Variable Cutoff Or Pumping Member Controlled Port Patents (Class 417/289)
  • Patent number: 10774830
    Abstract: A pump housing includes an integral vent flow path extending between a low-pressure region and the reservoir. The vent path provides fluid communication between the downstream side of a throat seal dividing the low-pressure region from a high-pressure region and the reservoir. Lubricant flows through the vent path from the reservoir to the low-pressure region to provide lubrication to the throat seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse L. Lanie, Dustin A. Tichy
  • Patent number: 9435328
    Abstract: Control structure controls movement of a high pressure fuel pump piston of a fuel system. The piston is constructed and arranged to be inserted into or withdrawn from a pumping chamber to control a flow of fuel from the pumping chamber. The control structure includes a rocker arm with an associated roller follower. The roller follower is constructed and arranged to engage a camshaft of an engine. The rocker arm is operatively associated with the piston such that movement of the camshaft causes movement of the rocker arm and thus movement of the piston. The control structure also includes actuator structure associated with the rocker arm and constructed and arranged to vary a percentage of camshaft motion imparted to the piston via the rocker arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Keith K. Gerlach
  • Patent number: 8789616
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method are provided for inhibiting the propagation of a flame front that is ignited by a pumping mechanism which draws a waste stream from a process chamber. The apparatus comprises a foreline for conveying the waste stream which is drawn from the process chamber to the pumping mechanism. The foreline comprises an isolation valve for selectively isolating the pumping mechanism from the process chamber and a bypass positioned around the isolation valve. The apparatus further comprises a controller for actuating the isolation valve. The controller is configured to cause the isolation valve to be closed when the waste stream is initially drawn from the process chamber. During which time the waste stream is conveyed to the pumping mechanism via the bypass, the bypass comprises means for inhibiting propagation of a flame front therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Mark Bailey
  • Publication number: 20140134003
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide dry gaseous fluid pump apparatus comprising: a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; at least one pump body having an internal wall defining an internal pump chamber thereof; a compression member provided within the pump chamber; and valve means being operable selectively to allow fluid to be drawn from the fluid inlet and into the pump chamber when at least a portion of the compression member is translated in a first direction and to be exhausted from the pump chamber through the fluid outlet when said at least a portion of the compression member is translated in a second direction opposite the first, the valve means being arranged to be actuated by actuator means under the control of control means to perform at least one selected from amongst the functions of allowing fluid to be drawn from the fluid inlet into the pump chamber and allowing fluid to be exhausted from the pump chamber through the fluid outlet, the apparatus comprising a linear drive assembly operable to drive t
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: HYPERSPIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Eckhard Bez, Ian Owen
  • Patent number: 8656891
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injection mechanism having a horizontal control surface formed within a plunger for regulating the start of fuel injection. The horizontal control surfaces are formed within one or more of the two opposed ridges formed within the plunger defining a recessed channel there between. The horizontal control surfaces of the ridges regulate the opening and closing of the ports formed within the bushing of the injector. The horizontal control surfaces contribute to reduced wear and provide for accurate timing and fuel quantity delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Inventors: Ted Stewart, James Napier
  • Publication number: 20120020814
    Abstract: There is provided a control valve for a variable displacement compressor capable of directly connecting a plunger to a valve rod in a relatively easy way, and realizing an improvement in assemblability, reduction in costs, and the like. A connecting cylinder for directly connecting the plunger to the valve rod is provided. The valve rod is provided with a mushroom-like or flange-like part. The connecting cylinder is provided with an elastic locking piece which, by pushing the mushroom-like or flange-like part into the elastic locking piece, is pushed and opened outward in a radial direction so as for the mushroom-like or flange-like part to pass through the elastic locking piece, and which, after the passing of the mushroom-like or flange-like part, is restored to an original shape due to elasticity which the elastic locking piece has, and locks the mushroom-like or flange-like part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Tano, Yoshiyuki Kume
  • Publication number: 20110236226
