Patents by Inventor Andreas Dutt

Andreas Dutt 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).

  • Publication number: 20070068580
    Abstract: A valve having a valve member, which cooperates with a valve seat formed in a housing part in order to control a connection, and the valve seat has an at least approximately conical seat face, which is located at a transition of the connection from a portion of small diameter to a portion of large diameter. The seat face is adjoined, on its side oriented toward the portion of large diameter, by at least one face which is more markedly inclined relative to the longitudinal axis of the connection than the seat face, and on its side oriented toward the portion of small diameter, the seat face is adjoined by at least one face which is less markedly inclined relative to the longitudinal axis of the connection than the seat face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Dietmar Van Der Linden, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt, Dieter Tuchel
  • Publication number: 20070071620
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump has at least one pump element including a pump piston defining a work chamber and driven at least indirectly by a drive shaft in a reciprocating motion, counter to the force of a restoring spring. The pump piston is braced on the drive shaft at least indirectly via a sleevelike tappet, and the restoring spring engages at least the pump piston. A support element in the tappet braces the pump piston toward the drive shaft and is braced at least indirectly on the drive shaft. The restoring spring, via a spring plate, engages the pump piston and the tappet. The spring plate is elastically deformable in the direction of motion of the pump piston in such a way that as a result of its elastic deformation, deviations in the position of its contact faces on the pump piston and on the tappet are compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Alfons Schoetz, Walter Fuchs, Gerhard Meier, Jochen Aleker, Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20060091233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve for high-pressure hydraulics, having a valve bore provided in a valve housing in which bore at least one valve seat dividing a guide on the high-pressure side of the valve bore from a guide on the low-pressure side of the valve bore and a valve needle actuatable directly by an actuator which needle is guided in the valve bore and has at least one sealing face which can cooperate with the at least one valve seat in which the valve needle is constructed in multiple parts and, in the region of the guide on the low-pressure side, has at least one sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventor: Andreas Dutt
  • Patent number: 7029248
    Abstract: A pump unit for the metered delivery of fuel to internal combustion engines. The pump unit comprises a housing which comprises a longitudinal bore. Located in the longitudinal bore is an overflow valve, via which fuel flows back through a channel into a fuel tank. The passage can be opened or closed by a spring-loaded closing element. Fastened to the valve shaft of the overflow valve is a ring fitting. In the longitudinal bore of the housing there is an additional thread section, via which air flows out through vent gaps into a cavity of the ring fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt
  • Patent number: 6884041
    Abstract: A solenoid-valve-controlled fuel-injection pump for internal combustion engines, in particular diesel engines, has a solenoid valve, whose valve needle separates a high-pressure region from a low-pressure region, i.e. connects the high-pressure region and low-pressure region, in the pump housing, via a valve seat; the injection period being controlled by the opening of the solenoid valve. In addition, a low-pressure compensating piston situated in the low-pressure region is provided in order to compensate for pressure fluctuations in the low-pressure region. The exceptional feature is that the low-pressure compensating piston, which is positioned coaxially to the solenoid-valve needle, takes the form of a component part that is separate from the solenoid-valve needle. This ensures that the solenoid valve is opened unhindered and as rapidly as possible by the opening force exerted on the solenoid-valve needle by the electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Boehland, Andreas Sterr, Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20050031472
    Abstract: A pump unit for the metered delivery of fuel to internal combustion engines. The pump unit comprises a housing which comprises a longitudinal bore. Located in the longitudinal bore is an overflow valve, via which fuel flows back through a channel into a fuel tank. The passage can be opened or closed by a spring-loaded closing element. Fastened to the valve shaft of the overflow valve is a ring fitting. In the longitudinal bore of the housing there is an additional thread section, via which air flows out through vent gaps into a cavity of the ring fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt
  • Patent number: 6802300
    Abstract: A lift-controlled valve as a fuel metering device of an injection system for internal combustion engines has a valve needle which may be actuated axially against the resistance of a spring, the valve needle being situated in a graduated coaxial recess in a valve body and interacting with a valve seat formed in the recess of the valve body in this case controlling the fuel injection process; the valve has in addition a high-pressure area which is connected to an assigned injection nozzle and which is located upstream from the valve seat, a low-pressure area which is located downstream from the valve seat and which opens out into a fuel return flow, and a low-pressure equalizing piston which coaxially adjoins the valve and which is fixedly connected to the valve needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20040131486
