Abstract: A fuel pump includes an impeller having first and second vane grooves each arranged along a rotative direction. The second vane grooves are located on a radially inner side of the first vane grooves. The fuel pump includes a pump case rotatably accommodating the impeller and having first and second pump passages. The first pump passage is defined along the first vane grooves for supplying fuel from a sub-tank to an engine. The second pump passage is defined along the second vane grooves for supplying fuel from the fuel tank to the sub-tank. The first and second pump passages respectively have cross sectional areas S1, S2, and respectively have diameters D1, D2 with respect to a direction of a rotation axis of the impeller. The S1, D1, S2, and D2 satisfy: 0.6?(S2×D2)/(S1×D1)?0.95.

Abstract: A fuel pump includes a rotatable impeller having a plurality of blades and blade ditches on the periphery thereof, a motor section for driving the impeller, and a casing member which accommodates the impeller and has at least one fuel passage along an outer periphery of the impeller. The fuel passage communicates with the blade ditches. Moreover, a radially-inside inner surface of the fuel passage, with respect to an axis of rotation of the impeller, from a centerline on a bottom of the fuel passage to a radially inside edge of the fuel passage is formed as an approximately quadrant curved surface.

Abstract: A fuel pump includes a plurality of magnets that are disposed circumferentially on an inner surface of a housing of the fuel pump and alternately form different magnetic poles, an armature rotatably disposed inside the permanent magnets, a rotating member disposed on a rotary shaft that is connected with the armature and rotates with the rotary shaft by rotating the armature, a pump casing that accommodates and rotatably supports the rotating member, and a discharge port disposed on the pump casing so as to discharge fuel pressurized by the rotation of the rotating member. According to the present invention, an imaginary line extending straight through the discharge port in a flow direction of fuel discharging from the discharge port extends into a circumferential gap between two of said permanent magnets.

Abstract: A fuel pump includes a pump portion for pumping fuel. The fuel pump further includes a magnet having magnetic poles circumferentially alternate with each other. The fuel pump further includes an armature on a radially inside of the magnet. The armature includes a rotor core provided with a coil formed of a wire. The armature is rotatable for driving the pump portion. A commutator, which is in a substantially disc shape, is provided to an axial end of the armature for rectifying electricity supplying to the coil. The rotor core has an axial end having an outer circumferential periphery defining a commutator-side collar portion extending toward the commutator. The coil is formed by winding the wire between an outer circumferential periphery of the commutator and the commutator-side collar portion.

Abstract: A fuel supply system is disclosed that includes an electric fuel pump, a controller for controlling operations of the fuel pump, and a cooling plate that is disposed in the fuel tank and cools the controller by contacting the controller. Moreover, the system includes a fuel outlet device that allows for a flow of the fuel onto the cooling plate for heat exchange between the fuel and the cooling plate. A fuel supply system is also disclosed that includes a sub tank disposed in the fuel tank and a fuel pump that is disposed in the sub tank, increases a pressure of the fuel, and moves the fuel. Furthermore, the system includes a controller for controlling operations of the fuel pump and a cooling plate that is disposed in the sub tank and cools the controller by contacting the controller.

Abstract: An impeller rotates for pressurizing fluid in a pump passage. The impeller includes an inner circumferential portion and an outer circumferential portion. The outer circumferential portion has two axial end surfaces that respectively have a plurality of vane grooves arranged in a rotative direction of the outer circumferential portion. A plurality of communication holes axially penetrates one of the inner circumferential portion and the outer circumferential portion. The plurality of communication holes is displaced from the plurality of vane grooves in a radial direction of the outer circumferential portion. The plurality of communication holes is arranged substantially along the rotative direction of the outer circumferential portion at nonuniform pitches.

Abstract: A fuel pump includes a pump unit, a motor unit, a brush, and a pigtail. The pump unit boosts a pressure of fuel that is drawn into the fuel pump. The motor unit has an armature that rotates and a commutator that rectifies electric current, which is supplied to the armature. The pump unit is driven by rotating of the armature. The fuel, the pressure of which is boosted by the pump unit, passes through the motor unit. The brush contacts the commutator. The pigtail is connected to the brush and supplies electricity to the armature via the brush. The pigtail is made from a copper alloy, which includes at least one of a corrosion-resistant metal that has higher sulfide formation energy than copper and a corrosion-resistant metal that has higher oxide formation energy than copper.

