Robert Boschgmbh

Temic Telefunken Microelectronic Gmbh

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Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Gerhard Hettich

Hans-Dieter Schmid

Gunther Alberter

Harald Bauer

Hans Schrumpf

Michael Genzel

Dieter Eckardt

Matthias Gramann

Peter Robitschko

Lothar Haas

Werner Wiedemann

Werner Flierl

Reiner Dorfler

Wolfgang Thiel

Norbert Ramm

Gunther Breu

Johannes Burkard

Kurt Metzger

Johannes Locher

Werner Fischer

Ulrich Flaig

Kurt Maute

Reinhard Helldorfer

Jurgen Schenk

Bernhard Topfer

Klaus Neidhard

Ferdinand Friedrich

Berthold Walter

J&uuml;rgen Schenk

Wolfgang Schmierer

Thomas Schmid

Jurgen Leuteritz

Hermann Baumel

Thomas Rupprecht

Hans-Joachim Fach

Gunther Bichlmaier

Hans-Jorg Schmidt

Armin Gottschaller

Gu Schmid

Hermann B&auml;umel

Bernhard Dilz

Rainer Ertel

Reiner Doefler

G&uuml;nther Alberter

Udo Teubert

Dieter Grafje

Horst Kretschmer

Reiner Doerfler

Manfred Kamp

Sonja Polster

Helmut Deeg

A method for controlling an internal combustion engine with the aid of an engine control unit, having actuators for the electromagnetic valve control, as well as additional actuators, wherein each cylinder head has a separate actuator control unit, which is connected via a data bus to the engine control unit.

Method for controlling an internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine with electronic components controlled from a central unit, where electrical leads as conductive connection for power transmission and data transmission between the electronic components of the internal combustion engine are avoided completely wherever possible. The electronic components to be controlled from a central unit are arranged, together with the central unit, on the engine in a space that is fully enclosed by a metal housing part, power is supplied to at least some of the electronic components by high frequency electromagnetic waves generated and radiated without cables by a high frequency source arranged in the space enclosed by the metal housing part and the components to be supplied with power by the radiated electromagnetic waves from the high frequency source each have at least one receiving device for receiving the electromagnetic waves.

Internal combustion engine with electronic components controlled from a central unit

Actuators operating device for electromagnetic valve actuation in

A process to operate a locking system for lockable objects which features a key module having a remote control unit and a transponder for transmitting and receiving coded signals, and a lock module, fitted inside or on the lockable object, comprising a receiver unit for detection of coded signals, an evaluation unit for verification of coded signals, and a control unit for actually carrying out the unlocking or locking operation on the lockable object. A bidirectional data transmission between the key module and the lock module takes place before unlocking or locking of the object. On receiving an unlocking or locking signal sent out by the key module, the lock module will go into a waiting or standby mode and itself send out control signals by use of a transmission unit. When the user approaches the lockable object, one of the control signals will be received and evaluated by the transponder of the key module. The transponder will then transmit a control signal to the lock module activating the control unit to carry out the requested unlocking or locking operation if the proper control signal is received.

Procedure for operating a locking system for lockable objects

A motor vehicle control module is described comprising a control unit with a carrier body, a circuit arrangement applied on the carrier body, a housing body that at least partially encloses the carrier body, at least one stamped grid with several stamped grid connections integrated in the housing body, and also the sensors and/or actuators with sensor elements and sensor connections and respectively actuator elements and actuator connections associated to the control unit. To reduce the space requirement and the costs and to improve the susceptibility to faults in the signal transmission from the sensors/actuators to the control unit, at least some of the sensors/actuators are situated in the control unit or in the immediate proximity of the control unit and are contacted by directly joining their respective sensor connections or actuator connections with stamped grid connections of the stamped grid of the control unit.

Control module for motor vehicles

A device is proposed to determine the rotational speed of a transfer element (3) arranged in variable-diameter pulleys (1, 2) of a continuously variable transmission system, the said device Consisting of a sliding stock (4, 15), with a sensor (10, 16) which is supported on the transfer element (3) on the inner sides of the variable-diameter pulleys, which sliding stock is connected to the transmission case (8) by a spring (6) loaded rocker arm (5) mounted in a swivelling joint (7). With the knowledge of the peripheral speed of the transfer element (3), the rotary speeds (N1, N2) of the set of variable-diameter pulleys (1, 2) and the effective transmission radii (r1, r2), the slippage can be determined between the transfer element (3) and the sets of variable-diameter pulleys (1, 2). By comparing the previously established maximum amounts of slippage with the detected amounts of slippage, the maximum requisite pressure applied by the axially shifting variable-diameter pulley (9) in each set of variable-diameter pulleys (1, 2) can be adjusted to the optimum amount (see FIG. 1).

Device for determining belt rotational speed of continuously variable

A method is described for operation of a motor vehicle alarm system having a central control unit connected to several control units of the motor vehicle. All non-safety-relevant control units of the vehicle are bidirectionally connected to the central control unit of the alarm system, where a certain code for the respective activation state of the alarm system is stored in the non-safety-relevant control units and can be read out there. In the case of a replacement of control units the replaced control units are activated by the non-replaced control units in the original form when the vehicle is started. At least a part of the non-safety-relevant control units is deactivated or negatively affected in operation when the alarm system is not deactivated correctly.

Method of operating a motor vehicle alarm system having a central

A process to adjust the pretensioning force for the transmission element of a continuously variable transmission, complete with two disc assemblies comprising two discs each, will be described. For optimized specification of the pretensioning force, the following process steps will be provided:

Pretensioning force adjustment of continuously variable transmission

A process for monitoring an opening of an enclosed space by an IR alarm system, wherein: a measuring process is generated whereby a modulated IR beam is emitted by at least one IR emitting element of an optoelectronic unit in the form of a pulse and the beam reflected from marginal areas of the opening is detected as a measurement signal by at least one IR receiving element of the optoelectronic unit, with the directional characteristic of th IR beam being matched, by optical components in the path of the beam, to the opening being monitored; the measurement signal detected by the receiving element is compared with a mean value of the previous measurement signals, and a normal operating mode of the alarm system is initiated if there is an approximate correlation between the measurement signal and the mean value, or an alarm operating mode of the alarm system is initiated if there is a significant deviation between the measurement signal and the mean value; in the normal operating mode, the next measuring process is generated after a pause in time, during which the control unit, emitting element and receiving element are switched off; and, in the alarm operating mode, a number of measuring processes are generated in immediate succession and compared with criteria stored in the control module, and an alarm signal is tripped if the measurement signals from the measuring processes correspond with the stored criteria.

Process for monitoring the openings to an enclosed space

A method is described for determining the wheel speed during braking of a vehicle having in addition to at least one wheel with speed sensor at least one further wheel without speed sensor and means for determining the braking pressure. For this purpose, the braking operation is subdivided into several time intervals during which the relative value from the braking energy and the kinetic energy of the vehicle are obtained, and the contribution of the wheels without speed sensors to the braking energy is defined during a first time interval. Furthermore, the ratio of the relative value in this time interval to the relative values in further time intervals is formed, and the mean value for the wheel speed of all wheels without speed sensors is ascertained in the further time intervals from the ratio of the relative values.

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Dietenhofen, Germany

Gerhard Hettich