Abstract: A lifting station for vertically moving an object, in particular a vehicle body, in a surface treatment installation includes a fixed support structure and a vertically movable lifting cradle which is supported on the support structure and on which at least one conveying device is arranged. According to the invention an energy transfer device, with which energy can be transferred to the conveying device only in at least one selected lifting position of the lifting cradle is provided. As a result, a trailing cable can be dispensed with.

Abstract: The invention concerns a scissors-type elevating platform, comprising two pairs of scissors, spaced apart in parallel and arranged between a base unit (20) and a support unit (10) moving up and down. Said pairs of scissors have each two scissors arms (1, 2) pivotable relative to each other about a scissors axle (9). Said device also comprises an elevating mechanism having at least one spreader unit (4) which can reciprocate between the scissors arms (1, 2) to raise and lower the support unit and which is coupled to a winding shaft (12) via a traction element assembly (5) capable of being wound on the winding shaft (12) driven by a motor, said traction element assembly comprising at least two flat traction bands spaced apart in parallel. The width of the traction bands is selected so as to ensure, when the support unit (10) is raised, that the bands are superimposed on the winding shaft.

Abstract: In an elevator installation, an apparatus and a method use a support end connection for fastening a support device to an elevator car, a counterweight and/or a building. The support device has at least one cable or cable strand enclosed by a cable casing and is held in a wedge pocket by a wedge. The cable casing is formed of thermoplastic material or an elastomer and at least one of a region of the wedge or the wedge pocket is provided with a longitudinal wedge groove and a region of the wedge, of the wedge pocket or the cable casing has a reduced coefficient of friction. The support device is preferably a multiple cable.

Abstract: An elevator, preferably without counterweight, comprising a number of diverting pulleys in the upper part of an elevator shaft or equivalent, a number of diverting pulleys in the lower part of the elevator shaft and a number of diverting pulleys on the elevator car, is installed by a method in which at least some of the diverting pulleys are pre-rigged. The rigged diverting pulleys are brought into the elevator shaft together with the car, and the hoisting ropes are stretched to their proper length when the diverting pulleys in the upper and lower parts of the shaft are mounted in place.

Abstract: A modular drive for an elevator installation with a car and a counterweight includes a drive pulley driven by a motor and a self-supporting deflecting module with a deflecting roller, wherein the motor and the drive pulley are combined to form a self-supporting drive module. Interfaces for attachment of connecting parts are provided at the drive module or the deflecting module.

Abstract: An elevator car (2) comprises a cross-head portion (8) and a balustrade (10) mounted to the cross-head portion (8), The balustrade (10) is moveable from a retracted position for normal operation of the car (2) to a deployed position for inspection operation of the car (2). The car (2) further comprises a second retractable safety device (12,14) also mounted to the cross-head (8) for preventing or limiting movement of the car (2). Also disclosed is an elevator car (2) comprising a retractable balustrade (10) moveable between a retracted position for normal operation of the elevator car (2) and is a deployed position for inspection operation of the elevator car (2). The balustrade (10) comprises at least one control (40,42,44) for operating the elevator car (2) during the inspection operation wherein the control (40,42,44) is arranged so that it cannot be operated when the balustrade (10) is in the retracted position.

Abstract: A method for allocating an elevator in a destination floor elevator system comprising an elevator group consisting of several elevators, a passenger data terminal for reserving elevators for use by passengers, an elevator group control system for controlling the elevators in response to signals from the passenger data terminal. The method of the invention comprises the following steps: the size and destination floor of the group of passengers are input into the control system of the elevator group, one or more elevators are allocated to the group of passengers by utilizing the size and destination floor of the group, and the members of the group of passengers are informed about the allocation.

Abstract: A chassis braking system for braking a chassis includes a braking unit including a braking surface biased toward a road surface on which the chassis runs and having a first state where movement of the braking surface toward the road surface is locked and a second state where the braking surface abuts against the road surface. A control unit releases the lock of the braking unit and shifts the braking unit from the first state to the second state when predetermined conditions are met.