Abstract: In a fuel supply system, a fuel pump supplies fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel supply piping and to a back pressure introducing passage. A pressure regulator has a fuel pressure regulating chamber communicated to the fuel supply piping, and a back pressure chamber communicated to the back pressure introducing passage. When a fuel pressure in the fuel pressure regulating chamber is larger than a relief pressure that bulges the diaphragm toward the back pressure chamber, a relief valve opens a relief port to return the fuel from the fuel pressure regulating chamber to the fuel tank. The relief pressure is adjusted by controlling a fuel pressure in the back pressure chamber of the pressure regulator.

Abstract: An impeller is employed for a fuel pump and boosts a pressure of fuel by rotating the fuel in a pump passage formed in the fuel pump in a rotational direction of the impeller. The impeller includes a plurality of vane grooves formed adjacent to each other in the rotational direction of the impeller and a plurality of vanes formed adjacent to each other in the rotational direction. Each one of the plurality of vanes divides one of adjacent two of the plurality of vane grooves from the other. A difference between a maximal value and a minimum value of an adjacent vane angle is set in a range of 2.5° to 4°. A fuel pump includes a motor unit, the impeller, and a casing member. The impeller is rotated by rotation driving force of the motor unit. The casing member rotatably receives the impeller and defines the pump passage.

Abstract: A fluid apparatus, which is provided for supplying fluid into an internal combustion engine, includes an upstream pump, which is electrically driven, having an outlet port. The fluid apparatus furtehr includes a downstream pump, which is electrically driven, having an inlet port that is connected with the outlet port in series. The fluid apparatus further includes an open-close unit. The open-close unit communicates a fluid passage through which the upstream pump supplies fluid to the internal combustion engine when the downstream pomp stops. The open-close unit blocks the fluid passage when the downstream pomp operates.

Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus is provided for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine, which is controlled using an engine control unit. The fuel feed apparatus includes a pump module that is provided to the fuel tank. The pump module includes a fuel pump that is accommodated in the fuel tank for pumping fuel from the fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus further includes a pressure detecting unit that is provided in a downstream of the fuel pump for detecting pressure of fuel. The fuel feed apparatus further includes a pump control unit that is provided separately from the engine control unit for controlling a driving signal of the fuel pump in accordance with a detection signal of the pressure detecting unit.

Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus is accommodated in a fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus includes a sub-tank that is provided in a bottom of the fuel tank. The fuel feed apparatus further includes a fuel pump that is accommodated in the sub-tank. The fuel pump includes an impeller that defines a plurality of pump chambers. The fuel pump has a first suction passage through which fuel flows from outside the sub-tank into at least one of the plurality of pump chambers. The fuel feed apparatus further includes an elastic member that seals between the first suction passage and the sub-tank.

Abstract: A fuel feed apparatus connects with an injector and a reservoir tank. The reservoir tank is in upstream of the injector for accumulating fuel for the injector. A fuel pump press-feeds fuel in a fuel tank toward the reservoir tank in accordance with pressure in the reservoir tank. A press-feed pipe defines a fuel passage from the fuel pump to the reservoir tank. A branch pipe is provided to the press-feed pipe. The branch pipe defines a return passage that branches from the fuel passage. Fuel discharged from the fuel pump returns into the fuel tank through the return passage. A throttle unit is provided to the branch pipe for reducing a sectional area of the return passage. A relief valve is provided to the branch pipe for communicating the return passage when pressure in the return passage becomes equal to or greater than relief pressure.

Abstract: An impeller includes vane grooves arranged with respect to the rotative direction. At least the radially inner side of a back surface of each vane groove is radially outwardly inclined backwardly with respect to the rotative direction. The back surface has a radially inner end and a radially outer end, which are connected via a line segment. The line segment and a radius of the impeller define a backward inclining angle ? therebetween. The back surface is inclined from a thickness center of the impeller toward each thickness-end of the impeller forwardly with respect to the rotative direction. The thickness-center and the thickness-end are connected via a line segment. The line segment and the thickness-center define a forward inclining angle ? therebetween. The angle ?, ? satisfy the following relationships: 15°???30°; ??60°; and 1??/??4.

