Rotary Distributor Patents (Class 123/450)
  • Patent number: 10473071
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a gear driven diesel fuel injection pump of an engine. In one example, a front end of an engine includes an idler gear in meshing engagement with a first end of a crankshaft and a fuel pump drive gear in meshing engagement with the idler gear. The front end of the engine may further include a fuel pump, where an input shaft of the fuel pump is directly coupled to the fuel pump drive gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Nigel Turner, Kevin John Maile, Chris Michael Raines
  • Patent number: 10120111
    Abstract: An apparatus and a camera system are provided. The apparatus includes an imaging screen configured to diffuse incoming light, and a lens system coupled to the imaging screen and configured to focus light from the imaging screen onto a CMOS image sensor. The imaging screen includes a ceramic diffuser layer fused into a surface of a glass substrate, and a thickness of the ceramic diffuser layer is within a range of about 7-10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jill D. Berger, Steven M. Swain, Tianran Liang, Kevin Y. Yasumura
  • Patent number: 10100687
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for the measured supply of gaseous fuel in internal combustion engines with a plurality of electromagnetically operable control valves of an individual cross-section, with the control valves being embodied as seat valves, allowing the allocation of the valve arrangement to an internal combustion engine, and the valve arrangement comprising a nominal cross-section for providing a predetermined volume flow, with the seat valves being designed such that a sum of the individual cross-sections is at least equivalent to the nominal cross-section, an effective cross-section due to a valve stroke of all seat valves is equivalent to the nominal cross-section, and the effective cross-section is smaller or equivalent to the sum of individual cross-sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MESA PARTS GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Gläser
  • Patent number: 9638126
    Abstract: A device for the electronically controlled lean out of mechanical fuel injected engines comprising a wide band air fuel ratio sensor and a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the wide band air fuel ratio gauge/controller. The printed circuit board (PCB) is connected to the wide band air fuel ratio sensor's power, ground, and signal wires. The computer controlled stepper motor is connected to the printed circuit board (PCB). A variable valve spool is retained in a fuel block and connected to the computer controlled stepper motor. Rotating the variable valve spool continuously adjusts and controls the air fuel ratio of the engine in real time by regulating the amount of fuel returned the fuel tank and the amount of fuel delivered to the barrel valve in a mechanically fuel injected engine. A jet can be used in combination with the fuel bock to further fine tune the fuel flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Delbert Vosburg
  • Patent number: 9273564
    Abstract: A device for driving an auxiliary unit, in particular a high-pressure pump is provided. The device includes a rotatably supported drive shaft of an internal combustion engine coupled to a unit shaft of the auxiliary unit by a coupling. The unit shaft has a first bearing on the side facing away from the coupling, and a second bearing formed by the coupling. The device provides a coupling solution for connecting, for example, a high-pressure pump camshaft to an available intake or exhaust camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Frehland
  • Patent number: 8261719
    Abstract: A fuel pump according to the invention includes a housing and a part, which is a moving part during operation and which bears on a housing region at least indirectly. It is proposed that the fuel pump includes a coating which is applied to the housing region on a side of the housing region which faces towards the moving part, and that the coating is composed of a plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Langenbach, Manfred Fink, Armin Merz, Josef Guentert, Jan Grebe, Robert Reitsam
  • Patent number: 8256400
    Abstract: A piston pump, especially for supplying high-pressure fuel to a direct-injection internal combustion engine, including a pump housing (2) and a drive shaft (3a to 3i) for actuating one or several pump plungers (5) which are radially oriented relative to the drive shaft in the pump housing. The drive shaft is rotatably mounted on one or several bearings (11, 31, 49) extending between a shaft inlet (15) of the pump housing and a rear housing wall (20) located opposite the shaft inlet. One bearing (11) extends between an internal surface (17) of a hollow cylindrical section (10) of the drive shaft and an external surface (18) of a journal (19) that runs from the rear housing wall into the hollow cylindrical section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Siegfried Tisch
