Fuel supply unit

US6149404A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Dobler · Gerlingen, DE
• Michael Huebel · Gerlingen, DE
• Willi Strohl · Beilstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 7, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 21, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 7, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F04D13/0646
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A feed unit for fuel, has a pump chamber (14) and an impeller (16) disposed in the pump chamber, an electric motor (12) driving the impeller (16), the electric motor (13) with a rotor formed as the impeller (16) of the feed pump (11), in order to achieve an extremely flat design in the axial direction.