Nozzle insert for boosting pump inlet pressure

US8926292B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Lee J. Becker · Canton, US
• Charles M. Robeck · Farmington Hills, US
• Mark K. Quinn · Novi, US
• Eric G. Robertson · Canton, US
• John W. Fallu · Taylor, US
• Mark R. Dobson · Howell, US
• Jason K. Mazur · Waltham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 6, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 14, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H57/0438
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A pump assembly includes a pump housing including an inner surface, a pump inlet and an excess flow passage, a filter assembly including a spout extending into the housing, and an insert located within and secured to the housing, and including a first surface spaced from the inner surface and producing therebetween an annular nozzle communicating with said excess flow passage, the nozzle directing a first fluid stream exiting the excess flow passage toward a second fluid stream exiting the spout, the fluid streams flowing toward the pump inlet.