Electrical connector bar for a fuel injector/fuel rail assembly

Patent · Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7083825

Imoehl, W J

This patent describes a fuel rail assembly for an automotive vehicle internal combustion engine. It comprises a fuel rail containing plural electrically operated fuel injectors at spaced-apart locations along the fuel rail wherein the fuel rail serves to supply pressurized fuel to the fuel injectors, each fuel injector having electric terminal means on the exterior thereof via which electric terminal means the injector is electrically operated to deliver fuel to an engine, and electrical connector structure providing electrical circuit connection of the electric terminal means of the injectors to a control circuit for electrically operating the injectors characterized in that the electrical connector structure comprises a flexible strip arranged such that its length runs in the same direction as that of the fuel rail.

• Assignee: Siemens Automotive L.P., Auburn Hills, MI (United States)
• Patent Number(s): A; US 5127383
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-583733
• OSTI ID: 7083825
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
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ENGINES
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FUEL SYSTEMS
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES