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: 4574762
    Abstract: In a device for temperature responsive switching of overflow fuel quantities from a diesel fuel injection pump to a fuel supply tank or a filter of a fuel supply system a switching valve, arranged between the fuel injection pump and the tank, is actuated by a bimetallic element. Parallel to the switching valve is provided a throttle for continuous air venting. A pressure control valve with a low opening pressure is installed in the connection between the switching valve and the filter. The heated overflow fuel quantities are mixed with cool fuel from the tank and therefore the danger of clogging of the filter, which could be caused by paraffin separation, is substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Muller, Hans Schacht, Erich Scholz, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4566421
    Abstract: An apparatus for the rpm-dependent adjustment of the timing of an injection pump for internal combustion engines (shaft-type injection adjuster), in which a rotationally driven primary part is connected in a rotationally coupled manner with a secondary part but with the rotational angle between them being variable. The connection is effected via an axially displaceable sliding sheath, which is positively connected via at least one of the parts via a bevel gear and simultaneously acts as an adjusting piston. The working face of this adjusting piston is supplied with a control pressure by a centrifugal force control piston supported in a separate transverse bore in the primary part, either directly or with the intermediacy of an additional control piston, with respect to which then the adjusting piston effecting the coupling between the driving part and the driven part is embodied as a followup piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Otto Bauer, Lernhard Eberl, Gerhard Geyer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4554903
    Abstract: In the pump work chamber of a fuel injection pump, the main fuel delivered by a first metering valve is admixed with at least one further additional fluid by means of a second metering valve via a second inflow conduit. The two metering valves inserted into the inflow conduits and being electromechanically actuatable receive control pulses (I.sub.Z1, I.sub.Z2) dependent on operating characteristics (n, T, S, L) from an electric control unit. By means of the metering into the pump work chamber, the respective amounts of the fuel components are very well mixed or emulsified and pumped to the injection nozzle. The electric triggering of the metering valves enables a rapid adaptation from one stroke to another of the mixture ratio of the various fuel components to the instant operating condition of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Klaus-Dieter Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 4538580
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines in which by means of an obliquely extending control groove on the jacket face of a distributor, the end of injection can be varied by opening a relief conduit during the displacement of the distributor. The injection onset is made to follow this variable end of injection by providing that the stroke position of the pump pistons of the fuel injection pump is ascertained at the end of injection by a transducer, by means of which at the same time a metering duration of a magnetic valve that has already been opened at the time of the end of the injection stroke is controlled. In this manner, with a radial piston pump so embodied, the opportunity is afforded of accurately adjusting the quantity of fuel to be metered by means of a magnetic valve, even with variable injection times. All that needs to be done is that the magnetic valve be closed exactly and rapidly at the end of metering, while an error in opening on the part of the magnetic valve does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Hermann Eisele, Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet
  • Patent number: 4535742
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, in which beyond a predetermined remnant stroke during the supply stroke of the pump piston a relief conduit is opened via a first control edge and the remaining fuel pumped by the pump piston is pumped into a reservoir connected there. During the subsequent intake stroke, the diverted fuel is pumped back into the pump work chamber of the pump piston, until the first control edge again closes the relief conduit. During the subsequent intake stroke of the pump piston, in particular at the bottom dead center position of the pump piston, the relief conduit to the reservoir is once again opened by a second control edge, and then a complete relief of the reservoir is attained. It is during this phase that the metering of the fuel to be injected during the next supply stroke of the pump piston also takes place, via a magnetic valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Laufer, Helmut Pfeifle, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4526150
    Abstract: The fuel injection quantity of a fuel injection apparatus provided with a fuel injection pump is electrically regulated by means of the opening duration of a metering valve. Additionally, a shift in the instant of supply onset controlled in accordance with operating characteristics is attained by means of a change in the return-flow fuel quantity, which is diverted into a refill reservoir and then refilled completely into the pump work chamber by the beginning of the next subsequent injection stroke. Serving as the sole connection between the refill reservoir and a pump work chamber is an overflow conduit, which is opened by two control locations on the pump piston at the end of a supply and shortly prior to the bottom dead center. Both the pump cylinder with the pressure valve and the refill reservoir and the metering valve are inserted in a leak-fuel-proof manner in a cylinder head of the pump housing, which is embodied in two parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guntert, Walter Hafele, Helmut Pfeifle, Reinhard Schwartz, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4526149
