Patents Represented by Attorney Edwin E. Greigg
  • Patent number: 6146115
    Abstract: A piston pump which is intended particularly for use in a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. To increase a pumping volume of the piston pump at low pumping pressure, the piston pump includes a body embodied preferably as an annular body which is attached axially displaceably to the piston. The body increases a cross- sectional area of the piston and is axially acted upon by a spring element. At low pressure, the piston pump pumps with the entire cross-sectional area of the piston and the body while conversely at a higher pumping pressure, the body is held back counter to the force of the spring element and does not move together with the piston so that then the piston pumps only with its own cross-sectional area. The piston pump of the invention has the advantage of improved pressure buildup dynamics when the pumping pressure at the onset of pumping is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 6145536
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for a fuel supply system, having a pressure chamber that communicates with a fuel connection, and having a diaphragm built in on its outer peripheral region in a basic body which partitions off the pressure chamber, wherein the diaphragm is fastened in the peripheral region with a spring ring that is under initial tension and is retained on the basic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Gerhard, Willi Strohl, Jochen Rose, Erich Eiler
  • Patent number: 6142747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel pump assembly having a low-pressure region (ND) with at least one low-pressure pump-and a high-pressure region (HD) with at least one regulated-quantity high-pressure pump, which pumps a quantity of fuel required to compensate for the quantitative balance in the high-pressure region, the quantity regulation being effected via a metering unit which is disposed between the low-pressure pump and the high-pressure pump. In order, by simple and sturdy means with high availability and a long service life, to prevent the fuel quantity in correctly pumped by the metering unit at certain operating points from reaching the high-pressure region, the invention proposes that the pumping flow of the low-pressure pump is greater than the pumping flow of the high-pressure pump; that a fuel return line branches off between the metering unit and the high-pressure pump and discharges into the inlet of the low-pressure pump; and that a control element is disposed in the return line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Rosenau, Gerd Loesch, Markus Rueckle
  • Patent number: 6142014
    Abstract: Known devices for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, or flow rate meters, have a measurement element accommodated in a measurement stub, and a flow rectifier with a grid is provided upstream of the measurement element. For easy production and assembly and accurate alignment of a grid (21) with a flow rectifier (20) of the device (1), the grid (21) has integrally formed-on spring elements (30), which deform elastically when the flow rectifier (20) is installed so that by their spring force, in combination with a detent connection (33, 35) provided on the flow rectifier (20), they durably retain the flow rectifier (20) and the grid (21). The device is intended for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, especially for measuring the flow rate of air aspirated by internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Rilling
  • Patent number: 6142107
    Abstract: A fuel injection system with a common rail pressure reservoir which is filled with fuel at high pressure, and a dual substance nozzle for dual-fluid injection of fuel and a supplementary liquid into an internal combustion engine. The system includes a 2/2-way valve in the injection line between the common rail pressure reservoir and a pressure chamber surrounding the nozzle needle of the dual substance nozzle. A pressure fluid container with supplementary liquid under pressure, which via a storage valve can charge the supplementary liquid line with a respective predeterminable quantity of supplementary liquid and that in turn can be charged with supplementary liquid by means of a pump via a check valve and its internal pressure can be kept at a desired level by a pressure regulating valve. As a result, the otherwise usual, technologically substantially more complex 3/2-way magnet control valves can be replaced by a single, less expensive 2/2-way valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Stutzenberger
  • Patent number: 6142443
    Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids which, for its actuation, is provided with a fluid-filled coupling chamber which can be brought to high pressure by virtue of the fact that the valve is disposed between an actuator piston of a piezoelectric actuator and a piston that actuates a valve member and it is used for force and path transmission. To compensate for a leakage in the coupling chamber, a filling valve is provided, which is disposed on the piston that actuates the valve member and is switched by this piston with each stroke of the device. In this manner, the coupling chamber contains a largely constant volume and can also compensate for slight fill level changes caused by temperature differences. The valve is designated for use in fuel injection devices for internal combustion engines of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roger Potschin, Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 6142183
