Fuel Pump Flow Regulation Patents (Class 123/446)
  • Patent number: 8834134
    Abstract: A flow sensing dual pump switching system and method are provided that control the supply of fuel from a dual pump fuel system to a fuel metering unit. The system senses bypass pressure from the fuel metering unit to control the differential pressurization of the second pump. As the bypass is reduced, the pressure of the second pump is increased so that it may be added to that of the first pump to supply the increased fuel consumption needs of an engine. As the fuel consumption needs decrease, the flow from the second pump added to the first pump is reduced and the differential pressure of the second pump is similarly reduced. If the bypass pressure remains high, the switching system disconnects the output of the second pump from that of the first in favor of bypassing the flow to its input to reduce its differential pressure and conserve energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventors: Carthel C. Baker, Dmitriy Baryshnikov
  • Publication number: 20140238351
    Abstract: A method and apparatus pump fuel to a fuel injection system in an internal combustion engine. The method comprises steps of pumping a liquid fuel to a first pressure, using the liquid fuel at the first pressure as a hydraulic fluid for driving a gaseous fuel pump, and pumping a gaseous fuel to a second pressure with the gaseous fuel pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Westport Power Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan C. Haas, Timothy N. Lennox, David K. Mumford, B. Keir Pritchard, Mark Tsui
  • Publication number: 20140230791
    Abstract: In a fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine provided with a low pressure fuel pump and a high pressure fuel pump, proportional plus integral control of a high pressure fuel pump is carried out to make a pressure of fuel come close to a target value between the high pressure fuel pump and fuel injection valves. In cases where the high pressure fuel pump is in operation, a feed pressure, which is a pressure of fuel between a low pressure fuel pump and the high pressure fuel pump, is caused to go down when an integral term in the proportional plus integral control does not change or is decreasing, and the feed pressure is caused to go up when the integral term is increasing. In cases where the high pressure fuel pump is in a stopped state, the feed pressure is made higher than before the high pressure fuel pump is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Tomojiro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8812215
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is provided which calculates the quantity of fuel required to bring the pressure in a fuel accumulator into agreement with a target pressure and then control an operation of a high-pressure pump based on the required quantity. Even in the absence of a change in pressure in the accumulator, the system controls the high-pressure pump based on the required quantity. Specifically, the system calculates a feedback fuel quantity required to compensate for a difference between the required quantity and a quantity of the fuel actually supplied to the accumulator, in other words, leans such a quantity difference to correct the required quantity, thus resulting in an enhanced response of the system to control the high-pressure pump to a change in pressure in the accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichi Sugiyama, Koji Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20140224217
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a direct injection fuel pump. The methods and system control pressure within a compression chamber so as to improve fuel pump lubrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Norman Ulrey, Gopichandra Surnilla, Joseph F. Basmaji, Mark Meinhart
  • Publication number: 20140224216
    Abstract: A fuel system for a vehicle engine. The fuel system includes a fuel vessel and a surge tank that is housed within the fuel vessel. One or more injectors inject fuel into the engine from the surge tank. The surge tank includes a lift pump that draws fuel from the fuel vessel into the surge tank. The fuel system also includes a connector line that connects the one or more injectors to the surge tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventor: Winfield Coachman
  • Publication number: 20140224215
    Abstract: A fuel filtration system is provided. The fuel filtration system includes a pump configured to receive a flow of fuel from a fuel storage tank and at least one filter positioned downstream to the fuel filtration system and fluidly coupled to the pump. The fuel filtration system further comprises a recirculation loop configured to recirculate at least a portion of the fuel through the at least one filter. The recirculation loop is also configured to provide a remaining portion of the fuel to an engine during the recirculation. The remaining portion of the fuel is determined based on a fuel consumption of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Martin A. Lehman, Eric J. Herron, Steven Y. Tian, Krishna K. Chinta, Scott F. Shafer, Byron R. Wear
  • Patent number: 8800355