    Abstract: One or more compressor feed streams are passed to one or more inlets of a first compressor. Each compressor feed stream passes through a compressor feed valve. The one or more compressor feed streams are in the first compressor to provide a compressed discharge stream at the outlet of the first compressor, while monitoring for a first indicator of a blocked outlet event of the first compressor and instructing the closure of the compressor feed valves (12, 22, 32, 42) when the first indicator of the first compressor (100) blocked outlet event is detected. This provides a method of operating the compressor for the reduction of relief lead during a blocked outlet event, and an apparatus therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Carolus Antonius Cornelis Van De Lisdonk, Joannes Alphonsus Maria Wiegerinck
  • Publication number: 20110129363
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a small-diameter opening (42b) is formed in the central portion of a valve element (42) included in a check valve (40) of a high pressure fuel pump (1). A needle valve (44) is provided integrally with a valve element (35a) of an electromagnetic spill valve (30), and the opening (42b) of the valve element (42) can be opened and closed with a tip portion of the needle valve (44). When the high pressure fuel pump (1) switches from the drive state to the stopped state, the needle valve (44) retreats from the opening (42b) of the valve element (42) in conjunction with the movement of the valve element (35a) of the electromagnetic spill valve 30, thus forming a micro gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuto Sakai, Tatsuhiko Akita, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Tatsumi Oguri
  • Patent number: 7572106
    Abstract: It is intended to prevent ink from leaking through the ink outlet of the ink rail while the printing press is at halt. To achieve this object, a motor control section 40 shown in FIG. 4 controls the rotation of a stepping motor 15 driving a plunger 13 and, every time the stepping motor 15 is stopped, the outer circumference 13c of the plunger 13 except a cut portion 13a blocks at least a discharge port 18, thereby enabling the pressure ink invading from an intake port 17 into the main hole 11 of a cylinder 12 to press the plunger 13 against the discharge port 18 opening into the inner circumferential face of the main hole 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Nagao, Akira Ueda
  • Publication number: 20070217926
    Abstract: The invention provides a fuel injection pump comprising a pump housing and a pumping arrangement associated therewith, wherein the pumping arrangement includes a pumping plunger and a plunger drive arrangement, the pumping plunger having a first end reciprocably received within a plunger bore provided in the pump housing and a second end coupled to the plunger drive arrangement. A biasing spring is provided having first and second spring ends, the first spring end coupled to a spring plate member associated with the pump housing and the second spring end coupled the plunger drive arrangement. The pump housing includes first and second portions aligned on a common axis, the upper portion including a further bore in which at least an upper portion of a locking pin is receivable and wherein the spring plate member defines support means for supporting a lower end portion of the locking pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventor: Onur Mehmet Tansug
  • Patent number: 7032375
    Abstract: In the disclosed secondary air supply system, an on-off valve (13) is driven by the discharge pressure of an air pump (12). A diaphragm chamber (44) is arranged in the neighborhood of a discharge outlet (54), and a part of the discharge air flows directly into the diaphragm chamber (44). Thus, the on-off valve (13) is positively operated even at high places with low atmospheric pressure and has a fast open/close response. As an electromagnetic actuator is not used to drive the on-off valve (13), the voltage supplied to the air pump (12) (DC motor (29)) does not drop inconveniently, and at the same time, the cost is reduced. Further, the number of the lead wires (65) is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiro Tsuzuki, Shinichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6974312
    Abstract: A pumping element for a hydraulic pump is provided. The pumping element includes a cylinder forming a compression chamber and having a discharge port. A piston having a pressure surface, a spill port, and a passageway connecting the pressure surface with the spill port is disposed in the cylinder for reciprocal movement between a first position and a second position. The pressure surface of the piston is adapted to increase the pressure of a fluid disposed in the compression chamber as the piston moves between the first position and the second position. The pressurized fluid flows through the discharge port of the cylinder. A metering sleeve is disposed around the piston and is configured to selectively cover the spill port as the piston reciprocates between the first and second positions. The metering sleeve has a groove that is adapted for fluid communication with the spill port as the piston reciprocates between the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Ibrahim A. Abdelrahman, Dennis H. Gibson
  • Patent number: 6901911
    Abstract: A hydraulic system, such as a fuel injection system, includes a fixed displacement pump with at least one pump piston. A sleeve surrounds each pump piston and provides the method by which fluid displaced by the pumping stroke of the pump piston is directed either to a high pressure area in the pump or a low pressure area. The sleeves are a portion of an electro-hydraulic controller that includes a mechanical bias to bias the pump to a high output position when a pressure differential between the outlet area and the inlet area is relatively low, such as at cold start up. This aspect facilitates priming of the system. In addition, the controller includes a biasing hydraulic surface in opposition to the mechanical biaser that serves to bias the pump to its low output position when the pressure differential between the outlet area and the inlet area is relatively high. This aspect prevents over pressurization in the event that electric current to the controller is disrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Michael D. Anderson, Dennis H. Gibson, Michael E. Pickell, Jerry A. Wear, Matthew D. Friede
