Patents by Inventor Heinrich Knapp
Heinrich Knapp 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: 4363446Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle of the type which includes an outwardly opening valve needle of a valve group and an inner longitudinal bore connecting the valve group with a fuel inlet to the nozzle. The longitudinal bore includes a narrow section between two larger sections, the two larger sections being thus decoupled from pressure variations in either section.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1981Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gunther Jaggle, Ernst Lang, Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4361126Abstract: A fuel injection valve is proposed which, especially in low-fuel-pressure systems, serves to inject fuel into the intake tube of a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition. The fuel injection valve includes a fixed valve seat cooperating with a movable valve element, downstream of which the fuel to be injected is carried into a mixture guidance channel of a mixture guidance tube and surrounded on all sides with air or exhaust gas for preparation immediately upon its entrance into the mixture guidance channel and injected via an injection opening into the intake tube. The mixture guidance channel may be embodied as tapering in conical fashion toward the injection opening. For the purpose of preliminary preparation of the fuel, secondary air or exhaust gas can already be delivered to the fuel before its entrance into the mixture guidance channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1980Date of Patent: November 30, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Manfred Lembke, Mathias Linssen, Jurgen Peczkowski, Rainer Hoppel
-
Patent number: 4354472Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which can be triggered in such a manner that when control signals characterizing engine overrunning are present the fuel injection is interrupted. The fuel injection system includes metering valves, each of which is assigned one regulating valve, the movable valve element of which can be exposed on one side to the fuel pressure downstream of the pertinent metering valve and on the other side to the pressure in a control pressure line, which is limited on one side by a control throttle and on the other side by a control pressure valve. During engine overrunning, an electromagnetic valve which is disposed in a bypass that bypasses the control throttle or the control pressure valve or an electromagnetic valve in the control pressure line can be controlled in such a manner that the fuel pressure in the control pressure line increases and the regulating valves close, as a result of which the fuel injection is interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1980Date of Patent: October 19, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Wolfgang Maisch
-
Patent number: 4341192Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which brings about an improvement in the acceleration behavior of an internal combustion engine. The fuel injection system includes metering valves actuatable by means of an air flow measuring device, at which valves a pressure difference can be held constant via control valves and the pressure difference is variable in accordance with operational characteristics of the engine. To this end, the control valves are located on a control pressure line in which a control throttle and an electromagnetic valve are disposed. At the same time, pressure limitation elements communicate with the control pressure line and, in the event of acceleration of the engine, reduce the extent of increase of control pressure and thus assure fuel metering corresponding with the operational state of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Wolfgang Maisch, Klaus-Jurgen Peters, Michael Wissmann, Gunther Jaggle, Peter Schelhas
-
Patent number: 4327690Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injection valve having a plug connection to the fuel line, wherein at least two sealing rings are provided between the connection stud and the fuel line nipple in order to obtain emergency sealing capacity.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1979Date of Patent: May 4, 1982Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Rudolf Sauer, Waldemar Hans, Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4300506Abstract: A fuel supply system for supplying fuel and for satisfactorily preparing the fuel-air mixture fed to a mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engine which comprises an arbitrarily operable throttle element arranged in the air intake manifold wherein fuel can be supplied upstream of this throttle element. The throttle element is mounted on a rocking lever connected to a bearing shaft arranged outside of the air flow at the air intake manifold and is displaceable in the opening direction during full load and at higher speeds against the force of a compensating spring until the throttle element comes into contact, with a full-load stop, with the rocking lever. During full load and at low speeds, the compensating spring displaces the throttle element in the closing direction so that a rather large pressure drop occurs at the throttle element so that an improved conditioning of the injected fuel is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1979Date of Patent: November 17, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Wolfgang Rehmann
-
Patent number: 4299124Abstract: A temperature-dependent resistor or hot wire is extended over at least three anchoring points and to improve the measuring accuracy of the hot wire and to ensure sufficiently high temperatures over the entire active length of the hot wire during a cleaning step by burning, the hot wire is configured in the shape of loops at all anchoring points and the intersecting wire sections of the loops are conductively connected with one another. Current lead wires are preferably conductively attached to the hot wire by means of which the current is conducted to an electric control device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1979Date of Patent: November 10, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Rudolf Sauer, Peter Romann, Udo Hafner, Thomas Wilfert, Werner Kammerer
