Having Flow Regulator* For Reciprocating Piston Engine Patents (Class 239/533.3)
  • Patent number: 6948665
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a seat, a movable member cooperating with the seat, and an orifice plate. The metering orifice disc includes a member having first and second generally parallel surfaces, and an orifice penetrating the member. The first surface generally faces the seat and represents the fuel entry side. The second surface faces opposite the first surface and represents the fuel exit side. The orifice is defined by a wall that couples the first and second surfaces. And the wall includes first and second portions. The first portion is spaced from the first surface and extends generally parallel to a longitudinal axis. The second portion couples the first portion to the first surface and extends at a first oblique angle that varies with respect to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: J. Michael Joseph
  • Patent number: 6945469
    Abstract: A fuel injection device is so constructed that fuel fed from a pressure storage chamber to a valve housing (11) with a nozzle (14) is led to a needle valve back pressure chamber (16) through a groove (21) provided on the peripheral surface of a needle valve (17); a fuel pressure in the back pressure chamber (16) is controlled by opening and closing a pressure regulating port (13) provided in the valve housing by a pilot valve (38) so as to move the needle valve, whereby the nozzle is opened and closed. The pressure regulating port is opened and closed by a drive control of the pilot valve with a valve drive unit by means of elongation and contraction of the magnetostrictive rods attributable by the action of an external magnetic field. The magnetostrictive rods, consisting of first and second magnetostrictive rods (34 and 35), are axially arranged side by side in parallel to the pilot valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Moog Japan Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Tanaka, Takahiro Urai
  • Patent number: 6945475
    Abstract: A fuel injection system has the ability to produce two different spray patterns depending on the positioning of a needle control valve member. Positioning of the needle control valve member determines which of the two needle control chambers are placed in a low pressure condition. First and second needle valve members have closing hydraulic surfaces exposed to fluid pressure in the two needle control chambers. The injector preferably includes a homogenous charge nozzle outlet set and a conventional nozzle outlet set controlled respectively, by the first and second needle valve members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Keith E. Lawrence, Ye Tian
  • Patent number: 6945478
    Abstract: A fuel injector having an orifice plate proximate the outlet. The orifice plate has first and second plate surfaces spaced at a predetermined distance from one another and an orifice, the orifice extending along a longitudinal axis and includes a first surface and a second surface being spaced from the first surface. The first surface includes a first region having a first surface characteristic being oriented in a first direction oblique to the longitudinal axis. The second surface includes a second region having second surface characteristic being oriented in a second direction oblique to longitudinal axis. The fuel injector has a housing extending a longitudinal axis. The housing includes an inlet, an outlet and a passageway disposed between the inlet and the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: Dale Stewart Spencer
  • Patent number: 6935582
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a magnetic coil, which cooperates with an armature which, together with a valve needle acted upon by a restoring spring, forms an axially movable valve part. A valve-closure member which forms a sealing seat together with a valve-seat member, is provided at the valve needle. Furthermore, the fuel injector includes an inner pole and an outer pole which form a magnetic circuit together with the magnetic coil, and a central fuel supply. A sleeve is situated in the central fuel supply of the fuel injector in such a way that a flow route of the fuel through the fuel injector is formed such with respect to length and diameter that the frequency of natural oscillations which are excited by the fuel flowing through the fuel injector, is adjusted to the closing intervals of the fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang-Manfred Ruehle, Matthias Boee, Norbert Keim
  • Patent number: 6935578
    Abstract: A fuel swirling means 15 for giving a swirling force at the upper stream of the valve sheet 7 to the fuel passing through the surrounding area of the valve body 13 and a nozzle 16 injecting a swirling fuel are provided. A fuel spray 47 injected out from the injection port 17 of the nozzle 16 is so formed that the orientation of the fuel spray is deflected in a definite direction on the basis of the longitudinal axis C of the fuel injection valve body, the reachable distance L1 of the fuel spray at the deflected side is longer and the reachable distance L2 of the fuel spray at another side opposite to the deflected side is shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Yasuo Namaizawa, Atsushi Sekine, Yuichi Sasaki, Tohru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6935580
