Vdo Adolf Schindling Ag

Mannesmann Vdo Ag

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Vitesco Technologies Gmbh

Klaus Kronenberg

Markus Keutz

Sabine Vorberg

Peter Schmidt

Frank Weiand

Thomas Vorberg

Christian Beckhaus

Heinrich-Jochen Blume

Jochen Blume

Andreas Wilhelm

Rolf Graf

Frank Jansa

Henry Strobel

Robert Belz

Mike Theis

Wolfgang Obst

Albert Stolzlechner

Matthias Giron

Erwin Sedlaczek

Peter Sch&auml;fer

Klaus Kriessler

Walter R&uuml;b

An apparatus for controlling a fluid pump for a motor vehicle includes: a first controller configured to actuate an electric prime mover of the fluid pump by impressing at least one motor current with an adapted current intensity and an adapted waveform; and a second controller configured to detect a rotational speed of the electric prime mover and to apply an adapted voltage to the electric prime mover on the basis of the detected rotational speed.

Apparatus and method for controlling a fluid pump for a motor vehicle

An electric motor having a stator and a rotor, with the rotor having at least one permanent magnet and one rotor shaft and with the stator having at least two coils which produce a rotating magnetic field when alternating currents flow through them, by which the rotor can be driven, and wherein the rotor shaft is mounted radially and axially. The rotor ( ) is mounted by at least one elastic thrust ring ( ), with one thrust ring ( ) being arranged axially on one side of the rotor ( ).

Electric motor, in particular a fan motor

In an electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board, provision is made for it to have at least one expanding dowel ( ), for it to be possible for the motor ( ) to be fixed to a printed circuit board ( ) by the expanding dowel or dowels ( ) being expanded, and by it being possible for the expanding dowel or dowels ( ) to be secured at least by a pin ( ).

Electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board

A method for monitoring the speed of a synchronous motor, the synchronous motor having a permanent magnet rotor ( ) and coils ( ), sinusoidal currents being applied to the coils ( ). Also a device for monitoring the speed of such a motor, wherein in at least one of the coils ( ) the power supply is disconnected and one or more voltage characteristics (U U ) are evaluated which are induced by the permanent magnet rotor ( ) in one or more of the coils ( ) disconnected from the power supply, the minimum duration of the interruption of the power supply of the coils ( ) and the evaluation of the voltage characteristic (U U ) being equal to the temporal spacing between two consecutive zero crossings of the respectively induced voltage characteristics (U U ).

Method for monitoring the speed of a synchronous motor, and a device for monitoring the speed of such a motor

A display having at least one hand which can be driven by an electric drive, it being possible for the hand or the hands to execute rotations of more than 360&deg; in a first direction, wherein it is provided that the hand or the hands (Z) can be rotated in a second direction (CCW) which is counter to the first direction (CW), that the hand or one of the hands (Z) can be rotated in the second direction(CCW) only up to a certain position (P) and, in this position, assumes a reference position, and that there is a detecting device (V) which detects the inability of the hand (Z) to rotate further in the second direction (CCW).

Display having at least one hand, in particular for timepieces

A coil assembly has a coil form on which the coil winding is arranged as well as a method of contacting the coil assembly on a support member. The coil assembly is easy to produce and also permits electrical contacting, namely, the provision of electrical contacts between terminals of the coil and an external circuit in a simple and reliable manner. The coil assembly has a coil form on which two contact feet are arranged, the ends of the coil winding being fastened to the respective contact feet.

Coil assembly and method for contacting the coil on a support body

An electric motor has two exciter windings, independent of each other, on a stator, by which windings a resultant magnetic field can be produced. The motor includes a permanently magnetized rotor which has at least one pair of poles, the rotor changing its position as a function of the magnetic field, and the rotor being arranged axially on a rotor shaft. In the case of an electric motor which is of a small size and easy to manufacture, the stator is developed with several arms, and has an opening present at the center to receive the rotor. The individual arms are arranged around the opening and, there are, two pairs of opposite arms. The opposite arms are so bent towards each other so that, upon their receiving a respective exciter winding, they produce magnetic vectors which are perpendicular to each other.

Electric motor and indicating mechanism, in particular for indicating

A method is provided for synchronizing the counter of an electronic control device with the zero position, defined by a mechanical stop, of a pointer in an indicating instrument. The pointer is driven via a step-down gearing by a stepping motor having two windings perpendicular to each other and a two-pole rotor. The two windings are connected alternately to a source of voltage and to a measuring mechanism for determining the voltage induced in a winding not traversed by current. The pointer moves stepwise up to the mechanical stop, and the counter is set to zero in the absence of an induction. The method is substantially less expensive than prior methods. Upon an assembling of the stepping motor and the indicating instrument, a given alignment of the two-pole motor is associated with the zero position of the pointer, and the rotor is brought into this given alignment each time upon the start of the method. Thereupon the determination of the induction is effected each time only in the position of the rotor which follows this given alignment by one step.

Method of synchronization for an indicating instrument with

For a display device with scale (4), pointer (5), stepping motor (1), gearing (2) and control means (7) in which a plurality of revolutions of the stepping motor (1) corresponds to the entire display range and the control means (7) contains a step counter with reversibly unambiguous association of number of steps and display value, a possibility for the continuous adjustment of the step counter (1) with the actual pointer position is created by a coding disk (3) which is connected, fixed for rotation, with the shaft (6) of the pointer (6). The disk has a number of markings (9) arranged at different distances apart on its periphery and having a sensor (8). By a comparison of the actual number of steps with a reference number of steps stored in a table for each of the markings (9), it can be determined whether the association between number of steps and pointer position is correct or must be readjusted.

Display device with photoelectric sensing of unevenly spaced marks on a

A method determines the absolute position of a pointer in an indicating device in which the pointer is moved by a rotor (2) of a rotating-field (1) via a gearing (31). An indicating device is also disclosed. Indicating devices with gearing have the problem that no absolute reference between the position of the pointer (33) and the position of the rotor (2) in the rotating-field motor (1) is present when the device is started and the reference is lost. In order to restore the reference, the pointer (33) is moved by a rotating field in a rotating-field motor (1) in a predetermined direction of the rotating field against a stop (34). The rotating field is turned further in the direction of the rotating field. A signal induced in the field-generating part (4, 5) of the rotating-field motor by a movement of the rotor (2) contrary to the direction of the rotating field is detected, and from the angular position of the rotating field upon the occurrence of the induced signal, the angular position of the rotor at which the pointer rests against the stop is determined.

Method for determining the absolute position of a pointer in an

In a method and circuit for operating a stepping motor having several windings, and wherein a movement of the stepping motor induces a voltage in a winding which is not required at the time for generating a propulsive force, the induced voltage is evaluated. After the stepping motor is connected, the stepping motor is operated in a predetermined direction, whereupon a stopping of the stepping motor is detected by the absence of the induced voltage. A memory containing the instantaneous position of the stepping motor is then set to a predetermined value.

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