Abstract: A coolant equalizing reservoir for arrangement in a coolant circuit, having: a reservoir housing, a vortex chamber in the reservoir housing, a feed line for introducing coolant into the reservoir housing, and an outflow aperture for discharging coolant from the reservoir housing, where the feed line discharges into the vortex chamber, and wherein the vortex chamber is defined by a wall protruding from a base-wall section of the reservoir housing along a vortex chamber's axis, encircling the vortex chamber's axis in a closed manner, which in every direction orthogonal to the vortex chamber's axis is arranged at a distance from the reservoir housing.

Abstract: A valve assembly for influencing operating fluid flows in a motorized vehicle, where the valve assembly includes: A valve housing with a main housing body and a housing lid, A fluid line arrangement with at least two fluid lines, A valve body configured as tapering along an actuating axis which is accommodated rotatably about the actuating axis between at least two fluid lines of the fluid line arrangement in such a way that through rotation of the valve body about the actuating axis, a flow-connection state of the at least two fluid lines proceeding in different spatial regions with each other is modifiable, and A pre-tensioning means arranged between the housing lid and the valve body which loads the valve body along the actuating axis, wherein it is provided that between the valve body and the main housing body there is arranged a guide shell surrounding the valve body, where the valve body is loaded through the pre-tensioning means towards the guide shell along a first pre-tensioning force path, where

Abstract: A fluid container, in particular for a motorized vehicle, with a container wall which surrounds a storage space of the container configured for the storage of fluid, and with an accommodating aperture penetrating through the container wall in which an elongated sensor arrangement penetrating through the container wall and extending along a longitudinal sensor axis is accommodated, where the sensor arrangement is mounted on the container by elastic mounting formations, where the longitudinal sensor axis defines an axial direction proceeding along the longitudinal sensor axis, radial directions proceeding orthogonally to the longitudinal sensor axis, and a circumferential direction encircling the longitudinal sensor axis, at least two elastic mounting formations configured separately from the sensor arrangement are arranged at an axial distance from one another, which extend radially between the sensor arrangement and a firmly container-mounted structure, where the mounting formations are fixed at one structure

Abstract: A coolant equalizing reservoir for arrangement in a coolant circuit, having: a reservoir housing, a degassing chamber in the reservoir housing, inside the former of which coolant flow along a curved degassing flow path, a feed line for introducing coolant into the reservoir housing, and an outflow opening for discharging coolant from the reservoir housing, where both the feed line and the outflow opening open into the degassing chamber, and where it is provided that the degassing chamber is configured as a flow duct proceeding along a curved duct path, where the duct path defines the degassing flow path.

Abstract: A coolant equalizing reservoir for arrangement in a coolant circuit, having: a reservoir housing, a vortex chamber in the reservoir housing, a feed line for introducing coolant into the reservoir housing, and an outflow aperture for discharging coolant from the reservoir housing, where the feed line discharges into the vortex chamber, and wherein the vortex chamber is defined by a wall protruding from a base-wall section of the reservoir housing along a vortex chamber's axis, encircling the vortex chamber's axis in a closed manner, which in every direction orthogonal to the vortex chamber's axis is arranged at a distance from the reservoir housing.

Abstract: An air intake device with a variable-length intake duct, comprising: a base duct component with a base duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the base duct component, an extension duct component with an extension duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the extension duct component, a guidance arrangement which guides the extension duct component and the base duct component to relative movement between a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein in the first operating position the base duct and the extension duct form, in mutually prolonging abutment, a continuous duct section, and wherein in the second operating position the extension duct is arranged at a distance from the base duct, and a first centering arrangement which when the duct components approach the first operating position is configured to decrease a radial distance in relation to a virtual base duct path conceived as passing centrally through the base duct between an end section of the base

Abstract: An air intake device with a variable-length intake duct, comprising: a base duct component with a base duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the base duct component, an extension duct component with an extension duct, configured for the passage of intake air through the extension duct component, a guidance arrangement which guides the extension duct component and the base duct component to relative movement between a first operating position and a second operating position, wherein in the first operating position the base duct and the extension duct form, in mutually prolonging abutment, a continuous duct section, and wherein in the second operating position the extension duct is arranged at a distance from the base duct, and a first centering arrangement which when the duct components approach the first operating position is configured to decrease a radial distance in relation to a virtual base duct path conceived as passing centrally through the base duct between an end section of the base

Abstract: A motor-vehicle conduit component encompassing an inherently rigid conduit structure having a conduit wall that surrounds a fluid-carrying volume embodied for the passage of a fluid along a virtual conduit path; the virtual conduit path notionally penetrating centrally through the fluid-carrying volume; a plurality of electrical conductors being arranged on and/or in the conduit wall, each electrical conductor of which is electrically conductively contactable from outside the conduit component at least at a first contact location and at a second contact location arranged with a spacing along the conduit path from the first contact location; the conduit structure being inherently rigid, and the plurality of electrical conductors having a first conductor group constituting a power conductor group and having a lower length-related resistance, and a second conductor group constituting a signal conductor group and having a higher length-related resistance.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an air conduit component from a construction material using an additive manufacturing method in accordance with a set of process parameters defining the manufacturing method; at least one process parameter of the process parameter set is modified during additive manufacture of the air conduit component, in order to embody, in the air conduit component, regions having a different porosity that differs in each case from zero.

Abstract: An apparatus for executing a fused deposition modeling method for constituting at least one component portion or component using a fusible construction material, encompassing: a layering tool for constituting at least the component portion or component by constituting layers of molten construction material in a predetermined pattern; a construction material manipulation portion; and a climate chamber arrangement; at least a sub-portion of the construction material manipulation portion being surrounded by a climate chamber arrangement portion of the climate chamber arrangement; the climate chamber arrangement being configured to adjust, at least locally, a climate parameter in an interior of the climate chamber arrangement portion; and the apparatus being configured to perform a manipulation of the construction material in the climate chamber arrangement portion, wherein the climate parameter is a humidity of an internal gas medium in the interior of the climate chamber arrangement portion.

Abstract: A fluid line assembly, preferably for charge air to be supplied to an internal combustion engine, comprising a fluid conduit extending along a longitudinal axis which defines an axial direction for the passage of a fluid and comprising a sound attenuation assembly received in an axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit which comprises at least two piping components, said sound attenuation assembly at least contributing to an attenuation of sound propagated in the fluid. The invention provides that the connection of the at least two piping components of the axial receiving portion with one another, and the connection of the sound attenuation assembly with the axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit is free of adhesive and melted connections.

Abstract: A fluid line assembly, preferably for charge air to be supplied to an internal combustion engine, comprising a fluid conduit extending along a longitudinal axis which defines an axial direction for the passage of a fluid and comprising a sound attenuation assembly received in an axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit which comprises at least two piping components, said sound attenuation assembly at least contributing to an attenuation of sound propagated in the fluid. The invention provides that the connection of the at least two piping components of the axial receiving portion with one another, and the connection of the sound attenuation assembly with the axial receiving portion of the fluid conduit is free of adhesive and melted connections.