Variable Beginning And Ending Of Pumping Stroke Patents (Class 123/500)
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Patent number: 5345916Abstract: Fuel delivery system for internal combustion engines and method of delivering fuel by the automatic selection and use of different sections of the fuel pumping ramp of a cam mechanism within the system to control the rate of fuel injection by varying and shaping injection pressure waves or pulses to match engine air intake flow for different engine speed and load conditions. A solenoid operated fuel delivery valve is employed for controlling fuel timing and quantity by commands from a microprocessor with inputs which includes torque demand, engine speed, cam mechanism position and solenoid current regulator signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1993Date of Patent: September 13, 1994Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Richard W. Amann, Sharon W. Lum
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Patent number: 5339786Abstract: A fuel injection system having a novel electromagnetic actuated fuel pump in which four pumping elements, equally-spaced around a camshaft are mounted such that a pair of opposed pumping elements alternate to deliver pressure to a high pressure common rail with a second pair of the pumping pair of pumping elements. In one embodiment of the invention, the pumping process is mechanically actuated, and in another is electronically actuated. The high pressure common rail is adapted to reduce surges in the fuel pressure from the pump by using central and side chambers connected with cross-drilled orifices. The common rail has a relief valve for safety protection not to allow the pressure in the rail to exceed the maximum preset pressure. The electromagnetic injector has a pressure balanced control valve to control fuel flow to the nozzle and has a pressure assistance mechanism at the end of injection to obtain a sharp end of injection.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1993Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Inventor: Tiby M. Martin
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Patent number: 5333588Abstract: A pump/injector for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine includes a pumping plunger reciprocable within a bore. The plunger and bore define a pumping chamber which is connected to the inlet of a fuel injection nozzle. The amount of fuel which flows to the nozzle is controlled by a pair of electromagnetically actuated spill valves of identical construction.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1993Date of Patent: August 2, 1994Assignee: Lucas Industries public limited companyInventor: Eric J. Cananagh
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Patent number: 5295470Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines, which includes a pump piston guided in a cylinder bore driven to reciprocate axially by a cam drive. With a face end, the pump piston defines a pump work chamber, which communicates with an injection valve via a pressure conduit and which is supplied with fuel and relieved via a fuel line. Supply onset and supply end are controllable via a feed pump and a magnet valve are disposed in the fuel line, which communicates with a fuel supply vessel (33) to control supply onset and end of supply. In order to relieve a pressure of the high-pressure chambers, especially at high engine speeds, a fuel tapping device, which is controllable as a function of pressure is connected to a relief line that branches off from the fuel line.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1993Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Max Straubel
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Patent number: 5267546Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1992Date of Patent: December 7, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans-Joachim Siebert, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Joachim Tauscher, Herbert Graf, Werner Zimmermann, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Anton Karle
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Patent number: 5233955Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that reciprocates in a cylinder liner inserted into a pump housing. The pump piston and housing encloses a pump work chamber, and the pump piston has a control recess on its jacket face that communicates with the pump work chamber through a conduit. An oblique groove extends at a predetermined angle from the axis of the pump piston in the jacket face thereof and forms control edges. An annular slide is axially displaceable on the pump piston and includes two diametrically opposed diversion bores. To interrupt the high-pressure pumping to provide a pre-injection quantity and a main-injection quantity, first, second and third pockets are additionally machined into the jacket face of the pump piston. These pockets cooperated with pockets machined in the annular slide and with the control edge formed by the lower face edge of the annular slide to control the fuel flow.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1992Date of Patent: August 10, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Kraemer, Josef Guentert
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Patent number: 5219280Abstract: A fuel injection pump plunger which enables the timing of the fuel injection to be controlled in accordance with the engine load, and can be used to prevent the emission of exhaust smoke and to achieve quieter engine operation, and under full-load conditions enables the engine to regain speed rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1992Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignee: Zexel CorporationInventor: Hidekatsu Yashiro
