Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids that are at high pressure has a valve seat region at which a high-pressure region and a low-pressure region can be made to communicate with one another or can be disconnected from one another. A seat face for a conical valve member is embodied on a valve body, and the seat face extends in inclined fashion in the valve body. The conical valve member has a multiconical geometry in the valve seat region, with at least one first conical face and one second conical face, which have different cone angles from one another.

Abstract: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, having a valve member which is axially displaceable in a guide bore of a valve body, has two guide areas with which it is displaceably guided in the guide bore, a first upper guide area being provided on the send of the valve member facing away from the combustion chamber and a second lower guide area being provided in an area of the valve member near the combustion chamber, a lower guide area separating an annular clearance which is formed between the valve member shaft and the wall of the guide bore and is connected to a high-pressure fuel inlet channel is separated from a lower pressure space opening onto the valve seat face when the fuel injector is closed, and opening this connection during the opening stroke movement of the valve member, and having a connecting throttle cross section between the annular clearance and the lower pressure space. This throttle cross section is designed as a throttlebore.

Abstract: A fuel-supply system for an internal combustion engine, particularly of a motor vehicle. The fuel-supply system is provided with a pump for delivering fuel into a storage chamber and for producing a pressure in the storage chamber. In addition, provision is made for a pressure sensor for measuring an actual value of the pressure in the storage chamber, as well as a pressure-control valve for influencing the pressure in the storage chamber. A control unit is provided with means by which the pressure in the storage chamber is controllable to a setpoint value. In addition, the control unit is provided with means by which the closed-loop control of the pressure in the storage chamber is able to be superseded by an open-loop control.

Abstract: A fuel injection system with a common rail pressure reservoir which is filled with fuel at high pressure, and a dual substance nozzle for dual-fluid injection of fuel and a supplementary liquid into an internal combustion engine. The system includes a 2/2-way valve in the injection line between the common rail pressure reservoir and a pressure chamber surrounding the nozzle needle of the dual substance nozzle. A pressure fluid container with supplementary liquid under pressure, which via a storage valve can charge the supplementary liquid line with a respective predeterminable quantity of supplementary liquid and that in turn can be charged with supplementary liquid by means of a pump via a check valve and its internal pressure can be kept at a desired level by a pressure regulating valve. As a result, the otherwise usual, technologically substantially more complex 3/2-way magnet control valves can be replaced by a single, less expensive 2/2-way valve.

Abstract: A fuel injection valve, particularly an injection valve for fuel injection equipment of internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that can be activated using a piezoelectric or magnetostrictive actuator for exerting a translatory pump motion. A spray-discharge nozzle with at least one spray-discharge opening is hydraulically connected via a fuel pressure line to the pump piston. The spray-discharge nozzle opens when the fuel pressure produced by the pump piston in the fuel pressure line exceeds a predetermined threshold. In the fuel pressure line, at least one non-return valve is arranged so that it opens in the direction towards the spray-discharge nozzle and closes in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A fuel supply system with two series-connected pumps and fuel injection valves that inject fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an engine. The system includes a relief device. In a simple embodiment, the relief device can assure that the pressure in the pressure line can drop when the engine has been shutoff. The relief line may, however, also be embodied such that during the entire time of engine operation, the pressure in the pressure line can be lowered at any time as needed. The apparatus and the method are intended for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for enriching the oxygen content in the intake air of an internal combustion engine. To enrich the oxygen content, air is conducted through a membrane which is primarily permeable for oxygen molecules. This membrane is mounted in an enrichment channel which opens into the intake channel of the engine. The oxygen content in the intake channel is continuously detected by at least one sensor device. On the one hand, a reduction of the toxic emissions of the engine is provided while, on the other hand, an increase in the power of the engine is simultaneously provided. This is achieved with a drivable actuator device which changes the concentration of the inducted air as well as the oxygen-enriched air in dependence upon the detected oxygen content.

Abstract: A fuel supply systems with two series-connected pumps and with fuel injection valves that inject fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an engine in which a starting process takes less time because of the small feed quantity of the second fuel pump. The system includes a valve device which assures that during the starting process the first fuel pump furnishes the fuel to the fuel valves at elevated feed pressure. In many cases, this elevated feed pressure suffices to start the engine in the quickest possible time. The apparatus and the method are intended for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle.

Abstract: A fuel pump for a two-stroke internal combustion engines, having a pump chamber with an inlet valve for connecting to a fuel delivery pump. An outlet valve for connecting to an injection nozzle of the engine, and an axially driven pump piston which defines the pump chamber. For the purposes of a simple structural embodiment for reasonably priced manufacture and flexible fuel metering, a stop is provided, which defines the intake stroke of the pump piston and whose relative position to the bottom dead center of the pump piston can be controlled as a function of operating parameters of the engine.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling an internal combustion engine wherein a torque reducing control of the opening times of the inlet and outlet valves of the engine and/or a torque reducing control of the geometry of the inlet or outlet systems of the engine is undertaken in the case of a drive slip control.