  • Patent number: 6764284
    Abstract: A metering assembly includes a motor removably coupled to a pump using a flange clamp. An annular connection flange is provided at one end of the motor housing; and a cooperating annular connection flange is provided at one end of the pump housing. The connection flanges have opposed, mating end surfaces which are located in flush relation with each other. The flange clamp includes a pair of arcuate clamping arms which are pivotally supported at one end, and a locking member connecting the other, distal free ends of the arms together, and which can be manually tightened and untightened, so that the flange clamp can be easily located around and tightened down around the annular connection flanges of the pump and motor to create a mechanical face seal between the pump and motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventor: Robert E. Oehman, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20040076530
    Abstract: A pumping system for a fuel injection system includes a body defining a high pressure pumping chamber, a plunger, a high pressure outlet, a high pressure fluid line connecting the pumping chamber to the outlet, a control valve along the fluid line, and a valve and restriction arrangement along the fluid line. The valve and restriction arrangement includes a restriction and a valve body. The valve body is movable between an open position in which fuel flow from the pumping chamber is generally unrestricted by the restriction and a closed position in which fuel flow from the pumping chamber is significantly restricted by the restriction to store energy in the pumping chamber. Advantageously, the high pressure restriction concept may be utilized in a pumping system for various types of rate shaping, including boot injection and square injection, in addition to pilot operation and post injection operations, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Gregg R. Spoolstra, Robert D Straub
  • Patent number: 6662784
    Abstract: A pump assembly flows pressurized engine oil to HEUI fuel injectors in a diesel engine. The assembly includes an inlet throttle valve which controls the volume of oil flowed to the pump dependent upon the difference between the pump outlet pressure and a desired outlet pressure determined by an electronic control module for the diesel engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventor: Robert H. Breeden
  • Patent number: 6460510
    Abstract: A pump assembly flows pressurized engine oil to HEUI fuel injectors in a diesel engine. The assembly includes an inlet throttle valve which controls the volume of oil flowed to the pump dependent upon the difference between the pump outlet pressure and a desired outlet pressure determined by an electronic control module for the diesel engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Inventor: Robert H. Breeden
  • Patent number: 6450778
    Abstract: A pumping system for a fuel injection system includes a body defining a high pressure pumping chamber, a plunger, a high pressure outlet, a high pressure fluid line connecting the pumping chamber to the outlet, a control valve along the fluid line, and a valve and restriction arrangement along the fluid line. The valve and restriction arrangement includes a restriction and a valve body. The valve body is movable between an open position in which fuel flow from the pumping chamber is generally unrestricted by the restriction and a closed position in which fuel flow from the pumping chamber is significantly restricted by the restriction to store energy in the pumping chamber. Advantageously, the high pressure restriction concept may be utilized in a pumping system for various types of rate shaping, including boot injection and square injection, in addition to pilot operation and post injection operations, and others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Diesel Technology Company
    Inventors: Gregg R. Spoolstra, Robert D. Straub
  • Patent number: 6079957
    Abstract: A fluid pumping apparatus (10) includes a soft start valve (16) coupled with the outlet of a pump (14) driven by an electric motor (12) for reducing the startup current of the motor (12). The preferred valve (16) includes a fluid chamber (32), a valve operator in the nature of a ball (22) shiftable in the chamber (32) between the inlet (36) and a valve seat (48), and a biasing assembly (24) including an axially shiftable rod (54) and a spring (56) for biasing the rod (54) against the ball (22) in order to bias the ball (22) toward the chamber inlet (36). Upon startup, the valve (16) provides a reduced start pressure, less than the pump pressure under load, at the inlet (36) as the operator (22) moves toward the seat (48). The chamber (32) presents a volume sufficient for the valve (16) to provide the start pressure long enough for the motor (12) to achieve synchronous speed, thereby reducing motor startup current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventor: James E. Jirele
  • Patent number: 5603609
    Abstract: An axial piston pump has multiple pistons and cylinders with a spill port in each piston. A sleeve controls venting from the spill port and an inlet is provided to each cylinder, by way of a check valve from a fluid supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Microhydraulics, Inc.
