housing, the bay (E/B) having edges (C) situated in a single plane and facing the open side face. The open side face (M) is covered by the printed circuit board (L) in the assembled state of the housing (W, D).

Abstract: A connector plug has an integrated electrical radio frequency (RF) suppression filter comprising a metallic filter housing which is slipped over the connector plug and electrically contacted to a ground conductor which extends from one end of the device to the other. The ground conductor is designed with a broad surface and is preferably in the form of a cross-shaped member in a central region and having ends connected to the terminal elements of Y-capacitors of the RF filter. The ground conductor is separated from the electrical filter components by an insulating lamina and the overall arrangement is encapsulated with plastic to form the plug prior to receiving the metallic housing thereover.

Abstract: A ferrite toroidal core is inserted into an annular trough enclosed by a cap with a winding applied about the trough member which is then sealed by an envelope of resin. The trough member includes resilient tabs extending internally of at least one mutually concentric trough wall, the tabs having their free edges disposed against the toroidal core so that the core is fixed and centered within the trough and so that an air cushion is provided between the core and the trough wall.

Abstract: A connector plug has an electrical radio frequency suppression filter comprising a metallic filter housing partially slipped onto the plug, the filter having electrical filter components, particularly inductances and capacitances, disposed within the filter housing, embedded in a casting compound, partially connected to the device plug leads at the power supply side and partially connected to the leads facing the device to be energized, whereby the device-side leads, particularly tabs, extend out of the open end face of the filter housing facing away from the plug and a broad surface protective conductor is connected to the filter housing in an electrically conductive manner. The protective conductor is preferably designed as a cross-shaped protective conductor within the filter housing and whose one ends are connected to terminals of Y-capacitors. The cross-shaped protective conductor and the electrical filter components are thereby located at opposite sides of an insulating lamina.

Abstract: Electrical noise filter with a filter housing, with electrical terminals led out at open face ends, in particular flat plugs, litz wires, plug pins, and with electrical components, in particular inductances and capacitances which, embedded in sealing compound, are installed in the filter housing and connected to the terminals. The filter housing is extended so that the terminal elements facing outwardly are disposed within the filter housing and shielded.

Abstract: Interference suppression filter, including a metal cup having an open end, a ring core choke, a wound capacitor and a discharge resistor being interconnected and cast together in the metal cup, first and second network side and appliance side connectors being extended outwardly through the open end of the cup, the first connectors each being connected to the ring core choke and having free ends, an insulator plate disposed adjacent the open end of the cup, and resilient clamping elements being disposed on the plate, at least the free ends of the first connectors being held by the clamping elements, and the second connectors being dip-soldered to the first connectors.

Abstract: An optical branching unit and method for producing the unit which comprises an optical branching element having a body portion with at least one surface having the waveguides extending thereto, said surface and the waveguides being polished optically flat to extend perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the waveguides, each of the units being secured in a housing, which has a port associated with each optical waveguide and a device for receiving and holding an external waveguide being axially aligned with the axis of each optical waveguide so that an external waveguide can be held in an abutting and aligned contact with the polished optical waveguide of the polished optical flat surface to form an optical waveguide communication with the waveguide of the branch element.