Abstract: To provide a fuel injection apparatus preferable for a marine engine which can prevent a metal soap from being generated in a motor portion of a high pressure electric pump even when fuel containing sea water is sucked into the electric pump, a high pressure electric pump (HP) is provided with a pump portion (P) and a motor portion within a pump housing (1), the pump portion (P) sucks fuel within a vapor separator (V), high pressure fuel the pressure of which has been increased by the pump portion (P) is discharged through the periphery of the motor portion, the motor portion of the high pressure electric pump (HP) is formed as a brushless motor portion, and a resin material is molded on the outer periphery of a drive coil (6B) constituting the brushless motor portion, thereby shutting off contact between the drive coil (6B) and the fuel.

Abstract: A fuel feed system for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel tank for accumulating fuel, a fuel/air switchable pump for sucking and discharging accumulated fuel and air outside the fuel tank, a first device that allows accumulated fuel to be discharged to the engine, a second device that allows outside air to be sucked into the fuel tank, and an ECU for controlling the switchable pump.

Abstract: A system and a method for correcting the injection characteristics of at least one injector, having a device for storing information and an arrangement for controlling the at least one injector, taking into account the stored information. The information may be ascertained by comparing setpoint values to actual values individually at a plurality of test points of at least one injector, and may be specific.

Abstract: A high-pressure piston pump for a fuel system of an internal combustion engine, includes a housing, a piston, which defines a working chamber, and drive shaft having at least one crank section and supported in the housing by means of at least one shaft bearing. A piston bearing supports the piston at least indirectly against the crank section of the drive shaft. At least one of the bearings between parts that move in relation to one another is a hydrostatic bearing connected to the working chamber by means of a fluid connection. To increase efficiency, the fluid connection between the working chamber and the hydrostatic bearing is provided with a device operable to intermittently interrupt the fluid connection.

Abstract: A single-die injection pump for high-speed internal combustion engines which, because of its compact design and good volumetric efficiency, in conjunction with a high oscillation frequency of the piston, has a pumping quantity comparable to a multiple-die injection pump, without causing excessively high peak torque values in the drive of the single-die injection pump.

Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a bracket fitted around an opening portion of a fuel tank and having a discharge pipe disposed, and a fuel pump for sucking a fuel from the fuel tank and discharging the fuel through the discharge pipe, the fuel pump being mounted on the bracket. The fuel pump includes a pump portion for sucking and discharging the fuel from the fuel tank, a motor portion for rotating a rotor accommodated within the pump portion, through which the fuel discharged from the pump portion is passed internally, a cover out portion for accommodating a discharge filter for filtering the fuel passed through the motor portion, and a debris storage case for storing the debris in the fuel that is captured by the discharge filter, the case being disposed near the discharge filter.

Abstract: A fuel pump, of which sliding mechanism parts in its fuel chamber have good wear resistance under a severe environment, and a direct fuel injection engine using the fuel pump are provided. In a fuel pump for pressurizing and delivering fuel to a fuel injector of a vehicle engine, at least one of sliding surfaces of a slant plate, a slipper and a plunger sliding in a lubricating oil and at least one of sliding surfaces of sliding members of a plunger and a cylinder contacting with and sliding on each other through the fuel are formed of a hardened layer composed of any one of a nitrided layer, a carburization quenched layer and a carbonitrided layer, or coated with a high corrosion resistant and hard metal compound layer over the hardened layer.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, a helical gear is attached to an end of a camshaft and rotatable with the camshaft. The camshaft is biased in one axial direction thereof by a driving force that the helical gear receives from an engine crankshaft. A disk is provided in a position of the camshaft extending forward from a cam to the direction in which the camshaft is biased. An axial movement of the disk is restricted via a washer by an end of a bearing cover. The disk is formed in the same axis to a portion of the camshaft that is held by a journal bearing. An outer diameter of the disk is larger than that of the cam. An area where the disk and the washer are in sliding contact with each other is relatively large and the sliding regions thereof are constant so that hammer noises are prevented and frictional wear thereof are limited.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radial piston pump for generating high fuel pressure in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, in particular in a common rail injection system, having a driveshaft, supported in a housing, that has an eccentrically embodied shaft portion which cooperates with preferably a plurality of pistons capable of reciprocating radially, relative to the driveshaft, in a respective element bore, in order to aspirate fuel and subject it to high pressure in a high-pressure region. In order to increase the efficiency and lengthen the service life, in the outer jacket face (3) of the pistons and/or the inner jacket face of the element bore, a structure in the ?m range is formed.

