Abstract: A flexible container for containing a product includes a dispensing portion, a panel forming a first compartment for containing the product and forming a second compartment that is separate from the first compartment, and an elongated grip disposed at least in part in the second compartment. A user may grasp the grip to transport the container or to pour a product from the first compartment. The grip may also prevent the container from collapsing, allowing the container to be efficiently stored on a surface and providing a surface on the flexible container to prominently display information regarding the product. The dispensing portion may be a metered cap.

Abstract: A flexible bag for containing a product comprises a dispensing portion, a panel forming a first compartment for containing the product and forming a second compartment that is separate from the first compartment, and an elongated grip disposed at least in part in the second compartment. A user may grasp the grip to transport the bag or to pour a product from the first compartment. The grip may also prevent the bag from collapsing, allowing the bag to be efficiently stored on a surface and providing a surface on the flexible bag to prominently display information regarding the product. The dispensing portion may be a metered cap.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for metering fuel for an internal combustion engine having a lambda control. In the method, characteristic parameters of the lambda control are changed in conjunction with a hot start of the engine. A leaning of the fuel mixture can be countered in a targeted manner by utilizing the lambda control to enrich the mixture. The bandwidth of the vaporizing performance of possible fuel types must not be covered by an averaged enrichment factor. For this reason, and for intense leaning of the fuel mixture, far greater enrichment factors are possible. The advantages afforded are that the additional measures such as raising the idle rpm are only initiated when actual hot idle problems are present. This is a further advantage in conjunction with the method of the invention. The measures of raising the idle speed can be used much more than previously since these problems occur infrequently and are clearly selectable with the aid of the method of the invention.

Abstract: A diagnostic procedure is proposed for the checking of actuators for the control of internal combustion engines, in particular for the diagnosis of the function and effect of variations of the suction pipe or suction tract geometry and/or variations of the inlet/outlet valve control; this procedure serves the purpose of actuating the diagnosis during any operational state and/or during stationary operational states of the internal combustion engine. For diagnosis, those changes taking place during actuator triggering in operational data of the internal combustion engine which are only indirectly due to this actuator triggering are recorded as actual values and these actual values are compared with set values.

Abstract: A control unit (7) for an internal combustion engine (ICE) (1) in a motor vehicle includes a control parameter computation unit 6 which provides output signals controlling the ignition instant of an ignition unit (5) and the fuel injection characteristics of the fuel injection unit 4, thereby controlling operation of the ICE. Depending on an operating parameter of the ICE (1), preferably load, the ignition angle is corrected by an ignition angle correction unit (11) by adding a correction factor, dynamically, as the load changes. The correction factor is determined, preferably, by sensing incremental changes in loading and, equally incrementally, changing the ignition angle, repetitively, as the loading changes. The method can be realized entirely by software within a known ignition angle correction unit (7).