Patents by Inventor Franz Eheim

Franz Eheim 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: 4714412
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has a shutoff device for the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, comprising a magnetic valve, which controls an intake bore to the work chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump further has a relief conduit, which is connected by an annular slide on the pump piston with the suction chamber in order to terminate the effective supply stroke of the pump piston. In order to assure reliable shutoff of the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, a check valve is further disposed in the connection between the pump work chamber and the suction chamber, which check valve is closed, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with the collaboration of the pressure drop from the suction chamber to the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Bohringer, Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4703730
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a control device is proposed in which a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity is placed at an adjustable spring which is not supported by the main power source of a governor lever. The control lever is subjected to lesser forces provided by the intended auxiliary springs, starting springs or idling springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4665872
    Abstract: A rotary magnet having a transducer for fuel regulation of a fuel injection pump which requires a minimum of structural space while having a maximum of adjustment force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4649883
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has a shutoff device for the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, comprising a magnetic valve, which controls an intake bore to the work chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump further has a relief conduit, which is connected by an annular slide on the pump piston with the suction chamber in order to terminate the effective supply stroke of the pump piston. In order to assure reliable shutoff of the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, a check valve is further disposed in the connection between the pump work chamber and the suction chamber, which check valve is closed, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with the collaboration of the pressure drop from the suction chamber to the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Bohringer, Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4580538
    Abstract: There is proposed a speed governor for a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a governor lever for setting the fuel injection quantity and a governor spring assembly arranged to engage the governor lever and counter to which an rpm-dependent force acts. To compensate for manufacturing tolerances of the governor spring assembly, it is also proposed that the effective length of a spring of the governor spring assembly be varied by realizing one of the supporting parts of the governor spring assembly as a multiple-part element. The supporting part is embodied such that it can be displaced by an adjusting lever in order to vary the pre-stressing of the governor spring, and that the first part is extended coaxially through it out of the interior of the fuel injection pump and can then be rotated in order to adjust the effective length of the governor spring and then fixed in an intended rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4541385
    Abstract: A fuel injection system (FIG. 1) provided with pump/nozzles is proposed, which has a central fuel metering device which functions with a deviation or metering piston and a distributor or multi-way valve as a metering control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Konrad Eckert, Heinz Links
  • Patent number: 4539964
    Abstract: To provide for accurate alignment of a housing (10) retaining a fuel injection element (12, 15), and a second housing (23) retaining a control element controlling a function of the fuel injection element, in which the relative positions of the pump housing (10) and of the control element housing (23) are determinative of adjustment and alignment of interengagement between the injection element and the control element, the two housings are provided with attachment screws to attach them securely together, while permitting respective removal, for example for replacement of a sealing gasket (26), and to insure precisely aligned re-assembly, the housings include position locating means (27-34, 35') such as interengaging projection-and-recess means (40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110; 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107) which accurately position the housings with respect to each other, and which are positionable after the housings have been first assembled and aligned to provide for said adjusted and aligned interengage
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ilja Djordjevic, Franz Eheim, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4534332
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a device for adjusting the injection timing having a work chamber defined by an adjusting piston and communicating via a throttle bore with a pressure source from which the pressure to adjust the adjusting piston is drawn. In order to modify the pressure in the work chamber, the work chamber can be made to communicate via a pressure limiting valve with the relief side of the pump. The control force of the pressure limiting valve is adjustable by means of a stepping motor. An influence on the pressure controlling the adjusting piston is thereby obtained which is restricted to the work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4526146
    Abstract: An adjusting device in a fuel injection pump including a pivotable lever with a stop on one end which limits the movement of a quantity adjusting device counter to a spring force, a stepping motor including an adjusting device which actuates said lever for adjusting said stop which limits movement of the quantity adjusting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ilija Djordjevic, Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4519352
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a control device is proposed in which a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity is placed at an adjustable spring which is not supported by the main power source of a governor lever. The control lever is subjected to lesser forces provided by the intended auxiliary springs, starting springs or idling springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4512308
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump in which the quantity adjustment member has a travel limitation in the form of an adjustable stop, which is adjusted in accordance with the displacement of an adjusting piston in accordance with a contour defined on the adjusting piston. The displacement of the adjusting piston is effected with the rpm-dependent pressure of the suction chamber of the fuel injection pump, and the work chamber preceding the adjusting piston can be uncoupled from the suction chamber via a throttle. The maximum displacement of the adjusting piston is limited by a stop which is adjustable in accordance with charge pressure or by a pressure control device by means of which the pressure in the work chamber can be adjusted or limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Max Straubel, Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4505241