  • Patent number: 8006673
    Abstract: A low-pressure pump portion pumps fuel from a fuel tank. A pressure regulating valve controls pressure of fuel discharged from the low-pressure pump portion. A high-pressure pump portion pressurizes the discharged fuel. A valve cover has a mounting portion mounted with the pressure regulating valve. A camshaft moves a movable member to pressurize fuel in a high-pressure pump chamber of a cylinder so as to press-feed the fuel from the high-pressure pump portion. The low-pressure pump portion includes a rotatable member, which is rotatable integrally with the camshaft, and a pump cover, which accommodates the rotatable member. The pump cover is fixed to the pump housing. The valve cover is a separate component from the pump housing and the pump cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Shimai
  • Patent number: 7690344
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a direct-start engine and a fuel rail with a threshold fuel pressure, a transmission having a threshold fluid pressure, and a fuel delivery system. The system has a controller, a motor having a shaft, and an integrated pump assembly including a high-pressure (HP) fuel pump and a low-pressure (LP) fluid pump each connected to the shaft. Threshold pressures are maintained during the predetermined engine state, which includes an engine idling and an engine cranking state. A method for providing stop-and-go functionality in a vehicle having a direct-start engine includes detecting a current engine state, rotating a motor shaft to energize a secondary HP fuel pump at a first threshold pressure during engine cranking, and rotating the shaft to energize an LP fluid pump at a second threshold pressure during engine idling and engine cranking. The secondary pumps can also be used when primary pumps are temporarily inoperable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Ma, Hsu-Chiang Miao, Kenneth J. Shoemaker, Thomas R. Brown
  • Patent number: 7690355
    Abstract: A fuel metering system for supplying fuel to a plurality of loads includes a variable displacement piston pump having an adjustable hanger that is movable to a plurality of positions. The variable displacement piston pump is configured to receive a drive torque and, upon receipt of the drive torque, to supply fuel to the plurality of loads at a flow rate dependent on the position of the adjustable hanger. A hanger actuator is coupled to receive hanger position commands and is operable, in response thereto, to move the adjustable hanger to the commanded position. A pump control mechanism is coupled to receive the fuel flow commands supplied by the gas turbine engine controller and is operable, in response thereto, to supply the hanger position commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steve M. Emo, William S. Rowan, Larry A. Portolese
  • Patent number: 7647918
    Abstract: A high-pressure radial piston pump for common rail injection systems has a pump housing (1), a drive shaft (2), at least one pump piston (3) which can move in a radial direction in relation to the drive shaft (2) and a high pressure accumulator (4) integrated into the high-pressure radial piston pump. The high pressure accumulator (4) is embodied in the form of a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Portner, Ngoc-Tam Vu
  • Publication number: 20080105234
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump equipped with a rotary deflector, with which lifetime of the deflector is increased and maintenance cost which is required to replace the deflector when it is wasted due to cavitation erosion is decreased. The deflector comprises a stationary holder and a tip member which is supported rotatably by the stationary holder so that the tip member is rotated by fuel flow that outbursts from the plunger room through the inlet/spill port and impinges against the tip member when fuel injection ends, thereby evading concentrated impingement at a specific portion of the tip member and preventing occurrence of cavitation erosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshizumi, Yasumichi Aoki, Shouji Namekawa, Esaki Minoru
  • Patent number: 7363913
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump has at least one pump element, with a pump piston which is guided displaceably in a cylinder bore of a housing part of the high-pressure pump and is driven in a reciprocating motion and defines a pump work chamber in the cylinder bore, into which chamber fuel is aspirated via an inlet valve in the intake stroke of the pump piston. The inlet valve has a pistonlike valve member, which with a sealing face cooperates with a valve seat for controlling the communication of the pump work chamber with the fuel inlet. The valve member is disposed with a head, on which the sealing face is embodied, in the pump work chamber and protrudes out of the pump work chamber with a shaft adjoining the head. The valve seat is formed in the housing part at a transition from the cylinder bore to a bore of smaller diameter adjoining the cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dutt, Jochen Aleker
