Patents by Inventor Gerhard Maurhoff

Gerhard Maurhoff 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: 4359990
    Abstract: A continuous fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine including a fuel metering valve 7 operating at a controlled pressure difference between chambers 13,14, the pressure difference being automatically adjusted by a regulating valve 17 including a diaphragm 18 separating two chambers 19,20. Chamber 20 is connected to relief 60 via a movable valve element 35 and the second chamber 19 is connected to the pressure upstream of the metering valve. The pressure difference is determined by a spring system acting on the diaphragm 18 including a stronger spring 33 which acts directly on the diaphragm and a weaker spring 34 which acts as a contact spring holding the valve body 35 lightly in contact with the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Audi NSU Auto Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Kromer, Armin Bauder, Gerhard Maurhoff
  • Patent number: 4180038
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine has separate ignition and continuous injection into the engine inlet duct which includes an adjustable throttle butterfly valve and a baffle flap pivoted at the side of the duct under the effect of the flow through the duct acting in opposition to a return force. The flap is coupled to a damper blade, and also to a coaxial rotary control member of a fuel metering valve, the latter comprising a control cylinder and a control piston rotating inside and in relation to the cylinder, and metering a quantity of fuel to one or more injector nozzles in proportion to the air current quantity. The control cylinder being stationary and mounted alongside the baffle flap outside the inlet duct, and the rotary control piston being connected outside the control cylinder adjacent one end to the baffle flap, and adjacent the other end to the damper blade, so as to rotate with the flap and the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: Audi Nsu Auto Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Steinwart, Gerhard Maurhoff, Armin Bauder, Gottlieb Wilmers, Reiner Pischke
  • Patent number: 4174693
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for a mixture compressing spark ignition internal combustion engine includes means for injection of fuel into the air intake of the engine. A fuel metering valve dispenses to one or more injection jets a quantity of fuel related to the quantity of air flowing through the intake. An adjustable throttle valve is in the air intake as well as an air flow measuring element which is movable against a restoring force in accordance with the quantity of air flowing through the intake. The measuring element is arranged to actuate a control element of the fuel metering valve. A damping device having a damping element connected to the measuring element is movable to displace fluid between two damping chambers through a throttling passage. One damping chamber is connected to a fuel pump which delivers fuel to the metering valve while the second damping chamber is connected to a discharge port through a thermally controlled outlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1979
    Assignee: Audi NSU Auto Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Steinwart, Gerhard Maurhoff, Armin Bauder
  • Patent number: 3940927
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine possesses a reactor for afterburning of unburned constituents in the exhaust gas. The reactor includes a shell containing a heat-insulated, freely movable reactor chamber with at least one inlet nozzle extending freely through the shell and communicating with an outlet passage of the combustion engine. An outlet is also provided for escape of the exhaust gases from the reactor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1976
    Assignee: Audi NSU Auto Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Maurhoff, Johannes Steinwart
  • Patent number: 3941525
    Abstract: A rotary piston engine of the trochoid type is provided with a housing having two end pieces and a shell having a multi-arcuate interior surface in which the piston is rotatably mounted on the eccentric of an eccentric shaft. An internal seal for the piston includes at least one scraper ring arranged to be axially movable in a concentric annular groove in one face of the piston, revolving with the piston, and pressed by spring action against the adjacent end wall of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1976
    Assignees: Audi NSU Auto Union Aktiengesellschaft, Wankel GmbH
    Inventors: Gottlieb Wilmers, Gerhard Maurhoff