    Abstract: A speed governor of a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, having a governor lever for adjusting the fuel injection quantity and a governor spring assembly engaging the governor lever counter to which assembly an rpm-dependent force acts. To compensate for manufacturing tolerances in the governor spring assembly, it is proposed that the effective length of a prestressed governor spring in the governor spring assembly be effected by means of the rotation of a spring plate, in that the spring plate has a sleeve provided with an outer thread, onto which part the governor spring can be threaded. After the rotation of the spring plate, this plate is held in its terminal position, under the influence of the initial stressing force of the governor spring, in a positively engaged connection with intermeshed components which limit the relieving of the governor spring assembly in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4491111
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine is proposed. The fuel injection apparatus includes a pump work chamber enclosed within a pump housing, which work chamber is defined at one end by an axially displaceable and rotatable pump piston. The pump work chamber can be made to communicate, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with a fuel inlet conduit via an electromagnetically actuatable metering valve and a check valve. The metering valve and check valve are combined into a common valve housing and are disposed in the immediate vicinity of the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Wilfried Bohringer
  • Patent number: 4489698
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for Diesel engines in which a rotating and reciprocating piston pressurizes and distributes fuel to individual pressure lines leading to the injection valves of the engine. In order to change the timing of injection with respect to the engine cycle, there is provided a mechanism to change the relative angle between the pressurizing piston and its drive means, which runs in synchronism with the engine. The mechanism operates hydraulically and is affected by the fuel pressure in the sump of the injection pump. There is also provided a hydraulic control valve mechanism which permits varying amounts of fuel to flow back from the sump to the low pressure side of the fuel delivery pump, thereby changing the injection timing. A primary control valve adjusts the sump pressure on the basis of engine speed while a secondary control valve adjusts the sump pressure on the basis of engine temperature in order to adapt the timing of fuel injection to engine starting and engine warm-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Franz Eheim, Otmar Weiss, Edgar Schmitt, Werner Faupel, Edgar Gotz
  • Patent number: 4483297
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed, which has a centrifugal governor disposed in the suction chamber of the fuel injection pump, the governor having a sleeve displaceable on a piston, and a pressure chamber enclosed in the interior of the governor sleeve, the latter being defined by the end face of the piston. By means of a relief line of the pressure chamber which is opened in the offset position of the governor sleeve, the restoring force on the centrifugal governor is increased during starting by the amount of the pressure difference appearing at the governor sleeve. Beyond a predetermined adjustment of the governor sleeve, the relief line is blocked, so that the governor can function unhindered within the normal operational range. The hysteresis thus resulting upon the shut-off of the increased starting quantity improves the behavior of the engine as it runs up to operational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Claus Koster, Karl Konrath, Manfred Schwarz
  • Patent number: 4478188
    Abstract: An adjustable hydraulically operated stop for pulsed loading is proposed, which is particularly applicable for the metering piston of a fuel injection system. The stroke of this metering piston can be varied by adjusting a stop body by means of a metering converter. The supply chamber communicating with a fuel source or with the pump work chamber of one of the pump/nozzles of the fuel injection system, whose size is dependent on the stroke of the metering piston, determines the injected fuel quantity. The adjustable hydraulically operated stop encompasses a mechanical stop body, which is movably supported with respect to its adjusting member embodied by a sheath and communicates therewith via fluid, which also surrounds the adjusting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4475519
    Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which serves to inject fuel into the combustion chambers of internal combustion engines. The fuel injection system includes at least one inlet and one outlet line each for the fuel, at least one pump piston to supply the fuel to an injection valve, and at least one apparatus to adjust a parameter of the injection system, such as instant of injection, or quantity of injection, or both. Furthermore, the fuel injection system includes an electro-fluidic transducer which can be controlled by an electronic control device, the electro-fluidic transducer acting to adjust the desired parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Wolfgang Fehlmann
  • Patent number: 4461255
    Abstract: An rpm governor is proposed, in which intervention into the regulation process can be made directly via a magnet, so that the degree of proportionality, particularly with isostatic governors, can be lowered to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer
  • Patent number: 4459957
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injection pump having a governor which functions in accordance with rpm, wherein springs engage an adjusting member, of which one spring acts as the starting spring and at least a second available spring acts as the governor spring upon the adjusting member via a spring plate, the springs being supported, however, at least in the outset position, on the housing via the adjusting piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4450805
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed in which the quantity adjustment member has a travel limitation device in the form of an adjustable stop, which is adjusted in accordance with the displacement of an adjusting piston in accordance with a contour formed in the jacket face thereon. The displacement of the adjusting piston is effected via rpm-dependent pressure of the suction chamber counter to the force of a restoring spring and counter to a pressure which can be established with the aid of a pressure control valve in accordance with engine operating parameters. The adjustment of the stop is thus effected with the high work capacity of the suction chamber pressure, and the limitation of the adjustment is attained with the aid of the modulated pressure diverted from the suction chamber pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer