Patents Represented by Attorney Edwin E. Greigg
  • Patent number: 4709528
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing bag packages which is equipped with a device for fastening dispensing fitments to the bags. The fastening device has a holder for supplying one dispensing fitment at a time to the inside of the tube, formed from a strip of packaging material, and a sealing stamp, which are disposed in the vicinity of a tube former such that they are displaceable toward one another. The holder, which receives one dispensing fitment at a time from a conveyor device, engages the inlet opening of the tube former, while contrarily the sealing stamp is movable from the opposite side toward the outside of the tube, below the apex of a collar of the tube former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Minne Merkus
  • Patent number: 4709673
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus comprising a radial piston distributor pump is described, which has first pump pistons in a first radial plane and second pump pistons in a second radial plane the pump pistons being diametrically opposite one another and those of the first radial plane being offset in the rotational direction from those of the second radial plane, and the pump pistons of both radial planes being driven by a common cam ring. The fuel positively displaced by the pump pistons is delivered via a common pressure line to a first distributor opening and a second distributor opening, which are disposed spaced apart by 135.degree. from one another on the jacket face of the distributor of the radial piston pump and which supply fuel injection lines with a pre-injection quantity and a main injection quantity of fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Babitzka
  • Patent number: 4709969
    Abstract: A brake pressure booster for vehicle brake systems, which can also be used to realize anti-skid functions, including a displaceable element, in the form of a permanent magnet, disposed in a pressure chamber and acted upon indirectly by the master brake cylinder to apply pressure to a brake fluid communicating with a wheel brake cylinder. The pressure chamber is embodied such that with increasing or decreasing brake pressure of the master brake cylinder, a transfer storage of potential energy that simultaneously increases in one or the other direction takes place, whereby it becomes possible to raise or lower the pressure of the wheel brake cylinders in the manner of boosting. Furthermore, by providing an electrical exciter coil, influence can also be exerted upon the boosting action of the brake pressure booster by an additional influence upon a magnetic position in order to generate anti-skid functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Heess, Anton van Zanten
  • Patent number: 4708706
    Abstract: A package wrapper shaping apparatus which has lateral folders and folding slides for wrapping a blank around a shaping mandrel. In order to guide the free portions of the blank in a defined manner in this process and to put their outer edge portions on one side of the shaping mandrel in contact with one another, the lateral folders and the folding slides are embodied in comb-like fashion with teeth, so that they mesh alternately with one another in pairs as they fold over the end portions of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Doderer, Heinz Kiefer, Willi Krieger
  • Patent number: 4708114
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which for normal engine operation the control of the injection quantity and of the beginning and end of supply for injection is effected by means of a control slide which is axially displaceable on the pump piston and in which a radial bore (connecting conduit) controlled by the pump piston is present in the pump cylinder, with which radial bore the pump work chamber can be made to communicate with the suction chamber of the pump. The latest end of supply for the injection is determined in that after a predetermined stroke of the pump piston a relief conduit is arranged to coincide with the radial bore and thereby relieve the pump work chamber. Because the radial bore is only blocked after a pre-stroke has been executed by the pump piston the earliest supply onset also can be controlled with this bore as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guntert, Walter Hafele, Helmut Tschoke
  • Patent number: 4708566
    Abstract: A stack conveyor and handler in the form of a crane for stacking rod-like material in a warehouse or storage system or the like, in which the load-bearing beam is vertically movable on guides of the crane and has load pickup devices in the form of prongs or the like. Prongs identical to these prongs and located opposite them are firmly connected to the beam, and clamping mandrels for gripping the material are movable substantially vertically between opposed prongs. The load-bearing beam is supported such that it is rotatable, about an axis that is horizontal as well as parallel to the corridors between stacks, between at least two operating positions, in which the prongs extend in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Keuro Maschinenbau Gesellschaft mit beschrankter, Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Stolzer, Dieter Spath
  • Patent number: 4706626
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having in-line pumping elements, having pump pistons on which control slides are axially displaceable, in particular for adjusting the injection onset; in a relatively greatly displaced position, these control slides being arranged to interrupt the injection. The control slides are moved by first and second governor rods, each part of which carries one group of driver members of the control slides, and both governor rods are rotatable relative to one another. As a result, it is possible for normal operation to be controlled by the one governor rod, while at the same time an appropriate number of engine cylinders is shut off by the other governor rod, in that the associated control slides are displaced into respective corresponding positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Hafele, Josef Guntert
