Patents by Inventor Dieter Etzel

Dieter Etzel 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: 10100692
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for metering fluid, particularly for the metered injecting of a reduction agent into the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine, which has an electrically controllable metering valve (11) having a valve housing (16), having an inlet opening and a metering opening (14, 15) for the fluid, and a cooling module (12) to which a coolant is applied for cooling the metering valve. In order to achieve a permanent fording ability of the device, the metering valve (11) is hermetically sealed in the cooling module (12) and only the inlet opening and the metering opening (14, 15) of the valve housing (13) are exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ansgar Seitz, Franz Thoemmes, Dieter Etzel
  • Publication number: 20160053650
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for metering fluid, particularly for the metered injecting of a reduction agent into the exhaust tract of an internal combustion engine, which has an electrically controllable metering valve (11) having a valve housing (16), having an inlet opening and a metering opening (14, 15) for the fluid, and a cooling module (12) to which a coolant is applied for cooling the metering valve. In order to achieve a permanent fording ability of the device, the metering valve (11) is hermetically sealed in the cooling module (12) and only the inlet opening and the metering opening (14, 15) of the valve housing (13) are exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Ansgar Seitz, Franz Thoemmes, Dieter Etzel
  • Patent number: 6427666
    Abstract: A fuel injector that has a valve needle that can be moved axially within a swirl insert and which has, among other things, a valve closing section that works in conjunction with a valve seat. The swirl insert, which has an inner longitudinal opening for the valve needle, has a swirl area having on its downstream end an arrangement for imparting a swirl. The arrangement for imparting swirl are designed in the form of swirl grooves which extend from the conical outer edge to the longitudinal opening and which open out to the lower end face of the swirl insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Dallmann, Norbert Keim, Dieter Etzel
  • Patent number: 5165656
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuatable valves, including an adjusting bush pressed into a flow bore of a core of a coil in order to adjust a spring force of a restoring spring. The novel adjusting bush includes at least two longitudinal beads, extending in the direction of the longitudinal valve axis on its circumference that protrude past a jacket of the adjusting bush in the radial direction. The transitional region between the jacket and each of the longitudinal beads is embodied as rounded, at least in the direction of the longitudinal valve axis. Thus when the adjusting bush is pressed into the flow bore of the core, the production of chips at the adjusting bush and flow bore is prevented. The adjusting bush is especially well-suited for injection valves of fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Maier, Ferdinand Reiter, Dieter Etzel