Abstract:
An apparatus and method is described for automatically folding airbags a plurality of times in stages of predetermined width. Both longitudinal and lateral folds may be accomplished. A plurality of inward and outward folding bars are automatically positioned relative to the airbag and transferred to interleaving positions to fold the airbag.
Abstract:
In a piston and connecting rod assembly for internal combustion engines, which assembly comprises a spherical small end portion, which is movably mounted in a recess of the piston head and in a retaining ring and which is connected to the skirt of the piston, the load-carrying capacity of the piston, which consists of a pressure-cast aluminum alloy, is increased in that the piston is reinforced by fibers, and a ring carrier which has open pores and is embedded in the ring-carrying portion and is connected thereto by a metallic bond, and a collar serving as an abutment for the retaining ring is integrally cast with the piston skirt on the inside thereof.
Abstract:
In a pressure-diecast light-alloy piston for internal combustion engines, which piston comprises shaped fibrous bodies which are partly embedded in at least one of the piston head, ring zone, piston pin bosses and skirt of the piston, which bodies comprise short ceramic fibers, lying in a common plane and in said plane having a random orientation, the improvement wherein the piston (1) is made of a high-temperature magnesium alloy, the piston skirt at least on its sliding surfaces has a chemically applied or electrodeposited metallic sliding layer (3) which has a thickness of about 10 to 30 .mu.m and a hardness of about 740 to 850 HV.sub.0.01, and the inside surface of the piston is coated with a thin plastic paint layer (2) or an anodized magnesium oxide layer.
Abstract:
An installable component which serves to absorb energy and is intended to be used with steering wheels of motor vehicles having a steering wheel hub which is recessed from the rim of the steering wheel consists of a plurality of deformable metal rods, which have parallel axes and are arranged in a circle and at each end are firmly interconnected by a metal flange. In order to improve the energy absorption performance the metal rods are adapted to buckle in the direction of the larger principal moment of inertia under an axially acting pressure force, and at least one of the broadsides, which extend at right angles to the axis of the larger principal moment of inertia and include a right angle with the radius of the installable component, is provided with spur teeth, which extend transversely to the longitudinal direction.
Abstract:
A material for a low-maintenance sliding surface bearing comprises a metallic backing and on said backing a bearing layer comprising PVDF and an additive for improving the friction and sliding properties. To meet more stringent requirements regarding hygiene, the bearing layer is free of lead and contains 0.5 to 3% by weight of a non-toxic metal oxide power and 10 to 40% by weight of glass microspheres.
Abstract:
Light alloy components for internal combustion engines consist of castings in which reinforcing layers consisting of non-woven ceramic fibers are embedded in the stressed surface portions. In order to provide a prolonged protection against damage to the light alloy disposed under the reinforcing layer, the open interstices of the fibrous layer are impregnated with a layer of a ceramic material in the portion which is close to the stressed surface and with the light alloy of the component in the portion which is remote from the stressed surface.
Abstract:
A composite piston for internal combustion engines has an interior cooling chamber and an outer cooling passage. An annular rib protrudes from the inside surface of the upper part and that surface of the lower part which faces that annular rib. An annular flange is clamped between said rib and said surface of the lower part. A tongue which protrudes into the cooling passage is provided on that edge of said flange which faces the cooling passage. In order to minimize the temperature of that surface of the cooling passage which is near the combustion chamber and to maintain at least adjacent to the uppermost ring groove a temperature which is sufficient to prevent a wet corrosion of the piston and of the piston rings, the tongue defines a relatively narrow annular gap with that surface of the cooling passage which is near the combustion chamber so that the coolant oil is throttled as it flows through that gap.