Abstract:
An interior trim component 1 for a motor vehicle comprises a base 2 of a fibrous base material of approximately 80% wood fibers and approximately 20% synthetic resin fibers, which is compressed and consolidated by the action of pressure and heat into the desired shape. Padding and/or a fabric insert 5 may be placed over selected areas of the surface of the base 2 and a sheet 7 of plastic material is bonded over the whole of the visible side of the base 2, the parts of the plastic sheet 7 overlying the insert 5 having a continuous impressed separation so that they may be removed. The fibrous base material which is in the form of fibrous fleece mats of approximately 20 to 30 mm thickness is consolidatd in a hot-pressing shaping tool at 4000 N/M.sup.2 and approximately 200.degree. C. to a final thickness approximately one tenth the initial thickness, but is consolidated to a lesser extend in selected surface areas 4 to produce a greater final thickness between one fifth and two fifths the initial thickness, so as to provide a cushioning effect.
Abstract:
A flow velocity meter is described suitable for measuring the mean flow velocity of a medium flowing along a duct using optical means which generates first and second beams of light each in the form of a relatively shallow wide band which traverse the duct across first and second spaced apart transverse planes which are arranged substantially at right angles to the mean flow direction. Light beams emerging from the duct are received on respective photoelectric detectors the output signals of which are essentially identical but relatively displaced because of the time required for the medium to flow between the two planes. By processing the signals in a correlation circuit this time is established and is used to produce an output proportional to the mean flow velocity of the medium between the two planes. The correlation circuit used is based on digital techniques.
Abstract:
The flanks of faults present in a surface produce abnormal reflection of a laser beam during linewise scanning of the surface by a laser beam. This apparatus deflects the angles of reflection from the surface, to indicate the presence of a flank, by a light conducting rod arranged parallel to the direction of linewise scanning for receiving reflected light on its surface and for conducting this light to its end face. The various light rays spread out transversely to the direction of scanning during their passage through the light conducting rod and are detected as they pass through a series of concentric annular apertures spaced from the end face of the light conducting rod. Each aperture is associated with a particular range of angles of incidence irrespective of the point on incidence along the surface of the rod and photoelectric detectors are used to sense the light passing through each aperture to provide the necessary indication of the presence or non-presence of a fault. Several types of transparent light guides are used to concentrate the light from the apertures onto the photoelectric detector and various signal processing circuits are described.