Abstract: The roller brake mounting adapter is configured to be mounted to a bicycle wheel driving device (e.g., hub) equipped with an internal motor. The roller brake mounting adapter has a flange part and a cylindrical part. The flange part is configured to be mounted to a side end section of a hub shell of the hub. The cylindrical part has a first contact surface and a second contact surface. The first contact surface is provided on an internal circumferential surface of the cylindrical part, and configured to contact a bearing serving to rotatably support the hub shell on a shaft of the hub. The second contact surface is provided on an external circumferential surface of the cylindrical part, and has protrusions that are spaced apart in a circumferential direction. The second contact surface is configured to contact a brake drum of the roller brake device.

Abstract: A disk brake has a mount and a pad. The pad has a guide portion and outer and inner push bearing portions on a disk rotor rotation outlet side. The mount has a support portion to support the guide portion movably in a rotor axial direction. The outer and inner push bearing portions are provided on each position outwardly or inwardly of the rotor rotation outlet side guide portion in the radial direction of the rotor, and project toward the mount in the radial direction of the rotor to abut against the mount. The outer push bearing portion has an abutment surface to abut against the mount on a tangent to an outer peripheral side in a central position of the outer peripheral side of a friction surface of the pad radially outwardly in the radial direction of the rotor, or in a position outwardly of the tangent.

Abstract: A spring-actuated brake cylinder having a housing with a first housing part in which there is formed a spring chamber containing an actuator spring that acts on a spring-actuated piston, and with a second housing part in which there is formed a pressure chamber, the housing parts being provided with outwardly extending rim flanges that can be connected to one another. The second housing part is made from deformable plate material and has an adequately dimensioned rim flange which is crimped onto and circumferentially around the rim flange of the first housing part by exceeding its elastic limit.

Abstract: An magnetorheological damper useful in structural vibration control has a damper body and a moveable portion relative to the damper body. The damper includes an magnetorheological material contained within the damper body for resisting movement of the moveable portion. Rheology changes can be generated in the magnetorheological material owing to changes in a magnetic field, to which the magnetorheological material is exposed. The damper further includes at least a sensor embedded in the damper for monitoring an external force exerted on the damper, and for generating a signal to control the magnetic field and hence the resulting yield force and rheological damping of the damper in response to a variance in the external force.

Abstract: A shock absorbing structure comprises: a cylinder, a valve, a moveable tube, an adjusting tube and a valve rod. The valve rod, the adjusting tube and the moveable tube are coaxially arranged in a telescopic manner. The valve is fixed at an end of the moveable tube, and cooperates with an oil path to divide the cylinder into an oil pressure space and an air pressure space. Another end of the moveable tube cooperating with the adjusting tube and the valve rod protrudes out of the cylinder. The moveable tube is further provided with an oil return path. With the abovementioned arrangements, the user can turn on or off the buffering function of the shock absorbing structure freely. Furthermore, the operations of adjusting and turning on/off the buffering effect are all performed at the same end of the shock absorbing structure, therefore, the shock absorbing structure of the present invention is more suitable for modularization and is more simply structured.

Abstract: The invention relates to a suspension arrangement (1) for—loading-bearing and resilient wheel support in a motor vehicle, having at least one spring cylinder (2) with a piston (6) which is guided in a cylinder (4) such that it can be moved relative to the latter and which, on one side, has a piston rod (8) guided out of the cylinder (4) in the outward direction. The piston (6) separates, within the cylinder (4), a cylindrical working chamber (12) from an annular chamber (14), which encloses the piston rod (8). On the side of the working chamber (12), in order to generate a load-bearing spring force (F), the piston (6) acts counter to a working pressure (pA) of an elastically compressible, in particular pneumatic spring medium (FM). The piston rod (8) is telescopically variable in length via an additional spring cylinder (16), the additional spring cylinder (16) being subjected at least to a counterpressure (pG; pG1, pG2) of an elastically compressible, in particular pneumatic opposing spring medium (GM).

