Patents by Inventor Alfred Grassle

Alfred Grassle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4214565
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines. An air flow rate member, arranged in the air intake manifold is moved against a return force by air flowing through it to adjust a control slide of a metering and distribution assembly arranged in the fuel supply line in order to effect the apportionment of a quantity of fuel which is proportional to the air quantity. The return force is produced by a pressure fluid acting upon the control slide, the pressure of the fluid being variable in accordance with operating characteristics of the internal combustion engine. The control slide has an actuation slide contacting the air flow rate member as well as an apportionment slide, which has a projection with a smaller diameter projecting into an axial throttle bore of the actuation slide and defining a damping space in the throttle bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Knapp, Thomas Wilfert, Alfred Grassle, Paul Fussner
  • Patent number: 4148282
    Abstract: A control circuit for a fuel-injected internal combustion engine provides a substitute program for generation of fuel injection control pulses during engine starts at low temperatures. The substitute injection control pulses are made dependent on the ambient or engine temperature in the sense that, the lower the temperature, the greater is the length of the injection pulses, i.e., the larger is the quantity of initially injected fuel. The length of the injection pulses also depends on the elapsed duration of the engine starting attempt in the sense of gradually reducing the injected fuel quantity as the unsuccessful engine cranking proceeds. A fully opened throttle during engine cranking signals a flooded engine condition and completely interrupts fuel injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Grassle, Hans Schnurle, Thomas Wilfert
  • Patent number: 4132211
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for continuous injection to an internal combustion engine has a pivoting air sensor plate with a correction lever that engages a fuel control plunger for metering out fuel in proportion to the air flow. The system also includes a bimetallic, temperature-dependent strip which exerts an opening force on the correction lever when the engine is cold. An electric heater is energized by the starter switch and begins to reduce the force due to the bimetallic strip even before the engine has actually warmed up. A second electric heater of reduced power maintains the strip in disengagement during normal engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wilfert, Alfred Grassle, Klaus-Jurgen Peters