Abstract:
The invention pertains to a circuit for driving the excitation coil of an electromagnetically driven reciprocating pump used as an injection device, characterized by a circuit for driving the rotor excitation coil (600) which is connected to a power transistor (601) which is grounded via a measuring resistor (602), whereby the output of a comparator (603) is hooked on to the control input of the transistor (601), e.g. to the transistor base, and whereby a current setpoint is applied to the non-inverting input of the comparator (603). This setpoint is e.g. obtained from a microcomputer and the inverting input of the comparator (603) is connected to the side of the measuring resistor which is connected with the transistor (601).
Abstract:
A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine in which an electrical fuel pump pumps fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel distributor and a pressure switch is connected to respond to the pressure of the fuel. The pressure switch is electrically connected to connect and disconnect electrical power supply to the fuel pump as a function of lower and upper threshold values of pressure of the pumped fuel. The pressure switch contain a storage chamber which stores fuel when the fuel pump is operative and when the pump is disconnected, the storage chamber supplies the stored fuel to the full distributor with no back flow to the fuel tank. A pressure reducing regulator is located between the pressure switch and the fuel distributor to reduce the pressure of the fuel supplied to the distributor to a value lower than the pressure of the fuel at the pressure switch.
Abstract:
An impeller for use in a regenerative pump for pumping automotive fuel to an engine includes a plurality of vanes radially extending from a core. Each vane has a leading surface, a trailing surface, and a sidewall between the leading surface and the trailing surface. A plurality of partitions is interposed between the vanes such that the vanes and partitions define a plurality of vane grooves. Fuel is then pumped by the vanes through the vane grooves such that the fuel flows along a generally spiral path thereby defining a primary vortex. A relief is formed at least partially along the length of each vane at the intersection between the trailing surface and the sidewall. This relief causes the fuel flowing along the generally spiral path, also known as the primary vortex, to also rotate about an instantaneous axis thereby defining a secondary vortex. The secondary vortex has the benefit of reducing turbulence with the attendant benefit of reducing cavitation or vapor generation within the fuel pump.
Abstract:
In a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, an actual fuel pressure Pf is measured by a differential pressure sensor and the actual fuel pressure Pf is averaged in a different degree to determine two kinds of values Pfs and Pft. The value Pfs is used to control the fuel pressure, while the value Pft is used to correct a pulse width. Then, a correction value Vfpci is determined according to the load applied to the engine and used in a feedback control to adjust a fuel discharge pressure of a fuel pump.
Abstract:
An electric-motor fuel pump that includes a housing with a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet, and an electric motor with a rotor responsive to application of electrical power for rotating within the housing. A pump mechanism includes an impeller coupled to the rotor for corotation with the rotor and having a periphery with a circumferential array of impeller vanes. A pair of plates oppose the sides of the impeller and a split ring surrounds the periphery of the impeller to form an arcuate pumping channel around the periphery of the impeller. Inlet and outlet ports at opposed ends of the pumping channel are operatively coupled to the inlet and outlet in the pump housing. Channels extend radially inwardly from the pockets in each side face of the impeller, and are interconnected by through-passages that extend through the impeller. A vapor vent is disposed in one of the side plates for sequential registry with the impeller through-openings for venting vapor from the pumping channel.
Abstract:
The invention pertains to a fuel injection device operating according to the solidstate energy storage principle, whereby a rotor element carried in a pump housing of an electromagnetically driven reciprocating pump is accelerated almost without resistance, whereby the rotor element stores kinetic energy and impacts on a piston element, so that a pressure impulse is generated in the fuel contained in a closed pressure chamber before the piston element due to the fact that the stored kinetic energy of the rotor element is transferred via the piston element to the fuel in the pressure chamber and whereby the pressure impulse is used for the injection of fuel through a nozzle and whereby the rotor element is carried form-locking on the piston element and the two elements are mutually spring-mounted.
Abstract:
An anti-lock system for preventing vapor lock is disclosed. It has a temperature sensor which controls the vehicle fuel pump to circulate liquid fuel through the majority of the fuel system when the under hood temperature is above a certain level to maintain liquidity at all times and prevent the formation of vapor in the fuel system.
Abstract:
A motor-vehicle engine system has an internal-combustion four-cycle engine having a fuel-supply manifold and operable at variable speed with a fuel requirement dependent on speed, a substantially closed but vented fuel tank holding a supply of gasoline, a fuel pump having an input connected to the tank and an output, and a fuel-feed line connected between the fuel-pump output and the fuel-supply manifold. A controller connected to the engine and to the pump operates the fuel pump at a throughput rate equal to between 5% and 40%, preferably 10% to 30%, more than the instantaneous fuel requirements of the engine. A return line connected to the fuel tank is provided with an overpressure valve that opens and returns to the tank fuel in the manifold that is in excess of the engine's instantaneous requirements and thereby maintains a predetermined constant pressure in the fuel-supply manifold.
Abstract:
A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine that includes a fuel supply, an electric-motor pump for feeding fuel under pressure from the supply to an engine, and electronic control circuitry for applying electrical power to the pump. The control circuitry includes a pressure sensitive switch coupled to the pump and responsive to pump outlet pressure for switching between conductive and non-conductive switch conditions at a preselected pump outlet pressure. A pulse width modulation amplifier is coupled to the switch for applying pulsed d.c. energy to the pump at a first average voltage level when the pressure switch is in one condition, and at a second lesser but non-zero level when the pressure switch is in the other condition. In this way, electrical power is applied to the pump motor at a reduced level when pump outlet pressure exceeds the threshold level of the pressure switch.
Abstract:
A motor vehicle fuel pump including a tubular steel housing and a roller vane positive displacement pump and an electric motor in the tubular steel housing. The roller vane pump includes a pair of flat side plates, a rotor between the side plates, and a T-shaped sleeve bearing in a plain bore in one of the side plates. A lip at one end of a tubular body of the sleeve bearing has a side defining an annular seat in a plane perpendicular to the tubular body. The tubular body has a shaft bore therethrough and a stepped outer wall including a large diameter part adjacent the annular seat and a small diameter part adjacent the large diameter part. The large diameter part is force fitted in the plain bore until the annular seat engages flush against a flat, outside surface of the side plate. The annular seat positions the longitudinal centerline of the tubular body perpendicular to the outer side plate for optimum alignment with the armature shaft when an end of the latter is disposed in the shaft bore. The pump rotor is rotatably supported on the small diameter part of the sleeve bearing which protrudes beyond the outer side plate.