    Abstract: When change of fuel pressure sensed with a fuel pressure sensor is small, it is temporarily determined that the fuel pressure sensor is abnormal. After the abnormality is temporarily determined, transfer quantity from a high-pressure fuel supply pump is increased and pressure reduction is performed by driving a pressure reducing valve, thereby increasing the change of the fuel pressure of a common rail. When the change of the fuel pressure sensed with the fuel pressure sensor is small thereafter, it is formally determined that the fuel pressure sensor is abnormal. Thus, a pressure accumulation fuel injection device can appropriately perform abnormality detection of the fuel pressure sensor, irrespective of existence/nonexistence of fuel leak from an injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Toyoshima
  • Publication number: 20140216407
    Abstract: A method of controlling a fuel system includes determining the opening of a pressure relief valve and initiating a reseat strategy for the valve. The fuel system comprises a source of high pressure fuel and a pressure relief valve having at least one inlet fluidly coupled to the source of high pressure fuel and at least one outlet. The pressure relief valve has a closed position and at least one open position in which fuel is able to pass from the inlet to the outlet. The method comprises the steps of continuously measuring the pressure of the fuel in the fuel source, determining whether the pressure relief valve is in an open position, and generating an open signal if it is determined that the pressure relief valve is in an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Perkins Engines Company Limited
    Inventor: Michael David Smith
  • Patent number: 8789512
    Abstract: A fluid pressure regulating device is i) provided with a pressure regulating member that forms a pressure regulating chamber inside a housing having introduction side and discharge side fuel passages, and communicates these passages according to introduced fuel pressure, and ii) is able to regulate the fuel pressure introduced into a fuel passage to a set pressure. The housing is provided with outer and inner annular valve seat portions that separate the fuel passages inside the pressure regulating chamber, and form another fuel passage inside the pressure regulating chamber. Different clearances are set between the pressure regulating member, and the outer annular valve seat portion and the inner annular valve seat portion, such that when the pressure regulating member abuts against one of the valve seat portions, a small gap is formed between the other valve seat portion and the pressure regulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Akagi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Hideaki Nishibu, Koji Yoshida, Yuichi Murakoshi
  • Publication number: 20140196690
    Abstract: Embodiments for an internal combustion engine are provided. In one example, and internal combustion engine comprises at least two cylinders each including an injection nozzle and a fuel supply system for supplying the cylinders with fuel. The fuel supply system includes a supply line connecting each injection nozzle to a first fuel reservoir storing fuel at a first pressure, the first fuel reservoir filled by a pump provided upstream, a second fuel reservoir storing fuel at a second pressure less than the first pressure and connected to the first fuel reservoir via a connecting line for filling with fuel, and a bypass line connecting the second fuel reservoir to each injection nozzle. The bypass line opens into the fuel supply system downstream of the first fuel reservoir, thereby forming a connection point, and a shutoff element is arranged in the bypass line, opening or shutting off the bypass line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Roettger, Christian Winge Vigild, Leonhard Bartsch
  • Patent number: 8776764
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating an engine fuel system including a low pressure pump and a high pressure pump. During conditions when direct injection is not requested, a fuel rail pressure is maintained by the low pressure pump and fuel is port injected. Further, a stroke amount of the high pressure pump is adjusted to maintain an outlet pressure of the high pressure pump just below the fuel rail pressure. By maintaining fuel flow within the high pressure pump when high pressure pump operation is not required, and without flowing fuel from the high pressure pump outlet into the fuel rail, the high pressure pump may be cooled and lubricated without affecting the fuel rail pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Basmaji, Gopichandra Surnilla, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Publication number: 20140182551
    Abstract: The disclosure describes an engine system having liquid and gaseous fuel systems, each of which injects fuel directly into an engine cylinder. A controller controls pumping of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the gaseous fuel system. In a pump cycle, a pumping piston is moved in an intake direction over an intake stroke such that the pumping piston produces a negative pressure that draws LNG from a tank fluidly connected to the pumping element into a pumping chamber of a body of the pumping element. The pumping piston is moved in an opposing power direction over a power stroke such that the pumping piston pumps compressed LNG out of the pumping chamber away from the tank. The pumping piston is moved over the intake stroke with an average intake velocity and over the power stroke with an average power velocity, which is greater than the average intake velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventor: Joshua W. Steffen
  • Publication number: 20140174403
