Abstract: A fast-acting valve includes a valve body and a spool slidably mounted within the valve body between first and second limit positions. Both the spool and the valve body have a flow passage which come into alignment with the valve spool at a position intermediate the first and second limit positions and spaced therefrom by a given distance. That given distance allows the spool member to accelerate in travel from the first and second limit positions to the valve open position so that the opening of the valve (and closing) occurs quite quickly. Reciprocating movement of the valve spool relative to the valve body can be provided by springs mounted in opposing ends of the valve body bore in cooperation with solenoids mounted on opposing sides of the valve body. The fast-acting valve may be modified into the form of poppet valve or a cartridge valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a quantity control valve for a fuel injection system, used in internal combustion engines, which includes a longitudinal slide that is movable in a valve housing between a first and a second control chamber and that allocates the fuel, flowing in from at least one low-pressure pump, to at least one high-pressure pump. For driving the longitudinal slide, the inflowing fuel is delivered into the first control chamber via a throttle or baffle valve, past the longitudinal slide. In the second control chamber, there is either a restoring spring that urges the longitudinal slide in the direction of its closing position, or the longitudinal slide there has an effective face-end surface area upstream of which a control line containing a throttle valve ends; this end face is smaller in surface area than the effective surface area of the face end in the first control chamber.

Abstract: A fuel injector includes first and second valves and a solenoid including a solenoid coil and an armature assembly wherein the first and second valves are coupled to the armature assembly. A solenoid drive circuit is coupled to the solenoid coil and delivers a first current waveform portion to the solenoid coil at a first time to cause the armature assembly to operate the first valve without operating the second valve. A second current waveform portion different than the first current waveform portion is applied to the solenoid coil at a second time later than the first time to operate the second valve.

Abstract: A pressure regulating device for high pressure diesel fuel systems includes a pressure sensing element attached directly to a wall adjacent a fuel inlet passageway that generates electrical signals responsive to stresses imposed on the wall by fuel pressure within the fuel inlet passageway. The pressure sensing element includes a semiconductor element that deflects in response to a deflection of a portion of the pressure caused by fuel pressure within fuel inlet passageway. A coil is electrically connected with the pressure sensing element and is configured to generate a magnetic field that moves a magnetic armature to control fuel pressure.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus includes: a high-pressure pump driven by an engine and ejecting high-pressure fuel; a delivery pipe storing the high-pressure fuel ejected from the high-pressure pump in a pressurized state; and a high-pressure regulator having a valve and a valve seat, and adjusting the fuel pressure in one of the high-pressure pump and the delivery pipe. At least one of abutment surfaces of the valve and the valve seat is set to have a hardness of Hv800 or more.

Abstract: A method of controlling a proportional purge solenoid is provided to improve low flow resolution. The method includes looking-up a primary duty cycle corresponding to purge current in a three-dimensional surface by using purge flow and vacuum level as inputs. Should the primary duty cycle fall below a lowest allowable purge current threshold value, a secondary purge duty cycle (i.e., an on/off pattern of the primary duty cycle) is obtained from a two-dimensional table by using the actual calculated purge flow as an input. The two-dimensional table includes a sequence of program loops subdivided into a delay region wherein the purge flow and vacuum level data are learned, an updating region wherein the purge current of the three-dimensional surface is updated, and a control region wherein the primary duty cycle is toggled between on and off states. When the current program loop falls within the delay region, a recorded primary duty cycle is output.

