Trw Automotive Electronics & Components Gmbh & Co. Kg

Roland Sauter

Margit Sauter N&eacute;e Schwaderer

A measuring system is provided including a substantially cylindrical housing and a plurality of spaced apart elastic locking tongues carried on an outer circumference of the housing. The locking tongues selectively engage and lock into a corresponding plurality of cavities defined in an associated support plate when the measuring system is brought into aligned contact with the support plate. A plurality of spaced apart contact pins are provided on the measuring system and extend from a bottom surface of the housing. The contact pins engage into a corresponding set of contact cavities provided on the associated support plate. In addition, a set of centering members are provided on the measuring system extending from the housing for selective insertion into a corresponding set of centering cavities arranged on the support plate. The centering members extend from the housing a distance greater than the elastic locking tongues so that the centering members engage the support plate before the locking tongues contact the plate to properly align the tongues relative to the plate thereby preventing damage during connection between the measuring system and the support plate. In addition, the locking tongues extend from the housing member a distance greater than the plurality of contact pins to ensure that the locking tongues engage the support plate before the contact pins during assembly of the measuring system onto the support plate.

Measuring system with cylindrical housing body carrying elastic tongues for connection to a support member

The invention relates to a measuring instrument, specifically for the registration devices in automobile technology with at least a first and second independently activatable driving mechanism and with respectively a first driven shaft ( ), which can respectively be twist-proof connected with an indicator element, whereby the driven shaft ( ) of the second driving mechanism is conducted co-axially through the driven shaft ( ), designed as hollow shaft, of the first driving mechanism and protrudes, with its extremity, beyond the extremity of the driving shaft designed as hollow shaft.

Dual integrated gauge mechanism for simultaneous visual display of associated parameters

The invention relates to a measuring system, especially for display devices in the automobile technology, with at least one first and one second separately actuated control, as well as a first and second driven shaft ( ) which can be rotationally fixed to a display element. The second driven shaft ( ) of the second control is co-axially driven by the driven shaft ( ) which is designed as a hollow shaft in the first control and the second driven shaft ( ) protrudes above the end of the first driven shaft ( ).

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Villingen Schwenningen, Germany

Roland Sauter