Having Means To Effect Control At Different Positions Of Pumping Member Stroke Patents (Class 417/499)
  • Patent number: 11191892
    Abstract: A rotary pump for a fluid metering system is provided. The rotary pump reciprocates, and is reversed by a signal from a limit switch that is deflected by an actuator arm on a rotating sleeve of the pump system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro Pizzochero, J. Richard Gyory, Kenneth Focht, Justin Fisk, Joseph Gordon, Matthew Perry, Ajit D'Souza, Christopher Petroff
  • Patent number: 10557446
    Abstract: A liquid pump applicable in a fuel system such as a common rail fuel system includes a valve assembly having a valve stack with axially aligned components, dead volume, and vapor-distributing flow channels, for cavitation mitigation. An inlet valve meters a flow of liquid into the pump for pressurization by a plurality of reciprocating plungers operated by way of a rotating camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Stecklein, Joshua Carlson, Derik Warne, Rajesh Paranjape, Daniel Ibrahim, Glenn Cox, Zhenyu Li, Ryan Hinrichsen
  • Patent number: 9291137
    Abstract: A device for holding down a valve for metering fuel in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine is provided. The valve is inserted for fuel supply, using a connection piece, into a sealing region which presses against the connection piece at an outlet opening of a manifold fixed to the cylinder head. Between a first support shoulder on the side of the valve and a second support shoulder on the side of the manifold, the device has a clamped spring element for transferring a holding-down force onto the valve. In order to achieve an inward deflection of the spring element required for the transfer of the holding-down force, the spring element is prestressed to a prestressing force that is reduced with respect to the holding-down force, and the prestressed spring element is fixed on the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Dietmar Schmieder, Tilo Landenfeld
  • 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: 20090191068
    Abstract: A reservoir for a hydraulic pump system includes a reservoir body, an inner wall dividing an interior of the reservoir body into a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber, and a one-way valve connecting the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber. A piston assembly forms a first cylinder portion connected to the first pressure chamber and a second cylinder portion that is vented. The piston is movable within the cylinder under the influence of a biasing member to increase and decrease the overall volume of the first pressure chamber. The piston pressures a piston pump inlet connected to the first pressure chamber and maintains a constant pressure within the first pressure chamber under a variety of piston pump operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: CLARK EQUIPMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph A. St. Aubin, Knute K. Brock
  • Publication number: 20080240952
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a pump element a pump piston driven in a reciprocating motion and defining a pump work chamber into which fuel is aspirated from a fuel inlet during the intake stroke via an inlet valve, and from which fuel is positively displaced via an outlet valve during the pumping stroke. The inlet valve has a valve member which with a sealing face inclined relative to its longitudinal axis, cooperates with a valve seat disposed in a valve housing when the sealing face of valve member is lifted from the valve seat, a flow cross section between the valve member and the valve housing is opened between the fuel inlet and the pump work chamber. In the opened state, a region having the smallest flow cross section between the valve member and the valve housing is disposed downstream, of the sealing face of the valve member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Michael Mennicken, Peter Brendle, Falko Bredow
  • Publication number: 20080187449
    Abstract: A pump system includes a pump chamber and piston. The chamber has a cylindrical wall, an inlet port and a discharge port, both disposed in the wall axially spaced from the closed end and circumferentially spaced from each other. The piston is disposed in the pump chamber for reciprocating and rotational movement. The piston has at least one channel formed therein that is aligned with the inlet port during an intake stroke and is rotated out of alignment with the inlet port during a discharge stroke. The drive system includes a motor, a threaded shaft coupled to the motor and a coupling assembly coupling the shaft to the piston. The coupling assembly is configured to linearly move the piston when the piston is rotationally constrained and to rotationally move the piston when the piston is linearly constrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE SA
    Inventor: Thomas S. Breidenbach
  • Publication number: 20030209226
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump system specifically designed to provide a variety of fuels, including aviation kerosene-jet fuel, arctic fuels and diesel fuels to a single cylinder compression ignited engine using a single bore fuel injection pump and governor in a single housing. The fuel injection pump system includes a housing enclosing a fuel injection pump with governor system which is attached directly to the engine casing thereby using the engine's oil for lubrication of the fuel injection pump. The internally attached governor system enables the engine to idle smoothly at a predetermined speed and also provide high-speed protection by reducing fuel at predetermined RPM settings. A uniquely designed plunger and barrel in the fuel injection pump incorporates an anti-knock helix shaped plunger that changes the idle injection timing for sound attenuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventor: Steven R. Smith