Abstract: A switching magnet with which a valve reed of a high-pressure pump is lifted from a seat in order to switch off a pump element of the high-pressure pump. The switching magnet is disposed in a housing that is manufactured as a plastic injection-molded part. An armature that floats in an armature chamber and a brass sleeve are disposed on the inside of the housing and the brass sleeve is turned upside down over a pole piece. The pole piece supports an O-ring, which rests against the inside of the brass sleeve and seals the armature chamber in relation to the outside and in relation to the coil. A second O-ring seals a passage of the tappet in relation to a pump cover of the high-pressure pump. The switching magnet is designated for use in a high-pressure pump of a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A process and a device for controlling an internal combustion engine having high-pressure injection, in particular for an internal combustion engine having a common rail system. The fuel is delivered by at least one pump from a low-pressure area into a high-pressure area. A pressure sensor detects the fuel pressure prevailing in the high-pressure area. At least one first and one second final controlling element are provided for influencing the fuel pressure prevailing in the high-pressure area.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine that is driven by fuels such as dimethyl ether (DME) that have a viscosity less than 1.0 and a storage and delivery system for the fuel that will reduce considerably the emissions of NO.sub.x and particulate. The fuel delivery system includes a fuel injector nozzle valve being forced closed by fuel that has leaked past a solenoid operated valve and is at a pressure less than the valve opening pressure.

Abstract: A device for regulating a pressure in a high pressure accumulator of a fuel injection system includes a pressure adjusting element which has a shut-off element and an electromagnetic drive actuating the shut-off element. A first regulating device is connected to the pressure adjusting element and compares a pressure value obtained in the high pressure accumulator with a given setpoint pressure value. A drive signal with a setpoint current value for the electromagnetic drive is determined as a function of the comparison. A second regulating device is connected downstream of the first regulating device for comparing a current value of a current flowing through the electromagnetic drive with the setpoint current value and readjusting the current value in response to a deviation between the current value and the setpoint current value. A method for regulating a pressure in a high pressure accumulator is also provided.

Abstract: A fuel tank vapor management valve (VMV) for controlling purge flow from a vapor storage canister to an engine inlet manifold. In one embodiment, an existing VMV utilizing an electrically operated atmospheric bleed valve or EVR for controlling vacuum pressure on one side of the regulator valve diaphragm is modified to have an additional vacuum ported valve seat in the EVR to be opened and closed by the bleed valve instead of providing a vacuum port in the regulator diaphragm signal pressure chamber. The inlet of the EVR is connected to the storage canister instead of being ported to the atmosphere which equalizes canister pressure across the regulator diaphragm thus preventing undesired opening of the regular valve when the engine is shut off. In another embodiment, an existing VMV is unmodified, with the EVR bleed port connected to the canister and the shut-off valve is connected in the line connecting the engine manifold with the regulator valve diaphragm signal pressure chamber.

Abstract: The fuel supplying apparatus of the invention includes a fuel injector 1 injecting a fuel; a fuel tank 2; fuel paths 4 and 5 connecting the fuel injector 1 and the fuel tank 2; a low-pressure fuel pump 10 provided in the upstream; a high-pressure fuel pump 3 which is provided between the low-pressure fuel pump 10 and the fuel injector 1, a cylinder having a hole 41a, and a plunger 43 arranged reciprocally movably in the hole 41a, sucks and pressurizes the fuel through a suction port 5c into the fuel pressurizing chamber 45, discharges the pressurized fuel from a discharge port 4d, and pressure-transfers the fuel to the fuel injector 1; and a high-pressure regulator, which is provided between the high-pressure fuel pump 3 of the fuel path 4 and adjusts pressure of the fuel discharged from the high-pressure fuel pump 3.

Abstract: A fuel injection device for a model engine capable of injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber of the engine, to thereby insure stable feeding of fuel even under severe operational conditions. A check valve is arranged in a fuel injection passage or port to prevent backflow of fuel. Such construction permits the fuel injection device to be mounted directly on a cylinder of the engine to inject fuel directly into a combustion chamber of the engine, unlike the prior art. Also, in the present invention, pressurized air held in an air holding space may be injected together with fuel only during fuel injection, resulting in fuel being injected in the form of a fine mist-like shape.

Abstract: When differential pressure between fuel flowing into a fuel control valve and fuel flowing out of the valve reaches a predetermined value, the biasing force of a compressed coil spring is countered and a shaft in the valve moves to the fuel upstream side so that a valve member is seated to terminate communication between the fuel inlet passage and the fuel outlet passage. This maintains fuel pressure at the fuel inlet passage and at the fuel outlet passage at different levels so that the fuel supply system maintains a high fuel pressure in the fuel rail to suppress fuel vapor generation during engine stoppage while also yet still providing an appropriate fuel injection pressure during rapid deceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a fuel pressure uses a trigger value or components of the trigger value, with which a pressure adjusting member is triggered. A pressure drop is detected if the trigger value or components thereof deviate from a value typical for that operating point.