  • Patent number: 4705210
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuatable valve is proposed, which serves as a fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines. The valve includes a valve housing of ferromagnetic material, at least one magnetic coil mounted on a core of ferromagnetic material, and an armature arranged to actuate a valve closing element which cooperates with a valve seat. The armature protrudes beyond a ferromagnetic annular disk supported on a support shoulder of the valve housing and a stop disk of hard, nonmagnetic material is arranged in the annular groove of the annular disk such that when the armature is resting on the stop disk, a remnant air gap is formed in the axial direction between the annular disk and the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Graser, Werner Langer, Reiner Nowak
  • Patent number: 4705005
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, in which at least during normal engine operation the injection quantity is effected by controlling a fuel quantity control conduit which is provided in the pump piston in communication with the pump work chamber, via a control slide that is displaceable on the pump piston in cooperation with fuel quantity control openings, the axial position of the control slide determining the onset and end of supply. The earliest possible supply onset is further determined by a supply onset control opening disposed in the pump piston, which opening is sealed by entering into the cylinder liner after a pre-determined stroke extent has been traversed. Subsequent to this entry, an injection pressure can build up in the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guntert, Walter Hafele, Helmut Tschoke
  • Patent number: 4705584
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of applying polymeric materials to the surface of a substrate by providing a layer of polymeric material on a release sheet and then subsequently transferring the polymeric material from the release sheet by the application of heat and pressure sufficient to effect adhesion of the polymeric material to the substrate and thereafter peeling the release sheet from the polymeric material. The invention is particularly concerned with the application of polymeric materials being capable of a secondary reaction at the time of application to the substrate or subsequent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Jacob Schlaepfer & Co., AG
    Inventor: Alfred E. Lauchenauer
  • Patent number: 4704591
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuable fuel injection valve, which serves to supply fuel to mixture-compressing internal combustion engines having externally supplied ignition. The fuel injection valve includes a base plate into which pole pieces having bent poles are inserted. Magnetic coils are fitted onto the pole pieces. A first permanent magnet is inserted between the poles and a second permanent magnet is disposed between the magnetic conductor elements disposed on the other end of the pole pieces. Beginning at the base plate, the magnetic coils and the pole pieces are provided with a sprayed-on plastic jacket. The plastic jacket is inserted together with the base plate into an internal housing bore of a valve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Udo Hafner
  • Patent number: 4703585
    Abstract: A device for opening and closing vehicle doors is proposed, in which pivot levers 15, 16 operate between the vehicle door 10 and the vehicle body 11 and with their ends engage longitudinally displaceable guide elements 25, 26, which run on guide rails 23, 24 located on the vehicle and on the vehicle door 10. The pivot levers 15, 16 indirectly engage the body 11 of the vehicle via an intermediary part 14, and the intermediary part 14 is pivotably attached to the body 11 in the standard door stops 12. The pivot levers 15, 16 form a lever system in the manner of a multi-member kinematic chain, and the kinematics of the lever system can be modified by means of an actuating device such that the vehicle door 10 can function in either the normal swiveling mode or in a sliding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Inventor: Hermann Koch
  • Patent number: 4703730
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a control device is proposed in which a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity is placed at an adjustable spring which is not supported by the main power source of a governor lever. The control lever is subjected to lesser forces provided by the intended auxiliary springs, starting springs or idling springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4701990
    Abstract: A self-securing ball-and-socket joint which has a ball head integrally formed on a rod, an outer structural part having a bore that pivotably receives the ball head and a radially elastic CIRCLIP brand retaining ring as well as a separate auxiliary assembly tool for the retaining ring. In the outer structural part beside the center of the ball head, there is a circumferential groove having a support face for the retaining ring. When the ball-and-socket joint is assembled, the retaining ring is first inserted into the circumferential groove. Then the auxiliary assembly tool is inserted into the bore. At its initial end the auxiliary assembly tool is embodied in the manner of a centering and expansion tool, so that it aligns the retaining ring with respect to the circumferential groove and finally forces it into this groove. Upon further displacement of the auxiliary assembly tool, the retaining ring snaps home into a detent notch provided on the circumference of the auxiliary assembly tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Kehl, Ernst-Dieter Schafer
