Abstract:
An ECU controls a selector valve so as to connect a first pump passage and a second pump passage, and determines whether a fuel vapor leak from a fuel tank is in an allowable range based on a pressure in the fuel tank which is detected by a pressure sensor while a pump is driven to decrease a pressure in the fuel tank. The ECU opens a purge valve, whereby the fuel vapor adsorbed by a canister is introduce into an engine through an intake passage. The ECU controls the selector valve to connect a first pump passage and the second pump passage so as to circulate an atmospheric air in the pump while the purge valve is opened to introduce the fuel vapor into the internal combustion engine, whereby a foreign matter in the pump can be removed.
Abstract:
An inspection apparatus includes a pressure sensor, a reference orifice, a pump, and a switching valve. The reference orifice is disposed in a first communication passage communicating a pressure passage receiving the pressure sensor, with a tank passage communicating with a fuel tank. The pump depressurizing or pressurizing the pressure passage includes an intake port and a discharge port, and one of which communicates with an atmospheric passage communicating with the atmosphere and the other one communicates with the pressure passage. The switching valve and switches between a state shutting off a communication of a second communication passage that leads to the pressure passage and passages other than the pressure passage and communicating the atmospheric passage with the tank passage and a state shutting off a communication of the atmospheric passage and passages other than the pump and the atmosphere and communicating the second communication passage with the tank passage.
Abstract:
An evaporation leakage checking system includes a pump, a pump passage unit, a tank passage unit, a specified passage unit, an atmosphere passage unit, a flow-passage area changing unit, an atmosphere valve unit, a pressure sensing unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a calculating unit that calculates a leakage threshold, based on a first pressure, a first area, an Nth pressure, an Nth area, and a reference area that is predetermined, and a leakage checking unit that activates the pump, closes the atmosphere passage unit by changing the flow-passage area of the atmosphere passage unit by using the atmosphere valve unit, and checks the existence of the evaporation leakage based on the leakage threshold and a checking pressure that is the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor in a case where a communication between the tank passage unit and the pump passage unit is allowed.
Abstract:
A first housing has a canister passage communicating a first interior with a canister. A second housing has an atmospheric passage communicating a second interior with an atmosphere. A switching valve is accommodated in the first housing to switch communication of the canister passage with selectively one of a pressure detection passage and the atmospheric passage. A switching valve bypass passage communicates the canister passage with the pressure detection passage and bypasses the switching valve. A partition member separates the first interior from the second interior and has a communication hole communicating the first interior with the second interior. A contact member is equipped to an end of the partition member and is in contact with at least one of the first housing and the second housing. The partition member forms a clearance with the first housing and the second housing.
Abstract:
A valve device includes a first valve body including a first seat portion that defines a first opening, a shaft reciprocatable in a direction of a center axis of the first opening, and a first valve member supported by the shaft to contact or be separated from the first seat portion in accordance with the reciprocation of the shaft. The first valve member contacts the first seat portion in an entire circumference of the first seat portion with deforming elastically due to a force from the first seat portion when the first valve member contacts the first seat portion in a state where a reciprocation direction of the shaft is inclined from the center axis of the first opening. Accordingly, air sealing of the valve device can be ensured even when the reciprocation direction of the shaft is inclined from the center axis of the first opening.