Abstract: A fuel-injection system for an engine is disclosed for accomplishing a minute fuel injection by learning the minimum conductive duration to electronic devices for the beginning of the minute fuel injection. A controller unit may output at a time Tp a command pulse of an actuating current that is applied to solenoid-operated valves to make injectors to carry out the fuel injection. After a definite length of time T.sub.0 has elapsed, a common rail pressure begins decreasing from a mean value P.sub.0, which is kept until then. The controller unit changes incrementally the conductive duration Pwp of the command pulse for a pilot injection from the minimal conductive duration, and identifies the timing of the beginning of the fuel injection with the timing when an area Ar of pressure reduction is over a preselected value. In case the desired amount of fuel to be injected is too minute, the controller unit may calculate the conductive duration dependently on the minimum command pulse width.

Abstract: A vapor collection canister vent valve contains both an electric pressure sensor for measuring evaporative emission space pressure during a diagnostic test and an electric actuator for operating the vent valve closed during a diagnostic test. Use of the valve in an evaporative emission control system reduces the number of connections, both electrical and fluid, that are required to install the valve in a system. The remote location of the pressure sensor damps the effect of pressure transients, such as those due to tank fuel slosh, on the sensor.

Abstract: In an accumulator type fuel injection control device, a feed hole (28) provides communication between a common rail (24) for storing fuel from a fuel pressure pump (29) and a fuel injection valve (11); a control oil passage (23a, 23b, 23c) extends from the feed hole (28) to an oil chamber (19); a three-way electromagnetic valve (23) exerts the pressure of a fuel oil on the oil chamber (19) to close a needle valve (15), and discharges the fuel oil in the oil chamber (19) to a fuel return passage (51) to open the needle valve (15); fuel oil pressure correcting means (103) corrects a fuel oil pressure P.sub.0 on the basis of a fuel oil temperature t.sub.F detected by fuel oil temperature detecting means (44); and simultaneously, fuel injection volume correcting means (108) corrects a fuel injection volume Q.sub.0 ; whereby the temperature of fuel flowing to a fuel return system is suppressed to prevent damage to members used in the fuel return system.

Abstract: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine. The injector body contains a variable volume control chamber to and from which control fluid is supplied and drained to operate an intensifier piston which repetitively injects fuel from an injection chamber within the body. An electric-operated supply valve selectively controls flow of control fluid through a supply passage to the control chamber, and an electric-operated drain valve selectively controls flow of control fluid through a drain passage from the control chamber. Each valve is selectively operable independent of the other, and flow through the supply passage is independent of flow through the drain passage, and vice versa.

Abstract: A new fuel metering system for selectively controlling the rack pressure and the volume of fuel available to a diesel engine. The inventive device includes a fuel inlet line in fluid communication with a fuel pump outlet line for receiving fuel flowing from the fuel pump, a metering valve coupled in fluid communication with the fuel inlet line, the metering valve having a valve member for controlling the flow of fuel therethrough, the metering valve being coupled in fluid communication with a return line for receiving the metered fuel flowing through the metering valve, and a solenoid valve coupled in fluid communication with the metering valve and the fuel inlet line, the solenoid valve being operable to open and close fuel flow through the metering valve.

