Patents by Inventor Gerd Loesch

Gerd Loesch 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: 7775192
    Abstract: A radial piston pump has a pump housing containing pump elements and whose high-pressure conduits extending in the pump housing are embodied so as to significantly increase the permissible operating pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Wuetherich, Josef Guentert, Karl-Heinz Linek, Florian Kleer, Gerd Loesch, Peter Grabert, Nicola Cimaglia, Antonio Diaferia, Rosanna Iorizzo, Sandra Ranaldo, Giuseppe Palma
  • Patent number: 6457957
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radial piston pump having a longitudinally movable pump piston in a cylinder chamber which communicates with a suction valve. A closing body of the suction valve is loaded by a valve closing spring in the direction of its valve seat affixed to the housing. The valve closing spring is supported on the pump piston. The radial piston pump is especially useful in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, particularly in common rail injection systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Inventors: Ruediger Bauer, Gerd Loesch
  • Patent number: 6422212
    Abstract: A fuel injection system has a low-pressure pump for withdrawing fuel from a tank and a high-pressure pump, which is supplied by the low-pressure pump and has camshaft-actuated pump elements. An on-off valve is connected on the inlet side to the pressure side of the low-pressure pump and on the outlet side, is connected on the one hand to a camshaft chamber of the high-pressure pump and on the other hand, is connected to the suction side of the low-pressure pump. At a first pressure threshold, a spring-loaded valve piston of the on-off valve opens a connection between the low-pressure pump and the camshaft chamber and at a relatively higher second pressure threshold, opens a connection between the pressure side and the suction side of the low-pressure pump. A throttle bore in the bottom of the valve piston serves to ventilate the low-pressure system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erhard Faix, Helmut Clauss, Rainer Lorenz, Gerd Loesch, Markus Rueckle
  • Patent number: 6406272
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radial piston pump for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, particularly in a common rail injection system. The pump includes a drive shaft that is supported in a pump housing and is embodied eccentrically or has a number of cam-like projections in the circumference direction. A number of pistons that are disposed radially with regard to the drive shaft are each disposed in a respective cylinder chamber and are set into a reciprocating motion in the radial direction in the cylinder chamber upon rotation of the drive shaft. Each respective cylinder chamber is sealed on the radial outside in relation to the drive shaft by a valve plate that has an intake side check valve and a high-pressure side check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Ruthardt, Rainer Haeberer, Rainer Lorenz, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol
  • Publication number: 20020009373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radial piston pump for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, particularly in a common rail injection system, with a drive shaft (4) that is supported in a pump housing (2) and is embodied eccentrically or has a number of cam-like projections in the circumference direction, and preferably with a number of pistons (12) that are disposed radially with regard to the drive shaft (4), each in a respective cylinder chamber (18, 74), and can be set into a reciprocating motion in the radial direction in the cylinder chamber (18, 74) upon rotation of the drive shaft (4), wherein each respective cylinder chamber (18, 74) is sealed on the radial outside in relation to the drive shaft (4) by a valve plate (24, 72) that has an intake side check valve (26, 60) and a high-pressure side check valve (28); in order to increase the efficiency of the pump, the invention proposes that the intake side check valve (26, 60) has a tappet (30, 66) that passes th
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: SIEGFRIED RUTHARDT, RAINER HAEBERER, RAINER LORENZ, GERD LOESCH, SANDRO SOCCOL
  • Patent number: 6305356
    Abstract: A common rail system having a regulated prefeed pump, which pumps a fuel flow from a fuel tank to a high-pressure pump. The fuel flow is split with the aid of a valve assembly into a lubricant flow and a high-pressure feed flow that is pumped into a high-pressure reservoir, and acted upon by high pressure. The prefeed pump has a substantially linear characteristic feed curve with a certain slope. To improve the regulating performance, the valve assembly for the lubricant flow includes a valve whose characteristic feed curve initially rises in a first portion (I) with the rpm of the prefeed pump with the same slope as the characteristic feed curve of the prefeed pump. Then in a second portion (II) rises substantially linearly, with a lesser slope than the characteristic feed curve of the prefeed pump, and in a third portion (III) finally drops again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erhard Faix, Gerd Loesch
  • Patent number: 6216583