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Patent number: 5217356Abstract: A fuel injection pump that provides an improved fuel injection cutoff spill rate at high fuel pressures without degrading the mechanical strength or durability of a control sleeve that is provided with a spill port and fits over the plunger of the pump, and also does not affect fuel injection timing. In the fuel injection pump the length of an inclined lead is extended in the high rack direction, the effective fuel injection stroke is adjusted by controlling the relative positions of the inclined lead and the spill port, and an auxiliary inclined lead is formed on the end portion of the inclined lead in communication therewith, with this auxiliary inclined lead arranged so that it does not extend below the fuel suction and discharge port in the longitudinal direction of the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1992Date of Patent: June 8, 1993Assignee: Zexel CorporationInventor: Kohtaroh Ryuhzaki
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Patent number: 5211549Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a reciprocating pump piston and an annular slide displaceable on the pump piston and having a control bore which cooperates with a control recess on a pump piston that communicates with the pump work chamber via a conduit. Because of a crooked position of the control bore with respect to the piston axis, an ellipse-like opening cross section is created, which in cooperation with the oblique control edge opens a fast, large opening cross section, by way of which in cooperation with an equal pressure valve disposed in the injection line, the fuel can flow out quickly, and a reliable, fast closure of the injection valve is assured. A pressure holding valve is also provided which opens toward the work chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1992Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Manfred Kraemer
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Patent number: 5197439Abstract: A method and device for controlling a solenoid-valve-regulated fuel-metering system. Given the desired angular position of a fuel pump camshaft at the beginning of fuel delivery and the desired angular duration of fuel delivery, the method and device of the present invention, while accounting for the switching time of the solenoid valve, determines the trigger instant and shut-off instant for at least one solenoid valve. The present invention achieves more accurate and stable fuel-metering by treating the switching time of the solenoid valve as an angular quantity.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1992Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Roland Gronenberg, Joachim Tauscher
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Patent number: 5195492Abstract: A method and device for the control of a solenoid-valve-controlled fuel-metering system for a diesel gasoline engine provide that the beginning and/or the end of the fuel metering are able to be controlled by trigger instants for the solenoid valve. An angular size is converted into a time quantity by applying at least one rotational-speed value. At least one first time quantity is calculated based upon a first rotational-speed value, and a second time quantity is calculated based upon a second rotational-speed value. A weighted time quantity is determined by generating a mean value from at least the first and second time quantities.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1992Date of Patent: March 23, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Roland Gronenberg, Joachim Tauscher
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Patent number: 5193507Abstract: A fuel injection device for fuel-injected internal combustion engines, in particular to a unit fuel injector, in which the control of the onset and end of supply is effected by means of a magnet valve incorporated between a low-pressure circuit and a work chamber of a pump piston; a scavenging bore, connectable to the work chamber, of a scavenging line that communicates with a low-pressure chamber or the tank is provided. A delivery line for delivering the fuel from the magnet valve to the work chamber of the pump piston discharges directly into the pump work chamber and communicates with it in a permanently open fashion.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1991Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Francois Rossignol
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Patent number: 5168847Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which to attain particularly quiet operation of an engine that is operated with direct injection, the fuel delivery is subdivided into a preinjection and a main injection; this injection is attained by annular groove, coinciding with one another, on the pump piston and pump cylinder, and a connecting groove connecting the coinciding annular grooves with a relief opening. After a partial stroke in the region of coincidence of the annular grooves with one another, the communication with the relief opening is interrupted again. The preinjection quantity can be kept particularly small here, with a short interval between the preinjection and the main injection; in combination with a two-spring-holder injection valve, this particularly small preinjection quantity can be kept constant to a great extent even at varying engine speeds, to attain an optimal reduction in combustion noise at various engine speeds.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1992Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hermann Grieshaber, Hans-Joachim Siebert, Walter Egler, Norbert Meissner
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Patent number: 5144925Abstract: In a fuel injection device for fuel-injected internal combustion engines, in which a pump piston and a pump piston bushing or a control sleeve can be turned relative to each other and the end of output is determined by at least one slanted control edge, which slides over an overflow hole of the respective other part; whereby to achieve a pre-injection and a main injection a take-up piston that is driven in a cylinder that is connected to the high pressure chamber is provided and whereby the volume released from the take-up piston determines the injection pause between pre-injection and main injection, the slanted control edge, in the area of zero output, exhibits a step that runs back in the direction of a rotation corresponding to the direction of an increase in output. The distance of the point, at which the slanted control edge changes into the recess that runs back, to the control edge that controls the start of output, is greater than the diameter of the overflow hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1991Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: Automotive Diesel Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventor: Gerhard Weiss
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Patent number: 5121324Abstract: An electronic integrated engine and vehicle management and control system includes an electronic vehicle control module and a fuel injection control module, in communication with each other, which together control the total vehicle and engine operation functions of a heavy duty vehicle. A novel fuel injection timing device is utilized with the control module to allow precise and sophisticated control of engine timing based on a number of engine and vehicle operating parameters as determined by the control modules. Functions such as engine speed control, vehicle road speed control, engine protection shutdown, fuel economy, braking control and diagnostics are performed by the system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1989Date of Patent: June 9, 1992Assignee: Mack Trucks, Inc.Inventors: Guy T. Rini, Oldrich S. Kolarik, James E. Marsden, June M. Warner, Ramin Younessi, Dolyn P. Ruffner, Stephen W. Heffner
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Patent number: 5115783Abstract: A method for varying the flow rate of fuel in a distributor-type electronic control fuel-injection pump. A single solenoid valve is used to control the timing of initiating and terminating fuel delivery. A cam is operated under four different modes, a low idle or a low speed/low load zone, a middle load zone, a high load zone, and a governing or high idle zone in that order as the cam is rotated. At the governing or high idle zone, the solenoid valve is closed before the cam is lifted and is opened to control fuel delivery when it is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1990Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Assignee: Zexel CorporationInventors: Hisashi Nakamura, Kenichi Kubo, Takashi Ohishi, Hosokawa Hitoshi
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Patent number: 5103645Abstract: Disclosed are methods of and means for an improved internal combustion engine performance and of substantially reduced or eliminated pollutants. A relatively slow and long burning combustion is provided which produces an exhaust of high pressure which can be utilized to drive a turbocharger or cylinder or subsequent cylinders. Ideally, the compression ratio is reduced with respect to current internal combustion engines, and the maximum temperature in the power or combustion cylinder can be below the temperature at which NO.sub.x is formed. Preferably the pressure during combustion remains substantially constant and the air or air/fuel mixture is externally compressed 40 to 100% of its compression pressure in the combustion cylinder. This results in a controlled energy release tailored to a change in volume per unit of time which results in more torque and horsepower, less fuel consumption and drastically decreases pollution, both chemical and heat to the atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1991Date of Patent: April 14, 1992Assignee: Thermon Manufacturing CompanyInventor: John M. Haring, deceased
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Patent number: 5097812Abstract: The invention relates to a sloping-edge-controlled fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, in particular as a direct injector for commercial vehicles. A cam-operated pump plunger, defining the pump working chamber and having an upper control edge effecting the start of delivery and a lower sloping control edge effecting the end of delivery, is guided axially and in a rotationally movable manner in the pump cylinder and has two peripheral grooves which, with two bypasses in the pump cylinder, interrupt the delivery, each bypass, in the projection perpendicular to the axis of the pump cylinder, partly overlapping feed bores arranged in the pump cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1990Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Assignee: Daimler-Benz AGInventor: Ulrich Augustin
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Patent number: 5094215Abstract: A unit fuel injector adapted to receive fuel from a fuel supply at relatively low pressure and adapted to inject fuel at relatively high pressure into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is provided, comprising an injector body having a first internal bore and an injector orifice and a plunger mounted for reciprocating movement within the first internal bore to define a variable volume fuel pressurization chamber including a cam actuated upper plunger portion and a lower plunger portion mounted in the first internal bore between the variable volume fuel pressurization chamber and the upper plunger portion. While the upper plunger portion is in its retracted position, low pressure fuel from the fuel supply is supplied to the variable volume fuel pressurization chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1990Date of Patent: March 10, 1992Assignee: Cummins Engine Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard J. Gustafson