Abstract: A suspension system for a vehicle having a vehicle body and a plurality of wheels movable relative to the vehicle body. A hydraulic damper, which includes a piston rod and a cylinder, is disposed between the vehicle body and wheels. A striker plate is mounted to the cylinder and is displaceable with the cylinder relative to a support on the vehicle body. A jounce assembly is mounted to the support about the piston rod and extends outwardly toward the striker plate. The jounce assembly includes a jounce bumper and a cap. The cap is mounted to the jounce bumper with the cap having a flange extending to a distal edge for defining a cavity. The distal edge of the flange deflects into the cavity when the cap engages the striker plate during a predetermined displacement of the striker plate relative to the support.

Abstract: A protruding portion is formed integrally on an outer ring in such a manner as to protrude from an outer raceway surface toward an inner raceway surface. A sliding portion is formed on an inner ring as a separate element from the inner raceway surface in such a manner as to protrude from the inner raceway surface toward the outer raceway surface. Due to the sliding portion being brought into contact with the protruding portion during a relative rotation of the inner ring and the outer ring, the sliding portion is formed by applying an elastic material such as rubber to the inner raceway surface by heating or bonding.

Abstract: An energy conversion device includes a gas cylinder having a cylinder body, and a piston guided to move along a direction. The cylinder body includes an annular partition wall unit extending from a base plate and defining a piston chamber. The piston includes a plug and an annular fence unit. Clearances are formed between the plug and the partition wall unit, and between the partition wall unit and the fence unit such that the partition wall unit does not contact the plug and the fence unit. The plug, the fence unit and the partition wall unit define a surrounding chamber unit around the piston chamber. When the plug moves toward the base plate to compress gas within the piston chamber, gas within the surrounding chamber unit is also compressed to thereby establish a gas-tight seal between the plug and the partition wall unit.

Abstract: A luggage has a body, a telescopic handle and a protective coat. The telescopic handle and the protective coat are mounted on the body. The protective coat has a coat. The coat has an extension handle hole, a second connecting element and a locking element. The second connecting element is mounted on the coat to connect to the bag body. The locking element is mounted on the coat to hold the body. When the protective coat is used, the body may be covered in the coat to be kept from being damaged or becoming wet.

Abstract: A luggage device including a frame and at least one container releasably secured to the frame.

Abstract: The invention relates to a torque transmission device with a clutch disk or friction plate that is connected by way of positive locking sections to an input part of a torsional vibration damping device so that they turn together but it can be slid axially. In order to produce a torque transmission device, by which the shifting quality of a converter bridge clutch in a hydrodynamic torque converter can be improved, the input part of the torsional vibration damping device has, in the circumferential direction between two positive locking sections, a seat area for one end of a spring shackle that extends from the clutch disk.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper for a bridging clutch of a hydrodynamic clutch arrangement is provided with a drive-side transmission element and a takeoff-side transmission element, which can be deflected around a certain angle of rotation relative to the drive-side element against the action of energy storage devices, where at least one driver element with an actuating function is assigned to each energy storage device. To realize a multi-stage action of the energy storage device, at least some of these driver elements arrive in working connection with an assigned final turn of the corresponding energy storage device only after using up a predetermined clearance gap in the circumferential direction. For this purpose, at least one transmission element has openings to accommodate energy storage devices, and at least one circumferential boundary of each opening is provided as a driver element for the assigned energy storage device.

Abstract: A torsionally tuned damper assembly for a geared power transmission is disclosed. The damper assembly, at a power output end of a transmission power output shaft, has an inertia ring with a calibrated natural torsional frequency that reduces the resonance energy developed by gear rattle forces at a transmission gear mesh.

Abstract: The present invention provides a friction plate with features to provide additional cooling for use within a wet clutch system. The friction plate has a core plate with a friction facing layer affixed to each face of the core plate. The first friction facing layer has a plurality of radially oriented lubrication grooves formed by a plurality of friction pads having porosity. Additionally, the second friction facing layer has a plurality of friction pads formed by radially oriented lubrication grooves whose centerline is coincident with the radial centerline of the friction pads of the first friction facing layer. Each of the lubrication grooves has at least one hole provided therein to introduce fluid to effect cooling of the friction pad opposite the groove. Additionally, the present invention provides a method of enhancing the performance of a wet clutch system.

