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Title: Diesel fuel injection pump with electronically controlled fuel spilling and cutoff and recirculation venting of split fuel

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6023445

This patent describes a fuel injection pump for a diesel engine. The pump consists of a number of intercommunicating parts. The first part is a housing containing a bore. Analogously, the patent describes a plunger slidably fitted in the bore for reciprocation with respect to housing in response to engine rotation, the bore defining a high pressure chamber at one end of the plunger. A first electromagnetic valve for shutting off fuel to the pump when the engine is not running, is also described and characterized as having an inlet adapted to be connected to a source of fuel at a relatively low pressure and an outlet. Connected to the outlet of the first electromagnetic valve is the upstream end of a fuel supply passage. The downstream end of the fuel supply leads to the high pressure chamber. A means for communicating the high pressure chamber with a fuel injection line substantially only when the plunger is moving in a second direction to reduce the size of the high pressure chamber is represented. Similarly, a means for selectively communicating the high pressure chamber with a vent passage in order to control the amount of fuel delivered during each fuel injection is described and is characterized as a principal feature of this patent. This selective modality of communication consists of two components. The first component is a second electromagnetic valve having an inlet connected to the high pressure chamber and an outlet connected to the fuel supply passage. The second component is a means for selectively opening the second electromagnetic valve to communicate the high pressure chamber with the fuel supply passage for a predetermined minimum time in response to the closing of the first electromagnetic valve.

Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota
Patent Number(s):
US 4563992
OSTI ID:
6023445
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 13 Sep 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English