Abstract: An accumulator fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with solenoid controlled fuel injection valves each including a spring loaded fuel injection nozzle needle to which fuel under pressure is supplied under the control of a solenoid controlled piston with a valve structure at one end for controlling fuel supply to the nozzle needle, the control piston has at its end an axial projection extending into a fuel supply cavity to restrict the fuel passage from the fuel supply cavity through the valve structure to the nozzle needle upon initial lifting of the control piston but permitting unrestricted flow after a predetermined lifting stroke, that is, solenoid energization period, and the solenoid is energized by a first energization pulse of a duration t.sub.1 and, after an interruption period t.sub.2 by a main energization pulse t.sub.2 during which the control piston is fully lifted for unrestricted fuel flow to the nozzle needle.

Abstract: In a fuel injector for direct fuel injection into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine under the control of an electromagnetic valve, wherein an injector housing has a control piston and a valve body disposed in a cylindrical opening formed therein whereby the high pressure fuel supply to a nozzle valve at one end of the injector is controlled, the valve body forms a valve whose downstream end is in communication, by way of a throttle structure, with a low pressure fuel return line through whichfuel under pressure can be released, the discharge of fuel from the downstream end of the valve body to the return line being further controlled such that fuel can be discharged to the fuel return line only when the nozzle valve is closed.

Abstract: In a magnetic valve controlled fuel injector for a storage fuel injection system of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine wherein the injector includes an upper housing part with a control piston, a lower housing part with a valve piston, a nozzle body with a spring loaded needle valve, and a fuel supply passage extending through the lower housing part to the valve piston and through the valve and control pistons to a control chamber from which fuel can be released under the control of a magnetic valve disposed on top of the upper housing part. The fuel supply passage further extends from the valve piston to a pressure chamber around the nozzle needle which when unseated by opening the magnetic control valve permits ejection of fuel from the pressure chamber. The valve and control piston which are disposed in the lower and respectively, upper housing parts are disposed in engagement with each other in the area of the jointure of the upper and the lower housing parts.

Abstract: In a magnetic valve controlled fuel injector for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with a nozzle needle movably disposed in the injector housing and spring-biased onto a nozzle needle seat wherein high pressure fuel supplied to the nozzle needle through a fuel admission passage lifts the nozzle needle off its seat for discharging fuel therefrom, a control piston with a valve portion is disposed in the injector housing and controlled by an electromagnetic valve for admitting fuel under pressure to the fuel admission passage and a pressure piston is movably disposed in a pressure space formed at one end of a space receiving the nozzle needle spring which, with one end biases the nozzle needle toward its closed position and is supported at its other end by the pressure piston and a throttled communication passage extends between the fuel admission passage and the pressure space for moving the pressure piston toward the nozzle needle when the pressure in the fuel admission passage remains because of a d

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with magnetic valve controlled direct injection fuel injectors of which each comprises a housing consisting of several parts, one part having an injection nozzle with a spring loaded nozzle needle and another part including a control piston with a valve structure having an integral valve seat for controlling high pressure fuel admission to a fuel supply passage extending through the housing to the injection nozzle, a control chamber is formed at the other end of the control piston and is in communication with the high pressure fuel supply, and a magnetic valve arranged adjacent the control chamber controls communication of the control chamber with a drain line for releasing pressurized fuel from the control chamber to permit unseating of the control piston so as to establish communication between the pressurized fuel supply and the injection nozzle past a lug extending from the control piston into a fuel admission bore.

Abstract: In a process for regulating the injection quantities of injectors which are fluidically connected with a common pressure line in a common-rail injection system of an internal-combustion engine, a fuel pump provides fuel in the pressure line under a static nominal pressure. Control signals for opening and closing within individual injection periods for achieving respective identical injection quantities are supplied to the injectors by a regulator unit. In the case of different flow rates of the individual injectors respective identical injection quantities are achieved by the regulator unit by changing the respective injection period on the basis of a measuring signal. For this purpose, a pressure gauge inserted into the pressure line generates a measuring signal from a measurement of the static measuring pressure in the pressure line in each case after the closing of an injector.