  • Patent number: 7350508
    Abstract: An advance arrangement for use in controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump for use in an engine comprises an advance piston (12) which is slidable within a first bore (14) and which cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pump. A surface associated with the advance piston (12) is exposed to fuel pressure within a first control chamber (38). The pressure of fuel within the first control chamber (38) is controlled by means of a servo piston (24) which is slidable within a further bore (22) provided in the advance piston (12). The servo piston (24) is responsive to speed dependent fuel pressure variations within a servo control chamber (37), thereby to permit adjustment of the timing in response to engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Edwin Chapman, Rodney Dyason
  • Patent number: 7284537
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a rotationally driven drive shaft with a shaft portion embodied eccentrically to its axis of rotation, on which shaft portion a ring is rotatably supported. At least one pump element, has a pump piston, driven at least indirectly in a reciprocating motion by the drive shaft via the ring and resting at least indirectly on the ring. The ring is provided, at least on its outer face facing away from the shaft portion, with a coating of a friction-reducing paint in at least one region, in which the at least one pump piston rests at least indirectly on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kleinbeck, Markus Koch, Wolfram Rittmannsberger
  • Patent number: 7252074
    Abstract: An advance arrangement for controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump in an engine comprises an advance piston which is movable in either an advance or a retard direction to advance or retard, respectively, the timing of fuel pump delivery, wherein a surface associated with the advance piston is exposed to fuel pressure within a main advance control chamber. The advance piston has a supply port to allow fuel to flow into the main advance control chamber and a drain port to allow fuel to flow out of the main advance control chamber. A servo piston is movable relative to the advance piston to control opening and closing of the supply port and the drain port. The advance arrangement is characterised by a restricted flow means for restricting the flow of fuel out of the main advance control chamber through the drain port when the advance piston moves in the retard direction beyond a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie Chapman, Rodney Dyason
  • Patent number: 7234448
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a cam rotating with a camshaft, a cam ring revolving around the camshaft, a housing, plungers for pressurizing and pressure-feeding fuel drawn into fuel pressurizing chambers, and a rotary pump for supplying the fuel to the fuel pressurizing chambers. The housing includes a first housing portion for rotatably housing the rotary pump and second housing portions for housing the plungers so that the plungers can reciprocate. A filter is disposed in one of an outlet portion of a first low-pressure fuel passage in the first housing streaming the fuel from the rotary pump toward the fuel pressurizing chamber, an inlet portion of a second low-pressure fuel passage of the second housing portion facing the outlet portion, and a certain point in the second low-pressure fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiharu Hanyu
  • Patent number: 7107967
    Abstract: A fuel supply pump includes a housing, a camshaft and a cam ring. The camshaft is rotatably supported in the housing. The cam ring is supported around a cam portion of the camshaft such that the cam ring is rotatable with respect to the cam portion. A washer member is provided between an axial end face of the cam portion and the housing, so that the cam portion and the camshaft is axially aligned. A bearing is circumferentially inserted between the end face of the cam portion and the cam ring. An axial end face of the cam ring defines oil grooves, so that lubricating oil flows from a cam chamber into a gap, which is formed between the cam portion and the bearing. Lubricating oil is sufficiently supplied to the periphery of the cam portion, so that the camshaft can be protected from seizure in the fuel supply pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Sano
  • Patent number: 6941932
