Patents by Inventor Helmut Laufer

Helmut Laufer 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: 6737579
    Abstract: An arrangement for sealed leading of at least one conductor has a housing having a housing wall which surrounds a housing aperture, a closing part which closes the housing aperture, a seal arranged between the closing part and the housing wall which surrounds the housing aperture, at least one conductor track serving as at least one conductor which is pressure-tightly connected with a conductor track carrier formed by an elastic flexible carrier film, the conductor track carrier being routed between the housing and the closing part, the at least one conductor being insulated from outside and being in close contact with the seal in a closing position of the closing part, the closing part being held to the seal by a closing force, a part of the conductor track carrier having an elastic flexible extension which protrudes within the housing, an electrical component which is movably arranged within the housing, the extension being bent for contacting the at least one conductor track thereon on at an end of the ext
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Laufer, Wolfgang Fehlmann, Johannes Pflug, Hans-Peter Bauer, Wolfgang Braun, Ewald Eblen, Peter Nordhaus, Peter Zweigle, Elmar Huber, Roland Gronenberg, Jörg Wolke
  • Patent number: 5538397
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump has a pump plunger (13), which is driven by a drive shaft (15) via a cam gear (14) at least in an axial stroke movement and in so doing generates a fuel injection pressure in a pump work space (16), and a magnet valve (30) blocking or releasing the pump work space (16) relative to a relief duct (26). The start of delivery of the pump plunger is determined by the closing of the relief duct (26) and the end of delivery of the pump plunger (13) is determined by the release of the relief duct (26). To prevent the so-called jumping off of the plunger in the cam gear (14), the magnet valve (30) is controlled after the end of delivery in such a way that a residual pressure lying below the injection pressure is built up in the pump work space (16) until the top dead center point is reached (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Laufer, Anton Karle
  • Patent number: 5413079
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump in which the injection onset is varied by means of an injection adjuster, which has a two part adjusting piston acted upon by a hydraulic control pressure, which piston is adjustable counter to a restoring spring and by means of a bolt, engages the cam drive of the fuel injection pump in order to adjust the injection onset. To reduce the highest pressure in the high-pressure chamber of the fuel injection pump and to form the course of injection pressure, the adjusting piston is embodied in two parts, with a first piston that is adjustable relative to the second piston counter to a compression spring and the second piston is connected with the bolt. This makes possible a deflection motion of the piston relative to the second piston and a reduction in the pump piston stroke speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5413080
    Abstract: A control device for varying the supply onset of a fuel injection pump, in which the supply rate at the lower full-load point is increased without overloading the pump at the rated capacity point. A control of this kind is effected by the use of a deflection piston as well as by use of a prestressed check valve. Regulation serving the same purpose can be achieved with the aid of an element pressure sensor and two magnet valves. The control device is intended for use in an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5386810
    Abstract: In a system and method for controlling a solenoid-valve-controlled fuel-metering device, in particular for a diesel gasoline engine, the duration of delivery is determined based upon the speed value during the preceding metering-in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Gronenberg, Helmut Laufer, Werner Fischer, Dietbert Schoenfelder, Joachim Berger
  • Patent number: 5325837
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines comprising a pump work chamber defined in a bore of a housing by a pump piston. The pump work chamber is supplied with fuel and relieved via a fuel line containing a magnet control valve. Moreover, the pump work chamber communicates with an injection valve via a supply line. Controlling of the injection is done via the opening or closing of the magnet control valve during the pumping stroke of the pump piston; to that end, the magnet valve is triggered by a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5273017
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprises a suction space, a fuel duct, an electrically actuated valve controlling the fuel duct, a fuel supply tank, a distributor having a distributing opening, a plurality of pressure ducts connectable with injection locations of an internal combustion engine via injection lines, a pump plunger which defines a pump work space connectable with the suction space during a suction stroke and during a control portion of the delivery stroke of the pump plunger via the fuel duct, while fuel is delivered from the fuel supply tank to the suction space connectable during a respective delivery stroke of the pump plunger via the distributor opening with one of the plurality of pressure ducts. The valve has a closing phase which determines a high pressure fuel delivery into the injection lines, a fuel return, and a bypass line is provided to a fuel return and branches from the fuel duct between the suction space and the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braun, Dieter Junger, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5235949