  • Patent number: 6626148
    Abstract: A fuel pump comprising a plunger member reciprocable within a plunger bore, wherein the plunger member is cooperable with a drive arrangement to cause inward movement of the plunger member within the plunger bore to increase fuel pressure therein. The pump comprises an accumulator for fuel, and a valve arrangement controlling communication between the plunger bore and the accumulator to permit fuel under pressure to flow into the accumulator. The pumping plunger is moved in an outward direction under the action of the fuel pressure within the accumulator. The invention also relates to a fuel injection system comprising the fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Peter Cooke, John Roderick Jefferson
  • Patent number: 6575078
    Abstract: A fluid motor includes a plurality of fluid actuated pistons 13 extending radially outwards from a stator and each having a cam follower bearing 14 at its outer end. A rotor surrounds the stator and includes an inwardly facing drive cam profile engaged by the cam follower bearings 14 to advance the rotor relative to the stator. The drive cam profile 8 is substantially sinusoidal as a result of which substantially constant torque is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Motorvation International Limited
    Inventors: Lyndon J. Wright, Micheal Hibbert
  • Publication number: 20020192083
    Abstract: An axial piston pump with center inlet fill utilizes a hydrostatic thrust bearing and a hydrodynamic journal bearing to support a rotating wobble type drive plate connected to a drive shaft. The rotation of the drive plate causes a plurality of parallel pistons to reciprocate up and down. The pumping chambers of a portion of the pistons are fluidly connected via a center fill passage to the inlet defined by the pump housing. Simultaneously, the pumping chambers of a different portion of the pistons are fluidly connected to the outlet via a high pressure actuation fluid outlet passage. The center fill passage exploits centrifugal forces to assist, rather than resist, the supply of low pressure fluid to the pistons, especially when rotating at higher speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Eric S. Keyster, Dennis Gibson
  • Patent number: 6358025
    Abstract: A hydraulic rotating axial piston engine having a housing, enclosing a cylinder barrel journaled in the housing for rotation around a barrel axis. The housing also has a number of circumferentially arranged cylinders with a number of pistons reciprocating between two defined end positions. The pistons cooperate with an angled plate in order to obtain the reciprocating movement. The axial piston engine has an input/output shaft, and the cylinder barrel has channels connecting each cylinder to port(s) in the cylinder barrel. The ports alternatively act as inlet and outlet ports. The housing has an inlet and outlet channel, each having a kidney-shaped port, facing towards the inlet and outlet ports of the cylinder barrel. The kidney-shaped ports communicate with a number of the ports at the barrel. The cylinder barrel ports extend in both directions outside the cylinders in the two circumferential directions of the cylinder barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Parker Hannifin AB
    Inventor: Ingvar Johansson
  • Patent number: 6325051
    Abstract: In a high-pressure fuel supplying apparatus, fuel is pumped from a fuel tank by a feed pump into a fuel gallery of a high-pressure pump via a low-pressure fuel passage. The low-pressure fuel passage can include a reservoir chamber that is formed by vertically upwardly expanding a portion of the passage located near the fuel gallery. The reservoir chamber is located above an upper end of the fuel gallery in a vertical direction. A communication passage, forming a portion of the low-pressure fuel passage, can be connected at one end thereof to an upper end portion of the fuel gallery. Another end portion of the communication passage extends diagonally upward from the upper end portion of the fuel gallery, and connects to the reservoir chamber. According to other embodiments, the reservoir chamber can be omitted as long as a portion of the communication passage is provided vertically above an upper end of the fuel gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuzuru Oomori, Masanobu Ohmi
  • Patent number: 6196198
    Abstract: A regulating device (1) for controlling the delivery flow in a motor-fuel injection pump is provided with a pump cylinder (2), a pump piston (3) with longitudinal groove and control edge, a piston foot (4) and an adjusting sleeve (5), the piston foot (4) being accommodated in the adjusting sleeve (5) in such a way that it is freely movable in axial direction. The adjusting sleeve (5) has an elongated thin-walled tubular profile (6), a regulating turning-lever plate (7) joined to the tubular profile (6), and a regulating turning lever (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Motorefabrik Hatz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Guenter Kampichler
  • Patent number: 5779454
