Patents by Inventor Helmut Schwegler

Helmut Schwegler 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).

  • Publication number: 20090184184
    Abstract: A fuel injector, in particular a fuel injector for fuel-injection systems of internal combustion engines, having an inflow nipple for the connection to a fuel-distributor line, a nozzle body disposed downstream from the inflow nipple, a magnetic circuit element, which includes a solenoid coil an inner pole, and an outer pole, as well as an armature, which is in force-locking connection with a valve needle such that a valve-closure element disposed at the valve needle lifts off from a valve-seat surface when solenoid coil is energized, the inflow nipple and the nozzle body being produced as deep-drawn components, and the inflow nipple and the nozzle body being fixed in place on the magnetic circuit element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ferdinand Reiter, Franz Thoemmes
  • Patent number: 7188789
    Abstract: An atomizer nozzle (1) for fuels, in particular for feeding them into a chemical reformer for obtaining hydrogen, has a nozzle body (2) containing spray-discharge orifices (3) that discharge into a metering space, and has at least one metering aperture (6). The spray-discharge orifices (3) are situated at elevation levels (4) so as to have a radial directional component with respect to a center line (10) of the nozzle body (2), each elevation step having at least one spray-discharge orifice (3), and the spray-discharge orifices (3) of at least one elevation level (4) being connected to at least one channel (14) of a nozzle-body insert (5) that has at least one flow-through opening (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ian Faye, Markus Gesk, Frank Miller, Hartmut Albrodt, Franz Thoemmes
  • Publication number: 20060144966
    Abstract: An atomizer nozzle for fuels, particularly for charging a chemical reformer for obtaining hydrogen, features a nozzle body, having spray-discharge orifices discharging into a metering space, and at least one metering aperture, The spray-discharge orifices are situated with a radial directional component with respect to a center axis of the nozzle body at elevation levels, each elevation level having at least one spray-discharge orifice. At least one nozzle body insert, having at least one flow-through opening, is situated in the nozzle body in front of the first elevation step in the direction of fuel flow and/or between the elevation steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ian Faye, Markus Gesk, Frank Miller, Hartmut Albrodt, Franz Thoemmes
  • Publication number: 20050258281
    Abstract: An atomizer nozzle for fuels, in particular for feeding them into a chemical reformer for obtaining hydrogen, has a nozzle body containing spray-discharge orifices that discharge into a metering space, and has at least one metering aperture. The spray-discharge orifices are situated at elevation levels so as to have a radial directional component with respect to a center line of the nozzle body, each elevation step having at least one spray-discharge orifice, and the spray-discharge orifices of at least one elevation level being connected to at least one channel of a nozzle-body insert that has at least one flow-through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ian Faye, Markus Gesk, Frank Miller, Hartmut Albrodt, Franz Thoemmes
  • Patent number: 6739361
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus operate a tank system including a tank system of a motor vehicle. The tank system includes a tank for receiving a fluid medium forming a volatile substance and an adsorption filter connected to the tank for receiving the volatile substance which emanates from the tank. A shutoff valve is connected to the adsorption filter and is drivable between an open position and a closed position whereat the tank system is closed off to the ambient. A tank fill-level sensor detects the fill level of the fluid medium in the tank. A fill pipe is connected to the tank for filling with the fluid medium. The fill level is detected while tanking and the shutoff valve is driven into the closed position when the fill level has reached a maximum fill level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Helmut Schwegler, Georg Mallebrein, Rainer Hahner
  • Publication number: 20030047232
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus operate a tank system including a tank system of a motor vehicle. The tank system includes a tank for receiving a fluid medium forming a volatile substance and an adsorption filter connected to the tank for receiving the volatile substance which emanates from the tank. A shutoff valve is connected to the adsorption filter and is electrically drivable between an open position and a closed position whereat the tank system is closed off pressure tight with respect to the ambient. A tank fill-level sensor detects the fill level of the fluid medium in the tank and transmits a signal indicative of the fill level of the fluid medium. A fill pipe is connected to the tank for filling the tank with the fluid medium. The fill level is detected while tanking the tank and the shutoff valve is driven into the closed position when the fill level has reached a maximum fill level. The shutoff valve can also be driven to close by applying a clocked drive signal thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Helmut Schwegler, Georg Mallebrein, Rainer Hahner
