ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,432, issued on July 7, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"High-pressure fuel pump" was invented by Thomas Froihofer (Brackenheim, Germany), Rainer Kornhaas (Stuttgart, Germany), Guido Bredenfeld (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Stephan Wehr (Heiligenstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure fuel pump includes an inlet, which is in the form of an inlet port fixed to the pump housing, and a pressure-limiting valve that fluidically connects a high-pressure region to a low-pressure region and opens in the direction of the low-pressure region. The pressure-limiting valve opens in the direction of an ...