    Abstract: A fuel supplier for a motor vehicle, having a fuel tank and an internal combustion engine, includes a fuel pump pumping fuel from the fuel tank to the internal combustion engine, a motor driving the fuel pump, and a control unit carrying out feedback control of duty ratio of voltage applied to the motor such that the actual fuel pressure comes close to a target fuel pressure. The control unit increases a low limit value of the duty ratio in accordance with the change of an accelerator open ratio in an opening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: AISIAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru AKITA, Naoyuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20140174402
    Abstract: A dual fuel system for an engine is disclosed. The dual fuel system may have a first fuel supply providing a first fuel to the engine, and a second fuel supply providing a second fuel. The dual fuel system may also have a regulator configured to pass the second fuel from the second fuel supply to the engine, with the regulator also in fluid communication with the first fuel supply. The dual fuel system may further have a damper in fluid communication with the first fuel supply and an output of the regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua W. STEFFEN, Dana R. Coldren
  • Publication number: 20140158088
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine include controlling a temperature of recirculated exhaust gas to achieve a predetermined recirculated exhaust gas temperature. A mixture of air and temperature-controlled recirculated exhaust gas are admitted in a combustion chamber and a gaseous fuel injector delivers gaseous fuel during an intake stroke. A diesel fuel injector is activated for a first time to deliver a pre-pilot diesel quantity directly into the combustion chamber at an early stage of a compression stroke, and is activated again for a second time to deliver a pilot diesel quantity directly into the combustion chamber at a later stage of the compression stroke. A total air/fuel ratio within the combustion chamber upon completion of the second diesel fuel injector activation is lean. The air/fuel mixture is combusted during a combustion stroke, and combustion products are removed during an exhaust stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Gehrke, Martin Willi
  • Patent number: 8733323
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining an error in a fuel metering unit of an injection system for an internal combustion engine, wherein the gradients of a first signal representing a physical variable and of a second signal representing a physical variable are determined, and at a predefined magnitude and/or direction of the two gradients an error is recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Mueller, Andreas Sommerer, Bernd Becker
  • Publication number: 20140123947
    Abstract: An LPG direct injection system may include an engine receiving liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) into a combustion chamber thereof, an injector adapted to inject the LPG into the combustion chamber of the engine, a high pressure fuel pump supplying high pressured LPG to the injector, a fuel tank storing the LPG for supplying to the engine, a regulator apparatus receiving the LPG from the fuel tank, controlling pressure of the received LPG, and delivering a controlled LPG to the high pressure fuel pump, a fuel supply line sequentially connecting the fuel tank, the regulator apparatus, the high pressure fuel pump, and the injector so as to supply the LPG stored in the fuel tank to the engine, and a fuel return line returning an LPG that remains in the high pressure fuel pump after pumping thereof to the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Motonic Corporation, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Oh Song, Sung Kun Kim, Chulsoo Yook, Yong Deok Park, One-Gil Lee
  • Publication number: 20140109874
    Abstract: A fuel system is provided for supplying pressurised fuel, in particular dimethyl ether (DME) or a blend thereof, to an internal combustion engine. The fuel system includes a fuel pump, which has a pumping mechanism arranged partly in a housing containing lube oil, a drain line connected to the housing and suitable for draining at least fuel vapour from an interior of the housing, a lube oil supply line connected to the housing, a lube oil supply valve installed in the lube oil supply line, a seal installed between the pumping mechanism and the housing for preventing at least lube oil leakage to the outside of the housing, and a drain valve installed in the drain line, wherein both the drain valve and lube oil supply valve are controlled to be closed during an engine non-running state for preventing fuel vapour leakage from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: VOLVO LASTVAGNAR AB
    Inventor: Sergi Yudanov
  • Publication number: 20140102414
    Abstract: A liquefied gas fuel is supplied to a fuel gallery of a high-pressure pump through a feed pipe. A fuel injection apparatus includes a passage expansion pipe of which passage area is greater than that of the fuel gallery. The passage expansion pipe is arranged between the feed pipe and the fuel gallery. When the fuel is supplied to the fuel gallery during a suction stroke of a plunger, the passage expansion pipe functions as an accumulator accumulating the fuel therein. The replenishing fuel from the passage expansion pipe is added to the fuel supplied from the feed pump. A pressure drop in the fuel gallery becomes small, so that the pressure pulsation in the fuel gallery is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki KATO
  • Patent number: 8695569
