Abstract: A bumper assembly and a process of fabricating the assembly that is designed to increase kinetic energy absorption and reduce deflection during a vehicular impact event. The bumper assembly comprising a vehicular bumper beam, a pair of mounting brackets that attach the bumper beam to a vehicular frame, and a fascia that partially encloses the bumper beam. The vehicular bumper is a structural cross member with two or more beads on an impact face of the bumper beam.

Abstract: A common rail diesel fuel injection system that uses as many as one high-pressure engine-cam-driven fuel pump per engine cylinder, each of the high-pressure engine-cam-driven fuel pumps being driven directly by the engine cam. The system includes a common rail to receive the outputs of the high-pressure engine-cam-driven fuel pumps to maintain a high and uniform fuel pressure. The system also includes a fuel transfer pump to supply relatively low-pressure fuel to the high-pressure engine-cam-driven fuel pumps. Fuel from the common rail is distributed to solenoid-controlled fuel injectors. The latter have outputs connected to respective pressure regulator valves to regulate fuel pressure and to provide a path, in additional to the injection path, through which fuel flows to reduce injector temperature. An embodiment is included wherein a programmable logic device controls fuel injectors in response to selected engine operation sensor inputs.