Patents Assigned to Woodward L'Orange GmbH
  • Patent number: 11725618
    Abstract: Arrangement comprising: a chamber that is formed between a first receptacle and a second receptacle for a rod-shaped element, wherein the receptacles open out to the chamber on opposite end-face sides thereof; a rod-shaped element that is accommodated in the receptacles via a respective section with radial play, in this regard with a receptacle radial play, the rod-shaped element passing through the chamber; and an annular body that is situated in the chamber and through which the rod-shaped element passes with radial play, in this regard an annular body radial play, wherein the annular body radial play is less than the receptacle radial play, wherein the arrangement has a first media side and a second media side that are connected to the chamber via the first receptacle and second receptacle, respectively, wherein the annular body is provided to be pressed into contact against an end-face side of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Enrico Bärow, Ingmar Berger, Michael Nitsche
  • Patent number: 11236717
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an apparatus that includes a high-pressure pump having a pump element, a regulating device positioned upstream of the high-pressure pump, a fuel channel defined between an inflow side of the regulating device and the pump element, and a safety device, actuatable to reduce a through-flowable cross section of the fuel channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Grassier, Rainer Zass
  • Patent number: 11118537
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector (1), comprising: a pre-chamber (17) within the injector, a high-pressure injector part (3) for discharging combustible gas, which high-pressure injector part has a nozzle unit (5) and a reciprocating nozzle valve element (7), a nozzle-side end section of which is accommodated in a high-pressure chamber (11) of the high-pressure injector part (3), a pre-chamber assembly (39), within the framework of which the high-pressure chamber (11) of the high-pressure injector part (3) is separated over a nozzle-side end section, the high-pressure chamber being surrounded by the pre-chamber (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Joachim Berger, Enrico Barow, Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Nitsche
  • Patent number: 10989122
    Abstract: A dual-fuel fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a liquid fuel injection branch and a gas fuel injection branch, in which a gas injector assembly that is controllable via a control fluid is situated. The liquid fuel forms the control fluid of the gas injector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Hartmut Schneider
  • Publication number: 20210079874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector (1), comprising: a pre-chamber (17) within the injector, a high-pressure injector part (3) for discharging combustible gas, which high-pressure injector part has a nozzle unit (5) and a reciprocating nozzle valve element (7), a nozzle-side end section of which is accommodated in a high-pressure chamber (11) of the high-pressure injector part (3), a pre-chamber assembly (39), within the framework of which the high-pressure chamber (11) of the high-pressure injector part (3) is separated over a nozzle-side end section, the high-pressure chamber being surrounded by the pre-chamber (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Joachim Berger, Enrico Barow, Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Nitsche
  • Publication number: 20200325815
    Abstract: The invention relates to a prechamber spark plug receiving arrangement with a prechamber spark plug, comprising a housing bush, into which a fuel channel for supplying fuel into a prechamber is introduced. A valve member of a switching valve for regulating the fuel stream through the fuel channel is arranged in or on the wall of the housing bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Willmann, Horst Ressel, Hartmut Schneider, Martin Maierhofer, Ingmar Berger
  • Patent number: 10724447
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector arrangement (1) comprising a number of fluid supply paths (29, 31, 39), namely, a first (29), a second (31) and a third fluid supply path (39). The fuel injector arrangement (1) has a first switching device (43) in the second fluid supply path (31). Said first switching device, controlled by the fluid pressure in the third fluid supply path (39), opens or blocks the second fluid supply path (31). The fuel injector arrangement (1) has a second switching device (49) in the first fluid supply path (29). Said second switching device, controlled by the fluid pressure downstream of the first switching device (43) in the second fluid supply path (31), opens or blocks the first fluid supply path (29).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Joachim Berger, Enrico Bärow, Michael Nitsche
  • Patent number: 10612503
    Abstract: A dual-fuel injector for a fuel injection device, including: a liquid fuel injector unit with a nozzle needle assigned to a liquid fuel nozzle arrangement of the dual-fuel injector and which is stroke controllable via a first control chamber; and a gas injector unit with a gas nozzle needle assigned to a gas nozzle arrangement of the dual-fuel injector and which is stroke controllable via a second control chamber. Each of the control chambers can be impinged with a control fluid to control the stroke of the respective nozzle needle. The control fluid from both the control chambers can be discharged. The dual-fuel injector has a control fluid reservoir in which discharged control fluid from the first control chamber can be introduced; the dual-fuel injector is configured to impinge the second control chamber with control fluid from the control fluid reservoir for the stroke control of the gas nozzle needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Woodward L'Orange GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Kalenborn