    Abstract: A vehicle burner (6) for heating a gas flow (14) in a motor vehicle is provided with a fuel pump (10) for delivering a fuel to an injection nozzle (11) that can be actuated for injecting the fuel into a combustion chamber (7), with an air delivery device (16) for delivering air to the combustion chamber (7), with a control (17) for operating the. A vehicle burner (6), which is coupled with the fuel pump (10), with the air delivery and/or air regulating device (16) and with the injection nozzle (11). Burner waste gas, which is generated during the operation of the. A vehicle burner (6) by the reaction of fuel with air in the combustion chamber (7), is used to heat the gas flow (14). To increase efficiency, a control (17) determines a quantity of fuel, a quantity of air and a fuel pressure as a function of a presettable heat output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Bosch Emission Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Gerd Gaiser
  • Patent number: 8676473
    Abstract: A method for the self-learning of the variation of a nominal functioning feature of a high pressure pump in an internal combustion engine, which pump feeds fuel to a common rail and is controlled by a solenoid valve depending on an objective pressure inside the common rail and by using the nominal functioning feature which provides a delivery of fuel; in cut-off conditions of the engine, the method includes determining the value of the pressure leaks due to blow-by in the common rail; measuring the real pressure of the fuel inside the common rail; actuating the high pressure pump by controlling the solenoid valve with a predetermined closing angle; measuring the real pressure of the fuel inside the common rail again; determining a pressure deviation between the real pressure and an expected pressure of the fuel, and correcting the nominal functioning feature according to this deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Prodi, Roberto Betro', Serino Angellotti, Walter Nesci
  • Publication number: 20140069385
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating an engine fuel system including fuels of different fuel types. A first fuel type is delivered for port injection upon circulation through a high pressure pump when direct injection of a fuel is not requested to cool and/or lubricate the high pressure pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Joseph Basmaji, Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 8662056
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling fuel pressure in a fuel delivery system. The system includes a fuel pump and an inlet control valve. The inlet control valve is operated to a closed state by an electrical signal applied to the inlet control valve. The electrical signal includes a pull-in portion of the electrical signal that is applied to the inlet control valve having a pull-in time interval that is varied based on the fuel pressure. By varying the pull-in time interval to control fuel pressure, electrical energy consumed and acoustic noise generated by the fuel delivery system are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Fedor, III, Charles A. Iannone, Sergio Quelhas
  • Publication number: 20140041632
    Abstract: A fuel tank system includes an ECU receiving an open signal Sa of a fuel supply SW. The ECU has a main control unit controlling a power unit of a vehicle, a main relay control circuit turning off a main relay when IGSW for causing the power unit to start or stop is turned off, SOAK time measurement circuit measuring an input time and no input time, the input time being a time during which the open signal Sa is continuously inputted to the ECU while the IGSW is off, the no input time being a time during which the open signal Sa is not inputted to the ECU while the IGSW is off with the fuel supply SW on, and a failure determination unit determining that the fuel supply SW has an abnormality when SOAK time is longer than a failure determination time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tomonori Yokota
  • Publication number: 20140034014
    Abstract: Various systems and method for controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes injecting fuel to a subset of cylinders that includes less than all cylinders of a first cylinder group to obtain a target EGR rate. The first cylinder group provides exhaust gas through an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage structure fluidly coupled between the first cylinder group and an intake passage structure. The method further includes injecting fuel to at least one cylinder of a second cylinder group. The second cylinder group provides substantially no exhaust gas through the EGR passage structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Neil Xavier Blythe, Shawn Michael Gallagher, James Robert Mischler, Luke Henry
  • Publication number: 20140034016
    Abstract: An injection gate (44,144,244,344) for high pressure, high velocity secondary fluid for admixture of an atomized spray (80,180) thereof with another or primary fluid that atomizes the other fluid. The secondary fluid may be an accelerant and the primary fluid may be a low pressure fuel/air mixture in a fuel injection arrangement for an internal combustion engine. An injection billet (10,110,210,310) for an engine is interposed between the carburetor (12) and the manifold (14), with an array of such injection gates (44,244,344) paired with an array of fuel/air gates (34,234,334) about an aperture coinciding with a throttle bore (60,160,260,360) and evenly balancing the spray about the throttle bore, creating a halo effect of atomized admixture of accelerant/fuel. The injection of accelerant is directed sharply downwardly toward the center of the bore and through the injected fuel stream, atomizing the fuel thereof for a high efficiency boost of horsepower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Steven WIlson
