Abstract: An injection timing control device in a distributor-type fuel injection pump is provided with a servo valve for preventing vibration of the timer piston caused by a torque reaction force of the roller holder. A spring force control device holds the initial setting load of the timer spring urging the valve body of the servo valve at a predetermined value when the engine temperature exceeds a predetermined value, and reduces the initial setting load below the predetermined value when the engine temperature is below the predetermined value, to thereby obtain an injection timing advance at the start of the engine in a cold condition.

Abstract: A method for providing an improved sleeve 100 as a cylinder 62 for an advance piston 50 of a rotary fuel injection pump is described. The sleeve 100 provides long cylinder 62 life with a piston 50 made of a much harder material such as steel. The method is particularly suited for repairing such fuel pumps, but can also be used for newly manufactured pumps.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is provided with an injection start adjustor, in accordance with which an injection adjusting piston is loaded by a pump number of revolutions-dependent fuel pressure of a feed pump against a spring force provided by two pressure springs, of which a first stronger spring in the region of lower number of revolutions acts against a second weaker spring and from a predetermined adjusting path and higher number of revolutions it acts alone.

Abstract: An injection timing control device in a distributor-type fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine having a filter arranged in the exhaust passage for trapping exhaust gas fine particles, and a sensor for detecting exhaust pressure upstream of the filter. A timer spring and a second spring having a smaller force than that of the timer spring are accommodated within a spring chamber at one end of a timer piston. While the timer piston is displaced from its initial position to a predetermined position in the injection timing advancing direction by pressure within a hydraulic pressure chamber at the other end of the timer piston, the second spring alone counteracts the displacement of the timer piston. When the timer piston is further displaced beyond the predetermined position in the injection timing advancing direction, at least the timer spring counteracts the displacement of the timer piston.

Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling the fuel injection advance angle of a fuel injection pump having a hydraulic type timer with a solenoid valve, the apparatus has a closed-loop control system in which the solenoid valve is controlled so as to be closed or opened in accordance with a first control signal produced in response to a feedback signal showing the actual injection advance angle so that the actual injection advance angle is made to coincide with a desired target injection advance angle when the feedback signal is in a predetermined condition, and the solenoid valve is controlled by a second control signal in the open-loop control mode so as to be continuously closed/opened whereby to regulate the average opening degree of the solenoid valve in order to obtain the optimum injection advance angle when the feedback signal is not in the predetermined normal condition.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a hydraulic injection onset adjuster, an rpm governor with at least one member operating in accordance with load, and a full-load stop of the governor which limits the maximum injection quantity is proposed, in which between the full-load stop and the governor member adjustable in accordance with load a switch is provided, which switch upon a change from full load to partial load triggers a magnetic valve, to thereby effect a shift of the injection onset toward "late". The magnetic valve, to this end, engages the hydraulic control of the injection adjuster.

Abstract: A distributor-type fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine, having an injection timing control device for controlling the fuel injection timing by a timer piston displaceable in response to change of the fuel pressure within a suction space of the pump filled with fuel having a pressure variable as a function of the rotational speed of the engine. The pump housing has drain passage means formed in a partition wall thereof partitioning the injection timing control device from the suction space and in the timer piston, and communicating the suction space with a zone under a lower pressure, to always drain fuel within the suction space to the lower pressure zone during the operation of the pump. Therefore, a desired fuel injection timing characteristic substantially free of a hysteresis can be obtained within a predetermined rotational speed region of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus of the rotary distributor type includes a cam ring the angular setting of which can be adjusted to determine the timing of delivery of fuel. In order to adjust the setting of the cam ring first and second fluid pressure operable pistons are arranged in parallel side by side relationship and are each coupled to the cam ring by a radial arm. The first piston is subject to a speed dependent pressure generated within the apparatus to provide normal speed advance and the second piston under the control of a valve can be subjected to said pressure to give full advance when the associated engine is cold and up to a predetermined engine load.

