Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring at least one parameter of the intake air mass flow of an internal combustion engine. Fluid particles contained in the line act on a measuring element and influence a characteristic curve behavior of the measuring element used to determine parameters of the flowing medium. In order to reduce the action of fluid on the measuring element, the measuring element is disposed in a line or a tubular body, downstream of a protective screen, which deflects the medium flow and deflects the fluid particles. Downstream of the protective screen, longitudinal ribs, a suction opening, or a turbulence generator reduce the release of uncontrolled eddies.

Abstract: A method and a device suitable for carrying out the method are proposed for analyzing and quantifying flows, in particular for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the three-dimensional visualization of flows in fluids or gases. For this purpose, electromagnetic waves, especially light, are detected, which at least partially emanate from or are scattered by particles that are contained in the detection space and that characterize the flow to be analyzed, the waves being detected using at least one detection device, in the form of two-dimensional images that are recorded in a frequency-selective or frequency-band-selective manner, from which the flow is determined. The illuminating device for this purpose generates at least two, at least approximately parallel light sheets, arranged in spatial succession, generated in temporal succession, having electromagnetic waves of different frequencies or different frequency spectrums, which scan the detection space at least in areas.

Abstract: Devices for measuring at least one parameter of a medium flowing in a line, having an inlet conduit an outlet conduit, having the disadvantage in the prior art that liquids flowing into the inlet conduit can reach a measurement element and alter the measurement characteristic curve behavior of the measurement element. A device (1) of the invention has, between the inlet conduit (24) and outlet conduit (44), a deflection conduit (33) with a separation element (70), by which the liquids are separated out and therefore do not reach the measurement element (60).

Abstract: A method for analyzing and quantifying flows is proposed, in particular for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the visualization of flows in fluids or gases, along with a device suitable for this purpose. In this context, using an illuminating device (12) electromagnetic radiation, in particular, of a predefined color, is generated, using which then a detection space (25) is scanned in the form of light planes (19, 18, 17, 20, 21, 22) that are arranged spatially one behind the other, that are at least roughly parallel, and that are generated temporally one after the other. The electromagnetic radiation in the detection space (25) has the result that electromagnetic waves are generated there by particles characterizing the flow, the waves being detected subsequently using at least one image detector (16) in the form of two-dimensional, in particular color images.

Abstract: Devices for measuring the mass of a flowing medium using a temperature-sensitive measuring element have the disadvantage that considerable measuring errors may occur in the event of a pulsating flow characterized by flow fluctuations. In order to counteract these measuring errors, the device (1) possesses an axially extending measuring duct (33), in which a temperature-sensitive measuring element (20) is accommodated. The measuring duct (33) extends from the inlet mouth (36) to a deflecting duct (34), out of which the flowing medium flows out from an outlet orifice (46) without any axial distance from the inlet mouth (36) and radially underneath the latter. The invention is provided for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, in particular for measuring the intake air mass of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: Known devices for measuring the mass of a flowing medium by means of a temperature-sensitive measuring element have the disadvantage that considerable measuring errors may occur in the event of a pulsating flow characterized by flow fluctuations.

Abstract: An electrical machine formed as claw pole generator has a ring-shaped stator provided with windings, a claw pole rotor rotatably arranged inside an opening of the stator, the claw pole rotor having a rotor shaft and an exciter coil arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft, the claw pole rotor also having a peripheral surface provided with a plurality of claw poles which overlap the exciter coil and engage in a finger-like manner with groove-shaped intermediate spaces, at least one axially acting fan units arranged at an end side of the claw pole rotor in a region of an outer periphery, and a plurality of honeycombed structures located in the intermediate spaces and extending in a longitudinal direction of the intermediate spaces so that a cooling medium flows through the structures.

Abstract: A method for the quantitative acquisition of flow patterns in fluid flows in which a medium (e.g., a gas or a liquid) and the particles contained therein and carried in the flow are set in motion in a transparent flow object. The method provides that a flow object is transilluminated by a laser light fanned out on a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the flow object. A scattering of the laser light by the particles is detected by a camera positioned at a right angle to the longitudinal channel axis and moving in the vertical and horizontal directions, and can be analyzed with an analysis unit connected downstream from the camera. The analysis unit is calibrated by quantitatively comparing an image, which has an object-to-image ratio and which is recorded inside the flow object by the camera, to an image having an object-to-image ratio and recorded outside the flow object.

Abstract: A method and device for sensing three-dimensional flow structures, which is distinguished in that at least two, preferably three light sheets of a different wavelength or light intensity are produced in a flow measuring field. When a particle carried along by the flow traverses the light sheet, scattered light produced by the particle is optically detected as a particle trace, separately for each light sheet. The detected particle traces of the light sheets are combined into one particle path, and on the basis of the composite particle path, the three velocity components of the flow are calculated.

Abstract: The invention proposes a device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, in particular the mass of air aspirated by internal combustion engines. The device has a platelike sensor element which is accommodated in a recess of a sensor carrier, and which with a sensor region that has at least one measuring resistor is exposed to the flowing medium in order to measure its mass. The sensor element is accommodated essentially flush in the recess and is retained in the recess by being glued to a bottom face in the recess. The bottom face of the recess of the sensor carrier has a troughlike indentation, which extends at least partially along the circumference of the sensor element outside the sensor region that has the at least one measuring resistor. The device according to the invention is intended to measure the mass of a flowing medium, in particular for measuring the mass of air aspirated by internal combustion engines.

Abstract: The peripheral pump has a rotatable impeller including a central hub portion, an outer peripheral closed ring and impeller blades connecting the outer peripheral closed ring and the central hub portion to form intervening spaces between the blades; and a pump chamber having opposing chamber walls facing the impeller in the pump chamber, which are provided with ring-shaped ducts spaced radially from the impeller rotation axis to a same extent as the impeller blades and extending radially only to a radial extent equal to that of the impeller blades. The front side of each blade facing in the impeller rotation direction has a planar front surface extending from the central hub portion to the outer peripheral ring and a rear side of each blade has two blade edge surfaces inclined relative to respective opposing chamber walls and pointing to the respective chamber walls in the rotation direction of the impeller, at least in an edge region of the blade, to prevent turbulent flow in the intervening spaces.