Author: claimsbot

1. A method for estimating the pneumatic pressure of a tire on a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
receiving as an input a vehicle status sensor signal;
estimating first parameter values of an adaptive filter based on a predetermined model on the vehicle status dependent on the vehicle status sensor signal;
calculating, dependent on said first model parameter values, a first tire pressure indication value () being dependent on and indicative of the pneumatic pressure of the tire.
2. The method as recited in claim 1, farther comprising the step of combining said adaptive filter model with a rolling radius based calculation of a second tire pressure indication value dependent on a vehicle status sensor signal representing wheel angular velocity.
3. A method for estimating the pneumatic pressure of a tire on a vehicle as recited in claim 1, comprising the steps of:
receiving as an input a wheel angular velocity signal (1) and a lateral movement indication signal;
estimating first parameter values of an adaptive filter based on a predetermined model on lateral vehicle dynamics dependent on the angular velocity of said wheel and the lateral movement of said vehicle;
calculating, dependent on said first model parameter values, a first tire pressure indication value () being dependent on and indicative of the pneumatic pressure of the tire.
4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein said lateral movement indication signal is generated by a sensor indicating the yaw rate of said vehicle, said sensor preferably being a gyro.
5. The method as recited in any of the preceding claims, further comprising a lateral movement indication signal generated by:
integrating, in an adaptive filter, parameters relating to lateral dynamics and parameters relating to rolling radius phenomena;
estimating the values of said integrated parameters dependent on a lateral movement indication signal generated by a sensor indicating the yaw rate, preferably a gyro, and on a wheel angular velocity signal;
calculating an improved lateral movement indication signal dependent on said integrated parameter values.
6. The method as recited in any of the preceding claim, farther comprising the step of integrating, in an adaptive filter, parameters relating to lateral dynamics and parameters relating to longitudinal dynamics of said vehicle;
estimating the values of said integrated parameters dependent on a lateral movement indication signal and on a road friction indication signal derived from a wheel angular velocity signal, a motor torque signal and a gear indicator signal;
calculating an improved tire pressure indication signal for an identified tire, and possibly also a confidence indication, dependent on said integrated parameter values.
7. The method as recited in any of the preceding claims, wherein said lateral movement indication signal alternatively or additionally is generated by a sensor indicating the lateral acceleration of said vehicle, said sensor preferably being an accelerometer.
8. The method as recited in any of the preceding claims, further being adapted for tire pressure estimation in a motorcycle having two wheels by comprising in said adaptive filter front and rear wheel angular velocity parameters.
9. The method as recited in any of the preceding claims, further being adapted for tire pressure estimation in a motorcycle having two wheels by comprising in said adaptive filter a roll angle parameter, the value of which is represented by a roll angle sensor signal.
10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said adaptive filter is based on a predetermined model of vibrations in a tire, and said first tire pressure indication value is a resonance frequency.
11. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the adaptive filter of said predetermined model is a recursive least squares algorithm.
12. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the adaptive filter of said predetermined model is a Kalman filter representing a state space model algorithm.
13. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of pre-processing a vehicle status signal in the shape of a wheel angular velocity signal derived from a toothed wheel sensor with respect to correction of toothed-wheel errors.
14. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising the step of interpolating non-equidistant data in said corrected wheel angular velocity signal.
15. The method as recited in any of the preceding claims, further comprising the step of reducing the sampling frequency of a sampled sensor signal by re-sampling and band pass filtering the input sensor signals into a first and a second frequency band, and by modulating said first and second frequency bands with modulating signals dependent on the lower frequency of each frequency band.
16. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of:
integrating, in an adaptive filter, parameters relating to different groups of vehicle status parameters;
estimating the values of said integrated parameters dependent on a sensor signals representing entities related to said groups of vehicle status parameters;
calculating a tire pressure indication signal dependent on said integrated parameter values, and possibly also calculating secondary indication signals derived from the values of said integrated parameters.
17. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising the step of:
calculating a first estimate of a tire air pressure value dependent on said first tire pressure indication value and a predetermined mapping function or mapping table.
18. A computer program product for estimating the pneumatic pressure of a tire on a vehicle, comprising program code adapted to direct a data processing system to perform the steps and functions of the preceding claims.
19. An apparatus for estimating the pneumatic pressure of a tire on a vehicle, comprising functional components for performing the steps and functions of any of the preceding claims.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A reactor system for treating soot-containing waste water comprising:
a soot clarifier in communication with a soot-containing waste water stream;
a first reactor basin in communication with said soot clarifier for receiving a settled soot from said clarifier and having a mixed liquor therein; and
an activated sludge input to said first reactor basin.
2. The reactor system as recited in claim 1 further including at least one dissolved oxygen monitor, said monitor detecting a dissolved oxygen level in said mixed liquor of said first reactor basin.
3. The reactor system as recited in claim 1 further including an oxygen input connected to said first reactor basin.
4. The reactor system as recited in claim 3, wherein said oxygen input comprises a floating aerator, an aerator platform, or a combined jet aerator and mixer.
5. The reactor system as recited in claim 1 further comprising a mixer within said first reactor basin, said mixer for mixing said mixed liquor.
6. The reactor system as recited in claim 1 further comprising one of a belt press or a centrifuge in communication with said first reactor basin.
7. The reactor system as recited in claim 1 further comprising a second clarifier containing waste water and sludge; said second clarifier connected to said first reactor basin by a sludge line, said sludge line comprising said activated sludge input to said first reactor basin.
8. The reactor system as recited in claim 7 further comprising a pump located between said second clarifier and said first reactor basin and in communication with said sludge line, said pump pumping said sludge from said second clarifier into said first reactor basin.
9. The reactor system as recited in claim 6 further comprising a second aerobic reactor basin, said second aerobic reactor basin in communication with said soot clarifier and said second aerobic reactor basin in communication with said second clarifier and providing output to said second clarifier.
10. The reactor system as recited in claim 9 further comprising an anoxic reactor basin, said anoxic reactor basin in communication with said soot clarifier and in communication with said second aerobic reactor basin, said anoxic reactor basin receiving input from said soot clarifier.

1. A feed device for a motor vehicle for feeding washer fluid from a reservoir to a washer jet arranged in front of a window or lens, having a feed pump which is driven by an electric motor and having a ventilating means for the electric motor, characterized by means for forming an air bubble within the electric motor (3) in the event of a water level reaching the electric motor (3) in its designated installation position.
2. The feed device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the ventilating means has an opening (11, 18, 25, 36, 42, 50) which points downward in the designated installation position of the electric motor (3), and in that the housing (6, 16, 23, 33, 52) is designed such that it is hermetically sealed in the upper region.
3. The feed device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the opening (25, 42, 50) can be closed by means of a valve (27, 45, 47) and channels present in the remaining region of the housing (23, 52) do not exceed a designated cross section.
4. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the lower edge of a cap (15) arranged on the upper side of the electric motor (3) is arranged level with the opening (18).
5. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cap (15) forms a subregion of the opening (18).
6. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing (6, 52) of the electric motor (3) has a channel (10, 48) guided up to the opening (11, 50).
7. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a recess (20) is arranged in the housing (16) of the electric motor (3) on the opposite side of the opening (18), and in that the recess (20) and the opening (18) are connected to each other via the channel (annular groove 19).
8. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cap (7, 29, 38) is sealed with respect to the housing (6, 23, 33) of the electric motor (3).
9. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that contacts (8) which are arranged on the upper side of the electric motor (3) and are provided for the connection of electric lines are sealed with respect to the cap (7, 15, 29, 38) or the housing (6, 16, 23, 33).
10. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cap (7, 15) has a seal (9, 21) manufactured from an elastomeric material, and in that the seal (9, 21) bears tightly against the contacts (8).
11. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing (33) is connected in the region of its recess (32), which is provided for ventilation purposes, in a sealing manner to an elastic, annular element (34) or partially annular element (40), and in that the element (34, 40) has a channel (35, 43) with the opening (36, 42).
12. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the annular element (34) covers an annular groove (37) which is arranged on the outside of the housing (33) of the electric motor (3) in the region of the recess (32) provided for ventilation purposes, and in that the channel (35) is connected to the annular groove (37).
13. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the channel (35, 48) is inclined by a designated angle with respect to the axis of symmetry of the electric motor (3).
14. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the channel (35) has an encircling collar (39) at its free end.
15. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a valve (27, 45, 47) controlled by a float (28, 44, 51) is arranged on the opening (50) or in the channel (26, 43) connected to the opening (25, 42).
16. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the opening (11, 18, 25, 36, 42, 50) is arranged on a side of the electric motor (3) that is to face the reservoir (2, 49).
17. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a housing (24) of the feed pump (4) to be arranged below the electric motor (3) has a subregion of the channel (26) guided to the opening (25).
18. The feed device as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a valve body of the valve (45) which is designed as a float (44) is mounted pivotably.
19. A reservoir for a feed device which is provided for feeding washer fluid to motor-vehicle washer jets arranged in front of a window or lens, the feed device having a feed pump which is driven by an electric motor and a housing having a ventilating device for the electric motor, characterized in that the reservoir (49) has an edge (59) which fits over the electric motor (56) and is guided at least to the lower side of the housing (55).

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A synchronous motor comprising:
a rotor including a rotor core constituted of segment poles disposed in a ring, each of the segment poles having a magnetic salient pole characteristic; and
a stator including a stator core disposed radially outward or inward of the rotor with a gap therebetween and a multiple-phase stator winding wound on the stator core,
the rotor being rotated in synchronization with a rotating magnetic field generated when the multiple-phase stator winding is applied with a multiple-phase AC voltage,
wherein a lamination thickness as an axial length of the stator core is shorter than a lamination thickness as an axial length of the rotor core.
2. The synchronous motor according to claim 1, wherein the segment pole is formed with a concave portion depressed toward an opposite stator side at a circumferential center of a surface thereof radially facing the stator to provide the magnetic salient pole characteristic.
3. The synchronous motor according to claim 2, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed in each of the concave portions formed in the segment poles
4. The synchronous motor according to claim 3, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed between each circumferentially adjacent two of the segment poles.
5. A synchronous motor comprising:
a rotor including a rotor core constituted of segment poles disposed in a ring, each of the segment poles having a magnetic salient pole characteristic;
an outer stator including an outer stator core disposed radially outward of the rotor with a gap therebetween, and a multiple-phase outer stator winding wound on the outer stator core; and
an inner stator including an inner stator core disposed radially inward of the rotor with a gap therebetween, and a multiple-phase inner stator winding wound on the inner stator core,
the rotor being rotated in synchronization with a rotating magnetic field generated when the multiple-phase outer stator winding and the multiple-phase inner stator winding are applied with a multiple-phase AC voltage,
wherein
a lamination thickness as an axial length of the outer stator core and a lamination thickness as an axial length of the inner stator core are shorter than a lamination thickness as an axial length of the rotor core.
6. The synchronous motor according to claim 5, wherein the lamination thickness as the axial length of the inner stator core is shorter than the lamination thickness as the axial length of the outer stator core.
7. The synchronous motor according to claim 5, wherein the segment pole is formed with an outer concave portion depressed radially inward of the rotor at a circumferential center of an radially outer surface thereof radially facing the outer stator to provide the magnetic salient pole characteristic, and formed with an inner concave portion depressed radially outward of the rotor at a circumferential center of an radially inner surface thereof radially facing the inner stator to provide the magnetic salient pole characteristic.
8. The synchronous motor according to claim 7, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed in each of the outer and inner concave portions formed in the segment poles.
9. The synchronous motor according to claim 8, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed between each circumferentially adjacent two of the segment poles.