Patents by Inventor Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel

Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel 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: 6802301
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine, having a unit such as a pressure regulator, mounted in electrically insulated fashion and including an electrically conductive housing, and the housing is connected via an electrical connection to a defined electrical potential. As a result, static charging of the unit, which could become dangerous, is precluded. The fuel supply system is intended in particular for pumping fuel to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Edwin Fauser, Stephan Kleppner, Kurt Frank, Hans-Peter Braun, Wolfgang Bueser, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Willi Strohl, Jochen Rose, Wolfgang Hiller, Erich Eiler, Frantisek Buric, Jaroslav Moucka
  • Patent number: 6536415
    Abstract: A method and a device are described for diagnosing a fuel system having a plurality of electric fuel delivery units, which are submerged on the inlet side in a fuel supply contained in a fuel tank, and which, on the outlet side, deliver fuel in a fuel line to an internal combustion engine. The currents of the electric fuel delivery units are measured directly or indirectly in an analysis unit, compared to one another, and a diagnostic signal in digitized form is generated as a function of the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Joos, Mathias Rollwage, Karsten Kroepke, Jens Wolber, Thomas Frenz, Manfred Kirschner, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Ingo Richter, Markus Amler
  • Publication number: 20020124833
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine, having a unit such as a pressure regulator, mounted in electrically insulated fashion and including an electrically conductive housing, and the housing is connected via an electrical connection to a defined electrical potential. As a result, static charging of the unit, which could become dangerous, is precluded. The fuel supply system is intended in particular for pumping fuel to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Edwin Fauser, Stephan Kleppner, Kurt Frank, Hans-Peter Braun, Wolfgang Bueser, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Willi Strohl, Jochen Rose, Wolfgang Hiller, Erich Eiler, Frantisek Buric, Jaroslav Moucka
  • Patent number: 6435163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine, having a unit, such as a pressure regulator, mounted in electrically insulated fashion and including an electrically conductive housing, and the housing is connected via an electrical connection to a defined electrical potential. As a result, static charging of the unit, which could become dangerous, is precluded. The fuel supply system is intended in particular for pumping fuel to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Edwin Fauser, Stephan Kleppner, Kurt Frank, Hans-Peter Braun, Wolfgang Bueser, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Willi Strohl, Jochen Rose, Wolfgang Hiller, Erich Eiler, Frantisek Buric, Jaroslav Moucka
  • Publication number: 20010032622
    Abstract: A method and a device are described for diagnosing a fuel system having a plurality of electric fuel delivery units, which are submerged on the inlet side in a fuel supply contained in a fuel tank, and which, on the outlet side, deliver fuel in a fuel line to an internal combustion engine. The currents of the electric fuel delivery units are measured directly or indirectly in an analysis unit, compared to one another, and a diagnostic signal in digitized form is generated as a function of the result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Klaus Joos, Mathias Rollwage, Karsten Kroepke, Jens Wolber, Thomas Frenz, Manfred Kirschner, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Ingo Richter, Markus Amler
  • Patent number: 6293256
    Abstract: The fuel delivery device (12) has a receptacle (16) arranged in a storage tank (10) and a delivery unit (20) delivering fuel from the receptacle (16) to the internal combustion engine (14) of a motor vehicle. Further, there is provided at least one suction jet pump (40) which delivers fuel from the storage tank (10) into the receptacle (16). The suction jet pump (40) is fastened to an upper edge area (17) of the receptacle (16) as a separate constructional unit. The suction jet pump (40) is formed by a constructional unit having a propelling nozzle (41), a connection (43) for a propelling line (44), which connection (43) opens into the propelling nozzle (41), a mixing pipe (42) following the propelling nozzle (41), and a connection (45) for a suction line (46), which connection (45) opens into the mixing pipe (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Kleppner, Kurt Frank, Steffen Mihatsch, Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Guenter-Paul Ballier, Albert Gerhard, Gerhard Jauch
  • Patent number: 5415521
    Abstract: An aggregate for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle has a feed pump formed as a flow pump and having a disk-shaped impeller and a pump chamber in which the impeller rotates and which is limited in an axial direction by two end walls spaced from one another and in a radial direction by a ring wall arranged so that substantially parallel axial gaps are formed between end surfaces of the impeller and end surfaces of the pump chamber facing the end surfaces of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hufnagel, Willi Strohl, Jaihind-Singh Sumal, Steven E. Sims