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Patent number: 5076236Abstract: A pressure-responsive spring-biased cutoff valve for an open nozzle unit fuel injector in an internal combustion engine is provided allowing for the selective operation of a given number of cylinders during an engine low load or idling speed condition for improved white smoke control. The fuel injector of the present invention includes an injector body having a central bore with a reciprocating injector plunger positioned therein to form an injection chamber. The injection chamber is supplied with fuel from a supply passage through a metering orifice with the fuel cutoff valve located in the supply passage upstream of and adjacent to the metering orifice and in close proximity to the injection chamber for a substantial reduction in the entry of combustion gases and other unwanted substances into the fuel supply.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1990Date of Patent: December 31, 1991Assignee: Cummins Engine Company, Inc.Inventors: Robert Yu, Julius P. Perr
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Patent number: 5063903Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1990Date of Patent: November 12, 1991Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Josef Wahl, Alf Loffler, Hermann Grieshaber, Wilhelm Polach, Ewald Eblen, Joachim Tauscher, Helmut Laufer, Ulrich Flaig, Johannes Locher, Manfred Birk, Gerhard Engel, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Fridolin Piwonka, Anton Karle, Hermann Kull
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Patent number: 5042445Abstract: An electronically controlled fuel supply system is provided for employing a plurality of fuel injectors which maximize SAC pressures under both low speed and high speed operating conditions and are capable of sustaining SAC pressures in excess of 30,000 psi. The fuel supply system of the present invention includes a gear pump which supplies pressure-modulated fuel to a fueling channel and to a timing channel and from there to a plurality of injectors. Fuel pressure regulator means and timing fluid pressure regulator means are provided in the fueling and timing channel, respectively. An electronic control unit receives information relating to engine operating conditions from a plurality of sensors and actuates the fuel pressure regulator means and the timing fluid pressure regulator means to adjust the pressure as required for the specific engine operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1990Date of Patent: August 27, 1991Assignee: Cummins Engine Company, Inc.Inventors: Lester L. Peters, Julius P. Perr, Edward D. Smith
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Patent number: 5019119Abstract: A fuel injector controlled by electro-rheological valving is disclosed. The present invention comprises a cylindrical casing having a compression chamber for holding a metered quantity of fuel and a nozzle for injecting said fuel into an engine; a fuel inlet for supplying a metered quantity of fuel to said compression chamber; an outlet coupled to said compression chamber for permitting fuel to exit said chamber to be recirculated back to said inlet; reciprocating plunger means for driving compression fluid into said nozzle and outlet; and electro-rheological valve means for controlling the flow of fuel through said outlet whereby the amount of fuel injected into said nozzle is precisely metered.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Inventor: Nicholas S. Hare, Sr.
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Patent number: 4971016Abstract: An electronically controlled fuel supply system is provided for employing a plurality of fuel injectors which maximize SAC pressures under both low speed and high speed operating conditions and are capable of sustaining SAC pressures in excess of 30,000 psi. The fuel supply system of the present invention includes a gear pump which supplies pressure-modulated fuel to a fueling channel and to a timing channel and from there to a plurality of injectors. Fuel pressure regulator means and timing fluid pressure regulator means are provided in the fueling and timing channel, respectively. An electronic control unit receives information relating to engine operating conditions from a plurality of sensors and actuates the fuel pressure regulator means and the timing fluid pressure regulator means to adjust the pressure as required for the specific engine operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1988Date of Patent: November 20, 1990Assignee: Cummins Engine Company, Inc.Inventors: Lester L. Peters, Julius P. Perr, Edward D. Smith
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Patent number: 4957090Abstract: A pump nozzle for a diesel engine, in which an injection pump element including a pump piston driven by a cam-shaft via a thrust element and a pump element bushing is combined with an injection nozzle to provide a unit to be associated to one motor cylinder. The pump piston is surrounded by a control sleeve which is non-rotatable relative to the pump element busing. The pump piston can be rotated for adjusting its orientation relative to the control sleeve for the purpose of adjusting the supplied amount of fuel. An adjuster for adjusting the amount is disposed at substantially the same level as of the thrust element. The control sleeve is arranged completely within a pump spring, which partly surrounds the pump element bushing. The pump dement bushing is formed integrally with a blind longitudinal bore which receives the pump piston. The pump spring extends from the level of the adjuster for adjusting the amount of fuel to be injected per injection, to the level of the working chamber of the pump piston.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Voest-Alpine Automotive Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Heinz Rathmayr, Maximilian Kronberger, Eugen Drummer
