Abstract: A process for producing a wear-resistant cylinder bearing surface includes rotating a laser about its longitudinal axis and simultaneously advancing the laser in a direction of the longitudinal axis which is coaxial with a cylinder of a crankcase. A powdery material is fed through the laser and a jet of the powdery material is directed toward the cylinder bearing surface. A laser beam is deflected to an impact region where the jet of the powdery material impinges on the cylinder bearing surface. The jet of the powdery material passes through the laser beam. The laser beam at least partially melts the impact region before the powdery material impinges on the impact region. A device for producing wear-resistant surfaces is also provided.

Abstract: A wear-resistant surface is formed on a component formed of an AlSi alloy by using a thermal spraying or a laser beam treatment. A thermally conductive device is brought into a thermally conductive contact with the component so that the thermally conductive device touches the component during the step of forming the wear-resistant surface. The thermally conductive device is actively cooled.

Abstract: A process for producing a wear-resistant cylinder bearing surface includes rotating a laser about its longitudinal axis and simultaneously advancing the laser in a direction of the longitudinal axis which is coaxial with a cylinder of a crankcase. A powdery material is fed through the laser and a jet of the powdery material is directed toward the cylinder bearing surface. A laser beam is deflected to an impact region where the jet of the powdery material impinges on the cylinder bearing surface. The jet of the powdery material passes through the laser beam. The laser beam at least partially melts the impact region before the powdery material impinges on the impact region. A device for producing wear-resistant surfaces is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder bank of cylinders (12) arranged in a row in at least one cylinder block, and at least one fluid cooling system allocated to a particular cylinder bank. Said fluid cooling system has at least one fluid channel (10) configured in a cylinder block. This fluid channel (10) conducts fluid through the cylinder block in order to provide a water jacket adjacent to the cylinders (12) for cooling the same. Said fluid channel (10) is delimited by a floor (16) on the crankcase side in a cylinder block situated between a cylinder head and the crankcase. This floor (16) of the fluid channel (10) is configured in the form of a curved plane.

Abstract: A method of treating a surface of a component includes performing a thermal spraying in a given treatment zone on a surface of a component. A laser surface treatment is performed in front of the given treatment zone, at the given treatment zone and/or behind the given treatment zone. The thermal spraying and the laser surface treatment are performed in a single processing step. A device for treating a component surface includes a plasma torch for providing a plasma jet and a laser for providing a laser beam. The plasma torch and the laser are configured to sweep the plasma jet and the laser beam over a component surface and to perform a surface treatment in a single pass.

Abstract: A wear-resistant surface is formed on a component formed of an AlSi alloy by using a thermal spraying or a laser beam treatment. A thermally conductive device is brought into a thermally conductive contact with the component so that the thermally conductive device touches the component during the step of forming the wear-resistant surface. The thermally conductive device is actively cooled.

Abstract: A bearing arrangement which assures positive geometrical centering between two separately produced bearing components, preferably in internal combustion engines, includes a first bearing component provided with projections extending beyond a parting surface between the components and a second bearing component of lower hardness than the projections so that the projections displace the material of the second bearing component during assembly of the bearing arrangement.

Abstract: In a vehicle door with a cross-arm type window lift and a lock assembly, which can be produced more easily and cost-effectively by employing modular construction and by using individual components for several different functions. The invention is distinguished by the guide rail of the cross-arm window lift simultaneously functioning as the support for the lock assembly, by the guide for guiding the window being integrated in the base body of the lock assembly and by the outer edge of a base plate supporting a window lift having a circumferential profiled sealing section in the interior sheet metal door panel for sealing a mounting opening, so that the protection of electrical/electronic components is provided in the dry space without additional steps.

Abstract: Motor vehicle door 1 with an integrated lattice-type support frame 2 receiving a window lifter. Support frame 2 is mountable in motor vehicle door 1 connected by hinges 36 and 37 with a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. At least one support 3, 4 of support frame 2 is connected at its connecting ends 45 and 46 with force inleads 47 and 48 disposed in motor vehicle door 1, said inleads being in positive contact with areas of the passenger compartment which are adjacent on both sides with motor vehicle door 1 (FIG. 5).