  • Publication number: 20140020657
    Abstract: A fuel injector may include a central longitudinal axis and may be arranged in a cylinder head of a combustion engine. The fuel injector has an injector body and an adjustment device, the adjustment device including a ring element configured to be arranged in a recess of a cylinder head between the injector body and the cylinder head to align the fuel injector relative to the recess in radial direction. The ring element comprises a magnetic material. A fuel-injection system is also disclosed that includes a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine and a fuel injector as disclosed above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Ileana Romeo, Matteo Soriani, Francesco Lenzi
  • Publication number: 20140020658
    Abstract: A diesel engine for combusting a diesel-LPG mixture includes a fuel system for supplying diesel and LPG. The mixture is obtained by combining the fuel flow from a LPG tank and diesel tank. Increased pressure is applied in both fuel flows for mixing purposes. Immediately following the mixing a circulation system is present in which increase in pressure also takes place, wherein a part of the mixture is supplied to a high-pressure pump for injection to the diesel engine and a part is recirculated. In a method of supplying the diesel-LPG mixture, the part of the mixture that is supplied to the high-pressure pump is returned to a position upstream of the mixing point. The pressure in the fuel system is higher downstream of the mixing point. When the LPG supply is switched off the pressure can be gradually decreased through circulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Servatius Alfons Maria JAASMA
  • Publication number: 20140014068
    Abstract: A fuel delivery system including a fuel line and a damper. The fuel line extends to a fuel injector and defines a fuel path. The damper is along the fuel path and includes a flexible member and a stop. A first side of the flexible member faces the fuel path and a second side of the flexible member faces the stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Dhyana Ramamurthy, Steve Roseborsky, Tetsuo Ogato
  • Patent number: 8628031
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling needle seat load in very high pressure diesel injectors. In accordance with the method, a needle control piston responsive to hydraulic forces for controllably forcing the injector needle against the needle seat is provided, as is a stop for the needle control piston to limit the needle control piston movement toward the needle seat. This provides a stop for the needle control piston, so that the compressive deflection between the needle control piston and the needle seat limits the force of the injector needle on the needle seat against increasing hydraulic forces on the needle control piston once the needle control piston reaches the needle control piston seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sturman Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Tibor Kiss
  • Publication number: 20140007844
    Abstract: A pipe connector comprising a connector body, a first fitting connectable to a first double wall pipe, the first fitting comprising a first portion connectable to an inner flow space and a second portion connectable to an outer flow space of the first double wall pipe, a second fitting connectable to a second pipe, a third fitting comprising a first portion and a second portion, which first portion is connectable to the third pipe, and a flow channel arranged in the connector body for interconnecting the first portion of the first fitting, the second fitting and the first portion of the third fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: WARTSILA FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Vesa Voutilainen
  • Patent number: 8608456
    Abstract: At least one choked flow passage communicates between one side of the movable member and the other side of the movable member and limits an amount of fuel, which passes from the one side of the movable member to the other side of the movable member, when the movable member is moved by an urging force of a relief spring toward a valve element. A larger amount of fuel, which is larger than the amount of fuel that is passable through the at least one choked flow passage, flows from a first return flow passage to a second return flow passage, when the movable member is moved toward the other side, which is opposite from the valve element, against the urging force of the relief spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Hishinuma, Tatsuro Koga
  • Patent number: 8602321
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ball valve for adjusting a flow of a fluid medium. The ball valve includes a valve seat and a rounded closing element, in particular a valve ball. Furthermore, the ball valve has an inlet with a choke valve and one diffuser arranged between the choke valve and the valve seat. The diffuser includes a constriction on the side facing the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Girlinger, Frank Traxel, Roland Mitter
  • Publication number: 20130298872
