High-pressure fuel supply pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9890753-B2
Application number	US-201414777627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 3, 2014
Priority date	Mar 19, 2013
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an electromagnetic valve structure improved in terms of the responsiveness of the electromagnetic valve and helping to realize a more accurate flow rate control, and to provide a high-pressure fuel supply pump in which the same is mounted. There is provided a high-pressure fuel supply pump having an electromagnetic valve equipped with an electromagnetic coil generating an electromagnetic force for opening and closing a valve body provided between a fuel intake path and a pressure chamber, a movable member operated by the electromagnetic force, a housing accommodating the movable member, and a back-pressure chamber formed between the housing and the movable member, wherein a first fuel path causing the back-pressure chamber to communicate with the intake path passes the center axis of the movable member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high-pressure fuel supply pump comprising:
a fuel intake path;
a pressure chamber; and
an electromagnetic valve equipped with:
an electromagnetic coil configured to generate an electromagnetic force for closing a valve body provided between the fuel intake path and the pressure chamber,
a movable member configured to be operated by the electromagnetic force,
an anchor spring urging the movable member in an opening direction of the valve body,
a housing accommodating the movable member,
a back-pressure chamber formed between the housing and the movable member, wherein the movable member has an anchor and a rod,
a guiding member in which the rod is slidably guided, and
an intermediate chamber provided between the anchor and the guiding member, wherein
the rod is made of a material having greater hardness and greater magnetic resistance than a material of the anchor,
a first fuel path allowing the back-pressure chamber to communicate with the intermediate chamber extends along a center axis of the rod,
a first end of the first fuel path is immediately adjacent to and opens directly into the back-pressure chamber,
a receiving surface for receiving the anchor spring is formed on the back-pressure chamber side end surface of the rod,
a second fuel path allowing the intermediate chamber to communicate with the intake path is provided in the guiding member,
the anchor has a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion formed on an intermediate chamber side, and
the intermediate chamber is provided in an outer peripheral side of the small-diameter portion of the anchor.

2. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the movable member and the valve body are separate from each other.

3. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the inner diameter of the anchor spring is larger than the inner diameter of the first fluid path.

4. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , further comprising a recess portion that is formed on an anchor side of the guiding member, wherein the intermediate chamber is immediately adjacent to the recess portion.

5. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 4 , wherein in a valve opening state, a valve body side end portion of the small-diameter portion of the anchor is protruded into the recess portion of the guiding member.

6. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the first fluid path communicates with the fuel intake path via a radial slit or hole formed in the movable member.

7. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein a sum total of the sectional areas perpendicular to the flow direction of the slit or the lateral hole are larger than a sectional area of the first fluid path.

8. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 6 , wherein sectional areas perpendicular to the flow direction of the slit or the lateral hole are larger than a sectional area of the first fluid path.

9. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 1 , wherein the intermediate chamber accommodating the valve body is provided between the pressure chamber and the fuel intake path.

10. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 9 , wherein the back-pressure chamber and the intake path are connected by the first fluid path and the second fluid path provided at a peripheral edge portion of the movable member via the intermediate chamber.

11. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 10 , wherein an entire sectional area of the second fluid path is larger than an entire sectional area of the first fluid path.

12. A high-pressure fuel supply pump comprising:
a fuel intake path;
a pressure chamber; and
an electromagnetic valve equipped with:
an electromagnetic coil configured to generate an electromagnetic force for closing a valve body provided between the fuel intake path and the pressure chamber,
a movable member configured to be operated by the electromagnetic force,
an anchor spring urging the movable member in an opening direction of the valve body,
a housing accommodating the movable member,
a back-pressure chamber formed between the housing and the movable member, wherein the movable member has an anchor and a rod,
a guiding member in which the rod is slidably guided, and
an intermediate chamber provided between the anchor and the guiding member, wherein
the rod is made of a material having greater hardness and greater magnetic resistance than a material of the anchor,
a first fuel path allowing the back-pressure chamber to communicate with the intermediate chamber extends along a center axis of the rod,
a first end of the first fuel path is immediately adjacent to and opens directly into the back-pressure chamber,
a receiving surface for receiving the anchor spring is formed on the back-pressure chamber side end surface of the rod,
a second fuel path allowing the intermediate chamber to communicate with the intake path is provided in the guiding member,
the anchor has a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion formed on an intermediate chamber side, and
the intermediate chamber is provided in an outer peripheral side of the small-diameter portion of the anchor.

13. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 12 , wherein the movable member and the valve body are separate from each other.

14. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 12 , further comprising a recess portion that is formed on an anchor side of the guiding member, wherein the intermediate chamber is immediately adjacent to the recess portion.

15. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 14 , wherein in a valve opening state, a valve body side end portion of the small-diameter portion of the anchor is protruded into the recess portion of the guiding member.

16. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 12 , wherein the first fluid path communicates with the fuel intake path via a radial slit or hole formed in the movable member.

17. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 16 , wherein a sum total of sectional areas perpendicular to the flow direction of the slit or the lateral hole are larger than a sectional area of the first fluid path.

18. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 16 , wherein sectional areas perpendicular to the flow direction of the slit or the lateral hole are larger than a sectional area of the first fluid path.

19. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 12 , wherein the intermediate chamber accommodating the valve body is provided between the pressure chamber and the fuel intake path.

20. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 19 , wherein the back-pressure chamber and the intake path are connected by the first fluid path and a second fluid path provided at the peripheral edge portion of the movable member via the intermediate chamber.

21. The high-pressure fuel supply pump according to claim 20 , wherein an entire sectional area of the second fluid path is larger than an entire sectional area of the first fluid path.

Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Aritomi Shunsuke
• Konno Hitoshi
• Takahashi Yukio
• Suganami Masayuki
• Miyazaki Katsumi
• TOKUO Kenichirou

Classifications

• F02M59/466 Primary

  Electrically operated valves, e.g. using electromagnetic or piezoelectric operating means · CPC title

• F02M59/367 Primary

  Pump inlet valves of the check valve type being open when actuated · CPC title

• F16K31/06

  using a magnet {, e.g. diaphragm valves, cutting off by means of a liquid} · CPC title

• F16K31/0644

  One-way valve · CPC title

• F02M59/36

  by variably-timed valves controlling fuel passages {to pumping elements or overflow passages} · CPC title