Abstract: A food container in combination with a condiment container having a lip, a lower lip edge and a top edge. The food container includes at least one wall. A bottom connected to the wall defines a containment space. A slit formation is formed in the wall, the slit formation has a lower slit and an upper slit substantially parallel to the lower slit. The slits define a loop that is displaceable into the containment space for supporting the condiment container by urging the condiment container against the wall. The lower slit defines a wall lower ledge disposed for supporting the lower lip edge of the condiment container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a preferably ferriteless inductive proximity switch having at least one transmitting coil, one oscillator circuit and at least two receiving coils arranged in the alternating magnetic field of the transmitting coil, whereby the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are arranged adjacent to each other on a printed circuit board, and also having an evaluation circuit connected to the receiving coil for evaluating the received signal of the receiving coils when a target approaches the proximity switch.

Abstract: A food container in combination with a condiment container having a lip, a lower lip edge and a top edge. The food container includes at least one wall. A bottom connected to the wall defines a containment space. A slit formation is formed in the wall, the slit formation has a lower slit and an upper slit substantially parallel to the lower slit. The slits define a loop that is displaceable into the containment space for supporting the condiment container by urging the condiment container against the wall. The lower slit defines a wall lower ledge disposed for supporting the lower lip edge of the condiment container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a preferably ferriteless inductive proximity switch having at least one transmitting coil, one oscillator circuit and at least two receiving coils arranged in the alternating magnetic field of the transmitting coil, whereby the transmitting coil and the receiving coil are arranged adjacent to each other on a printed circuit board, and also having an evaluation circuit connected to the receiving coil for evaluating the received signal of the receiving coils when a target approaches the proximity switch.

Abstract: In a method for operating a supercharged internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas turbine of which is equipped with a variable turbine geometry, if the pressure upstream of the compressor is higher than the pressure downstream of the compressor in the lower load/speed of the internal combustion engine, the variable turbine geometry is adjusted in the direction of its back-up position until the turbine efficiency is at least approximately in the region of the optimum efficiency.

Abstract: A vehicle processing system exchanges data through a vehicle entertainment and information system, a service gateway, and a content provider. The vehicle processing system requests data from the content provider through a service gateway. The service gateway generates and transmits a downstream service packet to the vehicle entertainment and information system. The content provider may include a packet generation subsystem that forms the downstream data packets. The subsystem may encode the data and embed a data identifier that may identify the data format of the downstream data packets.

Abstract: In a method for real time speech input of a destination address into a navigation system, the speech statements that are entered by a user are recognized by a speech recognition device and classified in accordance with their recognition probability. The speech statement with the greatest recognition probability is identified as the input speech statement, with at least one speech statement being an admissible speech command that activates the operating functions of the navigation system associated with this speech command. (All the admissible speech statements being stored in at least one database.) According to the invention, at least one operating function of the navigation system comprises an input dialogue. Following activation of that operating function, depending on the input dialogue, at least one lexicon is generated in real time from the admissible speech statements stored in at least one database, and the generated lexicon is loaded as vocabulary into the speech recognition device.

Abstract: A device for controlling a starting procedure of a motor vehicle for initiating a movement of the motor vehicle includes a controller which receives as input, signals generated by an engine shaft speed sensor, a driving speed sensor, a transmission shaft speed sensor, a transmission output shaft speed sensor, and an accelerator pedal position sensor. The controller is operatively connected to the engine for increasing the engine speed above a minimum threshold value when the driver signals his desire for a racing start. The controller is also operatively connected to a clutch activation device for deliberately producing a slip of the driving wheels and for controlling the slip of the driving wheels by controlling a slip of the clutch after a starting time point signaled by the driver.

Abstract: A method is proposed for determining parameters for the auxiliary control of the position guidance variable of an axis of a numerically controlled machine path. If the auxiliary control parameters up to the n.sup.th order are known for the i-th axis, auxiliary control parameter of the order of n+1 can be determined by predetermining a guidance variable signal in the form of a parabola of the order of n+1 for the axis. By including the amplification (K) of the control unit (11) and the n+1-th derivation of the guidance variable signal over time, a auxiliary control parameter of the order of n+1 can be determined from the steady-state error which occurs.

Abstract: A slip control loop (13) is proposed which compares the actual differential speed between input and output speed of a friction clutch (5) of a motor vehicle with a desired differential value and adjusts a positioning drive (7) of the clutch (5) according to the desired differential speed. To increase the accuracy of control, a desired position signal from a clutch characteristic curve memory (25) is additively superimposed in the sense of an influencing variable on the desired position signal s' calculated by a controller (19) of the slip control loop (13). The clutch characteristic curve memory (25) stores the desired position signal s" as a function of the clutch moment which can be transmitted in this position and is addressed according to the instantaneous engine moment determined, for example, via an engine characteristic map (27). During a load change of the engine (1), the clutch (5) is adjusted to the expected moment before a significant change in the actual differential speed occurs.

Abstract: In order to improve the transmission characteristics and to prevent distortions, a signal cable with two juxtaposed insulated conductors with connecting elements is proposed, in which each conductor is surrounded by its own coaxial individual screen and the screens are insulated against the connecting elements. The conductors and the individual screens are jointly surrounded by an insulated overall screen, which is electrically connected to at least one of the connecting elements.

Abstract: In the case of power transmission cables, such as loudspeaker cables for connecting a loudspeaker to an amplifier, the problem occurs that on ensuring a high power transmission, it is simultaneously necessary to transmit information, e.g. also modulated musical information in an optimum undistorted and undisturbed manner from the amplifier to the loudspeaker. For solving this problem, it is proposed to construct one conductor of such a loudspeaker cable from an internal partial conductor and an external partial conductor surrounding the former and separated therefrom by a dielectric, said internal and external partial conductors being interconnected at the connecting elements.