Abstract: In effecting individual cylinder fuel injection control in an electronically controlled diesel engine, wherein rpm variations with every explosion cylinder are detected and compared with one another, and a fuel injection quantity control actuator is controlled with every cylinder so as to make the rpm variations of respective cylinders uniform, so that engine vibrations due to a dispersion in fuel injection quantity between the cylinders can be controlled, a movement value corrected driving command timing to the fuel injection quantity control actuator is determined in accordance with a difference between individual cylinder correction quantities of last time and this time and a driving command is given to the fuel injection quantity control actuator with every cylinder in accordance with the movement value corrected driving command timing.

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.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump is provided with a device for adjusting the start of fuel injection which includes a turnable roller ring and a stop engaged in the roller ring and mounted on a shaft turnable by an actuating adjusting lever between two end positions. The stop is positioned eccentrically to the axis of the shaft. The stop limits the angle of twist of the roller ring to adjust the start of fuel injection.

Abstract: A method of controlling a hydraulic actuator which controls the rotational phase angle of the fuel injection pump for the automobile. A satisfactory exhaust gas composition and an appropriate fuel consumption during a warm-up period of the engine are achieved when the oil temperature in the hydraulic actuator is low. The control method for the hydraulic actuator includes the steps of detecting the temperature corresponding to the oil temperature, comparing the detected temperature with the predetermined reference temperature, and making the application period of the command pulse signal for driving the hydraulic actuator longer than the predetermined length when the detected temperature is lower than the predetermined reference temperature.

Abstract: In addition to a conventional first communication passageway communicating the suction space of a distributor-type fuel injection pump with a hydraulic oil chamber defined at one end of the timer piston via a servo valve acting to prevent vibration of the roller holder, a second communication passageway is provided for communicating the suction space with the hydraulic oil chamber while the timer piston is displaced at least through a stroke corresponding to a predetermined starting advance in the injection timing. Selector means closes the first communication passageway and simultaneously opens the second communication passageway when a temperature of the engine is below a predetermined value, while it opens the first communication passageway and simultaneously closes the second communication passageway when the temperature of the engine is above the predetermined value, to thereby achieve positive starting of the engine in a cold condition.

Abstract: Centrifugal weight members are accommodated within a housing arranged concentrically with a driven rotary member and rotatable in unison therewith, and engage a driving rotary member through double eccentric cam means. The centrifugal weight members define a radially inner chamber in cooperation with the driven rotary member, and radially outer chambers in cooperation with the housing, and are formed with passages communicating the above chambers with each other.

Abstract: To avoid the lifting off and re-impacting of the flyweights (13) of a fuel injection timing device on their associated slide surfaces (14, 15) during the occurrence of a negative torque, it is proposed to transmit a part of this torque by an oil film. For this purpose, lubricating oil from the internal combustion engine flows through the timing device. At least one of the flyweights (13) cooperates as a transmission element (21) with a slide member (22) and with the two coupling parts (11, 12) whereby slide surfaces (23-28) with areal abutments are provided between the parts, between which an effective oil film can form.

Abstract: A fuel injection timing control apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a fuel injection timing control mechanism including an input and an output shaft respectively with a first and a fourth gear, at least one of these gears being a helical gear, and an axially movable shaft with a second and a third gear respectively in mesh with the first and fourth gears, a piston-cylinder assembly with a piston rod coupled to the axially movable shaft, and a piston-cylinder assembly control mechanism having detector means for detecting the phases of the first and fourth gears. The phase relation between the first and fourth gears is varied with displacement of the second and third gears caused through control of the piston-cylinder assembly according to the difference between a reference phase angle and a detected phase angle.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device suited to use in automotive diesel engines. The device comprises sensors for producing signals upon sensing various states of operation of the engine, including a temperature sensor adapted to produce a temperature signal upon sensing the temperature of a coolant for cooling the engine, a first arithmetic operation means for determining the rate of fuel injection in accordance with the signals delivered by the sensors, and a second arithmetic operation means for determining the timing of fuel injection in accordance with the signals delivered by the sensors.

