Abstract: A fuel injection device works based on the principle of storage of energy in a solid body and is designed as a reciprocating piston pump with a feeding piston (35, 24) that stores kinetic energy during an almost resistance-free acceleration phase. The stored kinetic energy is abruptly transmitted to the fuel contained in a compression chamber (66), generating a pressure wave for injecting fuel through an injection nozzle. The means that interrupt the resistance-free acceleration phase are designed as a valve with a valve body (50a) and a valve seat (57) shaped on the feeding piston (35, 24). To generate the pressure wave, the valve closes the compression chamber (66) so that the kinetic energy of the feeding piston (35, 24) is transmitted to the fuel enclosed in the compression chamber (66). The valve seat (57) and the valve body (50a) lie at the front end of the feeding piston (35, 24), seen in the direction of injection, and separate the compression chamber (66) from the feeding piston (35, 24).

Abstract: A process for controlling the ignition in an internal combustion engine with a device for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine is provided, in which a control signal for the injection process and a control signal for the ignition process are used. The control signal for the injection process is used to start the measurement of a predetermined delay for the issue of the ignition control signal, as well as for the speed or load dependent switching to the ignition through the measurement of the crankshaft angle.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a circuit for driving the excitation coil of an electromagnetically driven reciprocating pump used as an injection device, characterized by a circuit for driving the rotor excitation coil (600) which is connected to a power transistor (601) which is grounded via a measuring resistor (602), whereby the output of a comparator (603) is hooked on to the control input of the transistor (601), e.g. to the transistor base, and whereby a current setpoint is applied to the non-inverting input of the comparator (603). This setpoint is e.g. obtained from a microcomputer and the inverting input of the comparator (603) is connected to the side of the measuring resistor which is connected with the transistor (601).

Abstract: A liquid gas engine includes at least one combustion chamber, in which a liquid gas/air mixture is introduced and ignited, the liquid gas engine having an injection device which injects liquid gas via an injection nozzle. The injection nozzle opens into the combustion chamber, so that the liquid gas is injected directly into the combustion chamber.The direct injection of the liquid gas achieves ideal combustion conditions, particularly since liquid gas evaporating in the combustion chamber induces cooling which is utilized particularly under a high load.The liquid gas engine is preferably provided with an injection device which is designed as an alternating piston pump and which works on the energy accumulation principle.

Abstract: An electric ignition device for an internal combustion engine having a primary and a secondary circuit coupled together by a transformer. The secondary circuit includes a spark gap. The primary circuit includes a capacitor that can be discharged. The voltage discharged by the capacitor is coupled by the transformer to the secondary circuit where it produces an ignition spark across the spark gap. The primary circuit is a resonant circuit that is repeatedly excited keeping the ignition spark burning as an arc. Current or voltage in the secondary circuit are detected to control the energy introduced into the spark gap.

Abstract: A method for signalling an energizing coil of a solenoid-operated reciprocating plunger pump employed as a fuel injection device, in which the energizing coil is energized via a current control circuit pulsed at high-frequency by an energizing current and each pulse causes an impulse movement of an armature driven by the energizing coil, and the current control circuit controls the energizing current flowing through the energizing coil as a function of a current setpoint curve, each pulse of the current setpoint curve comprises a gradually rising leading edge resulting in a corresponding gradually rising leading edge of the pulse of the energizing current in the energizing coil, the current setpoint curve being controlled so that the energizing current does not change faster than the maximum change in current possible for the minimum voltage available at the energizing coil and limited due to mutual induction.

Abstract: A heating system with a combustion chamber into which fuel is fed via a fuel feed unit in the form of an injection device which operates on the energy-storage principle and has a pump and a nozzle device which delivers bursts of fuel in specified quantities. With this fuel burner, it is possible to select both the quantity of fuel injected and the injection frequency independently of any boundary conditions, thereby optimizing levels of harmful pollutants in the exhaust gas and effectively counteracting resonance vibrations in the burner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating an internal combustion engine and to an internal combustion engine respectively. In accordance with the method of operating an internal combustion engine in accordance with the invention fuel is injected into a combustion chamber so that it is reflected by a piston, as a result of which charge stratification occurs in the combustion chamber. Fresh air is inducted slightly throttled or not throttled at all into the combustion chamber irrespective of the loading condition of the internal combustion engine so that the exhaust gases from the previous working stroke are completely swept from the combustion chamber. The output of the internal combustion engine is generated substantially via the injected amount of fuel. Due to the method in accordance with the invention charge stratification is caused in which burning of the fuel/air mixture is ideal. The internal combustion engine in accordance with the invention thus features smooth running for ideal emission values.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating an internal combustion engine and to an internal combustion engine respectively. In accordance with the method of operating an internal combustion engine in accordance with the invention fuel is injected into a combustion chamber so that it is reflected by a piston, as a result of which charge stratification occurs in the combustion chamber. Fresh air is inducted slightly throttled or not throttled at all into the combustion chamber irrespective of the loading condition of the internal combustion engine so that the exhaust gases from the previous working stroke are completely swept from the combustion chamber. The output of the internal combustion engine is generated substantially via the injected amount of fuel.Dueto the method in accordance with the invention charge stratification is caused in which burning of the fuel/air mixture is ideal. The internal combustion engine in accordance with the invention thus features smooth running for ideal emission values.

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.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine assembly including a solenoid pump having an armature and a solenoid winding encircling the armature such that the armature moves in response to current flow, including unwanted current variations, through the solenoid winding and a control circuit connected to the solenoid winding for detecting unwanted variable current flow in the solenoid winding and for controlling actual current flow in the solenoid winding in response to the detected unwanted variable current flow to thereby precisely control movement of the armature.