Abstract: An arrangement for the treatment of exhaust gases from a compression-ignition internal combustion engine, in which, fuel is metered via a metering valve and introduced into the exhaust system via an evaporator to promote the action of a reduction catalyst arranged on the downstream side of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus of the invention for a two-stroke engine including a fuel injection with an adjusting device, which via a pulsating pressure line is supplied with the pulsating internal pressure and inner chamber of a crankcase of the two-stroke engine, so as to meter the supply quantity of the fuel injection pump as a function of the internal pressure in such a way that exhaust emissions and fuel consumption of the two-stroke engine are reduced by means of a supply quantity optimally adapted to the combustion. The fuel injection apparatus according to the invention is intended for use in two-stroke engines.

Abstract: The invention sets forth an arrangement for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases from a compression-ignition internal combustion engine, in which, to improve the operation of a reducing catalytic converter, a reducing agent is injected into the exhaust gas fed to the catalytic converter. Injection is performed by virtue of an electrically controlled metering valve which is combined in a common housing with a control valve. This control valve serves for the controlled introduction of compressed air supplied, in which a quantity of reducing agent made ready by the metering valve is prepared and introduced intermittently into the exhaust gas. This serves, in particular, to avoid urea deposition and clogging in the metering valve and the control valve and for the optimum preparation of the reducing agent introduced.

Abstract: In a method and device for the open-loop control of an internal-combustion engine, the change in the torque caused by an influencing of the ignition angle is compensated for by a correspondingly adjusted influencing of the air inducted by the internal-combustion engine. Thus, the accelerator-pedal characteristic is hardly influenced in the case of a change in the ignition angle. The method and device can be used, for example, to accelerate the heating up of a catalytic converter after start-up of the internal-combustion engine. To reinforce the heating operation and to reduce emission, an intervention in the air/fuel ratio can be made at the same time, and a switching signal can be produced, for example, for a secondary air pump. The air inducted by the internal-combustion engine is generally influenced by an idle-speed actuator, which is arranged in a by-pass duct leading to the throttle valve.

Abstract: A system for reducing fuel consumption in an internal combustion engine and to meet optimal exhaust emissions values.

Abstract: A device is proposed for measuring the composition of fluids, in particular of constituents of exhaust gases from internal combustion engines, in which a light ray (32, 31) is used to irradiate the exhaust gas to be measured over the length of a measuring section (29) and is weakened or changed more or less, depending on the content of constituents. The light signal being received is advantageously registered by a measured length light receiver (18) which is shielded light-tight against the light emitting light source (14) and is evaluated in relation to the original light emission, in an evaluation circuit (26). In this simple way, accurate information is obtained of the exhaust gas clouding and of the loading of a fluid or gas with constituents which are optically active.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic valve control device for internal combustion engines in which a tappet volume for operating a valve piston arranged between an actuating cam operated cam piston and an engine valve can be reduced via a solenoid valve which is arranged in a drain passage. Arranged in this drain passage is a shut-off valve which is hydraulically actuated to open only when the valve piston has carried out a minimum stroke. This minimum stroke corresponds to a torque angle range of the camshaft in degrees of rotation during the opening actuation, in which, due to the shut-off valve, a control by the solenoid valve is not possible, whereby despite overlapping of engine valve opening times in a multi-cylinder engine, any overlapping of control times for the drain passages of individual engine valves, predetermined by the solenoid valve is prevented.

Abstract: A method for controlling a spark-ignition engine without a throttle flap is carried out with variable inlet valve opening durations. The method includes the steps of: detecting a speed signal having a value dependent upon the engine speed; detecting an accelerator pedal signal having a value dependent upon the accelerator pedal position; determining the intake valve opening durations as well as the fuel quantity in dependence upon the particular values of the engine speed signal and the accelerator pedal signal; and, determining the ignition angle in the dependence upon the particular values of the engine speed and fuel quantities. The method affords the advantage that for all driving conditions and even for sudden changes of the accelerator pedal signal, the masses of air and fuel are optimally adapted to each other in order to obtain high driving comfort without misfirings and with low toxic gas exhaust.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring particulate matter in a flue gas or exhaust gas of a combustion process comprising means for transmitting a beam of light between an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The light passes through two diametrically opposed light slits closed by transparent bodies in the wall of the tail pipe and crosses through a flow of exhaust gas carried in the tail pipe. The attenuation of intensity of the light beam is a measure of the particulate matter. When the measuring apparatus is used to measure a soot concentration in an exhaust gas of internal combustion engines of a vehicle, it is mounted directly on the tail pipe, and the transparent bodies are heated in the vicinity of the faces acted upon by the exhaust gas flow to a temperature above the soot burn-off temperature. As a result, adulteration of the measured value by soot deposits in the measurement path to the transparent bodies is prevented, and continuous operation of the measuring apparatus is assured.

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle that produces a non-symmetrical conical stream in an eccentrically and obliquely installed fuel injection nozzle for a engine. The fuel injection nozzle body is formed with a conical end in which the center axis of the conical wall face forming the valve seat on the nozzle body is disposed at an angle (a) to the axis of the valve needle, and that a sealing face on the closing head of the valve needle that cooperates with the valve seat on the nozzle body is spherically curved.