  • Patent number: 6516786
    Abstract: A control unit (50) makes a single control signal available for driving the through-flow control valves (TEV1, TEV2) (51, 52). Through-flow valve (TEV2) has a larger maximum through flow than through-flow control valve (TEV1). A delay circuit is indicated by the phantom outline (52′) and is mounted at the valve stage TEV2 (52). The delay circuit includes an electric delay element (53) with the aid of which the original control signal is delayed in time by an amount &Dgr;t1 relative to the control signal of control valve (TEV1). The resulting delayed signal is supplied to an AND-gate (54) together with the original control signal. Accordingly, a control signal is present at the output of the AND-gate for the control valve (TEV2). The time delay makes possible the exclusive activation of the through-flow control valve (TEV1) (51) at low pulse duty factors. In this way, a high small quantity meterability is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Helmut Schwegler, Georg Mallebrein
  • Patent number: 6513501
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flat tubular damper for damping fluid pressure pulsations in fluid lines, in particular fuel pressure pulsations in fuel supply lines of motor vehicles, having at least one elongated chamber whose cross section is small in comparison to its longitudinal span and at least a part of whose chamber wall, being operationally connected with the fluid, can be elastically deformed by the fluid pressure pulsations. The invention provides that the cross section of the chamber changes continuously or discretely along its longitudinal span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Martin Maier
  • Patent number: 6439263
    Abstract: The pressure regulating valve (2) proposed here can be designed with the aid of the outflow throttle restriction (28) downstream of the valve seat (22) in such a way that the pressure regulating valve (2), as the fluid flow becomes greater, sets or adjusts a smaller pressure difference at the pressure regulating valve (2), as a result of which the line losses that can never be avoided can be compensated for. The pressure regulating valve is suitable in particular for a fuel supply system of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ralph Ittlinger, Wolfgang Bueser, Martin Maier, Lorenz Drutu
  • Patent number: 6431149
    Abstract: A fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine that has fuel injection is described. The fuel supply system has a fuel rail, from which injectors are supplied with fuel via valve seats. The damper element has an elastic tubular body arranged in the fuel rail. The tubular body sealingly separating an inner fuel chamber, through which fuel flows, from an outer fuel chamber, through which fuel flows and which is connected to the valve seats. Walls of the tubular body are made of an elastic material. The elastic tubular body is arranged upstream of a pressure regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Martin Maier
  • Patent number: 6321719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure damper for a pressure vessel, in particular for a fuel distributor for an internal combustion engine, with a damper bellows that is connected to a sealing cap for closing an opening of the pressure vessel. In order to obtain a pressure damper that can be installed as easily as possible and can be manufactured as inexpensively as possible, the provision is made according to the invention that the sealing cap is embodied of one piece as a deep-draw part made of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Schwegler
  • Publication number: 20010029934
    Abstract: A control unit (50) makes a single control signal available for driving the through-flow control valves (TEV1, TEV2) (51, 52). Through-flow valve (TEV2) has a larger maximum through flow than through-flow control valve (TEV1). A delay circuit is indicated by the phantom outline (52′) and is mounted at the valve stage TEV2 (52). The delay circuit includes an electric delay element (53) with the aid of which the original control signal is delayed in time by an amount &Dgr;t1 relative to the control signal of control valve (TEV1). The resulting delayed signal is supplied to an AND-gate (54) together with the original control signal. Accordingly, a control signal is present at the output of the AND-gate for the control valve (TEV2). The time delay makes possible the exclusive activation of the through-flow control valve (TEV1) (51) at a low pulse duty factors. In this way, a high small quantity meterability is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Erwin Krimmer, Wolfgang Schulz, Helmut Schwegler, Georg Mallebrein
  • Publication number: 20010022192
    Abstract: In the pressure regulating valve (2) proposed here, a hydraulic damping device (40) with a damper chamber (32) through which a fluid flow passes assures effective damping of the oscillations of the closing body (20). The pressure regulating valve is suited in particular for a fuel supply system of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ralph Ittlinger, Wolfgang Bueser, Martin Maier, Lorenz Drutu
