Patents by Inventor Christian Heinen

Christian Heinen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9719475
    Abstract: A control valve is provided, in particular for metering in a fluid for a delivery pump which is arranged downstream. The control valve has a flow channel, an axially movable valve needle, and a valve element which can be loaded by the valve needle in an opening direction and is arranged in the flow channel. If the valve element is actuated in the opening direction by the valve needle, the fluid can flow back through the flow channel at least temporarily counter to the opening direction of the valve element. Upstream of the valve element as viewed in the backflow direction, the flow channel has a fluidically active shield which keeps the backflow at least partially free of a face of the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Thorwirth, Winfried Eckart, Dominik Brunner, Christian Heinen
  • Publication number: 20160010612
    Abstract: A control valve is provided, in particular for metering in a fluid for a delivery pump which is arranged downstream. The control valve has a flow channel, an axially movable valve needle, and a valve element which can be loaded by the valve needle in an opening direction and is arranged in the flow channel. If the valve element is actuated in the opening direction by the valve needle, the fluid can flow back through the flow channel at least temporarily counter to the opening direction of the valve element. Upstream of the valve element as viewed in the backflow direction, the flow channel has a fluidically active shield which keeps the backflow at least partially free of a face of the valve element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Erik Thorwirth, Winfried Eckart, Dominik Brunner, Christian Heinen
  • Patent number: 9181910
    Abstract: A control valve is provided, in particular for metering in a fluid for a delivery pump which is arranged downstream. The control valve has a flow channel, an axially movable valve needle, and a valve element which can be loaded by the valve needle in an opening direction and is arranged in the flow channel. If the valve element is actuated in the opening direction by the valve needle, the fluid can flow back through the flow channel at least temporarily counter to the opening direction of the valve element. Upstream of the valve element as viewed in the backflow direction, the flow channel has a fluidically active shield which keeps the backflow at least partially free of a face of the valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erik Thorwirth, Winfried Eckart, Dominik Brunner, Christian Heinen
  • Publication number: 20120247592
    Abstract: A control valve is provided, in particular for metering in a fluid for a delivery pump which is arranged downstream. The control valve has a flow channel, an axially movable valve needle, and a valve element which can be loaded by the valve needle in an opening direction and is arranged in the flow channel. If the valve element is actuated in the opening direction by the valve needle, the fluid can flow back through the flow channel at least temporarily counter to the opening direction of the valve element. Upstream of the valve element as viewed in the backflow direction, the flow channel has a fluidically active shield which keeps the backflow at least partially free of a face of the valve element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Erik Thorwirth, Winfried Eckart, Dominik Brunner, Christian Heinen
  • Publication number: 20090321541
    Abstract: The fuel injector is characterized in that a multi-fan jet nozzle is disposed downstream of a valve-seat member having a fixed valve seat. The multi-fan jet nozzle is disk shaped, having a middle, bulged, crest-like nozzle area that has an elliptical elongation. In the nozzle area of the multi-fan jet nozzle used as an atomizer device, a plurality of directionally parallel spray-discharge slots is provided, which, for example, are arranged in a row. The fuel injector is particularly suitable for use in fuel-injection systems of mixture-compressing internal combustion engines having externally supplied ignition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Volker Holzgrefe, Stefan Arndt, Christian Heinen, Markus Gesk, Armin Schuelke, Guenter Dantes, Joerg Heyse, Andreas Krause, Kai Gartung
  • Patent number: 6689179
    Abstract: Devices for measuring at least one parameter of a medium flowing in a line, having an inlet conduit an outlet conduit, having the disadvantage in the prior art that liquids flowing into the inlet conduit can reach a measurement element and alter the measurement characteristic curve behavior of the measurement element. A device of the invention has, between the inlet conduit and outlet conduit, a deflection conduit with a separation element, by which the liquids are separated out and therefore do not reach the measurement element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Heinen, Thomas Lenzing, Klaus Reymann, Uwe Konzelmann, Andy Mikleuschewitsch
  • Patent number: 6642999
    Abstract: A method and device for analyzing and quantifying flows for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the visualization of flows in fluids or gases. An illuminating device generates electromagnetic radiation of a predefined color to scan a detection space in the form of light planes arranged spatially one behind the other that are at least roughly parallel, and that are generated temporally one after the other. As a result, electromagnetic waves are generated in the detection space by particles characterizing the flow, and are detected using at least one image detector which records two-dimensional color images. The frequency, frequency spectrum, and/or intensity detected by at the least one of the image detectors is changed by an as a function of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Christian Heinen, Klaus Reymann
  • Patent number: 6549274
    Abstract: A method and a device suitable for carrying out the method are proposed for analyzing and quantifying flows, in particular for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the three-dimensional visualization of flows in fluids or gases. For this purpose, electromagnetic waves, especially light, are detected, which at least partially emanate from or are scattered by particles that are contained in the detection space and that characterize the flow to be analyzed, the waves being detected using at least one detection device, in the form of two-dimensional images that are recorded in a frequency-selective or frequency-band-selective manner, from which the flow is determined. The illuminating device for this purpose generates at least two, at least approximately parallel light sheets, arranged in spatial succession, generated in temporal succession, having electromagnetic waves of different frequencies or different frequency spectrums, which scan the detection space at least in areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Christian Heinen, Klaus Reymann, Bodo Ruck
  • Publication number: 20030010209
    Abstract: Devices for measuring at least one parameter of a medium flowing in a line, having an inlet conduit an outlet conduit, having the disadvantage in the prior art that liquids flowing into the inlet conduit can reach a measurement element and alter the measurement characteristic curve behavior of the measurement element. A device (1) of the invention has, between the inlet conduit (24) and outlet conduit (44), a deflection conduit (33) with a separation element (70), by which the liquids are separated out and therefore do not reach the measurement element (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Christian Heinen, Thomas Lenzing, Klaus Reymann, Uwe Konzelmann, Andy Mikleuschewitsch
  • Publication number: 20020135750
    Abstract: A method for analyzing and quantifying flows is proposed, in particular for the three-dimensional determination of flow velocity components or the visualization of flows in fluids or gases, along with a device suitable for this purpose. In this context, using an illuminating device (12) electromagnetic radiation, in particular, of a predefined color, is generated, using which then a detection space (25) is scanned in the form of light planes (19, 18, 17, 20, 21, 22) that are arranged spatially one behind the other, that are at least roughly parallel, and that are generated temporally one after the other. The electromagnetic radiation in the detection space (25) has the result that electromagnetic waves are generated there by particles characterizing the flow, the waves being detected subsequently using at least one image detector (16) in the form of two-dimensional, in particular color images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Christian Heinen, Klaus Reymann