Robert Boschgmbh

Rainer Burkel

Cornelius Peter

Wilhelm Eyberg

Klaus D Muller

Winfried Moser

Wolfgang Maisch

Martin Grosser

Peter Zieher

Karl-Heinz Hagele

Bernhard Bronkal

Jean Denamps

Andreas Werner

Ernst Linder

Udo Schulz

Konrad Eckert

Franz Rieger

Helmut Maurer

Norbert Knab

Alfred Muller

Manfred Schwab

Peter Schubert

Bernd Dittmer

Berthold Pfuhl

Bernd Taubitz

Wolfgang Krampe

Rainer Bitzer

Kurt Engelsdorf

Emil Buchschmid

Anton Frenznick

Andreas Koch

Horst Franke

Engelbert Tillhon

Klaus Dressler

Rolf Gawlik

Bernd Spielmann

Jurgen Biester

Rainer Ottinger

Lutz-Martin Fink

Jean Pierre Leroy

Andre Bonin

Jean Danamps

Gunther Stradtmann

Roger Goussin

Rene Bayle

Klaus Scherer

Rainer Oettinger

Ingo Bartig

Hansjoachim Mamisch

Fuel injection system for internal combustion engines

Method and device for monitoring a fuel-metering system

Device for controlling at least one electromagnetic load

Method for operating a fuel injection system

Control arrangement

Pressure transducer for determining the pressure in the combustion

A device for actuating a butterfly throttle valve of an internal combustion engine includes a hydraulic setting member for rotating a shaft of the throttle valve. The hydraulic setting member is driven by a branch flow of fuel delivered by a fuel pump and acting as pressure medium. The branch flow passes through a series of connection of adjustable throttles connected in a hydraulic bridge circuit. The throttles are adjusted by a regulating signal corresponding to the difference between an actual position signal delivered by a position sensor coupled to the throttle valve, and a desired position sensor coupled for example to a gas pedal of the motor vehicle.

Device for actuating butterfly throttle valve of an internal combustion

A valve assembly for controlling fluid flow between a fluid source and a load has an intake valve having a valve body displaceable between a closed position preventing flow through the intake valve and an open position permitting such flow and an output valve having a valve body displaceable between a closed position preventing flow through the output valve and an open position permitting such flow. Conduits or passages connect the valves in series between the load and the source so that fluid can only flow between the load and source when both of the valves are in their open positions. Respective biasing units urge each of the valves into one of its positions and respective electromagnet-type actuators are electrically energizable to move each valve into the other of its positions. The one position of one of the valves is the closed position and the one position of the other valve is the open position. In addition the two valves are substantially identical. As a result the response times of these two valves will be identical also and will change identically with time or temperature, since substantially the same flow is traversing both valves.

Electromagnetically operated dual-valve flow-control assembly

To control the pressure p of an operating fluid in an automatic transmission (12), the input speed and output speed (n.sub.T, n.sub.out) of the transmission is sensed, and the pressure (p) is so controlled by a control unit (21) that the transmission ratio which is actually coupled by the transmission, in view of the pressure set by the friction bands, is carried out in accordance with a predetermined timing function (i.sub.com), for example as stored in a read-only memory (ROM, 24). Change in shifting characteristics can be obtained, for example, by operator-selected different time-engagement relationships to obtain maximum passenger comfort or maximum acceleration, or intermediate relationships.

Automotive gearshift jolt minimization system

An electric control motor is proposed, which serves to adjust final control elements in closed- or open-loop control systems, in particular for varying the position of throttle devices provided for metering fuels in internal combustion engines. The control motor includes a housing, in which an electromagnetic coil and an armature are disposed, the armature being rotatably supported upon a shaft providing spaced air gaps therewith and with magnetic poles. The magnetic poles are disposed on arcuate conducting bodies, which are disposed in spaced relation on a nonmagnetic carrier body. At ends remote from the magnetic poles, the conducting bodies communicate with one another via a magnetically conductive plate.

Electric control motor

The respective wheels of a vehicle have transducers (11, 12) associated therewith which provide pulse trains (S1, S2) upon revolution of the wheels, the pulses being either 'mark' pulses if the transducer senses 'correct pressure', or 'space' pulses if the transducer senses 'low pressure'. The pulses from all the transducers are logically combined in a NOR-gate (23), and the output is connected via a common junction (J) to the count or shift inputs of a group of shift registers (22). The shift registers are individually reset by the pulses from the individual transducers. Thus, if one of the transducers signals 'low pressure' conditions, the particular shift register (22) will not be reset, and, upon shifting through to its terminal count, will provide respective output signals to individually connected indicators (27). All the indicators are connected to a common, particularly acoustic warning signal indicator (19), and a test timing circuit (T, 31) is provided, enabled upon turning ON the main switch of the vehicle to provide a test cycle and a test warning output.

Vehicle tire pressure monitoring system

An adjusting device for precise rotary angle adjustment of final control elements in closed- or open-loop control devices. The adjusting device comprises a rotary magnet apparatus in which parallel air gaps are formed between the poles of the armature and the magnet poles of the armature counterpart. In order to attain constant torques over the angle of rotation of the armature, when the electric current applied to the coil is constant, the end faces of the armature poles are embodied as wedge-shaped.

Adjusting device for rotary angle adjustment of a final control element

An apparatus for optimizing operating characteristics of an internal combustion engine on the basis of torque variations based on a test signal, wherein the maximum output torque is determined directly on the basis of the torque signal and the specific fuel consumption is determined indirectly from the torque signal via the efficiency. Either the maximum output torque or the minimum fuel consumption is optimized, depending on the engine load range. Additional apparatus is described for simultaneously optimizing the ignition angle on the basis of torque signals, wherein individual test signals are associated only with individual cylinders or groups of cylinders and the corresponding torque variations relating to the individual cylinders are ascertained and processed.

Apparatus for optimizing operating characteristics of an internal

An etched metal membrane has its rim laser-welded or electron-beam-welded to a ring made of the same kind of metal within which a central electrode is held by a metal-to-glass seal. The welding is done in vacuum to avoid the necessity of later evacuation. The pressure sensor capacitance thus formed is connected through an impedance converter to an oscillator circuit which provides an output frequency that varies with the sensed pressure. The inner surface of the central electrode is flush with the surface of the rim to which the membrane is welded to reduce variations in capacitance of the sensor, and any residual variations are compensated by a resistance balance in the evaluation circuit. The insensitivity of the system to temperature and its service life make it suitable for sensing the intake air pressure of an internal combustion engine.

Pressure sensing apparatus

An insulating cup-shaped body (29) that is screwed into the rim (11) of a vehicle wheel prevents conduction of heat (generated by the brakes, for example) from heating the metallic body (16) that forms a reference pressure chamber closed off by a membrane (17) from the inflated interior of a vehicle tire. The membrane (17) is set slightly within the rim of the cup for protection during tire changes. The chamber and switch housing (16) and a spool (27) for the coil of a resonant circuit form a preassembled unit that is snapped into the insulating cup and cemented into place. The relatively large coil diameter adds to the economy of the device, permitting the use of a small capacitor. The temperature of the gas sealed in the reference pressure chamber (18) by closure of the filling bore with a steel ball (25) follows the temperature of the interior of the tire and reliably opens the resonant circuit if the tire pressure falls below a prescribed limit. The condition of the resonant circuit is sensed by a fixed miniature oscillator mounted on the axle.

Pneumatically operable switch unit for monitoring tire pressure

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Asperg, Germany

Rainer Burkel