Fuel supply device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10151288-B2
Application number	US-201615144154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 2, 2016
Priority date	May 11, 2015
Publication date	Dec 11, 2018
Grant date	Dec 11, 2018

Abstract

A fuel pipe of a fuel supply device includes: a first side wall having a mounting surface to which an injector cup and a bracket are attached; and a second side wall to which the injector cup and the bracket are not attached. A peripheral wall of the injector cup extends at least from a position on a bottom-end side relative to a centerline in a mounting surface to a position on an upper-end side relative to the centerline, and is fixed to the mounting surface at a part of the mounting surface on the bottom-end side relative to the centerline and at a part thereof on the upper-end side relative to the centerline.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine, the fuel supply device comprising:
a fuel pipe configured to lead, to an injector, fuel introduced into the fuel pipe;
an injector cup into which the injector is inserted, the injector cup including a peripheral wall; and
a bracket configured to fix the fuel pipe to the internal combustion engine,
the fuel pipe including a first side wall and a second side wall,
the first side wall including a mounting surface to which the injector cup and the bracket are attached, and
the second side wall being configured such that the injector cup and the bracket are not attached,
the second side wall being configured to elastically deform when a pressure of the fuel is applied to the second side wall,
the bracket includes a pair of rib portions attached to the mounting surface, a pair of extension portions respectively attached to the pair of rib portions and extending in an axial direction of the injector cup, and a fixed portion between respective ends of the pair of extension portions,
the fixed portion configured to be attached to the internal combustion engine,
the rib portions extend away from the extension portions in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the injector cup and the extension portions are perpendicular to the mounting surface,
the mounting surface including a first end, a second end, and a centerline,
the first end and the second end being one end and an opposite end of the mounting surface in the axial direction of the injector cup, the centerline being a virtual line placed at a center between the first end and the second end, and
the injector cup being configured such that the peripheral wall extends at least from a position on a first-end side relative to the centerline in the mounting surface to a position on a second-end side relative to the centerline, and the peripheral wall is fixed to the mounting surface at a part of the mounting surface on the first-end side relative to the centerline and at a part of the mounting surface on the second-end side relative to the centerline.

2. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the peripheral wall of the injector cup extends on the mounting surface from a position closer to the second end to the centerline than from the first end to the centerline; and
the peripheral wall is configured to be fixed to the mounting surface over a whole region of an abutment part of the peripheral wall with the mounting surface.

3. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the bracket extends at least from the position on the first-end side relative to the centerline in the mounting surface to the position on the second-end side relative to the centerline; and
the bracket is configured to be fixed to the mounting surface at the part of the mounting surface on the first-end side relative to the centerline and at the part of the mounting surface on the second-end side relative to the centerline.

4. The fuel supply device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the bracket extends from a position closer to the second end to the centerline than from the first end to the centerline in the mounting surface; and
the bracket is configured to be fixed to the mounting surface over a whole abutment region of the bracket with the mounting surface.

5. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the bracket has a U-shape.

6. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein:
vertical lengths of the pair of extension portions are the same or longer than a vertical length of the first side wall.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Horii Yuya

Classifications

• F02M63/028 Primary

  Returnless common rail system · CPC title

• F02M2200/26

  Fuel-injection apparatus with elastically deformable elements other than coil springs · CPC title

• F02M55/025

  Common rails · CPC title

• F02M2200/857

  characterised by mounting fuel or common rail to engine · CPC title

• F02M2200/856

  characterised by mounting injector to fuel or common rail, or vice versa · CPC title