Abstract:
A fuel injection apparatus (FIG. 1) for internal combustion engines is proposed, in which the onset and end of injection are determined by means of a hydraulically actuated control slide. The injection pumps of the apparatus, preferably combined with an injection nozzle to make a pump/nozzle unit, have a central control fuel source represented by a supply pump and a first pressure limitation valve, which generates a control pressure (p.sub.S) actuating the control slide which is several times greater than the supply pressure (p.sub.V) determined by a second pressure limitation valve. In order to initiate the onset of injection, the control slide is placed under control pressure (p.sub.S) by a valve assembly via a distributor apparatus and closes an overflow channel leading out of the pump work chamber. In order to control the end of injection, the control slide during its return stroke again relieves this overflow channel toward a low-pressure line. The control pressure (p.sub.S) in the control pressure line required for actuating the stroke movement of the control slide is established by means of blocking the outflow out of this line by means of the valve assembly.
Abstract:
To improve vehicle operator comfort and safety and to reduce wear and tear on the automatic transmission, the apparatus prevents an upshift whenever the accelerator pedal is released very quickly. The apparatus stores the load signal which prevailed when the load was abruptly reduced, thereby simulating to the transmission controller a continuation of high load and preventing an undesired upshift, for example in downhill operation and during roll-outs. Normal load signals are restored whenever the accelerator pedal is returned to a predetermined point. In one embodiment, the stored load signal is a hydraulic pressure and in another embodiment, for use with an electronic transmission controller, the load signal is an electrical signal. In a third embodiment, the upshift control signal from the controller to the transmission is interrupted when the apparatus indicates a complete release of the accelerator pedal.
Abstract:
What follows is a description of a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine which employs exhaust gas recycling. The engine has a suction tube leading to the engine and an exhaust pipe leading from the engine, while the system includes a recycle line connecting both the exhaust pipe and the suction tube, and a control mechanism. The control mechanism can be located either in the suction tube, the exhaust line or the recycle line and controls the pressure therein in order to control the recycled exhaust gas flow rate. The system further has a regulating structure which regulates the quantity of the injected fuel in conjunction with the control mechanism.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system which is of the type that introduces with a time lag two separate fuel quantities into the same cylinder prior to ignition includes a metering valve assembly to vary one of said quantities supplied by a fuel injection pump and a fuel injection nozzle associated with each engine cylinder and formed of two separate injection valves; one valve is supplied with fuel directly from said fuel injection pump, while the other valve is supplied from said metering valve assembly.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines including fuel injection nozzles, a fuel distributor unit, a fuel supply circuit, and a control pressure circuit. The distributor unit includes metering valves, pressure valves and a first throttle which separates the fuel supply circuit from the control pressure circuit. At least one of the pressure valves is embodied as a differential pressure control valve which has one chamber connected to the first throttle and the control pressure circuit. The control pressure circuit includes the above-mentioned chamber of the differential pressure control valve, a magnetic valve, a storage element and a second throttle. With the system noted, the pressure difference across the metering valves may be varied by varying the pressure difference across the first throttle by means of the magnetic valve via the storage element and the second throttle.
Abstract:
In an exhaust gas purifying apparatus which includes first and second reactors in the exhaust line of an internal combustion engine there is provided a heater burner to which there is delivered an air-fuel mixture and which heats the first reactor for rapidly bringing it to operating temperatures when the engine is started. In the air conduit through which combustion air for the air-fuel mixture is delivered to the burner there is provided a valve controlled in such a manner that the flow rate of combustion air remains constant and is thus independent of the counterpressure at the heating burner and the output delivery of the air pump driving the combustion air. Upon reaching operating temperatures the burner is extinquished and the combustion air is rerouted past the first reactor to the second reactor.
Abstract:
A pressure control device for a flowing fluid medium is described which comprises a fluid inlet conduit structure and a fluid return conduit structure each of which conduit structures has a valve seat; a connecting structure for linkup with a fuel consuming device; and a movable valve member for controlling the cross sectional area of the outflow of fluid from the control device, wherein the movable valve member which is arranged between the valve seats of the inlet and return conduit structures, controls the cross sectional areas of flow through the inlet conduit structure and the return conduit structure, respectively, in opposite sense and is biased by a resetting force, and wherein the valve seat cross sectional area of the return conduit structure is smaller than that of the inlet conduit structure, whereby a force resulting from the inlet fluid pressure and the cross sectional flow area of the inlet conduit structure acts on the movable valve member in a direction causing reduction of fluid influx and is opposed by the resetting force as well as by a force resulting from the fluid pressure in the connecting structure and from the area difference between the valve seat across sectional areas of the inlet and the return conduit structures. The movable valve member is preferably a membrane, and an electromagnet or spring structure may be used to provide the resetting force.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine in which the intake air flow is measured and a corresponding electrical signal is generated which governs a pressure control unit so as to modify the fluid pressure acting on a fuel-metering slide-valve piston, displacing it against restoring forces. The axial displacement of the slide-valve piston changes the flow aperture in adjacent metering slits and thus governs the rate of fuel flow to the injection valves of the internal combustion engine and maintains a desired fuel-air ratio.
Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling the spring firmness of road vehicles is proposed, which is combined with a control of the shock absorber firmness. Both controls are performed using a single control valve. Trigger signals for the control valve are ascertained by means of an electronic device, which receives its signals from sensors, disposed on the vehicle, for spring travel, acceleration, vehicle speed and steering angle or the like, and in particular for the travel sensor, which picks up the shock absorber compression and emits it as a signal to the electronic device, with the goal of bringing about a change in the spring stiffness.
Abstract:
A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines in which beyond a predetermined remaining stroke during the supply stroke of the pump piston, a relief conduit is opened via a control edge. The same control edge closes the relief conduit once again during the intake stroke. During the subsequent effective intake stroke, the quantity of fuel to be injected upon the following compression stroke is metered by means of the electrically actuatable valve. The magnetic valve here is already opened before the closure of the relief conduit by the control edge, so that in the opening phase of the relief conduit, the pump work chamber of the fuel injection apparatus is flushed. In this manner, precise metering of the quantity of fuel to be injected is attained.