Abstract: A high-pressure pump for use in a fuel injection system for diesel engines is provided which includes a plunger slidably disposed within a chamber formed in a pump housing to define a pressure chamber whose volume is changed according to sliding movement of the plunger, a check valve disposed within a fluid inlet line extending from an inlet port to the pressure chamber, and a solenoid valve disposed within the fluid inlet line upstream of the check valve. The check valve establishes fluid communication between the inlet port and the pressure chamber during a fluid suction operation wherein the fluid is sucked into the pressure chamber, while blocking the fluid communication between the inlet port and the pressure chamber during a fluid feeding operation wherein the fluid sucked into the pressure chamber is pressurized and discharged from an outlet port. The solenoid valve controls a flow rate of the fluid sucked into the pressure chamber through the check valve.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for varying the duration of current levels of a fuel injection signal used in connection with an electronically controlled hydraulic actuator unit injector fuel system is disclosed. The apparatus and method varies the duration of the pull-in current of the fuel injection signal delivered to the unit injector based on sensed engine parameters, which preferably include a sensed temperature of the engine and engine speed.

Abstract: A method of controlling hydraulically actuated electrically controlled unit fuel injectors to operate quietly and with less seat wear on a valve disposed therein is disclosed. The disclosed method comprises controlling the pressure of a high pressure working fluid which operates the injector to inject the proper amount of fuel in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine; and responding to changes in the pressure of the working fluid to vary the timing duration and amplitude of a current pulse which activates a stator that draws an armature to the stator and opens a first seat of the poppet valve or other flow regulating device against a spring bias to allow the high pressure working fluid into the injector and closes a second seat to prevent the working from draining from the injector to allow the working fluid to operate the injector.

Abstract: A fuel injection timing control system for a diesel fuel injection pump with a duty-cycle controlled electromagnetic solenoid valve associated with an injection-timing-control timer piston to change a timer-piston axial position or a set position of a pump plunger in response to a duty cycle of the electromagnetic solenoid valve, comprises a control unit for transiently permitting the entry of a duty cycle of the electromagnetic solenoid valve into a predetermined dead-zone for a predetermined period of time during a fuel injection timing closed-loop control in which an actual injection timing is feed-back controlled toward a target injection timing. In addition, the control unit limits the duty cycle of the electromagnetic solenoid valve to a predetermined limiting value as soon as the predetermined time period has been elapsed, during the fuel injection timing closed-loop control.

Abstract: In a process for determining the opening time of an injection valve of a common-rail injection system, an injection duration is derived from a characteristic diagram based on the fuel quantity to be injected and the static pressure in the common rail. For reading in the characteristic diagram, the value of the static pressure in the common rail is corrected by an amount obtained from the compressional vibration of the fuel as a function of its compressibility, the injected fuel quantity during at least one preceding injection operation, and the time between the at least one preceding injection operation and the current injection operation.

Abstract: A fuel injection system (10) for a multiple-cylinder engine includes a single solenoid-operated fuel metering valve (12) connected through fuel lines (50) to a plurality of fuel injection nozzles (52). The fuel metering valve (12) has a solenoid-operated movable valve member (14) that opens and closes a single discharge opening (26) having a first metering orifice (58). Each injection nozzle (52) has an equally calibrated second metering orifice (90) that serves to distribute the fuel metered by the first orifice evenly over all of the fuel injection nozzles. Preferred forms of the fuel injection nozzle is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of controlling hydraulically actuated electrically controlled unit fuel injectors to operate quietly and with less seat wear on a valve disposed therein is disclosed. The disclosed method comprises controlling the pressure of a high pressure working fluid which operates the injector to inject the proper amount of fuel in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine; and responding to changes in the pressure of the working fluid to vary the timing duration and amplitude of a current pulse which activates a stator that draws an armature to the stator and opens a first seat of the poppet valve or other flow regulating device against a spring bias to allow the high pressure working fluid into the injector and closes a second seat to prevent the working from draining from the injector to allow the working fluid to operate the injector.

