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An automotive vehicle body structure including a dash panel separating an engine room from a passenger compartment, a front pillar extending vertically along each outboard edge of the dash panel and a wheel house portion connected between an outboard edge of the dash panel and an opposing side of a lower part of the front pillar, a reinforcing member extends along a boundary between the outboard edge of the dash panel and wheel house portion and defines a closed cross section jointly with the dash panel and wheel house. The wheel house portion has a three dimensional contour bulging toward the passenger compartment and relatively high rigidity to reinforce the dash panel by reinforcing the boundary between the wheel house portion and dash panel. The impact load applied to the dash panel during a frontal crash is evenly distributed to various structural parts and a favorable crash safety is achieved.

A method for controlling a vehicle presenting the steps of: verifying, at starting of an internal-combustion engine, whether a memory of calibrations contains the function of transmissibility of a clutch and / or the effective positions of engagement and selection of the gears in a gearchange; sending to the driver, if the memory of calibrations does not contain the function of transmissibility of the clutch and / or the effective positions of engagement and selection of the gears in the gearchange, a signal of start of a first self-calibration step, during which the driver must leave the internal-combustion engine turned on and the vehicle stationary; selecting and engaging a number of times, during the first self-calibration step, all the gears of the gearchange autonomously from the driver for determining the effective positions of engagement and selection of the gears in the gearchange; disengaging and engaging, during the first self-calibration step, the clutch with the gearchange in neutral and autonomously from the driver for determining a point of start of engagement of the clutch; and sending to the driver, at the end of the first self-calibration step, a signal of end of the first self-calibration step.

The invention relates to a household ironing appliance. The household ironing appliance (1) comprises a steam generator comprising a tank (4) for the generation of steam under pressure, the vessel (4) having a bottom (41) surmounted by a side wall (42) comprising a drain port (60) closed by a stopper (7) removable, the container (4) having a rounded edge (43) at the junction between the bottom (41) and the sidewall (42), characterized in that the bottom (41) present inside the tank (4), bordering the side wall (42), a recess (45) at which the rounded edge (43) of the tank (4) is lowered and where the side wall (42) has a portion (42A) extending further towards the bottom and in that the drain port (60) is formed at least partially in said portion (42A) lowered from the side wall ( 42).

The present invention relates to a steam ironing appliance. The steam ironing appliance comprises a steam generator (102) and an iron (1), the iron (1) comprises a flat sole (2) that is formed with steam output holes (20), and a heating body (5) is embedded on the sole (2) and includes an upper face comprising a steam distribution circuit conveying a steam flow produced by the steam generator (102) toward distribution openings (50, 54) passing through the heating body (5) and communicating with steam spray chambers (51, 52). The iron (1) is characterized by including a steam deflector (4) interposed between the body (5) and the sole (2) with respect to one of the openings (50, 54). The deflector deviates the steam flow from the openings (50, 54) to direct the steam along a direction approaching a plane of the sole (2).

The invention relates to an electric household food processor comprising: a base (1) supporting a bowl; an arm (3) solidly connected to the base; and a motor connected to means (5) for driving a working tool (4), said means being supported by the arm (3). The arm (3) can move between a working position in which the working tool (4) is lowered into the bowl and a raised position facilitating access to the working tool (4) and to the contents of the bowl. The arm (3) supports a lid (9) that covers the bowl when the arm (3) is in the working position. The invention is characterised in that the lid (9) is borne by at least one safety member (34) that can move between a lower "rest" position, into which it is returned automatically when no pressure is exerted below the lid (9), and an upper "activated" position into which it is moved when the lid (9) rests on the bowl as the arm (3) moves into the working position. The invention is also characterised in that the safety member (34) belongs to a safety device that only authorises the operation of the motor when the safety member (34) is in the activated position.

A camshaft phaser includes an input member and an output member defining an advance chamber and a retard chamber; a valve spool moveable along an axis between an advance position and a retard position and having a valve spool bore with a phasing volume and a venting volume defined therein such that the phasing volume is fluidly segregated from the venting volume, the valve spool having a first spool supply passage and a second spool supply passage which is diametrically opposed to the first spool recirculation passage. The first spool supply passage and the second spool supply passage each provide a path for pressurized oil to be supplied to the phasing volume from an oil source.