Abstract: The invention relates to an injection regulator for adjusting the injection timing in a turbo-charged diesel engine depending on the engine speed and load. The regulator comprises a valve controlled by a centrifugal regulator and which produces an oil pressure varying as the square of the r.p.m., and a device loaded by the engine charging pressure. The oil pressure force and the charging pressure force are used to control a pair of slide valves, which regulate the oil pressure in a plunger-cylinder arrangement, by which the injection timing can be adjusted.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improvement in internal combustion engine injection pump, according to which the injection timing is modified by moving the timing element (9) by means of a hydraulic actuator (41) fed with fuel which varies in pressure with the pump speed and which urges the actuator piston (42) against elastic means which react within an axially mobile rotating cylinder (47), of which the axial position is determined by contact between two cam surfaces (52,56) in series, and of which the rotation is a function of the position of the pump throughput control members.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a device for adjusting the injection timing having a work chamber defined by an adjusting piston and communicating via a throttle bore with a pressure source from which the pressure to adjust the adjusting piston is drawn. In order to modify the pressure in the work chamber, the work chamber can be made to communicate via a pressure limiting valve with the relief side of the pump. The control force of the pressure limiting valve is adjustable by means of a stepping motor. An influence on the pressure controlling the adjusting piston is thereby obtained which is restricted to the work chamber.

Abstract: Fuel is periodically injected into an engine combustion chamber by a first injection device as an engine crankshaft rotates. A timing control device serves to adjust the timing of fuel injection effected by the first injection device with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft. Fuel is also periodically injected into the combustion chamber by a second injection device as the crankshaft rotates. Adjustment of the timing of fuel injection effected by the first injection device results in variation of the total fuel injection rate characteristic curve with respect to the rotational angle of the crankshaft.

Abstract: An injection timing control device for an internal combustion engine includes a connector plate constantly biased in a predetermined direction. A hydraulic actuator urges the connector plate in the other direction in response to a fluid pressure communicated thereto, thereby actuating an eccentric cam mechanism to vary a fuel injection timing. The line of action of the biasing force and that of the urging force opposite to the biasing force, each imparted to the connector plate, lie in a common plane which contains an axis of the hydraulic actuator, so that the connector plate is prevented from tilting and thereby effecting the operation of the cam mechanism.

Abstract: A rotor balancing arrangement is provided for use in a distribution valve to ensure hydrostatic balancing of a rotor located in the distribution valve. Some balancing arrangements provide areas equally spaced around the peripheral surface, each being exposed to the same pressure, however, they are limited to valves which rotate only through a limited arc of rotation. Other valves which rotate provide balancing grooves around portions of the peripheral surface but do not provide any control for the pressure that migrates axially in both directions along the peripheral surface of the rotor. In the subject arrangement, pressure fields of a predetermined size are located on a peripheral surface of a rotor circumscribing first and second outlet ports which open to opposite sides of the rotor. The size of the pressure fields is determined by the relationship of the diametrical clearance between the rotor and a bore with respect to the operating pressure of the system.

Abstract: An improved timing control mechanism is provided for an engine-driven fuel injection pump of the type having plungers actuated by an adjustable cam. The cam is adjusted by the linear displacement of a timing piston operating in a cylinder. A pressurized hydraulic fluid admitted to a pressure chamber at one end of the cylinder provides a force against one end of the timing piston which is opposed by a biasing element, such as a spring. A rotary servo valve extends into an axial bore in one end of the timing piston for controlling the flow of hydraulic fluid through a control orifice formed in the wall of the piston bore and connecting with the cylinder's pressure chamber. The servo valve is axially fixed and includes an inclined, typically helical, control edge. Upon rotation of the valve, as by an electric rotary stepper motor, the control edge effectively moves "axially" relative to the control orifice to vary flow therethrough and thus cause the piston to track that "axial" positioning of the control edge.