    Abstract: A solenoid-valve-controlled fuel-injection pump for internal combustion engines, in particular diesel engines, has a solenoid valve (18), whose valve needle (17) separates a high-pressure region (14, 15) from a low-pressure region (21), i.e. connects the high-pressure region and low-pressure region, in the pump housing, via a valve seat (16); the injection period being controlled by the opening of the solenoid valve (18). In addition, a low-pressure compensating piston (24) situated in the low-pressure region (21) is provided in order to compensate for pressure fluctuations in the low-pressure region (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Boehland, Andreas Sterr, Andreas Dutt
  • Publication number: 20030136385
    Abstract: A lift-controlled valve as a fuel metering device of an injection system for internal combustion engines has a valve needle (11) which may be actuated axially against the resistance of a spring (24), the valve needle being situated in a graduated coaxial recess (13) in a valve body (10) and interacting with a valve seat (17) formed in the recess (13) of the valve body (10)—in this case controlling the fuel injection process; the valve has in addition a high-pressure area (18) which is connected to an assigned injection nozzle and which is located upstream from the valve seat (17), a low-pressure area (28) which is located downstream from the valve seat and which opens out into a fuel return flow(30), and a low-pressure equalizing piston (22) which coaxially adjoins the valve (16, 17) and which is fixedly connected to the valve needle (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Andreas Dutt
  • Patent number: 6280160
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distributor type which has a reciprocatingly driven pump piston that is load-bearing in a rotating distributor shaft which pumps fuel out of a pump work chamber to various fuel injection valves via a distributor opening. To control the duration of high-pressure injection, an electrically actuated valve is provided with a valve member in a valve chamber that communicates with the pump work chamber and from a second valve chamber, communicates with a low-pressure region. To terminate the high-pressure injection, the valve member makes a communication between the two valve chambers, whereupon the outflow of the fuel stream is controlled by disposing a diameter constriction in the connecting line, thus reducing any tendency to cavitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Nothdurft, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Andreas Dutt, Hubert Greif
  • Patent number: 6164266
    Abstract: A magnet coil which is disposed in a cup-shaped housing that has stub for carrying magnetic flux to a magnet armature; the positioning of the magnet coil inside this cup-shaped housing is defined by an insulation spray coating, and the magnet coil has contact terminals which protrude to the outside, having been spray-coated with insulation, through the bottom of the cup-shaped housing. The bottom of the cup-shaped housing also has a third opening, which is likewise filled by material and which offers an opportunity, during the spray-coating, of introducing a rodlike part to support the magnet coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Helmut Hechinger GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Bernhard Just, Martin Metzger, Andreas Eckert, Andreas Dutt, Karl Hoss
  • Patent number: 6162029
    Abstract: A throttle element installed in a blind bore of a connecting conduit which delivers fluid to cool an electromagnet. The throttle element includes a filter region upstream of a throttle which throttles flow of the fluid from an annular groove to the blind bore that connects with the electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fehlmann, Andreas Dutt
  • Patent number: 5782620
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines which has a moving part supported in a housing bore and on its jacket face on one side, has an exit opening that is under high pressure, and whose bearing is improved by virtue of the fact that on the jacket face of the part or in the wall of the housing bore, at least one pressure compensation is provided. The compensation face is connected to a high pressure source, is disposed on a side of the jacket face of the part which side is remote from the exit opening, and is continuously covered by the wall of the housing bore. As a result, a compensation of the pressure action by means of the pressure field prevailing in the region of the exit opening occurs so that an improved, less damage-prone bearing is produced with a greater high pressure tightness of the moving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Nothdurft, Wolfgang Fehlmann, Bernhard Bonse, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Ewald Eblen, Holger Pitsch, Andreas Sterr, Walter Fuchs, Andreas Dutt, Joerg Wolke
  • Patent number: 5582153
    Abstract: In a fuel injection pump of the distributor type, a solenoid valve is provided in the distributor and the valve member of this solenoid valve is supported in an axial bore of the distributor and actuated by a magnet fixed to the housing in order to block the connection between a pump working space of the distributor-type injection pump and a relief space during an intended high-pressure injection phase. Inherent in its construction, a distributor of such a fuel injection pump has a certain axial play in its mounting and this has an effect on the actuating travel of the valve member in the distributor in relation to the fixed electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dutt, Burkhard Veldten, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Walter Fuchs