Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator module has at least one piezoelectric element, one actuator foot and one actuator head, and is surrounded by an axially extending sleeve. To seal off the piezoelectric actuator module in the axial direction, the actuator foot is adjoined by a diaphragm that extends essentially in the radial direction and is connected to the sleeve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing hot strip or hot plate, in which a microalloyed steel, which, apart from microalloying elements, comprises (in weight %) C: 0.05-0.12%; Si:0.2-0.5%; Mn:1.5-2.2 %; Al:0.02-0.05%; P:≦0.025%; S:≦0.01%; with the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities, is cast to form a raw material such as slabs, blooms or thin slabs; in which the raw material is heated to a temperature of 1300-1350° C.; in which the heated raw material is rough rolled at a degree of deformation of 36% to 43%; in which the rough rolled raw material is thermomechanically hot rolled at a final rolling temperature which exceeds the Ac3 temperature so as to form a hot strip; in which the hot strip is cooled at a cooling rate of at least 15° C./s to a coiling temperature of at least 590° C. and at most 630° C. at which temperature the cooled hot strip is finally coiled.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator module is proposed, which has at least one piezoelectric element (6), one actuator foot (5) and one actuator head (7), and which is surrounded by an axially extending sleeve (9). To seal off the piezoelectric actuator module (2) in the axial direction, the actuator foot (7) is adjoined by a diaphragm (21) that extends essentially in the radial direction and is connected to the sleeve (9) (FIG. 2).

Abstract: The apparatus for feeding fuel to a motor vehicle engine from a fuel tank includes a pump portion and a direct current drive motor located in a housing part and through which the fuel flows. The commutator device of the drive motor includes commutator brushes located on the positive side and on the negative side; brush contact springs made from electrically conductive material located on the positive side and on the negative side, and a collector having a sliding surface for the brushes which are pressed on it during operation by the contact springs. To improve reliability of operation of the apparatus a negative potential is applied to the brush contact springs on the positive side and on the negative side and the brush contact springs on the positive side are electrically insulated from the commutator brushes on the positive side.

Abstract: An arrangement for feeding a fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine, the arrangement comprises a motor; a multistage feed pump unit driven by the motor and including a flow pump having a rotor and a gerotor pump having an inner runner arranged so that the rotor and the inner runner have aligning axes of rotation and the flow pump is arranged upstream of the rotor pump as considered in the flow direction of a fuel, the rotor of the flow pump and the inner runner of the gerotor pump being located near one another as considered in an axial direction, the gerotor pump also having an outer runner which surrounds a feed chamber, and the rotor of the flow pump having a wall which axially limits the feed chamber surrounded by the outer runner of the gerotor pump.