Patents by Inventor Karl Konrath
Karl Konrath 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).
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Patent number: 5263457Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has an adjusting piston for adjusting an injection instant, is acted upon by a return force and delimits a working space, a control slide delimiting a pressure space in the adjusting piston and displaceable in the adjusting piston counter to a return force by a pressure-source supply pressure in the pressure space and controlled as a function of speed of the engine so that the working space can be connected to a pressure source or to a relief space, and so the supply pressure in the pressure space is additionally controlled as a function of further operating parameters of the engine. A feed pump delivering at a rate proportional to speed has a delivery side connected to the pressure space, a pressure line, containing a restriction, directly connects the delivery side of the feed pump to the pressure space so that the pressure is directly connected with the feed pump exclusively by the pressure line and is not connected with the inlet chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1993Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Christin Taudt, Andre Brunel, Pierre Lauvin, Francois Quarret
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Patent number: 5233957Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a fuel-quantity adjusting member, and an adjusting device associated with the adjusting member and operative for altering a possible travel of the fuel-quantity adjusting member as a function of an atmospheric pressure. The device has a pivotally mounted two-armed stop lever against which the fuel-quantity adjusting member can be brought to rest. A circuit is provided with a working element which acts on the stop lever and changes its position or length following a closure and opening of the circuit. The adjusting device has a switching element which is acted upon by the atmospheric pressure and, as a function of atmospheric pressure closes and opens the circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1991Date of Patent: August 10, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Wolf-Ruediger Walk, Karl-Friedrich Ruesseler, Helmut Tschoeke, Mohammad-Ali Khosrawi, Alfons Schoetz
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Patent number: 5193504Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a supply quantity adjusting device, in which a full-load stop for the quantity adjustment can be varied by the imposition of a stepping motor, and in which idling rpm governing is possible. The adjusting device has a tensed drag lever group, which acts as the stop lever for the stepping motor. If the stepping motor should fail in the idling position, emergency operation is possible by overpressing the drag lever.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 5193505Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines which has a supply volume adjusting mechanism, being adjustable via a starting lever, an adjusting lever, and a tensioning lever. The starting lever is supported on the tensioning lever via a starting spring, and at non-operation of the engine, the starting spring is supported on a lever stop. To set the optimum amount of fuel to be injected at starting of the engine, which must be reduced at hot start, as opposed to a cold start, the lever stop is forcibly coupled with the adjusting lever such that the lever stop is moved by a swivel movement of the adjusting lever from a first end position to a second end position with the end positions being arranged so that the lever stop forces a starting lever position which in the first end position sets an amount of fuel on the supply volume adjusting mechanism as required for the hot start, and in the second end position, the lever stop sets an amount of fuel as required for the cold start.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Max Straubel, Klaus Krieger, Karl Konrath, Manfred Schwarz
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Patent number: 5188076Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a fuel injection quantity adjusting device, in which by the imposition of a stepping motor and by varying a spring assembly at the adjusting device, not only can the starting and full-load injection quantities be controlled but the idling injection quantity can also be regulated as a function of engine operating parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1992Date of Patent: February 23, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Carlos Alvarez-Avila, Karl-Friedrich Ruesseler, Helmut Tschoeke, Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 5188083Abstract: The invention is based on a fuel injection pump in which to supply a very rapid pressure rise in the interior of a fuel injection pump, a pressure valve controlling this pressure is modified such that upon cold starting of the engine, the pressure valve closes a bypass line at the feed pump and thus delivers all the fuel to the fuel injection pump. The closure is effected as a function of rpm and accordingly pressure, and also as a function of the engine operating temperature; in the fuel injection pump according to the invention, the rpm- and pressure-dependent diversion is performed by the adjusting piston of an injection adjuster. Thus, compared with the known cold-starting accelerating devices, one additional pressure limiting valve can be eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1992Date of Patent: February 23, 1993Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Berni Reisser, Hannes Pflug, Mohammad-Ali Khosrawi, Michael Scharf, Helmut Simon, Christian Taudt, Wolfgang Goll, Paul Wuetherich, Thomas Fortenbacher, Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 5138998Abstract: A distributor-type fuel injection pump comprising a mechanical speed regulator in which a tension lever and a starting lever interact as a regulating lever system in such a manner that they act in combination above the idling speed. In such an arrangement a quantity control element is connected to the starting lever and, in addition, this starting lever is engaged by an idling spring. A pretension of the spring can be changed, in dependence on operating characteristics in order to obtain a corresponding change in the delivery quantity during idling, for example with idling overload.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Klaus Krieger, Karl Konrath, Carlos Alvarez-Avilla
