Abstract:
A brake force regulating system for motor vehicles has a brake pedal, a brake regulator and transducers for ascertaining driving-situation variables which act upon the brake regulator. A desired value (Z.sub.s) of the deceleration (Z) of the motor vehicle is prespecified by the brake pedal; the actual value is ascertained; and the brake regulator is regulated by the deviation between the desired value and the actual value. Furthermore a regulation is provided in accordance with the slip between the road surface and the wheel.
Abstract:
A control device is proposed for regulating the exhaust gas recycling rate in an internal combustion engine with self-ignition in which combustion pressure signals are adjusted directly or indirectly to nominal values dependent on operating characteristics of the engine. In one particular embodiment the combustion pressure signal is differentiated and the frequency of certain occurring amplitude values is adjusted to a nominal value. Owing to the integration of specific combustion processes into the regulation, the device is capable of operating with relatively high precision. It is particularly well suited to compensate for drift phenomena.
Abstract:
A device is proposed for the supply of operating air-fuel mixtures including exhaust gases to internal combustion engines. Between the opening periods of the inlet valves of an internal combustion engine, precisely dispensed quantities of recirculated exhaust gas are pre-stored in the intake channel directly upstream of the inlet valve whereby a stratification of exhaust gas and fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber of the engine is obtained.
Abstract:
A mixture preparation apparatus for mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engines, which serves to improve the output and to reduce both fuel consumption and the proportion of toxic components in the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine. The mixture preparation apparatus comprises a rotatable vane body having a scoop disposed in the air intake line across the air flow direction, and including a portion arranged to extend into a section of the air intake line. The rotatable scoop is disposed in the region of an annular flow channel, so that between the inflow and the outflow side of the flow channel a constant, yet arbitrarily variable pressure difference can be regulated. The structure revealed requires only a small air component to drive the vane body, and thus only a limited energy requirement is present. The axial displacement motion of the vane body or of a cover body connected to the vane body represents a standard for the induced air quantity and can serve to control a fuel apportionment apparatus.
Abstract:
A reciprocating internal combustion engine has a cylindrical combustion chamber lying substantially entirely within the cylinder head and including a fuel injection nozzle and possibly a glow plug. The top of the cylindrical combustion chamber is defined by the disc of the intake poppet valve and the bottom of the combustion chamber is defined at top dead center by a projection of the piston which is formed in a piston cap that consists of thermally resistant material and within which there is an air-filled void that prevents the heat transfer from the combustion chamber to the main body of the piston. This construction permits high surface temperatures within the combustion chamber without attendant heavy thermal stresses in the body of the piston.
Abstract:
A fuel supply apparatus is proposed which serves to control a mixture-compressing, externally ignited internal combustion engine. The fuel supply apparatus includes at least one fuel depositing point in the air intake manifold, within which an air flow rate meter and an arbitrarily actuatable throttle valve are disposed in series and the air flow rate meter is moved against a restoring force in accordance with the air quantity flowing therethrough. The air flow rate meter, which is embodied as a flat rotary element in the shape of a circular sector, more or less widely opens an aperture which defines the cross-sectional width of the air intake manifold and is rotatably fixed about a rigid shaft extending in the direction of air flow. The intake manifold pressure upstream of the air flow rate meter acts on one side of the air flow rate meter, and the intake manifold pressure downstream of the air flow rate meter acts on the other side of the air flow rate meter. In a plane downstream of the air flow rate meter which is parallel to the aperture, there is an arbitrarily actuatable lobed element, by means of which the flow-through cross-sectional area at the aperture can be varied in accordance with the operating characteristics of the internal combustion engine.
Abstract:
A continuous fuel injection system for metering out fuel to the induction tube of an internal combustion engine. An air flow metering assembly in the induction tube includes a baffle plate which is set with its plane perpendicular to the air flow vector and is mounted on a shaft which slides axially in bearings. As a result of the air flow, the baffle plate is displaced axially to varying extent and this displacement is opposed by a restoring force provided by pressurized fuel and subject to adjustment on the basis of engine variables. A vaned impeller wheel, mounted on the baffle shaft, causes rotation of the shaft in the bearings, thereby eliminating static friction and preventing hysteresis effects. The centrifugal forces generated by the rotation aid in distributing the fuel and in admixing it with the incoming air.
Abstract:
A fuel metering device for low fuel feed pressures is described which is adapted for use in an externally ignited internal combustion engine of the air/fuel mixture-compressing type having an air-intake suction tube, and which comprises (a) conduit means for conveying fuel to the suction tube of the engine, (b) throttle means of determinable cross-sectional throttle area disposed in the conduit means, (c) bypass duct means for bypassing the throttle means, and (d) control means for switching the bypass means into the fuel flow through the conduit means to bypass the aforesaid throttle means, thereby varying the ratio of the amounts of fuel and air in the mixture being formed in the suction pipe; the control means are responsive to characteristic engine data.
Abstract:
In a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, a fuel metering valve is controlled by an air sensing element disposed in the air intake tube for metering fuel quantities proportionate to the intake air quantities, and by an electromagnetic valve and an associated control structure which varies the air-fuel ratio by changing the pressure difference across the fuel metering valve, as a function of engine temperature during warmup, then as a function of, for example, the oxygen content in the engine exhaust gases.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines preferably has one fuel injection location in the air induction tube (manifold). The metering of fuel occurs independently of the condition of the air prevailing at the injection location, the injection location is disposed ahead of the junction of the air induction tube which leads to the individual engine cylinders. Air is brought to a high velocity by means within the induction tube and impinges, at this high velocity, immediately on the injected fuel, enveloping the same. As a result, the mixture preparation is effected without wetting of the inner wall of the induction tube and the means which bring the air to the required high velocity.