    Abstract: An advance arrangement controls timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump for use in an engine. The advance arrangement includes an advance piston, a servo piston, a light load piston, and an arrangement. The advance piston is slidable within a first bore and cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pump. A surface associated with the advance piston is exposed to fuel pressure within a first control chamber. The servo piston is slidable within a further bore provided in the advance piston to control the pressure of fuel within the first control chamber. The servo piston is responsive to speed dependent fuel pressure variations within a servo control chamber, thereby to permit adjustment of the timing in response to engine speed. The light load piston is moveable relative to the advance piston against the action of a light load control spring in response to fuel pressure variations within a light load control chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Jeremy Hopley, Robert Mark Kemsley, William Robert Burborough
  • Patent number: 6892709
    Abstract: A pressure regulator for use in regulating the outlet pressure of a pump for use in an engine comprises a piston member which is moveable with respect to an outlet opening under the influence of fluid pressure acting on the piston member to control the degree by which the outlet opening is obscured. The pressure regulator comprises a biasing arrangement for applying a biasing force to the piston member which opposes the pressure of fluid acting on the piston member. The biasing arrangement comprises a moveable abutment member which is cooperable with a stop member so as to vary the rate at which the displacement of the piston member varies with fluid pressure acting on the piston member. The stop member is pre-set in a fixed position relative to the regulator housing such that movement of the abutment member is terminated when the abutment member is urged into engagement with the stop member. The invention also relates to a transfer pump comprising a pressure regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Jeremy Hopley
  • Patent number: 6883499
    Abstract: An advance arrangement for use in controlling timing of fuel delivery by a fuel pump comprises an advance piston which is moveable within a first bore and which cooperates, in use, with a cam arrangement of a fuel pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pump, a surface associated with the advance piston being exposed to fuel pressure within an advance piston control chamber. The advance arrangement also includes a servo-piston which is slidable within a further bore provided in the advance piston to control the pressure of fuel within the advance piston control chamber, a surface associated with the servo-piston being exposed to fuel pressure within a servo control chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J Hopley, Robert S Bond, William R Burborough
  • Patent number: 6866025
    Abstract: A high pressure piston pump includes a housing having a low pressure fuel inlet and a high pressure fuel outlet; at least two pistons disposed in the housing; a driveshaft for supplying power to drive the at least two pistons; and a bypass valve fluidly connected to at least one of the at least two pistons to deactivate the at least one piston. A method of varying the flow output of a high pressure piston pump having at least two pistons includes deactivating at least one of the two pistons by directing fluid displaced by the at least one piston to a bypass valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive Corp.
    Inventor: Martin Maass
  • Patent number: 6764285
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic pump unit having a plurality of pump elements, disposed in one plane, each of which has one pump cylinder and one pump piston longitudinally displaceable in the pump cylinder, and whose longitudinal axes intersect at a common intersection point, and having a cam drive with cams, which upon a rotation of the cam drive relative to the pump elements act upon the pump pistons with an actuating motion. To enable a uniform pumping of the hydraulic fluid and to make a high degree of smoothness of the hydraulic pump unit possible, it is proposed that the number and the angular spacing of the cams is adapted to the number and angular spacing of the pump elements in such a way that when a certain number of pump pistons are located at top dead center, the same number of pump pistons are at bottom dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Kellner
  • Patent number: 6755180
    Abstract: A chamfering portion provided at an inlet corner of a port of an inside way-out in a governor shaft is effective to decrease energy loss of fuel flowing into the inside way-out to less than one half in comparison with that of a conventional art. A flow amount characteristic of the fuel into the inside way-out improves so that a hysteresis between a pump chamber pressure decrease characteristic on increasing a load (a retarding characteristic) and a pump chamber pressure increase characteristic on decreasing the load (an advancing characteristic) is lowered, resulting in securing a highly accurate control of fuel injection timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Ishida
