Patents by Inventor Claus Koester

Claus Koester 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: 5263457
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has an adjusting piston for adjusting an injection instant, is acted upon by a return force and delimits a working space, a control slide delimiting a pressure space in the adjusting piston and displaceable in the adjusting piston counter to a return force by a pressure-source supply pressure in the pressure space and controlled as a function of speed of the engine so that the working space can be connected to a pressure source or to a relief space, and so the supply pressure in the pressure space is additionally controlled as a function of further operating parameters of the engine. A feed pump delivering at a rate proportional to speed has a delivery side connected to the pressure space, a pressure line, containing a restriction, directly connects the delivery side of the feed pump to the pressure space so that the pressure is directly connected with the feed pump exclusively by the pressure line and is not connected with the inlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Christin Taudt, Andre Brunel, Pierre Lauvin, Francois Quarret
  • Patent number: 5233957
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a fuel-quantity adjusting member, and an adjusting device associated with the adjusting member and operative for altering a possible travel of the fuel-quantity adjusting member as a function of an atmospheric pressure. The device has a pivotally mounted two-armed stop lever against which the fuel-quantity adjusting member can be brought to rest. A circuit is provided with a working element which acts on the stop lever and changes its position or length following a closure and opening of the circuit. The adjusting device has a switching element which is acted upon by the atmospheric pressure and, as a function of atmospheric pressure closes and opens the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Wolf-Ruediger Walk, Karl-Friedrich Ruesseler, Helmut Tschoeke, Mohammad-Ali Khosrawi, Alfons Schoetz
  • Patent number: 4913115
    Abstract: When motor vehicles are driven, discontinuities that lead to load spikes arise between overrunning and running under load. The load spikes are avoided by means of a discontinuous increase in fuel quantity, which makes it possible for the engine to come gently to rest in its suspension, to bypass the drive play, and to convert the changes in increased fuel quantity without bucking. By incorporating drag elements into the connection between the arbitrary actuation of an intermediate lever, which affects the fuel injection quantity, and an idling stop, a discontinuous adjustment of the intermediate lever is attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Manfred Schwarz, Klaus Krieger, Helmut Tschoeke, Ulrich Stratemeier
  • Patent number: 4884542
    Abstract: In a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines for motor vehicles, a damping device is provided to eliminate so-called vehicle bucking. The device allows rapid adjusting movements of an rpm adjusting lever, which is connected to the driving lever, to affect the supply quantity setting of the fuel injection pump only with a delay. To this end, the damping device has a damping chamber defined by a damping cylinder and a damping piston displaceable therein. The damping chamber communicates with the pump interior via two parallel throttles and via counter-parallel check valves located in series with the parallel throttles. The damping piston is connected to a damper lever on which the rpm adjusting lever is supported via a pre-stressed drag spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Karl Zibold, Manfred Schwarz, Karl-Friedrich Russeler, Klaus Krieger, Roland Kupzik
  • Patent number: RE42111
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to direct ions away from their otherwise intended or parallel course. Deflectors are used to establish electric fields in regions through which ions are to pass. With such electric fields, ions may be deflected to a desired trajectory. According to the present invention, a multideflector, in the form of a series of bipolar plates spaced evenly across the ion beam path, is used as an ion deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Bruker Daltonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin A. Park, Claus Koester