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Patent number: 4913115Abstract: When motor vehicles are driven, discontinuities that lead to load spikes arise between overrunning and running under load. The load spikes are avoided by means of a discontinuous increase in fuel quantity, which makes it possible for the engine to come gently to rest in its suspension, to bypass the drive play, and to convert the changes in increased fuel quantity without bucking. By incorporating drag elements into the connection between the arbitrary actuation of an intermediate lever, which affects the fuel injection quantity, and an idling stop, a discontinuous adjustment of the intermediate lever is attained.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1989Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Manfred Schwarz, Klaus Krieger, Helmut Tschoeke, Ulrich Stratemeier
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Patent number: 4884542Abstract: In a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines for motor vehicles, a damping device is provided to eliminate so-called vehicle bucking. The device allows rapid adjusting movements of an rpm adjusting lever, which is connected to the driving lever, to affect the supply quantity setting of the fuel injection pump only with a delay. To this end, the damping device has a damping chamber defined by a damping cylinder and a damping piston displaceable therein. The damping chamber communicates with the pump interior via two parallel throttles and via counter-parallel check valves located in series with the parallel throttles. The damping piston is connected to a damper lever on which the rpm adjusting lever is supported via a pre-stressed drag spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1988Date of Patent: December 5, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Konrath, Claus Koester, Karl Zibold, Manfred Schwarz, Karl-Friedrich Russeler, Klaus Krieger, Roland Kupzik
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Patent number: 4811709Abstract: A fuel injection pump, for use with a supercharged internal combustion engine, is provided with a full-load stop that is adjustable by means of a stepper motor in dependence upon operating parameters such as engine speed and manifold pressure. An electrical control device for the stepper motor is housed in a casing which is flange-mounted on the fuel injection pump and cooled by fuel. Electrical transducers for engine speed and manifold pressure are also mounted on the fuel injection pump.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1988Date of Patent: March 14, 1989Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Braun, Wulf Emsmann, Karl Konrath, Klaus Krieger, Heinz Nothdurft
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Patent number: 4718385Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, of the distributor type, having a reciprocating and simultaneously rotating pump piston as well as a governor slide adjustable relative thereto as a function of load, the injection quantity at any time being dimensioned on the basis of the position of the governor slide. For controlling an exhaust gas recirculation valve as a function of the load range or the particular injection quantity, the injection pump has a pressure switch for controlling an electrical signal in the partial-load range. The pressure switch can be made to communicate with the pressure-carrying suction chamber via a line in the housing and a conduit in the pump piston, the inlet of which conduit is controlled by the governor slide such that it is opened only whenever the outlet of a relief conduit is closed by the governor slide.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1987Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 4714412Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has a shutoff device for the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, comprising a magnetic valve, which controls an intake bore to the work chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump further has a relief conduit, which is connected by an annular slide on the pump piston with the suction chamber in order to terminate the effective supply stroke of the pump piston. In order to assure reliable shutoff of the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, a check valve is further disposed in the connection between the pump work chamber and the suction chamber, which check valve is closed, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with the collaboration of the pressure drop from the suction chamber to the pump work chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1986Date of Patent: December 22, 1987Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wilfried Bohringer, Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Helmut Laufer
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Patent number: 4703730Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a control device is proposed in which a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity is placed at an adjustable spring which is not supported by the main power source of a governor lever. The control lever is subjected to lesser forces provided by the intended auxiliary springs, starting springs or idling springs.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1985Date of Patent: November 3, 1987Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