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Patent number: 4917068Abstract: A unit injector including a plunger, a high pressure fuel chamber, and a needle, wherein the pressure of fuel in the high pressure fuel chamber is increased by the plunger, a spill valve is slidably inserted in a bore to spill the fuel in the high pressure fuel chamber when a fuel injection is to be stopped, and the slide bore is spaced from and extends in parallel to a line which intersects the common axis of the plunger and the needle at a right angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1988Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Assignee: Toyoto Jidosh Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Takahashi, Shinya Hirota, Takashi Yamamoto, Daisaku Sawada, Satoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 4907559Abstract: In a pump nozzle for Diesel engines, in which an injection pump element comprising a pump piston (1) driven by a cam shaft and a pump element bushing (11) is combined with an injection nozzle (8) to form a unit associated to one motor cylinder each, the pump piston (1) is surrounded by a control sleeve (12) which can, for the purpose of varying the begin of fuel injection, be shifted in direction of the axis of the pump piston (1) in dependence on operating parameters of the motor, noting that the pump piston (1) is rotatable relative to the control sleeve (12) for the purpose of adjusting the supplied amount of fuel. The control sleeve (12) is connected with a separating sleeve (17) surrounding said control sleeve (12) and being guided at both sides of the control sleeve (12) with its inner side for being axially shiftable on the pump element bushing (11).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1989Date of Patent: March 13, 1990Assignee: Voest-Alpine Automotive Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventor: Heinz Rathmayr
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Patent number: 4884549Abstract: An internal combustion engine fuel injection system having a reciprocating charge pump and a bidirectional flow, solenoid valve for precisely regulating the fuel injection timing by precisely regulating the intake charge quantity of fuel supplied to the charge pump during each intake stroke and for precisely regulating the fuel injection quantity by precisely regulating the spill termination of the high pressure delivery of fuel during each pumping stroke. An electrical controller having a data processor timely energizes and deenergizes the solenoid valve and adjusts the charge pump stroke timing, if adjustable, for adjusting the fuel injection timing and quantity. A start-of-pumping sensor or charge pump stroke timing sensor is used to provide a closed loop feedback, or in the alternative where the charge pump stroke is not adjustable, a calibrated input is used in lieu of a charge pump stroke timing sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1988Date of Patent: December 5, 1989Assignee: Stanadyne Automotive Corp.Inventor: William W. Kelly
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Patent number: 4881506Abstract: The injection pump provides preinjection only during engine idling and partial load. This is achieved by providing a main release opening and an auxiliary release opening in the pump cylinder which appropriately register with first and second release grooves in a pump plunger which is rotatable between full load and low idle positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1988Date of Patent: November 21, 1989Assignee: Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AGInventor: Manfred Hoecker
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Patent number: 4878471Abstract: A fuel injector (3) is driven by a fluid drive system (27) with a drive unit (28). Connected with the fluid drive system (27) is a first control device (38) which has main and auxiliary slides. The fluid in the fluid drive system (27) is independent of the fuel system. Return pistons (72, 74) of the first control device are connected with relief passages (11, 12) on the housing (4) of the fuel injector (3) and with a second control device (50). On the outer periphery of the plunger (7) of the fuel injector (3) are arranged several annular grooves (18, 19, 20) which are connected with the pump chamber (6). The annular grooves (18, 19, 20) cooperate with the relief passages (11, 12) and have control edges. At least one of the annular grooves (18) effects an interruption of the injection of fuel through the nozzle (1). Several valves (51, 53) in the second control device (50 ) regulate the pressure in the pump chamber (6) and control the inflow and outflow of fuel.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1988Date of Patent: November 7, 1989Assignee: Nova-Werke AGInventor: Peter Fuchs
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Patent number: 4856482Abstract: In a method for controlling the demagnetization phase of electromagnetic devices, particularly electromagnetic valves in combustion engines, the exciting current i=i(t), starting from a high holding current value, is decreased not to zero or even to a negative value, but to a value in the positive range below the holding current. Because of the characteristic current and/or voltage values which accordingly occur in the excitation circuit, the start of the opening and the end of the opening of the valve needle of the electromagnetic valve can be determined in a particularly precise manner and can be taken into account for an optimal influencing of the manner of operation of the combustion engine (FIG. 3).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Linder, Helmut Rembold, Walter Teegen