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel pump comprising a housing including therein a high pressure fuel chamber, a fuel outlet valve communicating with the high pressure fuel chamber and being operable to prevent fuel inflow and to permit fuel outflow when the fuel pressure is above a predetermined level, a fuel inlet valve communicating with the high pressure chamber and being operable to prevent fuel outflow and to permit fuel inflow, and a bearing bore extending from the high pressure chamber, a rod slideably and sealingly supported in the bearing bore for movement relative to a retracted position, and structure located in the housing for displacing the rod from the retracted position and in the direction toward the high pressure fuel chamber through an initial stroke length without encountering substantial resistance and thereafter displacing the rod through a subsequent stroke length which is effective to highly pressurize the fuel in the high pressure fuel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: FICHT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gregory J. Binversie, Wolfgang Heimberg, Theodore J. Holterman, Christopher R. Irgens, Francis A. McGinnity, Philip D. McDowell, Richard T. Tunkieicz, Lee A. Woodward, Wolfram Hellmich
  • Patent number: 5647326
    Abstract: In a fuel injection pump equipped with a plunger producing preflow effect, pressurized fuel is delivered at least in the low engine speed region by driving the plunger using a region of a cam on the decreasing velocity side of its maximum velocity point. As a result, the fuel delivery rate is reduced during low-speed engine operation and increased during high-speed engine operation, providing an ideal fuel delivery rate for an indirect-injection type engine equipped with swirl chambers or auxiliary chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kato, Hidekatsu Yashiro, Tsuyoshi Kodama
  • Patent number: 5638793
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines in which to control the fuel injection quantities with the internal combustion engine cold, a first control edge is provided. For controlling the start of fuel injection with the internal combustion engine hot, a second control edge and a third control edge are provided. Assigned to respective control edges are provided a first and second oblique control edge, by means of which an effective pump piston feed stroke is controlled according to the rotary position of the pump piston. To switch off the internal combustion engine, in the region of transition from the first control edge to the second control edge the assignment of this second control edge to the second oblique control edge is provided in such a way that injection ceases on account of an overlap with a control port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Rapp, Alexander Tyrolt, Karsten Hummel, Werner Faupel, Hans-Joachim Peters
  • Patent number: 5591021
    Abstract: A fuel-injection pump for internal combustion engines, particularly an in-line injection pump for diesel engine, with a control bore in the pump cylinder and with an upper control edge for determining the start of feed and an oblique spill edge for determining the end of feed. The pump piston is rotated about its longitudinal axis in order to set the desired feed quantity, for the purpose of achieving a better regulating behavior of the system as a whole, comprising the fuel-injection pump, feed-quantity regulator and internal-combustion engine. The spill edge is subdivided, along its run over a part of the circumference of the pump piston, into portions with different angles of inclination (.alpha..sub.1, .alpha..sub.2) to the axis of the pump piston. The control-edge portion having the large angle of inclination (.alpha..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guentert, Karsten Hummel, Guido Kampa, Axel Paetz, Karel Kolar
  • Patent number: 5562428
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump driven by an electric coil, the pump including a poppet valve slidable within a fuel passage in an armature structure and relative thereto in response to movement of the armature structure relative to the pump housing and through a stroke length between a first position permitting flow in a fuel passage from a low pressure fuel chamber to a high pressure fuel chamber, and a second position preventing fuel flow between the high and low pressure fuel chambers, and comprising a head portion located in the high pressure fuel chamber and including a valve surface which is spaced from the valve seat when the poppet valve is in the first position permitting fuel flow from the low pressure fuel chamber to the high pressure fuel chamber, and which is sealingly engaged with the valve seat when the poppet valve is in the second position preventing fuel flow between the high and low pressure fuel chambers, an adjustment member extending in a bore in the housing wall and being engageable with the pop
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventors: Francis V. Bailey, William R. Krueger
  • Patent number: 5494420
    Abstract: A self-aligning connection between a rotary and reciprocating pump piston allows relative radial movement between the pump piston and the rotary cam. The self-aligning connection is formed by a pin carried by the rotary cam and is positioned in a radial recess located in the pump piston. An improved drive for the rotary cam is perfected by a cam follower pin supported from the housing by a roller bearing race which is pressed fitted within a bore formed by the pump housing. The pump piston abuts a TEFLON pad located in the pump cylinder to reduce dead space and insure that the pump produces accurate volumes. The employment of different plastic materials between the rotary cam and the pump housing provides an improved bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Diba Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Mawhirt, Jack M. Olich, Mark Huza
  • Patent number: 5487651
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a pump piston guided in a cylinder liner and defining in the cylinder liner a pump work chamber, which piston cooperates with a control opening in the wall of the cylinder liner to control the high pressure delivery. To control the supply onset, the pump piston has on its face end three control edges offset from each other along the length of the piston; a zero supply quantity region is provided between the first control edge, which controls a very early supply onset, and the remaining control edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guentert, Hans Brett
