Abstract: The invention relates to a valve device, preferably for a line device or connecting device. Said valve device comprises a valve body that can be transferred from an open position to a closed position. Said valve body comprises movable sectored devices having sealing edges or sealing surfaces via which, in a closed position, a sealing contact of the sectored device to adjoining sealing edges or sealing surfaces can be established. The sectored devices can at least be in sections moved away in the radial direction from the centre axis when the valve body is transferred to the open position and release a flow area.

Abstract: The invention relates to a seat control electronic system for controlling a drive of a motor vehicle seat which is configured for detecting a characteristic variable of the drive during several short actuations of the drive) and to evaluate variables respectively associated with several short actuations, and to determine a blocking function according to the evaluations.

Abstract: In order to reliably detect a jamming situation, in particular in a seat adjusting means, provision is made for a total loading exerted by the drive during a start phase to be determined and for this to be fixed as the basic loading. The existence or non-existence of a jamming situation is finally determined during a monitoring phase by comparing the gasinc loading and the total loading that varies during operation of the adjusting apparatus.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling device for the connection of pipes to a retaining device, which has an outer part and an inner part arranged in the outer part. This coupling device is characterised in that the outer part and the inner part can move relative to one another and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining device between a locking position and a release position, wherein at least one wedge surface, arranged sloping with respect to the longitudinal axis of the retaining device, is provided on the outer part, which interacts with at least one complementarily formed wedge surface, which is provided on the inner part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a vehicle seat for controlling a first drive and a second drive and for detecting jamming of a body part or of an object by means of an adjusting movement of an adjusting part, which can be adjusted in a first adjusting direction by means of the first drive and in a second adjusting direction by means of the second drive, of the vehicle seat, wherein the control device is configured to detect the jamming by means of a combined evaluation of at least one first force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement and of a second force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement.

Abstract: Control apparatus for an actuating device in a motor vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle seat actuating device, having a sensor for determination of an actual speed of a drive movement of a drive for the actuating device, having a computation unit which is connected to the sensor, and having a power driver for passing current through the drive as a function of the control signal, with the computation unit being designed and configured to regulate the actuating speed of the drive movement as a function of the actual speed and of a predeterminable set speed by means of a control signal, and to stop or to reverse the drive movement as a function of an evaluation, associated with trapping, of the control signal.

Abstract: To provide an assembly, comprising an exhaust gas turbocharger and an intercooler for an internal combustion engine and a hot-side charge-air line connecting the exhaust gas turbocharger to a charge-air inlet of the intercooler, which assembly allows the movements to be equalised between the exhaust gas turbocharger and the intercooler and is simple to produce and assemble, it is proposed that the hot-side charge-air line comprises a one-piece plastics material tube which is formed from a material containing polytetrafluoroethylene and/or modified polytetrafluoroethylene and has at least one flexible zone.

Abstract: In order to provide a tubular moulding with a wall, which has high compressive strength and high mechanical stability with good temperature resistance and good chemical resistance, it is proposed that the wall comprises a composite, which comprises a plastics material layer, which is formed from a material containing a fluoropolymer material, and a reinforcement layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conduit, preferably a flexible hose, which is, at least sectionwise, provided with an eversion in an end portion thereof, said conduit having been everted in a plastic state prior to a solidification by means of which said eversion is fixed; in addition, the invention relates to a method for producing such a conduit.