  • Patent number: 6622706
    Abstract: A pump, pump components and method for pumping high pressure fluid with an unobstructed inlet passage during return strokes of the piston and an improved near spherical interface between a piston and a slipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Inventor: Robert H. Breeden
  • Patent number: 6615799
    Abstract: A camshaft has a cam having a circular profile. A cam-ring is rotatably arranged on a radial outside of the cam. The cam-ring orbits around the cam. The cam-ring has a metal bush on an inner surface thereon. The cam-ring rotates relative to the cam, but is prevented from a rotation itself. The cam has a groove inclined with respect to a rotating axis of the cam. The groove has openings on both axial ends of the cam. The groove introduces fuel as a lubricant into a gap between the cam and the metal bush. The fuel introduced into the gap improves a lubricity and prevents a sticking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Katsumi Mori, Katsunori Furuta
  • Publication number: 20030111054
    Abstract: A chamfering portion provided at an inlet corner of a port of an inside way-out in a governor shaft is effective to decrease energy loss of fuel flowing into the inside way-out to less than one half in comparison with that of a conventional art. A flow amount characteristic of the fuel into the inside way-out improves so that a hysteresis between a pump chamber pressure decrease characteristic on increasing a load (a retarding characteristic) and a pump chamber pressure increase characteristic on decreasing the load (an advancing characteristic) is lowered, resulting in securing a highly accurate control of fuel injection timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventor: Hiroki Ishida
  • Patent number: 6523524
    Abstract: A radial piston pump having a drive shaft with camlike protuberances. The pump has a plurality of pistons movable in the radial direction, and one plate is retained on the end of each piston to engage the drive shaft. One or more recesses are disposed in the plate facing the piston, the recesses are engaged by snap hooks on a plate retainer on the piston. In a first variant a blind bore with a circumferential groove recessed out of the middle of the plate facing the piston is engaged by a snap ring retained in a notch on the piston. In a second variant a blind bore is recessed out of the plate facing the piston, and two parallel bores extend transversely to the blind bore, the center lines being tangent to the blind bore, and the bores receive two pins, which engage a notch on the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Simon
  • Patent number: 6520151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to engines having common rail fuel injection systems. In traditional common rail fuel injection systems, each fuel injector utilized by the fuel system includes its own solenoid. These individual solenoids must cooperate to ensure that the proper amount of fuel is being injected from each injector at the proper time. Having individual solenoids requires a multiple number of moving electrical components. In contrast to the traditional common rail fuel injection system, the fuel injection system of the present invention includes fuel injectors that are controlled in operation by a common electronic actuator that is positioned remote from the fuel injectors. Therefore, the present invention reduces the number of moving electrical components in the fuel injection system by reducing the need for individual solenoids for each fuel injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: Chetan J. Desai, Xinshuang Nan
  • Publication number: 20030029423
    Abstract: A method of operating internal combustion engine in which a first fuel pump delivers fuel from a fuel tank, and at least a part of the delivered fuel travels via at least one inlet valve into at least one working chamber of a second fuel pump embodied as a positive-displacement pump which delivers the fuel to a fuel accumulation line. In order to increase the efficiency during operation of the engine, the inlet valve opens when there is a particular pressure difference between the working chamber and a region upstream of the inlet valve and that the pressure upstream of the inlet valve is changed in order to change the relative opening duration of the inlet valve and therefore the fuel quantity arriving into the working chamber of the second fuel pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Peter Boehland, Wolfgang Brosig, Godehard Nentwig
  • Patent number: 6516784
