IP Library Granted Patent US 10,253,741
Granted Patent B2
US 10,253,741 · App. 15/566,060 · Granted Apr 9, 2019

High-pressure fuel pump

Inventors: Moritsugu Akiyama (Ibaraki, JP); Shigehiko Omata (Ibaraki, JP); Katsutoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP); Kenichiro Tokuo (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd
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Patent No.
US 10,253,741
App. No.
15/566,060
Granted
Apr 9, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to suppress cavitation generated at a distal end portion of a seat face when a valve body and a seat portion collide with each other. In a relief valve of a fuel pump, an intersection between the seat face and a flow channel hole is formed at a position more distant than the seat portion formed of the valve body in a valve closing state and the seat face in order to suppress generation of cavitation bubbles when the valve body improves and releases high-pressure fuel.

Claims (25)

1. A high-pressure fuel pump comprising:

a pressurizing chamber to pressurize fuel;

a discharge valve disposed on a downstream side of the pressurizing chamber; and

a relief valve mechanism that causes fuel in a discharge path on the downstream side of the discharge valve to return to the pressurizing chamber or a low-pressure path, wherein the relief valve mechanism comprises:

a relief path formed to be connected to the discharge path; a relief seat face connected to the relief path and formed to be enlarged toward the pressurizing chamber or the low-pressure path; and a relief valve body positioned to be closer to the pressurizing chamber side or the low-pressure path side than the relief seat face and seated on the relief seat face, and

an intersection between the relief path and the relief seat face is positioned closer to the discharge path side than an end portion of the relief valve body on the discharge path side

wherein the relief seat face is polished on the pressurizing chamber side of the low pressure path side from an intersection between the relief path and the relief seat face

wherein a diameter of the relief path is equal to or smaller than 0.6 times of a seat diameter of the relief seat face.

2. A high-pressure fuel pump comprising:

a pressurizing chamber to pressurize fuel;

a discharge valve disposed on a downstream side of the pressurizing chamber; and

a relief valve mechanism that causes fuel in a discharge path on the downstream side of the discharge valve to return to the pressurizing chamber or a low-pressure path,

wherein the relief valve mechanism comprises: a relief path formed to be connected to the discharge path; a relief seat face connected to the relief path and formed to be enlarged toward the pressurizing chamber or the low-pressure path; and a relief valve body positioned to be closer to the pressurizing chamber side or the low-pressure path side than the relief seat face and seated on the relief seat face, and

a diameter of the relief path is equal to or smaller than 0.6 times of a seat diameter of the relief seat face.

3. A high-pressure fuel pump comprising:

a pressurizing chamber to pressurize fuel;

a discharge valve disposed on a downstream side of the pressurizing chamber; and

a relief valve mechanism that causes fuel in a discharge path on the downstream side of the discharge valve to return to the pressurizing chamber or a low-pressure path,

wherein the relief valve mechanism comprises: a relief path formed to be connected to the discharge path; a relief seat face connected to the relief path and formed to be enlarged toward the pressurizing chamber or the low-pressure path; and a relief valve body positioned to be closer to the pressurizing chamber side or the low-pressure path side than the relief seat face and seated on the relief seat face, and

a diameter of the relief path is formed to be equal to or smaller than a half of a diameter of the relief valve body.

4. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , wherein

an intersection is formed without an R portion as the relief path and the relief seat face intersect each other at a predetermined angle.

5. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , wherein

the relief path is formed substantially in parallel with an extension and contraction direction of a spring portion that biases the relief valve body, and

the relief seat face is formed to be tilted to an outer periphery side at an angle of 50 degrees or smaller with respect to the relief path.

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 Oct 13, 2017
From: AKIYAMA, MORITSUGU; OMATA, SHIGEHIKO; KOBAYASHI, KATSUTOSHI; TOKUO, KENICHIRO
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 043857/0824 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-096996 · May 12, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180128229A1 · May 10, 2018
Cited By (1)
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