Abstract: The invention involves shifting the location of the seat belt retractor in order to reduce the thickness of the seat especially in the lower regions for a mobile vehicle seat. The seat may be used for a mobile vehicle as a school bus as well as for automotive applications. The seat belt retractors are attached to a portion of the seat structure that allows the webbing to exit the retractor on the front surface of the seat back. The webbing is then allowed to cross over to the rear surface of the seat back as it rises to the turning-loop. The retractor may be located forward of the seat back pivot point on the seat frame in order to allow for the webbing to exit on the front surface of the seat back.

Abstract: The invention provides a seat for a bus that has a movable front frame or seat back that a seat occupant rests his or her back against normally. The front frame is the mounting point for the upper portion of a three-point seat belt. The seat frame contains a rear passenger support wall or rear frame to protect a passenger of rearward seat from moving out his safety zone in a forward direction in the event of a rapid deceleration. The rear frame is part of the seat frame and only moves upon initial contact by a rearward-unbelted passenger impact. A rotation guide slot defines the amount of rear frame movement. The front frame is limited in the amount of its forward pivoting movement by a tether, spring or fluid dampener that is engaged to an immovable portion of the frame and thereby limits forward travel of the front frame.

Abstract: A method for controlling a fuel metering system of an internal combustion engine. A activation duration of at least one electrically operated injector determines the injected fuel quantity. The minimum activation duration during which fuel is only just injected being determined in certain operating states. The activation duration being increased/reduced starting at an initial value, and the activation duration during which a signal undergoes a change being stored as the minimum activation duration, in which the difference between the activation duration during which a signal undergoes a change and the stored minimum activation duration is determined, from which correction values for the fuel quantity map of the injector are determined and stored using at least one transfer function, which characterizes the relationship between the minimum injection and activation durations at several test points of the injector and/or the relationship between the activation durations at different test points of the injector.

Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids, in particular in an injection valve of an internal combustion engine, including a valve housing (20), in which housing a system region (21) is embodied, in which region a piezoelectric actuator module (22) and a hydraulic coupler module (23) are disposed, which has both an adjusting piston (24), on which the actuator module (22) acts, and an actuating piston (30) that is operatively connected via a hydraulic chamber (29) to the adjusting piston (24) and that is connected to a valve closing member (31) cooperating with a valve seat (37), and the adjusting piston (24) and the actuating piston (30) define the hydraulic chamber (29), and a system pressure for refilling the hydraulic chamber (29) prevails in the system region (21), from which a diversion conduit (38) branches off. The system region (21) is acted upon by a fluid via the diversion conduit (38).

Abstract: An injection nozzle has a nozzle body, a nozzle needle that is supported displaceably in the nozzle body, a control chamber that communicates with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a valve element that can open and close the fluid outlet. The control chamber is laterally defined by a displaceable ring which rests on the nozzle needle, and a closing spring presses the ring against the nozzle needle in fluid-tight fashion.

Abstract: The fuel injection device has a high-pressure pump that supplies highly pressurized fuel to at least one high-pressure reservoir connected to injectors disposed in cylinders of an engine, wherein the injectors are connected to a common low-pressure reservoir. A pressure holding valve maintains a predetermined low pressure in the low-pressure reservoir. A pressure regulating valve regulates the pressure in the high-pressure reservoir by diverting fuel from the at least one high-pressure reservoir through a diversion connection into a low-pressure region. The diversion connection of the pressure regulating valve is connected to the low-pressure reservoir so that the low-pressure reservoir is filled with fuel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a common rail for a common rail fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, having a base body whose interior communicates with a plurality of connection openings. To increase the high-pressure strength, one elongated connection stub extends through each associated connection opening into the interior of the base body.

Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids, in particular in an injection valve of an internal combustion engine, including a valve housing (20), in which housing a system region (21) is embodied, in which region a piezoelectric actuator module (22) and a hydraulic coupler module (23) are disposed, which has both an adjusting piston (24), on which the actuator module (22) acts, and an actuating piston (30) that is operatively connected via a hydraulic chamber (29) to the adjusting piston (24) and that is connected to a valve closing member (31) cooperating with a valve seat (37), and the adjusting piston (24) and the actuating piston (30) define the hydraulic chamber (29), and a system pressure for refilling the hydraulic chamber (29) prevails in the system region (21), from which a diversion conduit (38) branches off. The system region (21) is acted upon by a fluid via the diversion conduit (38) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: An injector, actuated by a piezoelectric actuator with a hydraulic booster, for a fuel injection system for internal combustion engines is disclosed, in which the pressure booster is always hydraulically prestressed.

Abstract: A valve for regulating fluids includes a piezo-electric actor unit (9) for operating a valve member assembly. The valve member assembly has at least one first piston (13) guided in a valve body (10) and a second piston (14). A hydraulic chamber, acting as a hydraulic converter, is disposed between the first and second pistons (13, 14). The second piston operates a valve-closing member (15) disposed on an end facing away from the hydraulic chamber (16). The valve closing member (15) cooperates with at least one valve seat (17) formed on the valve body (10) and in a closed position, separates a system pressure region (18) of the valve (1) from a high pressure region (5). The second piston (14) is surrounded by and supported by an approximately casing-type spacer (22) on the valve body (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a common rail injector for injecting fuel in a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine, which system has an injector housing (1) with a fuel inlet (24) that is in communication with a central high-pressure fuel reservoir outside the injector housing (1) and with a pressure chamber (27) inside the injector housing (1), from which fuel subjected to high pressure is injected as a function of the position of a control valve (18) that assures that a nozzle needle (8), which is movable back and forth and received in a longitudinal bore (6) of the injector axially counter to the prestressing force of a nozzle spring (21) that is received in a nozzle spring chamber (20), lifts from a seat when the pressure in the pressure chamber (27) is greater than the pressure in a control chamber (30) that communicates with the fuel inlet (24) via an inlet throttle (19).