    Abstract: There is disclosed a pressure accumulating distribution type fuel injection pump of a low pollution diesel engine which provides a low fuel economy and which can correspond to the regulation of exhaust emission. The pressure accumulating distribution type fuel injection pump (1) is provided for supplying respective cylinders with fuel that is high-pressured and accumulated in pressure accumulation chambers (31) through a distribution shaft (9). In the fuel injection pump, function members constituting a high-pressure path, such as a plunger (7), an injection control valve (26) for fuel injection control, the pressure accumulation chambers (31), the distribution shaft (9) or the like are arranged in a hydraulic base Hb. One plunger portion is provided for pressure-supplying fuel to the pressure accumulation chambers (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Shingu
  • Patent number: 6497216
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having at least one additional pump element for feeding fluid from a low-pressure side to a high-pressure side. With this fluid, a hydraulic valve controller of the engine can be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Gaessler, Udo Diehl, Karsten Mischker, Rainer Walter, Bernd Rosenau, Juergen Schiemann, Christian Grosse, Georg Mallebrein, Volker Beuche, Stefan Reimer
  • Patent number: 6450788
    Abstract: Disclosed is a piston pump having a pump housing with a cylinder head comprised of a first plate and a second plate. The plates which rest against each other and are screwed to the pump housing, have a first conduit which carries low-pressure fuel and leads to a first check valve disposed between the two plates. The check valve communicates with a cylinder chamber of the radial piston pump. A second conduit carrying high-pressure fuel leads from this cylinder chamber to a second check valve, which is disposed between the first plate and the pump housing. Seals that are appropriate to the load, in fact low-pressure seals, are provided in the region of the cylinder head that is subjected to low pressure and high-pressure seals are provided in the region of the cylinder head that is subjected to high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Grabert
  • Patent number: 6443127
    Abstract: A governor comprising a centrifugal weight mechanism coupled to an angularly adjustable metering valve member and an adjuster for adjusting the axial position of the meeting valve member to permit droop control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey David Bootle, William Robert Burborough
  • Patent number: 6408821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to engines having common rail fuel injection systems. In traditional common rail fuel injection systems, each fuel injector utilized by the fuel system includes its own solenoid. These individual solenoids must cooperate to ensure that the proper amount of fuel is being injected from each injector at the proper time. It is believed in the art that a reduction in the number of moving or electrical components in the fuel injection system can improve robustness of the system. Therefore, the fuel injection system of the present invention includes fuel injectors that are controlled in operation by a common electronic actuator that is positioned remote from the fuel injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Chetan J. Desai, Xinshuang Nan
  • Patent number: 6378499
    Abstract: A supply pump for a common rail fuel injection system applicable to a multi-cylinder engine, that exerts a smaller load on a drive power transmission mechanism connecting the engine to the supply pump. To this end, fuel delivery timing of the supply pump is optimized. The number of engine cylinders may be different from that of fuel delivery of the supply pump. A first fuel delivery end timing is 30°±5° after compression top dead center of #1 cylinder, and subsequent fuel delivery end timings come at constant intervals. The constant intervals are obtained by dividing 720° by the number of fuel delivery per two rotations of an engine crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shimayama, Haruyo Kimura
  • Patent number: 6358024
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel supply pump comprising a housing (102) and a pump body (108) fixed within the housing along a body axis and including a plurality of radially oriented plunger bores (20), each bore having a plunger (22) disposed therein. An actuating assembly (116) is disposed around the plunger bores for producing reciprocal motion. A central cavity (120) extends along the axis and intersects the pumping bores to form a pumping chamber (18) in cooperation therewith. An inlet check valve (132) and a discharged check valve (124) are in communication with the pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Stanadyne Automotive Corp.
    Inventor: Ilija Djordjevic
  • Patent number: 6293250