    Inventor: George Kadlicko
  • Patent number: 5358389
    Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum pump. The pump includes a pump housing (10) having upper and lower cylindrical, partly liquid filled, compression chambers (11 and 12 respectively) which are separated from each other and in which an upper and a lower part (14, 15) of a piston (12) is movable. The piston has a passage (21) which is provided with a check valve and which provides communication between the upper and the lower chamber (11 and 12 respectively). The upper chamber communicates, via an opening (26) which is provided with a check valve, with a liquid filled de-aeration receptacle (27). The lower chamber (12), during a part of the movement of the piston, via an inlet (33), communicates with the space being evacuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Electrolux Research & Innovation Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Anders Haegermarck
  • Patent number: 5226794
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a pump piston in a bore of a pump cylinder, wherein the pump piston is rotatable for fuel control, and having a niche disposed in the pump cylinder for receiving a control slide, wherein the niche can be made by non-cutting shaping. The niche has a flat niche bottom, which changes into two oblique niche walls, which extend in two straight parallel niche walls facing one another, these parallel niche walls in turn, change into oblique faces and terminate in slideways, in which the control slide is guided against twisting by slide runners that simultaneously act as impact aprons. The niche is embodied by non-cutting shaping in such a way that its wall thickness relative to the cylindrical outer shape of the pump cylinder is embodied as virtually constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Ziehl, Josef Guentert, Manfred Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 5046928
    Abstract: In a compressor control system, a subcontroller is coupled with the master-controller in order to detect, when the bypass valve is being modulated, whether there is a deviation between the minimum inlet valve position assigned to the system and the actual inlet valve position. In such case, correction of the inlet valve position is automatically effected by the subcontroller in either direction to restore the minimum assigned inlet valve position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Westingshouse Electric Corp.
    Inventor: Clyde O. Peterson
  • Patent number: 4811716
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guntert, Johann Warga
  • Patent number: 4778358
    Abstract: Fuel injection pump with a cam drive 3 effecting the feeding movement of a pump piston 1 which is provided with a rotating part 1,2 being rotationally connected with the pump piston 1 and a drive ring 21 for the pump drive being rotatable by about a certain angle for the purpose of starting the feeding change, whereby the rotating of the drive ring 21 is performed by an injection adjustment bolt 22 which radially penetrates the drive ring and which is pivotable by means of an injection adjustment piston 23 mounted tangentially to the drive ring 21, whereby the injection adjustment bolt 22 is provided with axial front faces 41,43 coacting in both axial directions with support faces 24,25 which are independent from the injection adjustment bolt for its axial securing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Pape
  • Patent number: 4732546
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fehlmann, Dieter Junger
  • Patent number: 4714412
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has a shutoff device for the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, comprising a magnetic valve, which controls an intake bore to the work chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump further has a relief conduit, which is connected by an annular slide on the pump piston with the suction chamber in order to terminate the effective supply stroke of the pump piston. In order to assure reliable shutoff of the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, a check valve is further disposed in the connection between the pump work chamber and the suction chamber, which check valve is closed, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with the collaboration of the pressure drop from the suction chamber to the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Bohringer, Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4635605
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distributor type is proposed, in which the injection quantity is controlled by controlling the first outlet cross section D of a first relief line and the stroke-offset outlet C of a second relief line for the pump work chamber of the fuel injection pump by means of a control edge that is variable in accordance with load and/or rpm. To attain nonsupply of fuel within the intended supply stroke of the pump piston during idling and at low partial load, communication between the first and second relief lines is provided. The communication exists only for the duration of a predetermined stroke portion (h.sub.e) and is additionally controlled in accordance with load and/or rpm by controlling the following outlet of the second relief line, so that from a predetermined upper load range to full-load operation, the entire fuel quantity pumped by the pump piston over the effective supply stroke does in fact become injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Faupel, Klaus Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4630586
