Patents by Inventor Gerhard Auwaerter

Gerhard Auwaerter 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: 5697554
    Abstract: A metering valve for metering a fluid for a fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, with a hydraulic displacement amplifier for converting the actuating displacement of a piezoelectric actuator into an increased stroke of the valve needle. Integrating the displacement amplifier spatially into the valve housing in an "O valve" to give a small overall volume is served by providing the lifting piston of the displacement amplifier with an end section of reduced diameter which projects into a recess in the operation piston of the displacement amplifier. A Belleville spring lying in the amplifier chamber bounded by the pistons presses the operating piston against the actuator, and a helical compression spring arranged in the recess concentrically to the end section presses the lifting piston against the valve needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Auwaerter, Katsuoki Itoh, Rudolf Heinz, Winfried Moser, Christoph Franke