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Patent number: 4840161Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, in particular having a plurality of linearly aligned pump elements, the pump injection onset is determined by one control slide per pump element in which the control slide is axially displaceable on the pump plunger and by a control of relief conduits of the pump work chambers. The control slide is actuated via a torque shaft in that a respective adjusting bolt of a straddling element joined to the torque shaft engages a cross groove of the control slide. The adjusting bolt has a cylindrical stud portion and a slide shoe supported thereon, and the slide shoe is secured against axial displacement by means of a head of the adjusting bolt.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1988Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Eckell, Josef Guentert, Walter Haefele, Manfred Kraemer, Uwe Kuhn, Johann Warga
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Patent number: 4830587Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a reciprocated pump plunger (3) and a control slide (5), which is displaceable on the latter, and comprises a control borehole (28) which cooperates with a helical groove (15) on the pump plunger (3), the helical groove (15) communicates with the pump work space (26) via a duct (24, 25). For the purpose of controlling the start of delivery, the helical groove (15) communicates with a cylindrical counterbore (21) at the end area (22) remote of the pump work space. Moreover, the end area (23) of the control groove (15), which end area (23) is close to the pump work space, can communicate with a second counterbore in order to ensure a zero delivery when the helical grooves (15) are relatively flat.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1987Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Josef Guntert, Walter Hafele, Johann Warga
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Patent number: 4813391Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injection arrangement wherein the pump piston of the fuel pump is driven by the pressure in the crankcase of the engine. The fuel injection arrangement includes an opening for tapping the crankcase pressure for actuating a diaphragm in the fuel pump. This opening is controlled by a moving part of the engine such as a crank web or the piston. The moving part closes the opening at least for a portion of the time during which injection occurs thereby delaying the onset of injection to permit a complete combustion during the previous combustion cycle.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1999Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Andreas StihlInventors: Werner Geyer, Roland Schierling, Hans Nickel
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Patent number: 4811716Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having at least one pump element comprising a housing, a cylinder liner in the housing, a pump piston operative in the cylinder liner, a recess in the cylinder liner having a radial entrance, for a control slide which controls injection onset during axial displacement on the pump piston. In the vicinity of the entrance to the recess which discharges into the pump work chamber, an apron is disposed on the control slide or on the cylinder liner, in order to cover a portion of a radial three-dimensional gap present between the control slide and the cylinder liner. By this means, the diverted fuel stream that is reflected by the side walls can be interrupted and reflected at least one additional time, so as thereby to reduce its kinetic energy.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1987Date of Patent: March 14, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Josef Guntert, Johann Warga
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Patent number: 4807572Abstract: A method of operating a two-stroke spark ignition engine (9) wherein the fuel is injected directly into the combustion chamber (22). The timing of the injection of the fuel is varied according to engine load and speed conditions. Under low load and speed conditions at least 80% of the fuel is injected after closure of the exhaust port (20) whereas under some high load conditions at least 80% of the fuel is injected before closure of the exhaust port (20). The method may also comprise adjustment of ignition timing so that, in conjunction with low load and speed conditions, ignition occurs at least 5.degree. of crankshaft rotation after commencement of fuel injection and up to 70.degree. before top dead center of the engine cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1987Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignee: Orbital Engine Company Proprietary LimitedInventor: Christopher K. Schlunke
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Patent number: 4793314Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a valve opening and closing an overflow passage formed in a body of the pump to connect a high pressure chamber to a low pressure chamber. The low pressure chamber is provided for reserving low pressure fuel, and the high pressure chamber is provided for pressurizing fuel sent from the low pressure chamber and for discharging the pressurized fuel to fuel injectors. A plunger has intake grooves which open the feed passage to communicate the high pressure chamber with the low pressure chamber on an intake action of the pump. The body of the pump has a feed passage formed therein which connects the high pressure chamber to a control chamber. The pressure in the control chamber is changed by the expansion and contaction of a piezoelectric actuator, and the pressure in the control chamber urges the valve in a direction in which the valve closes the overflow passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1987Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Toru Yoshinaga, Toshihiko Igashira, Yasuyuki Sakakibara, Seiko Abe, Yukihiro Natsuyama
