Abstract: A fuel injection supply system includes an intensifier cylinder having an intensifier piston configured to pressurize fuel in an intensifier chamber of the cylinder during a pressurizing stroke, and further configured to draw fuel into the intensifier chamber during a recharge stroke. A fuel rail receives pressurized fuel from the intensifier chamber, and supplies the fuel to a plurality of fuel injectors. A control unit controls switching of the intensifier piston between a pressurizing stroke and a recharge stroke, controlling recharge strokes of the piston to occur between two consecutive injection events of the plurality of fuel injectors. The common fuel rail may be hydraulically locked except during injection events of any of the plurality of fuel injectors, or during a recharge stroke of the piston. The intensifier piston may be controlled to perform a recharge stroke once during each engine cycle, or more than once during each engine cycle.

Abstract: A diesel engine (1) includes a fuel supply passage (4) via which fuel is supplied from a fuel tank (2) to an oil pan (3) through a supply pump (6), a lubrication-system fuel supply passage (8) via which fuel is supplied from the oil pan (3) to engine parts (7) to be lubricated through a lubricating oil pump (10), and an injection-system fuel supply passage (13) via which fuel is supplied from the oil pan (3) to an injection system (12) through an injection pump (12).

Abstract: A fuel supply system for supplying fuel from a fuel tank to an engine includes a fuel pump, a pressure regulator and a level sensor. The fuel pump pumps the fuel stored within the fuel tank. The pressure regulator regulates the pressure of the fuel before being supplied from the fuel pump to the engine and serves to return a surplus fuel into the fuel tank. The sensor detects the level of the fuel within the fuel tank and a surplus fuel is capable of being discharged to the sensor.

Abstract: The high pressure pump comprises a drive shaft (12) with at least one cam (16) or eccentric and at least one pump element (18) with a pump piston (20), driven in the reciprocating direction by the cam (16) or eccentric on the driveshaft (12) in a reciprocating motion. A support element (44) is arranged between the pump piston (20) and the cam (16) or eccentric on the driveshaft (12) and also a roller (46) running on the cam (16) or eccentric is mounted to rotate therein. A support (60) for the roller (46) in the direction of rotation is arranged adjacent to the same in the direction of the rotational axis (47) of the roller (46). The roller (46) and/or the support (60) comprises a surface with high wear resistance at least in the contact region between the roller (46) and the support (60).

Abstract: A high-pressure pump for feeding fuel to an internal combustion engine has a pump housing; a fuel delivery duct; and a check valve, which is arranged along the delivery duct, and comprises a fuel chamber; a valve member mobile within the fuel chamber; and a biasing and guiding assembly, which has a fastening member suitable for being fastened to the pump housing and sealing the fuel chamber in a fluid-tight manner; a helical spring suitable for biasing the valve member; and a bushing arranged about the helical spring in order to prevent bending of the helical spring.

Abstract: A fuel gas supply system of a ship is provided for supplying fuel gas to a high-pressure gas injection engine of the ship, wherein the ship has an LNG fuel tank for storing LNG as fuel and LNG is extracted from an LNG fuel tank of the ship, compressed at a high pressure, gasified, and then supplied to the high-pressure gas injection engine.

Abstract: Methods and fuel systems to reduce evaporative emissions of a volatile fuel. A fuel tank contains fuel, a carburetor mixes air with the fuel from the fuel tank, and a plurality of fluid paths route fuel amongst and/or between the fuel tank and the carburetor. A valve actuation device stops flow of fuel in one or more of the plurality of fluid paths and the carburetor is adapted to be drained of fuel during engine shutdown to reduce or prevent evaporative emissions from the fuel system. The carburetor is preferably designed so as to minimize a volume of fuel contained therein.

Abstract: In a diesel engine system of a liquefied gas fuel, the present invention aims at the prevention of storing of the liquefied gas fuel in a cam chamber even when a diesel engine repeats stopping and operation thereof without returning the liquefied gas fuel in a fuel gallery of a fuel pressurizing device such as a supply pump or an injection pump to a fuel tank. An electrically-operated compressor 16e is subjected to an ON/OFF control by a cam chamber pressure regulating part 20. In the inside of a cam chamber 12, a cam chamber pressure sensor 121 which detects a pressure in the inside of the cam chamber 12 is arranged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel metering unit, in which the displaceable parts of an electromagnet are guided through two bushings in an axial direction, the bushings being located at a distance from one another. The bushings guide the armature bolt, which can be produced from a wear-resistant material, such as for example tempered steel.

