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Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co .kg

Mitron Systems Corporation

Donald A Dixon

Alan Finkelstein

Robert H Boede

Béla Hofer

Kevin Sittner

Todd Simcina

Roger Bracht

A variable valve train module has a valve control block positioned on a cylinder head of the engine. The valve control block has a first block and a second block and variable valve train components. These components include at least one valve, a rocker arm, a brake, and a pump configured to receive input from a camshaft. The components are positioned with respect to the blocks such that the first block receives a first portion of the pump and the second block receives a second portion of the pump.

Two-piece block for variable valve train system

A piston assembly for pressurizing a hydraulic chamber is provided. The piston assembly has a cylinder and a piston configured to reciprocate within the cylinder. The piston has a first end in the cylinder and a second end adapted to be acted on by a drive element. The piston assembly also has a spring configured to bias the piston. The piston assembly further has a retainer mounted to an exterior of the cylinder and including a seat surface. The spring is seated on the seat surface. The outer diameter of the spring is less than the outer diameter of the cylinder.

Piston assembly retainer with integrated spring seat

A vehicle detector for detecting a moving vehicle traversing a predetermined roadway includes a coil antenna for detecting electromagnetic radiation inherently generated and emitted by the vehicle as it traverses the predetermined path and producing a first signal. A low noise amplifier receives and amplifies the first signal and outputs an amplified first signal to a differential full wave amplitude modulation envelope detector and produces a second signal. A high pass filter having a predetermined cutoff frequency is connected to receive the second signal and output only third signals having a magnitude proportional to the electromagnetic signal being detected. A converter circuit converts the third signals to a digital signal, the converter circuit including a switching comparator having a source of a stable voltage reference level and outputting a fourth signal. A hysteresis detector causes the comparator to switch upon detection and thereby prevent output switching due to slower or noisy input signals, and a utilization device is connected to receive and be actuated by the fourth signal.

Vehicle detector system and method

Credit card with magnifying lens

A financial transaction card adapted for use in reading externally stored information includes a substantially non-foldable rigid base and a strip for carrying machine readable information, The rigid base comprises a magnifying lens.

A vehicle speed monitoring system has a pair of parallel piezoelectric sensors or pressure transducers carried in closely spaced relation by a common elastomeric carrier such that the distance D between the sensors is maintained constant. A time measuring circuit connected to the sensors measures the time between peak voltages induced in the piezoelectric sensor transducers which is used to calculate and display vehicle speed. A weight is secured to or embedded in the carrier to cause the carrier to hug the roadway and be immune to lifting because of air currents and turbulence.

Vehicle speed measurement apparatus

A financial transaction card adapted for individual use in reading information stored externally to the card, having machine readable information contained thereon identifying the user and the issuing institution for transacting business at locations remote from the issuing institution, includes:

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Aspen, CO, United States of America

Donald A Dixon