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a variable volumetric flow in a fuel feed system includes a high-pressure pump having at least one inlet, at least one cylinder, at least one piston each moveable in a respective cylinder, and a shaft driving the at least one piston. A metering device is disposed in the at least one inlet of the high-pressure pump, is synchronized with the shaft and feeds a variably meterable volume of fuel to the at least one cylinder during each revolution of the shaft. Metering is performed by varying an angle between opening and closure of the at least one inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hinrich Krüger, Martin Werner, Eckbert Zander
  • Patent number: 6289875
    Abstract: In order to prevent a damage on a component forming a pressure feed fuel passage and to reduce a fuel injection pump in size and weight, the pressure feed fuel passage having fuel discharge passage, fuel chamber and accommodation hole formed in respective cylinder heads is formed straightly in respective cylinder heads, and has communication port for communicating with fuel pressure chamber and fuel outlet which has an opening at an outer peripheral wall of the cylinder heads. Fuel pressurized in fuel pressure chamber at the cylinder head side is introduced into fuel chamber of cylinder head via fuel passage and fuel lines. Fuel pressurized in both fuel pressure chambers is merged at fuel chamber of cylinder head, and is supplied to a common-rail via fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Shinohara, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Toshikazu Watanabe, Akihiro Kuroda, Katsunori Furuta
  • Patent number: 6286485
    Abstract: A distributor arrangement is disclosed which comprises a distributor member rotatable within a bore formed in a sleeve, the sleeve being provided with a supply port through which fuel under high pressure can be supplied to the distributor member, in use, and a plurality of delivery ports, the distributor member being provided with a delivery passage registrable with the delivery ports, in turn, upon rotation of the distributor member whereby fuel under pressure supplied through the supply port flows to a selected one of the delivery ports, in use, the distributor arrangement further comprising a porting arrangement whereby, when the distributor member occupies a position in which the delivery passage is not registered with any of the delivery ports, cooling fluid is able to flow through the delivery passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Lucas Industries plc
    Inventor: George Nicholas Felton
  • Patent number: 6280160
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump of the distributor type which has a reciprocatingly driven pump piston that is load-bearing in a rotating distributor shaft which pumps fuel out of a pump work chamber to various fuel injection valves via a distributor opening. To control the duration of high-pressure injection, an electrically actuated valve is provided with a valve member in a valve chamber that communicates with the pump work chamber and from a second valve chamber, communicates with a low-pressure region. To terminate the high-pressure injection, the valve member makes a communication between the two valve chambers, whereupon the outflow of the fuel stream is controlled by disposing a diameter constriction in the connecting line, thus reducing any tendency to cavitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Nothdurft, Nestor Rodriguez-Amaya, Andreas Dutt, Hubert Greif
  • Patent number: 6263861
    Abstract: A governor comprising a metering valve member slidable within a bore to control the degree by which an outlet is obscured, the valve member and bore together defining first and second chambers. The governor also comprises a restricted flow passage whereby fuel can flow from the first chamber to the second chamber at a restricted rate, and a control valve controlling communication between the second chamber and a low pressure reservoir. The control valve is adjustable by means of a centrifugal weight mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Geoffrey D Bootle
  • Patent number: 6183212
    Abstract: A fuel supply pump having a plurality of radially disposed plunger sleeves each containing a pumping plunger with a driven end reciprocally movable within the plunger sleeve between a pumping position and a filling position. The fuel supply pump includes a rotatable drive member and a plurality of sliding shoes. Each shoe has a first face adjacent a respective plunger driven end and a second face adjacent the drive member. In one variation, each shoe first face includes a socket which the plunger driven end snaps into and is captured by, creating a sliding shoe assembly. A case couples all of the sliding shoe assemblies. In another variation, the cage includes apertures which the plunger driven end snaps through, thereby capturing the plunger. The plunger driven end engages a seat included on the sliding shoe first face. Rotation of the drive member moves each shoe, and thereby, each plunger toward the pumping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Stanadyne Automotive Corp.
