Abstract: A pneumatic spring element includes a rubber-elastic peripheral wall and two rigid end walls defining a chamber therebetween, a bellows-like spring body disposed inside the chamber defining an outer sub-chamber between spring body and the peripheral wall, the spring body being subjected to compressed air in the interior thereof, and an electroviscous fluid filling outer sub-chamber and being controlled by an electrical field.

Abstract: An active two-chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping includes rubber-elastic peripheral walls, a rigid intermediate plate disposed within the peripheral walls defining two chambers interconnected by a channel formed in the intermediate plate, one of the chambers being an engine-side chamber bordered by one of the peripheral walls acting as a support spring exercising a spring deflection, mutually parallel and overlapping electrodes defining the channel, an electro-viscous fluid filling the chambers, a device for applying an electric field to the electrodes controlling viscosity of the fluid, and a device for varying the length of the channel and the degree of overlap of the electrodes in dependence on the spring deflection of the support spring.

Abstract: An active two-chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping includes rubber-elastic peripheral walls, a rigid intermediate plate disposed between the walls defining chambers, an electro-viscous fluid filling the chambers and flowing in a given fluid flow direction through at least one overflow opening formed in the rigid intermediate plate. At least two mutually parallel metallic mesh plates are successively disposed across the given fluid flow direction in the vicinity of the at least one overflow opening, and a control device for alternatingly applying an electric field to the mesh plates as electrodes for controlling the viscosity of the fluid.

Abstract: A two-chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping includes a cup-shaped housing having a cylindrical wall with an inner surface and a given height, an open upper end and a bottom. A frustoconical rubber-elastic bearing spring with inner and outer surfaces, a base region and substantially the given height is disposed in the housing. An engine mount plate is supported on the bearing spring. A flexible-volume, rubber-elastic diaphragm closes off the open upper end of the cylindrical wall. The inner surface of the support spring and the bottom of the housing defines a working chamber and the outer surface of the bearing spring, the inner surface of the cylindrical wall and the diaphragm defines a compensating chamber. The base region of the bearing spring has a transfer port formed therein interconnecting the working chamber and the compensating chamber.

Abstract: An elastic engine mount with a dynamic stiffness decreasing in dependence on frequency for damping sound transmitted through solids includes a leaf spring having a central region and ends, an elastomer support disposed on the central region of the leaf spring for transmitting force to the leaf spring in a given direction and loading the leaf spring by bending, and at least two support points supporting the leaf spring, the ends of the leaf spring extending freely beyond the support points forming auxiliary masses coupled to the elastomer support vibrating in a direction opposite to the given force transmission direction.

Abstract: A co-oscillating, volume-changing resonator in the form of a silencer, includes a lens-shaped housing formed of a material having a given flexural stiffness, the housing being arched defining an evacuated cup-shaped cavity formed therein, and a coating layer completely surrounding the housing, the coating layer being formed of a material having a flexural stiffness being at most one-third of the given flexural stiffness of the material of the housing.

Abstract: The electroviscous suspension is based on a mixture of aqueous silica gel with silicone oil as the liquid phase to which a dispersant is added. The dispersant consists of amino functional or silicon-functional polysiloxanes having a molecular weight above 800. The concentration of the dispersant is from 1 to 30% by weight and preferably from 5 to 20% by weight, based on the silica gel particles. Electroviscous suspensions such as these are distinguished by the fact that they are highly compatible with elastomeric materials, non-sedimenting, non-inflammable and physiologically acceptable. In addition, they are heat- and freeze-resistant over a wide temperature range and are largely unaffected by temperature and pressure in their viscosity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-chamber engine bearing, in particular for motor vehicles, which has hydraulic damping, the liquid-filled chambers of which have rubber elastic peripheral walls and are connected to each other by a line which is provided in the rigid, elastically-mounted intermediate plate. To improve the damping, the intermediate plate has, according to the invention, an extended cavity which has an approximately rectangular longitudinal cross-section in the area of the middle plane thereof, the length and width of the cavity being many times its height and the cavity being connected to the upper chamber at one end by a vertical passage and connected to the lower chamber at the other end by a corresponding passage.

Abstract: A device for the manufacture of molded parts from molding materials, includes a molding tool being completely closed, having a molding cavity formed therein and being divisible, a heating device having two heating plates disposed on top of each other and fastened to the molding tool, the heating plates being in mutual contact along respective contact surfaces thereof, at least one of the contact surfaces having slots formed therein, and tubular electrical heating elements with metal cladding press-fitted in the slots.

Abstract: In order to determine the fatigue limit of elastic materials, especially rubber, under completely reversed stress by applying a load which alternates between zero and a maximum value and in order to determine the number of load alternations which leads to the breaking of the material, a plurality of strip-shaped rubber samples are clamped between two stationary clamping beams and a rocker. The rocker is approximately parallel to the beams and is moved at one end thereof by means of a crank mechanism. The rubber samples are each positioned parallel to one another in at least one row and are alternately stretched and relaxed to a different extent, depending on their spacing from the fulcrum of the rocker.

Abstract: A co-oscillating, volume-changing resonator in the form of a silencer, includes a lens-shaped housing formed of a material having a given flexural stiffness, the housing being arched defining an evacuated cup-shaped cavity formed therein, and a coating layer completely surrounding the housing, the coating layer being formed of a material having a flexural stiffness being at most one-third of the given flexural stiffness of the material of the housing.

Abstract: Two-chamber motor mount with hydraulic damping, especially for vehicles, including an upper and lower chamber having rubber-elastic walls and being filled with liquid, the upper chamber being of hollow conical construction, a holding flange disposed between the walls of the upper and lower chambers, an intermediate plate formed with a throttle orifice located in vicinity of the holding flange, the upper and the lower chambers being connected to one another through the intermediate plate with the throttle orifice for preventing an hydraulic response for high frequency vibrations of small amplitude, the intermediate plate being responsive to high frequency vibrations of small amplitude and the throttle orifice being automatically closeable at high pressures.