Abstract: A fuel system is disclosed in which high-pressure fuel pump with a prefeed pump is proposed, in which the fuel quantity pumped by the prefeed pump is distributed for cooling and lubrication purposes, via a continuously adjustable multiposition valve, to the pump elements of the high-pressure fuel pump or to the low-pressure region of the high-pressure fuel pump. The multiposition valve is controlled by the control unit of the engine. An advantageous feature of the high-pressure fuel pump of the invention is that depending on the operating state of the engine and of the high-pressure fuel pump, an optimal distribution of the fuel quantity pumped by the prefeed pump can always be accomplished. Moreover, the energy demand by the prefeed pump is reduced and its service life is lengthened.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, a casing fixed to a housing has a pump room and a filter room mostly separated from but partly communicating with the pump room. A feed pump is constituted by the pump room where a feed pump mechanism is connected to an axial end of the drive shaft. A filter element is accommodated in the filter room. A casing cover easily attachable and detachable to the casing has a fuel inlet port through which fuel is sucked to the filter room and, then, flows via the filter element into the pump room where the fuel is pressurized according to rotation of the drive shaft. Accordingly, foreign material contained in fuel is eliminated before entering the pump room. Further, fuel flow area of the fuel element is larger than that of the fuel inlet port, resulting in less pressure loss of fuel passing through the filter element even if mesh size of filter element is smaller.

Abstract: A discharge path for discharging static electricity generated in a fuel filter built in a fuel supply apparatus mounted in a tank is formed with accuracy. A housing container of a fuel filter 5 is formed by heat welding a main housing 6 and a lid housing 3 at a welding face 5a, a support frame 18 of a filter is formed of a conductive thermoplastic resin, a part of the support frame 18 accommodated in the main housing 6 is at the same height as a welding face 5a, and an end of a peripheral wall for a communicating hole 3a formed on the lid housing 3 is formed at the same height as a heat welding face of the lid housing 3, wherein an earth conductor is connected to an exposed pedestal 18c of the support frame 18 exposed by heat welding the part of the support frame 18 and the end of the communicating hole 3a fluid-tight simultaneously with formation of the housing container.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump having at least one pump element is driven by a camshaft. An inside chamber of the pump housing, together with the cam-shaped portion of the camshaft and a blocking vane, forms a blocking-vane pump, which can act as a prefeed pump for the at least one pump element, whereby a prefeed pump can be integrated with the high-pressure fuel pump, which saves both production costs and installation space.

Abstract: In a system for feeding LPG by injection for an internal combustion engine, sensor means are provided for measuring the electrical current absorbed by the electric motor for driving the feed pump. The operation of said electric motor is interrupted when the measured electrical current absorbed drops below a predetermined threshold value. The system thereby prevents the operation of the motor-pump assembly, which is immersed in the LPG within the LPG tank, when the level of LPG in the tank drops below a minimum admissible value. Simultaneously to the interruption of the operation of the electric motor an auxiliary petrol feed system is activated.

Abstract: A common rail intensifier fuel injection system includes a plurality of fuel injectors respectively associated with cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A common rail supplies fuel at an intensified pressure to the fuel injectors and receives the fuel at the intensified pressure, alternately, from at least two fuel pressure intensifying circuits. At least one of the fuel pressure intensifying circuits includes a fuel pressure intensifier having an operating chamber for receiving and discharging an operating fluid, and a fuel chamber of a diameter smaller than that of the operating chamber for receiving fuel at a low pressure from the fuel supply and discharging the fuel at the intensified pressure into one of the fuel pressure intensifying circuits. A control valve, in a first position, connects the operating fluid source with the operating chamber of the fuel pressure intensifier and, in a second position, connects the operating chamber of the fuel pressure intensifier with a drain.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel pump drive system which can change revolution ratio of an engine to a fuel pump to one-to-one without vast increase in cost, allowing the fuel pump to be smaller-sized fuel pump. The system has a conventional flywheel housing with a gear through hole opened to a gear train accommodation space and adapted to receive a conventional input gear as an element of a gear train for transmission of the torque to the fuel pump through meshing with an output gear with revolution ratio of the engine to the fuel pump being two-to-one, an air compressor gear (new input gear) for transmission of the torque to the fuel pump through meshing with a smaller main idle (output gear) via an idle gear within a range of the gear through hole with revolution ratio of the engine to the fuel pump being changed to one-to-one, and an adapter interposed between the flywheel housing and the fuel pump for rotatably supporting the idle gear in a position for meshing with the air compressor gear.

