Patents by Inventor Timo Steinbach

Timo Steinbach 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: 8297261
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a fuel-supply system, a first supply unit supplies fuel from a storage container to a second supply unit. At least a partial quantity of the fuel quantity supplied by the first supply unit returns to the storage container as return quantity via a return line. The return quantity is determined as a function of the operating state of the fuel-supply system. The first supply unit is controlled at least as a function of the return quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Steinbach, Dorothee Sommer, Stefan Kieferle
  • Publication number: 20100307459
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a fuel-supply system, a first supply unit supplies fuel from a storage container to a second supply unit. At least a partial quantity of the fuel quantity supplied by the first supply unit returns to the storage container as return quantity via a return line. The return quantity is determined as a function of the operating state of the fuel-supply system. The first supply unit is controlled at least as a function of the return quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Timo Steinbach, Dorothee Sommer, Stefan Kieferle
  • Patent number: 7438057
    Abstract: A common rail fuel injection system having a low-pressure region from which a high-pressure fuel pump acts on fuel with high pressure and delivers it to a high-pressure fuel accumulator from which fuel is supplied to injectors that inject the highly pressurized fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine in which the high-pressure pump, the high-pressure fuel accumulator, and the injectors are associated with a high-pump, pressure region. In order to avoid undesirable delays in the starting of the internal combustion engine, a check valve device is connected between the low-pressure region and the high-pressure region so that when a negative pressure is generated in the high-pressure region, fuel flows from the low-pressure region into the high-pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Scheurer, Timo Steinbach
  • Publication number: 20080029065
    Abstract: A common rail fuel injection system having a low-pressure region from which a high-pressure fuel pump acts on fuel with high pressure and delivers it to a high-pressure fuel accumulator from which fuel is supplied to injectors that inject the highly pressurized fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine in which the high-pressure pump, the high-pressure fuel accumulator, and the injectors are associated with a high-pressure region. In order to avoid undesirable delays in the starting of the internal combustion engine, a check valve device is connected between the low-pressure region and the high-pressure region so that when a negative pressure is generated in the high-pressure region, fuel flows from the low-pressure region into the high-pressure region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Scheurer, Timo Steinbach