Abstract:
A vehicle braking system comprises two independent braking circuits. One of the circuits incorporates a valve controlled in dependence of wheel slip to reduce the pressure in the circuit so as to prevent wheel lock. The other circuit incorporates a valve controlled in dependence on the pressure in the first circuit downstream of the valve therein.
Abstract:
The installation comprises a tank containing a bath of electrolyte, containing particles of silicon carbide, an anode (e.g. of titanium) and a cathode, means for stacking several identical members, enabling the cathode of the installation to be constituted by a stack of members, means for introducing the stack into the bath of the tank and for withdrawing said stack, and an anode comprising a compartment in which are arranged blocks of the metal to be deposited on the members. Means are provided for maintaining the anode in said tank when the cathode is withdrawn and the anode is surrounded by a bag with very fine mesh adapted to retard the entry, into the anode compartment, of said solid particles from the electrolytic bath. The installation further includes means to feed anolyte directly to the anode chamber, independently from the electrolytic bath of the tank. The installation is especially valuable for coating the trochoidal inner walls of rotary piston engine casings.
Abstract:
The vehicle comprises a chassis including a substantially flat frame for fixing the means for holding the front and rear wheels (or front and rear axles), and a body connected to the chassis by elastic elements adapted to filter noise and vibration. The frame of the chassis is thin and has high self-rigidity in its plane. The body is arranged so as to withstand, without notable deformation, torsion forces around the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and flexion forces under vertical load. The elastic linking elements between the body and the chassis are arranged to prevent, in practice, any vertical relative displacement and to enable slight relative longitudinal movement between the chassis and the body. The assembly is such that the body, fixed to the chassis opposes buckling of the latter.
Abstract:
The automobile has an engine, placed at the front of the vehicle, the engine or the motor-propellant unit being connected to the body and/or to the chassis by fixing elements such as elastic supports and ties. Frame means for the engine extend in the front of the engine and have sufficient mechanical strength so that, on a frontal shock against an obstacle, the whole being deformed, said frame means cause an increase in deceleration of the vehicle which reaches a critical value before the front part of the engine comes into abutment against a surface. At least one of the fixing elements of the engine breaks so as to liberate the engine when said critical value of deceleration is reached.
Abstract:
There is disclosed an anti-locking braking system for a wheel of a motor vehicle wherein there is provided an exhaust path for the fluid under pressure from a brake cylinder when a device senses the imminent locking of a wheel, such exhaust path includes an accumulator having a volume which increases against a compressional spring force at higher fluid pressure levels. For low pressures a valve, operated by the change in volume of the accumulator, remains open allowing the low pressure fluid to exhaust rapidly via an easy route. If the pressure is high, the valve is closed so that the high pressure fluid is compelled to exhaust via a further accumulator and a flow limiter.
Abstract:
A brake control device for the wheel of a motor or other vehicle comprises an electrically operated valve incorporated in the braking circuit of the wheel. The valve is controlled by a pulsed current having a frequency or width dependent on the degree of slip of the wheel, and serves to limit the pressure of fluid in the braking circuit during such wheel slip.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a suspension of a group of wheels of a vehicle, comprising two wheels located respectively on either side of the longitudinal plane of this vehicle and two suspension devices, each being constituted by at least one anti-roll bar and belonging to one of the two wheels, whilst each wheel is connected to one end of its suspension device and an elastic member is fixed to each of the ends of the suspension devices opposite the ends connected to the wheels, by coupling means, which are distinct from said elastic member and which are constituted by a part comprising two support elements between which the elastic member is disposed and by a member for fixing the suspension device in question to said coupling means, wherein the part comprising the two support elements is constituted by an arm which is provided on the one hand with the fixing member, on the other hand with a swell constituting a first of the two elements for supporting said part on a first face of the elastic member, and by a tie-rod integral with the arm and provided with a shoulder which is distant from the face of the arm provided with the swell, disposed opposite the said face and which constitutes the second of the two support elements of the part on a second face of the elastic member, which is opposite the first afore-mentioned face of said elastic member. The suspension described is applicable in particular to the manufacture of automobile vehicles.
Abstract:
An internal-combustion engine cylinder head assembly comprises an induction passage having two portions in the form of surfaces of revolution generated about different axes. The axis of the downstream portion is coincident with the axis of the inlet valve, and the plane of symmetry of the passage contains the axis of the valve and the axis of the engine cylinder.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a device for moving a panel in translation with respect to a structure, particularly a car door window, constituted of at least two rollers engaged in at least one slideway, these rollers being integral in translation with the panel, whilst the slideway or slideways are coupled to the structure by a transmission of movement, wherein said rollers are disposed on intermediate supports, each of these rollers on an intermediate support peculiar thereto, said supports being separate from one another, and each of said supports being secured to the panel in a zone which extends only partially over the panel.
Abstract:
The speed limiter comprises, on an element rotated at a speed proportional to that of the engine, a contact fixed with respect to this element and a movable contact adapted to approach the fixed contact under the effect of the centrifugal force and against the effect of a return spring. One of these contacts is connected to the secondary winding of the ignition coil of the engine and the other to ground. When the speed of the engine reaches a predetermined threshold, the movable contact touches the fixed contact and cuts off the ignition of the engine by grounding said secondary winding. A screen of electrically insulating material is guided on said element and connected mechanically to the movable contact so that it is inserted between the two contacts as long as the speed of the engine is less than a limit itself less than said threshold but close to the latter and so that it retracts when this speed exceeds the said limit.