  • Patent number: 5398658
    Abstract: Mounting and connection arrangement for a fuel injection pump in large reciprocating internal combustion engines, especially in large diesel engines with several cylinders, which include a separate injection pump (1) for separate cylinders and in which the injection pump (1) is supported to a console support (3) or to a corresponding element forming an integral part of or fixed to the engine block. The injection pump (1) is arranged to be fixed on the console support (3) by making use of a support unit (2), which is also provided with guiding members (4,7,8,9) for one or several control or pressure medium systems in association with the operation of the engine. These guiding members can include channels (7,8) for feeding fuel into the pump, guiding members (4) for valve lifting means (5) and/or lubrication channels (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Wartsila Diesel International Ltd. Oy
    Inventor: Olavi Mesimaki
  • Patent number: 5396871
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that moves in a cylinder liner and defines a pump work chamber with the cylinder. The piston has two control edges that cooperate with a control opening in the cylinder liner. One, control edge is oblique, disposed on the jacket face and communicates continuously with the pump work chamber which controls the end of supply. A first upper control edge formed by the face end of the pump piston, controls the supply onset upon overtaking the control opening. For a load- and temperature-dependent shift of the supply onset toward early, the face end of the pump piston has a first region (B), axially indented in the direction of the cam drive, forming a second control edge, which is separated from the flat region (A) on the face end by a longitudinal groove and in the first region a second region (C), indented via shoulders is disposed in turn in the direction of the cam drive, with a third control edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Faupel, Dieter Heck, Dieter Seher
  • Patent number: 5364243
    Abstract: In a fuel injection pump including a plunger barrel provided with a fuel pressure chamber, a plunger which reciprocates within this plunger barrel to take in fuel from a fuel reservoir chamber and deliver this fuel from the fuel pressure chamber under pressure, and a timing sleeve which is positioned between the plunger and the plunger barrel such that it slidably mates with the outside of this plunger, and on which a spill port is formed; a fuel injection pump is characterized by an impingement-cushioning cavity being formed on the surface of the inside wall of the plunger barrel in a position opposite the spill port of the timing sleeve along with the peripheral surface of the timing sleeve being formed in a certain shape corresponding to this impingement-cushioning cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayori Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 5322423
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a pump piston driven to reciprocate by a cam drive, guided axially in a cylinder bore of a cylinder bush in which with one face end the pump piston defines a pump work chamber. The control piston has on a jacket face an oblique control edge that cooperates with a control opening in the cylinder bore. This control opening is embodied in an oval shape for the sake of a slight prepumping effect at the injection onset and a rapid opening at the end of injection, and is disposed obliquely enough in the cylinder liner so that a longitudinal axis of the oval extends approximately parallel to the oblique control edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Heck, Josef Guentert
  • Patent number: 5299919
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel injector system including a high pressure fuel pump useable with a pressure booster, a pressure stabilizer with a high speed tandem actuated distributor and a fuel having a fuel injector with high pressure fuel admisstion passages and low pressure fuel return passages with a needle valve hydraulically operated by high pressure fuel from the high pressure fuel admission passage by a distributor valve which selectively directs a hydraulic pressure fuel against one side or the other of a piston body forming part of the needle valve whereby the needle valve is urged to a position closing discharge orifices or position opening discharge orifices the distributor valve being controlled by an electronic actuator wherein the injector system is designed with unique floating valve pistons in the components, the components being useable separately or together in the integrated systems preferred for high pressure, high speed operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Inventors: Marius A. Paul, Ana Paul
  • Patent number: 5286178
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that is guided axially and rotationally movably in a cylinder bore of a cylinder liner and that with a face end defines a pump work chamber. The fuel injection pump pumps a quantity of fuel that is divided into a preinjection quantity and a main injection quantity. On a jacket face, this pump piston has known oblique grooves for the high-pressure pumping diversion process, and also a recess, which cooperates with an annular groove in the cylinder bore and with a control opening which discharges into a low-pressure chamber, and on its end face the piston has a cutout formed by two different, deep shoulders; the cutout is recessed within the annular groove continuously and cooperates with a first control opening that discharges into the low-pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schaef