Abstract: An injection valve, in particular for an internal combustion engine, including a valve control piston (6), a valve control chamber (2) with an inlet throttle (4) and an outlet throttle (24) for actuating the valve control piston (6), a valve control unit, actuated by means of an actuator unit, in particular a piezoelectric actuator unit (8), for controlling the valve control chamber (2), which valve control unit is embodied in valvelike fashion and has a valve closing member (16) cooperating with at least one valve seat (17). To assure a high closing speed of the valve closing member (16), the valve closing member (16) and the at least one valve seat (17) are disposed in the valve control chamber (2) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: In a fuel injection valve having a valve body, which contains a movable injector needle, having an actuating part, which supports the injector needle and communicates with a control pressure chamber, and having a compensation chamber, which communicates with a compensation piston, a closing force that counteracts a dynamic opening force should be reliably exerted on the actuating part. To this end, a spring element that exerts a compensating force on the injector needle is disposed between the injector needle and the compensation piston.

Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids includes a valve housing in which an actuator chamber is embodied, in which chamber a piezoelectric actuator module for actuating a valve member that is axially displaceable in a valve body is disposed, which valve member has an adjusting piston upon which the actuator module acts and also has an actuating piston which is operatively connected to the adjusting piston via a hydraulic coupler and which is in contact with a valve closing member, disposed in a valve chamber, that cooperates with at least one valve seat and downstream thereof a diversion conduit branches off. An axially acting first prestressing spring engages the actuator module, and the adjusting piston is loaded in the direction of the actuator module.

Abstract: In a fuel injection valve for internal combustion engines, having a valve housing, having an axially movable valve member for opening and closing an injection opening of the injection valve, and having a part, which acts in the closing direction of the valve member, which is guided with its end remote from the injection opening in a bore of a first valve piece inserted into the valve housing and with this end, encloses a control pressure chamber in the first valve piece, which control pressure chamber can be connected to a high-pressure fuel connection via an inlet conduit, which is provided with at least one inlet throttle, and can be connected to a low-pressure fuel connection via an outlet conduit, which has an outlet throttle and can be closed by a movable control valve member, where the injection process can be controlled by means of the fuel pressure in the control pressure chamber, the proposal is made that at least the section of the inlet conduit provided with the inlet throttle be disposed in a seco

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve for controlling fluids, having an actuator unit for actuating a valve member which has a first piston and a second piston, separated from it by a hydraulic chamber, and which actuates a valve closing member that divides a low-pressure region at system pressure from a high-pressure region. For leakage compensation, a filling device connectable to the high-pressure region is provided with a hollow chamber, in which a throttle body is disposed such that a line leading to the high-pressure region discharges into the hollow chamber on one end of the throttle body, and on the other end a system pressure line leading to the hydraulic booster branches off. The system pressure is built up as a function of the prevailing pressure in the high-pressure region, by means of geometrically defining the throttle body, a gap surrounding it, and the dimensions of the piston along which the system pressure is reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve having a valve needle (2) which is axially displaceable in a bore (5) of a valve body (3) and which on one end has a conical valve needle tip (4). The valve needle tip (4) includes a radial valve sealing face (9), which in the closing position of the valve comes to rest on a conical inner wall (6) of the valve body on the closed end of the bore (5). In the inner wall (6) of the valve body there is at least one opening (7), which connects the bore (5) with the outside (8) of the valve body (3). The valve includes two radial recesses (12, 13, 16, 17), which are disposed in the valve needle tip (4) or in the inner wall (6) of the valve body, and one of the radial recesses (13, 17) is located upstream (10) and the other radial recess (12, 16) is located downstream (11) from the position of the valve sealing face (9), in the closing position of the valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a common rail fuel injector having an injector housing with a fuel inlet in communication with a central high-pressure fuel reservoir outside the injector housing and with a pressure chamber inside the injector housing. A control valve assures that a nozzle needle lifts from a seat when the pressure in the pressure chamber is greater than the pressure in a control chamber that communicates with the fuel inlet via an inlet throttle. The control chamber is defined by a bush that is displaceable, causing a sealing action, on the end of the nozzle needle remote from the combustion chamber and that is kept in contact against the injector housing with the aid of the nozzle spring.

Abstract: A valve (1) for regulating fluids has a piezoelectric unit (4) for actuating a valve member (3). The valve member is embodied with a control piston (9), adjacent to the piezoelectric unit (4), and with at least one actuating piston (14), adjacent to a valve closing member (15). A hydraulic chamber (16) functioning as a hydraulic booster is disposed between the pistons (9, 14). The valve closing member (15) cooperates with at least one valve seat (18, 19) and divides a low-pressure region (20) from a high-pressure region (21). An electric control unit (12) specifies the trigger voltage for the piezoelectric unit (4) as a function of the pressure level in the high-pressure region (21), a leakage loss from the low-pressure region (20) and the hydraulic chamber (16), and the refilling of the low-pressure region.

Abstract: A valve for controlling fluids having an actuator unit for actuating a valve member, which has a first piston and a second piston, separated from it by a hydraulic chamber, and which actuates a valve closing member that divides a low-pressure region at system pressure from a high-pressure region. For leakage compensation, a filling device connectable to the high-pressure region is provided with a hollow chamber, in which a throttle body is disposed such that a line leading to the high-pressure region discharges into the hollow chamber on one end of the throttle body, and on the other end a system pressure line leading to the hydraulic chamber branches off. The system pressure is built up by geometric definition of a throttle bore in the throttle body and of the dimensions of the piston, along which the system pressure is reduced, as a function of a prevailing pressure in the high-pressure region.