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Patent number: 4784098Abstract: High-compression spark-ignited stratified-charge fuel-injection reciprocating-piston engine in which the combustion chamber initial charge includes a discrete air-fuel stratum that is lean with fuel at low speed idle and progressively increased in fuel richness and volume until that stratum ultimately completely fills the chamber with a homogeneous air-fuel mixture using all of the intaken air to attain maximum power. The combustion process minimizes pollutive exhaust emissions.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1987Date of Patent: November 15, 1988Inventor: Noel G. Artman
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Patent number: 4779596Abstract: Device for injecting of fuel into internal combustion engines with an injection jet is provided with a stretched tension wire as a locking spring element for an outwardly opening valve locking member. The pretension of the tension wire is influenced by the current flow in an electrical current circuit which is fed to an electric resistor element being installed into the injection jet. The resistor element may be formed by the tension wire itself or by coil of an electromagnet, whose anchor is coupled with the tension wire. Thus, the opening pressure (P.sub.o) of the injection jet or the injection process can be controlled in a simple manner or may be formed accurately in accordance with a predetermined principle.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1986Date of Patent: October 25, 1988Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Rudolf Babitzka, Ernst Linder, Wilhelm Polach
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Patent number: 4770138Abstract: An engine comprising a piston having a cavity formed on the top face thereof. A projection having an impingement face at the top thereof is formed at the center of the cavity. Fuel is injected from a fuel injector toward the impingement face to form a richer air-fuel mixture around the projection. A spark plug or a glow plug is arranged to ignite the richer air-fuel mixture at the end of the compression stroke.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1987Date of Patent: September 13, 1988Assignee: Nippon Clen Engine Research Institute Co. Ltd.Inventor: Sigeru Onishi
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Patent number: 4766863Abstract: In an individual cylinder control apparatus having a closed-loop control system for controlling an average speed of an internal combustion engine, the operation timing of the engine is detected and a timing signal for each cylinder, showing a predetermined measurement period determined to include at least that part of the period during which torque is produced due to fuel combustion in the cylinder concerned during which no influence arises because of torque produced in cylinders other than the cylinder concerned, is output in response to the result of the detection. In response to the timing signal, difference data representing the difference between the output from each cylinder and that from a predetermined reference cylinder among the cylinders is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1986Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kyoichi Fujimori
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Patent number: 4754738Abstract: A pressure oil supply arrangement for a hydraulically actuated timing device cooperating with an injection pump for the control of the injection start in multi-cylinder, air-compressing injection internal combustion engines, with an electromagnetic control unit for the control of the pressure oil inlet or return in a feed line in communication with the timing device; the electromagnetic control unit is thereby controllable by an electronic control apparatus in dependence on operating parameters of the internal combustion engine and the connection to the timing device is adapted to be interrupted by the control unit during each injection operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1986Date of Patent: July 5, 1988Assignee: Daimler-Benz AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Grohn, Frank Thoma, Wilhelm Tonhaeuser
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Patent number: 4754737Abstract: A fuel injection pump device comprising a plunger (8) facing a pressurizing chamber (20) and actuated by a cam (12), a control sleeve (14) mounted on the plunger (8) in a fuel chamber (15) , an inclined groove (8d) and longitudinal groove (8c) provided on one of the plunger (8) or the control sleeve (14) for controlling the communication of the pressurizing chamber (20) and the fuel chamber (15) by way of an oil passage (8a) formed in the plunger (8), and control ports (14a) provided on the other of the plunger (8) or the control sleeve (14), which cooperates with both of the grooves (8c) and (8d). The effective stroke of the plunger (8) can be controlled by turning the plunger (8) around its axis to change the relative position of the inclined groove (8d) and longitudinal groove (8c) and the control ports ( 14a), and the prestroke thereof, this is a fuel injection timing, can be easily controlled only by moving the control sleeve (14) in the direction of the plunger axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1986Date of Patent: July 5, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Ishida, Hiroshi Oikawa, Kazuo Itoh, Kimio Uehara
