High-pressure fuel pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11248573-B2
Application number	US-201816627921-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2018
Priority date	Jul 14, 2017
Publication date	Feb 15, 2022
Grant date	Feb 15, 2022

Abstract

Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump that ensures oil tightness even at high fuel pressure and has a small and lightweight inexpensive discharge valve structure. Therefore, a high-pressure fuel pump according to the present invention includes: a discharge valve arranged on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber; a discharge valve seat on which the discharge valve is seated; and a facing member configured independently as a separate member from the discharge valve seat and located on an opposite side of the discharge valve seat with the discharge valve interposed therebetween, in which a stroke direction regulating portion that regulates displacement of the discharge valve in a stroke direction is formed on a tapered surface of the facing member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-pressure fuel pump comprising:
a discharge valve arranged on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber;
a discharge valve seat on which the discharge valve is seated;
a facing member configured independently as a separate member from the discharge valve seat and located on an opposite side of the discharge valve seat with the discharge valve interposed therebetween; and
a discharge valve chamber in which a discharge valve mechanism including the discharge valve and the discharge valve seat is arranged, wherein
the facing member is configured by including a discharge valve stopper having a stroke direction regulating portion that regulates displacement of the discharge valve in a stroke direction and a plug member that shields the discharge valve chamber from outside,
the stroke direction regulating portion is formed as a tapered surface,
the discharge valve stopper is configured separately from the plug member,
the discharge valve is configured by a ball valve,
in the discharge valve stopper, an outer peripheral surface of a range overlapping the tapered surface in the stroke direction is press-fitted into the inner peripheral portion of the discharge valve chamber, and
the plug member is welded to a pump body in which the discharge valve chamber is formed.

2. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , further comprising a discharge valve spring that is attached to the facing member and urges the discharge valve toward the discharge valve seat.

3. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , wherein a discharge valve seat member, on which the discharge valve seat is formed, is formed with a radial direction regulating portion that regulates displacement of the discharge valve in a direction perpendicular to a stroke axis.

4. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 3 , wherein a radial direction flow path that causes fuel discharged via the ball valve to flow toward a radially outer side of a discharge valve mechanism is formed in the radial direction regulating portion.

5. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 4 , wherein a plurality of radial direction flow paths are formed.

6. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 3 , wherein a length of the radial direction regulating portion in the stroke direction is formed to be approximately half or more of a diameter of the discharge valve.

7. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 3 , wherein a length of the radial direction regulating portion is larger than a length of the tapered surface of the facing member in the stroke direction.

8. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , further comprising a relief valve mechanism that returns fuel to the pressurizing chamber or a low-pressure flow path when fuel discharged through the discharge valve exceeds a set pressure,
wherein the fuel discharged from the pressurizing chamber flows through a relief valve chamber, and then flows through a relief valve chamber in which the relief valve mechanism is arranged, and is discharged from a fuel outlet port.

9. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 8 , wherein the fuel discharged through the discharge valve flows on a radially outer side of the discharge valve mechanism and through a flow path formed substantially horizontally in the pump body configuring the pressurizing chamber, then flows through the relief valve chamber, and is discharged from the fuel outlet port.

10. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a discharge valve seat member on which the discharge valve seat is formed;
a press-fitting portion in which the discharge valve seat member on which the discharge valve seat is formed, is press-fitted into the pump body; and
a welding portion in which the plug member configuring the facing member is welded to the pump body, wherein
the discharge valve seat member and the facing member are configured separately from each other in a non-contact manner.

11. The high-pressure fuel pump according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a discharge valve spring that biases said discharge valve toward said discharge valve seat, wherein
the discharge valve spring is provided across the stroke direction regulating portion of the facing member and the plug member, and
the discharge valve spring is disposed in a recess provided on a side opposite to the discharge valve seat following the tapered surface in the stroke direction.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd
• Hitachi Astemo Ltd

Inventors

• Akiyama Moritsugu
• Usui Satoshi
• Yamada Hiroyuki
• Omata Shigehiko
• Nemoto Masashi

Classifications

• F04B1/0452

  Distribution members, e.g. valves (machines or pumps with cam-actuated distribution members at the outer ends of the cylinders F04B1/0472; machines or pumps with cam-actuated distribution members at the inner ends of the cylinders F04B1/0531; the piston-driving cams being provided with inlets and outlets F04B1/0535) · CPC title

• F02M59/462 Primary

  Delivery valves · CPC title

• F02M63/0071

  characterised by guiding or centering means in valves including the absence of any guiding means, e.g. "flying arrangements" · CPC title

• F02M59/025

  characterised by a single piston · CPC title

• F02M59/46

  Valves · CPC title