Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Melecs Ews Gmbh & Co. Kg

Lubomir Chlumsky

Leopold Hellinger

Gerhard Neumann

Anton Kocevar

Christian Kauer

Disclosed is an electrical device, in particular a control unit for a motor vehicle, comprising a plate-shaped circuit support fixed on a metallic base plate of the housing, on which a plastic plug part s fixed on a side facing away from the metallic base plate, characterized in that fixing means which are pivot-shaped and protrude from the base plate, are provided for the common mounting of the plastic plug part, the circuit support and the metallic base plate of the housing, that said fixing means are guided through corresponding recesses in the circuit support and in the plastic plug part, that a deformation is produced at each inserted end and that each deformation is supported y a supporting part on said plastic plug part.

Electric device having a plastic plug part arranged on a circuit support

A tactile braille or graphic display with a laminar display carrier with pattern points which are raised in their tangible positions and are formed by the hemispherical surfaces of feeler balls projecting through openings in the top of the display carrier which feeler balls are selectively brought into their tangible position by adjustment of associated locking balls. A locking armature which can be slid into the underside of the display carrier is provided to adjust each locking ball. This armature can firstly be slid into the locking position by means of a setting armature of a moving setting device and secondly can be released from the locking position by the setting armature after the latter is magnetized. The locking ball is spring-loaded and in the locking position is moved under the feeler ball against the pressure of the spring by the locking armature in order to hold the feeler ball in its tangible position, and preferably a further filling ball serving as a spacer is disposed between the feeler ball and the locking ball. The locking armature is provided with a shoulder which partially grips around the locking ball in the locking position, producing an easily releasable clamping connection, and holds the locking armature in the locking position. The setting armatures for a plurality of pattern points, in particular for the pattern points of a line of shapes, are disposed together with their magnetizing windings on a common setting device which is disposed so as to be displaceable at right angles to the direction of the line of shapes on rails provided at both sides of the display carrier and is adjustable in relation to the display carrier with the aid of eccentrics for the purpose of adjusting the tangible positions of the pattern points of this line of shapes.

Tactile braille or graphic display

A device for forming a tactilely readable message including Braille characters and graphic representations includes a planar display carrier with raised raster dots which are formed by spherical segments protruding selectively through openings in the surface of the display carrier. The display carrier is provided with a multiplicity of recesses arranged in a matrix-like array, the recesses being occupied by respective sensing or reading balls which are selectively movable in the recesses as keying elements for the raster dots. The recesses communicate at a lower end with respective chamber-like enlargements occupied by respective control balls of magnetically soft material which function to alternately position the reading balls in a lowered or in a raised position. The chamber-like enlargements are designed to provide for the control balls a lower stable position and an upper stable position corresponding respectively to the lowered and raised positions of the reading balls. For all the control balls of a matrix row, a resetting device in the form of a comb-liked slide is provided. The placement of the control balls in preselected positions for forming a readable display is accomplished by means of one or more individual magnets acting on the control balls via magnetic bridges designed as pole pieces.

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Vienna, Austria

Lubomir Chlumsky