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed for internal combustion engines having a control slide displaceable on the pump piston. The control slide cooperates with an oblique groove on a pump piston. The oblique groove is arranged to communicate via a conduit with a pump work chamber. The pump piston is rotatable and has a longitudinal groove of predetermined length on its jacket surface, which groove is adapted to communicate with the oblique groove and with its end remote from the pump work chamber determines the supply onset of the pump by plunging into the control slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guntert, Walter Hafele
  • Patent number: 4597371
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a fuel injection apparatus for two-stroke engines and is especially for small engines of high-speed tools such as motor-driven chain saws, for example. It provides for the valve-controlled input of fuel into a pressure chamber of a housing and includes a spring-loaded pump piston journalled for reciprocatory movement in a bore to supply the fuel. The pump piston is sealed by an annular seal. For fuel induction, the pump piston has a passageway opening into the pressure chamber and a valve seat. The valve seat of the pump piston cooperates with a substantially free-flying sealing body for opening and closing the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl
    Inventors: Michael Wissmann, Hans Nickel
  • Patent number: 4594989
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is provided with an injection start adjustor, in accordance with which an injection adjusting piston is loaded by a pump number of revolutions-dependent fuel pressure of a feed pump against a spring force provided by two pressure springs, of which a first stronger spring in the region of lower number of revolutions acts against a second weaker spring and from a predetermined adjusting path and higher number of revolutions it acts alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4593668
    Abstract: An injection rate controller for a fuel injection pump comprises first and second valve ports formed in a pump housing so as to communicate with each other through a connection aperture, a spool valve movably accommodated within the first valve port and adapted to form communication between the first valve port and a high pressure chamber through a communication aperture under a specific condition of engine drive, a pressure control valve having its cross section contracted gradually in its axial direction and accommodated within the second valve port so as to be reciprocative in synchronism with a plunger, and a spill channel formed in the pump housing for connecting the second valve port on a fuel exhaust side to a pump house, whereby part of high pressure fuel within the high pressure chamber is guided, under the specific condition of engine drive, successively to the communication aperture, first valve port, connection aperture and second valve port, and is caused to escape into the pump house through the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Yuzawa
  • Patent number: 4587940
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schmid
  • Patent number: 4572137
    Abstract: A distributor type fuel injection pump of the present invention is of the Lucas type having a rotor rotatably driven by an engine but not reciprocated. Spill ports of the same number as that of the cylinders of the engine communicating with a pump chamber are opened at an equal peripheral interval on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor, and a spill ring to cover the spill ports is slidably mounted on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor. A spill groove is formed to extend axially on the inner peripheral surface of this spill ring. One edge of the spill groove, which initially meets the respective spill ports during the pressurizing step for pressurizing the fuel in the pump chamber, is inclined to the axis, and the other edge of the spill groove is parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Nakatsuka, Masahiko Miyaki, Akira Masuda
  • Patent number: 4561398
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump, particularly of the distributor type in which a piston is driven with reciprocating and rotary motion in order to effecting a combined action of pumping and distribution to the various cylinders of the internal combustion engine associated therewith, comprising a regulation control unit which receives signals as a function of which the pump throughput is to be varied, and which by means of an actuator correspondingly controls the movement of a delivery control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Spica S.p.A.
