Abstract: The fuel injection device has a high-pressure pump (14) that supplies fuel to a reservoir and is connected to injectors disposed in the cylinders of the engine. A fuel-supply pump delivers fuel from a fuel tank to the suction side of the high-pressure pump. An electrically actuated control valve adjusts the quantity of fuel that the high-pressure pump delivers to the reservoir. The control valve is disposed on the pressure side of the high-pressure pump and can be switched between a first position, in which the pressure side of the high-pressure pump is closed off from a pressure relief region, and a second position, in which the pressure side of the high-pressure pump is connected to the pressure relief region.

Abstract: The fuel injection system has a high-pressure pump which pumps fuel into a reservoir to be supplied to injectors disposed at the engine cylinders. A feed pump supplies fuel to the high-pressure pump. The high-pressure pump has at least one pump element including a pump piston that defines a work chamber and is driven in a reciprocating motion; the work chamber has a communication with the compression side of the feed pump, in which an intake valve opening toward the work chamber is disposed, and through which valve fuel flows into the work chamber upon the intake stroke of the pump piston. The intake valve has a valve member, which is urged in a closing direction by a closing spring, and the closing spring is braced at least indirectly on the pump piston; with an increasing intake stroke of the pump piston, the closing force exerted on the valve member by the closing spring becomes less. A minimal opening differential pressure of the intake valve is less than 0.9 bar.

Abstract: A fuel injection system has a feed pump by which fuel is supplied to a high-pressure pump which pumps fuel into a reservoir as a function of engine operating parameters. The system has a fuel metering device for adjusting the fuel quantity pumped by the high-pressure pump, the metering device having an actuator controlling a regulating valve having a slide-shaped valve member guided in a cylindrical bore of a valve housing and displaceable by the actuator counter to a restoring force. An outer jacket of the valve member in cooperation with an outlet from the cylindrical bore controls a flow cross section from the feed pump to the high-pressure pump. The valve member controlls an inlet opening, originating at the feed pump and discharging into the cylindrical bore, and in one position closes the inlet opening completely.