    Abstract: Engineers have determined that the performance of fuel injectors, including those used in common rail fuel injection systems, can be increased, and undesirable emissions reduced, by controlling the mass flow rate of fuel injected into a combustion chamber during an injection event. While a number of fuel injectors have been developed that have limited rate shaping capabilities, the ability to produce some front end rate shapes has not been possible. In an effort to increase rate shaping capabilities, the present invention includes a valve assembly having at least one valve member that is movable between a plurality of positions to control fluid communication between a number of fluid inlets and outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Junru Azam, Edward R. Gillis
  • Patent number: 6932283
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engine, comprises an armature that coacts with a magnet coil, and comprises a valve needle, joined nonpositively to the armature, on which is provided a valve-closure member that, together with a valve-scat surface, forms a sealing scat. The valve needle has, at an inflow end, a collar-shaped armature stop, configured integrally with the valve needle, against which the armature comes to a stop, an engaging flange engaging through the armature in such a way that the engaging flange is insertable into the inflow end of the valve needle and is joinable thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Stier
  • Patent number: 6929197
    Abstract: Fuel metering components of a fuel injector that allow spray targeting and distribution of fuel to be configured using non-angled or straight orifice having an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the fuel metering components. Metering orifices are located about the longitudinal axis and defining a first virtual circle greater than a second virtual circle defined by a projection of the sealing surface onto the metering disc so that all of the metering orifices are disposed outside the second virtual or bolt circle within one quadrant of the circle. A channel is formed between the seat orifice and the metering disc that allows the fuel injector to generate an unified spray pattern along the longitudinal axis that forms a flow area with a plurality of uniform radii on a virtual plane transverse to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation
    Inventor: William A. Peterson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6929195
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided which comprises a swirl generator and a swirl regulator. The swirl regulator comprises an upper housing mounted to an upper part of said body and a lower housing including a center aperture, said lower housing and said upper housing cooperatively defining a plurality of cavities; a rotating member including a center shaft and a plurality of vanes formed thereon, said center shaft being rotatably disposed in said center aperture of said lower housing and coupled to said swirl generator, said vane being disposed in said cavity such that said cavity is divided into a first chamber and a second chamber, said first chamber communicating with said fuel passageway and said second chamber communicating with the outside of said injector; a biasing member forcing said rotating member to rotate against a force acting on said vane from a pressure difference between said fuel passageway and the outside of said injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Jong-Bum Park
  • Patent number: 6923387
    Abstract: An injector nozzle for a fuel injected internal combustion engine, said injector nozzle including a port (5) having a valve seat surface (15) and a valve member (3) having a seating surface (17), said valve member (3) being movable relative to the port (5) to respectively provide a nozzle passage (6) between the valve seat surface (15) and the seating surface (15) for the delivery of fuel therethrough or sealed contact therebetween to prevent said delivery of fuel, the valve member (3) including an outer valve surface (18) located adjacent the seating surface and external to the port, wherein a sharp edge (25) is provided on the valve member (3) at the transition between the seating surface (17) and the outer valve surface (18) thereby for controlling the formation of deposits at or adjacent an exit of the nozzle passage (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Orbital Engine Company (Australia) Pty Limited
    Inventors: Hugh William Carlisle, Robert Walter Frew, John Richard Mills, Peter John Murdoch
  • Patent number: 6923382
    Abstract: An oil activated fuel injector which provides a pilot quantity of fuel prior to the main fuel injection event. The oil activated fuel injector includes a delay piston assembly in fluid communication with a high pressure chamber of the fuel injector. The pilot quantity of fuel flows through the delay piston during a pre stroke of the plunger. The oil activated fuel injector reduces engine emissions and noise, and eliminates the need for additional working fluid to be provided therein in order to provide a pilot quantity of fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Diesel Systems Technology
    Inventor: Ulrich Augustin
  • Patent number: 6923388
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines has a valve body in which a pistonlike valve member is longitudinally displaceably disposed in a bore. The valve member is surrounded, over at least part of its length, by a pressure chamber that can be filled with fuel. On its end toward the combustion chamber, a valve seat is embodied in the bore, on which seat the valve member comes to rest with a valve sealing face in a closing position, so that the pressure chamber is disconnected from at least one injection opening located downstream of the valve sealing face. First and second parallel annular grooves are formed in the end region of the valve member disposed axially toward the valve seat and the valve sealing face is disposed between these two annular grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Buehler
  • Patent number: 6921033