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for preparing a fuel-metering signal M for a diesel engine starting with measured variables such as accelerator pedal position, rotational speed, lambda, exhaust gas temperature or torque. A fuel quantity request MW is pregiven in dependence upon the position of the accelerator pedal. This quantity request MW is supplied to a minimum selector together with a second signal. The output signal M of the minimum selector, in turn, determines the metered fuel. The second signal derives from a precontrol characteristic field 50 in dependence upon the speed. The output signal of the precontrol characteristic field MV is influenced by the controller output signal MR in specific operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Wahl, Alf Loffler, Hermann Grieshaber, Wilhelm Polach, Ewald Eblen, Joachim Tauscher, Helmut Laufer, Ulrich Flaig, Johannes Locher, Manfred Birk, Gerhard Engel, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Fridolin Piwonka, Anton Karle, Hermann Kull
  • Patent number: 5201297
    Abstract: It is possible in a simple manner, especially in distributor injection pumps, to attain quiet combustion in the idling range of a Diesel engine, without modifying the basic construction of the fuel injection pump by shifting the injection pumping to the last portion of the stroke of the cam driving the pump piston of the fuel injection pump for idling, by means of an injection onset adjusting device, in combination with a determination of injection duration via the closing phase of an electrically controlled valve that relieves the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Eblen, Anton Karle, Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 5186143
    Abstract: A distributor type fuel injection pump has a rotary magnet regulator (15) to actuate a control member (14) determining the fuel injection quantity, which rotary magnet regulator (15) is driven by a regulating signal produced in dependence on the operational parameters of the internal combustion engine. The rotary magnet regulator (15) is accommodated in a chamber (16) forming part of the pump housing (17) and filled with fuel. A damping device (25) is provided for the purpose of avoiding rotary oscillations of the rotating armature (20) in the rotary magnet regulator (15), which damping device (25) consist of a paddle (26) fixed firmly to the rotating armature (20) and of two separating walls (27,28) provided in the chamber (16). The paddle (26) extends radially from the rotating armature (20) and nearly fills the entire clear cross-section of the chamber (16) available for the swing movement of the paddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5146895
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprising a pump housing, a distributor piston guided axially and rotatably, a rotating drive shaft supported in the pump housing, a transmission coupling the drive shaft to the distributor piston and a claw clutch and an eccentric disk rolling on a roller race with cams, and a lubricating oil circulation loop, which has a lubricating oil feed line discharging into a lubricating oil groove and a lubricating oil return line that returns from the transmission chamber which is partly filled with lubricating oil. To assure adequate supply of lubricating oil to the heavily loaded drive faces of the claw clutch, there is a flow lubricating oil through the drive shaft from the lubricating oil groove on into the claw clutch; via lubricating oil openings in at least those claw faces of the claw clutch that transmit a torque, the flow emerges into the transmission chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fehlmann, Helmut Laufer, Ewald Eblen
  • Patent number: 5131371
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and arrangement for controlling a self-igniting internal combustion engine. The arrangement includes at least one measured-value sensor, electronic control unit for forming a quantity signal for metering fuel, and a control unit for driving individual actuators for each cylinder. The actuators determine the quantity of fuel injected by the pump elements into the cylinders. Under specific conditions, a corrective unit is activated which determines corrective values specific to the cylinders for making the cylinders equal. The open-loop control unit applies the metering signal to the actuators in dependence upon the quantity signal and the corrective values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Wahl, Alf Loffler, Hermann Grieshaber, Wilhelm Polach, Ewald Eblen, Joachim Tauscher, Helmut Laufer, Ulrich Flaig, Johannes Locher, Manfred Birk, Gerhard Engel, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Fridolin Piwonka, Anton Karle, Hermann Kull, Werner Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 5070836
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling the fuel injection in a high-pressure fuel pump. Magnetic valves determine the fuel quantity to be injected into the engine. The magnetic valve is controlled during the pumping phase of the pumping element in such a manner that first a preinjection and then a main injection is carried out. In specific operating conditions, the control apparatus determines the duration of the drive pulses for the magnetic valve at which a preinjection just takes place. With the duration of the drive pulses as a basis, the control apparatus forms compensating signals for the drive pulses which effect preinjection and stores the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Wahl, Alf Loffler, Hermann Grieshaber, Wilhelm Polach, Ewald Eblen, Joachim Tauscher, Helmut Laufer, Ulrich Flaig, Johannes Locher, Manfred Birk, Gerhard Engel, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Fridolin Piwonka, Anton Karle, Hermann Kull
  • Patent number: 5063903