Abstract: A fuel injector pump in a direct-injection fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine including a solenoid valve for controlling transfer of fluid from a high pressure chamber to a fuel injector nozzle. A supply passage and a return passage provide a fuel flow circuit for the fuel delivery system, the high pressure chamber being defined in part by a camshaft-driven plunger. An independent fuel leak flow path is provided to accommodate fuel leakage past a plunger of the pump, the fuel leak flow path extending to a zero pressure fuel tank.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a cam shaft (7) driving a plunger (4) and a feed pump (3) assembled therein for feeding fuel pressured by the plunger (4). A flange part (52) projecting radially is provided on the cam shaft (7), an internal gear (41) transmits a power to the feed pump (7), and a housing member (8c) rotatably supports the cam shaft (7) on the free end opposite to the end part of the driven side of the cam shaft (7). A housing member (8c) rotatably supporting the cam shaft (7) through a radial bearing (12) is held between the flange part (52) and the internal gear (41) so as to allow adjustment of the axial position of the cam shaft (7), so that adjustment of the axial position of the cam shaft is substituted for the existing member assembled into the pump. Thus, an axial gap due to a deterioration of durability of the bearing is eliminated to be adjusted so as to facilitate the assembly, reduce the number of parts, and reduce the size of the injection pump.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a plurality of plungers and a cam shaft having a plurality of drive cams (31, 32) corresponding to the plungers. The cam shaft is rotated by a power from the outside so as to reciprocate the plurality of plungers by the corresponding drive cams, and fuel is pressurized and force-fed in the forward stroke of each plunger. All or a part of the drive cams (31, 32) are installed with the phase thereof shifted, and the cam lobes (31a, 32a) of the drive cams are formed asymmetrical so that the amount of displacement of the plungers relative to a unit cam rotating angle is reduced in the forward stroke more than in the backward stroke of the plunger. Thus, the pressure variation in a common rail is reduced, the pressure resistance of the entire system is lowered, and the drive torque is reduced so as to reduce the load and noise of a drive system.

Abstract: A LPG fuel system for an internal combustion engine, including a LPG fuel tank and a pump immersed in the fuel tank and driven by an electric motor, the pump being kept constantly running when the temperature is below 0° C. or above 80° C., whilst the supply voltage of the electric motor driving the pump is chopper-controlled when the temperature is between the two said values.

Abstract: An injection system for an internal combustion engine comprises a valve arrangement (26), connected to an inlet (24) to a high pressure pump (8), which regulates the flow of fuel for lubricating and cooling the high pressure pump (8) and bleeds the injection system. The valve arrangement 926) comprises at least one displaceable actuator and a first and second throttle device (30, 32). The actuator (36) is regulated according to a pressure of the fuel flow between a feed supply pump (6) and the high pressure pump (8), such that a first connection to, the high pressure pump (8) is opened, by means of the first throttle device (30), or the feed (24) to the high pressure pump (8) is interrupted, or a second connection to the high pressure pump (8) is opened, by means of the second throttle device (32). The invention further relates to a method of bleeding and/or regulating said injection system.

Abstract: An engine fuel delivery system is provided to raise the fuel pressure rapidly in the initial stage of engine starting without increasing the cranking load, thereby making it possible to achieve an atomized fuel spray through high-pressure fuel injection, improve the fuel efficiency, and reduce emissions. The engine fuel delivery system uses a variable transmission mechanism that is configured to change the drive rotational ratio of a power transmission path between a crankshaft of an engine and a high-pressure fuel pump. The variable transmission mechanism controls the rotational speed of the high-pressure fuel pump to a rotational speed that is higher than the normal pump rotational speed in the initial stage of engine starting after the engine has been cranked to complete explosion.

Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus capable of reducing the abrasion of a driving cam and a tappet without increasing the dimensions and weight of the apparatus. This fuel supply apparatus is provided with a tappet which has a pressure receiving surface contacting the driving cam of an engine. The tappet is provided at the part of a outer surface thereof which is in the vicinity of an outer circumference of the pressure receiving surface with a groove adapted to prevent the local concentration of stress on the tappet and having a V-shaped, semicircular or U-shaped cross section.

