Abstract: A signalling light according to the invention has a concave reflector with a substantially cylindrical lamp holder for an electric lamp. The position of the lamp holder can be adjusted from inside the reflector. The lamp holder is connected to the reflector so as to be rotatable about its axis. Means which can be manipulated from inside the reflector fix the lamp holder in any adjusted position.The construction of the signalling light makes it possible to position an asymmetric light source in the reflector in such manner that an optimum light beam is obtained.

Abstract: Fuel is periodically injected into an engine combustion chamber by a first injection device as an engine crankshaft rotates. A timing control device serves to adjust the timing of fuel injection effected by the first injection device with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft. Fuel is also periodically injected into the combustion chamber by a second injection device as the crankshaft rotates. Adjustment of the timing of fuel injection effected by the first injection device results in variation of the total fuel injection rate characteristic curve with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft.

Abstract: A distribution type fuel injection pump for preventing generation of a smoke after start while maintaining the characteristics of excess fuel starting device. An engaging member is mounted on a control sleeve for control of fuel, and a delay device for abutting on the engaging member and delaying the shifting of the control sleeve is provided, whereby the shifting of the control sleeve in the fuel increasing direction is delayed even if there is a rapid actuation of an accelerator pedal in a low speed rotation zone such as an idle rotation time which does not have the characteristics of the excess fuel starting device which does not result in the supply of excessive fuel thereby to prevent the generation of smoke.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump in which a pump work chamber can be connected with a fuel withdrawal chamber, which is controlled by a deflecting piston. The deflecting piston is loaded by the pressure of the pump work chamber and is adjustable counter to a restoring force, this restoring force being modified with pressure fluid in accordance with rpm.

Abstract: A first plunger pump serves to inject fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine during first periodical compression strokes as the crankshaft of the engine rotates. A second plunger pump serves to inject fuel into the combustion chamber during second periodical compression strokes as the crankshaft rotates. The maximum fuel injection quantity during each second compression stroke of the second plunger pump is smaller than that during each first compression stroke of the first plunger pump. A sensor detects load on the engine. A mechanism serves to advance the timing of the first compression strokes relative to that of the second compression strokes with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft as the detected engine load increases. The characteristic curve of the rate of the sum of the fuel injections effected by the first and second plunger pumps with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft can vary in accordance with the engine load.

Abstract: In an in-line type fuel injection pump, the pump housing is formed with a plurality of pump accommodating spaces arranged in a line, each of which accommodates a pump assembly including a plunger barrel and a plunger slidably fitted therein, and adjacent ones of which are separated from each other by a partition wall portion extending therebetween. A plurality of fuel passages are formed in the pump housing, which extend from the outer wall surface of the pump housing to respective ones of the partition wall portions. Each of the fuel passages has an interior diameter larger than the width of the corresponding partition wall portion so that the inner end of the fuel passage opens in both of the two adjacent pump accommodating spaces to communicate them with each other. On the other hand, the outer end of each of the fuel passages opens in the outer wall surface of the pump housing. Part of the fuel passages serve as fuel intake passages, and the other as fuel retain passages, respectively.

Abstract: The nozzle body has a main nozzle hole and a sub nozzle hole formed therein, the latter being directed at a predetermined angle with the former and smaller in discharge area than the former. The nozzle needle slidably received in the nozzle body is disposed such that its tip is fitted in the main nozzle hole when the nozzle needle is in a seated position thereof, and the tip substantially remains in the main nozzle hole during lifting of the nozzle needle before the nozzle needle lifts through a predetermined stroke, whereby fuel is injected substantially solely through the sub nozzle hole in a first predetermined direction, while the tip of the nozzle needle substantially comes out of the main nozzle hole after the nozzle needle has lifted through the predetermined stroke, whereby fuel is injected mainly through the main nozzle hole in a second predetermined direction different from the first predetermined direction by the above predetermined angle.

Abstract: A seal for an internal combustion engine having a fuel injection nozzle positioned within a stepped bore formed in a cylinder head. The fuel injection nozzle contains an exterior stepped configuration with a shoulder formed between its steps. The seal includes a ring circumferentially positioned around and contacting the smaller diameter portion of the fuel injection nozzle. The ring has a flat first end which abuts the shoulder of the fuel injection nozzle and a tapered second end which contacts the smaller diameter portion of the stepped bore. The taper is formed on an exterior surface of the ring and has a maximum outside diameter which is slightly larger than the smaller diameter portion of the stepped bore. The seal also contains an outwardly projecting bulge formed between the first and second ends. The bulge permits the first and second ends to move axially relative to one another as the fuel injection nozzle is axially adjusted within the cylinder head and during normal engine operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is an emergency control device for fuel dosing systems of IC engines, particularly for fuel injection devices of a diesel engine. A conventional regulating path for the fuel pump, includes a series connection of a set of data sensors, a signal processing circuit for computing a regular control signal, and a fuel regulating device connected to the fuel pump and provided with a manually or automatically controlled switching device. An emergency control branch is connected between the switching device and the sensor to function in parallel with the regular regulating device. The emergency control branch includes a nominal value generator of a signal corresponding to a maximum manifold pressure and a manifold pressure regulator controlled by output from the nominal value transmitter, to apply, via the switching device, to the fuel pump a dosing signal which causes the manifold pressure not to exceed the preset maximum value.

