Patents by Inventor Gerhard Stumpp

Gerhard Stumpp 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: 4005691
    Abstract: An improved control installation for internal combustion engines having exhaust gas recycling is described. The installation includes a suction tube, a throttle flap valve mounted within the suction tube, an exhaust gas pipe, an exhaust gas recycling valve and a return line leading from the exhaust gas pipe to the recycling valve and from there back to the suction tube downstream of the throttle flap valve. The improvement comprises a bypass line which extends from the suction tube upstream of the throttle flap valve to the recycling valve and back to the suction tube downstream of the throttle flap valve. The air that passes through the bypass line serves to cool the recycling valve. In addition, the bypass line serves as a conduit for air to the engine during idling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1977
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3999525
    Abstract: In each fuel injection valve forming part of a fuel injection apparatus and associated with an internal combustion engine, there is disposed an electric heater which transmits heat to the fuel by contact-type heat exchange. The heat output of each heater is controlled by a device which processes input signals representing different engine variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1973
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Josef Steiner, Friedbert Michel
  • Patent number: 3994267
    Abstract: A fuel injection system utilized with an engine having pre-combustion chambers, main combustion chambers, a fuel metering and quantity distribution valve, a suction tube and an air measuring member are described in further detail hereinafter. The fuel metering and quantity distribution valve has a control slide member which is controlled in its displacement by the air measuring member. The control slide member controls the fuel metered to the engine. The fuel metering and quantity distribution valve has a first differential pressure valve associated therewith which maintains the pressure difference between the fuel pressure prevailing upstream and downstream of the fuel metering location constant during injection. Structure is provided to change the pressure difference in dependence on engine parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Hermann Eisele, Otto Glockler, Heinrich Knapp, Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3994273
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines in which fuel is individually metered to each injection valve through mutually displaceable metering valves. A diaphragm-type pressure valve is disposed between each metering valve and each injection valve. One of these valves is a differential pressure valve, which maintains a constant pressure difference across the metering valve to which it is connected. The remainder of these diaphragm valves are pressure equalizing valves, controlled by the output pressure of the differential pressure valve to maintain the same constant pressure difference across each of the remaining metering valves. The injection valve supplied with fuel by the differential pressure valve, opens at a higher fuel pressure than the remaining injection valves, thus also serving as a pressure valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3983850
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying fuel for acceleration during the warm-up phase of an internal combustion engine. The fuel supplied downstream of an arbitrarily actuatable throttle butterfly valve located in the induction tube of the engine being in addition to the fuel supplied by a fuel supply system. There is disclosed a motion control means which is associated with the butterfly valve and actuated thereby upon opening of this valve. The motion control means further includes electrical contacts disposed in an electrical circuit, electromagnet means in the circuit and other valve means arranged to be controlled by said electromagnet for feeding fuel into said induction tube downstream of said butterfly valve upon closing of said contacts. There are several variants of the control means; one constituted by a flexible bellows and the other by a dash pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Josef Steiner
  • Patent number: 3983856
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines in which a fuel metering and distributing valve is controlled by an air sensing element disposed in the air suction tube of the engine and by structure which is adapted to alter the restoring force exerted on the air sensing element through the fuel metering and distributing valve. The noted structure includes a control pressure conduit, a pressure control valve connected to the control pressure conduit and a further conduit for connecting the pressure control valve to the suction tube of the engine downstream of the butterfly valve. With this structure it is possible to alter the restoring force mentioned above so that a momentarily enriched fuel-air mixture is achieved when the butterfly valve is suddenly opened and so that a momentarily weakened fuel-air mixture is achieved when the butterfly valve is suddenly closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Reinhard Schwartz
  • Patent number: 3983849
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for stratified-charge engines includes a fuel metering valve assembly controlled by an air flow sensor. The restoring force on the movable plunger in the fuel metering assembly may be varied in dependence on load by a differential pressure valve whose bias is changed by a cam-follower which cooperates with a gas-pedal linked cam. The system may also include a throttle bypass also controlled by a cam. The system may further include separate fuel injection valves for each main combustion chamber, fed by a fuel distributor mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3974811
