Abstract:
Method for automatic gear selection in a vehicle power transmission, said selection being catered for by a control system including an electronic unit (1) which, in response to signals representing vehicle speed and engine load, coacts with a programmable read-only memory PROM (28), in which there are stored, for each gear position, alternative speed limits for changing gear to neighbouring gears and also limiting values relating to speed change and engine load for selection between said alternative speed limits. To eliminate the risk of unsuitable gear selection for heavy vehicles, e.g. in conjunction with changing gear on a hill, the invention is essentially distinguished in that during travel, data on speed change and engine load are stored in a random access memory RAM (29); that the speed value most recently stored in said RAM before the initiation of the gear selection is compared, together with values stored in said RAM and relating to speed change and engine load at a certain instant before the initiation of the speed change, with values stored in said PROM and relating to speed, speed change and engine load, respectively; that said comparison results in the choice of a certain gear; that in the electronic unit (1) there is generated an output signal representing the selected gear; and that said output signal is fed to an operative means for indicating and/or engaging the selected gear.
Abstract:
A sealing device for valves comprises two co-acting sealing surfaces one of which is arranged facing outwards on a valve body which is pivotally mounted in the valve housing, and the other forming an inwards-facing surface on the seat arranged in the valve housing. When the valve is closed the two sealing surfaces are pressed against each other with a wedge-wise engagement along an engagement line or engagement zone. According to the invention at least one of the sealing surfaces is formed as a segment (S) of a toroidal figure (T) which is defined by a convex or concave curved line (G) which is rotated as a generatrix around an axis of rotation (R), out of which figure the segment is cut so that a plane (A) through the sealing surface, along which the engagement line or engagement zone is located when the valve is closed, is inclined relative to the axis of rotation (R) and is bounded in each and every direction from the latter by the curved line.
Abstract:
Turbine, de preference une turbine entrainee par les gaz d'echappement faisant partie du surcompresseur d'un moteur a combustion interne, pourvue d'un mecanisme (10) de restriction variable dans la conduite d'admission peripherique (3) debouchant sur un rotor de turbine (4) monte de maniere rotative dans l'enveloppe (2) de la turbine. Le but de l'invention est d'empecher que, lorsque l'on procede a une regulation par etranglement de l'admission d'air dans la turbine, des perturbations ne se produisent dans l'ecoulement d'admission provoquant une perte d'energie et d'empecher ou au moins de reduire le developpement de contraintes mecaniques et thermiques dans le dispositif commandant l'action d'etranglement. A cet effet, la turbine de l'invention se caracterise en ce que la restriction peut etre ajustee par deplacement radial d'une section de paroi externe dans l'enveloppe (2) de la turbine formant une separation de la conduite d'admission (3), en ce que cette section de paroi comprend plusieurs elements de paroi (16, 17, 18) relies les uns aux autres de maniere articulee, au moins deux d'entre eux etant supportes de maniere articulee et/ou deplacable par rapport au corps (2) de la turbine, et en ce que la section de paroi est concue a ses extremites respectives de maniere a se connecter, lorsqu'elle est soumise a une surface sensiblement inchangee de la conduite d'ecoulement, aux sections de paroi fixes du corps de turbine (2) et a former avec ce dernier une admission helicoidale debouchant sur le rotor de turbine (4).
Abstract:
Internal combustion engine with at least one combustion chamber produced within a cylinder head or similar device, it being possible to feed a fuel-and-air mixture into the said combustion chamber through two inlet valves arranged in the cylinder head and to discharge from the said combustion chamber exhaust gases through two exhaust valves arranged in the cylinder head, with the invention also relating to a method of producing such a combustion chamber by means of a casting process. The invention is characterised in that the combustion chamber (1) consists of four cavities (4, 5, 6, 7) distributed in quadrants within a circular plane forming part of base plane (8) of cylinder head (2), in that each individual cavity (4-7) has a shape which is in the main rotationally symmetrical and in that the cavities (4-7) overlap one another, whereby arc-shaped transitions are formed between cavities (4-7) in base plane (8).
Abstract:
A press operating with hydraulic pressure comprises a pair of relatively movable components (8, 11) which during a pressing operation carry out a relative movement which is sensed. By means of the sensed relative movement a control signal is generated which is used for regulating the hydraulic pressure so that this is caused to vary with the relative movement according to a certain functional relationship. For generating the control signal a manually programmable electrical function generator (23) is provided, preferably a panel (29) comprising plug contacts (34), on which a plurality of pairwise associated pressure and movement values, constituting electrically and visually readable points in the desired functional relationship, can be set up. To the input (28) of the function generator a measurement signal is fed which is a measure of the relative movement covered by the two components and which makes the function generator read off and issue at its output (24, 41-43) the pressure values as the set movement values corresponding thereto are reached.
