Abstract: An unbalance exciter for a vibratory plate includes a rotatably mounted unbalance shaft, on which an unbalance mass is provided. The exciter includes an exciter housing for the unbalance shaft, at least two bearing devices for the rotatable mounting of the unbalance shaft, and two bearing seats for the bearing devices. The exciter housing has a central part and two end parts arranged at the ends of the central part. The central part has a hollow-cylindrical recess in which a bearing point is provided for each of the bearing devices. The the central part is designed to optionally accommodate an unbalance shaft for either a first drive type in which the unbalance exciter can be driven by a drive device provided outside the exciter housing, or a second drive type in which the unbalance exciter can be driven by a drive device provided inside the exciter housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bending actuator (1) comprising a plastic base layer (2) and a shape memory element (3) made from shape memory material, which can be actively shortened in a direction of action of the shape memory, wherein the shape memory element (3) is arranged outside the base layer (2) and is mechanically connected to the base layer (2) so that a bending occurs in the bending actuator (1) because of a pull by a contraction (K) of the shape memory element (3) in a direction of action of the shape memory, wherein an intermediate layer (6) is arranged between the shape memory element (3) and the base layer (2) in order to improve the transmission of force between the base layer (2) and the shape memory element (3), to prolong the service life and to reduce the degree of bend of the bending actuator (1), wherein the elasticity module of said intermediate layer (6) is less than the elasticity module of the base layer (2).

Abstract: A method for customizing a selected one of a plurality of customizable vehicle features on a vehicle equipped with an onboard processor and a user interface including a display and a first plurality of user input controls. The method comprises displaying on the display a vehicle feature menu and scrolling therethrough with a first one of the plurality of user input controls. A vehicle feature mode menu is displayed on the display and is scrolled through with a first of the plurality of user input controls. The second one of the plurality of user input controls is utilized to navigate from the vehicle feature menu to the vehicle feature mode menu.