    Inventor: Manuel Roca Nierga
  • Patent number: 4541789
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for supplying fuel to the cylinders of the internal combustion engine comprises a housing, a cylindrical sleeve inserted in the housing and provided with a single filling opening communicated with a fuel-feeding passage, and a piston rotatably and reciprocally slidable in the cylindrical sleeve. An end face of the piston encloses with the closing element of the pump a pump operation chamber which is filled with fuel from the filling opening through a number of longitudinal grooves formed in the piston. The longitudinal grooves are in communication with a central relief opening by means of a plurality of radial connecting passages formed in the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Nothdurft
  • Patent number: 4537170
    Abstract: In a distributor type fuel injection pump in which fuel is sucked and pressurized by a reciprocating and rotating plunger, and the pressurized fuel is fed under pressure to each fuel injection nozzle from a distribution port by means of a distribution path, the improvement constituted by a delivery valve to be provided in the distribution path is omitted or a delivery valve having a large suction return quantity is provided, and an auxiliary port is provided in the plunger, and a groove for taking out the pressure when it is aligned with the auxiliary port is formed in the plunger barrel, and a uniform pressure slit is formed on the plunger which is at an identical position with that of the distribution port and being circumferentially offset by a proper angle, and the uniform pressure slit is communicated with the groove for taking out the pressure by means of a communicating path, and a pressure equalizing valve is provided in the communicating path, whereby non-continuous injection in a low speed zone can
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamada, Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 4526145
    Abstract: A pair of solenoids are disposed coaxially with and around a hollow cylindrical cut-off valve. The valve includes an inner non-magnetic sleeve and an outer permanent magnet sleeve. The cut-off valve slidably engages a fuel distributing plunger which injects fuel according to its axial reciprocation. The cut-off valve controls fuel injection quantity via timing of exposure of a fuel injection cut-off port in the plunger. When the pair of solenoids are energized in accordance with operating parameters of the engine, the cut-off valve is moved to a corresponding position along the plunger. A sensor senses the actual position of the cut-off valve for feedback control thereof. A pair of disc-like permanent magnets may be disposed opposite either extreme of travel of the cut-off valve in spaced relationship thereto. A pair of non-magnetic discs may be disposed in place of the pair of disc-like permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Honma, Iwane Inokuchi
  • Patent number: 4499883
    Abstract: A distributor type fuel-injection pump according to the present invention is provided with a rotor which is rotated by an engine. The rotor has a pair of plungers slidable in the radial direction of the rotor, and a fuel pumping chamber is defined between the plungers. The rotor is surrounded by a cam ring which reciprocates the plungers as the rotor rotates, thereby sucking fuel into the fuel pumping chamber and pressurizing the fuel therein. The fuel pressurized in the fuel pumping chamber is distributed to individual cylinders of the engine. A plurality of spill holes are formed in the rotor, communicating with the fuel pumping chamber and opening to the outer peripheral surface of the rotor. A control sleeve to open and close the spill holes is axially slidably fitted on the rotor. First and second spill grooves capable of communicating with the spill holes are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the control sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Miyaki, Akira Masuda, Toshimi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 4470763
    Abstract: An electrical motor controls the movement of a slider threaded over a threaded shaft of the motor. A sensor detects the position of the slider along the threaded shaft to control the movement of the motor which is also controlled by the operational state of the engine. The slider controls the position of a control sleeve fitted slidably over a fuel distributing plunger relative to the plunger so that the sleeve opens and closes a spill port provided in the side surface of the plunger in order to control the amount of fuel supplied to the engine cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company
    Inventor: Seishi Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 4469069
    Abstract: A fuel injection device injects pressurized fuel in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The device is provided with an accumulator. The accumulator accumulates part of the pressurized fuel to be injected in the combustion chamber in accordance with a given operating state of the engine, thereby obtaining an optimum injection rate throughout the entire operating range of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Masahiko Suzuki, Shizuo Kawai
  • Patent number: 4469068
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus injects a high-pressure fuel to each combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injection apparatus is provided with an accumulator which controls an amount of injection and an injection period of the high-pressure fuel compressed and supplied from the fuel pressure chamber in accordance with the operation of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Masahiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 4461259