    Abstract: A fuel injector, particularly for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having external ignition, include a valve housing formed by a nozzle body and a sealing ring which seals the fuel injector from a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The sealing ring has a convexly curved profile, two ends of the sealing ring axially overlapping one another in a stepped manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Reiter
  • Patent number: 6921034
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle assembly for delivering fuel to a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The assembly includes a fuel nozzle including a body having a fuel inlet, an air inlet, an outlet for discharging fuel to the combustor, and a mounting flange for mounting the nozzle in the engine. A portion of the body corresponding to the fuel inlet and/or the air inlet includes a recess for receiving a supply fitting having an annular sealing surface and a rotatable nut. The recess includes an annular seat sized and shaped for sealingly engaging the sealing surface of the supply tube fitting and female threads positioned adjacent the seat for threadably receiving the rotatable nut of the supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Christopher R. Koss
  • Patent number: 6921035
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engine, includes a valve housing formed by a nozzle body, as well as a sealing ring, which seals the fuel injector against a cylinder head of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Guenther Hohl
  • Patent number: 6921036
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine having mixture compression and spark ignition, has an armature, which cooperates with a solenoid, and a valve needle, which is connected to the armature, and on which a valve-closure member is provided which, together with a valve-seat surface, forms a sealing seat. The valve needle has a conical area, which cooperates with a conical recess in the armature so that the armature, is joined to the valve needle in a friction-locking and form-locking manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Reiter
  • Patent number: 6918550
    Abstract: A fuel injector, especially for the direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine has an actuator which is in operative connection with a valve needle, the valve needle having a valve-closure member at its spray-off end, which cooperates to form a sealing seat together with a valve seat surface which is formed on a valve seat element. Valve-closure member reaches through a swirl element which is positioned on a flow-supply side end face of valve seat element, swirl channels being formed in swirl element. The valve seat element has a ring-shaped elevation on the flow-supply side end face facing the swirl element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Luft
  • Patent number: 6918549
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for injecting fuel into a cylinder of an engine which includes a fuel injector and a tip located on the fuel injector. The tip and fuel injector are located about a common longitudinal axis and includes a sac portion having a sac chamber, an outer sac surface, and at least one nozzle passage extending from an inner end located in the sac chamber to an outer end located at the outer sac surface, the at least one nozzle passage being at a fixed angle from the longitudinal axis along a central axis. The tip also includes an end surface located substantially adjacent to and parallel with the at least one nozzle passage and extending beyond the outer end of the at least one nozzle passage, and a curvilinear surface located on at least one of the end surface and the outer sac surface and configured such that a portion of fuel being injected through the at least one nozzle passage is directed to follow the curvilinear surface away from the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventor: Vladimir Theodorof
  • Patent number: 6915785
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines having a fuel injection valve communicating with a high-pressure source includes a control valve, which has a valve body with a longitudinally displaceably guided control piston. The control piston is guided in a bush, which is surrounded at least partly inside the valve body by an annular chamber, which communicates with the high-pressure source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nadja Eisenmenger, Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Patent number: 6915960
    Abstract: A fuel injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, e.g., for the direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes an actuator, a valve needle which is in operative connection to the actuator and acted upon by a restoring spring in a closing direction, to actuate a valve-closure member which forms a sealing seat together with a valve-seat surface, and an adjustment sleeve, which provides the restoring spring with an initial stress. The adjustment sleeve has a cup-shaped design and an eccentric bore in a base, which is in variable alignment with an eccentric bore in a base of a cup-shaped inner sleeve able to be inserted into the adjustment sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Luft
  • Patent number: 6915968
    Abstract: To enable the inclination of the injection direction and the distribution of the penetration force of spray to be adjusted over a wide range, and an axially symmetrical spray shape to be obtained even when the injection hole is inclined, or the shape of the spray to be changed without inclining the injection hole, a fuel passageway 203 is provided as a swirling force adjustment means between the valve seat 201 and injection hole 101 of the fuel injector. This swirling force adjustment means adjusts the distribution of the swirling force of the fuel flowing into injection hole 101, and thus adjusts the spray shape obtained as a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Abe, Yoshio Okamoto, Makoto Yamakado, Tohru Ishikawa, Shuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6910639