-
Patent number: 4295452Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which serves to supply fuel to a mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engine in accordance with operational parameters of the engine. The fuel injection system includes a metallic fuel distributor tube, which communicates via at least one branch line with at least one fuel injection valve, wherein the branch line is embodied as a metal tube and is connected with the fuel injection valve by means of a threaded assembly. The material used for the branch line is easily bendable metal. Between the threaded assembly at the branch line and the fuel injection valve, a thin-walled metallic bellows is provided, by means of which a lateral displacement between the attachment point of the branch line at the fuel distributor tube and the installation point of the fuel injection valve is compensated for, and the noise of operation produced by the fuel injection valve is damped.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1979Date of Patent: October 20, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Lembke, Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4271794Abstract: A fuel delivery apparatus is proposed for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines, which serves to meter a fuel quantity adapted to the quantity of air induced and to regulate the fuel-air mixture in accordance with operational characteristics of the internal combustion engine. The fuel delivery apparatus comprises a fuel metering system actuated by an air measuring element arranged in the air induction line of the internal combustion engine, while the air measuring element has a control body which controls the size of the air induction tube cross-sectional area, a radial vane which is pivotably fixed in a work chamber, and a damping vane fixed in a damping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1978Date of Patent: June 9, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Hermann Eisele, Werner Kammerer
-
Patent number: 4243003Abstract: A fuel injection system is proposed which serves for the improved conditioning of the fuel-air mixture fed to a mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engine. The fuel injection system comprises preferably an injection valve at the air intake pipe wherein a conditioning member, pivotable by the amount of air introduced in opposition to a resetting force, is arranged downstream of an arbitrarily operable throttle element, this pivoting action being arranged to cause a pressure drop at the conditioning member. The fuel injection takes place through an injection valve disposed in an air bypass beyond the throttle element and the conditioning member. Due to the pressure drop produced by the conditioning member, it is ensured that, in all positions of the throttle element, a constant air stream is maintained via the air bypass, which serves for conditioning the injected fuel.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1979Date of Patent: January 6, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4227501Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus is proposed for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines which provides continuous injection into the intake manifold. An air flow rate member and an arbitrarily actuatable throttle valve are disposed in sequence within the intake manifold, the air flow rate member being moved against a return force in accordance with the quantity of air flowing therethrough and thereby adjusts the movable member of a metering and distribution valve assembly disposed within the fuel supply line for the purpose of apportioning a quantity of fuel which is proportional to the air quantity. The control slide of the metering valve is actuated by means of a spring which moves in a direction to open the metering valve when the engine is being turned off.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1978Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Gunther Jaggle
-
Patent number: 4224914Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines with continuous injection into the air induction line adapted to apportion a quantity of fuel proportional to the quantity of induced air and to accomplish good preparation of the fuel-air mixture. The fuel injection apparatus comprises an air flow rate meter arranged in the air induction tube, which moves in accordance with the quantity of air flowing through it against a return force and thereby actuates a fuel apportionment valve. Accordingly, the apportioned fuel flows into a fuel feed line downstream from the fuel apportionment point, which fuel feed line empties on the one side into the air induction line and is connected on the other with a source of air.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1978Date of Patent: September 30, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4220123Abstract: The invention relates to a subpressure limiter for a fuel injection system of a mixture compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engine wherein the apportioned fuel quantity is injected into the suction tube containing an arbitrarily actuatable throttle valve, and wherein the suction tube sections upstream and downstream of the throttle valve are interconnected by means of a bypass whose cross-sectional area is variable by means of the subpressure limiter and features a pressure dependent control element responding to the subpressure prevailing within the suction tube section downstream of the throttle valve during an overrunning operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1977Date of Patent: September 2, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eberhard Utz, Siegfried Fehrenbach, Dittmar Klett, Richard Bertsch, Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4214565Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines. An air flow rate member, arranged in the air intake manifold is moved against a return force by air flowing through it to adjust a control slide of a metering and distribution assembly arranged in the fuel supply line in order to effect the apportionment of a quantity of fuel which is proportional to the air quantity. The return force is produced by a pressure fluid acting upon the control slide, the pressure of the fluid being variable in accordance with operating characteristics of the internal combustion engine. The control slide has an actuation slide contacting the air flow rate member as well as an apportionment slide, which has a projection with a smaller diameter projecting into an axial throttle bore of the actuation slide and defining a damping space in the throttle bore.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1978Date of Patent: July 29, 1980Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Thomas Wilfert, Alfred Grassle, Paul Fussner