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injection pump of the piston-distributor type which is mobile with reciprocating and axial rotary motion, and comprises a discharge chamber.Said chamber is maintained at a pressure substantially less than the feed pressure in order to determine rapid stoppage of the engine at the instant of closure of a solenoid valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: SPICA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Manuel Roca-Nierga
  • Patent number: 4449504
    Abstract: A distributor type fuel injection pump has an accumulator. When an internal combustion engine is in low-speed rotation or in low-load operation, the accumulator accumulates part of the fuel pressurized within a fuel compression chamber, thereby lowering the fuel injection rate. Also, the fuel injection pump is provided with compensator which operates simultaneously with the accumulator. While the injection rate is lowered by operation of the accumulator, the compensator extends the injection period to compensate for the reduction of injection quantity attributed to reduction of the injection rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1984
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Furuhashi, Yukinori Miyata, Osamu Hishinuma
  • Patent number: 4445476
    Abstract: The invention relates to an rpm governor of a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, in which a positive or negative adaptation is attainable by way of a hydraulically actuated piston. The fluid pressure determining the piston position is variable by means of a valve in an outflow conduit from the control pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4431381
    Abstract: A variable volume pump for satisfying the requirements of a hydraulic system while absorbing excess fluid volume when the full volume of fluid displacement from the pump is not required by the hydraulic system. The pump includes one or more lines of reciprocable pistons mounted radially around a crankshaft. The rotation of the crankshaft results in centrifugal flow of fluid through crankpin apertures for filling the pistons. Each piston includes a cylindrical tube portion which is slidably movable within a metering sleeve. The metering sleeve is spring biased towards a position for covering metering ports that are located around the periphery of the piston tube portion. When the fluid pressure in the hydraulic system acting on a metering sleeve abutment area exceeds the force of the metering sleeve spring, the metering sleeve moves thereby uncovering the piston metering ports. The movement of the metering sleeve permits the piston to travel an equal distance with its metering ports open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: J. I. Case Company
    Inventors: Eugene L. Falendysz, Eldon M. Brumbaugh
  • Patent number: 4426969
    Abstract: An overspeed safety means for fuel injection pumps of internal combustion engines in which an electrically actuatable valve is retained by an electromagnet provided in an electrical circuit in an open, retracted position which assures the normal operation of the engine or of the fuel injection pump. The electrical circuit includes a destructable loop which is located adjacent to a device deflectable in response to centrifugal force; when this device is deflected into a position corresponding to a specific threshold rpm, it severs the loop in the circuit, thus closing the valve and terminating injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4389167
    Abstract: In an hydraulic system an unloader valve is disposed in a supply line between a pump and an hydraulic accumulator. The unloader valve is operative to prevent the accumulator from being overcharged and to allow the pump to re-charge the accumulator should the pressure stored therein fall below a desired minimum value. The unloader valve incorporates a control valve comprising a spool and a pressure responsive slave which is operated by fluid pressure under the control of the control valve. The spool is movable between a first position in which the accumulator is isolated from the slave so that pump pressure is supplied to the accumulator and acts through a membrane on a trapped volume of gas under pressure, and a second position in which fluid pressure from the accumulator acts on the slave to unload the pump. The membrane of the accumulator acts directly on the spool to control movement of the spool between the two positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Limited
    Inventor: Glyn P. R. Farr
  • Patent number: 4284047
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the ratio of air to fuel quantity of the operational mixture to be introduced into the combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine which includes an air flow rate meter moving under differential pressure against a constant hydraulic restoring force, which air flow rate meter adjusts a metering cross section in a supply line leading to a fuel injection pump, with the pressure drop at the metering cross section being maintained constant with the aid of a differential pressure valve. The air flow rate meter is part of a known apparatus which controls the fuel component in accordance with the quantity of aspirated air and also controls the component of exhaust gas to be fed back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: RE32965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Schmid