    Abstract: An electromagnetic proportional valve with an outlet chamber that communicates via a fixed valve with a first valve chamber and via a movable valve with a second valve chamber. A valve seat of the fixed valve is embodied on the valve body and the valve seat of the movable valve is embodied on the valve member of the fixed valve. A movable sealing element seals off the two valve chambers from one another. The sealing element, for the sake of achieving the least possible hysteresis, is embodied as a metal bellows that extends through the first valve chamber and on each end is fixed in sealed fashion, on the valve member of the fixed valve and on the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Karthaeuser
  • Patent number: 6142751
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit for a vehicle brake system that enables limiting wheel brake slip is known. To that end, the hydraulic unit has at least one piston pump, which is drivable by an electric motor and empties a reservoir that is filled on the occasion of the limitation of wheel brake slip. This reservoir comprises a cylinder, embodied in the manner of a blind bore, as well as a piston that divides a storage chamber from a spring chamber in the cylinder, a spring, and a closure element that prevents water from entering the cylinder if the hydraulic unit should become immersed in water. A pressure equalization conduit begins at the spring chamber and leads into the interior of the motor, so that a displacement of the piston for taking up pressure fluid in the storage chamber is effected essentially only by friction of the piston and forces of the spring. A conduit is also provided, by means of which pressure fluid that emerges from the piston pump at the eccentric can be carried away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Krauter, Nikolaus Proebsting, Marc Finger, James J. Lundy, Jr., Ron Angle
  • Patent number: 6139436
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a pump-and-distributor member driven by a drive shaft via an Oldham coupling. The Oldham coupling has a cross disk with four arms protruding at right angles from one another. In each of the arms, one roller is supported rotatably as a roller body about a radial axis. On the drive disk and the eccentric disk, one pair of claws is mounted, offset from one another by 90.degree.. With these claws, the drive shaft and the eccentric disk, when the Oldham coupling is mounted, engage the interstices between the arms and the cross disk. The engagement is such that the claws each rest axially movably but practically without play on the rollers of the cross disk. In operation, the friction and noise of the Oldham coupling are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Simon
  • Patent number: 6138986
    Abstract: A 2/2-way solenoid valve which is open when it is without current and is inserted into a diesel fuel-carrying line to a high-pressure pump. The solenoid valve functions as an emergency shutoff or when the device is tested by supplying the solenoid valve with power which then closes the line to a high-pressure pump, which interrupts the high-pressure delivery. The solenoid valve has an armature, which functions in an armature chamber that is filled with diesel fuel and is sealed in relation to the outside by two O-rings. A plastic valve housing protects the coil and the contacting of the electrical connections from corrosion and protects the individual wires of the coil from vibration stresses. The solenoid valve is designated for use in common rail injection systems of vehicular internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosh GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Tilman Miehle
  • Patent number: 6139284
    Abstract: A radial piston pump for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines which includes a common rail injection system. A drive shaft having a number of cam-like projections is supported in a pump housing. A number of pistons disposed radially in cylinder chambers are set into a reciprocating motion in the cylinder chambers upon rotation of the drive shaft. A metallic housing part which constitutes the cylinder chamber is provided with a fuel intake opening and a fuel outlet opening, each of which is controlled by a check valve. The housing part rests with a flat contact surface against a flat contact surface of the metallic housing base body and a projecting section of the housing part, which is concentric to the cylinder chamber extends through a radial opening of the housing base body in the direction toward the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Streicher
  • Patent number: 6135735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system. For a compact structure of the piston pump, an inlet valve and outlet valve in the form of check valves be disposed in a valve bore at a tangent to a cylinder bore of the piston pump in a pump housing. Aside from the advantage of a compact, space-saving design, the invention has the advantage of a small idle volume and thus good efficiency of the piston pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Siegel
  • Patent number: 6135091
    Abstract: A fuel injection system in which a high pressure fuel reservoir is provided for supplying fuel injection valves. The valves are electrically controlled and are supplied in a correspondingly controlled fashion with fuel for injection from the high pressure fuel reservoir. The fuel injection valves are connected directly with their housings to the high pressure fuel reservoir in order to avoid the interposition of fuel lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Katsuoki Itoh, Friedrich Boecking
  • Patent number: 6131540