-
Patent number: 4179069Abstract: To maintain the pressure with which fuel is injected from a fuel injection valve uniform during the injection period and to provide for atomization of the injected fuel by delivering the fuel through a nozzle adjacent a swirl chamber from a valve in which a continuous fluid flow is maintained from an inlet opening to a drain opening, an auxiliary valve is located adjacent the nozzle and coupled to the nozzle opening member, typically a needle valve cone, to interrupt return or drain fluid flow so that the full pressure of fuel delivered to the swirl chamber is available during injection time and the swirl action maintained, thus atomizing fuel being injected.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1978Date of Patent: December 18, 1979Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Waldemar Hans
-
Patent number: 4174692Abstract: A fuel injection device for mixture compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines, which serves to meter the fuel proportional to the intake air and aspirates the air-fuel mixture. The fuel injection device includes an air flow rate meter located downstream of a butterfly valve in the air induction tube. The bearing shaft of the air flow rate meter includes a fuel metering valve which can be activated directly by the air flow rate meter. To correct the air-fuel mixture because of air density downstream of the butterfly valve, the fuel injection device is so arranged, that when the butterfly valve is in its idling and full load positions a rich air-fuel mixture can be regulated, and when the butterfly valve is in a partial load position a lean mixture can be regulated.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1977Date of Patent: November 20, 1979Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolf Wessel, Gerhard Stumpp, Heinrich Knapp
-
Patent number: 4174511Abstract: A bimetal device with an electrical heating element which serves for temperature-dependent control is provided. The bimetal device has a thin insulating layer, on which is arranged at least one electrical resistance layer which serves as a heating element. The resistance layer can be placed on the base of the bimetal device by means of vapor depositing or by thick film technology. In this manner a plurality of resistance layers can be provided that are insulated from each other and of which one serves for continual heating. It can also be useful to provide only one resistance layer which is connected in series with a PTC resistor and holds the bimetal device at a certain temperature. The embodiment of the electrical heating element as a resistance layer makes possible a very rapid heating of the bimetal.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1978Date of Patent: November 13, 1979Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Franz-Ulrich Bosch, Gunther Schnepf
-
Patent number: 4161961Abstract: A diaphragm valve which may serve as an equal pressure valve or as a pressure equalizing valve of a fuel metering and distributing unit for an externally ignited internal combustion engine. The valve has a flexible diaphragm having a clamped diameter and a pocket in the diaphragm supports a valve plate. The valve plate operatively cooperates with a valve seat of the valve and has an annular recess arranged to receive a spring to center the valve plate. The valve also includes a stationary thrust plate which is concentrically disposed relative to the valve seat, which defines a knife-shaped edge which lies in a common plane with the valve seat and which operatively cooperates with the valve plate. The knife-shaped edge is penetrated by a plurality of radially extending means defining openings therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1977Date of Patent: July 24, 1979Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Max Greiner, Klaus-Jurgen Peters, Gunther Jaggle
-
Patent number: 4136653Abstract: The control pressure valve assembly for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine provides variable fluid pressure which provides a restoring force against the fuel control plunger to alter the fuel-air ratio in dependence on engine and environmental variables. In particular, the fluid pressure is regulated by a spring loaded diaphragm valve which is also subjected to a variable closing force provided by an air pressure cell and by a first temperature sensitive element which opposes the forces of the spring and of the air pressure cell to provide decreased fluid pressure at low engine temperature and a second temperature-sensitive element to oppose the force of the air pressure cell only below a predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1977Date of Patent: January 30, 1979Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heinrich Knapp, Reinhardt Schwartz, Walter Schlott, Klaus Riel, Klaus-Jurgen Peters
-
Patent number: 4114929Abstract: The invention refers to a plastic pipe or hose connection arrangement for fuel conduits for use in motor vehicles, and in particular for fuel conduits in a fuel injection installation with a hose spout carried by a connecting piece, on to the nipple of which the pipe or hose end is pushed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1977Date of Patent: September 19, 1978Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Heinrich Knapp