Abstract: An electric power connection part of an electromagnetic clutch field coil assembly connected with an electric power connector at a side of a vehicle engine includes a housing assembly connected to the field coil assembly with electric wires, which is extracted therefrom, interposed therebetween; a discharge device for absorbing a surge voltage; and a magnetic field elimination device for eliminating a residual magnetic field are injection molded and combonined within the housing assembly. Accordingly, on the electric power connection part has an advantage in that it is not directly influenced by heat radiated from a field coil assembly so that electric/electronic devices can be prevented from being damaged; since an epoxy applying process for attaching electric/electronic devices such as a discharge device and a magnetic field elimination device is omitted, a manufacturing process is greatly simplified; and the number of components are reduced so that manufacturing process thereby decreasing costs.

Abstract: A rotating machine having an electro-magnetic clutch includes: a leakage magnetic flux path formed between the electro-magnetic clutch and a housing via the rotary shaft when a portion of the magnetic flux generated by the electro-magnetic clutch leaks out; a Hall-effect IC, which is arranged in the leakage magnetic flux path, for detecting an amount of the leakage magnetic flux passing in the Hall-effect IC; a variable leakage magnetic flux portion which composes a portion of the leakage magnetic flux path and is rotated by the rotary shaft; and an ECU for detecting a state of rotation of the rotating machine from a change in the leakage magnetic flux detected by the Hall-effect IC.

Abstract: The present invention provides a controlled leak within the clutch feed passage of the hydraulic clutch control system. The controlled leak will operate to provide compliance to the hydraulic clutch control system and may prevent pressure overshoot conditions during clutch trim. The controlled leak is only present during clutch trim and is discontinued during full apply conditions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a friction plate for a wet-type multi-plate clutch, to which a wet-type friction material is secured and in which there are provided an oil passage communicated with inner and outer peripheral edges, an oil groove opened toward the inner peripheral edge and having a terminal end disposed between the inner peripheral edge and the outer peripheral edge, and at least one circumferential groove communicated with the oil passage and extending in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A roller-conveyor roll for the transport of furnace-heated metallic strip or a continuously cast steel strand has a shaft extending along an axis, a tubular shell coaxially surrounding the roller shaft and having a pair of axially spaced ends, and a respective insulating body at each of the shell ends between the respective shell and the shaft and angularly fixed to the shell and to the shaft for transmitting torque between the shaft and the shell ends. The body electrically and thermally insulates the shell from the shaft.

Abstract: A first sensing means, which may form part of a banknote authenticator, is used to determine the profile of, for example, at least the leading edge of a banknote. Actuators located elsewhere in the banknote handling machine are operated in accordance with the outputs of other sensors, after taking the measured profile into consideration, so as to correct for errors due to the banknote being damaged in the area sensed by the other position detectors.

Abstract: A control system and method for operating a coin redemption machine includes a coin redemption machine functioning as a peripheral device to a separate computer linked to the coin redemption machine through a communications link for reciprocal communication between the coin redemption machine and the computer. The computer controls the activating and deactivating of the coin redemption machine; and the computer and coin redemption machine communicate through commands from the computer, followed by responses from the coin redemption machine.

Abstract: A feed table with force reaction system for counteracting clamping forces on a shuttle vise used to move a workpiece toward a machine tool. In a first embodiment, lever arms are attached to an upper guide rail between two vertical columns. A reaction actuator interconnects upper ends of the lever arms such that when actuated, a reaction force is applied to the vertical columns by lower ends of the lever arms to counteract clamping forces created by a clamping actuator attached to one of the vertical columns. In a second embodiment, lever arms are also used and interconnected at the upper ends thereof by a reaction bar. A reaction actuator is attached to a lower end of each of the lever arms to apply the reaction force. In third and fourth embodiments, a clamping force bar is positioned above the upper guide beam. A clamping actuator is attached to the clamping force bar such that clamping forces are not transmitted to the vertical columns.