Abstract: A method for injecting fuel directly into a given combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine with externally supplied ignition in which the supply of air to the combustion chambers may be either throttled or unthrottled. To assure unobjectionable operation both at partial load and under full load, the fuel is introduced during partial-load operation with a large air excess, forming a layered charge, in the vicinity of the ignition location at a time immediately prior to the instant of ignition, while at full-load operation, in order to attain maximum power and soot-free combustion by means of a homogeneous fuel-air mixture, the supply of fuel takes place during the intake stroke of the engine piston defining the combustion chamber. In order to perform this method, a distributor-type fuel injection pump is provided, in which either one distributor opening or another distributor opening of two distributor openings comes into effective operation.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed which has a hydraulic injection instant adjuster, which is exposed to an rpm-dependent pressure established with the aid of a pressure control valve. The control of the pressure control valve is effected by means of varying the control pressure acting upon it. This is accomplished with the aid of a pressure valve, which has a slide exposed to a force variable in accordance with altitude, and the control pressure of the pressure control valve can be modified by means of this slide.

Abstract: A fuel injection advance angle control member (28) and a fuel control member (52) are manually and simultaneously controllable to increase the fuel injection angle and the volume of fuel injection, before an engine is started. A knob (112) is located in a position accessible for manipulation. A wire (110) connects the knob (112) to cams (102, 82) which are associated with the fuel injection advance angle control member (28) and the fuel control member (52), respectively. The connection between the knob (112) and the cam (102) includes a spring (210, 300) which is yieldable when the knob (112) is pulled, so that a reaction force counteracting the pulling effort is reduced to promote manipulation with a minimum of effort. Upon an engine start, the resilient force accumulated in the spring (210, 300) is released to move the member (28) to a desired advanced angle position through the cam (102).

Abstract: A hydraulic automatic device for the injection advance of a diesel engine. The device includes a hub fixed to the pump camshaft and a casing fixed to the drive pinion of the pump. Two rollers in the casing bear on the ramps of the pistons of which the position is a function of the speed of rotation, owing to two inertia blocks, the thrust of the pistons and the control of the slide valve of a hydraulic distributor. Thus at each speed of rotation, there corresponds a certain angular displacement of the components and a certain advance of the injections.

Abstract: An overflow valve is provided in a distributor-type fuel injection pump, for returning excess fuel from the suction chamber of the pump to a lower pressure zone in the pump. The valve comprises a passage communicating with the suction chamber, a check valve arranged within the passage and operable in response to the suction chamber pressure for closing and opening the same passage, and throttle forming means formed by the passage and the check valve. The valve body of the check valve has a pressure-applying surface on which the suction chamber pressure acts in the valve-opening direction, and which assumes a larger surface area when the valve is in an open position than when it is in a closed position. The check valve is closed at the start of the engine to increase the suction chamber pressure so that the timing device of the fuel injection pump acts to advance the fuel injection timing.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the rotary distributor type includes a cam actuated plunger housing in a bore and an adjustable fuel control member which varies the amount of fuel supplied to the bore. The pump also includes a timing piston connected to the cam, the piston being biased by a spring against the action of fuel under pressure. In order to vary the timing under certain conditions a control piston serves as an abutment for the spring and the application of pressure to the control piston is controlled by a valve which has a valve element coupled to a throttle member of the pump the valve having a housing which is secured on the exterior of the pump.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump comprises a rotor disposed in a housing and having a pressure chamber therein, a free piston disposed slidably in the pressure chamber dividing the chamber two pump chambers, two solenoid valves for controlling fuel supply, and two preparatory chambers for metering fuel to be fed to the pump chambers. The preparatory chambers and the solenoid valves are arranged in the same plane crossing the axis of the rotor to align with each other. Fuel from a feed pump transfers to the preparatory chamber through the solenoid valve and is metered there. The metered fuel is fed to the pump chamber, pressurized there and delivered to the engine.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distribution type is provided with an electromagnetic valve for escaping the fuel in the pump chamber of the fuel injection pump. The fuel injection pump is also provided with a sensor for detecting the rotary angle of a pump shaft. This sensor is attached to a roller ring of a converter mechanism which also comprises a face cam, for example, and which also serves to convert the rotation of the pump shaft the reciprocate with that of a pump plunger. The sensor generates signals which represent the rotary angles of the pump shaft. The operation of the electromagnetic valve is controlled to escape the fuel in the pump chamber, depending upon the signals supplied from the sensor.