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a technology enabling to determine the saturation vapor pressure of used fuel in a fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine equipped with a low pressure fuel pump and a high pressure fuel pump. In the invention, to achieve the object, in the fuel injection control system for an internal combustion engine that controls the duty cycle of the high pressure fuel pump by proportional-integral control based on the difference between the discharge pressure of the high pressure fuel pump and a target pressure, generation of vapor is detected based on a tendency of change in an integral term used in the proportional integral control, and the saturation vapor pressure of used fuel is calculated from the fuel temperature and the engine speed at that time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Keisuke Komori
  • Patent number: 8579207
    Abstract: Multiple intensifier injectors with positive needle control and methods of injection that reduce injector energy consumption. The intensifiers are disposed about the axis of the injectors, leaving the center free for direct needle control down the center of the injector. Also disclosed is a boost system, increasing the needle closing velocity but without adding mass to the needle when finally closing. Direct needle control allows maintaining injection pressure on the fuel between injection events if the control system determines that enough fuel has been pressurized for the next injection, thus saving substantial energy when operating an engine at less than maximum power, by not venting and re-pressurizing on every injection event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sturman Digital Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Oded Eddie Sturman
  • Patent number: 8573186
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injector for injecting fuel into combustion chambers of internal combustion engines. According to the invention, a valve seat of a control valve is designed as a flat seat that has a planar valve seat surface. A circumferential edge located on the face of a sleeve of the control valve rests on the planar valve seat surface when the control valve is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rettich, Friedrich Boecking
  • Publication number: 20130284150
    Abstract: A fluid flow network for feeding fuel to at least one engine (2) of a power plant driving rotation of at least one rotary wing (1) of a rotorcraft. The fluid flow network includes a suction pump (3) for sucking fuel from a feeder tank (5) via a transfer circuit (4). The feeder tank (5) is fed with fuel from a main tank (9) by a transfer circuit (10) including a transfer pump (12). The transfer pump (12) is also a pump for priming the suction pump (3) by means of a feed ejector (15) provided on the feed circuit (4) and immersed in the feeder tank (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: EUROCOPTER
    Inventor: Lionel Lollini
  • Publication number: 20130255636
    Abstract: A method for closing a storage tank valve in response to leaks in a fuel line or fuel rail and emptying the tank of a vehicle when no leaks are detected is described. The method includes comparing a tank pressure to a fuel line or fuel rail pressure in order to detect leaks therein and further includes using a dedicated tank pressure sensor to measure the gaseous pressure of the storage tank, and thereby the amount of fuel remaining. In response to leaks in the fuel system, a controller may close an electronic solenoid valve, which reinforces a mechanical excess flow valve, to block the flow of fuel and prevent fuel loss from the gaseous storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Publication number: 20130247874
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a feed pump capable of feeding a fuel of the internal combustion engine; a high pressure fuel pump that pressurizes the fuel fed from the feed pump; and a second injector that supplies the pressurized high-pressure fuel to the internal combustion engine selectively. An ECU of the fuel supply apparatus includes: a pulsation width detection unit that detects a pulsation width in a pressure of the fuel fed from the feed pump to the high pressure fuel pump; and a feeding condition determination unit that determines that a condition variation causing fuel vapor to form in the fuel fed to the high pressure fuel pump has occurred when the pulsation width detected by the pulsation width detection unit falls rapidly to a preset threshold variation width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichi Saito
  • Patent number: 8523537
    Abstract: A dual-pump fluid distribution system that includes a first pump having an inlet and an outlet, and configured to supply a first flow of fluid, and a second pump having an inlet and an outlet, and configured to supply a second flow of fluid. In an embodiment, a bypass flow valve with a four-way hydraulic bridge is configured to initiate the switch between single-pump mode and dual-pump mode based on fluid flow demand. The bypass flow valve is configured such that the position of the bypass flow valve member relative to the four-way hydraulic bridge operates a pump selector valve. In an embodiment, the pump selector valve has a valve member, a biasing element, and a pressure switching port, and is configured such that the position of the valve member determines whether the second flow of fluid is combined with the first flow of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Woodward, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael P. Garry
  • Publication number: 20130213359
    Abstract: A fuel system including a high pressure fuel pump with a quite fuel metering valve is disclosed. In one example, the quite fuel metering valve may be cam driven. The fuel system may reduce engine noise and may provide operating modes that are different from other fuel systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Zeng, Vince Paul Solferino, Kyi Shiah, Joseph Basmaji, Patrick Brostrom
