Abstract: A fuel injector includes a collar, which may be formed of a porous, sintered material, the collar being located around the needle and allowing a restricted fluid pathway, such as orifices through the collar, between first and second volumes of fuel, the collar being located in a section of the nozzle body which has a greater cross-sectional area than the rest of the bore.

Abstract: A fuel injector includes a collar, which may be formed of a porous, sintered material, the collar being located around the needle and allowing a restricted fluid pathway, such as orifices through the collar, between first and second volumes of fuel, the collar being located in a section of the nozzle body which has a greater cross-sectional area than the rest of the bore.

Abstract: A pump unit for a fuel injection system is disclosed. The pump unit has a low pressure fuel supply line and a high pressure fuel outlet. A pumping chamber having a plunger is operable to perform a pumping cycle comprising a pumping stroke and a filling stroke. The pump unit also includes an inlet valve having an inlet valve member movable between an open position for permitting the supply of fuel to the pumping chamber from the low pressure fuel supply line and a closed position for inhibiting the supply of fuel from the pumping chamber to the low pressure supply line. An outlet valve is provided in the high pressure fuel outlet. The pump unit also includes means for coupling the plunger to the inlet valve member. The present application also relates to a method of operating a pump unit; and a valve for a fuel injection system.

Abstract: An improved decision feedback phase lock loop having an erasure zone detector and a feedback loop interrupting switch responsive to the output of the erasure zone detector which cooperate to eliminate from the feedback loop those error signals corresponding to detected data falling within certain predetermined regions of the encoding constellation. The erasure zone detector compares the complex input signal to certain predetermined erasure zone reference signals so as to determine when the input signal falls within an erasure zone and correspondingly actuates the loop switch to prevent certain feedback error signals from being input to the loop filter.

Abstract: A complex ternary correlator and method for adaptive gradient computation in an adaptive equalizer and including four ternary operation circuits, four ternary multiplier circuits for obtaining the cross products of the ternary operation outputs, a subtractor circuit for developing a signal commensurate with the difference between two of the ternary multiplier outputs, an adder circuit for developing a signal commensurate with the sum of the remaining two ternary multiplier outputs and two identical integrating circuits for obtaining the real and imaginary adaptive tap coefficient update increments in an adaptive equalizer.

Abstract: A leaky digital integrator comprising an accumulator circuit including an adder having first and second adder input terminals and an adder output terminal, and a shift register coupling the adder output terminal back to the second adder input terminal and to an integrator output terminal; a ternary signal detection circuit coupled to the integrator output terminal and operative to develop one of three decay factor signals depending upon whether the integrator output signal level is above, equal to or below a predetermined reference level; and switching apparatus having a first switched terminal which is periodically coupled at a first rate to the first adder input terminal to input update data signals to the accumulator circuit and a second switched terminal which is periodically coupled at a second rate to the first adder input terminal to input decay data signals to the accumulator circuit such that the circuit as a whole performs according to the equationa.sub.i (t)=Da.sub.i (t-1)+.DELTA.a.sub.