Abstract: A fuel injection pump has a pump plunger (13), which is driven by a drive shaft (15) via a cam gear (14) at least in an axial stroke movement and in so doing generates a fuel injection pressure in a pump work space (16), and a magnet valve (30) blocking or releasing the pump work space (16) relative to a relief duct (26). The start of delivery of the pump plunger is determined by the closing of the relief duct (26) and the end of delivery of the pump plunger (13) is determined by the release of the relief duct (26). To prevent the so-called jumping off of the plunger in the cam gear (14), the magnet valve (30) is controlled after the end of delivery in such a way that a residual pressure lying below the injection pressure is built up in the pump work space (16) until the top dead center point is reached (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the flow of fuel for a gasoline or diesel gasoline engine controls a solenoid valve for actuating the fuel pump. A pump piston is driven by the camshaft and, in turn, pressurizes the fuel for delivery to the individual cylinders. Based on the operation of the solenoid valve, the beginning of the injection of fuel and the end of the injection of fuel are established Based upon spaced angular markings on the camshaft, a control unit determines the trigger signals for actuating the solenoid valve. To calculate the trigger signals, the markings on the camshaft are counted and interpolated therebetween over time. The interpolation is based on the instantaneous rotational speed N of the camshaft, which is sensed immediately before performing the interpolation.

Abstract: A process for controlling and measuring the movement of an armature of an electromagnetic switching member with an excitation coil is proposed, which has the following steps: a current (i) or a voltage (u1) is applied to the excitation winding (3) in order to move the armature into a first actuatable position; before the start of the movement of the armature, the current or the voltage is raised above a value at which the armature remains in the actuated position, and before termination of the movement of the armature the current or the voltage is reduced to a defined value, which suffices to hold the armature in the actuated position; finally, the temporal variations in the current or the voltage are measured after setting of the defined value, for the purpose of recognizing the termination of the armature movement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for preparing a fuel-metering signal M for a diesel engine starting with measured variables such as accelerator pedal position, rotational speed, lambda, exhaust gas temperature or torque. A fuel quantity request MW is pregiven in dependence upon the position of the accelerator pedal. This quantity request MW is supplied to a minimum selector together with a second signal. The output signal M of the minimum selector, in turn, determines the metered fuel. The second signal derives from a precontrol characteristic field 50 in dependence upon the speed. The output signal of the precontrol characteristic field MV is influenced by the controller output signal MR in specific operating conditions.

Abstract: It is possible in a simple manner, especially in distributor injection pumps, to attain quiet combustion in the idling range of a Diesel engine, without modifying the basic construction of the fuel injection pump by shifting the injection pumping to the last portion of the stroke of the cam driving the pump piston of the fuel injection pump for idling, by means of an injection onset adjusting device, in combination with a determination of injection duration via the closing phase of an electrically controlled valve that relieves the pump work chamber.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and arrangement for controlling a self-igniting internal combustion engine. The arrangement includes at least one measured-value sensor, electronic control unit for forming a quantity signal for metering fuel, and a control unit for driving individual actuators for each cylinder. The actuators determine the quantity of fuel injected by the pump elements into the cylinders. Under specific conditions, a corrective unit is activated which determines corrective values specific to the cylinders for making the cylinders equal. The open-loop control unit applies the metering signal to the actuators in dependence upon the quantity signal and the corrective values.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling the fuel injection in a high-pressure fuel pump. Magnetic valves determine the fuel quantity to be injected into the engine. The magnetic valve is controlled during the pumping phase of the pumping element in such a manner that first a preinjection and then a main injection is carried out. In specific operating conditions, the control apparatus determines the duration of the drive pulses for the magnetic valve at which a preinjection just takes place. With the duration of the drive pulses as a basis, the control apparatus forms compensating signals for the drive pulses which effect preinjection and stores the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for controlling the fuel metered to an engine and especially to a diesel engine. The engine includes a fuel pump drive by a shaft for which injection start and injection end is fixed by a corresponding control of the electromagnetically actuated valve. The drive pulses for pump-delivery start and pump-delivery end are generated in dependence upon the analog signal of an angle sensor.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed in which over a first portion of the supply stroke of the pump piston fuel for the main injection is pumped via a distributor line and a distributor groove into one at a time of a plurality of fuel injection lines. In a second, remaining portion of the pump piston supply stroke, on the same cam flank, fuel is then pre-stored in a reservoir, controlled by a first electrically controlled valve and a second electrically controlled valve and by one of a plurality of longitudinal control grooves, which fuel subsequently, before the beginning of the next main injection determined by the closure of the first electrically controlled valve, is pumped via a second distributor line into the next succeeding injection line.

Abstract: An arrangement for the detection of speed signals of a control device controlling the fuel feed in an internal combustion engine is suggested, in which an (inductive) pulse generator is used in connection with a tested sensing arrangement. The point in time of the detection of the speed signal is freely controllable within a crankshaft and/or camshaft revolution. A minimization of the time interval between the signal detection and the output of the output signals dependent on the speed signals is accordingly achieved. In this way, the phase rotation in the control circuit is minimized and the dynamic behavior is accordingly decisively improved.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having an electromagnetic final control element, which in order to adjust the end or onset of injection engages a control slide, located in the pump interior. Via a control shaft, the final control element chamber is hermetically sealed off from the pump interior in order to keep water contained in the fuel from reaching current-carrying parts of the final control element. As a result, fluid communication exists only via the bearing gap of the slide bearing of the control shaft and the bearing gap functions as a throttle. The throttle forms a water separator, which further reduces the concentration of water in the already small quantity of fuel reaching the final control element chamber through the throttle.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump, capable of providing a preliminary fuel injection and a main fuel injection, includes a pump piston movable in a housing to define a pump working chamber which is connected with a fuel injection valve during the pumping stroke of the piston. The working chamber is relieved by the valve-closing member of the pressure valve. A magnetic valve which controls the function of the pressure-closing member is provided in the pump. An opening pressure of the pressure valve is greater than that of the fuel injection valve so that the preliminary injection is obtained with the initially open magnetic valve whereas the duration of the main fuel injection is controlled by the closed magnetic valve.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a fuel quantity signal in an injection pump is proposed, which is provided with a pump piston deflected by a cam disk which aspirates fuel out of a fuel inlet conduit provided with a magnetic valve and expresses it into a supply line. The metered fuel quantity is obtained on the basis of a metering onset signal and an end-of-metering signal, the first being generated by a position-sensor apparatus cooperating with the pump piston and the second being derived from the voltage applied at the magnetic valve.