Abstract: The injection system (1) comprises a pump (7) designed to send fuel at high pressure to an accumulation volume, for example formed by a common rail (6), for supplying a plurality of injectors (5). The pump (7) comprises at least one pumping element (18) actuated with reciprocating motion with a compression stroke (Pi-Ps) at a sinusoidal speed (24), in synchronism with each step of fuel injection. The injection system (1) comprises at least one by-pass solenoid valve (14), which is controlled by a chopper control unit (16, 28) for modulating the delivery of the pumping element (18) by varying both the instant of start (To) and the instant of end (T1) of delivery during the compression stroke (Pi-Ps), in such a way that the delivery is synchronous with the injection phase.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump control device is capable of reducing current consumption, increasing pump durability, and promoting a rise of fuel pressure from startup. The high-pressure fuel pump control device comprises a fuel injector valve for directly injecting fuel in a common rail into a combustion chamber and a high-pressure fuel pump for feeding the fuel under pressure to the common rail. The high-pressure fuel pump comprises a pressurization chamber, a plunger for pressurizing the fuel in the pressurization chamber, a fuel passage valve disposed in the pressurization chamber, and an actuator for actuating the fuel passage valve. The control device includes a control unit for executing output control of a drive signal for the actuator to vary a discharge rate of the high-pressure fuel pump.

Abstract: A high-pressure pump piston/cylinder unit includes a pump cylinder having a piston which oscillates therein provided in a housing. The piston is connected to a controlled drive to vary a suction and compression stroke volume of the pump cylinder. The pressure of the fluid drawn into the pump cylinder is increased by the stroke of the piston to make it available to a further supply element through a conveying valve. A centering cone in the form of a straight truncated cone having a circular base area and top area is formed integrally on the pump piston a maximum half diameter reduction of the centering cone with respect to the diameter of the piston skirt being in a ratio of approximately 1:200, and an axial length of the centering cone being designed in relation to the axial length of the entire piston skirt in a ratio of approximately 1:6.6.

Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a pump element a pump piston driven in a reciprocating motion and defining a pump work chamber into which fuel is aspirated from a fuel inlet during the intake stroke via an inlet valve, and from which fuel is positively displaced via an outlet valve during the pumping stroke. The inlet valve has a valve member which with a sealing face inclined relative to its longitudinal axis, cooperates with a valve seat disposed in a valve housing when the sealing face of valve member is lifted from the valve seat, a flow cross section between the valve member and the valve housing is opened between the fuel inlet and the pump work chamber. In the opened state, a region having the smallest flow cross section between the valve member and the valve housing is disposed downstream, of the sealing face of the valve member.

Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine (10) equipped with a piston pump as a high-pressure pump (18), which is driven by a drive shaft (28) of the engine (10), in which the high-pressure pump (18) delivers fuel from a low-pressure region (16) to a high-pressure side (38) and a quantity control valve (44) sets the quantity of fuel delivered by the high-pressure pump (18), the acoustic emission of the high-pressure pump is reduced by virtue of the fact that the high-pressure pump (18) functions in a two-point operation, alternating between full delivery for individual or successive piston strokes and idle delivery for individual or successive piston strokes and, when the pressure falls below a lower pressure threshold, the full delivery is activated until an upper pressure threshold is reached.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump equipped with a rotary deflector having an increased lifetime and reduced maintenance cost required to replace the deflector when it is wasted due to cavitation erosion. The deflector comprises a stationary holder and a tip member which is supported rotatably by the stationary holder so that the tip member is rotated by fuel flow that outbursts from the plunger room through the inlet/spill port and impinges against the tip member when fuel injection ends. This evades concentrated impingement at a specific portion of the tip member and prevents the occurrence of cavitation erosion.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus having a plurality of high pressure fuel injection pumps for supplying fuel to a common rail, of which amounts of fuel discharge can be controlled by a fuel supply amount adjusting device of simple and reliable construction. The fuel supply amount adjusting device is provided to fuel feed passages for feeding fuel to the plunger rooms. The adjusting device includes a spool valve device for varying opening area of each of passages for introducing fuel into each of the plunger rooms by sliding a spool fitted slidably in a spool valve case, a spool drive device for sliding the spool, and a controller for controlling the spool drive device so that the spool is slid to a position at which the opening area coincide with area required depending on engine operating conditions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel injection mechanism for regulating the volume of fuel injected into a cylinder comprising a selectively detachable helix ring configured to be removably affixed to an outside diameter of a plunger. The selectively detachable helix ring includes a ridge that has at least one helix angle. The helix angle is associated with a throttle position of the mechanism.