Abstract: A variable area valve and pressure regulator for providing fuel vapor purge control in an evaporative emission control system of an automotive vehicle. A solenoid valve assembly selectively controls fluid communication between a fuel vapor source and an intake manifold by varying the area of an orifice associated with the solenoid valve assembly. A pressure regulator assembly is responsive to pressure differentials between an inlet cavity and an outlet cavity to further control the flow through the purge regulator. In operation, the purge regulator assembly is operable to generate nonlinear output flow characteristics which are independent of changes in the intake manifold vacuum, as well as the inlet pressure, and which further provides the desired nonlinear response.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel pressure control system for an electromechanical fuel injection system. The fuel injection system includes a fuel rail for receiving pressurized fuel from a fuel source and operable to supply pressurized fuel to a fuel injector. The fuel rail pressure control system includes a pressure regulator having a flexible diaphragm separating a reference pressure chamber and a fuel chamber. The fuel chamber has a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet. The flexible diaphragm operates to open and close the fuel outlet to balance forces between the reference pressure chamber and the fuel chamber. The fuel chamber is in fluid communication with the fuel rail at the fuel inlet and in fluid communication with a fuel return line at the fuel outlet.

Abstract: A simplified, economical, noise-abating mode of securing a unit embodied for instance as a valve. For securing the unit, the unit has a housing with a first portion having a first encompassing outer face and at least one second portion having at least one second encompassing outer face, wherein a first sealing ring can be mounted on the first outer face, and the first portion and first sealing ring can be introduced into a recess of an installation wall. A second sealing ring can be mounted on the second outer face of the second portion, and the second portion and second sealing ring can likewise be introduced into the recess, so that the support of the unit in the recess is effected by means of the first and second sealing rings without the first and second outer faces of the unit resting on inner faces of the recess.

Abstract: A method of regulating pressure in a hydraulically-actuated fuel injection system is described. The hydraulically-actuated fuel injection system includes a high pressure pump coupled to an engine and connected to a high pressure rail. The rail is connected to a plurality of hydraulically-actuated fuel injectors that each include a control valve. The control valve of the individual injectors are periodically activated in a conventional manner sufficiently to perform injection events. At the same time, an electronic control module continues to determine the magnitude of fluid pressure in the high pressure rail. The electronic control module also identifies any idle fuel injectors that are between injection events.

Abstract: The present invention is a fuel injection system having one or more fuel injectors and an electronic control system therefore. The preferred fuel injector has a double magnetic latching solenoid three-way or four-way spool valve that controls the flow of a working fluid that is used to control the discharge of fuel into the combustion chamber or intake manifold of an engine through the nozzle of the injector. The control system provides actuating current pulses to each of the solenoids to actuate and latch the solenoids to effect initiation and termination of the injection. Disclosed are control systems that provide a snap action in one or both actuating directions of the valve by electromagnetically retaining the valve in the latched condition until the force in the actuated solenoid builds to a high level, and then releasing the valve for higher acceleration to the actuated position.

Abstract: In a fuel injection system for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with magnetic valve controlled direct injection fuel injectors of which each includes a housing having an injection nozzle with a nozzle needle biased into a closed position by a spring disposed in a spring chamber, and a magnetic valve controlled control piston having a valve structure at one end for controlling high pressure fuel admission to a fuel supply passage leading to the needle nozzle, the spring chamber is in communication with the fuel supply passage by a communication passage including a throttle structure permitting limited fuel flow to the spring chamber such that, upon failure of the injector resulting in a continuous pressurization of the fuel supply passage, the pressure in the spring chamber builds up to seat the nozzle needle thereby interrupting fuel ejection from the injector.

Abstract: A fuel system includes an electronically controllable high pressure fuel pump operable to supply high pressure fuel from a lower pressure fuel source to a high pressure fuel collection chamber having a pressure sensor associated therewith. The fuel collection chamber feeds an electronically controllable valve operable to dispense the high pressure fuel to a fuel distribution unit supplying fuel to a number of fuel injectors. A control computer is provided for controlling the high pressure fuel pump and valve in response to requested fueling, engine speed and fuel pressure provided by the pressure sensor. The control computer is normally operable to drive the fuel pump as a function of fuel pressure and a reference pressure, which is based on requested fueling, and to control the valve as a function of commanded fueling, which is a function of engine speed and a reference speed based on requested fueling, and fuel pressure.