Abstract: A control for an injection system of a multicylinder internal combustion engine has a high pressure pump connected to a distributor element provided with outlet openings from which branch lines lead separately to groups of injection valves. The distributor element has first and second spring biased pistons that are operable to block selectively fuel to the branch lines, each of the pistons having a throttle point situated therein. When a major leak develops downstream from the distributor element, the branch line in which the leak has occurred is automatically shut off by the associated piston in the distributor element, due to the imbalance in pressure which results. When a minor leak develops, one of the branch lines is automatically closed by a control unit shutting off the injection valves associated with the other branch line, while the high pressure pump continues to deliver for at least one operating cycle.

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with magnetic valve controlled direct injection fuel injectors of which each includes a housing having an injection nozzle with a nozzle needle biased into a closed position by a spring disposed in a spring chamber, and a magnetic valve controlled control piston having a valve structure at one end for controlling high pressure fuel admission to a fuel supply passage leading to the needle nozzle, the spring chamber is in communication with the fuel supply passage by a communication passage including a throttle structure permitting limited fuel flow to the spring chamber such that, upon failure of the injector resulting in a continuous pressurization of the fuel supply passage, the pressure in the spring chamber builds up to seat the nozzle needle thereby interrupting fuel ejection from the injector.

Abstract: In a fuel injector for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine including an injector housing with an injection nozzle controlled by a valve needle extending through a cylindrical fuel pressure space from which fuel under pressure is supplied to the fuel injection nozzle, the fuel pressure space includes a flow limiting piston with a seating surface at its end adjacent the needle tip and the injector housing has a valve seat disposed opposite the piston seating surface for blocking fuel flow to the injector nozzle when the flow limiting piston is seated on the valve seat and the flow limiting piston is spring-biased away from the valve seat with a force which is sufficient to normally hold the flow limiting piston away from the valve seat, but which permits closing of the valve when the fuel flow to the injector nozzle becomes excessive.

Abstract: In a fuel injection control system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine including a high pressure fuel pump for supplying fuel under pressure to the fuel injection valves of the various cylinders through a distribution line including a fuel distribution element dividing the fuel supply to two groups of fuel injection valves, the fuel distribution element includes a piston disposed in a cylinder and adapted to interrupt fuel flow to any one of the two groups in which a leak occurs such that fuel supply to the other group of fuel injection valves can be maintained for an emergency operation of the engine. If small leaks are detected by the electronic engine operating control, the valves of one of the groups are momentarily deactivated to cause the distribution element to interrupt the fuel supply to the other group of fuel injection valves.

Abstract: An injector with solenoid-valve control provided for diesel internal-combustion engines has a lateral fuel delivery conduit into a pressure accumulator reaching, on one hand, as far as the needle seat of a nozzle needle and on the other hand as far as a piston arranged on the rear side of the nozzle needle. A control space in the injector is connected by a controllable solenoid valve to the pressure accumulator or, for pressure relief, to a low-pressure conduit. A fuel filter is arranged in the pressure accumulator in the mouth region of the fuel delivery conduit.

Abstract: In a method of controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine with fuel injection by way of a common high pressure (common rail) fuel supply line to which high pressure fuel is supplied by a high pressure fuel pump and from which fuel is admitted to the various cylinders of the internal combustion engine by valve controlled fuel injection nozzles, the fuel pressure in the common fuel supply line between the end of an injection and the start of a fuel supply period is monitored at distinct timely spaced measurement points and, if a pressure difference between the measurement points is sensed in excess of a predetermined limit value indicating an injector malfunction, the high pressure fuel supply to the common fuel supply line is interrupted by deactivating the high pressure fuel pump while fuel injection through the operative nozzles is maintained so as to rapidly reduce the pressure in the common fuel supply line.

Abstract: In a method of recognizing operating errors in the fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine wherein fuel is supplied by a fuel pump via a common fuel supply line to a number of fuel injectors, the fuel pressure in the common fuel supply line is determined at least at two predetermined points in time between which the pressure should not change when the system is properly operating and an operating error is indicated if a difference in pressure is determined which exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: In a method of injection fuel for Diesel engine comprising a high pressure injection pump with a fuel supply line for supplying high pressure fuel to fuel injection nozzles wherein a fuel control line extends between the pump and a low pressure fuel supply line for discharge in excess fuel thereto under the control of a magnetic valve which is closed to end the discharge of excess fuel and initiate pumping of fuel, the magnetic valve is opened at the end of fuel pumping at a point corresponding to a piston stroke length h after the upper dead center of the piston such that, when communication between the pump and the low pressure fuel line is established, pressure pulses in the low pressure fuel line are avoided.