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for internal combustion engines having a magnet valve that has a damping chamber and a relief chamber which communicate hydraulically through a damping throttle that damps in both laminar and turbulent fashion. As a result, the waviness of the characteristic curves of the fuel injection system is reduced and its function is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Gartner
  • Patent number: 6910643
    Abstract: A fuel injector (1) is provided with a magnetic coil (10), which cooperates with an armature (20) acted upon by a restoring spring (23), the armature forming an axially movable valve part together with a valve needle (3). A valve-closure member (4), which forms a sealing seat with a valve-seat member (5), is provided at the valve needle (3). A flange (14), which penetrates the armature (20) through an opening (19) of the armature (20) and which is connected to the valve needle (3) by force-locking, has at least one radial fuel channel (11) with whose aid an inner chamber (29) of the fuel injector (1) is able to be connected to a recess (22) of the valve needle (3) upon actuation of the fuel injector (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Dantes, Detlef Nowak
  • Patent number: 6910642
    Abstract: A fuel injector comprises a magnet coil which coacts with an armature that is impinged upon by a return spring and is configured together with a valve needle, a valve closure member that, with a valve seat element, forms a sealing seat being configured on the valve needle; and comprises at least one contact lug that is conductively connected to the magnet coil. A metal hollow body forms an inlet-side extension of the fuel injector, a connector plug having a contact lug being attachable onto the metal hollow body in such a way that the contact lug of the connector plug can be brought into conductive connection with the contact lug (6) of the magnet coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Maier
  • Patent number: 6910644
    Abstract: A solenoid-operated fuel injection valve includes a container into which fuel is introduced, a needle member that is disposed in the container and that moves longitudinally, and an electromagnetic controller provided with first and second magnetic circuits through which suction forces can be controlled independently of each other. The electromagnetic controller changes an area of a fuel flow passage defined as a space between an inner surface of the container and an outer surface of the needle member by moving the needle member by means of the suction forces. The fuel injection valve may provide two limit strokes to achieve variable injection rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Nakayama, Tomoji Ishikawa, Natsuki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 6908044
    Abstract: A fuel injector for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines. The injector includes a housing in which valves arranged in series are accommodated. One of the valves is actuated by an actuator assigned to the injector. Each of the valves is assigned a controllable control space, each having one inlet. The valves are designed as inwardly opening valves. One of the valves, which may be actuated by the actuator, acts by way of a spring package upon the other of the valves, which is under prestress by a first spring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya
  • Patent number: 6908043
    Abstract: In a fuel injection system for internal combustion engines including a plurality of injection valves connected to a fuel injection line and each having a nozzle chamber, a control chamber, a valve member controlling injection openings and which is actuatable counter to the action of a closing spring via a first control face acting in the valve opening direction, and via a second control face acting in the valve closing direction, one piston, displaceable in the compression direction, which on its face end defines a first compression chamber, for generating the injection pressure, one first valve for controlling the pressure buildup in the first compression chamber, and one second valve for controlling the pressure buildup in the control chamber. The piston, with an annular shoulder, defines a second compression chamber communicating with the control chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 6908042
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a pressure intensifying chamber communicating with a fuel supply passage through a check valve, a plunger for pressure-intensifying fuel introduced into the pressure intensifying chamber, and a needle valve for injecting the fuel pressure-intensified in the pressure intensifying chamber through an injection port, wherein there is provided in the fuel supply passage a throttle passage normally communicating with a fuel drain passage, air being bled during startup while leaking fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kuzuyama
  • Patent number: 6908049
    Abstract: An annular notch is provided in the body seat associated with the nozzle valve of an ALCO-type diesel injector. The notch extends from (i) an upper edge that is on the seat and is above the imaginary edge that would have been the sac inlet edge had the notch not been provided to (ii) a lower edge below such imaginary edge. The notch has a lowest wall that, at least at the portion of its length where such lowest wall approaches such lower edge, has a given angle-to-vertical of less than 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Inventor: Frank Deluca