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and arrangement for controlling the fuel metered to an engine and especially to a diesel engine. The engine includes a fuel pump drive by a shaft for which injection start and injection end is fixed by a corresponding control of the electromagnetically actuated valve. The drive pulses for pump-delivery start and pump-delivery end are generated in dependence upon the analog signal of an angle sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Wahl, Alf Loffler, Hermann Grieshaber, Wilhelm Polach, Ewald Eblen, Joachim Tauscher, Helmut Laufer, Ulrich Flaig, Johannes Locher, Manfred Birk, Gerhard Engel, Alfred Schmitt, Pierre Lauvin, Fridolin Piwonka, Anton Karle, Hermann Kull
  • Patent number: 5044890
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines that has a pump interior and a final control element chamber, separated from it, the latter having an electric final control element for actuating a quantity adjusting device that determines a fuel injection quantity, parts of the final control element from which a control variable for the injection quantity is derived and which thereby serves as a material measure, are to be protected from the influence of fuel. By means of a jet pump through which a permanent propulsive flow flows and which is part of a flow conduit, the static pressure at the intake bore of the jet pump that communicates with the final control element chamber is lowered, and this negative pressure is utilized for evacuating the fuel entering the final control element chamber in the form of a leakage flow along the bearing of a control shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alf Loeffler, Wolfgang Fehlmann, Eberhard Fiedler, Wolfgang Geiger, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5034937
    Abstract: A record player in which a magazine is provided with compartments for storing a number of rigid and flexible disk-shaped recording media. For playing the disks, they are removed only to an extent necessary for the disk drive to engage bores of the disk. Each compartment has a bottom with a semi-circular recess at a side of the magazine from which the recording media are removed for being played. This recess has a diameter that is substantially longer than the diameter of the respective disk to be played, so that the disk can rotate freely while being played. Each compartment, furthermore, as a storage recess above the semi-circular recess for storing the disk. To play the disk, the latter is lowered from the storage recess into the semi-circular recess, but the lowering of the disk is such that the disk will not contact the bottom of the semi-circular recess, so as to allow free rotation of the disk within the semi-circular recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Caspers, Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 5005548
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed in which over a first portion of the supply stroke of the pump piston fuel for the main injection is pumped via a distributor line and a distributor groove into one at a time of a plurality of fuel injection lines. In a second, remaining portion of the pump piston supply stroke, on the same cam flank, fuel is then pre-stored in a reservoir, controlled by a first electrically controlled valve and a second electrically controlled valve and by one of a plurality of longitudinal control grooves, which fuel subsequently, before the beginning of the next main injection determined by the closure of the first electrically controlled valve, is pumped via a second distributor line into the next succeeding injection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Rembold, Hannes Pflug, Wilhelm Christ, Hans-Joachim Siebert, Ewald Eblen, Rodriguez-Amaya, Helmut Laufer, Alfred Schmitt, Werner Pape, Dominique Buisson, Pierre Lauvin, Detlev Potz, Nikolaus Simon, Jean Pigeroulet, Anton Karle
  • Patent number: 4987875
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for supplying the combustion chambers of internal combustion engines intended for vehicle operation having, in addition to a fuel quantity regulating device operative in accordance with operating parameters of the engine, an adjusting device in which in accordance with an anti-buckling signal obtained from fast relative movements on the vehicle the fuel supply quantity of the fuel injection pump is varied in phase opposition to the acceleration event triggering the bucking. This adjustment is accomplished in accordance with the invention by intervention with a setting device of the fuel injection pump, by means of which device the basic setting of the fuel supply quantity is adjusted independently of the supply quantity varied by the fuel quantity regulating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Helmut Laufer, Max Staubel
  • Patent number: 4974564
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder defining a pump working space, a plunger displaceable in the cylinder, and a bypass valve for bypassing fuel from the pump working space; and a method of controlling flow of fuel from the fuel injection pump to the internal combustion engine by controling the time interval between opening and closing of the bypass valve in accordance with load parameters of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Laufer
  • Patent number: 4873956
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having an electromagnetic final control element, which in order to adjust the end or onset of injection engages a control slide, located in the pump interior. Via a control shaft, the final control element chamber is hermetically sealed off from the pump interior in order to keep water contained in the fuel from reaching current-carrying parts of the final control element. As a result, fluid communication exists only via the bearing gap of the slide bearing of the control shaft and the bearing gap functions as a throttle. The throttle forms a water separator, which further reduces the concentration of water in the already small quantity of fuel reaching the final control element chamber through the throttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fehlmann, Gerald Hofer, Dieter Junger, Anton Karle, Helmut Laufer