Patents by Inventor Gunter Kulke

Gunter Kulke 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: 4632466
    Abstract: A dual-circuit pressure medium brake system is equipped with relay valves disposed ahead of the brake cylinders. Each brake circuit is equipped with a control also acting in the other circuit and overlapping each other, and a primary brake circuit is designed in such a way that it contains all control elements necessary for optimal brake pressure adaptation, while a secondary brake circuit is merely an auxiliary brake circuit without control elements. In this manner each brake pressure metering can be simultaneously adjusted. During the loss of the primary brake circuit, the secondary brake circuit guarantees a minimal brake pressure. Such a pressure medium brake system is preferably used in air brake systems of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingolf Grauel, Gunter Kulke, Egbert Muller, Werner Stumpe
  • Patent number: 4603919
    Abstract: A pressure-medium brake system, which comprises multiple circuits and has associated with each brake cylinder or group of brake cylinders relay valves which are controllable by a control medium. Depending on the number of brake circuits and the kind of the respective control medium, the relay valves are provided with several, possibly different, control chambers. This results in an overlapping control which insures that each relay valve can even be controlled in the event that a control circuit has been lost. The brake system is preferably used in utility vehicles equipped with air brakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingolf Grauel, Gunter Kulke, Egbert Muller, Werner Stumpe
  • Patent number: 4496192
    Abstract: A pressure medium brake system for motor vehicles is proposed in which a high-pressure-producing apparatus and a normal-pressure brake apparatus are provided. The brake pressure is reduced with the aid of pressure limiters from high pressure to normal pressure. In order to attain rapid filling of the brake cylinders, one relay valve is disposed before each group of brake cylinders, the relay valves being triggered with normal pressure and very rapidly directing the high pressure into the brake cylinders with a large pressure drop. Upon attaining the maximum pressure level of the normal pressure, the supply of high pressure in the relay valve is cut off. The pressure medium brake system is preferably used as a compressed-air brake system for trucks and trailer-trucks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingolf Grauel, Gerald Hofer, Gunter Kulke, Werner Stumpe
  • Patent number: 4240385
    Abstract: An injection valve to control the fuel injection into the intake duct of an internal combustion engine. The injection valve, which is preferably mechanically actuated, is placed in a supporting opening in the wall of an intake duct, and is provided with a gasket between the outer wall of the injection valve housing and the outer wall of the support. The injection valve housing is arranged contact-free in the support opening and the thus-produced annular slit is closed by a bellows member. The injection valve housing is associated at its free end with a fuel distributor element. In this manner a greater freedom of movement of the valve housing in the support opening is thereby provided in addition to a substantial increase in thermal insulation, whereby manufacturing tolerances and thermal fluctuations are not significant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Kulke
  • Patent number: 4225088
    Abstract: The invention relates to fuel injection nozzles for internal combustion engines provided with a nozzle body one end of which includes plural fuel injection spray apertures with plural telescopable valve needles slidably positioned in the nozzle body and arranged to control feed to the spray apertures. At least one valve needle is controllable by an adjusting piston subjected to fuel supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Kulke, Konrad Eckert
  • Patent number: 4143625
    Abstract: An injection valve to control the fuel injection into the intake duct of an internal combustion engine. The injection valve, which is preferably electromagnetically activated, is placed in a supporting opening in the wall of an intake duct, and is provided with a gasket between the outer wall of the injection valve housing and the outer wall of the support. The injection valve housing is arranged contact-free in the support opening and the thus-produced annular slit is closed by a bellows member. The injection valve housing is associated at its free end with a fuel distributor element. In this manner a greater freedom of movement of the valve housing in the support opening is thereby provided in addition to a substantial increase in thermal insulation, whereby manufacturing tolerances and thermal fluctuations are not significant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Kulke
  • Patent number: 4136654
    Abstract: This invention discloses fuel injection nozzles for internal combustion engines which are known to have a needle valve that is shiftable under pressure of the fuel supply against the force of a closing spring and more particularly the improvement wherein the opening stroke of the needle valve can be changed by a transversely movable slide element that includes a spool-like body having a medial area of varying diameter which serves to limit the stroke of the needle valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Kulke, Odon Kopse, Gregor Schuster