Abstract: The pump has a body including at least a fuel compression chamber and an actuating chamber enclosing the actuating members of the pump. The on-off valve has a shutter sliding inside a hole in the body to close a fuel feed conduit. The shutter is held in the closed position by a compression spring, which rests directly or indirectly on a shoulder in the hole. In one embodiment, the spring rests on the shoulder via a perforated disk held by a retaining ring, which clicks removably inside an annular groove in the hole. In a further embodiment, the spring rests directly on the shoulder.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, fuel discharged from a feed pump assembly is supplied to each pressurizing chamber through a corresponding metering valve. A portion of the fuel is supplied to a receiving chamber, which receives a drive mechanism that drives plungers, through a space defined between a drive shaft and a bush, which supports the drive shaft. A fuel groove is formed in an inner wall of the bush, so that fuel supplied from the feed pump assembly to the receiving chamber through the fuel groove is also supplied to lubricate between an outer wall of the drive shaft and the inner wall of the bush.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, fuel pressurized by a feed pump is supplied to an accommodation chamber via a communication path having an orifice. An end of the communication chamber on a side of the accommodation chamber is positioned to face an axial end of a minute space between sliding contact portions of a cam and a bush when the cam is at a given angular position. The fuel fed from the feed pump is injected from the end of the communication path axially deep into the minute space between the sliding contact portions so that oil film for lubrication is formed on the sliding contact portions, resulting in suppressing frictional seizure of the sliding contact portions.

Abstract: A fuel injection device operating on the solid-state energy storage principle and configured as a reciprocating plunger pump having a delivery plunger element, the delivery plunger element being moved from its starting position in the direction of a pressure chamber, the delivery plunger element storing kinetic energy during a near zero-resistance acceleration phase, this kinetic energy being abruptly transmitted by a impulse movement to the fuel present in the pressure chamber so that a pressure impulse is generated for ejaculating fuel through an injector means, a second pressure chamber being arranged on the side of the delivery plunger element opposite the first pressure chamber such that kinetic energy absorbed on return movement of the delivery plunger element to its starting position is transmitted to fuel present in the second pressure chamber.

Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.

Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump (10) is used for a fuel system of a direct-injection internal combustion engine. It includes a housing (12) as well as a low-pressure inlet (18). A high-pressure outlet (20) is also present, which can be connected to a fuel collection line (22). To enable the most compact, small embodiment possible of the high-pressure fuel pump (10), it is proposed that the fuel collection line (22) be integrated into the housing (12) of the high-pressure fuel pump (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a radial piston pump for high-pressure fuel supply, having a drive shaft supported in a pump housing. A plurality of pistons are disposed radially with respect to the drive shaft in a respective cylinder chamber; the pump housing includes a housing base body, in which the drive shaft is supported, and one housing head for each piston. The housing head has a through opening that extends radially to the drive shaft and a bush that serves to receive the piston is shrink-fitted into the through opening bush.

Abstract: A fuel supply system for internal combustion engines has a fuel pump that can be driven both by an electric drive and by the engine. The result is good starting performance of the engine and low demand for driving power on the part of the fuel pump during operation of the engine.

Abstract: Characteristic correction system for a fuel pressure sensor includes a high-pressure fuel pump 14 for discharging a high-pressure fuel, a high-pressure fuel pipe 15 for accumulating/pressurizing the high-pressure fuel, a fuel pressure control valve 16 for adjusting a fuel pressure of the high-pressure fuel to a given value, a fuel injection valve 2 for directly injecting into the combustion chamber 3 a high-pressure fuel, a pressure release valve 2, 16 for equalizing an internal pressure of the pipe 15, a fuel pressure sensor 18 for detecting the pipe's internal pressure, and a control unit 17 for calculating a correction value for a detected value, based on a pressure differential between the pipe's internal pressure and a known gas pressure, when the pipe's internal pressure is equalized with the known gas pressure.

