Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

International Business Machines Corporation

Webasto Ag Fahrzeugtechnik

Peter Pohl

Alfred H Johnson

Dietmar Schulz

Helmut Bruch

Reinhold Gruber

Heinz Praeur

Heinz Prauer

Drive device for a vehicle part that is displaceable between end positions, with an electric motor connected by a reduction gear to a driving pinion which is connected to the vehicle part so as to drive it, as well as with a switching device for controlling the motor to stop the motor in at least one predetermined position of the vehicle part. To actuate the switching device there is a switch wheel which, during displacement of the vehicle part between its end positions, is rotated less than 360.degree. by an eccentric gear train. The eccentric gear train has an external gear with an internal toothing coaxial to a common shaft of the reduction gear and the eccentric gear train, an eccentric disk that is connected to the common shaft in a manner precluding relative rotation between the eccentric disk, and an internal gear with an external toothing that meshes with the internal toothing of the external gear. The internal gear is supported on the eccentric disk for relative rotation between the internal gear and the eccentric disk. The internal gear is prevented from rotating relative to the external gear and is guided for movement back and forth along an adjusting axis that is normal to the axial direction of the shaft. The external gear is connected to the switch wheel to rotate with it.

Drive device for an adjustable part of a vehicle

A device or appliance comprising a light waveguide plug connector is composed of a pin seated resiliently and with play in a socket. Both the pin and socket have cylindrical portions and conical end portions, one of the pins and socket has an intermediate tapering portion with a taper substantially less than the taper of the conical end portion. The slightly tapered intermediate portion will facilitate the plugging in of the pin into the socket, even given a radial offset of the axis of the socket and the pin to each other.

Device having a light waveguide plug connector

An adaptor for a light plug connector comprises a housing with a through-opening extending between a first and second end and has a pair of webs on side walls of the housing extending into the opening adjacent the second end, said pair of webs merging with the top wall of the housing and having open, free ends to receive channels of a plug part moved transversely to the axis of the opening into the housing. A spring clip having a U-shaped structure with portions overlying the webs to entrap or interlock a plug part assembled thereon and other portions engage projections on a second plug part inserted into the other or first end of the housing.

Adaptor for a light waveguide plug connector

A connector for lightwave guides with release levers attached at the narrow sides thereof, which, when lateral pressure is applied, actuate detents. Simultaneously at the narrow sides of the connector casing recesses are provided for the release levers such that the release levers do not rise more than a small amount above the edge of the recess; whereby, the connector can be pulled by manual actuation of the release lever through the recess.

Lightwave guide connector with release levers

A process and a device for substantially eliminating tolerance-dependent variations of a preselectable space between the components of an optical communication apparatus is described. U-shaped recesses are provided in a metal casing for pressing in flange-type necks of, for example, optical transmitting and receiving devices. The parallel arranged devices are so spaced from each other that they are not subject to tolerance-dependent variations. For this purpose the metallic necks are coated with a plastic layer, and ribs provided at the lateral walls of the U-shaped recesses dig into the plastic layer. The necks are pressed in precisely at a predetermined spacing by means of a gauge. By the application of varying degrees of pressure when the ribs are pressed in on one side and the other side of the neck, one of the U-shaped recesses can be off-center.

Process and apparatus for elimination of tolerance dependent variations

A device for securing fiber-shaped light waveguides in a lead-through opening of a housing comprises a fixing member of elastic deformable material which is inserted into the through-opening. The fixing member has at least one channel for loosely receiving the light waveguide and is provided with a recess, either in the interior of the member or between an outer periphery of the member and an edge of the opening in which a stopper member is inserted to cause elastic deformation of the fixing member so that the channels grip the optical waveguides.

Device for fixing fiber-shaped light waveguides in a plug housing

Adjacent lying plug-connector halves, the front ends of which exhibit pin or sleeve shaped plug elements, are provided with first and second supporting bodies, of which the first supporting body, with a sleeve shaped plug element, may be connected by means of a joinable groove-tenon-interconnect lying crosswise to the plug insertion direction, and exhibits an entrance channel for a plug connector half with a pin shaped plug element. The second supporting body with a concentric guiding tube for the insertion of pin shaped plug elements from both directions exhibits a tenon-groove-interlock contour at both ends that matches that of a sleeve shaped plug element. The first supporting body can therefore be interlocked with second supporting bodies or sleeve shaped plug elements at choice, whereby light wave guides single or double plugs may be connected to transmit- and/or receive modules and light wave guides single or double plugs may be inter-connected.

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Krailling, Germany

Peter Pohl