Patents by Inventor Ewald Ziegler

Ewald Ziegler 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: 6742493
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines has at least one fuel injector which injects fuel into a combustion chamber delimited by a cylinder wall in which a piston is guided, and it has a spark plug which protrudes into the combustion space, and the fuel injector is designed so that a conical spray jet is produced in the combustion chamber. The conical spray jet has an angle cutout in the area of the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Ziegler, Stefan Arndt, Gernot Wuerfel, Jens Pohlmann
  • Publication number: 20020170533
    Abstract: A fuel injection system (1) for internal combustion engines has at least one fuel injector (7) which injects fuel into a combustion chamber (6) delimited by a cylinder wall (2) in which a piston (3) is guided, and it has a spark plug (8) which protrudes into the combustion space (6), and the fuel injector (7) is designed so that a conical spray jet (13) is produced in the combustion chamber (6). The conical spray jet (13) has an angle cutout (17) in the area of the spark plug (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventors: Ewald Ziegler, Stefan Arndt, Gernot Wuerfel, Jens Pohlmann
  • Patent number: 5605386
    Abstract: This invention achieves a setting of a reduced flow area which is active after a closed position of the valve. The solenoid valve has a seat valve with a closing element which is surrounded with a clearance by a hollow cylindrical shoulder. Formed in a valve body provided with the valve seat of the seat valve is an annular channel into which the shoulder engages with a slight radial gap in the closed position of the valve. On the outlet side of the seat valve, the pressure fluid channel leads to the two end faces of a magnet armature which actuates the seat valve. Given a pressure gradient between the pressure fluid inlet and the pressure fluid outlet, after a closed position of the solenoid valve the seat valve is capable of assuming a partly open position, since valve opening forces are compensated by pressure disequilibrium at the magnet armature. The valve can be used in slip-controlled hydraulic brake systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Ziegler, Volker Holzgrefe, Norbert Mittwollen
  • Patent number: 5012981
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injection valve for internal combustion engine fuel injection systems. The valve is designed to inject fuel into the intake manifold. The valve comprises a valve housing containing a core, with which an armature cooperates. A nozzle body with a valve seat is connected to the valve housing. A sealing seat of a valve needle guided in the nozzle body cooperates with the valve seat. The valve needle is guided by first and second guide parts in a guide bore of the nozzle body and the second guide part, which is adjacent to the sealing seat in the upstream direction, is provided with metering bores. These metering bores are inclined such that they produce a spinning effect when the valve is open, thereby providing for good preparation of the fuel. According to the invention, each metering bore discharges immediately proximate to and directly upstream of, the sealing seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Holzgrefe, Nikolaus Simon, Ewald Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4945877
    Abstract: The fuel injection valve according to the invention enables an improvement in the fuel preparation and hence a more uniform fuel-air mixture while simultaneously supplying different inlet valves of an engine from one fuel injection valve. Downstream of the valve seat face of the fuel injection valve, the fuel enters a central opening from which tangential conduits lead to at least two swirl chambers disposedly spaced apart from one another and which discharge into these chambers at a tangent. From the center of each swirl chamber, which may be embodied in an attachment, a respective metering opening leads to the outside, by way of which fuel can be injected, well prepared, in the form of cone-shaped fuel streams. The fuel injection valve is suitable either for supplying individual inlet valves with a plurality of fuel streams, or for supplying different inlet valves of the engine with fuel at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Ziegler, Joerg Widera, Stefan Arndt, Nikolaus Simon
  • Patent number: 4660531
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines with multiple fuel injection valves. The fuel injection system includes a dimensionally stable fuel manifold distributor with nipple plug connections, by means of which the fuel is directed to the individual injection valves. The fuel manifold distributor is disposed over the injection valves and is pitched with respect to the horizontal, with a fuel injection connection located at the lowest point of said manifold and connected to the pressure side of a fuel pump, with a return line connection provided at the highest point of the fuel manifold distributor leading to a return flow line, over which a portion of the fuel may be redirected to a pressure regulator and from there to the suction side of a fuel tank to which the fuel pump is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Lauterbach, Wolfgang Kienzle, Ewald Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4653455
    Abstract: The injection pump has a pump piston driven with a constant stroke which pumps fuel at injection pressure to an injection nozzle so long as an electrically actuated overflow valve blocks the flow of the fuel overflowing via an overflow conduit to a low-pressure chamber. The overflow valve is a needle valve, the valve needle of which, opening inward toward a pressure chamber that can be placed under injection pressure, by means of a conical closing surface radially defining a needle tip controls a valve seat that widens conically toward the pressure chamber. The cone angle of the closing surface is larger than the cone angle of the associated valve seat and the closing surface forms a sealing edge, the diameter of which is equal to or only slightly smaller than the guide diameter of the guide shank on the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Eblen, Karl Hofmann, Volker Holzgrefe, Jean Pigeroulet, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Nikolaus Simon, Dietrich Trachte, Friedrich Weiss, Ewald Ziegler