    Abstract: The fuel injection quantity of a fuel injection apparatus provided with a fuel injection pump is electrically regulated by means of the opening duration of a metering valve. Additionally, a shift in the instant of supply onset controlled in accordance with operating characteristics is attained by means of a change in the return-flow fuel quantity, which is diverted into a refill reservoir and then refilled completely into the pump work chamber by the beginning of the next subsequent injection stroke. Serving as the sole connection between the refill reservoir and a pump work chamber is an overflow conduit, the overflow opening of which, located at the discharge location into the pump work chamber, is opened by two control locations on the pump piston at the end of supply and once again shortly before bottom dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Hafele, Helmut Pfeifle, Reinhard Schwartz, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4519352
    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: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Eheim, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4512308
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump in which the quantity adjustment member has a travel limitation in the form of an adjustable stop, which is adjusted in accordance with the displacement of an adjusting piston in accordance with a contour defined on the adjusting piston. The displacement of the adjusting piston is effected with the rpm-dependent pressure of the suction chamber of the fuel injection pump, and the work chamber preceding the adjusting piston can be uncoupled from the suction chamber via a throttle. The maximum displacement of the adjusting piston is limited by a stop which is adjustable in accordance with charge pressure or by a pressure control device by means of which the pressure in the work chamber can be adjusted or limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Hofer, Max Straubel, Franz Eheim
  • Patent number: 4505242
    Abstract: A control apparatus for internal combustion engines, which generates an adjustment path on the path of an adjustment member which is proportional to the air mass supplied to the engine. The control apparatus contains a counterpart pressure chamber sealed off from the outside and separated in a pressure-tight manner by an adjustment diaphragm from a first pressure chamber exposed to induced air pressure. A pressure source generating a reference absolute pressure which is constant under all operating conditions is connected to the counterpart pressure chamber. Consequently, the apparatus performs the function of a charge pressure stop equipped with a diaphragm box. The air reservoir of an air pressure brake system, a reservoir charged with the exhaust gas counterpressure or charge air pressure, or a vacuum pump can serve as the pressure source, and an absolute pressure controller controls the reference absolute pressure prevailing in the counterpart pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4501252
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Stumpp, Hans-Jorg Vogtmann, Paul Fussner, Manfred Schwarz, Gerald Hofer, Karl Konrath, Max Straubel, Werner Faupel
  • Patent number: 4476829
    Abstract: An electronic control system for the fuel quantity of an internal combustion engine having self-ignition is proposed, in which above a predetermined load threshold the increase in fuel quantity is limited and a regulation of exhaust gas temperature is performed. The load threshold is preferably approximately 75% of the full-load value, and it may be dependent on operating characteristics, for instance on the rpm. Depending upon the engine type, it may be useful to regulate not the absolute exhaust gas temperature but rather the difference between the exhaust gas temperature and the temperature of the aspirated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Wolf Wessel
  • Patent number: 4465049
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines, in which the onset and end of injection are determined by a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pump of the apparatus, which is preferably combined with an injection nozzle to form a pump/nozzle unit, has a pump piston embodied as a differential piston, whose section having the larger diameter serves as an auxiliary pump piston and generates a control pressure (p.sub.S) actuating the control slide. During its compression stroke the control slide, in order to initiate the onset of injection, closes an overflow line leading out of the pump work chamber; and during its return stroke, which is effected by the pressure drop in the control line, the control slide relieves the overflow line in order to control the end of injection. The control pressure (p.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Eckert, Max Straubel, Wilhelm Vogel
  • Patent number: 4462376
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are proposed for determining and controlling an exhaust gas recirculation rate in internal combustion engines (Diesel engines), wherein an adjusting member in the exhaust gas recirculation line is adjusted by a regulator in order to attain precise regulation of the exhaust gas quantity recirculated to the aspirated air zone. The regulator is supplied with the exhaust gas temperature (T4) measured at a given time as the load signal for the engine. The comparison value of the regulator is then either an actual value of the exhaust gas recirculation rate, ascertained by means of effective temperature measurements in the intake zone of the engine, or a set-point differential temperature which is produced by means of measuring the aspirated air quantity at a given time and the rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ripper, Max Straubel, Wolf Wessel
