Patents by Inventor Jean Pigeroulet

Jean Pigeroulet 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: 5005548
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Rembold, Hannes Pflug, Wilhelm Christ, Hans-Joachim Siebert, Ewald Eblen, Rodriguez-Amaya, Helmut Laufer, Alfred Schmitt, Werner Pape, Dominique Buisson, Pierre Lauvin, Detlev Potz, Nikolaus Simon, Jean Pigeroulet, Anton Karle
  • Patent number: 4903666
    Abstract: A fuel injection device having a pump piston which during the supply stroke pumps fuel from a pump work chamber into an injection line which leads to a fuel injection valve. Directly adjacent to the branching off of the injection line from the pump work chamber, at the diameter of the injection line, a valve seat is provided, at which the injection line then merges with a chamber into which a pressure valve closing member plunges. The valve closing member is tightly guided in a guide bore, loaded by a valve spring, and in the chamber has a pressure shoulder adjoining the sealing surface that cooperates with the valve seat. The rear side of the pressure valve closing member communicates with a continuously open relief line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique Buisson, Francois Henry, Jean Leblanc, Helmut Pfeifle, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4805580
    Abstract: A fuel injection device having a pump piston which during the supply stroke pumps fuel from a pump work chamber into an injection line which leads to a fuel injection valve. Directly adjacent to the branching off of the injection line from the pump work chamber, at the diameter of the injection line, a valve seat is provided, at which the injection line then merges with a chamber into which a pressure valve closing member plunges. The valve closing member is tightly guided in a guide bore, loaded by a valve spring, and in the chamber has a pressure shoulder adjoining the sealing surface that cooperates with the valve seat. The rear side of the pressure valve closing member communicates with a continuously open relief line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique Buisson, Francois Henry, Jean Leblanc, Helmut Pfeifle, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4750462
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus which the termination of the effective pump supply stroke is effected by exposing a relief conduit with the aid of a valve having for instance a control edge, whereupon a highly pressurized fuel flows out via the relief conduit and is directed into a pressure chamber defined by a rear face of a pressure valve closing member. The pressure valve closing member is located in a connection with a fuel injection line that leads from the pump work chamber to the fuel injection valve and is acted upon by a valve spring to effect closing of this injection line. The impact of fuel that reaches the pressure chamber via the releif conduit reinforces a fast closure of the pressure valve closing member at the end of injection, which leads to an abrupt termination of an injection cycle. In addition, or altenatively, the fuel injection valve closing member can also be acted upon by the impact of fuel diversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Egler, Jean Leblanc, Helmut Pfeifle, Jean Pigeroulet, Francois Rossignol, Dietrich Trachte
  • Patent number: 4669659
    Abstract: The unit fuel injector has a pump piston driven at a constant stroke length, which pumps fuel at injection pressure to an injection nozzle as long as an electrically actuated overflow valve blocks the flow of the fuel flowing from the pump work chamber to a low-pressure chamber via an overflow conduit. The overflow valve is inserted between a first section which communicates continuously with the pump work chamber and a second section leading to the low-pressure chamber of the overflow conduit and is secured to a housing part laterally projecting from the pump housing. The first section of the overflow conduit comprises a connecting bore leading away from the pump work chamber, a control conduit controlled by the overflow valve, and a transverse conduit connecting these two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Francois Rossignol
  • 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
  • Patent number: 4648556
    Abstract: A pump/nozzle unit having a piston injection pump and an injection nozzle which includes a pump piston that is driven via a drive tappet and is rotatable via a regulating sleeve. The regulating sleeve is inserted into a recess on the end face of the pump housing and is axially secured in its installed state by means of a guide bushing. The guide bushing comprises a guide part for the drive tappet and a flange radially protruding beyond the outer diameter of the tappet spring, the flange being secured on the pump housing by a holder mechanism. The forces exerted upon the pump/nozzle unit during operation are absorbed by a securing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Francois Rossignol
  • Patent number: 4571161
    Abstract: The pump/nozzle unit for a fuel injection system is disclosed which has a pump piston that is driven via a drive tappet and is rotatable by means of a regulating sleeve. The regulating sleeve, provided with a radially protruding control lever arm, is axially secured in its installed position by means of a guide bushing. The guide bushing includes a guide part for the drive tappet and a radially protruding flange, which is secured to the pump housing by at least one holder passing through an oblong slot on the flange of the guide bushing. A recess in the form of a circular segmented ring is cut out of the guide bushing for the passage therethrough of the control lever arm. By rotating the guide bushing within a range limited by the oblong slot a lateral limiting edge of the recess is adjustable into a position in which the pump piston, with the control lever arm resting on the limiting edge assumes a rotational position associated with a fixed supply quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Francois Rossignol
  • Patent number: 4538580
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines in which by means of an obliquely extending control groove on the jacket face of a distributor, the end of injection can be varied by opening a relief conduit during the displacement of the distributor. The injection onset is made to follow this variable end of injection by providing that the stroke position of the pump pistons of the fuel injection pump is ascertained at the end of injection by a transducer, by means of which at the same time a metering duration of a magnetic valve that has already been opened at the time of the end of the injection stroke is controlled. In this manner, with a radial piston pump so embodied, the opportunity is afforded of accurately adjusting the quantity of fuel to be metered by means of a magnetic valve, even with variable injection times. All that needs to be done is that the magnetic valve be closed exactly and rapidly at the end of metering, while an error in opening on the part of the magnetic valve does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Hermann Eisele, Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4473048
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed which has a distributor in which both the injection quantity and the onset of injection are variable. The distributor is axially displaced via electric servomotors and is rotated relative to the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4406263
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed which has a distributor in which both the injection quantity and the onset of injection are variable. The distributor is axially displaced via electric servomotors and is rotated relative to the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1983
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4398519
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines is proposed in which the onset and end of injection are determined by a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pumps of the apparatus, which are preferably combined with an injection nozzle to make a pump/nozzle unit have a central control pressure pump supplied with fuel by a supply pump. The control pressure pump creates a control pressure (p.sub.S) which is a multiple increase in comparison to the supply pressure (p.sub.V) of the supply pump and actuates the control slide. Each control slide is placed under control pressure (p.sub.S) to initiate the onset of injection via a control line which is separated from the filling lines of the injection pump and closes an overflow channel which leads away from the pump work chamber. At the end of injection the control slide again relieves this overflow channel to a supply line during its return stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Robert-Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Raymond Tissot, Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4398518
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines is proposed (FIG. 1), in which the onset and end of injection are determined by a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pumps of the apparatus, which are preferably combined with an injection nozzle to make a pump/nozzle unit, having a central magnetic valve assembly comprising two magnetic valves switched hydraulically in parallel, which valve assembly is inserted in a connection between a control pressure line, which can be placed under control pressure (P.sub.S) from a source of control fuel, and a low-pressure line which is under supply pressure (P.sub.V). In order to initiate the onset of injection, the control slide is placed under control pressure (P.sub.S) by the valve assembly via a distributor apparatus and closes an overflow channel leading out of the pump work chamber. In order to control the end of the injection, the control slide, during its return stroke, relieves this overflow channel toward a low-pressure line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Robert-Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4387686
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus (FIG. 1) for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which the onset and end of injection are determined by means of a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pumps of the apparatus, preferably combined with an injection nozzle to make a pump/nozzle unit, have a central control fuel source represented by a supply pump and a first pressure limitation valve, which generates a control pressure (p.sub.S) actuating the control slide which is several times greater than the supply pressure (p.sub.V) determined by a second pressure limitation valve. In order to initiate the onset of injection, the control slide is placed under control pressure (p.sub.S) by a valve assembly via a distributor apparatus and closes an overflow channel leading out of the pump work chamber. In order to control the end of injection, the control slide during its return stroke again relieves this overflow channel toward a low-pressure line. The control pressure (p.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Max Straubel, Konrad Eckert