Abstract:
A detonator safety device for rotating projectiles includes detent mechanisms, at least one of which is sensitive to acceleration and at least one sensitive to rotation, both of which must be released for enabling a detonator (28) mounted on a preferably rotatable first member (2) to be put into an active position for triggering by a fuse mounted in the projectile in coaction with the device. The rotation-sensitive detent mechanism includes a detent member (6), displaceable by the action of centrifugal force to an active position for providing the release of a second member actuable by the acceleration-sensitive mechanism so that the first member (2) may be displaced to its active position. A locking member (15) coacting with the detent member (6) is adapted to inhibit displacement of the detent member to its active position until the locking member is subjected to a predetermined rotational force and is displaced to an active position.
Abstract:
Method for generating a reference signal in a knock detector connected to an internal combustion engine (1), the output signal of which represents the degree of knocking in the engine (1). For the purpose of obtaining a simple reference signal which is also well defined at high engine speeds, this invention is characterized in that the rotational speed of the engine (1) is monitored, and in that the reference signal which is generated is proportional to the rotational speed. This invention also relates to a device whereby the method in accordance with the invention may be implemented.
Abstract:
In a security system, for status reporting from detectors (D1, D2, D3) set up in a protected local (P) to a monitoring centre (C), and monitoring the operational condition of communication lines (3) which are arranged to connect the detectors to the monitoring centre, an interrogation signal (F) is produced and transmitted from an interrogation unit (1) in the monitoring centre to an answering unit (2) connected to the interrogation unit and located in the detector. The answering unit replies by producing and sending back to the interration unit an answering signal (Sf) which is dependent on he interrogation signal. When alarm/sabotage status is indicated by the detector, the answering unit recognises this and sends an alarm/sabotage signal (sa/Ss) to the interrogation unit which is different from the answering signal (Sf) depending on the interrogation signal. In order to prevent or make unauthorised manipulation of the security system with a view to misleading the monitoring centre (C) extremely difficult, and to obtain a functionally-reliable arrangement in which both monitoring of the communication lines (3) and status reporting from the detectors (D1, D2, D3) is effected simultaneously with the aid of the same functional units by integrated communication, the interrogation signal (F) transmitted by the interrogation unit (1) is arranged to be transmitted continuously and also to be information-bearing with a stochastically varying content. The answering unit (2) is arranged to endow the answering signal with an information content which, in addition to the instantaneous information content of the interrogation signal, also depends on the actual status (a, s) of the detector, and to send back the answering signal continuously.
Abstract:
A gas expander of the type which comprises an expansion chamber (6, 23, 44) provided with inlet ports (9, 33, 34, 48) and outlet ports (13, 35, 36, 49) and a work transfer means (4, 24, 45) which is movable in the expansion chamber and which is arranged to be actuated by the gas in the expansion chamber during a gas expansion/working phase. In order to reduce the heat-associated losses in the gas expander (1, 21, 42) which are occasioned by the removal of heal from the expansion chamber (6) and heat oscillations between the gas and the material of the expansion chamber walls with an inappropriate lime constant relative to the working phase of the expander, and to achieve thereby improved gas admission and gas expansion with an associated increase in the efficiency of the gas expander, heat energy controlling means (14, 15; 41; 58, 59) having a structure (17, 20, 62) which is known per se is applied in the admission volume (7) of the expansion chamber and is given such a large heat-transfer surface-to-mass ratio that the maximum material dimension (D, T) of the structure is less than the heat penetration depth which occurs in the walls of the expansion chamber and of the work transfer means when these are exposed to oscillating temperature variations during operation of the gas expander. By this means a starting condition is obtained for the expansion process of the gas flowing into the expander which condition makes possible almost isothermic expansion with less net entropy increase than with a conventional gas expansion process and thereby lower heat losses and lower mean temperatures in the gas expander.
Abstract:
Disposition de montage d'un ensemble de ressorts a lames (3) faisant partie de la suspension d'un vehicule et connectant au moins un support d'axe de roues ou un dispositif analogue au chassis du vehicule. Une section d'extremite (13) de l'ensemble de ressorts a lames (3) est fixee soit au support d'axe de roue soit au chassis du vehicule et l'invention permet de realiser un montage reglable ne necessitant pas d'entretien presentant un bon amortissement du bruit et des vibrations tout en permettant un reglage aise de la position du support (2) d'axe de roues par rapport au chassis du vehicule. Dans ce but, la section d'extremite (13) de l'ensemble de ressorts a lames (3) est pourvue d'une surface en forme d'arc qui, au travers d'un coussinet (25) compose d'un materiau non metallique, agit de concert avec une surface interieure correspondante en forme d'arc a l'interieur d'un siege de palier (11, 12) encerclant une section d'extremite (13). Le siege de palier se compose de deux moities de paliers laches (11, 12) pouvant se fixer l'une a l'autre et ce siege de palier est fixe de maniere reglable a une partie de retenue (15) du support (2) d'axe de roues ou du chassis du vehicule, permettant ainsi de reduire le risque d'une usure anormale des pneus.