Abstract: In a diesel engine controlling system having a fuel injection pump, a fuel injection timing adjusting device is controlled by a drive pulse signal whose duty cycle is controlled by a microcomputer. The duty cycle is determined such that a basic duty cycle obtained by using engine rotational speed and injection quantity, is modified or corrected by way of a correction factor and a forecast correction factor. The-first mentioned correction factor comprises an integration component and a proportional component both derived from the difference between a measured fuel injection or ignition timing and a desired or reference fuel injection or ignition timing, which is calculated by using the engine rotational speed and the injection quantity. The forecast correction factor corresponds to a differential value of the basic duty cycle or the desired fuel injection or ignition timing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine injection pump provided with a regulator unit comprising a mobile valving element on which there act an actuator, elastic means, and the back-pressure of the fuel discharged by the pump on delivery interruption, in order to improve the response characteristics of the regulator unit.

Abstract: In a controlling device wherein operating conditions in the respective parts of a Diesel engine are detected by means of sensors, injection timing of fuel is calculated from the results detected, and at the same time a control valve provided in an oil pressure circuit for controlling the timing is controlled by means of electronic control in such that an actual injection timing of fuel obtained by a timer position sensor provided on a fuel injection pump comes to be close to the injection timing calculated, a vehicle which can attain whose minimum traveling by such a way that any abnormality in the timer position sensor is decided in response to a magnitude of output signals from the timer position sensor, at the same time, any trouble or accident of a timer oil pressure circuit is decided on the basis of a difference between the calculated injection timing and the actual injection timing, and the fuel is injected after either decreasing a prescribed quantity from a target quantity of injection obtained by ca

Abstract: A fuel injection pump which has an adjusting piston for the purpose of injection instant adjustment. The adjusting piston has opposite ends defining respective work chambers. The work chambers are supplied with fuel under rpm-dependent pressure from a suction chamber of the fuel injection pump, via respective throttles, and are relieved via respective outflow lines. The outflow cross sections of the outflow lines are controlled in complementary fashion by a control slide of a control valve. The control slide is exposed to a modifiable control pressure derived from the rpm-dependent pressure, and for the peripheral conditions of a cold engine and rpm of the engine below a threshold rpm, the maximum controlled pressure is established by means of a third control valve.

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.

Abstract: A fuel injection timing device for an internal combustion engine comprises a cam shaft connected to a fuel injection pump, a driven section coupled to the cam shaft and having a driven flange, a driving flange adjacent to the driven flange and coaxial with the cam shaft, a driven gear fixed to the driving flange so as to be coaxial with the cam shaft and in mesh with a driving gear driven by the internal combustion engine in a cylinder block facing the fuel injection pump, and a cam shaft phase angle changing mechanism for advancing and delaying the cam shaft in phase angle in cooperation with the driving flange and the driven flange. The timing device has a casing which contains the driven section, the driving flange, and the cam shaft phase angle changing mechanism. One end of the casing is supported by the fuel injection pump, and the other end supports the driving flange.

Abstract: A piston mechanism is driven in accordance with fuel pressure from a feed pump by a control valve controlled in response to a control signal from a control device. A spill ring of a fuel injection pump is moved by the piston mechanism, and torque characteristics of an engine are set at a desired value without receiving an influence of fuel pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to an hydraulic adjusting device for controlling the start of an injection pump for a self igniting internal combustion engine, wherein means are provided for changing the effective working stroke of the pumping shaft of the injection pump. A preferred arrangement includes a cup washer disposed in a hydraulic fluid control space intermediate a pump shaft driving tappet roller support and an inner piston slidably and elastically supported at the injection pump shaft.

Abstract: A fuel injection timing control system for an internal combustion engine into which fuel is intermittently injected, includes a closed-loop fuel injection timing control system, a first device, fluidly-driven, for varying the fuel injection timing, and a second device for adjustably determining the response time and the stability of the closed-loop control system. The first device constitutes a part of the closed-loop control system. The second device constitutes another part of the closed-loop control system. Sensed is a condition of the working fluid for the first device which can influence the response time and the stability of the closed-loop control system. The second device is adjusted in accordance with the sensed working fluid condition so as to reduce the influence of the working fluid condition on the response time and the stability of the closed-loop control system.