Abstract: In a fuel injection nozzle for an internal combustion engine with a fuel injection opening including a nozzle opening control needle with a body portion with discharge openings whose size depends on the axial displacement of the nozzle opening control needle and with means for limiting the axial displacement of the nozzle opening control needle, a hollow nozzle needle is disposed around the stem of the nozzle opening control needle and forms at its end a fuel control valve seat for controlling fuel flow to the fuel injection opening and a control space is provided at the end of the hollow nozzle needle opposite its valve seat which is in communication with a pressurized fuel supply for holding the hollow nozzle needle in a seated position but from which the pressure can be released to permit lifting of the hollow nozzle needle by pressurized fuel supplied to the seating area end of the hollow nozzle needle whereupon the pressurized fuel released through the fuel control valve displaces the nozzle opening cont

Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle with integral solenoid valve for internal combustion engines, with an injection nozzle body having a nozzle needle movably disposed therein and being spring-biased to a normally closed position comprises a multipart solenoid valve housing including a first housing part receiving an annular magnetic coil and a second housing part disposed between the first housing part and the fuel nozzle body and having a disc-shaped magnetic armature mounted on an armature shaft movably supported therein, wherein the armature shaft is slightly shorter than the second housing part and has valve seating surfaces at its opposite ends for closing, in its upper end position, an opening of a pressurized fuel passage in the first housing part and, in its lower end position, an opening of a pressure relief channel in the nozzle body, the openings being formed in the planar faces of the first housing part and the nozzle body between which the second housing part, which includes the armature shaft, is sandwiche

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine with solenoid valve controlled fuel injection nozzles receiving fuel from a common high pressure fuel supply line to which fuel is supplied via a high-pressure line including a check valve by a mechanically operated high pressure piston pump which has a piston disposed in a cylinder to which fuel is fed by a low pressure fuel supply line, a control line extends between the high-pressure line upstream of the check valve and the fuel supply line and includes a solenoid valve to permit fuel discharge from the pump back to the fuel supply line and a bypass line extends between the high-pressure line downstream of the check valve and the cylinder to provide communication with the fuel supply line through passages in the piston and the working space of the piston when the piston is in its inserted position and the solenoid is open to permit the release of pressurized fuel from the common high-pressure fuel supply line to the low pressure fuel supply line.

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine having a high-pressure pump supplying fuel from a low pressure fuel supply conduit connected to the pump to a common high pressure fuel supply conduit for the injectors of the internal combustion engine via a high-pressure conduit extending between the high pressure pump and the common fuel supply conduit, the high-pressure conduit includes a non-return valve which, at the same time, is operable electromagnetically so as to be capable of maintaining the non-return valve open beyond the high-pressure pump delivery stroke for the release of fuel from the common fuel supply conduit under the control of the pump plunger and for rapid pressure relief by keeping the non-return valve open beyond a point at which the plunger opens the low-pressure fuel supply conduit connected to the pump.

Abstract: In a pressure-compensated solenoid valve disposed in a passage for controlling communication therethrough a central valve housing part which includes a guide bore with an increased-diameter end section providing for a bore shoulder and a stepped control rod movably disposed in the guide bore and having an increased-diameter end portion received in the increased-diameter guide bore end section and a shoulder disposed opposite the guide bore shoulder so as to define an annular space therebetween, a first housing end part is disposed on the central housing part adjacent said increased-diameter guide bore and has an opening in alignment with the control rod and a second housing end part is disposed on the central housing part opposite the first housing end part and includes biasing means for biasing the control rod onto the opening in the first housing end part for closing the opening and electromagnetic means are provided for retracting the control rod to establish communication through the opening wherein the i

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder Diesel engine which is provided with magnetic valve-controlled fuel injection nozzles, and which has two fuel supply conduits (common rails) for two different groups of fuel injection nozzles and at least one high-pressure pump connected to the fuel supply conduits for delivering high-pressure fuel thereto, each fuel supply conduit includes a pressure sensor which is connected to means for shutting off the fuel supply to a fuel supply conduit when the sensor senses a pressure loss in that conduit so that the pressure can be maintained in the other fuel supply conduit and the engine can be operated on a limited basis by the cylinders supplied by the groups of injection nozzles supplied with fuel by the other fuel supply conduit.