  • Patent number: 6908050
    Abstract: A press-machined fuel induction pipe 40, a hollow tubular type of fixed core 1 with a flange at its upper end, and a nozzle holder 18 that was press-machined into a slender tubular shape and has an orifice plate equipped with a valve seat at the lower end of the nozzle holder, are connected by welding. The upper inner surface of nozzle holder 18 and the outer surface of fixed core 1 are welded after being press-fit. A movable core 14 and a valve body 16 are connected to the welded assembly via a point 15 having a spring function. On the outer surface of nozzle holder 18 is provided an electromagnetic coil 2, the outside of which is provided with a tubular yoke 4 whose upper end is connected by welding to the flange 1a of fixed core 1 and whose lower end is press-fit on the outer surface of nozzle holder 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sekine, Kiyotaka Ogura, Ryuya Ando, Makoto Yamakado, Noriyuki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 6905083
    Abstract: The injector has an injector body having a seat for a metering valve in turn having a control chamber for controlling a control rod. The control chamber has an inlet conduit and a drain conduit controlled by a shutter, and is defined by two parts, one of which is defined by a bush having a through opening for guiding the control rod, and the other of which is defined by a plug member for closing the control chamber. The inlet conduit is located on the bush, and the drain conduit on the plug member. The bush is of such a diameter as to interfere slightly with at least one cylindrical portion of the seat, and is driven in fluidtight manner inside the seat so that an end edge rests on a shoulder of the seat. The plug member is fixed in fluidtight manner to the opposite end of the bush by means of a ring nut having a projection which acts along the centerline of the thickness of the bush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per Azioni
    Inventor: Mario Ricco
  • Patent number: 6901915
    Abstract: The fuel injection system has one high-pressure fuel pump and one fuel injection valve for each cylinder of the engine. The fuel injection valve has a first hollow injection valve member and a second valve member guided displaceably, inside the first valve member for controlling first and second opening(s), respectively into the associated engine cylinder. The second valve member is movable by the pressure prevailing in a pressure chamber in an opening direction counter to a closing force and is acted upon at least indirectly by the pressure prevailing in a fuel-filled control chamber, which pressure is controllable as a function of operating parameters of the engine such that the second injection valve member, by means of the pressure prevailing in the control chamber, can be blocked, independently of an opening motion of the first injection valve member in a position that closes the at least one second injection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Winter, Maike Sander-Potz, Gerhard Mack, Christoph Buehler, Friedrich Moser, Thomas Kuegler, Philippe Allio, Peter Boehland, Detlev Potz
  • Patent number: 6902124
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular, an injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, having an actuator, which cooperates with a valve needle, has a first valve closure member that is arranged on the valve needle, the valve closure member cooperating with a first valve seat surface on a valve body forming a first sealing seat. A second valve closure member cooperates with a second valve seat surface in the valve seat body forming a second sealing seat. The valve needle, or the first valve closure member, has a limit stop, against which, after a partial stroke of the valve needle, a counter limit stop of the second valve closure member strikes, lifting the second valve closure member from the second sealing seat in response to a further stroke of the valve needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Werner Herden, Martin Maier, Guenther Hohl
  • Patent number: 6899291
    Abstract: A fuel injector for the direct injection of fuel, especially into the combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having external ignition, is located in a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine in a receiving bore of the cylinder head, and includes a nozzle body and a sealing ring which seals the fuel injector from the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. At an end on the discharge side of the fuel injector, an at least partially spherical body is formed which abuts at least partially against a wall of the receiving bore, a groove being circumferentially formed on the body in which the sealing ring is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Liskow
  • Patent number: 6896198
    Abstract: An injector, especially for common rail injection systems of Diesel engines, has a nozzle needle, a control piston for actuating the nozzle needle, a valve that actuates the control piston and that is triggered by via an outlet throttle and an inlet throttle, and a hydraulic stop for the control piston, such that the flow from the inlet throttle to the outlet throttle at the narrowest cross section can additionally be throttled. The control piston is embodied conically on its offset top side oriented toward the outlet throttle or the inlet throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Koch-Groeber, Uemit Canlioglu, Thilo Klam, Andreas Gaudl, Stefan Schuster, Christoffer Uhr, Andreas Rettich, Wolfgang Fleiner, Markus Rueckle
