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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent reduction of a discharge flow rate at a high air temperature period, in a fuel pump for an internal combustion engine consisting of a regeneration pump. SOLUTION: A given range from the starting end of a pump flow passage forms a fuel introduction part 43 and a following part forms a boosting flow passage part 44. The upper inside part of the fuel introduction part 43 consists of a vapor reservoir part 45 the middle part of which has a specified depth D1 deeper than the depth D2 of a boosting flow passage part 44; and a guide part 46 having depth gradually decreased from the vapor reservoir part 45 toward the boosting flow passage part 44. Vapor contained in liquid fuel sucked in the fuel introduction part 43 gathers in a vapor reservoir part 45. Thereafter, the liquid fuel flows a bit by a bit from the vapor reservoir part 45 to a guide part 46 along with rotation of an impeller 25 and when the liquid fuel flows in the boosting flow passage part 44, it is bled through a vapor bleed hole 47.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel pump capable of suppressing electric corrosion of a terminal even when high conductive components are included in fuel. SOLUTION: The fuel pump comprises a pump portion press-sending fuel, a motor portion driving the pump portion, a brush sliding with a commutator and passing an electric current through the commutator, a brush spring adding elastic force on the brush and pressing the brush against the commutator, a positive electrode side outside connecting terminal 51 and a negative electrode side outside connecting terminal 52 to which electric power becoming a driving source of the motor portion is supplied from the outside through the brush, and a terminal supporting member of an insulation element supporting the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal. On a mold portion 51M constituting the terminal supporting member, a load receiving portion 501 abutting on the brush spring and receiving the reaction force of the elastic force is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve pump efficiency by preventing travel of an impeller caused by imbalance of pressure inside a pump housing. SOLUTION: In this impeller 160, an annular part 181 is provided at the outer periphery of a bulkhead to make a blade channel 166 on one side and a blade channel 171 on the other side independent from each other and form a communicating hole 176 for communicating one side with the other side at a position off the blade channel in the radial direction. Since the communicating means is off the blade channel, specifications of the blade channel can be decided independently from specifications of the communicating means to improve pump efficiency. As a result, the impeller capable of preventing travel due to imbalance of pressure and the turbine type fuel pump capable of improving pump efficiency can be realized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor in which the discharge abrasion of a brush and a segment is prevented, and to provide a fuel pump, a commutator and a process for manufacturing a commutator. SOLUTION: A commutator 70 has six segments 72 arranged in the rotational direction and is fixed to one axial end part of an armature. When the commutator 70 rotates together with the armature, each segment 72 touches a brush sequentially. Each segment 72 is connected electrically with a terminal 74 through an intermediate terminal 73. Three nonadjacent terminals 74 out of six terminals 74 located alternately in the rotational direction are electrically connected directly with the intermediate terminals 73 facing the radial opposite side. A capacitor 78 is electrically connected directly with a terminal 74 adjacent in the rotational direction. When the brush separates from the segment 72 as the armature rotates, electromagnetic energy stored in the coil of the armature is stored temporarily in the capacitor 78 and thereby no discharge take place between the brush and the segment 72. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a motor in which the wear of a brush or a segment due to discharge is prevented, and to provide a fuel pump which uses the motor. SOLUTION: A segment electrode 74 is arranged outside the radial direction of the segment 71 and is electrically connected to the segment 71 located at the same rotational position of the the segment electrode. A brush electrode 84 is positioned at the front the brush 80 in the rotating direction of a rotor 40 outside the radial direction of the brush 80. The brush electrode 84 is electrically connected to the brush 80. The segment electrode 74 is in contact with the brush electrode 84, when the segment 71 separates from the brush 80 associated with the rotation of the rotor 40. After the segment 71 separates from the brush 80, the segment electrode 74 separates from the brush electrode 84; and discharge occurs between the brush electrode 84 and the segment electrode 74. Accordingly, no discharge occurs between the brush 80 and the segment 71. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel transfer device capable of introducing liquid fuel into a reserve tank 2 by a simple constitution by adopting a structure fixing a Venturi tube 7 to the reserve tank 2. SOLUTION: The upper end part of a nozzle 6 for discharging the liquid fuel from a pump chamber 5 of a fuel pump to the Venturi tube 7 is press-fitted and fixed to the inside of a fuel discharge hole 10 in a pump cover 3 of the fuel pump and the left side of the Venturi tube 7 for transferring the liquid fuel sucked from the introduction pipe to the inside of the reserve tank 2 is press-fitted and fixed to the inside of a fitting hole 8 of a sidewall part in the adjacency of the bottom face of the reserve tank 2. This constitution can constitute the sidewall part in the adjacency of the bottom face of the reserve tank 2, the pump cover 3, the nozzle 6, and the Venturi tube 7 into simple shapes.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel-feeding system for cooling a pump controller and miniaturizing a canister. SOLUTION: A fuel pump 20 is housed in a fuel tank 10. The pump controller 30 feeds power to a pump body 22 according to engine operation state, so that the pump body 22 of the fuel pump discharges a fuel quantity necessary for the engine and controls the rotational frequency of the pump body 22. The canister 40 adsorbs vaporized fuel inside the fuel tank 10 by activated carbon housed in its interior. Piping 105 is connected to the canister 40, to introduce the atmosphere inside the canister 40. When a solenoid valve 106 is opened, the atmosphere is introduced inside the canister 40 from the piping 105. Since the piping 105 is in contact with the pump controller 30, the atmosphere introduced to the canister 40 by the piping 105 is heated by the pump controller 30 and the temperature of the canister 40 is increased by introducing the heated atmosphere.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brushless motor capable of reducing the cost of a drive circuit and reducing switching noise. SOLUTION: A five-phase brushless motor is energized at a four-phase armature coil by switching MOSFETs 36-45 using a parallel path. The current passing through the MOSFETs 36-45 becomes one half that of the conventional three- phase full-wave driven system, so that the respective MOSFETs 36-45 can use an inexpensive element having lower current capacity. When exciting phases are switched, one of two exciting phases is turned off at one exciting path of the parallel paths, and one non-exciting phase is turned on. As a result, the change in the total current of the motor become low in switching exciting phases, so as to reduce the switching noise. When required rotation speed is low, the motor torque is reduced to cause the rotational speed of the motor to be reduced by energizing only two-phase armature coil (two-phase energization). As a result, the rotational speed of the motor can be made variable without conducting PWM control.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To centrally wind an armature coil with one phase at a time for each tooth of a stator in a sensorless system. SOLUTION: Armature coils U21-W21 are centrally wound by one phase at a time for each tooth 20 of a stator 19. By forming a permanent magnet 26 for field, so that a magnetization surface facing an armature coil 21 is in a circular recessed surface shape, a magnetic flux distribution for the armature coil of each permanent magnet 25 changes in a rotary direction. As a result, even if only one permanent magnet 26 faces a non-energized phase coil, a magnetic flux that is interlinked with a non-energized phase coil changes due to the rotation of a magnet rotor 23, and an induction voltage is generated in the non-energized phase coil. By detecting the induction voltage, the rotary position of the magnet rotor 23 can be detected, thus driving a brushless motor 14 in a sensorless system, regardless of the central winding system.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a brushless motor whose number of components is small and which is easy to manufacture, the manufacturing method of the brushless motor and a fuel pump using the brushless motor. SOLUTION: Coils 37 are connected to the respective terminals of a control circuit which switches field currents supplied to the coils 37 in a terminal unit 43. The terminal unit 43 consists of a U-phase terminal 44, a V-phase terminal 45, a W-phase terminal 46, an N-phase terminal 47, a (+) terminal 48 and a (-) terminal 49. The respective terminals are electrically insulated from each other with slits 100, 101 and 102. The nails 42a of the terminal unit 43 are electrically connected to the coils 37 of the respective phases by fusing. After one terminal base material is molded in a terminal support member 41 beforehand by insert-molding, the terminal base material is divided into the respective terminals of the terminal unit 43. With this constitution, the number of components to be assembled can be reduced and, further, the terminals are easily positioned. Therefore, a motor can be manufactured easily.