    Abstract: A piston pump of the roller tappet type for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, particularly in common rail injection systems. A drive shaft that is supported in the pump housing and has a number of cam-like projections in the circumference direction. At least one tappet that is disposed in a cylinder chamber radially with regard to the drive shaft and in its radially inner end region has a rotatable roller which is supported so that it can roll in the circumference direction against the drive shaft in the region of its projections in order to reduce the wear in the region of the roller bearing. The pump is embodied so that a lubricant supply opening that leads from the circumference of the tappet and feeds into the radially inner tappet end region supporting the roller and at least during a part of the stroke, communicates with a lubricant supply line of the housing, which line feeds into the cylinder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Klinger, Uwe Kuhn, Bernd Rosenau, Peter Traub, Thomas Goettel, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol
  • Patent number: 6170466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a quantity control valve for a fuel injection system, used in internal combustion engines, which includes a longitudinal slide that is movable in a valve housing between a first and a second control chamber and that allocates the fuel, flowing in from at least one low-pressure pump, to at least one high-pressure pump. For driving the longitudinal slide, the inflowing fuel is delivered into the first control chamber via a throttle or baffle valve, past the longitudinal slide. In the second control chamber, there is either a restoring spring that urges the longitudinal slide in the direction of its closing position, or the longitudinal slide there has an effective face-end surface area upstream of which a control line containing a throttle valve ends; this end face is smaller in surface area than the effective surface area of the face end in the first control chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Klinger, Uwe Kuhn, Bernd Rosenau, Peter Traub, Thomas Goettel, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol, Regis Blanc, Francois Rossignol, Mathias Schumacher, Andre Fromentoux
  • Patent number: 6142747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel pump assembly having a low-pressure region (ND) with at least one low-pressure pump-and a high-pressure region (HD) with at least one regulated-quantity high-pressure pump, which pumps a quantity of fuel required to compensate for the quantitative balance in the high-pressure region, the quantity regulation being effected via a metering unit which is disposed between the low-pressure pump and the high-pressure pump. In order, by simple and sturdy means with high availability and a long service life, to prevent the fuel quantity in correctly pumped by the metering unit at certain operating points from reaching the high-pressure region, the invention proposes that the pumping flow of the low-pressure pump is greater than the pumping flow of the high-pressure pump; that a fuel return line branches off between the metering unit and the high-pressure pump and discharges into the inlet of the low-pressure pump; and that a control element is disposed in the return line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Rosenau, Gerd Loesch, Markus Rueckle
  • Patent number: 6095118
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which with the aid of a high-pressure pump fuel is pumped at high pressure into a high-pressure fuel reservoir (6), from which electrically controlled fuel injection valves (9) are supplied. The pressure in the high-pressure fuel reservoir is maintained in such a way that a first pump element (16) pumps fuel into the high-pressure reservoir with a variable pumping quantity, and a second pump element (17) as needed pumps a constant high-pressure fuel quantity into the high-pressure reservoir. A simple, economical system is thus obtained for furnishing high fuel pressure for injection by the fuel injection system (FIG. 2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Klinger, Uwe Kuhn, Bernd Rosenau, Peter Traub, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol
  • Patent number: 5996556
    Abstract: The invention relates to a quantity control valve for a fuel injection system, used in internal combustion engines, with a longitudinal slide that is movable in a valve housing between a restoring spring chamber and a control chamber and that allocates the fuel, flowing in from at least one low-pressure pump, to at least one high-pressure pump. For driving the longitudinal slide, the inflowing fuel in the control chamber is delivered past the longitudinal slide via a throttle or baffle valve. In the closing position, firstly, a cylindrical guide region of the longitudinal slide bounded on both sides by annular grooves blocks off an inlet bore. The guide region is wider than the diameter of the inlet bore. Secondly, it covers an outlet bore except for a partial intersection with the relieved annular groove shifted into the return in the opening direction of the longitudinal slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Klinger, Uwe Kuhn, Marcel Wuest, Bernd Roseneau, Peter Traub, Thomas Goettel, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol
  • Patent number: 5839414
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines, having a high-pressure pump, whose pump work chamber can be made to communicate on the intake side with a fuel tank via a supply line and on the compression side with a common rail via a high-pressure line, from which common rail a plurality of injection lines lead away to the individual injection valves, and having one pressure valve each in the supply line and the high-pressure line, by way of which a return flow of fuel out of the pump work chamber into the supply line and out of the high-pressure line into the pump work chamber is prevented. The pressure valve of the supply line and the pressure valve of the high-pressure line are disposed in a common valve combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Klinger, Uwe Kuhn, Bernd Rosenau, Peter Traub, Thomas Goettel, Gerd Loesch, Sandro Soccol, Regis Blanc, Andre Fromentoux, Francois Rossignol