Abstract: An impeller rotates for pressurizing fluid in a pump passage. The impeller includes an inner circumferential portion and an outer circumferential portion. The outer circumferential portion has two axial end surfaces that respectively have a plurality of vane grooves arranged in a rotative direction of the outer circumferential portion. A plurality of communication holes axially penetrates one of the inner circumferential portion and the outer circumferential portion. The plurality of communication holes is displaced from the plurality of vane grooves in a radial direction of the outer circumferential portion. The plurality of communication holes is arranged substantially along the rotative direction of the outer circumferential portion at nonuniform pitches.

Abstract: A pump module, which is mounted to a fuel tank, includes a sub-tank, a fuel pump and an elastic member. The sub-tank is accommodated in the fuel tank. The fuel pump is accommodated in the sub-tank to pump fuel drawn into the sub-tank. The elastic member is formed of an elastomer, and is interposed between a bottom portion of the sub-tank and a bottom portion of the fuel tank. The elastic member makes contact with fuel. The elastic member internally has spaces to release stress that arises in the elastic member due to swelling caused by contacting with fuel. The elastic member is formed in a sheet. The elastic member is mounted to the sub-tank via an outer periphery of the elastic member. The spaces are arranged in a substantially circumferential direction of the sub-tank, or are arranged in a substantially radial direction of the sub-tank.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus in which, even if a column support receiving region of a supporting member is broken, the breakage is prevented from reaching both surfaces of the supporting member. A flange member includes a circular plate-shaped flange body attached to a fuel tank, an inner sleeve into which a column support is inserted, and an outer sleeve located at an outer periphery of the inner sleeve that is integrally formed. A bottom portion of the inner sleeve extends farther on the opposite side of a sub tank than the flange body, and the column support for providing a connection between the sub tank and the flange member has one end press-inserted into the inner sleeve beyond the flange body to a point opposite the sub tank.

Abstract: The Fuel supply system reduces fuel quantity initially supplied and ineffective residual quantity of fuel. A throat in the shape of a passage is provided at a bottom portion of a sub-tank that supplies fuel from the fuel tank to the interior of the sub-tank by a jet pump. The throat has a suction port communicating with the exterior of the sub-tank and a supply port communicating with the interior of the sub-tank. The throat is inclined with respect to a bottom surface of the tank so that the height of the throat increases gradually from the suction port toward the supply port. The sub-tank has a check valve for opening and closing the supply port. This check valve prevents the fuel in the sub-tank from flowing out to the exterior of the sub-tank through the throat and becomes substantially vertical during valve closing.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus in which, even if a column support receiving region of a supporting member is broken, the breakage is prevented from reaching both surfaces of the supporting member. A flange member includes a circular plate-shaped flange body attached to a fuel tank, an inner sleeve into which a column support is inserted, and an outer sleeve located at an outer periphery of the inner sleeve that is integrally formed. A bottom portion of the inner sleeve extends farther on the opposite side of a sub tank than the flange body, and the column support for providing a connection between the sub tank and the flange member has one end press-inserted into the inner sleeve beyond the flange body to a point opposite the sub tank.

Abstract: The Fuel supply system reduces fuel quantity initially supplied and ineffective residual quantity of fuel. A throat in the shape of a passage is provided at a bottom portion of a sub-tank that supplies fuel from the fuel tank to the interior of the sub-tank by a jet pump. The throat has a suction port communicating with the exterior of the sub-tank and a supply port communicating with the interior of the sub-tank. The throat is inclined with respect to a bottom surface of the tank so that the height of the throat increases gradually from the suction port toward the supply port. The sub-tank has a check valve for opening and closing the supply port. This check valve prevents the fuel in the sub-tank from flowing out to the exterior of the sub-tank through the throat and becomes substantially vertical during valve closing.