  • Patent number: 6896208
    Abstract: For each cylinder of the internal combustion engine, the fuel injection system has one high-pressure fuel pump with a pump work chamber and one fuel injection valve communicating with the pump work chamber. A control valve actuated by means of a piezoelectric actuator control connection of the pump work chamber with a relief region. The fuel injection valve has a first injection valve member, by which at least one first injection opening is controlled and which is movable by the pressure generated in the pump work chamber in an opening direction, counter to a closing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Kuegler
  • Patent number: 6896209
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular an injector for direct injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of a mixture-compressing, spark-ignition internal combustion engine has a solenoid, which cooperates with an armature, and a magnetic internal pole and a magnetic external pole, the armature being connected in a force-locking manner to a valve needle for actuating of the fuel injector, the valve needle having on its injection end a valve-closure member, which cooperates with a valve seat. At least one permanent magnet is arranged in a connecting area between the internal pole and the external pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Reiter
  • Patent number: 6892967
    Abstract: The control space of the fuel injection valve is delimited, on the one hand, by the piston of the injection-valve member, on the other hand by the slide-valve body and circumferentially by the sleeve. Both the double-acting piston and the slide-valve body are guided in a narrow sliding fit on the sleeve. The throttle passage runs through the slide-valve body and is flow-connected permanently to the control passage in the control body. The throttle inlet leads from the high-pressure space into the control passage. The latter, on the side facing away from the slide-valve body, can, via a pilot valve, be connected to a low-pressure space and be separated again from the latter. The connection of the control passage to the low-pressure space leads to a pressure drop in the control space, with the result being that the injection-valve member moves in the direction of the slide-valve body and releases the injection nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: CRT Common Rail Technologies AG
    Inventors: Markus Tappolet, Andreas Carelli, Marco Ganser, Severin Kern, Roland Kolb
  • Patent number: 6892970
    Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator for a fluid pressure control valve in a fuel injector for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The fuel injector comprises a control module including a fuel pressure control valve; an armature connected to the fuel pressure control valve; and a stator assembly including a magnetic core comprising of at least two segments and a bobbin. The stator assembly, when it is energized by a power source, produces a magnetic field to draw the armature towards the stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Randy Nussio
  • Patent number: 6892966
    Abstract: A fuel injector, e.g., for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injector includes a solenoid, an armature, which is acted upon in a closing direction by a restoring spring, and a valve needle, which is linked in a force-locking manner to the armature, for actuating of a valve-closure member, which together with a valve-seat surface forms a sealing seat. The armature includes a first armature part and a second armature part, the restoring spring is supported on the first armature part and the second armature part is linked in a force-locked manner to the valve needle. The valve needle is acted upon in the closing direction by the restoring spring via the first armature part and the second armature part so that the valve-closure member is held in a sealing position on the valve-seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Keim
  • Patent number: 6892965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injection valve including a valve body and a bore, embodied as a blind bore, whose bottom face is oriented toward the combustion chamber, and a conical valve seat having at least one injection port is disposed, is embodied on the bottom face. In the bore, a pistonlike valve member, which is longitudinally displaceable counter to a closing force, is disposed and has a valve member tip, which in the closing position of the valve member comes to rest on the valve seat. A first conical face and a second conical face, disposed toward the combustion chamber toward the first conical face, are embodied on the valve member tip, and the cone angle of the first conical face is smaller than the cone angle of the valve seat, which in turn is smaller than the cone angle of the second conical face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Haeberer, Markus Ohnmacht, Wilhelm Christ, Ralf Maier, Stefan Haug, Wolfgang Fleiner, Markus Rueckle
  • Patent number: 6889913
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine is described. The fuel injector has a fuel inlet connection piece for supplying fuel, a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator, which is sealed off from the fuel by a seal, and a valve closing body actuatable by the actuator via a valve needle. The valve closing body working together with a valve seat surface to form a seal seat. The seal includes an inlet-side gasket, which is arranged between the fuel inlet connection piece and the actuator, and an actuator jacket that is elastically deformable in a longitudinal direction and is connected to the inlet-side gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruehle, Hubert Stier
