Robert Boschgmbh

Ulrich Drews

Peter Werner

Hans Schnurle

Michael Horbelt

Lothar Winkelmann

Erich Singer

Thomas Kienzler

Peter Rapps

Richard Bertsch

Klaus Streit

Erwin Gloss

Bernd Rothfuss

Dieter Betz

Dieter Gunther

Otto Glockler

Bernd Kraus

Karl-Heinz Adler

Adolf Kugelmann

Helmut Moder

Werner Mohrle

Bernhard Schmidt

Thomas Gross

Werner Herden

Manfred Vogel

Hartmut Seiler

Manfred Mezger

Ulrich Steinbrenner

Albert Gerhard

Gerhard Sohner

Herman Roozenbeek

Lothar Gademann

Josef Kleinhans

Anton Mindl

Johann Konrad

Ingo Gorille

Wolfgang Jacob

Heinz Moller

Karl Seeger

Harro Herth

Karl Staiger

Gunter Rosenzopf

Guenter Hege

Dieter Kirn

Klaus Jaeckel

Klaus Jackel

Theodor Elbers

Wolfgang Jakob

Wolfgang Rebmann

Thomas Froelich

Heinz Kammerer

Input circuit for the starter of a high-pressure gas-filled discharge

Ignition device for gas discharge lamps, particularly for motor vehicle

Starter for a high-pressure gas discharge lamp

Device for operating a gas-discharge lamp

A headlight for vehicles has a light source formed as a gas discharge lamp, a ballast unit connected with the gas discharge lamp and producing high voltage, and a unit for preventing dispersion of electromagnetic radiation caused by the gas discharge lamp. The unit includes an electrical filtering circuit arranged near the gas discharge lamp and having a plurality of components, and a housing surrounds at least a part of the components of the electrical filtering circuit.

Headlight for motor vehicles

Device for operating a gas discharge lamp

A circuit arrangement for operating a gas-discharge lamp is proposed, in which the high voltage for starting the gas-discharge lamp is generated by means of the energy stored in a transformer or capacitor. In order to obtain a steep rise in voltage of the starting voltage, the starting voltage is provided to the gas-discharge lamp via a voltage-controlled switch. A break-over diode, which has very short switching times, is proposed as the voltage-controlled switch. The starting circuit is switched off after starting. This circuit arrangement is also particularly suitable for starting gas-discharge lamps which are warm from operation. In consequence, it is particularly suitable for motor vehicle headlights.

Circuit arrangement for operating a gas-discharge lamp

A method and an apparatus are disclosed for determining the flow rate of a flowing medium such as the amount of air supplied to an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes at least one temperature-dependent resistor arranged in the flowing medium. For this purpose, an arrangement is provided which applies a quantity dependent on at least the flow rate to the temperature-dependent resistor. The method includes the step of abruptly reducing the flow rate dependent quantity to a value such as approximately zero in the presence of a flow-rate value lying below a predeterminable threshold value. Because the reduction takes place only for a predetermined period of time, normal operation will be resumed automatically when the flow rate rises again. A hot-wire air-flow sensor is arranged in the intake pipe of an internal combustion engine and the output signals thereof are a measure of the amount of air inducted by the internal combustion engine.

Method and apparatus for measuring the flow rate of a flowing medium

To permit continued operation of a vehicle in spite of malfunction of an electronic ignition computer system, or any other electronic control module in an automotive vehicle, a transducer (10) provides an output to a trigger stage which has its output connected a digitally operating microprocessor (17) and to a bypass or transfer switch (21). The output from the microprocessor is connected to an analog and operating output stage (19, 20) to be controlled by the digital system of the microprocessor (17). Upon sensing of low operating voltage (U) as determined, for example, by a threshold switch (22), or of starting condition the switch (21) is closed, bypassing or interrupting connection to the microprocessor, and directly connecting signals from the transducer output stage to the input of the ignition circuit to permit operation under emergency conditions. The analog portion of the system is a single integrated module, separate from the digitally operating microprocessor (17) for ease of error diagnosis, maintenance and repair. This is particularly important with digitally operating control systems (17) which are subject to malfunction under low voltage conditions or upon occurrence of stray or distrubance signals in the network, for example under starting conditions.

Electronic engine control system with emergency operation mode

An air flow rate meter in an internal combustion engine which functions on the principle of a constant-temperature anemometer is proposed. The device includes a resistance measurement bridge with a regulatable total bridge current, and the relative orientation between the bridge diagonal voltage and the input voltage of a subsequent amplifier is variable. By means of this variation, an adjustment can be made of the set-point and actual curves of the air flow rate meter. In accordance with a first exemplary embodiment, a supplementary current is supplied to one of the connecting lines of the bridge diagonal and the amplifier; in accordance with a second exemplary embodiment, a voltage divider is located between the bridge diagonal points, and one of the voltage divider resistors is connected parallel to an amplifier having a specific offset voltage.