Abstract: A control system for a fuel delivery system provides enhanced functionality and diagnostic capabilities relative to known systems. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, enhanced functionality and diagnostic capability is provided by integrating the pump controller and the tank gauge by way of a control or integration unit. The control unit includes a microprocessor and communication hardware for communicating with the tank gauge and the pump controllers. In accordance with alternate embodiments of the invention, a control unit is included which provides additional functionality, such as automatic logging of controller faults.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive heater (10) which is designed for operation with liquid fuel and which has a fuel pump (16?, 16) and a damping element (34, 66) comprising an elastomer (36, 68) for damping pulsations generated by the fuel pump (16?, 16). According to this invention, means (58, 78a, 78b, 78c, 80, 82) are provided for heating the elastomer (68). It is especially preferable for the automotive heater to have an electromagnetically operated fuel valve (52) and for the damping element (66) to be provided in the area of the electromagnetically operated fuel valve (52) and in particular to be integrated into it.

Abstract: A diaphragm carburettor (1) for internal combustion engines, comprising: a carburettor body (2,2?) provided with a feed duct (3) of an air/fuel mixture to the engine, said duct (3) being intercepted by at least one butterfly valve (20); pumping means comprising a diaphragm pump (6) communicating on one side with the engine and on the other side with a fuel tank, said diaphragm pump (6) being driven by the pulses coming from the engine; metering means comprising a diaphragm meter (7) adapted to keep a first chamber (13) and a second chamber (12) separate, with said meter (7) interposed, said first chamber (13) being at environmental pressure, and said second chamber (12) communicating both with said diaphragm pump (6), on the side which communicates with the tank, through a line intercepted by a valve controlled by the meter (7) itself, and with said feed duct (3) of the mixture, where said pumping means and said metering means are integrally made on a single block (5) fixed directly on one side of the carb

Abstract: A method of relieving hot soak pressure in a fuel rail of a fuel injected internal combustion engine includes pressurizing fuel with a fuel pump when the engine is operating, and conveying the pressurized fuel through a check valve that prevents backflow of fuel from the fuel rail toward the fuel pump. A bypass path is in fluid communication between a location downstream of the check valve and a location downstream of the fuel pump and upstream of the check valve. The bypass path is opened when the engine is not operating so as to relieve fuel pressure downstream of the check valve to a level below a system operating pressure. Apparatuses are provided for carrying out the method.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems which can automatically switch passages of a fuel supply line and a fuel return line when the pressure in a fuel return line becomes higher than a predetermined pressure. Even when the fuel supply and return lines are incorrectly connected, the present systems can prevent the problem of damages to a fuel supply system and fuel leakage which may be caused by an increased fuel pressure.

Abstract: A fuel pump module has a fuel pump with an outlet located within a fuel reservoir, a fuel filter casing within which a fuel filter receives fuel from the fuel pump fuel outlet. A fuel discharge housing attaches to the fuel filter casing such that fuel passing from the filter and into the discharge casing then discharges from either a casing fuel outlet or a bleed orifice. The casing fuel outlet leads to the engine while the bleed orifice discharges fuel into a sump formed into the reservoir's bottom wall under the bleed orifice. The sump retains a quantity of fuel so that during low fuel levels within the reservoir, when the engine is off, the fuel filter maintains its prime condition from fuel in the sump to lessen the filter prime time during engine starting. Selective placement of fuel valves also decreases fuel system prime times.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a lubricity improver supply for adding a lubricity improver to low-viscosity fuel supplied to a fuel injection apparatus of the engine. A controller controls the lubricity improver supply so that the amount of the lubricity improver added to fuel at the inlet to the fuel injection apparatus is increased as engine rotation speed, engine load, or injection pressure is increased. With the system, wear or sticking of the plunger can be prevented even when low-viscosity fuel is used by improving lubrication conditions to secure necessary lubrication condition for the sliding part in accordance with engine operation conditions, fuel temperature and viscosity.