Abstract: A compensator is described for use on those manifold fuel injectors for gasoline engines which utilize a gas pressure cycler to vary the instantaneous rate of liquid fuel injection in proportion to the instantaneous rate of engine intake air flow into each engine cylinder during each intake stroke. The compensator adjusts liquid fuel injection pressure by bleeding adjustable air quantities out of the gas pressure cycler during pressure rise, and then subsequently returning these bleed masses into the gas pressure cycler during pressure decrease. A compensator of this invention is of relatively simple mechanical design, and uses a moderately complex electronic controller.

Abstract: An electric control for a fuel injector develops a commanded boost signal that is superimposed on a fuel injection pulse waveform. Variable operating parameters, such as engine speed, fuel injection quantity, engine coolant temperature, and engine air intake temperature are monitored and may diminish the duration of the commanded boost signal under certain conditions to avoid overheating electric circuit elements in the control through which electric power is delivered to the fuel injector.

Abstract: A fuel device which has a high-pressure fuel source from which a number of fuel injection valves, which are each controlled by a 3-way valve, are supplied with fuel. This 3-way valve has a valve member with a closing body provided with sealing faces that cooperates with valve seats and in addition, in its closed positions, defines pressure-exposed surfaces that produce resulting forces that are active in the respective closed position of the closing body.

Abstract: A fuel vapor management valve or VMV having an electrically operated vent valve for controlling atmospheric bleed flow to a vacuum signal pressure chamber. The pressure in the signal pressure chamber controls the differential pressure acting on opposite sides of a diaphragm which moves a valve member for regulating fuel vapor purge flow from a canister to the engine intake manifold. Vacuum is applied to the signal pressure chamber through restrictive passages in a connector which prevent sonic flow choking. In one embodiment two orifices are spaced fluidically in series. In another embodiment fluidically parallel laminar flow passages are provided in an element comprising a porous filter preferably formed of fibrous material or sintered metal. In another embodiment, the laminar flow element is disposed fluidically in series with a flow restricting orifice.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for generating high fuel pressure for a fuel injection system used in internal combustion engines in which via a low-pressure pump fuel aspirated from a fuel tank is delivered via a low pressure line and at least one valve to a high-pressure pump, and some of the fuel stream is diverted to the return loop from the low pressure line at or upstream of the high-pressure pump. In the low pressure line, an electrically controlled flow regulating valve is inserted between the low-pressure pump and the high-pressure pump. The flow regulating valve splits the fuel stream supplied. One portion is delivered to the high-pressure pump, and the remainder is relieved into the return loop. The flow regulating valve requires little space and only a few connections and is simple to manipulate.

Abstract: A system for controlling fuel metering into an internal combustion engine, in particular a self-igniting internal combustion engine, is described. An electromagnetic valve influences the beginning and/or the end of fuel metering. An inductive pressure sensor is provided, which generates a signal corresponding to the pressure in a high-pressure area.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for periodically clock driving a through-flow control valve between a first position wherein the valve is closed and a second position wherein the control valve is open to pass a flow of fluid therethrough. The valve is driven by a drive signal having a period duration and the valve opens in response to the drive signal only after a delay time (tv) has elapsed. In the method, the period duration of the drive signal is changed, and a reaction of a variable, which is operatively coupled to the flow, is detected. A value of the delay time (tv) is utilized when forming the drive signals and the value of the delay time (tv) is changed in dependence upon the detected reaction of the variable.

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.

Abstract: A fluid metering device, for instance for a fuel supply system of a combustion engine having combustion chambers, which fluid metering device comprises at least one supply line connection (1) and at least one discharge line connection (2), the fluid metering device being provided with two sets of outlet ports (3, 4) which put the or each discharge line connection (2) into fluid communication with a fluid chamber (5), which fluid chamber (5) is put into fluid communication, via at least one inlet port (6), with the at least one supply line connection (1), a first and a second regulating plunger (7 and 8 respectively) controlling the fluid flow rate through, respectively, the first and the second set of outlet ports (3 and 4 respectively) by covering at least partly the through-flow surface of, respectively, the first and the second set of outlet ports (3 and 4 respectively), each regulating plunger (7, 8) comprising energizing means (9 and 10 respectively) of its own for controlling the respective positions of

Abstract: An electrically controlled valve which is used for controlling the opening area of a connection between a high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber. The valve is embodied as a solenoid valve and has a valve seat on which a deflection point is provided downstream of a downstream edge of the valve member in the through flow direction. By means of a flow deflection, the fluid passing through is conveyed against an annular face provided on a valve member. The resulting pressure accelerates the opening of the valve. The solenoid valve is designated for use in fuel injection pumps in motor vehicles.