Abstract: A fuel injection device for internal combustion engines has an injection nozzle to which fuel is supplied by means of a pressure device comprising a fuel-accelerating pump and a fuel-retarding device which, when activated, convert the kinetic energy of the accelerated fuel abruptly to a pressure shock wave which causes the fuel to be sprayed through the injection nozzle. According to the invention, an intermittently operated fuel-accelerating pump is used. This pump and the preferably electrically operated retarding device are preferably controlled by a common control device. As a result, the injection device can be operated with very little, optimally utilized energy and can inject fuel in a precisely controllable manner very quickly and when decoupled from the motorized operations.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a fuel injection device operating according to the solidstate energy storage principle, whereby a rotor element carried in a pump housing of an electromagnetically driven reciprocating pump is accelerated almost without resistance, whereby the rotor element stores kinetic energy and impacts on a piston element, so that a pressure impulse is generated in the fuel contained in a closed pressure chamber before the piston element due to the fact that the stored kinetic energy of the rotor element is transferred via the piston element to the fuel in the pressure chamber and whereby the pressure impulse is used for the injection of fuel through a nozzle and whereby the rotor element is carried form-locking on the piston element and the two elements are mutually spring-mounted.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a fuel injection device operating according to the solid state energy storage principle, whereby a piston element mounted in a pump cylinder of an electromagnetic reciprocating pump, displaces quantities of the fuel to be injected during a virtually resistanceless acceleration phase during which the piston element stores kinetic energy, before the ejection in the pump area. The displacement is stopped suddenly with the means for interrupting the displacement, so that a pressure impulse is generated in the fuel contained in a closed pressure chamber by direct transfer of the stored kinetic energy of the piston element to the fuel in the pressure chamber. The pressure impulse for the ejection of fuel is used by an injection device, whereby the means for interrupting the displacement and producing the pressure impulse are arranged outside the leading liquid-tight contact area between piston element and piston cylinder of the reciprocating pump.

Abstract: In a crank loop frame for a crank loop drive of an internal combustion engine for the transformation of a back and forth motion into a rotary motion, each of the slideway frame, webs of the crank loop frame includes portions of a heat capacity sufficient for a homogeneous distribution of the heat disposed both above and below the slideway of the slideway frame web. Each of the slideway frame webs has an H-shaped cross-section and contains a longitudinal slideway web portion as well as two leg web portions disposed tangentially at the longitudinal edges of the slideway web portion. The areal center of gravity of each slideway frame web is disposed to the side of its respective slideway remote from the slide, thereby to promote dissipation or the homogeneous distribution of heat to both sides of the slideways.

Abstract: When a two-stroke combustion engine (10) runs in the no-load or underload mode with intermittent fuel injection, besides the injection nozzles (12) being activated intermittently, the throttle (18) is opened more than is usual on transition into the no-load or underload mode and the fuel is simultaneously injected at a constant angle of aperture and flow. The process ensures reliable ignition of a weak mixture in the no-load or coasting mode; thus the energy consumption and exhaust production are limited in these modes and the engine runs in a cost-effective manner.

Abstract: A piston-ring arrangement for use in an internal combustion engine including a cylinder with a piston axially displaceable within the cylinder and at least one piston ring guided in the cylinder. The cylinder, piston and piston-ring are made of a ceramic material. The piston ring is formed of two circumferentially extending parts and is mounted in a groove in the circumferentially surface of the piston. The groove has a depth greater than the corresponding radial depth of the piston ring so that a spring element can be positioned between the base of the groove and the piston ring for biasing the piston ring radially outwardly. The spring element can be annular member with a corrugated shape or a multi-part ceramic member shaped to provide a biasing action.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion motor, in particular a lift-piston motor with internal combustion and with cylinders arranged in-line, as well as with at least one rotating control element for the gas charge change processes, which is arranged between cylinder block and cylinder cover with an axis of rotation lying perpendicular to the cylinder axis and between two pivots extending rotation-axially presents a control body standing in fixed connection with the pivots, there being provided counter-surfaces in the cylinder head surrounding the control body and the pivots uniformly and each pivot being traversed by an axially extending gas channel, which goes over in each case into an elbow-shaped gas channel arranged in the control body, which channel emerges with an opening at the surface of the control body, and an arrangement being provided for the transfer of a rotary movement from the crankshaft to the control element, characterized in that the control body is constructed as a sphere, in par

Abstract: A multisectional piston for opposed-piston, slider-crank-drive internal combustion engines. The piston has a ceramic skirt (1), a skirt head (2), and a ceramic piston head (3) with fire land (4). The ceramic piston head is provided with annular groove (6) for receiving a slotted, ceramic piston ring (7) and is seated on the skirt head (2). A ceramic, common centering sleeve (5) fixes the skirt and head. Metal or metal alloy centering piece (8) fixed on the piston rod (12) in snug fit (14) has a base plate (9) on which the skirt head seats. An end cover (10) seats on the piston head and has a centering hub (11) axially spaced by a gap (23) from the centering piece. In assembly, the skirt head and piston head are axially clamped between the end cover and the base plate by a screw connection (13).

Abstract: A four-stroke internal combustion piston engine includes at least two cylinders disposed in axial alignment opposite on another. Each cylinder has a piston axially reciprocal therein with the pistons in the two cylinders operating with a phase shift of 180.degree.. Each piston is connected by a piston rod to the same crankshaft located between the cylinders. Each piston moves between a bottom dead center at an inner end of the cylinder adjacent the crankshaft to a top dead center at an outer end of the cylinder spaced outwardly from the crankshaft. During movement of the piston from the inner end to the outer end, fresh air or a fuel-air mixture is drawn into the cylinder through a suction system and when the piston moves in the opposite direction a transfer system conveys the fresh air or fuel-air mixture into a combustion space formed between the outer end of the cylinder and the piston.