Abstract: The invention relates to a device which equips a vehicle that includes a removable container, the device comprising at least one mechanism allowing to clamp the container onto the said vehicle and allowing also to release the container from the said vehicle, by driving a screw or a bolt, screwing to clamp on and unscrewing to unclamp.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for adjusting the compression ratio of internal combustion engines during the operation thereof. According to the invention, the angular position of an eccentric (18), which is solidly connected to at least one lateral flange (21c, 21b) and which is slidably housed in the bore in the rod big end, is controlled with at least one cylinder (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d) and a contactless measuring sensor (43).

Abstract: A clutch plate consists of an annular support plate carrying friction liners adhesively bonded on at least one lateral fastening face of peripheral radial blades of the support plate, by a method including an adhesive applying step which consists in depositing a predetermined quantity of adhesive on, but only on, an adhesion zone located on the lateral fastening face of each successive radial blade. This deposition is performed by an adhesive applicator having an adhesive applying zone of a form corresponding to that of the adhesion zone on the blade. The method is performed in an apparatus having at least one applicator head.

Abstract: The friction disk (24) includes a support web (28) the outer peripheral portion (40) of which is sub-divided into radial blades (42) offset axially from the central fixing part (44) with respect to the general plane of the web (28), and including friction linings (30, 32) on either side of the peripheral portion (40), each lining (30, 32) including, on the one hand, a fixing surface (64, 66) a fixing area (62) of which is fixed onto at least one central part (44) of a radial blade (42), and, on the other hand, a reduced-thickness area (72), in an area separate from the fixing areas (62); at least one reinforcing element (74) extends face-to-face with at least a part of a reduced-thickness area. The invention also proposes a method of manufacturing a friction lining (30, 32) of the type described above.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for obtaining a clutch lining consisting in: injecting a friction material containing a polyester resin into a mould; the material also contains a polymerisation catalyst, glass fibres, chalk, mica, talc, kaolin, thermoplastic fillers and a mould release agent. The invention also relates to a clutch lining obtained using said method and a clutch disc fitted with one such lining.

Abstract: The friction disk (24) includes a support web (28) the outer peripheral portion (40) of which is subdivided into radial blades (42) offset axially from the central fixing part (44) with respect to the general plane of the web (28), and including friction linings (30, 32) on either side of the peripheral portion (40), each lining (30, 32) including, on the one hand, a fixing surface (64, 66) a fixing area (62) of which is fixed onto at least one central part (44) of a radial blade (42), and, on the other hand, a reduced-thickness area (72), in an area separate from the fixing areas (62); at least one reinforcing element (74) extends face-to-face with at least a part of a reduced-thickness area.

Abstract: A clutch plate consists of an annular support plate carrying friction liners adhesively bonded on at least one lateral fastening face of peripheral radial blades of the support plate, by a method including an adhesive applying step which consists in depositing a predetermined quantity of adhesive on, but only on, an adhesion zone located on the lateral fastening face of each successive radial blade. This deposition is performed by an adhesive applicator having an adhesive applying zone of a form corresponding to that of the adhesion zone on the blade. The method is performed in an apparatus having at least one applicator head.

Abstract: A method for fixing friction linings by means of adhesion to a support disc, in which, after the glue has been applied, the disc (16) and the linings (131, 132) are put under pressure, and the linings are heated using second heating means (31, 32) and the disc is heated using first heating means (51, 52), the disc (16) being heated more rapidly.

Abstract: A motor vehicle clutch has a friction wheel which includes a support disc, on which friction liners are attached by adhesive bonding to selected zones of the opposed faces of the support disc. These zones are prepared for application of the adhesive by subjecting them to selective scouring in which a liquid scouring agent is applied locally at selected points on each zone.