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Patent number: 4748949Abstract: The fuel injection system is provided with a control device for controlling the pilot fuel injection phase to be less than ten percent of the main fuel injection phase. In one embodiment, an injection pump is constructed with a piston having a part with a pair of bevelled edges which control the start and end of injection as well as a tension spring for abruptly moving the piston in the delivery stroke. In another embodiment, a control device includes a rotatable spool which has a cross-bore for communicating cyclically with a pair of radial bores in a surrounding sleeve and which, in turn, communicate with oppositely disposed bores in a casing in order to deliver a flow of pilot fuel during the injection phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1985Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Sulzer Brothers LimitedInventors: Anton Steiger, Bruno Sommer
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Patent number: 4737086Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a reciprocating plunger and a control sleeve slidably fitted over the plunger, the prestroke of which is varied by vertical movement of the control sleeve. The control sleeve is provided at its upper end with a fuel discharge groove, through which the fuel contained in a fuel-pressurizing chamber is discharged after the end of injection. The control sleeve also has to pressure escape passage. A variation in the effective stroke allows the pressure of fuel contained in the fuel-pressurizing chamber to be selectively regulated by the pressure escape passage, thereby controlling the pressure of fuel to be injected.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1986Date of Patent: April 12, 1988Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ishiwata, Noriyuki Abe, Hiroshi Tai, Hisashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 4732546Abstract: An adjusting device for a fuel injection pump having a plug connection for connection with a control unit. In order to attain sealing off of the plug connection in the vicinity of its passageway through a cap of the housing, the plug connection is connected to a substrate secured in the housing, which substrate has a bushing-like extension passing sealingly through an opening in the cap, and contact pins and conductors are embedded in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1987Date of Patent: March 22, 1988Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Fehlmann, Dieter Junger
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Patent number: 4722309Abstract: The internal combustion engine performs the thermodynamic cycle partially inside the cylinder, with the piston connected to the crankshaft, and partially in a turbo blower in which there takes place the final stage of the expansion of the burnt gases and, simultaneously, the suction and the first phase of compression of the air. The said compression is completed afterwards in the cylinder, continuously and without any partialization.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1984Date of Patent: February 2, 1988Assignee: Laerte GuidoboniInventors: Enzo Guidoboni, Paolo Guidoboni, Sergio Guidoboni
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Patent number: 4721442Abstract: A fuel injection pump has a control sleeve slidably fitted over a plunger. The plunger is provided with two lateral holes and an inclined groove open to and extending between respective ends of said lateral holes. The end of injection occurs when the inclined groove communicates with a cut-off port formed in the control sleeve, and the timing of injection is adjustable by the rotation of the plunger. To keep fuel noninjected, the plunger is rotated to a position at which the second lateral hole is brought into communication with the cut-off port.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1986Date of Patent: January 26, 1988Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Noritoshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 4718390Abstract: A fuel injection timing control method for a diesel engine, wherein engine rotational speed and fuel injection quantity as a parameter value indicative of the engine load magnitude are detected. A desired value of the fuel injection timing based upon the detected engine rotational speed and fuel injection quantity is calculated by means of an electronic control unit. An injection timing control device operatively connected to the fuel injection pump of the engine is driven according to the calculated desired fuel injection timing value, so as to minimize the difference between the calculated desired fuel injection timing value and an actual value of the fuel injection timing, by means of the electronic control unit. The fuel injection quantity is detected from the output of an oxygen concentration sensor indicative of oxygen concentration in engine exhaust gases, to thereby precisely detect the engine load magnitude and enable accurate control of the fuel injection timing.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1986Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadao Gonda, Tsuneyuki Chiyoda, Keiichi Yamada
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Patent number: RE32965Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed for internal combustion engines having a pump piston having a blind bore and two control bores and in which the fuel quantity to be supplied is controlled by means of a control slide having oblique control edges. At least two control edges are provided in a window-like recess of the control slide, of which the lower edge in each case and possibly the upper one as well extend obliquely; the upper control edge provided in the recess determines the supply onset, in cooperation with the first control bore, and the lower control edge of the recess determines the end of supply, in cooperation with the second control bore.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1987Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Walter Schmid