Abstract: A multi-axle driven, all terrain vehicle with electrically driven individual wheels, having a vehicle underbody (2) and a plurality of drive wheels (4) to which, respectively, one drive with at least one electric motor (18) is assigned. The electric drive motor (18) is at least partially located in an axial space (20) which is occupied by a drive wheel, but is placed radially outside of the drive wheel (4), is proposed a housing of a connecting gear-train (14), of which housing is rigidly bound to the vehicle underbody (2) and the torque transmitting connection from the connecting gear-train (14) to the drive wheel (4) is made by a jointed shaft (8), so that the unsprung mass of each drive wheel remains small and so that in the middle of the vehicle a broad through passage can exist.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling unit for tubes o the like, comprising a coupling body with an opening for receiving therein a tube, and a latching device which is adapted to be transferred between: an unlatched position in which the tube is adapted to be moved relative to the coupling body, and a latched position in which the tube is adapted to be secured in the coupling body against removal therefrom. In order to improve the known latching systems for coupling units in the case of a crash or fire, the invention provides a coupling unit of the type referred to at the beginning, in which the latching device is magnetically operable for transfer between the unlatched position and the latched position and/or between the latched position and the unlatched position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling, in particular a quick coupling, for connecting lines, said coupling comprising a first connection area and at least one second connection area, said first connection area being provided, at least sectionwise, with a section which is adapted to the contour thereof. Said section comprises energetically activatable particles and is adapted to be brought into contact with a line end of one of the lines to be connected.

Abstract: Lumbar support and control device of a lumbar support and method for controlling a lumbar support of a motor vehicle. An electric control device is provided for a lumbar support which has a drive coupled mechanically to an adjusting mechanism for setting the seat contour of the lumbar support. The control device thereby has at least one computer unit which has either a fixed-wired program structure (ROM) and/or is freely programmable. In each case the computer unit is in particular set up through a program to control a massaging movement of the lumbar support whereby the massaging movement is characterised through several predefinable ideal speeds. The lumbar support is an adjusting device with which the contour of the backrest can be decisively controlled. For a massaging effect this contour is to be temporarily changed through predeterminable ideal speeds.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a sealing element, preferably for sealing quick couplers of fuel lines, particularly in automotive vehicles, comprising a supporting section which is made at least in part from an elastic material, and a sealing section which is made from a material differing from the elastic material, the sealing element being provided on its circumference with at least one contact surface and at least one sealing surface. Such a sealing element can thereby be produced in an installation-friendly and inexpensive way in that according to the invention at least one contact surface is formed by the supporting section and at least one sealing surface by the sealing section.

Abstract: In order to effect an impervious and, at the same time, stable connection of fluid-conducting ducts, especially of hoses or pipes, a coupling having a connector is provided in accordance with the invention, which cooperates with a duct at least portion-wise, with the connector comprising at least one adhesive space which is filled with an adhesive. According to the method of connecting ducts a coupling according to the invention is used, whereby the connector of the coupling is, for instance, mounted on a duct and a thermal treatment is carried out, during which both the adhesive is hardened and the duct is thermally deformed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an adjuster on a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle seat adjustment, with at least one adjustment range between a first stop and a second stop. An adjustment position for the adjuster may be set within the adjustment range by means of a user action, said adjustment position determined within the adjustment range and a protective stop set in the adjustment path, which, depending on the adjuster position, triggers a reduction in the adjustment energy, in particular to stop the adjustment movement in the vicinity of a mechanical block for the adjustment movement. According to the invention, in order to correct the position of the protective stop, a new protective stop is set, which may not be inactivated by a user action, when a condition, dependent on the adjuster motion of the adjuster device is fulfilled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer flexible hose, preferably for fuel or coolant lines in an automotive vehicle, comprising a support layer and a metallic barrier layer which is fixedly connected to said support layer, and to a method of producing the same.

Abstract: The invention concerns a drive unit for a tracked vehicle with a first and a second electric generator (6, 8) and with a first and a second internal combustion engine (10, 12), such that one generator (6, 8) can be driven respectively by one combustion engine (10, 12), and with electric drive motors (14, 16, 18, 20) for driving a right-hand and a left-hand drive track (4, 2). According to the invention it is proposed that the elements of the drive unit are linked in such manner that the right-hand drive track (4) is associated with first and second right-hand electric drive motors (14, 16), the left-hand drive track (2) is associated with first and second left-hand electric drive motors (18, 20), the two first drive motors (14, 18) being fed by the first generator (6) and the two second drive motors (16, 20) being fed by the second generator (8). Due to the wiring of the energy paths according to the invention, very great operational security is achieved even when the drive unit is partially damaged.