Patents by Inventor Ernst Ritter
Ernst Ritter 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).
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Patent number: 5291867Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having in-line cylinder bushes, in each of which a pump piston defining a pump work chamber is guided, the piston being rotatable by a governor rod for the sake of fuel supply quantity regulation. Mounted on the pump housing is an adjusting device, in which an adjusting piston is guided axially parallel with the governor rod; the adjusting piston has a radial pin, which protrudes through a slit in the wall of the adjusting device and pump housing into an oblong slot of the governor rod, thus limiting the adjusting motion of the rod in certain operating ranges. The position of the adjusting piston determines the maximum governing travel of the governor rod in the full-load direction upon engine starting. The adjusting piston is variable via an adjustable stop acting upon one face end thereof and is also variable as a function of temperature via a temperature-dependent spring element disposed on its circumference.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karsten Hummel, Karl Rapp, Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4735182Abstract: Centrifugal speed governor of fuel injection pumps for internal combustion engines comprising a centrifugal force adjuster, which actuates an articulated head with its centrifugal weights. The articulated head articulates a double-armed guide lever with brackets by means of an axle. The axle 17 is supported by means of a cross bearing in the articulated head and in a borehole has an oblong cross section which in the adjusting direction, so that the axle can execute a limited swiveling movement about the cross bearing in the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1987Date of Patent: April 5, 1988Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Werner Bruhmann, Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4543045Abstract: Each of the pump cylinders disposed in a line, of the fuel injection pump is surrounded in the vicinity of an overflow opening controlled by control edges of the pump piston by a partial suction chamber embodied as a hollow space. Each of these partial suction chambers is supplied with fuel, beginning at an inflow conduit via a throttled inflow opening and the fuel is carried away again via a return-flow opening into a return-flow conduit common to all the pump cylinders. Because of the crosswise flushing of each individual partial suction chamber the fuel temperature in these partial suction chambers is kept at least virtually constant, in order that identical fuel quantities will be supplied to the individual pump cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1984Date of Patent: September 24, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz, Johann Warga
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Patent number: 4479474Abstract: The governor (FIG. 1) includes a second idling spring (supplementary idling spring 42) secured on a force transmission lever (31) acted upon by the main governor spring (34). By means of the second idling spring, the restoring force of a first idling spring (38) on a portion of the idling sleeve path (a) is reinforced in the idling position of an adjusting member (22). This exertion of force on the part of at least the supplementary idling spring (42) is increased in accordance with load by means of a corrective adjusting member (44) when the adjusting member (22) has pivoted into a partial-load position. As a result, in order to improve the starting behavior even in minimum-maximum speed governors, a partial-load rpm located above the idling rpm can be regulated, and a progressively increased supply quantity is controlled at the associated injection pump with increasing load in the lower partial-load range.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1982Date of Patent: October 30, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ilija Djordjevic, Werner Br/u/ hmann, Ernst Ritter, Hansj/o/ rg Frey
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Patent number: 4463720Abstract: A flyweight governor comprising first and second sets of flyweights disposed pivotably on a flyweight support, the flyweights of the first set are arrested by stops after having traversed an idle speed angle of traverse (.alpha..sub.LL), on which stops the flyweights of said second set rest only after having traversed the total angle of traverse (.alpha..sub.max). The flyweight masses of the first set of flyweights acting only in the idle speed control have, in their position of rest, an outer contour which is, in comparison to said second set of flyweights, displaced further outwardly with an inclination angle (.beta..sub.LL) to the rotational axis (A) corresponding to the idle speed angle of traverse (.alpha..sub.LL).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1982Date of Patent: August 7, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4441868Abstract: There is proposed an improved fuel injection pump which will prevent erosion at the pump housing caused by the fuel stream leaving the return flow openings at the end of injection, by providing an impact protection ring on the cylinder bushing. Guide faces on the ring inclined toward the center (M) thereof are molded into the impact protection ring in the vicinity of a cylindrical wall portion. The impact protection ring rests on an abutment shoulder disposed above the return flow openings, in the vicinity of the return flow openings encloses an annular chamber, and is pressed by a snap ring without play and with a defined prestressing force against the abutment shoulder. As a result of the guiding action of the guide faces on the impact protection ring, a rotational movement of the impact protection ring triggered by the obliquely exiting fuel stream is assured, in order to attain a long service life for the pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1982Date of Patent: April 10, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Helmut Fiedler, Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4435128Abstract: A rotational body supported in a housing of the apparatus carries an angle indication marker, which serves as a signal trigger of a signal transducer secured in a positionally fixed manner relative to the housing of the rotational body. The signal transducer has a transducer body axially displaceably disposed in its transducer housing. This body is displaceable in the direction of its longitudinal axis in order to actuate a first contact switch, and is provided inside its other end face with a switch contact, cooperating with the angle indication marker, of a second contact switch. After the actuation of both contact switches, the angle indication marker is located in a predetermined rotary position, which is indicated in the associated test circuit and serves in particular to ascertain the supply onset position of the drive shaft of a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1982Date of Patent: March 6, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hansjorg Frey, Heinrich Hampel, Rolf Muller, Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz
