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US 4,197,823 AGranted
Supplementary air valve for a fuel supply apparatus
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsReinhard Schwartz, Peter Schelhas
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AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsReinhard Schwartz, Peter Schelhas
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A supplementary air valve controlling a supplementary air quantity during the warm-up phase of an internal combustion engine. The supplementary valve is arranged in a lateral channel which bypasses the throttle valve and has a flat vane provided with a flow-through aperture; the vane is pivotable about a shaft eccentrically situated with respect to the flow-through aperture by means of a bimetallic spring provided with an electric heating coil energized through the engine ignition switch and which rotates the vane to uncover the cross-sectional areas of two spaced-apart, coaxially arranged air supply tubes which together form a part of the lateral channel and the vane has at least one further flow-through aperture for opening the cross-sectional area of a pressure control line which when closed, permits the induction tube pressure downstream of the throttle valve to prevail in the air control line, and when opened, the induction tube pressure upstream of the throttle valve prevails in the air control line.
In a fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engines having an induction tube and a throttle valve arranged in said induction tube and a lateral channel which bypasses said throttle valve, the improvement which comprises a supplementary air valve arranged in said lateral channel and further including a bimetallic spring, a flat vane provided with a flow-through aperture, said vane being pivotable about a shaft which is eccentrically situated with respect to said flow-through aperture by means of said bimetallic spring, an electric heating coil disposed about said bimetallic spring which can be switched on together with the ignition of said internal combustion engine to heat said bimetallic spring for pivotal movement of said vane by said bimetallic spring, two air supply tubes having cross-sectional areas arranged coaxially opposite and at a distance from each other and which are part of said lateral channel said vane being further arranged to partially uncover said cross-sectional areas of said two air supply tubes, at least one further pressure control line having a cross-sectional area and further wherein said vane is provided with means to open more or less widely said cross-sectional area of said at least one further pressure control line.
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