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Fuel-injection device for an internal combustion engine

US6886535B2 · kind B2 · utility

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5References
20Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 6, 2002
Grant dateMay 3, 2005
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 6, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02M59/366
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The fuel injection apparatus has a high-pressure fuel pump and a fuel injection valve for each cylinder of the engine. The pump has at least one piston driven by the engine and delimiting a pump working chamber supplied with fuel from a fuel tank. A control valve at least indirectly controls a connection of the pump working chamber to a relief chamber and a pressure source in order to fill the pump working chamber during the intake stroke. The pump has a first pump piston inside which a second pump piston is guided approximately coaxially, with the two pistons delimiting the working chamber. The first piston is driven in a stroke motion, and the two pistons can optionally be coupled to move together as a unit during the delivery stroke, or the second piston can be fixed in a passive position so that only the first pump piston executes the delivery stroke.

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