    Inventor: Ilija Djordjevic
  • Patent number: 6142125
    Abstract: A supply pump for a common rail fuel injection system applicable to a multi-cylinder engine, that exerts a smaller load on a drive power transmission mechanism connecting the engine to the supply pump. To this end, fuel delivery timing of the supply pump is optimized. The number of engine cylinders may be different from that of fuel delivery of the supply pump. A first fuel delivery end timing is 30.degree..+-.5.degree. after compression top dead center of #1 cylinder, and subsequent fuel delivery end timings come at constant intervals. The constant intervals are obtained by dividing 720.degree. by the number of fuel delivery per two rotations of an engine crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiro Shimayama, Haruyo Kimura
  • Patent number: 6058910
    Abstract: An improved rotary fuel distributor is provided which effectively dynamically centers the rotor during operation while actively cooling the rotor and refilling fuel passages to minimize cavitation. A pressure balancing system is provided which includes pressure area defining grooves formed adjacent a rotor outlet port to control the pressure gradient in the clearance between the rotor and the distributor housing thereby effectively providing a more predictable force component which can be controlled to more effectively balance the rotor in conjunction with two balancing ports positioned on the opposite side of the rotor from the outlet port. A refill and cooling system is provided to continuously and actively cool the rotor with cool, low pressure fuel throughout rotation thereby displacing the hot fuel with cool fuel and effectively preventing thermal seizure of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Simmons, John D. Lane, Mark S. Cavanagh, Alfred R. Nerz, Frank R. Hunt, Gordon K. Butler, Bela Doszpoly
  • Patent number: 6059547
    Abstract: A cylinder injection high-pressure fuel pump permits reduction in size and cost thereof and it is also capable of securely absorbing high-frequency pulsations. The cylinder injection high-pressure fuel pump (200) has: a casing (1) in which an inlet passage (2) for taking fuel in and a discharge passage (35) for discharging the fuel are formed; a cylinder (30) formed in the casing (1); a fuel pressurizing chamber (32) formed in a part of the cylinder (30); and a plunger (31) disposed in the cylinder (30) such that it may reciprocate therein. As the plunger (31) reciprocates, the fuel is taken into the fuel pressurizing chamber (32) through the inlet passage (2) and pressurized therein, then the pressurized fuel is discharged through the discharge passage (35) and forcibly fed into a fuel injector of a cylinder injection type engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Konishi, Yoshihiko Onishi
  • Patent number: 6053712
    Abstract: A cylinder injection high-pressure fuel pump prevents the pulsations of fuel generated by a high-pressure fuel pump from spreading to a low-pressure pipe connected to a low pressure end. The cylinder injection high-pressure fuel pump has: a casing (1) in which an inlet passage (2) for taking fuel in and a discharge passage (35) for draining the fuel are formed; a cylinder (30) formed in the casing (1); a fuel pressurizing chamber (32) formed in a part of the cylinder (30); and a plunger (31) disposed in the cylinder (30) such that is may reciprocate therein. As the plunger (31) reciprocates, the fuel is taken into the fuel pressurizing chamber (32) through the inlet passage (2)and pressurized therein, then the pressurized fuel is discharged through the discharge passage (35) and forcibly fed into a fuel injector of a cylinder injection type engine. The inlet passage (2) is equipped with a check valve (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Konishi, Yoshihiko Onishi
  • Patent number: 6004106
    Abstract: In a distributor type fuel injection pump and a power transmission pump for transmitting power to the fuel injection pump, when a rotation system member of the injection pump is seized if anything should happen, only an injection pump is damaged to thereby greatly reduce damage to an engine. To this end, an annular groove is provided in a rotor to which power from the engine is transmitted, and the annular groove constitutes a frail portion of the rotor. The annular groove is positioned along the rotor so that all or most of the sliding portions of the rotor are located on a side of the groove opposite to a power supply side. When seizure occurs in the sliding portions of the rotor to prevent rotation, the rotor is twisted off at the annular groove by the power from the engine, so that rotation of a power supply side portion of the rotor is not prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Machida, Satoshi Kitamura, Jun Matsubara
  • Patent number: RE37632
    Abstract: A fuel supply system for supplying fuel to the cylinders of an associated engine is disclosed. The system comprises a fuel pump for supplying high pressure fuel to a delivery line, a plurality of injectors connected to the delivery line and means operable to deliver fuel through the injectors to respective cylinders of an associated engine, and a control valve connected to the delivery line and operable to control the pressure of fuel within the delivery line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Bouchauveau, Dany Guillot, Claude Leveque
  • Patent number: RE38192
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a variable volumetric flow in a fuel feed system includes a high-pressure pump having at least one inlet, at least one cylinder, at least one piston each moveable in a respective cylinder, and a shaft driving the at least one piston. A metering device is disposed in the at least one inlet of the high-pressure pump, is synchronized with the shaft and feeds a variably meterable volume of fuel to the at least one cylinder during each revolution of the shaft. Metering is performed by varying an angle between opening and closure of the at least one inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hinrich Krüger, Martin Werner, Eckbert Zander