Patent · US Expired

Fuel supply arrangement for an internal combustion engine

US5692477A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

Frank Berger · Leutenbach, DE
Kurt Moll · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 6, 1997
Grant date	Dec 2, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 6, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF02M39/00
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a fuel supply arrangement for plug-in fuel pumps disposed in reception cavities in the cylinder housing of in-line cylinders of an internal combustion engine, a main fuel supply passage extends through the cylinder housing adjacent the reception cavities for the plug-in pumps and branch-off passages extend from the main fuel passage in alignment with respective fuel passages in the plug-in pump, and sleeves are disposed in the fuel passages of the plug-in pumps and received in the branch passages formed in the cylinder housing for engaging and properly positioning the plug-in pumps with respect to the cylinder housing.

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