  • Patent number: 4700891
    Abstract: A magnetic injection valve for injecting fuel into the intake tract of internal combustion machines, which is distinguished by particularly good internal cooling. A magnetic coil wound onto a coil carrier is located in the valve, being introduced into a valve housing and surrounds a ferromagnetic core. The core acts upon an armature which is connected to a movable valve needle. A bushing in the core and a sleeve located outside the core are arranged such that the fuel, emerging from an inflow tract of a supply device flows via the sleeve serving as a fuel line and reaches the interior of the valve housing that receives the magnetic coil; after flowing virtually completely around the magnetic coil, the fuel leaves this interior via a bore and flows back between the bushing and the core as far as the end of the bushing, and then flows on through the bushing to reach the armature to flow on to the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Hans, Wilhelm Kind, Heinrich Knapp, Wolfgang Kramer, Rudolf Sauer
  • Patent number: 4694808
    Abstract: A method and a fuel injection system for supplying fuel to a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine having externally supplied ignition is proposed. The fuel injection system includes metering valves, downstream of which regulating valves are disposed and at one side of which the fuel pressure downstream of the metering valves prevails and on the other side of which the fuel pressure in a control pressure line prevails. The control pressure line communicates with the fuel supply line and is limited by a control throttle and a return-flow throttle; from it, a branch line leads to an electromagnetic supplementary injection valve, by way of which further fuel, in addition to the fuel injected via injection valves, can be injected. The triggering of the supplementary injection valve can be effected by an electronic control unit for injecting fuel during cold starting of the engine or in the presence of a measurement signal characterizing an acceleration of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Jurgen Peters
  • Patent number: 4694272
    Abstract: An electric potentiometer including a wiper lever having brush wipers, which upon a rotational movement about a pivot shaft sweep over electrically conductive layers applied to a carrier plate. A resistor layer is joined at one end to a connection layer and at the other to a grounded connection layer. The layer is joined at one end to a pickup connection layer and at the other, via a supplementary layer resistor, to the connection layer. A sliding layer of electrically non-conductive paste material is disposed between the carrier plate and the resistor layer, the latter of which is formed from a paste material provided with carbon particles. The sliding layer is wider than the width of the wiper and the resistor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Maisch
  • Patent number: 4693052
    Abstract: An apparatus for aseptic packaging, in particular of food products and snack items, in packaging containers has a clean room with a sterile atmosphere, in which equipment for sterilization, rinsing, filling and closing the packaging containers is disposed. The packaging containers are conveyed in increments through the clean room on supporting elements, which are secured to two parallel endless conveyor chains. To prevent infection of the clean room from the conveyor apparatus, only the supporting elements are carried through the clean room, while the conveyor chains are disposed outside thereof. Holders, which join the supporting elements to the conveyor chains travel longitudinally through slits of the wall of the clean room. Secured to the holders are lamellae, which together with the edge portions of the slit in the wall form a labyrinth seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Rebmann, Otto Rothermel, Willi Stirnkorb
  • Patent number: 4692102
    Abstract: A pressure valve is proposed herein which is built into the injection pump, its valve closing body being guided in a valve carrier, and arranged to open in the supply direction of the fuel, counter to the force of a restoring spring. A check valve is built into the pressure valve, its valve seat carrier being secured to the valve closing body and its movable valve closing member is arranged to open counter to the supply direction of the fuel via a spring supported on the base of the valve closing body. For axially securing the valve seat carrier on the valve closing body, the restoring spring simultaneously engages the valve seat carrier. As a result, the satisfactory functioning of the check valve is assured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Hafele, Bernhard Schenk
  • Patent number: 4690667
    Abstract: A method for producing a packaging container having a pressure relief valve that is tightly secured to the inside of the packaging container and closes off an opening in the wall of the packaging container. To seal off the pressure relief valve, a fluid sealant is introduced into the valve, after the valve has been secured to the packaging container. To this end, an opening is punched by a hollow needle into the wall of the packaging container in the area coinciding with the pressure relief valve, and through the hollow needle a droplet of sealant is deposited in the peripheral zone of a membrane of the pressure relief valve. By capillary action, the sealant enters into the gap between a carrier part and the membrane of the valve and becomes distributed over this area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Domke