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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7043999 | Contactless measurement of the stress of rotating parts The invention relates to a method for measuring mechanical stresses of a rotating part (1) in an essentially closed metal housing. The rotating part comprises a sensor (2) which reflects electromagnetic waves and which can be measurably deformed as a r... | 05/16/2006 |
| 4592438 | Mounting for power-assisted master brake cylinder in an automotive vehicle An assembly of a master brake cylinder and an associated power cylinder of larger diameter, disposed in front of the dashboard, is held together under tension by a stirrup-shaped retainer with a bight embracing the free end of the master cylinder and two ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4586580 | Mounting for power-assisted master brake cylinder in an automotive vehicle An assembly of a master brake cylinder and an associated power cylinder of larger diameter, disposed in front of the dashboard of an automotive vehicle with an extension traversing that dashboard, is held together by a flexible retainer such as a strap or... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4511971 | Antilocking brake system An antilocking brake system responds to a deceleration above about 12 m/s2 and resulting from overbraking to cut off the master cylinder from the wheel brake cylinder and effect braking-force reduction. When the deceleration falls below about 1... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4485617 | False-twist apparatus A false-twist apparatus has three parallel shafts carrying interleaved sets of friction disks interconnected by drive belts for joint rotation; one of these shafts is journaled in a stationary mounting plate while the others are journaled in a carrier piv... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4474562 | Tensioner for motor-vehicle timing belt A belt tensioner has an elongated support bar formed with a transversely throughgoing aperture and an annular inwardly directed lip around the aperture. A hardened metallic inner bearing race is centered on and elongated along a bearing axis and has one e... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4448108 | Guide system for a gun barrel A guide system for the longitudinal recoil movement of a cannon has a pair of guide units spaced apart along the cannon barrel and each having a plurality of rollers angularly spaced about the barrel. At least one roller is elastically biased against the ... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4440275 | Check valve for automotive braking system A check valve in an automotive braking system between the master cylinder and a wheel cylinder includes a screw or a piston mounted in the check-valve housing for overriding or opening the valve prior to a charging or filling operation to facilitate an ev... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4423597 | Hydraulic brake assembly with pneumatic power assist A hydraulic brake assembly with pneumatic power assist has a master cylinder inserted in a housing in turn at least partially surrounded by an annular power-booster device comprising a pair of annular chambers divided by a membrane. The membrane is connec... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4412412 | Loading device for false-twist apparatus A thread-loading device is used in combination with a false-twist apparatus having at least one frame element having an abutment surface turned away from the yarn-twisting region defined by three sets of axially spaced rotatable twisting disks. The thread... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4408902 | Method of and device for determining the boiling point of a liquid In order to determine the boiling point of a liquid, especially a nonaqueous one such as a brake fluid, a device suspended in a body of that liquid--e.g. in a reservoir supplying fluid to a brake cylinder--forms a narrow chamber which is downwardly open a... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4398774 | Carrier in a bearing assembly for enabling axial motion of a free end of a drive shaft In a bearing assembly supporting the free end of a drive shaft, a carrier for enabling axial motion of the assembly to accommodate thermal expansion of the shaft during extended power-transmission operations has a meandering cross-section with a thin U-sh... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4398775 | Journal bearing with one axially divided inner or outer ring A journal bearing for two relatively rotatable members is formed from two coaxial rings, one of them being axially divided into two mutually symmetrical halves with respective annular track surfaces each bounded only by an external shoulder while the othe... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4333308 | False-twist system switchable between S-twist and Z-twist A false-twist apparatus has a base defining a fixed axis on which is journaled a fixed disk assembly including a shaft and a plurality of disks journaled in the base with the shaft at the fixed axis and the disks spaced therealong. A pair of supports are ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4296979 | Journal bearing for the shaft of a water pump or the like A journal bearing for a pump shaft comprises a sleeve whose inner peripheral surface forms two grooved tracks for respective sets of bearing balls adjacent one end thereof and forms a retaining groove near the other end. The two sets of bearing balls, hel... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4244630 | Journal mounting for the shaft of a water pump or the like A pump shaft is journaled in a housing through the intermediary of two metal rings forming the outer races of a ball bearing and a roller bearing whose rotary bodies are in direct contact with the shaft. The two bearing rings, which are relatively axially... | 01/13/1981 |