  • Publication number: 20010022193
    Abstract: The pressure regulating valve (2) proposed here can be designed with the aid of the outflow throttle restriction (28) downstream of the valve seat (22) in such a way that the pressure regulating valve (2), as the fluid flow becomes greater, sets or adjusts a smaller pressure difference at the pressure regulating valve (2), as a result of which the line losses that can never be avoided can be compensated for. The pressure regulating valve is suitable in particular for a fuel supply system of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Ralph Ittlinger, Wolfgang Bueser, Martin Maier, Lorenz Drutu
  • Patent number: 6247486
    Abstract: A liquid filter (10) with a built-in pressure regulator (11) for fuel is proposed, wherein the pressure regulator (11) with its diaphragm (41) is built on the housing (12) on a component (18) on the front with at least one connection (19). The disk-shaped diaphragm (41) has a single clamping site (39) on its external circumference and a centrally arranged movable closure closure member (42). The diaphragm (41) is acted upon by pressure in a pressure chamber (45) connected with the clean side against the force of a spring (49) in a gas-filled spring chamber (48). The integration of the pressure regulator (11) in the housing (12) permits a simple, compact, cost-effective construction of the liquid filter (10), through whose valve (44) in the pressure regulator (11) only cleaned fuel flows and which is insensitive to backpressure in the tank connection (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Bernhard Lucas, Wolfgang Bueser, Ulrich Projahn
  • Patent number: 6213143
    Abstract: A liquid filter (1) with a built-in pressure regulator (11) for fuel is proposed, in which the pressure regulator (11) with its diaphragm (32) is mounted on the inside of a cap (14) that has the inflow connector (16) and the tank connector (17). The diaphragm (32), which experiences a flow on its inside, is acted upon by the pressure of the fuel on the clean side (25) of the filter element (21), and the flow through the filter element is radially from the outside inward. Integrating the pressure regulator (11) in the cap enables a simple, compact, economical design of the liquid filter (10), through whose valve (36) in the pressure regulator (11) only cleaned fuel flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Uwe Liskow, Lorenz Drutu, Ulrich Projahn, Bernhard Lucas, Wolfgang Bueser
  • Patent number: 6182502
    Abstract: In a diagnosis module for leak testing a container of a tank ventilation system of a motor vehicle, which has a reference leak through which a volume flows and is matched to a permissible leakage of the container. The reference leak is constituted by a number of diaphragms disposed in series in the flow direction, in which each of the diaphragms have a throttle opening (25 27). The advantage of this diagnosis module lies in the large diameter throttle openings, which are less susceptible to malfunction when there is a permitted leakage hole that has a significantly smaller diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Manfred Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 6112728
    Abstract: A device for diagnosis of a tank ventilation system of a vehicle, including a tank, an adsorption filter that communicates with the tank by way of a tank connection line and has a ventilation line, a tank ventilation valve that communicates with the adsorption filter by way of a valve line, and an on-board pressure source, by means of which the tank ventilation system can be acted upon with a pressure. A shut-off device is provided that only opens when the tank ventilation system is acted on with pressure by means of the on-board pressure source and closes when the tank ventilation system is acted on with pressure by means of a pressure source connected externally for the purpose of functionality testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Andreas Blumenstock
  • Patent number: 6029694
    Abstract: This pressure regulator prevents unpleasant vibration of the closing body. In the pressure regulator, a friction spring that is simple to mount is provided, by means of which the vibration of the closing body can be suppressed or reduced. The pressure regulator is intended in particular for fuel supply systems of motor vehicles that have an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Roland Hoepfl, Wolfgang Bueser, Uwe Talmon, Lorenz Drutu
  • Patent number: 5975115
    Abstract: Known pressure regulator valves for motor vehicles are comprised of a relatively large number of individual parts that have to be assembled at a high cost. In the pressure regulator valve set forth, the stop piece and the housing part are injection molded. This reduces assembly costs in the manufacture of the pressure regulator valve. The pressure regulator valve is particularly suited for fuel delivery systems of motor vehicles with an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Schwegler, Kurt Herbst, Roland Hoepft, Ludwig Baechle, Thomas Gregorius