Robert Boschgmbh

Ulrich Kuhn

Sybille Stumpf

Hans Hecht

Josef Kleinhans

Dieter Handtmann

Jurgen Abt

Uwe Konzelmann

Eberhard Schnaibel

Georg Mallebrein

Andreas Blumenstock

Rudolf Sauer

Lutz Reuschenbach

Hans Braun

Klaus Marx

Helmut G Schwegler

Wolfgang Kienzle

Wolfgang Leutsch

Dieter Tank

Kurt Schuster

Eckart Reihlen

Werner Banzhaf

Thorsten Fritz

Stephan Uhl

Berthold Wocher

Heinrich Kochendorfer

Michael Nicolaou

Klaus Jahnel

Michael Specker

Stefan Muelders

Michael Hermann

Heins Bollhagen

Helmut Dressler

Gerhard Felten

Gerold Lemperle

Werner Metzger-Goronzy

Werner Krauss

Bjoern Janetzky

Peter Engenhart

Karl H Matthas

Alexander Stratmann

A method for measuring the injection rate of an injection valve for liquids, preferably for liquid fuel, in which the injection valve injects the liquid into a liquid-filled measurement volume, the measurement volume being closed off on all sides and a pressure sensor being located in the measurement volume. From the measured pressure values or by a separate measurement, the speed of sound is determined and thus the injection quantity or the course over time of the injection rate is calculated. The apparatus includes a measurement volume, an injection valve, which protrudes with at least one injection opening into the measurement volume, and a pressure sensor, which is located in the pressure node of the first natural pressure oscillation of the measurement volume.

Method and device for measuring the injection rate of an injection valve for liquids

The method for making the surface of a window or windshield of a vehicle hydrophilic improves visibility for the operator of the vehicle during rain or fog. The method includes exposing the window or windshield surface to a corona discharge from at least one moving electrode that passes over the surface, especially at least one electrode associated with the rubber wiper blade (,) of a wiper apparatus for the window or windshield. The degree of hydrophilization of the surface is controlled by adjusting the level and/or the frequency or the duration of the high-frequency alternating current voltage applied to the moving electrode to produce the corona discharge. Alternatively the degree of hydrophilization of the surface is controlled by adjusting the spacing (a) of the at least one electrode from the surface.

Method of making a vehicle windshield surface hydrophilic

The invention is directed to a method and arrangement for checking the operability of a vessel. Pressure is introduced into the vessel utilizing a pressure source having operating variables which vary during operation of the pressure source. These operating variables are detected while the pressure is introduced into the vessel and a conclusion as to a presence of a leak in the vessel is drawn from the operating variables. By utilizing the operating variables, a statement as precise as possible is provided as to the presence of the leak with as little additional equipment as possible.

Method and arrangement for checking the operability of a tank-venting

A devices for measuring the mass of a flowing medium, having a temperature-sensitive measuring element, in which accurate medium flow measurement can be made in the presence of a pulsating flow which is characterized by flow fluctuations. In order to provide accurate measurements, the device has a structure which is installed in the measuring conduit in a region of its inside wall upstream and downstream of the measuring element. The structure has friction faces exposed to the oncoming flow in which the friction faces effect a flow resistance which can be varied by the intensity of the flow fluctuations, only in the presence of a pulsating flow, so that the flow is positively displaced more or less into the region of the measuring element, in order to increase the flow velocity and to compensate for the measurement errors. The invention is for measuring the mass of a flowing medium in the intake of an internal combustion engine.

Device for measuring the mass of a flowing medium

The invention is directed to a flow sensor having a heater, two temperature measuring sensors, a heater temperature sensor and a medium temperature sensor. A control circuit is provided which controls the overtemperature of the heater in dependence upon the temperature of the flowing medium. With this arrangement, the influence of the temperature dependency of the following on the sensor characteristic are compensated: viscosity, thermal conductance and thermal capacity of the medium. The relationship between the heater temperature and the temperature of the medium is adjusted in a slightly nonlinear manner by means of special evaluation circuits. In this way, a further improvement of the temperature compensation is obtained.

