Patents by Inventor Max Straubel

Max Straubel 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: 5295470
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines, which includes a pump piston guided in a cylinder bore driven to reciprocate axially by a cam drive. With a face end, the pump piston defines a pump work chamber, which communicates with an injection valve via a pressure conduit and which is supplied with fuel and relieved via a fuel line. Supply onset and supply end are controllable via a feed pump and a magnet valve are disposed in the fuel line, which communicates with a fuel supply vessel (33) to control supply onset and end of supply. In order to relieve a pressure of the high-pressure chambers, especially at high engine speeds, a fuel tapping device, which is controllable as a function of pressure is connected to a relief line that branches off from the fuel line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 5224451
    Abstract: A system for controlling an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, and, in particular, a self-ignitible internal combustion engine, that produces a speed signal, as well as a signal associated with the driver of the motor vehicle, such as a gas pedal position signal. A control unit supplies an actuating signal to a power-regulating controlling unit that controls the fuel injection quantity for the engine under both normal and emergency conditions. The actuating signal is based on the signal associated with the driver and inversely proportional to the speed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 5220894
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines for controlling the fuel quantity with an electric closed-loop control device, which controls an electric positioner, which in turn actuates an element that determines the fuel injection quantity per pump piston supply stroke. The supply of fuel to the pump work chamber is effected via a fuel supply line, in which an adjustable throttle is disposed. The throttle is actuated in accordance with the position of a gas pedal, but it controls an increasingly larger through cross section of the fuel supply line than would correspond to the fuel metering by the closed-loop control device. A minimum through cross section is defined by a fixed throttle. With this apparatus, emergency operation if the electric control system for the fuel injection quantity fails can be attained, without the apparatus for emergency operation interfering with fuel metering by the closed-loop control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • 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: 5193510
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting the supply onset of a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, by means of which the injection onset is adjustable in several stages. A roller tappet provided with a hydraulic tappet chamber for prestroke variation is fixable in defined positions via a control fluid. To this end the roller tappet has at least one first control bore and one second control bore communicating with the tappet chamber and can be made to communicate with openings in a housing bore that receives the tappet. The control bores are provided at differing heights, and/or with differing diameters or are offset from one another, at least one of the these control bores is closable by means of a control piston of the hydraulic tappet, and the control bores are openable as a function of an engine parameter via hydraulic lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 5193505
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Klaus Krieger, Karl Konrath, Manfred Schwarz
  • Patent number: 5188075
    Abstract: The invention is based on a fuel injection pump in which an adjuster, which may also be an injection onset adjuster, is actuated via an adjusting mechanism, and the adjusting mechanism has an adjusting piston, which is displaceable in a cylinder and is adjustable counter to a restoring force by a pressure fluid. The delivery of pressure fluid to the adjusting piston is controlled via electric valves, making a graduated, geometrically defined adjustment of the adjusting piston possible, but no feedback sensors for the actual status of the adjusting mechanism at a given time are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Karl Kellermann
  • Patent number: 5072706
    Abstract: A fuel injection arrangement for internal combustion engines, particularly for diesel engines, is indicated, in which the fuel injection is divided into an advance injection and a main injection for the purpose of noise reduction. An advance injection unit (27) is provided for the purpose of proportioning the advance injection quantity and a fuel injection pump of a conventional construction is provided for proportioning the main injection quantity. For an optimal design of the advance injection quantity with respect to noise reduction without influencing the main injection quantity, the advance injection unit (27) comprises a high-pressure storage (28), which is compressed to injection pressure, and at least one solenoid valve (30), which is controlled with respect to time. The advance and main injections are preferably effected via separate nozzle cross sections (21, 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Eblen, Karl Hofmann, Alfred Schmitt, Max Straubel, Hung Truong-Canh
  • Patent number: 4870936
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distributor type in which a pump piston is driven to reciprocate and rotate simultaneously, thereby acting as a distributer. For fuel injection quantity regulation, an annular slide that is displaceable on a pump piston is provided, by way of which the pump work chamber can be relieved. To attain a low injection rate in the idling range, in addition to a first outlet opening, controlled by an upper edge of the annular slide, second outlet openings axially offset from the first are provided, for a relief conduit of the pump work chamber which cooperate with a radial control opening, which communicates with the pump suction chamber and is disposed in the wall of the annular slide. In the opening direction of this control opening, a groove provided with a throttle is provided, by way of which during idling operation, prior to the opening of the first relief opening, fuel can flow out of the pump piston in order to decrease the pumping rate of the pump piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, deceased, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4796592
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed having a hydraulic instant-of-injection adjuster, which is exposed to an rpm-dependent pressure formed with the aid of a pressure control valve; the control of the pressure control valve is effected by means of variations of the control pressure acting upon it. This control is accomplished with the aid of at least one electrically controlled valve which is controlled by a control device in accordance with operating parameters. In this cost-efficient manner, the correct adjustment of the instant of injection can be established very precisely over the entire operating range of the engine, including the warm-up phase, at varying operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4768719
    Abstract: Fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines includes a first closing spring which acts continuously on the valve needle by means of a central pressure pin and, in addition, a second closing spring which acts continuously on the valve needle by means of a pressure piece after covering the distance of an initial stroke. The pressure piece is supported at the nozzle body by means of an intermediate bush during the initial stroke. The initial stroke is limited by means of the shoulders at the valve needle and the intermediate bush, whereas the total stroke is limited by means of the shoulders at the intermediate bush and the intermediate disk. Accordingly, the initial stroke can be adjusted very accurately to a desired magnitude merely by means of grinding the valve needle and does not change during the assembly of the injection nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Ewald Eblen, Paul Fussner, Gunter Kapolke, Edgar Schneider, Klaus Wolf, Werner Wagner, Karl Hofmann