Abstract: A fuel injection device in which a fuel injection pump is connected through a fuel injection pipe to a fuel injection nozzle. The inner diameter of the fuel injection pipe is reduced from the side of the fuel injection pump towards the side of the fuel injection nozzle in either a stepwise manner or continuously.

Abstract: An adjusting device in a fuel injection pump including a pivotable lever with a stop on one end which limits the movement of a quantity adjusting device counter to a spring force, a stepping motor including an adjusting device which actuates said lever for adjusting said stop which limits movement of the quantity adjusting device.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for controlling the fuel metering for an internal combustion engine, an electrical displacement sensor is used for fuel injection pumps with an injection quantity control element, which is adjusted, via a control lever, proportionally to the electrical displacement sensor, whose displacement change causes an electrical signal proportional to this displacement change, this electrical signal being fed into an electronic control unit for readjusting the injection quantity control element.In order to avoid supply quantity scatter, control can be directed towards a calibration point situated on a supply quantity characteristic of the fuel injection pump, this calibration point preferably being located in the region of the maximum fuel supply quantity, and the output voltage of the electrical displacement sensor can be compared with a specified required value.

Abstract: A liquid fuel pumping apparatus of the rotary distributor type has an electromagnetically operable spill control valve including a valve member which is closed to prevent spillage of fuel from the high pressure pump of the apparatus. A transducer including a core member and a winding is provided to provide signals from which it is possible to determine the instants of spill valve closure and opening. The signals are used in a control system to control the operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic control system for a fuel pump of an internal combustion engine includes a power circuit which controls the flow of electric current in an electromagnetic device coupled to a spill valve of the fuel pump. Power is supplied to the power circuit through a resistor through which power is also supplied to an engine speed sensing circuit. The system also includes a control unit which supplies control signals to the power circuit to effect closure of the valve and hence delivery of fuel, in timed relationship with the engine. The control unit receives the speed signal from the speed sensing circuit and also senses the voltage applied thereto. In addition it receives a demand signal from a transducer and controls current flow in a relay winding having contacts in parallel with the resistor.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed which has a hydraulic injection instant adjuster, which is exposed to an rpm-dependent pressure established with the aid of a pressure control valve. The control of the pressure control valve is effected by means of varying the control pressure acting upon it. This is accomplished with the aid of a pressure valve, which has a slide exposed to a force variable in accordance with altitude, and the control pressure of the pressure control valve can be modified by means of this slide.

Abstract: A method for injecting fuel directly into a given combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition in which the supply of air to the combustion chambers may be either throttled or unthrottled. To assure unobjectionable operation both at partial load and under full load, the fuel is introduced during partial-load operation with a large air excess, forming a layered charge, in the vicinity of the ignition location at a time immediately prior to the instant of ignition, while at full-load operation, in order to attain maximum power and soot-free combustion by means of a homogeneous fuel-air mixture, the supply of fuel takes place during the intake stroke of the engine piston defining the combustion chamber. In order to perform this method, a distributor-type fuel injection pump is provided, in which either one distributor opening or another distributor opening of two distributor openings comes into effective operation.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes an input shaft rotated with the crankshaft, and a housing and a plunger which slides in a bore formed in the housing and is coaxial with the input shaft, with a high pressure chamber being defined at an end of the plunger between it and the bore. The plunger rotates with the input shaft and reciprocates so as to pump fuel at high pressure from the high pressure chamber to the engine cylinders, under the control of an electrically actuated electromagnetic valve, comprising a solenoid coil, which selectively vents the high pressure chamber according to the control of a control means, so as to provide fuel injection in appropriate amount to the diesel engine. There is provided a means for determining whether or not the voltage across the solenoid coil of the electromagnetic valve, when supply of power thereto changes from the ON to the OFF condition, rises higher than a certain value, or not.

Abstract: A rugged fuel rail assembly for holding a plurality of electromechanical fuel injector elements in aligned positions on an internal combustion engine. The beam portion of the fuel rail is comprised of two elongated manifold members with overlapping sides brazed together. One of the manifold members has a series of planar sites with apertures for retaining and precisely aligning a plurality of injector cups. To prevent vapor locks the injector cups are mounted with their cavities in close proximity to the inside of the fuel rail. In addition to being designed for ease of assembly and to provide adequate rigidity without excessive weight, the fuel rail is designed so that various fabricating steps, including the insertion on an internal divider, can be performed from the inside of the rail members prior to assembly.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for a diesel engine includes a means for calculating a proper fuel injection amount per each engine stroke and a means for injecting an amount of fuel per each engine stroke approximately equal to this proper fuel injection amount determined by this injection amount calculating means. The pump also includes a means for calculating a reference combustion time which represents approximately how long combustion in an engine stroke should last, and a means for detecting the approximate start and end of combustion in that engine stroke.

Abstract: A device for mounting fuel injection systems and particularly fuel injection nozzles and a fuel supply manifold. The device includes U-shaped structures having coaxial, spaced holes into which are mounted fuel injection nozzles. The fuel supply manifold is fixed to the structure such that it is in alignment with the nozzles to provide fuel thereto. The nozzles are mounted and sealed by resilient members positioned and compressed within the coaxial holes to provide vibration isolation, thermal isolation and accommodation of dimensional control anomolies in what is therefore allowed to be crudely fabricated components.