Fuel supply device and method for producing same

    公开(公告)号:US10766357B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US16080326

    申请日:2017-02-24

    Abstract: In a fuel tank, a pressure regulator is placed at an outside of a sub-tank and regulates a pressure of fuel of a pressure-regulation path, which is discharged from a fuel pump and is fed toward an outside of the fuel tank. A fuel recovery passage portion recovers excess fuel, which becomes excess at the pressure-regulation path, to the sub-tank. The sub-tank has an opening at a location that is higher than the suction filter. The fuel recovery passage portion is inserted from the outside of the sub-tank into the inside of the sub-tank through the opening while a gap is formed between the fuel recovery passage portion and the opening, so that the fuel recovery passage portion has an excess fuel outlet that discharges the excess fuel at a location that is on an inner side of the opening where an inside of the sub-tank is placed.

    Suction filter and fuel supply device

    公开(公告)号:US10753329B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15745762

    申请日:2016-06-29

    Inventor: Norihiro Hayashi

    Abstract: A filter element is installed in an inside of a fuel tank to filter stored fuel by passing the stored fuel into an inside space through the filter element. A partition wall element is exposed in the inside space. The partitioning portion includes: a partitioning portion that is placed to partially partition the inside space into a first space, into which filtered fuel filtered through the filter element is supplied, and a second space, in which a suction inlet for suctioning the filtered fuel opens, wherein the partitioning portion conducts the filtered fuel from the first space to the second space; and a communication window that is formed in the partitioning portion at a location, which is offset to a side that is away from the suction inlet, wherein the communication window communicates between the first space and the second space while bypassing the partitioning portion.

    Fuel supply device
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09850865B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-26

    申请号:US15305171

    申请日:2015-10-06

    Abstract: A swirling wall structure-extends from a lower side toward an upper side in a sub-tank, and a fuel flow, which is outputted into an inside of the sub-tank from a flow outlet of a diffuser passage opened toward a lateral side, is swirled by the swirling wall structure. The swirling wall structure-includes a curved wall surface and a U-turn wall surface. The curved wall surface is curved about a longitudinal axis, which extends from the lower side toward the upper side in the sub-tank, to bend the fuel flow outputted from the flow outlet. The U-turn wall surface extends continuously from the curved wall surface to make a U-turn of the fuel flow, which is bent by the curved wall surface.

    Suction filter and fuel supply device

    公开(公告)号:US10794343B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-06

    申请号:US16418111

    申请日:2019-05-21

    Inventor: Norihiro Hayashi

    Abstract: A suction filter includes a filter element disposed in a fuel tank and filtering a stored fuel that is a fuel stored in the fuel tank by allowing the stored fuel passing the filter element into an inner space, a dividing wall element disposed to divide the inner space into a first space, into which a filtered fuel that is the fuel filtered by the filter element flows, and a second space, to which an intake port drawing in the filtered fuel is opened, and enclosing the first space together with the filter element and enclosing the second space together with the filter element, and a passage element including an inflow port opened to the second space and an outflow port to which an intake pressure is applied by the intake port and defining a flow passage through which filtered fuel flows from the inflow port toward the outflow port.

    Fuel supply device
    6.
    发明授权
    Fuel supply device 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US10669976B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US16077553

    申请日:2017-02-24

    Abstract: A fuel supply device includes: a cover attached to an upper wall of a fuel tank; a pump unit disposed on a bottom wall of the fuel tank; and a connecting strut that connects the cover and the pump unit with each other. The pump unit includes: a unit body supported by the connecting strut in a radial direction and a thrust direction, and a fuel pump arranged on the unit body to pump fuel drawn from the fuel tank toward an internal-combustion engine. The fuel pump is located offset toward the connecting strut from a width center of a width from a thrust support part where the unit body is supported by the connecting strut to an end part of the unit body opposite from the connecting strut in a specific transverse direction.

    Fuel supply device
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10648436B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-12

    申请号:US16076819

    申请日:2017-02-24

    Abstract: A fuel supply device configured to supply fuel from an inside of a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine includes: a cover body that is installed to an upper wall of the fuel tank; a pump unit that is placed on a bottom wall of the fuel tank and is configured to discharge the fuel from the inside of the fuel tank toward the internal combustion engine; and a coupling stay that couples between the cover body and the pump unit. The coupling stay includes: an upper stay that extends on a lower side of the cover body; and a lower stay that is installed to the pump unit and is slidably fitted to the upper stay in a top-to-bottom direction. A stress concentrating portion, which reduces a section modulus to concentrate a stress around the stress concentrating portion, is formed at a specific location of the lower stay.

    Suction filter and fuel supply device

    公开(公告)号:US10590894B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US15750573

    申请日:2016-07-01

    Inventor: Norihiro Hayashi

    Abstract: A suction filter includes a filter element disposed in a fuel tank and filtering a stored fuel that is a fuel stored in the fuel tank by allowing the stored fuel passing the filter element into an inner space, a dividing wall element disposed to divide the inner space into a first space, into which a filtered fuel that is the fuel filtered by the filter element flows, and a second space, to which an intake port drawing in the filtered fuel is opened, and enclosing the first space together with the filter element and enclosing the second space together with the filter element, and a passage element including an inflow port opened to the second space and an outflow port to which an intake pressure is applied by the intake port and defining a flow passage through which filtered fuel flows from the inflow port toward the outflow port.

    Pressure regulator and fuel supply device

    公开(公告)号:US10443551B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-15

    申请号:US16211733

    申请日:2018-12-06

    Inventor: Norihiro Hayashi

    Abstract: A valve member is movable with first and second partition member and opens and closes a first pressure chamber with respect to a return passage. The first partition member partitions the first pressure chamber from a second pressure chamber. The second partition member partitions the second pressure chamber from a third pressure chamber. The first, second, and third pressure chambers cause fuel from a fuel flow passage to flow therethrough. A switching unit switches an opening and closing state of the second pressure chamber and the third pressure chamber with respect to the fuel flow passage and the return passage.

    Jet pump, manufacturing method of jet pump, and fuel supply device having jet pump

    公开(公告)号:US10138906B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-27

    申请号:US14876164

    申请日:2015-10-06

    Abstract: A common width direction, along which a passage width of a communication passage section and a passage width of a pressurizing passage are defined, is perpendicular to an extending direction of a flow restricting passage section. A first passage wall surface and a second passage wall surface, which define the communication passage section therebetween, are opposed to each other in the common width direction. The flow restricting passage section opens in the first passage wall surface. The second passage wall surface is concavely curved relative to the first passage wall surface toward the flow restricting passage section, so that the passage width of the communication passage section is progressively reduced toward the flow restricting passage section within a predetermined range that is equal to or smaller than the passage width of the pressurizing passage.

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