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve which is provided for high pressure injection in self-igniting internal combustion engines and has a solenoid valve for controlling the injection. To trigger this solenoid valve, a control circuit is provided which is subdivided into a first circuit part and a second circuit part. The second circuit part is separate from the first circuit part, which jointly serves to control a number of injection valves, and are disposed on each individual injection valve. The housing is clipped onto the fuel injection valve and fuel flows through its interior for cooling purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Bronkal
  • Patent number: 6126418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston pump with a piston that is axially displaceable in a pump bore of a pump housing. To enable making the piston pump with a short structure, the piston is embodied with a tubular guide portion, which on its inside is guided axially displaceably on a guide element solidly connected to the housing and protrudes into the guide portion. In this way, an inlet and outlet valve can be integrated with the piston and with the guide element protruding into the guide portion of the piston, as a result of which the piston pump can be embodied with only a slightly greater structural length than the length of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Erwin Sinnl
  • Patent number: 6127752
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electrically operated motor, having a shaft with a magnet rotor body, the RPM of the shaft can be picked up by a Hall sensor disposed on a circuit board. The circuit board is embodied with soldered pins or contact shoes and is integrated into a component of the motor, and that contacts, supply and signal lines for the circuit board are injected and/or plugged into the component of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Wiesler
  • Patent number: 6126407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump device for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, in particular in a common rail injection system, including a radial piston pump (2, 68, 80) with a drive shaft (38, 74, 114) that is supported in a pump housing (14) and is embodied eccentrically or has cam-like projections in the circumference direction, preferably with a number of pistons that are each disposed in a cylinder chamber radially in relation to the drive shaft and can be driven to reciprocate in the cylinder chamber when the drive shaft rotates, and with a check valve on the intake side and the high pressure side, and a low pressure pump (4, 71, 82) connected before the radial piston pump; in order to improve the pump device in such a way that it is more compact and can be produced more cheaply and the danger of the occurrence of leaks is reduced, the low pressure pump (4, 71, 82) is provided on or in the pump housing (14) of the radial piston pump (2, 68, 80), on the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guentert, Bernd Streicher, Uwe Kuhn, Juergen Hammer, Thomas Lettner
  • Patent number: 6123396
    Abstract: A slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system having brake lines that extend between a dual-circuit master cylinder and a respective wheel brake cylinder. A shutoff valve in the respective brake line. A bypass line that bypasses the respective shutoff valve. A pump in the respective bypass line for pumping pressure fluid, drawn from the associated wheel brake cylinder to the master cylinder. The pump (30) is also embodied to feed pressure fluid from the master cylinder to the wheel brake cylinder. The pump is a recirculating positive-displacement vane cell pump. The pump in the bypass lines has a common drive motor whose rotational direction can be reversed. The vehicle brake system is embodied for anti-lock and traction control operation at no additional expense for equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz Siegel
  • Patent number: 6122903
    Abstract: An apparatus for raising and lowering a mower unit, having a control lever movable between a first terminal position and a second terminal position for raising and lowering the mower unit, a link mechanism for raising the mower unit with movement from the first terminal position to the second terminal position of the control lever, a first stopper for holding the control lever in the first terminal position, a second stopper for holding the control lever in the second terminal position, and an assist mechanism for applying a force to the link mechanism to raise the mower unit only when the control lever is located between the first terminal position and the second terminal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Hayashi, Masatake Murakawa, Kazuaki Kurohara, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Mikio Yuki, Eriya Harada
  • Patent number: 6119656
    Abstract: A method for operating a fuel injection system, and a fuel injection system for performing the method, in which the fuel is delivered at high pressure to a high-pressure fuel reservoir, whose pressure is controlled by a pressure control valve. By detecting the fuel quantities delivered to the high-pressure fuel reservoir and withdrawn in order to regulate the fuel pressure, including any control quantities that may occur, for the fuel injection system, a balance for the fuel quantities can now be prepared. This balance, is performed by a control unit which can now be used in order to compare the desired, set-point injection quantity with the actually injected or unintentionally escaping fuel quantity, and if these quantities differ significantly, to make an intervention into the operation of the fuel injection system or to trip a signal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Eric Schmidt