  • Patent number: 4459964
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engines having a fuel injection pump for supplying a regulatable fuel injection quantity, a ventilation apparatus of the fuel injection pump, a fuel quantity meter and exhaust gas recirculation in accordance with fuel quantity. In the ventilation or overflow line for the pump interior pressure, there is a ventilation valve which responds at least when the pump interior pressure has attained a pressure value which results at an engine rpm outside the exhaust gas test range. In this case, the overflow line of the fuel injection pump is connected with the fuel supply container. At a lower rpm which is within the exhaust gas test range, the ventilation valve may be switched such that a connection is established with the pump inflow downstream of the fuel quantity meter. The ventilation valve may also be embodied as a magnetic valve which is actuated by pressure switches exposed to the pump interior pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Straubel, Gerhard Stumpp
  • Patent number: 4459963
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus in which the duration of fuel supply of at least two pump pistons of a fuel injection pump is determined by the closing duration of an electrically actuated overflow valve. The overflow conduits of at least two adjacent pump work chambers are interconnected, and the return flow of fuel from these overflow conduits to a chamber of lower pressure is controllable by the control element of the overflow valve which is common to these overflow conduits. The overflow conduits are each provided with one barrier valve, by means of which the at least one pump work chamber not under injection pressure at a given time can be blocked off from the pump work chamber which is placed under injection pressure at that time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Gross, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4434777
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engines is proposed, which has a fuel injection pump for supplying a regulatable fuel injection quantity, a ventilation apparatus for the fuel injection pump, a fuel quantity meter and a means of exhaust gas recirculation controlled by fuel quantity. A ventilation valve responding to a predetermined pump interior pressure is included in an overflow line in order to cool the fuel injection pump by connection with the fuel supply container. The fuel quantity meter is embodied as a spring-loaded piston-type fuel quantity meter and has a travel receptor which generates an electrical output signal and delivers it to a control member of the exhaust gas recirculation system for varying the recirculated exhaust gas quantity accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4426981
    Abstract: A fuel quantity measuring apparatus, preferably for a Diesel engine, is proposed in which the course of the fuel pressure is evaluated. A specialized pressure gradient of a first polarity marks the onset of supply or injection, and the maximum of the pressure gradient of the other polarity represents the end of injection or supply. The question of which designation prevails, whether injection onset and end or supply onset and end, is determined by the measurement location, that is, whether it is in the direction of the injection valve or in the direction of the supply element of the fuel supply pump. The injection quantity, for example, may be determined via the integral of the pressure during the metering period. It is recommended, when a piezoelectric pressure receptor is used, that a resistor-capacitor element be switched parallel thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Max Greiner, Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4416233
    Abstract: A control apparatus for internal combustion engines, which generates an adjustment path on the part of an adjustment member which is proportional to the air mass supplied to the engine. The control apparatus contains a counterpart pressure chamber sealed off from the outside and separated in a pressure-tight manner by an adjustment diaphragm from a first pressure chamber exposed to induced air pressure. A pressure source generating a reference absolute pressure which is constant under all operating conditions is connected to the counterpart pressure chamber. Consequently, the apparatus performs the function of a charge pressure stop equipped with a diaphragm box. The air reservoir of an air pressure brake system, a reservoir charged with the exhaust gas counterpressure or charge air pressure, or a vacuum pump can serve as the pressure source, and an absolute pressure controller controls the reference absolute pressure prevailing in the counterpart pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 4398518
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines is proposed (FIG. 1), in which the onset and end of injection are determined by a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pumps of the apparatus, which are preferably combined with an injection nozzle to make a pump/nozzle unit, having a central magnetic valve assembly comprising two magnetic valves switched hydraulically in parallel, which valve assembly is inserted in a connection between a control pressure line, which can be placed under control pressure (P.sub.S) from a source of control fuel, and a low-pressure line which is under supply pressure (P.sub.V). In order to initiate the onset of injection, the control slide is placed under control pressure (P.sub.S) by the valve assembly via a distributor apparatus and closes an overflow channel leading out of the pump work chamber. In order to control the end of the injection, the control slide, during its return stroke, relieves this overflow channel toward a low-pressure line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Robert-Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jean Leblanc, Jean Pigeroulet, Max Straubel