  • Patent number: 5285758
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a cup-shaped pump housing and a pump head enclosing the housing. The pump head has a cylinder in which a pump piston, which is set into simultaneous reciprocating and rotary motion by a cam drive, in the course of which it simultaneously acts as a distributor, encloses a pump work chamber that is filled with fuel upon an intake stroke and communicates with one of a plurality of injection lines upon the supply stroke. The resultant reaction forces and moments are supported according to the invention via a roller race supported directly on the pump head, and as a result the induction of force to the pump housing can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf-Gerhard Fiedler, Reiner Kuenzel, Helmut Tschoeke, Mohammad-Ali Khosrawi
  • Patent number: 5266014
    Abstract: A prestroke adjustment mechanism for a fuel injection pump comprises a U-shaped lever provided on the outer surface of the pump housing for rotating a timing control rod of the injection pump and a rotation limit pin provided on the same outer surface for limiting the rotation of the U-shaped lever. The timing control rod is linked with a control sleeve on the pump plunger for adjusting the prestroke. By limiting the rotation of the U-shaped lever, the rotation limiting pin limits the height of the control sleeve for ensuring establishment between the top of the control sleeve and the bottom of the upper section of the plunger barrel of a gap for dissipating the force of the spill jet during fuel spill. As a result, the downward force of internal turbulence produced by the spill jet is dissipated, thereby preventing the control sleeve from slipping downward and ensuring stable and reliable prestroke adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Tohru Yokota
  • Patent number: 5253983
    Abstract: An axial piston pump, for pumping an operating oil in a hydraulic system, comprises a rotary cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores formed therein and disposed at regular intervals around a rotational axis thereof. Each bore is opened at a bottom thereof through a hole formed in an end wall of the cylinder block, a plurality of pistons being slidably received in the bores, respectively. Further, the pump comprises a fixed slant cam plate engaged with the pistons during a rotation of the block, for causing a reciprocation of the pistons within the cylinder bores, and a fixed valve plate having a suction port and a discharge port. The block end wall is resiliently pressed against the valve plate so that the holes of the bores are operatively connected with the suction and discharge ports of the valve plate during the rotation of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Kunifumi Goto, Wataru Minami
  • Patent number: 5230615
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for injecting compressed fuel to an engine through a reciprocative motion of a plunger includes a vertically-elongated plunger barrel, and a plunger having a shaft portion which is vertically and reciprocatively slidable along the inner space of the plunger barrel, at least one of the inner wall of the plunger barrel and the peripheral surface of the shaft portion of the plunger being formed with an oil groove for temporarily storing oil which ascends from a cam chamber through a reciprocative motion of the plunger, wherein the oil groove has at least two side walls one at the upper side of the oil groove and one at the lower side of the oil groove, and wherein lower side wall is downwardly slanted to return the stored oil to the cam chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventors: Ryokiti Yoshino, Hiroaki Nozaki, Ken Unoki
  • 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: 5226795
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, having a reciprocating piston that defines a pump work chamber in a pump cylinder and that on its jacket face has a control recess communicating with the pump work chamber, and a control slide is displaceable on the pump piston in order to control the high-pressure pumping. This control slide, which cooperates with the control recess on the pump piston, is actuated via an adjusting lever disposed on an adjusting lever shaft; the adjusting lever shaft is moved by an adjusting lever mounted on it outside the housing. This adjusting lever can be pivoted between two stops; according to the invention, these stops are disposed on a base plate that simultaneously acts as a flange of the adjusting lever shaft bearing bush and that can be moved relative to the pump housing via oblong slots in order to adjust the stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Kraemer
  • Patent number: 5224846
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a reciprocating pump piston that is guided in a cylinder liner, having a control slide that is axially displaceable on the pump piston, inside a lateral recess of the cylinder liner, and is moved via an adjusting shaft that is located in a transverse conduit disposed in a pump housing transversely to the cylinder axis. The transverse conduit intersects the housing bore that receives the cylinder liner in the region of a recess that form a partial suction chamber, forming a through opening for a lever of the control slide, and it also serves to drain fluid from the partial suction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Kirschner, Uwe Kuhn, Norbert Kaiser
  • Patent number: 5221196