  • Publication number: 20130213360
    Abstract: A fuel system including a high pressure fuel pump with a quite fuel metering valve is disclosed. In one example, the quite fuel metering valve may be driven via a rotating motor. The fuel system may reduce engine noise and may provide improved fuel pressure control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Zeng, Vince Paul Solferino, Kyi Shiah, Joseph Basmaji, Patrick Brostrom, Scott Lehto
  • Publication number: 20130213361
    Abstract: A fuel system including a high pressure fuel pump with a quite fuel metering valve is disclosed. In one example, the quite fuel metering valve may include a fuel volume control plate. The fuel system may reduce engine noise and may provide improved fuel pressure control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
    Inventors: Paul Zeng, Vince Paul Solferino, Kyi Shiah, Joseph Basmaji, Patrick Brostrom
  • Patent number: 8511264
    Abstract: A fuel supply and combustion chamber system for a portable power tool, such as, for example, a fastener-driving tool, wherein the fuel supply and combustion chamber system can utilize liquid fuels. The fuel supply and combustion chamber system can comprise multiple combustion chambers for achieving predetermined combustion and power output characteristics. In addition, the fuel supply and combustion chamber system can utilize portioning valve structures for providing predetermined amounts of either a gaseous or liquid fuel into the portable power tool combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph S. Adams
  • Publication number: 20130192563
    Abstract: A fuel supply pump includes a low-pressure pump and a high-pressure pump. The low-pressure pump pumps up fuel from a fuel tank. The high-pressure pump includes a pressurizing chamber to which fuel pumped up by the low-pressure pump is supplied, and pressurizes fuel in the pressurizing chamber. The high-pressure pump further includes a cam shaft, a cam, a plunger, a housing, and a bush. The cam is provided eccentrically to a central axis of the cam shaft and is rotated integrally with the cam shaft. The plunger is driven by the cam to pressurize fuel in the pressurizing chamber. The housing accommodates the cam shaft. The bush is fixed to the housing to bearing-support the cam shaft. The housing includes a cooling passage, through which fuel discharged from the low-pressure pump flows on an outer peripheral side of the bush to serve as a medium for cooling the bush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: DENSO CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 8495985
    Abstract: A fuel delivery pipe with damper function, being constructed of an elongate lower case provided at its bottom with a plurality of injection sockets for connection with fuel injection valves to be opened and closed by a controller unit; an upper case coupled with the lower case in a liquid-tight manner to form an internal space to be filled with fuel under pressure supplied from a fuel pump; a hollow partition wall member the whole periphery of which is brazed to an inner surface of the lower or upper case to form an air chamber isolated from the internal space; and a vent hole formed in the lower or upper case and sealed after communicating the air chamber with the atmosphere therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naruki Harada, Daigo Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8485159
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure pump (2) for a fuel injection system (1) of an internal combustion engine, in particular for a common-rail injection system, comprising a driveshaft (21) supported by at least one bearing (23, 24) arranged in a bearing return (31, 31?, 31?), wherein, downstream of the at least one bearing (23, 24), at least one valve (27, 28) is arranged, wherein the at least one valve (27, 28) has an opening pressure of 0.1 bar to 0.8 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Langenbach
  • Publication number: 20130174809
    Abstract: A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine capable of executing calculation of an energization time of the electromagnetic valve at proper timing and thereby properly controlling the amount of fuel to be discharged from the fuel pump toward a fuel injection valve. In the fuel supply system, when a predetermined timing corresponding to a predetermined crank angle position of the engine deviates from a predetermined cam angle timing which is within a predetermined time period including a timing at which a top of a cam nose of the driving cam is abutting a plunger, and preceding and following the timing, and corresponds to a predetermined rotational angle position of the driving cam, the calculation timing of the energization time is corrected such that the calculation timing is made closer to the cam angle timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8483884
    Abstract: A method and system is described for controlling an electrically driven fuel pump used in the filling of a hobbyist model craft's fuel tank, (airplane, car, boat etc). The system includes a microcontroller to control the direction and run time of a brushed electric motor-driven fuel pump. A calibration feature allows operating parameters for different sized pumps and tanks to be measured and recorded in memory, then later recalled and used in the filling of pre-selected models' tank to a predetermined level simply by pressing a button to initiate the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventor: Junior Lloyd Williams