  • Patent number: 4767288
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed in which the fuel supply quantity supplied to the injection location is determined by metering the quantity of fuel aspirated. The metering of the aspirated quantities is effected with the aid of at least one magnetic valve which is located in the fuel supply line leading to the fuel injection pump and with the aid of a control edge moved in synchronism with the rotation of the fuel injection pump, which controls the communication between the fuel supply line and the pump work chamber in series with the magnetic valve. The opening times of the two control locations are each longer than the maximum metering time, the overlapping time of the two control times determining the opening time of the communication between the fuel supply and the pump work chamber. The metering time is thus determined on the one hand by the switching time of the control edge moved in synchronism with the rpm and the other by a switching process of the magnetic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4733640
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is described, which for controlling fuel quantity is provided with control unit that controls an electric final control element, which in turn actuates the regulating member that determines the fuel injection quantity per pump piston supply stroke. The supply of fuel to the pump work chamber is effected from a fuel supply chamber, which is kept at a controlled pressure by a fuel feed pump. To limit the maximum speed of the engine supplied by the fuel injection pump in the event of failure of the control unit, a valve is provided in the intake line of the fuel feed pump. Using this valve, the flow cross section of the intake line can be varied or closed. By means of the modification of the fuel pressure in the fuel supply chamber effected thereby, a control of the fuel injection quantity that is not dependent on the position of the quantity-determining member is attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4703730
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4690373
    Abstract: The magnetic valve for fluid control in a fuel injection nozzle includes a valve housing having a magnetic coil mounted on a core of ferromagnetic material and an armature, which is connected to a valve closing element cooperating with a fixed valve seat. After the excitation of the magnetic coil is interrupted, the valve closing element is moved toward a stop tappet by the force of a restoring spring and by the fluid pressure engaging the valve closing element. The stop tappet is supported such that it is displaceable in the opening direction of the valve closing element, counter to the force of a second spring. As a result, a large flow cross section is available for the fluid between the valve seat and a closing body of the valve closing element and a rapid pressure drop is made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Linder, Helmut Rembold, Max Straubel, Walter Teegen
  • Patent number: 4683055
    Abstract: A diesel fuel filter, which is arranged in a conduit between a fuel tank and a fuel injection pump, comprises a housing accommodating a filter element and a cover non-releasably connected to the housing. A temperature-responsive switching device for switching fuel overflow quantities from the pump to the tank as well as a ventilation device are positioned in a chamber formed by a protruding formation of the cover and a flat plate connected to the housing. A plate shaped pressure control valve, which opens into a contaminated side of the filter element, connects that side to the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Ulrich Bosch, Willi Muller, Hans Schacht, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4664081
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for Diesel internal combustion engines, particularly vehicle Diesel engines, is proposed which has a full-load stop dependent on atmospheric pressure. The position of the full-load stop which adapts the injection quantity to the variable ambient air pressure is derived from an air pressure adjusting member and transmitted onto the full-load stop via a transmission member. A locking mechanism, which locks the transmission device in a plurality of positions counter to the force exerted by the full-load stop, is associated with the transmission member. The transmission member has two disks draggably coupled within a predetermined range, one of which disks is actuated by the air pressure adjusting member and the other of which disks cooperates with the full-load stop. The draggable coupling effects an adjustment of the full-load stop, if the full-load stop is relaxed, so that the air pressure adjusting member need exert no more than a small adjusting force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, deceased, Gerald Hofer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4655184
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines in which beyond a predetermined remaining stroke during the supply stroke of the pump piston, a relief conduit is opened via a control edge. The same control edge closes the relief conduit once again during the intake stroke. During the subsequent effective intake stroke, the quantity of fuel to be injected upon the following compression stroke is metered by means of the electrically actuatable valve. The magnetic valve here is already opened before the closure of the relief conduit by the control edge, so that in the opening phase of the relief conduit, the pump work chamber of the fuel injection apparatus is flushed. In this manner, precise metering of the quantity of fuel to be injected is attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Eckert, Hermann Eisele, Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4630582
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for rapidly adjusting an electromagnetic load associated with internal combustion engines. The output signals of two control systems are combined in a logic circuit such that priority is assigned to one of the two control systems. Dependent on the output signal of the higher-order control system, an evaluation circuit acts on a switch arrangement to thereby suitably influence the signal resulting from the combining operation of the output signals of the two control systems. This arrangement makes it possible to speed up the delivery of the output signal of the higher-order control system to the electromagnetic load which may be an injection valve, for example. The higher-order control system may be a smooth-running control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kuttner, Max Straubel, Wolf Wessel
  • Patent number: 4630587
    Abstract: The injection pump includes a pump cylinder, a pump piston moving into it and a hydraulic device for adjusting the instant of injection. The adjusting device has an adjusting cylinder, which is directed parallel to the pump cylinder and is accommodated in the housing of the injection pump, and adjusting piston and a restoring spring and adjusts a control sleeve, which opens the pump piston provided with at least one control recess in the longitudinal direction of the pump piston. This orientation and disposition of the adjusting cylinder effects a space-saving and inexpensive design of the injection pump and improves the precision of adjustment. The adjusting piston and the control sleeve may be directed coaxially and embodied as a single component, as a result of which a further space saving and increase in adjustment precision are attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Eberhard Hofmann, Helmut Laufer, Francois Rossignol, Reinhard Schwartz, Max Straubel, Raymond Tissot