Abstract: A fuel supply system is incorporated into a diesel engine including a low-pressure fuel pump 2, a high-pressure fuel pump 3, a common rail 4, fuel injection valves 5 and a fuel return line 14. The fuel supply system reduces the discharge rate of the low-pressure fuel pump 2 supplying the fuel to the high-pressure fuel pump 3 when the diesel engine is in an idling state and the temperature of the fuel is below a lower fuel temperature threshold and when the diesel engine is in an idling state and the temperature of the fuel is above an upper fuel temperature threshold. The flow rate of the feed fuel discharged from the low-pressure fuel pump is reduced when an idling state or a specific state where the fuel is at a specific temperature. Thus the fuel line system of the fuel supply system can be built in a lightweight arrangement and the piping of the fuel line system can be simplified.

Abstract: A fuel supply system is incorporated into a diesel engine including a low-pressure fuel pump 2, a high-pressure fuel pump 3, a common rail 4, fuel injection valves 5 and a fuel return line 14. The fuel supply system reduces the discharge rate of the low-pressure fuel pump 2 supplying the fuel to the high-pressure fuel pump 3 when the diesel engine is in an idling state and the temperature of the fuel is below a lower fuel temperature threshold and when the diesel engine is in an idling state and the temperature of the fuel is above an upper fuel temperature threshold. The flow rate of the feed fuel discharged from the low-pressure fuel pump is reduced when an idling state or a specific state where the fuel is at a specific temperature. Thus the fuel line system of the fuel supply system can be built in a lightweight arrangement and the piping of the fuel line system can be simplified.

Abstract: In an apparatus for supplying a fuel to a vehicular combustion heater which supplies the fuel from a fuel tank via a fuel pump to the heater which is mounted on an electric vehicle, discharging into atmosphere of fuel vapor from the fuel tank is restricted to the best extent possible. For that purpose, prevention is made of that discharging from the combustion heater of the fuel vapor which is likely to occur when the set pressure for opening a positive pressure valve in a two-way valve for the fuel tank is set high. Interposed in series between the fuel pump and the combustion heater is a one-way valve which opens when the internal pressure in the fuel supply passage has risen to a predetermined set pressure which is higher than the set pressure for opening the positive pressure valve, and a solenoid valve which is opened when the combustion heater is in operation.

Abstract: In an electric vehicle in which a battery container box is disposed under the floor of the vehicle, a fuel tank for a combustion type of heater is easily mounted with a good space efficiency. For that purpose, the fuel tank is formed into a shape of a substantially square column which is elongated in the widthwise direction of the vehicle and which is made of two halves divided along a diagonal plane to connect a bottom line of one of the horizontally opposing planes and an upper line of the other of the horizontally opposing planes. Brackets are attached to side surfaces of the fuel tank, and the fuel tank is mounted under the floor of the vehicle via the brackets behind the battery container box so as to be close thereto.