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:
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.
Abstract:
The device comprises drive means adapted to move the passive element; programming means adapted to apply a theoretical law of movement to the passive element; detector means for the theoretical movement and detector means of the actual motion; comparator means adapted to deliver a signal depending on the separation existing between the theoretical and real movements detected by the said detector means; and means sensitive to said signal adapted to actuate the drive means so that the latter act in such a sense that the detected separation between the theoretical and real movements has a tendency to diminish. The detector means are grouped into a single apparatus having two mechanical members capable of moving, under the effect of linking means provided for this purpose, according to laws of movement reproducing the theoretical and real laws. The comparator means are directly sensitive to the separation between the respective positions of the two mechanical members and are composed of two parts respectively fixed rigidly on each of the mechanical members.
Abstract:
A braking mechanism having an anti-locking system for at least one wheel of a vehicle and comprised of a source of fluid under pressure controlled by the driver, brake operators to receive fluid and connected to a brake of the wheel, a valve having two positions controlled by a member detecting abnormal deceleration of the wheel and capable of connecting the fluid receiving members selectively to the source of fluid under pressure and with a first exhaust pipe including a flow-limiter and a first accumulator interposed between the valve and the flow-limiter. A second exhaust pipe is provided in parallel flow relationship to the first exhaust pipe about the flow-limiter. The second exhaust pipe is comprised of a valve member constituted by a moving member of a second accumulator permanently connected to the brake operators'' supply pipe between the controlled valve and the brake operators, which moving member opens the second exhaust pipe when the volume of fluid is minimal.
Abstract:
An anti-locking braking system for the wheel of a motor vehicle having a distributor with a slide which in one attitude permits fluid at full braking pressure to immediately enter the brake cylinder, but after a device detecting locking has operated so that the cylinder is exhausted, exhaust fluid is bled to the distributor to move the slide to a second attitude which routes the supply of pressurized fluid to the cylinder via a flowlimiter whereby the pressure rise in the cylinder increases progressively provided the brake pedal remains depressed.
Abstract:
An electrically operated valve or distributor comprises a slide member coupled to an electrodynamic motor. A pulsed current, dependent on a control signal is fed to the windings of the motor. The pulses can have a fixed frequency and variable width, or a fixed width and a variable frequency.