IP Library Granted Patent US 9,145,860
Granted Patent B2
US 9,145,860 · App. 13/578,380 · Granted Sep 29, 2015

High-pressure fuel supply pump

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Patent No.
US 9,145,860
App. No.
13/578,380
Granted
Sep 29, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A high-pressure fuel supply pump which has no probability of discontinuity of a thin film of fuel at a sliding portion even when the fuel is not needed to be compressed to a high pressure is obtained. Two low-pressure fuel ports are provided on the high-pressure fuel supply pump in addition to a high-pressure discharge port to a high-pressure fuel capacity chamber. One of the two low-pressure fuel ports is connected to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and remaining one is connected to a low-pressure fuel supply pump. Accordingly, the interior of the high-pressure fuel supply pump is always filled with fresh fuel even in a mode in which a high-pressure fuel injecting valve does not inject fuel and only a low-pressure fuel injection valve injects fuel, so that a temperature rise of a plunger and a cylinder is prevented and locking of the plunger and the cylinder can be prevented.

Claims (15)

1. A high-pressure fuel supply pump used in an internal combustion engine having high-pressure fuel injection apparatus ( 23 , 24 , 30 ) and low-pressure fuel injection apparatus ( 41 , 43 , 44 ), the apparatuses being supplied with fuel from a low-pressure fuel supply pump, wherein

low-pressure fuel flows to a low-pressure fuel channel of the low-pressure fuel injection apparatus via a low-pressure fuel channel provided in a body of the high-pressure fuel supply pump even while the high-pressure fuel supply pump is making a pause.

2. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel from the low-pressure fuel supply pump is introduced to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber of the low-pressure fuel injection apparatus via a damper chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump.

3. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel from the low-pressure fuel supply pump is introduced to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber via a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump.

4. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel from the low-pressure fuel supply pump is introduced to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber by flowing through a damper chamber and a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump in this order.

5. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel from the low-pressure fuel supply pump is introduced to a low-pressure capacity chamber via a plunger seal chamber and a damper chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump in this order.

6. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the high-pressure fuel supply pump includes two low-pressure fuel ports in addition to a high-pressure fuel discharge port configured to discharge high-pressure fuel to a high-pressure fuel capacity chamber, one of the two low-pressure fuel ports is connected to a low-pressure fuel piping continued to a low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and remaining one communicates with the low-pressure fuel piping connected to the low-pressure fuel supply pump.

7. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein one of the low-pressure fuel ports is fixed to the damper cover, and the corresponding one of low-pressure fuel ports communicates with the damper chamber.

8. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein one of the low-pressure fuel ports is fixed to a pump body and the corresponding one of the low-pressure fuel ports is connected to the plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump.

9. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel port connected to the low-pressure fuel supply pump is fixed to a pump body, and the low-pressure fuel port is connected to a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and the other low-pressure fuel port connected to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber is fixed to a damper cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and the other low-pressure fuel port communicates with a damper chamber.

10. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel port connected to the low-pressure fuel supply pump is fixed to the damper cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and the other low-pressure fuel port communicating with the damper chamber and connected to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber is connected to a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump.

11. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel flows into a damper chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump from the low-pressure fuel port fixed to a damper cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and flows from the damper chamber to an intake channel and a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and is introduced to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber from another low-pressure fuel port fixed to a pump body of the high-pressure fuel supply pump via the plunge seal chamber.

12. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel flows into a plunger seal chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump from the low-pressure fuel port fixed to a pump body of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and flows from the plunger seal chamber to a damper chamber and an intake channel of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and is introduced to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber from another low-pressure fuel port fixed to a dump cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump.

13. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel flows into an intake port and a damper chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump from the low-pressure fuel port fixed to a pump body of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and introduced from another low-pressure fuel port fixed to a damper cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and the plunger seal chamber and an intake port communicate with each other.

14. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein the low-pressure fuel flows into an intake port and a damper chamber of the high-pressure fuel supply pump from the low-pressure fuel port fixed to a pump body of the high-pressure fuel supply pump, and introduced from another low-pressure fuel port fixed to a damper cover of the high-pressure fuel supply pump to the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber, the plunger seal chamber and an intake port communicate with each other, and the low-pressure fuel capacity chamber and an exit piping of the low-pressure fuel supply pump are connected to each other.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 25, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 056299/0447 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2012
From: USUI, SATOSHI; TAHARA, SHIGENORI; TOKUO, KENICHIRO; NEMOTO, MASASHI; MUNAKATA, AKIHIRO; SUGANAMI, MASAYUKI; KAWANO, TATSUO
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028765/0209 →