A steering column for a motor vehicle comprises two coaxial portions, a first portion being positioned partially within a second portion, and a device disposed between the two portions for transmitting steering forces between two portions and for permitting shortening of the steering column. The device includes two tubular members coaxially positioned one behind the other and mounted in rubber or similar material located in the second portion of the steering column. The tubular members have mean...

A motorvehicle safety cut-out switch spring biased in a closed position to cut out the vehicle motor is contained in a housing which includes retaining means for receiving a spherical body through a flaired and resilient opening, and includes means for opening the switch in response to the presence of the spherical body in the retaining means. A lanyard connected to the spherical body is attached to a motorvehicle rider to yank the spherical body out and cut off the vehicle motor if the rider fa...

The connector comprises a base of acetalic resin and a metal pivot pin connected together for mutual rotation under the braking effect of a frictional couple; the pivot pin being force fitted into a corresponding seat in the base and the ratio of the coupling axial extension to the pin diameter being no less than 4:1.

The preformed covering of polymeric material, for motorvehicle gear shift levers, comprises a sleeve portion for covering at least the upper part of a rod of the shift lever and a bellows-like portion, for covering at least the zone of an articulation joint of the lever. The sleeve portion has a top portion of knob-like shape defining internally a hollow space with engagement formations. The top portion of knob-like shape is an integral single piece body portion made integral with said sleeve po...

An antiskid device for a brake system of a motorvehicle and the like, effective to prevent jamming of a wheel and at the same time ensure a braking action thereof which is consistently the equal of the best possible relatively to the road surface, comprises an on-off valve placed in a line conducting the braking fluid from a master cylinder to a braking cylinder of said system, a wheel deceleration sensor effective to generate a wheel skidding signal continuously, a surge chamber put into commun...

Suspension system for a motorcycle wheel, comprising two upright swinging arms disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of the wheel pivoted at their upper ends to a supporting structure of the vehicle and at their lower ends to a wheel-carrying element which, through a prolongation, extends beyond the two pivotal connections between the two swinging arms and the wheel-carrying element. The wheel is mounted on the prolongation, and the wheel axle is located on, or slightly above or below, an id...

Clamp-connection hose (1) for a fluid feed circuit inside the engine compartment of a motor vehicle, comprising a side wall (2) suited to convey the fluid and an end portion (4) of the side wall (2) having an axis (A). The hose (1) comprises at least one layer of thermoplastic material and a rubber bush (3) having a tubular portion (9) housed inside the end portion (4) and suited to be connected by means of a clamp (6) to a fixing portion (20) having a cylindrical portion (30) and a conical end ...

A voltage-regulation, protection and filtering assembly (20) is connected between a power-supply input and an energy output in order to deliver the same security-protected operating voltage to a number of elements (12a, 12b, 12b, 12c, 14, 16) via an energy bus (26) linked to the energy output. The assembly (20) further includes an information input for connection to a first information bus (24), an information output for connection to an information bus (26) specific to the elements, and a monit...

The coating comprises a center sheath enclosing the lever and terminated at one end with a knob grip which includes a lever end check seat, and at the other end with a bellows seal formed with a groove adapted to cooperate with a mating check seat provided on the console.