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a reciprocating pump piston and an annular slide displaceable on it, with a control bore that cooperates with a control recess on the pump piston, the recess communicates with a pump work chamber via a conduit. By means of location of control bores in the annular slide, the outflow stream is provided with the longest possible path until the outflow stream strikes the wall of the cylinder liner, in order to attain the freest and most unhindered possible stream course with reduced turbulence. Because the outflow stream strikes the hardened surface of the niche wall of the cylinder liner obliquely, cavitation damage is greatly attenuated or locally limited to sites of maximum resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Harbig, Wolfgang Eckell, Gottfried Kuehne, Johann Warga, Theodor Stipek, Heinz Lauterbach
  • Patent number: 5219280
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekatsu Yashiro
  • Patent number: 5217356
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Kohtaroh Ryuhzaki
  • Patent number: 5211549
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Kraemer
  • Patent number: 5171133
    Abstract: A reciprocable plunger fuel injection pump has a pump body and a plunger slidable in a bore in the body. The plunger is coupled to an arm extending outwardly from the body and movable about the axis of the plunger in order to vary the angular setting of the plunger. A spring clip partly embraces a cylindrical portion of the pump body. The clip defines an abutment surface for engagement by the arm to set the arm and plunger at a predetermined angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Lucas Industries
    Inventor: Gerald S. Thomas
  • Patent number: 5135367
    Abstract: A fuel injector for diesel engines, having at least one pump plunger (1), which is sealingly guided in a plunger bushing (2) and, together with said bushing, defines a high-pressure space (5). The pump plunger (1) has an internal suction valve (6) which creates a fuel injection pump having a small dead volume in the high-pressure region and low construction cost. The suction valve (6) may be provided with a cone-shaped compression spring (7) disposed in the high-pressure region (5) or with a stroke limiting stop (28, 28a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Finsterwalder, Reda Rizk, Hans G. Michels
  • Patent number: 5074766
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine has at least one pump piston movably disposed in a piston sleeve in a pump housing. The piston includes a first arrangement operable during a stroke in a suction direction for drawing fuel from a suction side of the pump. The piston further includes a second arrangement operable during a stroke in a delivery direction for first cutting off a connection to the suction side of the pump and then initiating delivery from a working chamber into a pressure line. The piston and piston sleeve are provided with a control arrangement which divides the fuel injection into pre-injection and main injection phases. At least one pressure limiting arrangement is provided and is associated with the working chamber. The limiting arrangement is operable during the pre-injection phase when a predetermined engine speed is reached for maintaining the pressure in the working chamber and in the pressure line at a predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Motorenfabrik Hatz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans A. Kochanowski
  • Patent number: 5071324
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a barrel mounted in a barrel mounting hole in a pump body. The barrel has a cylinder hole and a valve mounting hole which are coaxial with the barrel. The inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole and the inner peripheral surface of said valve mounting hole are interconnected by an annular shoulder surface. A plunger is slidably received in the cylinder hole, and a delivery valve is mounted in the valve mounting hole. The delivery valve includes a valve seat, and a valve holder which is tightly threaded into the valve mounting hole, so that the valve seat is firmly held between the valve holder and the shoulder surface of the barrel. One end face of said valve seat is held in direct contact with the barrel shoulder surface under a high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Masayori Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 5067880
    Abstract: A fuel injector for diesel engines, having at least one pump plunger (1), which is sealingly guided in a plunger bushing (2) and, together with said bushing, defines a high-pressure space (5). The pump plunger (1) has an internal suction valve (6) which creates a fuel injection pump having a small dead volume in the high-pressure region and low construction cost. The suction valve (6) may be provided with a cone-shaped compression spring (7) disposed in the high-pressure region (5) or with a stroke limiting stop (28, 28a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Kloeckner-Humboldt-Duetz AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Finsterwalder, Reda Rizk, Hans G. Michels
  • Patent number: 5044889
    Abstract: A valveless, positive displacement metering pump is provided by the invention. Such a pump includes a housing, a working chamber within the housing, a piston within the working chamber, the piston including a duct defined by a portion of its outer surface, one or more inflow ports communicating with the working chamber, one or more outflow ports communicating with the working chamber, and a drive cylinder for simultaneously rotating the piston and causing it to move in back and forth strokes within the working chamber. The housing is rotatable with respect to the piston to adjust the timing of the fluid communication between the duct and the inflow and outflow ports, respectively. Such adjustments in timing allow the flow rate of the pump to be fine tuned, and allow each port to experience a partial suction as well as a partial discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Dennis Pinkerton
