Automotive type fuel feed system

Patent · Tue Oct 14 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5036877

Seiler, W H

A fuel feed system is described for the fuel pump of an internal combustion engine including a fuel tank, a fuel reservoir having a fuel inlet line from the tank normally containing fuel at above atmospheric pressure level, a fuel outlet from the reservoir connected to the outlet suction side of the pump for supplying fuel thereto, a fuel flow return line normally containing fuel at a pressure level lower than that of the fuel in the reservoir inlet line having one end connected to the outlet side of the pump for evacuating excess fuel from the pump and having first and second branches at its opposite end connected in parallel flow relationship respectively to the reservoir and to the tank, and fuel pressure relief type valve means in the return line branches to automatically control fuel flow.

• Assignee: Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI
• Patent Number(s): US 4617116
• OSTI ID: 5036877
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
AIR
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
CONTAINERS
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUIDS
FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS
FUEL SYSTEMS
GASES
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
PRESSURE DROP
PRESSURE EFFECTS
PUMPS
RELIEF VALVES
TANKS
VALVES
VEHICLES