Abstract: A vapor collection canister vent valve contains both an electric pressure sensor for measuring evaporative emission space pressure during a diagnostic test and an electric actuator for operating the vent valve closed during a diagnostic test. Use of the valve in an evaporative emission control system reduces the number of connections, both electrical and fluid, that are required to install the valve in a system. The remote location of the pressure sensor damps the effect of pressure transients, such as those due to tank fuel slosh, on the sensor.

Abstract: A valve is provided for a metered introduction of fuel vapor evaporated from a fuel tank of an internal combustion engine into an intake tube of the engine. A valve housing which has an inflow fitting for connection to a ventilation fitting of the fuel tank or an adsorption filter for evaporated fuel vapors. The valve housing is connected to the fuel tank and has an outflow fitting for connection to the intake tube. An armature is provided inside the valve housing in which the armature is moved by an electromagnet and which is pressed against a valve seat by a valve spring when the electromagnet is without current. The armature closes a metering opening of a flow connection from the inflow fitting to the outflow fitting, and opens this flow connection to a greater or lesser degree when the electromagnet is supplied with current, wherein the metering opening has a V-shaped cross sectional area for improved metering.

Abstract: An fuel supplying apparatus for supplying a fuel to an internal combustion engine. The engine has a plurality of injectors for injecting fuel to the engine, a pump for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to the injectors and a fuel vapor treating device that collects fuel vapor generated in a fuel tank and treats the vapor without releasing it into the atmosphere. An electronic control unit (ECU) controls the injectors for adjusting an opening time period of the injectors depending on the running condition of the engine to control the amount of fuel to be injected from the injectors. The ECU also controls the pump for adjusting the amount of fuel to be discharged from the pump depending an the running condition of the engine to control the pressure of the fuel to be pumped to the injectors. The ECU reduces the opening time period of the injectors to reduce the amount of fuel to be injected from the injectors when the fuel vapor is supplied to the engine by the treating device.

Abstract: In a fuel supply system employing a returnless fuel pipe arrangement, a relief valve is provided at a discharge side of a fuel pump. The relief valve is opened when fuel pressure in the fuel pipe arrangement becomes no less than a system protective pressure, so as to relieve the fuel pressure to protect the system. The relief valve is also arranged to be open when the fuel pressure in the fuel pipe arrangement becomes higher than a target fuel pressure by a predetermined value or when the fuel cut is performed. Thus, the fuel pressure in the fuel pipe arrangement is lowered. Thereafter, when the fuel pressure in the fuel pipe arrangement is lowered to a pressure near the target fuel pressure, the relief valve is arranged to be closed so that the fuel pressure in the fuel pipe arrangement is held substantially at the target fuel pressure.

Abstract: A solenoid actuator, adapted for use in an electronic control valve for a fuel injector, having an electrically-energizable electromagnetic device, such as a winding, a pole member associated with the electrically energizable winding, and an armature movable with respect to the pole member. The armature occupies a first position relative to the pole member when the winding is not electrically energized and a second position relative to the pole member when the winding is electrically energized. The actuator has an adjustment screw which is movable with respect to the pole member to form an air gap of variable width internal to the pole member to change the magnetic characteristics of the solenoid actuator, and thus the response of the actuator.

Abstract: Throttle valve opening and engine rotational speed are detected to estimate intake air pressure. Fuel consumption Q is estimated from the estimated intake air pressure. Fuel pump drive voltage is calculated from estimated intake air pressure and estimated fuel consumption through a data map. This map is set in advance from data measured experimentally. By thus driving the fuel pump, it can be controlled at an earlier (i.e., advanced) relative time by taking the response time delay of the control system and the fuel pump into consideration.