  • Patent number: 6880770
    Abstract: A method involves retrofitting conventional injectors with needles having magnetostrictive portions and wound coils configured and disposed so as to subject the magnetostrictive portions of the needles to ultrasonically oscillating magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Kirby Jameson, Bernard Cohen, Lamar Heath Gipson
  • Patent number: 6880769
    Abstract: An electronically-controlled fuel injector includes a pressurized fluid chamber that communicates high pressure fluid to first and second pressure control chambers. A direct-operated check moves between closed and open positions in response to a difference in fluid pressure in the first and second pressure control chambers. A thermally pre-stressed bender actuator is used to operate a control valve that controls the fluid pressure in the first pressure control chamber to effectively control opening and closing of the check during portions of an injection sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Dana R. Coldren, Glen F. Forck, L. Glenn Waterfield
  • Patent number: 6877680
    Abstract: Disclosed is an injector for fuel injection, with a magnet valve for controlling an injection valve, in which the magnet valve has a movable armature that can be moved onto a valve seat in the lower armature chamber. The lower armature chamber communicates fluidically with the control pressure chamber of the injection valve via bores. Via a return bore, incidental leak fuel quantities can be returned to a tank via the lower armature chamber. To prevent armature recoil upon closure of the valve seat by the armature, it is proposed that means be provided in the injector for reducing pressure fluctuations occurring in the lower armature chamber. Eliminating pressure fluctuations in the lower armature chamber leads to maximal elimination of armature recoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ruediger Bauer, Rainer Schnatterer, Mattias Zettl
  • Patent number: 6874710
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes: a magnetic barrel body made of a magnetic material and shaped substantially into a barrel, a core barrel made of a magnetic material and shaped substantially into a barrel, a valve seat member positioned on a downstream side of the core barrel and disposed in the magnetic barrel body, a valve body positioned between the core barrel and the valve seat member, an O-ring positioned in a vicinity of a flange portion of the magnetic barrel body, a fuel filter assembly disposed at the first end on the fuel's influx side of the magnetic barrel body. A flange of the fuel filter assembly is made of a material lower in hardness than the magnetic material of the magnetic barrel body. The flange of the fuel filter assembly has a diameter larger than the diameter of the flange portion of the magnetic barrel body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Unisia Automotive, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Ishii, Hideo Kato, Tomoichi Misawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6874705
    Abstract: The invention relates to a unit injector system for supplying the combustion chamber of a self-igniting internal combustion engine with fuel. The unit injector system has a high-pressure chamber that can be subjected to pressure via a pump piston. A storage piston is received inside a storage chamber and is acted upon via a compression spring disposed in a spring holder. A return flow throttle element, which delays the buildup of pressure in the storage chamber, is disposed between the high pressure chamber and the storage chamber of the storage piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marcus Parche
  • Patent number: 6874704
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines having a valve body in which a bore is embodied, a valve seat face, at least one injection opening embodied on the end toward the combustion chamber of the bore, and at least one injection opening connecting the bore with the combustion chamber of the engine. A nozzle needle is longitudinally displaceably guided in the bore and on its end toward the combustion chamber it has a sealing face, which cooperates with the valve seat face and thus controls the at least one injection opening. The nozzle needle has a central longitudinal bore, in which an inner needle is disposed that is fixed immovably relative to the valve body. The nozzle needle is guided over at least part of its length on the inner needle, so that the nozzle needle is kept exactly centrally in the bore at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Mack, Taner Narin, Holger Rapp, Ulrich Kunzi, Ralf Heinecke, Wilhelm Christ, Friedrich Boecking, Wolfgang Fleiner, Manfred Fink
  • Patent number: 6871803
    Abstract: A valve with an integral orifice for use in gas feeding equipment provided with a pressure-type flow volume control device to be employed for manufacturing of semi-conductors and chemical goods. The valve with an integral orifice has the excellent flow rate control characteristics by improving the processing accuracy of the orifice and preventing the distortion of the orifice at the time of assembling. The orifice is formed in a stainless steel made orifice disc. The metal-made orifice disc with the orifice formed by separate processing and the synthetic-resin-made valve seat body are removably assembled, wherein the orifice disc and the synthetic resin made valve seat body are fixed airtight to the valve main body by pressing the valve seat body via a metal inner disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignees: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Kouji Nishino, Nobukazu Ikeda, Michio Yamaji, Ryousuke Dohi, Eiji Ideta, Takashi Hirose