Patents by Inventor Andreas Sterr

Andreas Sterr 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: 7721416
    Abstract: A magnet valve is installed by a method in which the fully machined valve member is locked in a receptacle of a fixed installation device. A magnet plate and a spacer plate are mounted on a receiving mandrel. The magnet plate, spacer plate and valve member are pressed against the receptacle, then the magnet plate and the spacer plate are displaced relative to the valve member, and the armature is secured to the receiving mandrel of the valve member in such a way that the armature then rests on the magnet plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Inventors: Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Harald Volk, Andreas Sterr, Markus Bayer
  • Publication number: 20080251612
    Abstract: A unit fuel injector is presented in which a valve member and an armature of a magnet valve are fixedly joined together, so that the dynamic performance of the magnet valve is improved, and the adjustment and calibration of the magnet valve are also simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Harald Volk, Andreas Sterr, Markus Bayer
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 6116220
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump, with an injection adjusting piston that serves to adjust the onset of injection, in which due to an off-center coupling to a cam part of the cam drive of a fuel injection pump embodied as a distributing injection pump, the injection adjusting piston is subjected to tilting moments during operation. In addition, the injection adjusting piston is subjected to other forces by means of a radially produced pressure fluid supply on a side of the injection adjusting piston disposed essentially opposite the coupling, and these other forces, together with the tilting moment forces, produce high, one-sided pressure loads in the radial direction on the injection adjusting piston. By producing a second pressure field, the injection adjusting piston undergoes a compensation of the above-mentioned forces acting on the injection adjusting piston and consequently experiences a significantly reduced radial load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Adam Opel AG, a part interest
    Inventors: Wolfgang Geiger, Thomas Kulder, Andreas Sterr, Wakter Fuchs, Bernd Berghaenel, Dieter Reitz, Wolfgang Fehlmann
  • 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