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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334489 | Dual rate force transducer A dual rate force transducer is disclosed. A spring is machined to have a first spring portion with a first spring rate, a second spring portion with a second spring rate, and a platen between the spring portions. A pair of flanges are affixed to the distal ends of ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 6964258 | Engine revolution limiter An engine revolution limiter system is utilized to limit engine speed during a break-in period. The system provides for programming a variable break-in period and a variable selectable engine revolution limit. During the break-in period, if the revolution limit is e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6951200 | Fuel injection rate control device In an engine (1) in which the fuel injection rate is controlled by a governor (11) having a construction in which the turning of a governor lever (31) connected to the control lever (16) of a fuel injection pump (12) is controlled ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6901909 | Centrifugal governor for horizontal diesel engines The centrifugal governor ensures that the governor lever (3) can apply a synthesized tensile force (STF) of the tensile forces (GS) of the main spring (4) and the tensile force (IS) of the idling spring (5) to the fuel adjuster (2) of the... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6873900 | Method for operating an internal combustion engine and arrangement therefor A fuel pump (14) pumps fuel in a method for operating an internal combustion engine (10). The fuel pump (14) is connected at its input end to a fuel tank (12). Fuel reaches at least one combustion chamber (22) of the engine (10 | 03/29/2005 |
| 6488005 | System and a method for running a diesel engine when starting a vehicle The present invention provides a system for running a diesel engine comprising an idle speedup switch, an uphill slope sensor, an accelerator pedal sensor, control means increasing an idle speed, when the idle speedup switch is on or the accelerator pedal... | 12/03/2002 |
| 5188076 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a fuel injection quantity adjusting device, in which by the imposition of a stepping motor and by varying a spring assembly at the adjusting device, not only can the starting and full-load injec... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5042444 | Device and method for altering the acoustic signature of an internal combustion engine An apparatus and method for altering the acoustic signature of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. Several techniques for altering the acoustic signature of an engine are shown, including time-varying, disabling or cutout of individual cylinders o... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4515120 | Governor for internal combustion engine A governor for an internal combustion engine, in which a floating lever rotatably supported by a shaft abuts with its one end against the forward end of the governor spindle, the other end of the floating lever being connected through a link member to a c... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4450804 | Apparatus for increasing idling speed The invention relates to an arrangement for increasing the idling speed of an internal combustion engine, particularly a diesel internal-combustion engine. It has a setting member for controlling the feed of the fuel, the displacement path of said member ... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4414945 | Dual-range mechanical governor for fuel injection pumps A mechanical governor of the so-called "idling and maximum speed governor" type for injection pumps, comprising a governing lever to which is connected the control member for the rate of flow, or metering member, and which is pivotally mounted under the a... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4367709 | Diesel engine speed governor A fuel governor for a diesel engine having a fuel pump mechanically driven by the engine. The system includes an idle speed governor comprising a hydraulically activated valve. A first fuel line connects the valve to the fuel pump and a second fuel line c... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4348995 | Fuel pumping apparatus A fuel pumping apparatus includes an injection pump and means for controlling the quantity of fuel delivered by the pump. A two speed governor including an operator adjustable control is provided to determine the setting of said means. Stop means is provi... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4312312 | Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines The invention relates to a fuel injection pump in which, via an appropriate transducer, the temperature of the coolant of the internal combustion engine intervenes as a control value in the fuel injection pump regulation, in that at least two of the follo... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4308833 | Centrifugal rpm governor for fuel injected internal combustion engines A centrifugal governor is proposed for fuel injected internal combustion engines, which preferably functions as an idling and a final rpm governor. Preferably, the governor is provided with a cam-guided adaptor apparatus whose influence on the governor mo... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4291657 | Diesel engine speed governor A speed governor for a diesel engine having a fuel pump mechanically driven by the engine. The governor comprises a hydraulically activated valve. A first fuel line connects the valve to the fuel pump and a second fuel line connects the valve to the fuel ... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4286558 | Centrifugal rpm governor for fuel injected internal combustion engines, especially an idling and final rpm governor for diesel vehicle engines A centrifugal governor for fuel injected internal combustion engines is proposed, especially an idling and final rpm governor for Diesel vehicle engines, in which the sudden emission of smoke upon starting of a heavily loaded engine is prevented. The impr... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4267808 | Centrifugal RPM governor for fuel injected engines A centrifugal rpm governor is proposed for fuel injected internal combustion engines in which the full-load supply quantity is precisely settable at a fixed and invariable full-load setting and a predetermined constant pivot angle of the setting member ac... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4253439 | Fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump having a governor in which the downward regulation sleeve is also displaced toward a smaller injection quantity if the flyweight adjustment fails when the injection quantity selection lever is at the idling position.... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4250709 | Idling adjusting mechanism for injection pumps, especially for diesel injection pumps An idling speed adjusting mechanism for injection pumps in which a pivotal connection for raising the idling rotational speed is adjustable against a spring force by way of an adjusting mechanism arranged externally at the pump housing and adjustable agai... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4143634 | RPM Governor for fuel injection engines An rpm governor for fuel injection engines whose function is to raise the idle rpm for a predetermined time period while the engine is cold in order to guarantee a clean idle running cycle of the engine. The rpm governor includes a compensating device hav... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4142499 | Temperature compensated fuel injection pump A fuel injection pump for an internal combustion engine having an engine speed responsive governor for adjusting the metering valve of the pump. In order to control the idle speed of the engine under varying temperature conditions a bimetal spring is inte... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4099506 | Idling abutment for the governor of an injection pump of an air-compressing internal combustion engine An idling abutment for the controller of an injection pump of an air-compressing internal combustion engine with combustion spaces heated by means of glow plugs, with an idling quantity increase, with a movable, adjusting and spring-loaded abutment for th... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4067303 | Fuel injection pump governor Flyweights are connected to a fuel control rod through a tension lever and a floating lever. A speed control lever is connected to the floating lever so that the engine speed is determined by the rotational speed of the flyweights and the position of the ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4038958 | Fuel injection pump governor A flyweight assembly and a manual speed control member are connected through a linkage to a control rod which controls the fuel injection volume of the pump so that the control rod position is determined by both the flyweight assembly and the control memb... | 08/02/1977 |
| 3981287 | Fuel systems for engines A fuel system for an engine has a first summing amplifier to which are fed signals representing demanded and actual values of the output of a pump supplying fuel to the engine, together with a signal representing engine speed. The summing amplifier compar... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3974810 | Fuel injection pump In a fuel injection pump having two kinds of plungers rotatably displaced by a common rack, each of one kind of plungers ceasing fuel supply and each of the other kind of plungers supplying fuel during idling of an engine, a measuring screw-like groove of... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3973542 | Liquid fuel injection pumping apparatus A liquid fuel pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine includes a member which is movable against the action of a spring system by means of centrifugally operable weights. The member is coupled to a fuel control rod of the pum... | 08/10/1976 |
