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Granted Patent B2
US 8,490,604 · App. 12/477,408 · Granted Jul 23, 2013

Fuel feeding device for gas engine

Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima (Wako, JP); Masanori Fujinuma (Wako, JP); Haruo Tsusaka (Wako, JP); Tsukasa Ebisudani (Wako, JP)
Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
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Patent No.
US 8,490,604
App. No.
12/477,408
Granted
Jul 23, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An engine fuel feeding device that is small-sized and easy to start. A cutoff valve is disposed upstream from a primary regulator provided to a fuel passage from a fuel feeding source to an engine. The cutoff valve is provided integrally with the primary regulator. When the gas engine is stopped, the fuel feeding passage is blocked in front of the primary regulator, gas fuel does not flow in the downstream direction that includes the primary regulator, and the ability of the gas engine to start is enhanced.

Claims (10)

1. A gas engine fuel feeding device, comprising:

a fuel feeding source;

a vaporizer for vaporizing fuel fed from the fuel feeding source;

a primary regulator for reducing a pressure of the gas fuel;

a secondary regulator for reducing the gas fuel pressure, having been reduced by the primary regulator, further to a pressure near atmospheric pressure;

a mixer for mixing the secondary pressure-reduced gas fuel with air; and

a cutoff valve for blocking flow of fuel when the gas engine is stopped, the cutoff valve being provided to a fuel feeding passage through which the fuel vaporized by the vaporizer is fed to a gas engine,

wherein the cutoff valve is provided upstream in a flow of fuel with respect to the primary regulator,

wherein the cutoff valve is provided downstream in the flow of fuel with respect to the vaporizer, and

wherein the cutoff valve comprises a temperature-sensing valve for sensing the ambient temperature and closing when the ambient temperature is lower than a set temperature.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 8, 2009
From: KOJIMA, HIROAKI; FUJINUMA, MASANORI; TSUSAKA, HARUO; EBISUDANI, TSUKASA
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022792/0570 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2008-147165 · Jun 4, 2008 · national
JP 2008-147207 · Jun 4, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090301443A1 · Dec 10, 2009