Abstract: A pump for a combustion engine is disclosed. The pump may have at least one pumping member movable through a plurality of displacement strokes during a single engine cycle. The pump may also have a controller in communication with the at least one pumping member. The controller may have stored in a memory thereof a map relating a speed of the combustion engine and fuel demand to a contribution factor associated with each of the plurality of displacement strokes and a total fuel delivery amount.

Abstract: A vehicle fuel tank assembly includes a fuel tank having a fuel pump receiving opening, a fuel pump, a mounting ring, at least one attachment member (a clip) and a fuel pump cover. The fuel pump is disposed in the fuel pump receiving opening such that a portion of the fuel pump is exposed. The mounting ring secures the fuel pump to the fuel tank. The at least one attachment member has a ring attachment portion connected to the mounting ring and a cover attachment portion. The fuel pump cover is connected to the cover attachment portion of the attachment member to substantially cover at least the exposed portion of the fuel pump.

Abstract: A fluid pump includes an electric motor with a casing and a drive shaft extending from the casing, a pumping element coupled to the drive shaft for rotation with the shaft to take in fluid and discharge it under pressure. The fuel pump casing may be sealed and a housing coupled to the casing may provide the inlet and outlet passages for fluid flow to and from the pumping element. The housing may be received in or communicated with other housing or module assemblies to provide a wide array of fuel pump assemblies. The pumping element may include one or more gear rotors, a turbine pumping element, or other pumping element, as desired.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The fuel supply apparatus includes a fuel pump driven by the engine, a pressure accumulating device for retaining the fuel pressurized by the fuel pump, a relief device which opens when a fuel pressure in the pressure accumulating device exceeds a predetermined upper limit pressure. An injection device is connected to the pressure accumulating device and injects fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine. A fuel pressure in the pressure accumulating device is detected. A discharge amount of the fuel pump is controlled so that the detected fuel pressure coincides with a target fuel pressure. The target fuel pressure is reduced when the detected fuel pressure is equal to or greater than a predetermined fuel pressure, to suppress opening of the relief device.

Abstract: A valve system of a V-type engine in which a camshaft provided in each bank is formed with valve cams that open and close engine valves and a pump cam for driving a fuel pump, the phase of the pump cam relative to the valve cams is set such that the crank angle at which driving torque of the pump cam is maximized does not coincide with the crank angle at which driving torque of each of the valve cams is maximized.

Abstract: A fuel pump for an internal combustion engine including a fuel pump housing, a cylindrical bore having a central axis and being defined by a bore wall surface, a receiving hole formed in the housing, and a tappet assembly received in the cylinder bore. The tappet assembly includes an outer peripheral surface with an elongated key slot longitudinally extending parallel to the central axis. A guide key partially received in the receiving hole is provided, the guide key including a head that extends into the cylindrical bore to engage the elongated key slot of the tappet assembly. The head has an outer dimension that is larger than a dimension of the receiving hole along the central axis. Methods for guiding a reciprocating tappet assembly in a fuel pump and assembling a fuel pump are also provided.

Abstract: An electromagnetic controlled fuel injection apparatus is provided in which a housing assembly with two sets each including a solenoid device and an open/close valve device being fixed directly to a housing is fixed to a plunger unit to decrease the length of the fuel passages between the open/close valve devices and a plunger room in order to increase the speed of injection response in two-stage fuel injection for reducing NOx emission while maintaining engine performance and to facilitate mounting of the apparatus on constricted space of an engine.

Abstract: In an engine fuel supply method, a first fuel pressure difference between a fuel injection amount computation timing and a first fuel injection timing and a second fuel pressure difference between the fuel injection amount computation timing and a second fuel injection timing are estimated at the fuel injection amount computation timing based on a control state of a fuel pneumatic transportation amount of a high-pressure fuel pump. The first fuel injection amount is corrected based on the first fuel pressure difference and the second fuel injection amount is corrected based on the second fuel pressure difference. A fuel injection valve is selectively controlled to supply the high-pressure fuel directly into a cylinder of the engine at the first fuel injection timing with the corrected first fuel injection amount and at the second fuel injection timing with the corrected second fuel injection amount.