Abstract: A hydraulically-actuated system includes a fix displacement variable delivery pump with a plurality of parallel disposed pistons that reciprocate in a pump housing the defines a high pressure portion and a low pressure area. A control device is attached to the pump housing and moveable between a first position in which the pistons displace fluid into the high pressure portion and a second position in which pistons spill fluid back to the low pressure area. The control device includes an electrically driven linear motion device, a linkage and a plurality of sleeves, one being disposed on each piston. Linear movement of the control device in turn causes linear movement of the sleeves. The position of the sleeves in turn determines the amount of output of the pump.

Abstract: There is provided a high pressure fuel supply apparatus including a plunger reciprocating in a sleeve of a high pressure fuel pump so as to form a fuel pressurizing chamber between the plunger and the sleeve, a first plate having a fuel suction port for sucking fuel into the fuel pressurizing chamber and a fuel discharge port for discharging the fuel from the fuel pressurizing chamber, and a suction valve provided in the fuel suction port, the first plate, the suction valve and a flange portion of the sleeve being held between a casing and an end surface of a spring guide constituting the high pressure fuel pump.

Abstract: A micro-pulsation metering fuel injection system, comprising a throttle body and at least one injection unit. The throttle body is mounted in an inlet pipe of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine for controlling a quantity of flow of air into a combustion chamber. The injection units are mounted on the throttle body and have each a plurality of micropumps. The micropumps suck in fuel and inject tiny droplets of fuel into an air inlet inside the throttle body, so that the droplets of fuel mix with air in the throttle body, creating a mixture, which enters the combustion chamber of the cylinder. A control unit senses operating parameters of the engine and drives the injection units via a driver unit. This allows precisely to control the quantity of injected fuel and flexibly to control the distributing fuel spray, resulting in higher fuel efficiency and lore exhaust emission.

Abstract: An intake valve automatically opened and closed by pressure of a pressuring chamber is provided in a fuel intake passage, the intake valve is pushed to open by a plunger of an electromagnetic plunger mechanism, pulling-in operating timing of the plunger is controlled according to the operating condition of an internal combustion engine, and opening time of the intake valve during compression stroke of a pump is controlled to make discharge flow-rate of high pressure fuel variable.

Abstract: A plug for plugging a first port and blocking insertion of a second plug into a second port of a fluid system. The plug includes a threaded plug portion and a blocking stem portion extending from the threaded plug portion. The stem portion projects into the second port and blocks insertion or mounting of a second plug and thereby keeps the second port unplugged. In a disclosed embodiment, the plug is mounted into the return port of an oil pump unit of an oil burner to block bypassed flow from returning to the local reservoir of the oil pump unit. This prevents two plugs from being inadvertently mounted that could otherwise block all bypass flow in the pump unit and cause excess pressure build ups and blown seals.

Abstract: A pump, pump components and method for pumping high pressure fluid with an unobstructed inlet passage during return strokes of the piston and an improved near spherical interface between a piston and a slipper.

Abstract: A drive shaft seal for a gasoline direct injection pump is configured as a solid but flexible barrier separating combustion fluid from lubrication fluid in the pump. Each drive shaft seal is generally disc shaped, defining a central shaft opening surrounded by a flexible corrugated portion that is in turn surrounded by a generally planar outer flange. The outer flange of each shaft seal is retained between pump housing sections and sealed by stationary o-rings. An axially projecting lip retained and sealed between a bushing and a shoe race defines the shaft opening. The bushing, shoe race and associated pump components move reciprocally in response to rotation of a shaft mounted eccentric. The corrugated flexible portion of each drive shaft seal flexes to accommodate relative movement between the inner lip and outer flange. No part of the drive shaft seal is in contact with the rotating shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pump device for high pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines including a pump housing. The pump housing includes a number of pump elements, in which high pressure is exerted on fuel. The fuel that is acted on with high pressure is delivered by the individual pump elements to a common high pressure connecting bore by use of a high pressure conduit system. In order to reduce stress in the bores the high pressure conduit system includes a number of high pressure conduits which communicate with the pump elements and are disposed in a plane different from that of the common high pressure connecting bore in which the high pressure conduits come together at the connecting bore. Through the disposition of the common high pressure connecting bore in a plane different from that of the high pressure conduits, the high pressure conduits can intersect with the high pressure connecting bore in an eccentric fashion.

Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, fuel discharged from a feed pump assembly is supplied to each pressurizing chamber through a corresponding metering valve. A portion of the fuel is supplied to a receiving chamber, which receives a drive mechanism that drives plungers, through a space defined between a drive shaft and a bush, which supports the drive shaft. A fuel groove is formed in an inner wall of the bush, so that fuel supplied from the feed pump assembly to the receiving chamber through the fuel groove is also supplied to lubricate between an outer wall of the drive shaft and the inner wall of the bush.

Abstract: A fuel pump, of which sliding mechanism parts in its fuel chamber have good wear resistance under a severe environment, and a direct fuel injection engine using the fuel pump are provided.

Abstract: The pump (5) has at least one cylinder (6) in which slides a piston (16) moved positively in the compression direction and elastically in the intake direction. A compression spring (26) is located between the shutter (21) of an intake valve (19) and the piston (16) to push the shutter (21) elastically into a closed position by exerting elastic force varying according to the position of the piston (16). The shutter (21) has a plate (28) cooperating with a seat (22) on the intake valve (19) and moveable parallel to the piston (16); and the compression spring (26) acts on the plate (28) to advance both opening and closing of the intake valve (19).

Abstract: The pump has a body including at least a fuel compression chamber and an actuating chamber enclosing the actuating members of the pump. The on-off valve has a shutter sliding inside a hole in the body to close a fuel feed conduit. The shutter is held in the closed position by a compression spring, which rests directly or indirectly on a shoulder in the hole. In one embodiment, the spring rests on the shoulder via a perforated disk held by a retaining ring, which clicks removably inside an annular groove in the hole. In a further embodiment, the spring rests directly on the shoulder.

Abstract: The pump has a body including at least a fuel compression chamber and an actuating chamber enclosing the actuating members of the pump. The on-off valve has a shutter sliding inside a hole in the body to close a fuel feed conduit. The shutter is held in the closed position by a compression spring, which rests directly or indirectly on a shoulder in the hole. In one embodiment, the spring rests on the shoulder via a perforated disk held by a retaining ring, which clicks removably inside an annular groove in the hole. In a further embodiment, the spring rests directly on the shoulder.

Abstract: An injector for injection a fuel under high pressure into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the injector has an injector housing, a control chamber, a primary-side inlet to the control chamber, a control valve which controls the primary-side inlet to the control chamber, a pressure multiplier movable in the injector housing, the pressure multiplier being formed as a two-part piston arrangement.

Abstract: A fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine has a supply container, at least one feed pump for supplying a fuel from the supply container, a high pressure pump to which the fuel is supplied from the supply container by the feed pump, so that the fuel is supplied under high pressure at least indirectly to injection points of an internal combustion engine, the feed pump being driven mechanically by the internal combustion engine, and a further feed pump provided additionally to the mechanically driven feed pump and supplying the fuel from the supply container to the high pressure pump, the further feed pump having an electric drive and being operable independently from the mechanically driven feed pump.

Abstract: In a fuel pump pressurizing fuel and supplying the fuel to a fuel injection valve of a vehicle engine, a hardened layer of at least one selected from a nitride layer, a carburated and quenched layer and a carbonitrided layer, and a metal compound layer, on a surface of the hardened layer, higher in corrosion resistance than the hardened layer are formed on one of slide surfaces contacting each other and sliding in fuel.

Abstract: A fuel delivery system having a fuel reservoir connected to a suction side of a pump, a fuel delivery line connected to an output side of the pump, a number of fuel injectors connected to the delivery line, and a return line from the injectors to the suction side of the pump. The pump has a housing, a pumping chamber within the housing, a driver rotor and a driven rotor within the pumping chamber, and an input shaft t the housing. The input shaft is arranged such that rotation of the input shaft effects rotation of the driver rotor. The driver rotor is caused to rotate by the input shaft via a magnetic coupling. The magnetic coupling is arranged to slip when a predetermined value of torque is applied across the coupling such that a maximum pressure value of about 12 bar is attained at the output side of the pump.

Abstract: There is provided a high pressure fuel supply apparatus including a plunger reciprocating in a sleeve of a high pressure fuel pump so as to form a fuel pressurizing chamber between the plunger and the sleeve, a first plate having a fuel suction port for sucking fuel into the fuel pressurizing chamber and a fuel discharge port for discharging the fuel from the fuel pressurizing chamber, and a suction valve provided in the fuel suction port, the first plate, the suction valve and a flange portion of the sleeve being held between a casing and an end surface of a spring guide constituting the high pressure fuel pump.