Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for controlling the idle of an internal combustion engine having an intake channel for conducting air to the engine. The method utilizes sensors for generating signals characterizing the operating state of the engine and for supplying the signals to a control apparatus. A tank-venting valve is provided through which air can be conducted into the intake channel when the tank-venting valve is open. Control quantities are computed in the control apparatus in dependence upon the signals for at least the following: the tank-venting valve, an idle adjuster device, a fuel metering device and an ignition device. The air supplied to the engine is controlled with the aid of the tank-venting valve. The invention is also directed to an arrangement for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A central control module generates nominal values for braking based on a pedal input value form a pedal sensor which detects actuation of the brake pedal by the driver, and sensor signals representing wheel speeds. First and second brake control modules transmit sensor signals to the central module, receive nominal values from the central module, and transmit nominal values to the actuators. The first brake control module receives the pedal input value from the pedal sensor directly, and calculates the nominal values as a function of the pedal input value when the central module has failed.

Abstract: Electronic engine control systems have a plurality of individual components on the intake tube, some of them located relatively far from one another. For electrically connecting the individual components to the electronic control unit, relatively long electric connecting lines and a relatively large number of plug connections are therefore necessary. This invention sets forth a preassembled throttle apparatus which includes at least one throttle device, rotatably accommodated in a throttle valve support, and an idling adjuster in a housing; the throttle apparatus has a bypass conduit, which bypasses the throttle device and which can be varied by the idling adjuster, into which a regeneration valve can output fuel, the regeneration valve being triggerable by an electronic control unit that is also accommodated in the housing. The throttle apparatus of the invention is intended particularly for mixture-compressing internal combustion engines with externally supplied ignition.

Abstract: It is proposed in the case of an electromotive power steering as a steering aid for motor vehicles and similar, particularly for the speed range during parking (parking power steering), having a reduction gear between the servo-motor and the steering column or the drive leading on to the mechanical wheel displacement, that at least one clutch block be so arranged that it creates a drive connection from the servo-motor drive to the steering gear side of the steering column when, upon a moment being exerted manually at the steering wheel, a pawl connected to the steering wheel side of the steering column produces the requisite clutch pressure by mechanical action on the at least one clutch block, while the gear wheels acted upon by the clutch are formed as ring gears fitted to a carrier flange which is joined firmly to the driven section of the steering column so that it cannot rotate.

Abstract: For controlling high-pressure phases during the stroke of a pump piston of a fuel injection pump, magnetic valves are also used, which are built into relief lines of the pump work chamber of such fuel injection pumps and which with the instant of closure of the relief line determine the injection onset and with the instant of reopening of the relief line determine the end of injection and hence the injection quantity. Such valves must be capable of switching rapidly, in view of the high rpm of internal combustion engines, yet must be as small as possible and use the least possible energy. By using a piston slide which in the closing state is balanced in pressure on the high-pressure side, and by relieving the chambers defined on the face end by the piston slide, a fast-switching, recoilless magnetic valve is obtained, which is opened by a restoring spring when the electromagnet is in the currentless state.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump, preferably for internal combustion engines operating by the Otto method, having a pump work piston driven to reciprocate and rotate simultaneously and defining two mutually independent pump work chambers, is proposed. The first pump work chamber pumps fuel into the combustion chamber of the engine that is in a state immediately prior to ignition, while the second pump work chamber pumps fuel into the combustion chamber operating offset from the other by 360.degree. of crakshaft angle. To this end, two distributor openings are disposed in the jacket face of the pump work piston, offset by 180.degree. from one another and each communicating with a different one of the pump work chambers.