  • Patent number: 5032066
    Abstract: A control device for a piston of a fuel injection pump actuated by a push rod and a cam, wherein the cam profile successively comprises: a slope which causes the piston to advance rapidly; a slope which causes the piston to return slowly until it covers a fuel supply port; a slope which causes the piston to return rapidly; a level stage; and, finally, a slope which causes the piston to continue the return stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Inventor: Didier Baty
  • Patent number: 5020979
    Abstract: The invention is drawn to a pump having a piston which is reciprocable within a cylinder. The cylinder has a closed end including a liquid outlet and port means to introduce a liquid into the closed end of the cylinder. The piston has on its peripheral surface a helical groove means fluidly connected to the closed end of the cylinder and a second groove to communicate the port with the closed end of the cylinder when the piston is in a position between a location in which the port directly communicates with the closed end of the cylinder and a location in which the port communicates with the helical groove means. The second groove in the peripheral surface of the piston is located between the helical groove means and the part of the piston adjacent to the closed end of the cylinder. The second groove also communicates with a cutaway portion in the wall of the cylinder that is coaxial with the axis of the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Lucas industries PLC
    Inventor: James M. A. Askew
  • Patent number: 5015160
    Abstract: An injection pump for internal combustion engines having a pump piston bushing, a pump piston, guided in the bushing, including control edges for controlling the beginning and end of an injection event. The control edges cooperate with control bores provided in the wall of the pump piston bushing that discharge into a reservoir chamber surrounding the pump piston bushing; fuel can be delivered into this chamber under pressure, and excess fuel, or fuel overflowing at the end of an injection event, can be diverted from it. For the fuel delivery, a suction valve opening to the reservoir chamber is connected to the reservoir chamber, while for the fuel diversion, a check valve in the form of a pressure maintenance valve that opens away from the reservoir chamber is connected to the reservoir chamber. This pressure maintenance valve may be preceded on the inlet side by a throttle restriction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jaroslaw Hlousek, Gerhard Lehner, Theodor Stipek
  • Patent number: 4975029
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine includes at least one pump piston movably disposed in a piston sleeve which piston sleeve is fitted in a pump housing. A first arrangement associated with the piston draws fuel through suction ports into a working chamber of the pump during a piston suction stroke. A second arrangement associated with the piston cuts off a connection to a suction side of the pump and thereafter initiates a delivery from the working chamber to an injection nozzle, which delivery is divided into two phases. The second arrangement is operable during a piston delivery stroke. A third arrangement controls the phases and includes the suction ports and an inside edge of the piston sleeve. The inside edge of the piston sleeve is provided on a planar end face of a guide bore of the sleeve and faces the working chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Motorenfabrik Hatz GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Ernst Hatz
  • Patent number: 4975030
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprising a pump plunger displaceable in a pump cylinder for delivering fuel to a plurality of injection locations, and elements for controlling fuel injection quantity. The controlling elements include a relief channel in the pump plunger for communicating a pump working space defined by the pump plunger with a relief chamber, an outlet port on an outer surface of the pump plunger for communicating the relief channel with the relief chamber, at least two connecting cross-sections of different shape for communicating the relief chamber with the outer port, and a slide valve displaceable along the outer surface of the plunger and having a control edge for controlling flow of fuel through the connecting cross-sections during a delivery stroke of the pump plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Bofinger, Claus Maier, Gerhard Reichan
  • Patent number: 4964789
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a pump piston that is axially and rotationally movable in a cylinder and has a control edge and a diversion edge that defines a recess in the jacket face of the pump piston. To limit and adjust the effective supply stroke, the control edge and the diversion edge cooperate with a control opening in the cylinder, which opening communicates with a fuel-filled low-pressure chamber. To prevent cavitation damage during the diversion process, a pre-diversion groove, which extends approximately parallel to the diversion edge, is provided in the portion of the jacket face of the pump piston defined by the control edge and the diversion edge. It is disposed at a distance from the diversion edge such that immediately before the entry of the diversion edge into the control opening, representing the onset of diversion, it connects the pump work chamber, which is at high pressure, to the control opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Schueler, Heinz Lauterbach, Helmut Tschoeke, Richard Kinzel, Theodor Stipek