Flow sensor

Method for measuring the control cross section area of a nozzle

An apparatus for determining the flow rate of a flowing medium having a substrate fastened at one end with a resistor arrangement disposed on the substrate which includes a layer-like measuring resistor (R.sub.S) and a layer-like heating resistor (R.sub.H). The heating output is regulated such that the measuring resistor (R.sub.S) has a constant electrical resistance, representing a flow rate of the flowing medium. By suitable provisions, such as a meandering pattern for the heating resistor (R.sub.H), the local resistance of the heating resistor (R.sub.H) crosswise to the flow direction is made to decrease toward the fastened end. Thus, the temperature generated by means of the heating resistor (R.sub.H) inside the substrate and the measuring resistor (R.sub.S) decreases toward the fastened end.

Apparatus for determining the flow rate of a flowing medium

An apparatus for determining the flow rate of a flowing medium having a substrate as a carrier and a resistor arrangement disposed on the substrate which among other elements includes a layer-like measuring resistor (R.sub.H) as well as a likewise layer-like heating resistor (R.sub.S), the heating output of which is regulated such that the measuring resistor (R.sub.H) has a constant temperature, the heating output of the heating resistor (R.sub.S) being a standard for the flow rate of the flowing medium. The surface area of (R.sub.S) is greater than the surface area of (R.sub.H) and extends farther toward a fastening of the substrate, in order to prevent a flow of heat out of the vicinity of the measuring resistor (R.sub.H). The measuring resistor (R.sub.H) and the heating resistor (R.sub.S) are located on the downstream portion of the substrate, on a lip set off by a slit. With this disposition of the measuring resistor (R.sub.H), soiling of the substrate affects the measurement result only slightly.

A device which serves to measure the mass of a flowing medium, in particular the mass of the air aspirated by an internal combustion engine. The device includes a substrate on the bottom and top of which there is disposed a respective temperature-dependent resistor electrically connected in parallel and preferably embodied as a film, on both sides of which at peripheral areas low-impedance electrical conductor tracks are provided. The peripheral areas of the substrate are partially encompassed by U-shaped deformations provided on metallic retainers. The retainers simultaneously serve as electrical connections via soldered areas provided between the U-shaped deformations and the conductor tracks. The retainers protrude into the flow of the medium and have good thermal conductivity, so that they are virtually at the temperature of the flowing medium, and hence the temperature of the peripheral areas is also kept at the temperature of the flowing medium. To reinforce this effect, additional thermal conduction surfaces on the retainers or further thermal conduction elements which have good thermal conductivity, can be provided. With the temperatures of the peripheral areas kept to the temperature of the flow of the medium, short startup and response times are provided by the device even when there are sudden major changes in the mass of the flowing medium.

Method and apparatus for measuring the mass of a flowing medium

An apparatus for measuring the rate of flow of a fluid such as for measuring the quantities of intake air of internal combustion engines. The apparatus includes a first conductive film and a second conductive film applied to a substrate and which are in thermal contact with one another and are introduced into the flowing medium. The apparatus includes a resistance-measuring arrangement connected to a control function to form a closed loop. The resistance value of the first film is sensed by the resistance-measuring arrangement and, by applying energy, the control function regulates the first film to a temperature dependent on at least the quantity of air flowing past. This apparatus further provides that the output quantity of the control function is applied to the second conductive film, that both conductive films have at least approximately the same sheet resistance, and that their geometry is adapted to each other so that the second film is controlled to at least approximately the temperature of the first film.

Apparatus for measuring air quantity

A method for determining the closing point of a pump piston relative to a transverse bore in a corresponding pump cylinder, the method including the steps of providing compressed air to the cylinder via the transverse bore, axially sliding the pump piston near the closing point, consecutively measuring two flow values through a throttle cross-section defined by the pump piston and transverse bore, measuring the positions of the piston corresponding to the two flow values and extrapolating the pump piston unto the closing point from the flow values and piston positions.

Method for determining the closing point of a pump piston relative to a

In a headlight of a motor vehicle, having a housing and a diffusing lens enclosing with the housing an interior of the headlight, the interior is vented by means of a conduit exposed to air streams caused by travelling of the motor vehicle. The conduit is formed as an integrated part of the diffusing lens made of plastics.

Headlight for motor vehicles

A method of determination of a supply start in an injection pump, includes the steps of blocking an outlet of a pump element, for example, by a valve, supplying a testing medium into the pump element, and determining a supply start upon a pressure increase in the pump element when an upper edge of a pump piston closes a fuel inlet opening of the pump element.

Method of determination of supply start in injection pumps

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Ulrich Kuhn