Abstract: A hydraulic automatic device for the injection advance of a diesel engine. The device includes a hub fixed to the pump camshaft and a casing fixed to the drive pinion of the pump. Two rollers in the casing bear on the ramps of pistons, the position of which is a function of the speed of rotation of the device, owing to two inertia blocks, the thrust of the pistons and the control of the slide valve of a hydraulic distributor. Thus at each speed of rotation, there corresponds a certain angular displacement of the components and a certain advance of the injections.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for Diesel engines in which a rotating and reciprocating piston pressurizes and distributes fuel to individual pressure lines leading to the injection valves of the engine. In order to change the timing of injection with respect to the engine cycle, there is provided a mechanism to change the relative angle between the pressurizing piston and its drive means, which runs in synchronism with the engine. The mechanism operates hydraulically and is affected by the fuel pressure in the sump of the injection pump. There is also provided a hydraulic control valve mechanism which permits varying amounts of fuel to flow back from the sump to the low pressure side of the fuel delivery pump, thereby changing the injection timing. A primary control valve adjusts the sump pressure on the basis of engine speed while a secondary control valve adjusts the sump pressure on the basis of engine temperature in order to adapt the timing of fuel injection to engine starting and engine warm-up.

Abstract: In a distributor type fuel injection pump for use with an internal combustion engine, which is equipped with an injection timing control device operable in response to oil pressure within a pressure oil chamber, which is variable as a function of the rotational speed of the engine, an overflow valve is provided, which is closed at the start of the engine when the oil pressure within the pressure oil chamber is low, and is opened during subsequent operation of the engine to cause escape of the above oil pressure to a lower pressure zone in the pump, to thereby cause the above injection timing control device to obtain an advance in the fuel injection timing.

Abstract: A vacuum-mechanical system for controlling emissions from a diesel engine by controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) levels and modulating the fuel injection pump timing to coordinate the two; the system including a three-dimensional cam responsive to changes in engine speed and load and fuel delivery to vary the angular position of the EGR valve and simultaneously modulate the injection timing.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having an injection timing adjustment by means of a hydraulically actuated piston is proposed, the injection timing adjustment being loaded by two restoring springs. Between the two springs, which have different forces, there is a common spring support plate. The variable functional path of the springs is determined by means of a stop and a coupler member.

Abstract: In a timing control device of a fuel injection pump which is so arranged that the fuel injection timing is adjusted in accordance with the duty ratio of a driving pulse signal applied to a timing valve, the frequency of the driving pulse signal is controlled in response to data showing the rotational speed of the fuel injection pump in such a way that the resonating phenomenon does not occur whereby the timer can be actuated smoothly without resonation of the timer.

Abstract: A fuel-injecting apparatus supplies fuel to an internal combustion engine in a timing and at a rate adapted for its operation. The internal combustion engine includes a lubricant trap provided at the bottom of the internal combustion engine to collect lubricant for lubricating the internal combustion engine and a fuel pump for supplying the lubricant held in the lubricant trap to a fuel-injection device. In the fuel-injecting apparatus the intermediate part of a passage through which lubricant is delivered to a fuel-injection timing control device is branched off, and the branched division of the lubricant passage is made to communicate with the lubricated section of the fuel pump.

Abstract: A fuel pump timing system having a hydraulic pressure transducer mounted for sensing a reaction hydraulic pulse to each fuel injection pressure pulse, a stepper motor for adjusting the fuel injection pump timing, engine sensors for sensing an engine reference position and certain engine operation data and a microprocessor connected to the transducer and engine sensors and operable for calculating the optimum and actual angles of fuel injection and for controlling the stepper motor to adjust the fuel injection pump timing in accordance with the difference between the optimum and actual angles of fuel injection.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines is proposed which has a hydraulic injection instant adjuster, which is exposed to an rpm-dependent pressure established with the aid of a pressure control valve. The control of the pressure control valve is effected by means of varying the control pressure acting upon it. This is accomplished with the aid of a pressure valve, which has a slide exposed to a force variable in accordance with altitude, and the control pressure of the pressure control valve can be modified by means of this slide.