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Device for controlling and/or regulating the fuel quantity supplied to an internal combustion engine

US7096855B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 12, 2005
Grant dateAug 29, 2006
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Expiry dateMay 12, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02M2200/24
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a device for controlling the fuel quantity supplied to an internal combustion engine via a fuel supply line and an injection nozzle which includes a nozzle needle and an actuator for controlling the position of the nozzle needle, wherein a sensor for the detection of injection parameters is provided which supplies injection parameter data to a control unit for determining, on the basis of the sensor data, control parameters for the actuator of the injection nozzle, the sensor is a mass flow sensor arranged in the fuel supply line.

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