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Patent number: 4385867Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for positionally fixing a drive shaft disposed in a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines in a predetermined rotary position, in particular one associated with the onset of fuel supply, and for measuring and testing this rotary position. The apparatus is provided with an apparatus into the reception bore of which either a holder element or an electric pulse transducer can be inserted. An element firmly connected with the drive shaft is provided with an angle-indicator marking, which is equipped both as a coupling element for the position-fixing apparatus and as a pulse trigger for the pulse transducer. The apparatus can thus be used both as a locking apparatus for mounting the injection pump on the engine and, with the pulse transducer inserted, as a measurement and testing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1980Date of Patent: May 31, 1983Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Max Straubel, Reinhard Schwartz, Ernst Ritter, Ilija Djordjevic
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Patent number: 4348895Abstract: A method is proposed in which the injection pump, having been adjusted in terms of the supply quantity and of the supply onset, is provided on a test bench, before being mounted on the internal combustion engine, with an electric pulse transducer, whose mounted position is marked on the injection pump. The pump may also be corrected, at a fixed test rpm, to a set-point value fixed relative to the supply onset signal by means of measuring the signal distance between the supply onset signal of a signal transducer measuring the dynamic supply onset and the rotary-position signal of the pulse transducer. The injection pump, with the camshaft rotated into the rotary position associated with the dynamic supply onset, is mounted on the engine which has been brought with its crankshaft into the associated working position.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1980Date of Patent: September 14, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Max Straubel, Reinhard Schwartz, Ernst Ritter, Ilija Djordjevic, Reinhard Doll
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Patent number: 4305362Abstract: A centrigural rpm governor for fuel injected internal combustion engines is proposed in which an adaptor assembly located inside the governor can be used over the entire range of practical applications of such a governor. The governor includes parallel coextensive arms, a governor lever and a cooperative governor rod which has a counterstop provided with a sliding block that is movably disposed between the parallel coextensive arms against the initial stressing force of a spring member with the counterstop being arranged to cooperate with a stop means pivotally associated with the housing. The spring member is arranged to load the sliding block and adjustable for the purpose of varying the initial stress and setting the onset of adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1979Date of Patent: December 15, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Reinhard Schwartz, Ernst Ritter, Rolf Muller, Werner Bruhmann
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Patent number: 4286559Abstract: A pneumatic diaphragm control member is proposed for a fuel injection device for internal combustion engines, especially for a boost-pressure dependent full-load stop, wherein the initial and end positions of a push rod provided with a control diaphragm and movable against a resetting spring can be varied, and wherein the effective pressure range is variable by means of separate adjusting means which do not affect one another. The push rod of the diaphragm control member contacts, in the unpressurized starting position, a stop screw mounted in the lid cover, and, in the pressurized end position, is in contact, by means of a counter stop attached to an extension of the push rod and adjustable in the direction of motion of the push rod, with a second end stop arranged in the pressure chamber. Thus, the bias of the resetting spring can be changed by changing the position of a bearing bushing for the push rod, which bushing serves as an abutment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1979Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz, Rolf Muller, Martin Bohm
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Patent number: 4286558Abstract: A centrifugal governor for fuel injected internal combustion engines is proposed, especially an idling and final rpm governor for Diesel vehicle engines, in which the sudden emission of smoke upon starting of a heavily loaded engine is prevented. The improved governor comprises an additional idling spring secured on a force transmitting lever which is acted upon by the main control spring and by means of which additional idling spring in the idling setting of the service lever the restoring force of the idling spring on a portion (b) of the idling sleeve path (a) is amplified. This force of the additional idling spring is, however, made at least partially ineffective by a thrust member when the service lever is pivoted into the full-load position.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1979Date of Patent: September 1, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ilija Djordjevic, Ernst Ritter, Thomas Lang
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Patent number: 4273088Abstract: An apparatus for setting the angular relationship between rotating driving, and driven members in the injection pump drive of an internal combustion engine. The driving member and the driven member have a toothed portion of which at least one is a helical toothed portion, whereby the toothed portions are coupled to each other by a coupler member having toothed portions which mesh with the toothed portions of the driving and driven members. At least one of the toothed portions of the coupler member is configured as a helical portion and is hydraulically displaceable with respect to the other toothed portions. This hydraulic displacement is controlled by a centrifugal governor having flyweights. The flyweights displace a valve member against the force of at least one spring in an rpm-dependent manner to effect the rpm-dependent adjustment of the instant of injection. In addition to the rpm-dependent displacement, a load-dependant displaceability, can be superimposed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1979Date of Patent: June 16, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eberhard Hofmann, Ernst Ritter, Heinrich Staudt
