Abstract: A sensor module for a probe head of a tactile coordinate measuring machine has a frame forming a stationary module base, thereby defining a first measurement plane. A moving part is connected to the frame via webs. Each web has a thick-material web portion arranged between two thin-material web portions, if seen in a cross section perpendicularly to the first measurement plane. The thick-material web portion has a material thickness greater than the corresponding material thickness of the thin-material web portions.

Abstract: A sensor module for a probe head of a tactile coordinate measuring machine has a frame forming a stationary module base, thereby defining a first measurement plane. A moving part is connected to the frame via webs. Each web has a thick-material web portion arranged between two thin-material web portions, if seen in a cross section perpendicularly to the first measurement plane. The thick-material web portion has a material thickness greater than the corresponding material thickness of the thin-material web portions.

Abstract: A carrier system (10) for a medical apparatus (11) is disclosed. The carrier system includes rotation joints (17, 18, 20). A supply line harness runs in the carrier system (10) and is run so that it is covered. The rotation joint (18) includes a tube-shaped holding member on which fingers are formed which hold a rotation joint. A joint element, which is rotatably journalled in a joint receptacle, is provided in the rotation joint (20). The joint element has a wave-shaped section which is connected via a connecting section to an annularly-shaped section functioning to accommodate a connecting arm.

Abstract: A coordinate measuring machine for the metrological determination of a measurement coordinate on a test object comprises a table for mounting the test object. A first and a second bearing support are arranged on the table. A first and a second carriage, each moveable in a longitudinal direction, are mounted on the bearing supports. According to one aspect of the invention, the carriages are each mounted on the bearing supports via at least three, preferably four separate bearing points, with the bearing points defining a plane that is perpendicular to the plane of the table.

Abstract: A probe head for a coordinate measuring machine has a replaceable, miniaturized probe system with a stylus. The stylus is rigid and forms a structural unit together with a membrane-type sensor system that is deformed in a predetermined way when a force acts on the stylus. The structural unit is permanently fixed to a probe holder and can be handled together with the probe holder when the stylus is being replaced.

Abstract: A carrier system (10) for a medical apparatus (11) is disclosed. The carrier system includes rotation joints (17, 18, 20). A supply line harness runs in the carrier system (10) and is run so that it is covered. The rotation joint (18) includes a tube-shaped holding member on which fingers are formed which hold a rotation joint. A joint element, which is rotatably journalled in a joint receptacle, is provided in the rotation joint (20). The joint element has a wave-shaped section which is connected via a connecting section to an annularly-shaped section functioning to accommodate a connecting arm.

Abstract: A carrier system (10) for a medical apparatus (11) is disclosed. The carrier system includes rotation joints (17, 18, 20). A supply line harness runs in the carrier system (10) and is run so that it is covered. The rotation joint (18) includes a tube-shaped holding member on which fingers are formed which hold a rotation joint. A joint element, which is rotatably journalled in a joint receptacle, is provided in the rotation joint (20). The joint element has a wave-shaped section which is connected via a connecting section to an annularly-shaped section functioning to accommodate a connecting arm.

Abstract: The gesture-based input device for a user interface of a computer comprises two pairs of electrodes scalable for any screen size wherein the electrodes are arranged to capture the quasi-electrostatic field surrounding the user in order for the graphic user interface to provide different options or tasks to be selected by a user, a platform for supporting a user, a quasi-electrostatic field generator source connected to the platform and a circuitry connected to the electrodes for determining, relative to each of the electrodes, the position of that part of a user supported by the platform, e.g. a user's hand, being closest to the electrodes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a carrier system (10) for a medical apparatus (11). The carrier system includes rotation joints (17, 18, 20). A supply line harness runs in the carrier system (10) and is run so that it is covered. The rotation joint (18) includes a tube-shaped holding member on which fingers are formed which hold a rotation joint. A joint element, which is rotatably journalled in a joint receptacle, is provided in the rotation joint (20). The joint element has a wave-shaped section which is connected via a connecting section to an annularly-shaped section functioning to accommodate a connecting arm.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for at least partially compensating a torque caused by gravitational forces acting on a mass body (2), which is rotatably supported on an axis of rotation (3). The arrangement includes a gas pressure spring (5) for providing a linear force. This linear force is transformed into a torque by means of a converter unit (7). The mass body (2) and the converter unit (7) can be coupled to each other in a way which allows for adjusting the amplitude and the phase of a compensating torque.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for engine torque regulation in which, for rapid engine torque reduction, fuel injection is cut out using a cutout pattern that can be selected from a predetermined set of cutout patterns, as a function of the deviation of the engine torque. According to the invention, an engine-torque-reducing throttle position intervention is also implemented parallel to the fuel injection cutout. The difference in torque between a load-indicated actual engine torque (derived from an engine air volume measurement) and the required set engine torque can be regulated with an appropriate reduction of the degree of injection cutout in stages.

Abstract: In a method for detecting leaks in a motor vehicle tank ventilation system which includes an adsorption filter connected to the tank, via a ventilation conduit, to the induction pipe of an internal combustion engine via a discharge conduit and to the atmosphere via an air supply conduit, a shut-off valve arranged in the air supply conduit is closed to isolate the system from the atmosphere, a regeneration valve arranged in the discharge conduit is then opened so as to generate in the system a predetermined vacuum up to a point of time at which a stable equilibrium state of the air/fuel ratio in the system is achieved, the regeneration valve is then closed to isolate the system also from the induction pipe, and the vacuum in the system is subsequently maintained over a predetermined period and the existence of a leak in the tank ventilation system is indicated if the vacuum in the system falls below a predetermined threshold value during the predetermined monitoring period.

Abstract: In a method of providing a desired output torque for an internal-combustion engine a desired air mass-flow value or a desired load value is determined from a desired output torque value in dependence on the engine speed and the throttle-valve opening angle, and the measured actual value is adjusted to the respective desired value by control of the throttle-valve opening angle. A conversion between load and air mass flow takes place by means of a load filter which compensates for the deviations, occurring in dynamic operating states, of the measured air mass flow from the air mass flow actually flowing into the combustion chamber of the engine and a transition between the two regulating methods can take place continuously or in a switched manner.

Abstract: A method and apparatus control the power to be delivered by a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine which, during normal operation of the internal combustion engine, is adjusted by matching the fuel injection quantity to the induced air mass flow corresponding to the current load demand and controllable by a setting element.

Abstract: In a process for regulating the fuel/air ratio in internal combustion engines having an exhaust gas measuring probe and a catalyst, the fuel/air mixture fed to the internal combustion engine via a proportioning device being regulated to a virtually stoichiometric value in a control unit with variable characteristics as a function of the exhaust gas composition detected by the measuring probe, the characteristics of the control unit are variable in dependence on the operating time of the catalyst.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a catalytic converter in its exhaust gas path. In the catalytic converter, two exhaust gas emission measuring probes are provided spatially separated from one another. The phase shift between the output signals of these two measuring probes is used as a measure of the aging of the catalytic converter.