Abstract: The invention can avoid an energy dissipation and a consumption of an apparatus by minimizing a driving amount of a fuel pump and maintain an improved fuel supply state, in a fuel supply system injecting a liquefied gas fuel by an injector and supplying to an engine.

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 includes a fuel pump for pumping fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine. A pressure-control valve controls pressure of fuel, which is discharged from the fuel pump, to be equal to or less than a first pressure. A jet pump generates suction pressure by jetting fuel, which is discharged from the fuel pump, partially through a nozzle. A pressure-retention valve is provided in an upstream of the jet pump with respect to fuel flow from the fuel pump for maintaining pressure of fuel in the upstream at a second pressure, which is less than the first pressure. A pump bracket holds the fuel pump. The pressure-control valve and the pressure-retention valve are connected to the pump bracket.

Abstract: Prior art fuel line check valves remain closed after engine off and cool down. Diurnal heating and the resultant pressure increase in the fuel line causes fuel vapor emissions through small openings in the fuel line (e.g., at the injector tips). The invention provides a check valve for a vehicle fuel line which opens in response to engine cooling and remains open while the engine is off to relieve subsequent increasing pressure in the fuel line due to diurnal heating thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for detecting a fuel leak from a component includes providing a fuel leak enclosure about the component being monitored.

Abstract: A pump having least one pump element with a pump piston guided in a sealed fashion in a cylinder bore (26) of a housing part delimiting a pump working chamber in the cylinder bore, and driven into a stroke motion. The working chamber is connected to an inlet conduit through by an inlet valve opening into the pump working chamber and to an outlet conduit through an outlet valve opening out from the working chamber. The inlet valve has a valve element acted on in a closing direction by a valve spring. The inlet conduit includes a first blind bore which adjoins the pump working chamber and has a smaller diameter than the cylinder bore a valve seat is formed at the transition from the cylinder bore to the first blind bore, and a second blind bore, as another part of the inlet conduit, feeds into the first blind bore.

Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a pump housing in which a plurality of pump elements are disposed, and by means of which fluid is pumped at high pressure via a high-pressure conduit system to a common high-pressure connection. The pump housing has a housing body and for each pump element one housing cap covering the pump element and joined to the housing body. The high-pressure conduit system has high-pressure bores extending without intersections in the housing body which bores are joined together in the region of the transition from the housing body to one of the housing caps, or in one of the housing caps, to form the common high-pressure connection.

Abstract: A simple structured high-pressure fuel pump. A fuel pump comprises a reciprocably-supported cylinder, a pressurizing chamber using part of the outer surface of the cylinder as the wall surface which move to change the internal volume, a fuel intake passage forming a fuel passage which introduces fuel to the pressurizing chamber, a fuel discharge passage for the compressed fuel coming out from the pressurizing chamber. A fuel intake valve is provided in fuel intake passage. A fuel discharge valve is provided in said fuel discharge passage. A connecting passage connects upstream side of the intake valve in the fuel intake passage and the downstream side of it. A check valve which flows fuel from the fuel discharge flow passage to the fuel intake passage is provided in the connecting passage.