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Patent number: 4267808Abstract: A centrifugal rpm governor is proposed for fuel injected internal combustion engines in which the full-load supply quantity is precisely settable at a fixed and invariable full-load setting and a predetermined constant pivot angle of the setting member actuated by the service lever. The governor includes an intermediate lever that is coupled with the supply quantity adjustment member of the injection pump, which intermediate lever is engaged both by a control member that is moved by flyweights in accordance with rpm and a setting member pivotable for the purpose of arbitrarily varying the supply quantity. The setting member and the control member both are articulated on the intermediate lever via a shift lever connecting both members, and the intermediate lever is provided with a pivotal bearing adjustable in the governor housing solely for the purpose of accomplishing the basic setting of the full-load supply quantity.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1979Date of Patent: May 19, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ilija Djordjevic, Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4258675Abstract: A regulator apparatus controlled by spring tension, such as a centrifugal governor for internal combustion engines wherein the spring characteristic of the regulator spring remains unchanged during operation and a regulator effectiveness which remains the same over a long period of time is attainable and which includes at least one compression spring acting as the regulator spring and inserted between two supports as well as an actuation member to transfer those regulator motions which tend to cause a change in length of the spring over onto the first spring end, which actuation member can tilt about a transverse shaft disposed perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the spring, the compression spring intentionally inserted into an installed position such that a point on the front face of the appropriate spring end, which point transfers the largest spring force component onto the spring support associated with the tiltable actuation member lies in a plane extending parallel to the longitudinal shaft of tType: GrantFiled: February 12, 1979Date of Patent: March 31, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Werner Volz, Friedrich Russeler, Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz
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Patent number: 4254753Abstract: A speed governor is proposed for fuel injected internal combustion engines capable of correcting the amount and/or mass of the injected fuel set by the governor, in order to maintain engine power at a fluctuating fuel temperature. The governor contains a supporting lever which retains the supporting pin of a control lever movable by the control member. The control lever is coupled with the fuel feed rate adjusting member of the injection pump, and the supporting lever is pivotable in the direction of an increase in the fuel feed rate, by means of a servo actuator of a correction device operating in dependence on the fuel temperature, when the fuel temperature rises. This correction step effective on the supporting lever also makes it possible to shut off the engine, independently of the fuel feed rate correction, by means of a shutoff lever effective on the supporting lever.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1979Date of Patent: March 10, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz
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Patent number: 4243004Abstract: An injection pump with a full-load stop, preferably electronically controlled, which is adjustable against the force of a prestressed spring as a result of the control exerted by an electromagnet with a controllable stroke and which, when there is no current in the magnet, is displaceable by means of the spring into its terminal position which determines a reduced full-load quantity. Thus the maximum injection quantity is reduced in accordance with operating conditions and with the operational status of the engine; by this means, environmentally safer and smoother engine operation is possible at all operating conditions. The injection pump is also capable of continuing to function if the electrical or electronic parts fail.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1979Date of Patent: January 6, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Ritter, Werner Faupel, Karsten Hummel, Johannes Locher
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Patent number: 4228774Abstract: A control apparatus is proposed for supercharged fuel injection engines, particularly for diesel engines having a V-type configuration that include two induction tubes, which apparatus enables the adjustment of the controller output range or the limitation of the full-load position of the delivery-amount adjusting member in the fuel measurement apparatus, depending upon which induction tube has the lower prevalent charge-air pressure. The control apparatus comprises a switch valve arranged in the control line to a pressure chamber of a correcting element which acts on the delivery-amount adjusting member; said correcting element has a valve member, controlled by the charge-air pressure, connecting the pressure chamber with an intake pressure line leading to the area of lower prevalent charge-air pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1978Date of Patent: October 21, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Ernst Ritter, Josef Trui, Manfred Kramer
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Patent number: 4227504Abstract: An apparatus is proposed for the limitation of the full-load injection quantity in a supercharged, internal combustion engine with fuel injection, which serves to effect the charge-pressure-dependent and atmospheric-pressure-dependent limitation of the full-load injection quantity. The apparatus comprises two pneumatic control elements which act upon a single, automatically disengageable full-load stop via deflecting elements in order to attain a starting quantity.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1978Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Ernst Ritter
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Patent number: 4223653Abstract: A control apparatus for limiting the fuel supply quantity of a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines such as Diesel engines or the like by means of which an automatically controlled additional starting quantity of fuel is variable in accordance with temperature which comprises a limit stop displaceable by the pressure of a control medium and connected with a control piston and including a starting detent which varies its position in accordance with temperature; the limit stop in its first terminal position being arranged to determine the starting setting and in its other terminal position under the control of the pressure of the control medium, being arranged to determine the full-load setting of the fuel supply quantity adjustment member of the injection pump, a starting setting for a warm engine being controlled by the starting detent which limits the starting setting to the full-load setting or below.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1979Date of Patent: September 23, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hans-Jurgen A. W. Jaenke, deceased, Ernst Ritter, Reinhard Schwartz, Klaus Schmidt