Air flow rate meter for an internal combustion engine

An electrically controlled fuel metering system having an air flow rate meter device in the air intake tube and a subsequent linearizing circuit layout is proposed. The linearizing circuit layout functions in accordance with the point-slope method and is embodied as a voltage-to-current converter. A first exemplary embodiment of the linearizing circuit layout has transistors coupled with one another respectively at the base and collector sides, the emitters of which are connected with different potentials and are triggered on the base side. In a second exemplary embodiment, individual transistors or transistors which are combined into groups receive their trigger signal via separate amplifiers, while the collectors in turn are carried to a common output point and the emitters likewise have different signal levels. Because of its relatively simple design, the proposed embodiments are particularly well suited to the purposes of integration.

Linearizing and control circuit for air flow rate meter

A device is proposed for measuring the flowthrough rate in an internal combustion engine, particularly for measuring the air throughput in the intake tube. The device has a measurement bridge functioning on the principle of constant-temperature control, and also a regulating deivce for the total bridge current during the burn-off phase of the hot wire or hot film as one of the bridge resistors. The essential feature is that the bridge circuit assembly comprises at least three voltage dividers; for the purpose of regulating the electric current in the burn-off phase and during measurement operation, respective control voltages are picked up between two different voltage dividers.

Device for flowthrough rate measurement in an internal combustion engine

A device is proposed for regulating the fuel-air ratio in the operating mixture of an internal combustion engine and for monitoring the operational readiness of a .lambda. sensor controlling the regulating device and functioning by the principle of ion conduction in solid electrolytes. The .lambda. sensor has an adjustable, constant reference voltage switched opposite to it. The reference voltage approximately equals the average sensor output voltage. The level of the resultant voltage, which is established with the aid of the resultant current and has values located symmetrically with respect to the reference voltage, is monitored by comparator devices. The output signal of the comparator devices is logically processed and furnishes a signal as to the operational readiness of the sensor. In order to generate the reference voltage, a voltage divider branch having high resistance is disposed parallel to a voltage divider branch of relatively low resistance; the latter voltage divider branch further serves to establish the threshold values of the comparator devices. Because it is independent of the current draw of the comparator devices, the desired reference voltage can be adhered to very precisely, and thus the desired regulating point at which closed-loop control or regulation begins of the regulating device can also be adhered to very precisely.

Device for regulating the fuel-air ratio in internal combustion engines

A method for operating a fuel-supply system using a lambda-control apparatus for an internal-combustion engine wherein the amount of fuel to be supplied to the internal combustion engine is a function of signals representing the speed (RPM), the engine load, the exhaust-composition, and the temperature of the exhaust-gas sensor together with the attainment of a given temperature of the engine as an additional control criteria for the lambda-control apparatus. The method further includes deriving a temperature signal from the internal combustion engine to operate a threshold element with a hystereses whose switching values lie at about 10.degree. C. and 50.degree. C. to 85.degree. C. for optimum fuel mixture in the combustion chamber. The output signal of the threshold element can be further utilized for a supplementary warm-up fuel enrichment for better ignition characteristics, engine smoothness, and exhaust gas composition. The apparatus according to the invention has transducers for sensing speed, load, exhaust gas composition and temperature together with a threshold element and a logic element for signals from a sensor in the internal combustion engine so that the lambda-control apparatus can be regulated as a function of the output signal from said logic element.

Method and apparatus for operating a fuel-supply system with lambda

A method and an apparatus for regulating the fuel-air ratio of the operational mixture of an internal combustion engine and for monitoring the operational readiness of a .lambda. sensor controlling the regulating apparatus and functioning according to the principle of ionic conduction in fixed electrolytes. A constant reference voltage which approximately corresponds to the average sensor output voltage is connected opposite to the .lambda. sensor. The level of the resultant voltage thus established, the values of which are disposed symmetrically relative to the reference voltage, is utilized, along with the cooperation of a resultant electric current which causes a voltage drop across the temperature-dependent internal resistance of the .lambda. sensor as a gauge for the operational readiness of the .lambda. sensor. The pickup of the resultant voltage is accomplished by two comparison devices, whose logically evaluatable output signals are transformed via a logical linkage circuit into an operational readiness or unreadiness signal. A third comparison device serves the purpose of controlling the regulating apparatus. The third comparison device output is switched when the .lambda. sensor is not under the influence of any resultant electric current; as a result, no temperature-dependent shift of the switchover point relative to the internal sensor voltage occurs and regulation can be effected with the regulating apparatus in a temperature in dependent manner to a desired point in the sensor voltage curve or to a desired lambda value.

Method and apparatus for regulating the fuel-air ratio in internal

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Vaihingen-Pulverdingen, Germany

Ulrich Drews