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Patent number: 4649883Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has a shutoff device for the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, comprising a magnetic valve, which controls an intake bore to the work chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump further has a relief conduit, which is connected by an annular slide on the pump piston with the suction chamber in order to terminate the effective supply stroke of the pump piston. In order to assure reliable shutoff of the fuel supply to the pump work chamber, a check valve is further disposed in the connection between the pump work chamber and the suction chamber, which check valve is closed, during the intake stroke of the pump piston, with the collaboration of the pressure drop from the suction chamber to the pump work chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1984Date of Patent: March 17, 1987Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wilfried Bohringer, Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Helmut Laufer
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Patent number: 4622943Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed, which is provided with a hydraulically operating injection adjuster device which is acted upon by a pressure which is determined by the feed pressure of a feed pump driven in synchronism with the fuel injection pump and by the control behavior of a pressure control valve. The pressure control valve has a piston controlling a relief line, and the piston is controllable by means of the pressure to be fed in, counter to the restoring force of a spring, and counter to a pressure controlled via a pressure maintenance valve and a switchable relief valve disposed parallel thereto. The valve is also connected to a device for adjusting the biasing of an idling spring of the governor of the fuel injection pump. With the increasing of the set pressure for the injection adjusting device upon closure of the valve, the biasing of the idling spring and thereby the idling rpm are both increased whenever the instant of injection is shifted toward "early" during starting and warmup.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1985Date of Patent: November 18, 1986Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Braun, Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 4563996Abstract: A fuel injection pump is provided with a device for adjusting the start of fuel injection which includes a turnable roller ring and a stop engaged in the roller ring and mounted on a shaft turnable by an actuating adjusting lever between two end positions. The stop is positioned eccentrically to the axis of the shaft. The stop limits the angle of twist of the roller ring to adjust the start of fuel injection.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1984Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Konrath, Otmar Weiss
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Patent number: 4522181Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed which has a hydraulic injection instant adjuster, which is exposed to an rpm-dependent pressure established with the aid of a pressure control valve. The control of the pressure control valve is effected by means of varying the control pressure acting upon it. This is accomplished with the aid of a pressure valve, which has a slide exposed to a force variable in accordance with altitude, and the control pressure of the pressure control valve can be modified by means of this slide.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1984Date of Patent: June 11, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Max Greiner, Karl Konrath
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Patent number: 4519352Abstract: A fuel injection pump including a control device is proposed in which a control lever which determines the fuel injection quantity is placed at an adjustable spring which is not supported by the main power source of a governor lever. The control lever is subjected to lesser forces provided by the intended auxiliary springs, starting springs or idling springs.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1982Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
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Patent number: 4513715Abstract: A distributor injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which the fuel is furnished to the injection valves of the engine by means of a distributor piston executing a rotational and reciprocal movement. The distributor injection pump is provided with a full-load stop dependent on charge pressure or atmospheric pressure, which cooperates with the system comprising a centrifugal adjuster and a governor lever group and, regardless of the sleeve position of a centrifugal adjuster, determines the position of the tensioning lever counter to the force of a governing spring and an idling spring with the aid of a control member resting on the tensioning lever.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1983Date of Patent: April 30, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Braun, Karl Konrath, Manfred Schwarz
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Patent number: 4501252Abstract: A fuel injection pump in which the beginning of fuel injection can be adjusted to begin earlier than normal, particularly during warm-up by means of an adjusting piston. The adjustment takes place by changing the tension of the return spring which cooperates with the fuel injection adjustment piston.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1977Date of Patent: February 26, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Hans-Jorg Vogtmann, Paul Fussner, Manfred Schwarz, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel, Werner Faupel