Abstract: A control valve is constructed as a two-position three-way valve. A switching port of the control valve and a control chamber of a pressure intensifier are connected to the control valve through a reciprocation passage. Fuel pressure in the control chamber is controlled by the control valve. The reciprocation passage is formed of two fuel passages for connecting the switching port of the control valve with the control chamber in parallel. One fuel passage is provided with a check valve for preventing fuel from flowing from the control chamber to the control valve and the other fuel passage is provided with a hydraulic valve for preventing the fuel from flowing from the control valve to the control chamber and a restrictor.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus reduces the fuel vaporization and leakage. The positions of vaporization and leakage and their amount in the fuel tank and the fuel pipe are detected when using a low boiling point fuel having a vapor phase in the normal temperatures and atmospheric pressures, and the fuel state is controlled based on those detected values. By providing another container made of elastomatic material having an expandable mechanical characteristic inside the fuel storing container, the low boiling point fuel is stored in the separate container. A flow rate controlling apparatus is provided for heating or cooling the fuel pipe leading the low boiling point fuel stored in the fuel storing container to the engine. A flow rate controlling apparatus is provided for adjusting the flow rate of the fuel in the fuel pipe for leading the low boiling point fuel stored in the fuel storing container to the engine.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply system is suitable for an internal combustion engine having an in-cylinder injector for injecting a fuel into a cylinder. The high-pressure fuel supply system includes a high-pressure fuel pump driven by an engine, a high-pressure delivery pipe supplying the fuel from the high-pressure fuel pump to the in-cylinder injector, and an actuation valve provided with a leakage function provided between the high-pressure fuel pump and the high-pressure delivery pipe. An amount of leakage in the actuation valve provided with the leakage function is set to an amount not smaller than a discharge amount of the high-pressure fuel pump.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a camshaft, an eccentric cam, a cam ring, a housing and plungers. The camshaft is rotated by an engine. The cam is provided separately from the camshaft and is formed with a connecting portion connected with the main shaft. The cam rotates with the camshaft. The cam ring revolves around the camshaft so that the cam ring rotates with respect to the cam along an outer periphery of the cam. The housing rotatably houses the cam and the cam ring and is formed with fuel pressurizing chambers. The plungers reciprocate in accordance with the revolution of the cam ring to pressurize and to pressure-feed fuel drawn into the fuel pressurizing chambers. Strength of the connecting portion is set to a value lower than damage strength of the housing.

Abstract: The invention proposes a fuel supply system for internal combustion engines, having a fuel tank (1) and a fuel reservoir (5) disposed therein, having a fuel pump (11), which drives one or more jet pumps (13), each by means of a supply line (21), the jet pumps (13) in turn filling the fuel reservoir (5) with fuel from the fuel tank (1). There is also a fuel line (7), which hydraulically connects the fuel reservoir (5) to the engine. During the starting of the engine, the fuel pump (11) feeds fuel into the fuel line (7), thus improving the starting behavior of the engine.

Abstract: A method of controlling the fuel injection to a combustion chamber (4), comprises the steps of: supplying fuel to a pump (2), which has a piston (7) reciprocating in the a cylinder (6), pressurizing the fuel by applying a force onto the piston (7) by an actuator (8), so that the piston (7) is displaced from a first end position (9) towards a second end position (10), injection of fuel corresponding to a partial volume of the fuel pressurized in the cylinder (6), into the combustion chamber (4), and returning the piston (7) towards the first end position (9) by the pressurized fuel, so that the piston (7) acts with a driving force on the actuator (8). The invention also relates to a fuel injection device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A composite control valve is constructed by a valve housing, first and second diaphragms mounted to the valve housing and disposed to be opposed to each other, a negative pressure working chamber defined between the first and second diaphragms to communicate with a negative pressure generating section in an engine, a first control valve adapted to be opened and closed by advancing and returning of the first diaphragm, and a second control valve adapted to be opened and closed by advancing and returning of the second diaphragm. The first control valve is incorporated into an air vent system for a fuel tank, and the second control valve is incorporated into a fuel passage system extending from the fuel tank to a fuel supply section in the engine.

Abstract: A fuel pumping system that includes a pump drive is provided. A first pumping element is operatively connected to the pump drive and is operable to generate a first flow of pressurized fuel. A second pumping element is operatively connected to the pump drive and is operable to generate a second flow of pressurized fuel. A first solenoid is operatively connected to the first pumping element and is operable to vary at least one of a fuel pressure and a fuel flow rate of the first flow of pressurized fuel. A second solenoid is operatively connected to the second pumping element and is operable to vary at least one of a fuel pressure and a fuel flow rate of the second flow of pressurized fuel.

Abstract: An injection system for an internal combustion engine comprises a pump (1), a pressure accumulator (3), a sensor (7) for detecting the pressure in the pressure accumulator (3), a control valve (2) and a control or regulation unit (8). The control or regulation unit controls the pressure in the pressure accumulator (3) by opening or closing a connection to a low-pressure area (6). The control or regulation unit has an emergency operation function, which operates in such a way that when an error occurs in the regulator circuit, the control valve adopts the open position.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for reciprocating engines in which predetermined amounts of fuel are injected into the air fuel supply of the engine in timed relation to the reciprocating engine with the amounts of fuel varying in response to speed and load on said engine by varying the stroke of a reciprocating fuel pump in response to the position of a throttle valve.