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines of the type employing continuous fuel injection with an induction tube. A measuring member, as well as an arbitrarily actuatable throttle butterfly valve are disposed in sequence within the induction tube. A fuel metering and quantity distribution valve assembly is controlled by the measuring member in proportion to air flow rate. Pressurized fluid, preferably fuel, provides a restoring force for the measuring member, via a control pressure circuit. At least one pressure control valve is provided for controlling the pressure in the control circuit in dependence on motor parameters. A heatable control element, operating in dependence on temperature, forms part of the control valve. The heatable control element, which may be a bimetallic spring, acts in opposition to the force of another spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Friedbert Michel, Josef Steiner
  • Patent number: 3974809
    Abstract: What follows is a description of a fuel injection system for spark plug-ignited internal combustion engines with compression of the air-fuel mixture and structure for controlling the system pressure. The system is one which includes a device for regulating a fuel injection quantity operating in dependence on the air quantity streaming through a suction tube of the engine, a pressure regulator for determining normal system pressure, injection nozzles which have an opening pressure lower than the system pressure, a continuously delivering fuel pump, and the structure identified above. This structure adjusts the device for regulating the fuel injection quantity so that the starting pressure in the system is retained below the opening pressure of the injection nozzles and above the vapor pressure of the fuel until a quantity of fuel sufficient to replace the quantity of fuel evaporated or leaked due to a temperature gradient in the system resulting from engine cut off has been restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Gunther Jaggle, Rudolf Krauss, Herbert Scharl
  • Patent number: 3954091
    Abstract: A system for detoxicating the waste gases of an internal combustion engine is described, in which system at least a part of the waste gases is fed, controlled by valve means, into the intake air of the engine, and wherein the said valve controlling waste gas introduction into the intake air is actuated in dependence on the position of the flap of a throttle valve in the air intake duct of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1973
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3946714
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines including fuel injection nozzles, a fuel distributor unit, a fuel supply circuit, and a control pressure circuit. The distributor unit includes metering valves, pressure valves and a first throttle which separates the fuel supply circuit from the control pressure circuit. At least one of the pressure valves is embodied as a differential pressure control valve which has one chamber connected to the first throttle and the control pressure circuit. The control pressure circuit includes the above-mentioned chamber of the differential pressure control valve, a magnetic valve, a storage element and a second throttle. With the system noted, the pressure difference across the metering valves may be varied by varying the pressure difference across the first throttle by means of the magnetic valve via the storage element and the second throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Eckert, Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3942496
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for externally ignited engines employing continuous manifold injection includes a fuel metering valve assembly. The control slide of this valve assembly is actuated by the air-flow through the induction manifold and controls the size of fuel flow apertures. A differential pressure valve normally maintains a constant pressure difference across these metering valve apertures. The magnitude of this normally constant pressure difference can be altered in response to signals obtained from or measurements performed on operational parameters of the engine; for example, the oxygen content of the engine's exhaust gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Eisele, Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 3930479
    Abstract: In a fuel metering device for an externally ignited internal combustion engine with compression of the air-fuel mixture, which system comprises a suction tube for the intake of air in which an air-measuring device and a randomly adjustable throttle valve having a flap are arranged in sequence, and in which an essentially proportionate amount of fuel is metered into the amount of air flowing therethrough, and wherein the proportionality of the fuel amount is adjustable by means of controlling a bypass circumventing the air-measuring device in dependence on engine data, there is described an improvement which comprises a valve arranged in the bypass, the said valve being controllable by the pressure prevailing in the suction tube in the vicinity of the throttle valve, a pneumatically actuated valve means adapted for controlling the valve in the bypass, and conduit means connecting the pneumatically actuated valve means with the suction tube and having an orifice in the latter which orifice is located upstream o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1973
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Robert Bosch G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Gerhard Stumpp