Abstract: A conveyor system has a conveyor track with a conveyor means that moves along at least one subsection of the conveyor track in a direction of conveyance, at least one workpiece carrier bringable into driving engagement with the conveying means to move it in the direction of conveyance, and a deflection device that deflects the workpiece carrier out of the direction of conveyance and therefore moves it from the subsection of the conveyor track, the deflection device including a deflection section that swivels the workpiece carrier around a swivel axis that is substantially parallel to its vertical axis, the deflection device also including a further deflection section that is located along a trajectory of the workpiece carrier in front of the deflection section and has a different design than the deflection section and that displaces the workpiece carrier laterally relative to the subsection of the conveyor track.

Abstract: A conveyor system has a conveyor track with conveying means that moves along at least one subsection of the conveyor track, at least one workpiece carrier bringable into driving engagement with the conveying means to be moved along the conveyor track, the at least one workpiece carrier including a first control curve and a second control curve, and a first control curve tracker and a second control curve tracker assigned to the conveyor track and configured so that the first control tracker is bringable into a first control engagement with the first control curve and the second control curve tracker is bringable into a second control engagement with the second control curve, the control curves and the control curve trackers being configured and/or located such that the at least one workpiece carrier is deflectable laterally off of the subsection of the conveyor track via an interaction of the first control engagement and the second control engagement.

Abstract: A transfer and distribution conveyor system is described. The transfer conveyor system is provided with a reciprocating discharge support platform for discharging by gravity a group of elongated articles, such as floorboards, conveyed transversely of the support platform. The group of articles fall onto a conveyor belt which is oriented transversely, whereby to discharge the group of articles axially with the boards oriented in a spaced-apart relationship. A discharge conveyor is also described, which engages elongated articles which are conveyed laterally, whereby to displace them one at a time axially in end-to-end relationship whereby to feed two or more packaging stations. The packaging stations are fed by a single-feed conveyor which receives these axially aligned articles and which is supported above two or more distribution conveyors, which feed respective ones of sorting and bundling stations.

Abstract: An assembly and method for cleaning a conveyor belt system is disclosed. The cleaning assembly is for removing liquids and solids from an endless conveyor belt, the assembly includes a plurality of laterally extending liquid absorbent material sheets disposed adjacent the belt, with the sheets collectively defining a contact face that is engageable with the belt for wiping liquids from the belt.

Abstract: A transfer system that laterally grips an open container at a position along a first belt upstream of a conveyor transfer and then transfers the container across the interface between belts before depositing the container on a second belt downstream of the conveyor transfer. The container is protected against lateral tipping and spillage during the transfer.

Abstract: A shaker conveyor assembly for moving objects includes a conveying element adapted for movement in first and second directions in repeated rectilinear fashion so as to convey items placed on the conveying element in one of the directions. The assembly includes an electric drive assembly having an output, a control assembly, and at least one sensor adapted to sense movement of the output. The control assembly provides a first level of electrical power to the electric drive assembly during a first portion of reciprocal movement and a second level of power to the electric drive assembly during a second portion of reciprocal movement. In addition, the control assembly provides selective control over the duration of the first and second portions of the reciprocal movement thereby controlling the speed of each of the directions of reciprocal movement of the conveying element.

Abstract: A vibratory conveyor has a bed or trough that carries the workpieces, and supported above a base plate. A vibratory motor employs linear bearing to provide vibratory that is kept in the plane of the conveyor bed. A directional fabric material lying on the trough is smooth or slippery in one direction but grips the workpieces in the opposite direction. The vibratory motor keeps the motion in the back and forth direction, with almost no vertical component, for quieter operation and without shaking that can damage delicate workpieces. The direction of motion can be selected by orienting the fabric.

Abstract: A roller assembly for an image forming apparatus includes a roller, a bearing for rotatably supporting the roller, a roller cover to be assembled at both ends of the roller, a bushing to be introduced between the roller and the bearing, and a support unit disposed at the roller and the bushing to suppress sliding movement between the roller and the bushing and shaking of the roller in an axial direction.

