Method and device for injecting a gaseous medium

• US 9,458,798 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Mitter, Roland, Gordon, Uwe
• Primary Examiner(s): Low, Lindsay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Long T
• Application Number:
  US14/315,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20150000641A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 123/476, 123/478, 123/458, 123/445, 123/462, 123538-542, 239/569, 239/900, 239/533.12, 239/585.4, 239/494, 239/497, 239/5, 239/296, 239/305, 239/491, 239/282, 239/553, 239/533.11, 239/585.3, 239/590.3, 239/552, 25112901-12922, 251/333, 251/318, 251320-323, 251/325, 251/3, 251/26, 251/328, 251/330, 251205-209, 251153-155, 138/44, 138/45
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0239 Pressure or flow regulators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0248 Injectors
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0254 Electric actuators, e.g. solenoid or piezoelectric
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/026 Lift valves, i.e. stem operated valves
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0272 Ball valves; Plate valves; Valves having deformable or flexible parts, e.g. membranes; Rotatable valves
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 21/0278 Port fuel injectors for single or multipoint injection into the air intake system
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/0655 Lift valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 47/04 for decreasing pressure or noise level, the throttle being incorporated in the closure member
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 47/08 for decreasing pressure or noise level and having a throttling member separate from the closure member , e.g. screens, slots, labyrinths
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/30 Use of alternative fuels, e.g. biofuels

Abstract

A method for injecting a gaseous medium, in particular a gaseous fuel, into an intake tract (1) of a gas engine or diesel-gas engine using an electromagnetically actuable gas valve (2). In order to increase the flow speed, the gaseous medium is injected into the intake tract (1) via at least two throttling points (3, 4) positioned in series.

Claims

1. A method for injecting a gaseous medium into an intake tract of a gas engine or diesel-gas engine using an electromagnetically actuable gas valve, wherein the gas valve has a valve plate with at least one throughflow opening that can be opened up or closed off by means of a stroke of a valve disk that can perform a stroke movement, wherein, downstream of the throughflow opening, at least one throttling point is integrated into a flow path of the gaseous medium in order to increase flow speed of the gaseous medium, wherein, in order to increase flow speed, the gaseous medium is injected into the intake tract via at least two throttling points positioned in series, wherein flow cross sections of the throttling points are coordinated with one another, wherein the flow cross section of a downstream throttling point is smaller than the flow cross section of a throttling point situated upstream thereof, and wherein the valve disk has at least one throughflow opening which is arranged offset with respect to the at least one throughflow opening of the valve plate.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one further, downstream throttling point is used for diverting the flow of the gaseous medium, as it is injected into the intake tract, by throughflow openings.

3. A device for injecting a gaseous medium into an intake tract of a gas engine or diesel-gas engine, comprising an electromagnetically actuable gas valve which has a valve plate with at least one throughflow opening that can be opened up or closed off by means of a stroke of a valve disk that can perform a stroke movement, wherein, downstream of the throughflow opening, at least one throttling point is integrated into a flow path of the gaseous medium in order to increase flow speed of the gaseous medium, wherein the at least one throttling point has positioned upstream thereof an upstream throttling point, which is formed, in a manner dependent on the stroke of the valve disk, between the valve disk and the valve plate when the gas valve is in an open position, wherein the upstream throttling point has a flow cross section which is larger than a flow cross section of the at least one throttling point arranged downstream, and wherein the valve disk has at least one throughflow opening which is arranged offset with respect to the at least one throughflow opening of the valve plate.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one throttling point is a throughflow opening in a plate-shaped component.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the plate-shaped component and the valve plate together delimit a chamber via which the throttling points are fluidically connected.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the plate-shaped component is of convex or concave form.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein at least two throughflow openings of the plate-shaped component have longitudinal axes inclined differently relative to a longitudinal axis of the gas valve.

8. The device according to claim 4, wherein at least two throughflow openings of the plate-shaped component have longitudinal axes inclined differently relative to a longitudinal axis of the gas valve.

9. The device according to claim 3, wherein the plate-shaped component is of convex form.

10. The device according to claim 3, wherein the plate-shaped component is of concave form.