Abstract: A transfer tail assembly for use with a conveyor assembly that creates a reduced radius transition from the upper run to the lower run of a continuous conveyor belt used with the conveyor assembly. The transfer tail assembly includes a stationary nose bar over which the continuous conveyor belt passes at the end of the conveyor assembly. The nose bar is supported at the end of the conveyor assembly by a series of support brackets mounted to a cross support. Each of the support brackets is formed from a wear resistant material and contacts the conveyor belt as the conveyor belt passes around the transfer tail assembly. The nose bar, support brackets and cross support are mounted within the tail assembly without the use of any external connectors and thus require no tooling to assemble and disassemble.

Abstract: There is provided a compound switch suitable for preventing malfunction as a multidirectional switch caused by an unreasonable turning force applied to a slider, improving the switch operability, and simplifying a switch mounting panel surface. When a transverse push-in force is applied to the operating portion 14, the slider 8 slides in the push-in direction of the operating portion from a fixed position of neutrality, and hence a contact state corresponding to the slide direction can be obtained. When torque for turning the operating portion 14 around the axis thereof is applied to the operating portion 14, the torque is transmitted to an outer base 2 via the slider 8 etc., by which the outer base 2, the slider 8, and the operating portion 14 are rotatingly moved together in the rotation direction of the operating portion 14 from the fixed position of neutrality, and hence a contact state corresponding to the rotation direction can be obtained.

Abstract: A movable contact holder includes a rod-shaped portion which is formed in such a manner as to extend in a direction which is at substantially right angles to a traveling direction of a movable unit and is substantially parallel to a sliding plane of a movable contact, and the movable contact includes a folded-back piece portion which is folded back in such a manner as to extend along a circumferential side surface of the rod-shaped portion and is formed in such a manner as to be elastically deformable, whereby when a folded-back side surface of the folded-back piece portion turns around the circumferential side surface of the rod-shaped portion, the movable contact is assembled to the movable contact holder.

Abstract: A rotatably mounted control dial has two axial positions: a depressed, locked position, and an extended, unlocked position. A user can selectively lock and unlock the dial by pressing on it to activate or de-activate a spring-loaded latch.

Abstract: An instrument panel assembly for a passenger compartment is provided, including an instrument panel surface, a light emitter that emits a light beam so that the light beam extends along a beam path, and a light receiver that senses the light beam and detects a desired instrument setting change.

Abstract: A button fixing mechanism for fixing a button (50) to a base (20) of an electronic device includes a top panel (30) of the base, a shelf (40) attached to the top panel, and a pair of resilient members (60). The button includes a pair of shafts (53) extending outwardly from sidewalls (51) thereof. The shelf includes an oblong slot (42) defined therein, and a pair of tabs (422) extending beside the oblong slot and each defining a pivoting hole (423) therein. The button is extended through the oblong slot, with the shafts received in the pivoting holes of tabs. The resilient members are separately attached to the top panel and engage two ends of the button.

Abstract: A control pad structure (10) with a built-in speaker (40) includes a circuit board (20) disposing a plurality of touch switches (22) thereon; a control pad (30) is provided with a plurality of bulge points (36); and an accommodating space (35) is formed between the circuit board and the control pad for enclosing the speaker therein. The speaker is also provided with a bulge point. When the control pad is operated, the bulge points engage with corresponding touch switches to activate the switches. A plurality of openings (24) is defined in the circuit board between the touch switches.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for preparing liquid from solid materials such as medicinal materials. It comprises preparing materials for preparing liquid and liquid at the beginning, and obtaining prepared liquid at the end. Wherein it uses steam generator 2, intermediate switch valve 6 and material chamber 8, which is protruded into by outlet pipe 10 which is at the bottom of material chamber 8. It further comprises steps as follows: distillation and absorption; immersion; repetition. The device and method for preparing liquid adopts the way of repeating the distillation and dip alternately, reducing harmful substance in preparing liquid by conventional methods. If not only extracts soluble effective matter, but also reducing the loss of volatile effective matter.

Abstract: A method for the photoelectrolysis of a liquid or gaseous species, comprises irradiating an ion exchange membrane of a membrane electrode assembly, wherein the membrane is an optically transparent material and comprises the species.

Abstract: Plasmons on a waveguide may deliver energy to photocatalyze a reaction.

Abstract: Plasmons on a waveguide may deliver energy to photocatalyze a reaction.