GB1575233A - Device for supplying fuel to the atomizer of a combustion engine - Google Patents

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PATENT SPECIFICATION

( 11) 1 575233 t ( 21) Application No 5026/79 ( 22) Filed 14 Jan 1977 ( 19) C ( 62) Divided Out of No 1 575 232 X ( 31) Convention Application No 7600624 ( 32) Filed 21 Jan 1976 in t ( 33) Netherlands (NL) Lt ( 44) Complete Specification published 17 Sept:1980 _ 1 ( 51) INT CL 3 F 02 M 51/04 59/44 ( 52) Index at acceptance Fl A 1 A 3 l B 8 A 1 C 3 3 F 4 B 1 3 F 4 B 3 4 M 454 ( 54) A DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING FUEL TO THE ATOMIZER OF A COMBUSTION ENGINE ( 71) We, HOLEC N N, of No 93, Stationsplein, Hoog Catharijne, Utrecht, the Netherlands, a Body Corporate organised and existing under the Laws of the Netherlands, do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in

and by the following statement:-

The invention relates to a device for supplying fuel to the atomizer of a combustion engine, comprising at least one pump to be connected with the atomizer and having a pump chamber bounded by a displacement member, and driving means for causing the displacement member to reciprocate and being coupled through a guide member guided in a bore of the pump with the displacement member, said driving means comprising a pivotally mounted armature energized by at least one electromagnet and adapted to oscillate between stops, at least one of the stops having an impact surface inclined with respect to the direction of movement of the armature.

Such a device is disclosed in British Patent Specifications 1,465,338; 1,465,339 and

1,465,340.

According to the present invention there is provided such a device wherein the angular position of the armature about the bore axis is adjustable by a setting member adjustable at right angles to the direction of movement of the armature.

The device according to the invention allows adjustment of the pumped quantity of fuel and simplicity of construction and/or simplification of maintenance.

A device according to the invention will now be explained in the following description with reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig 1 is a perspective elevation, partly broken away, of a preferred embodiment of a device in accordance with the invention, Fig 2 is a plan view, partly broken away, of the device of Fig 1, Fig 3 is a sectional view taken on the line III-III in Fig 2, Fig 4 is a sectional view of the device showing schematically the connection with a combustion engine, Fig 5 shows an electrical circuit diagram for use in the device of Fig 1, Fig 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line VII-VII in Fig 2, Fig 7 is an enlarged, longitudinal sectional view of a detail VIII in Fig 2, Fig 8 shows on an enlarged scale a detail IX of Fig 8, Fig 9 is a sectional view corresponding to Fig 9 in the dismounted state, and Fig 10 shows a variant of detail XI in Fig 3.

The device 1 comprises a cast or spraycast aluminium frame 3 Magnet plates 5 are stacked up in a jig and interconnected at their outer edges by glue 7 Two pairs of electro-magnets 2 are firmly secured by means of bolts 6 between the frame 3 and a lid 4 Each of the electromagnets 2 comprises a core 10 formed by a packet of magnet plates 5 and an energizing coil 14 surrounding said core 10 Beneath each electromagnet 2 the frame 3 has a wide air passage 8 allowing air to pass for cooling the electro-magnets 2 A plate-shaped armature 18 is adapted to oscillate between each pair of alternately energized magnets 2 Each armature 18 is pivoted by an end 9 in a slot 13 of a bearing element 11 of synthetic resin, preferably polyethylene terephthalate as sold under the Registered Trade Mark Arnite, embedded in a bearing block 12, which is integral with the frame 3.

At the free end 15 each armature 18 holds a cross-shaped coupling member 20, with which are connected two displacer bodies 22 of two fuel injection pumps 32 The stroke of the displacer bodies 22 is determined by adjustable stroke control means arranged on either side of the coupling members 20 and formed by two wedges 26 and 33 Each pump 32 comprises a pump chamber 29 accommodated in a pump housing 42 and hav; 1,575,233 ing a fuel inlet 27 and a fuel outlet 28, each outlet 28 leading to an atomizer 30 of a combustion engine 31 The inlet valve 39 and the outlet valve 41 are arranged in a separate valve housing 43, to be arranged in the housing 42, said valve housing 43 comprising three parts to be interconnected i e.

an inlet seat 44, a tube 45 secured to the, former by cement 160 and an outlet seat 46 secured in place in said tube 45 by cement 17 The inlet seat 44 to be connected with a fuel supply pump 40 has at its entrance a filter 49 of filter gauze and an annular groove 19 receiving a seal 50 for isolation from the pump housing 42 The tube 45 has an external annular groove 51 and a channel 52, through which the space 53 of the valve housing 43 between the inlet valve 39 and the outlet valve 41 communicates with the pump chamber 29 The tube 45 has a further annular groove 55 receiving a seal 56 All valve housing 43 are simultaneously enclosed in the pump housing 42 by means of a lid 100 with the interposition of a layer of elastic material 101 In order to avoid penetration of dirt into the valve housing 43, particularly when the valve housing 43 as a unit is still located outside the pump housing 42, the fuel inlet 27 as well as each fuel outlet is provided with a filter For example, a cylindrical filter 102 of filter gauze is arranged in the groove 51 and a filter 103 of filter gauze is enclosed in the fuel outlet 104 with the aid of a valve stop 105, which limits the maximum lift of the outlet valve 41 and which is formed by a sleeve having radial recesses 106 The inlet valve 39 and the outlet valve 41 comprise each a valve body 78 of a synthetic resin and a copper supporting ring 57 for a valve spring 58.

Into each pump housing 42 is pressed a hard steel cylinder 59 with close forced fit.

The pump housings 42 are pairwise arranged coaxially opposite one another and spaced apart from one another by their front faces by a distance t Connecting members secure the housings 42 in place and are formed by fitting pins 61 and threaded sleeves 62, rigidly connecting the pump housing 42 with the frame 3 The front faces are accurately held in relatively parallel positions by means of the fitting pins 61.

The sleeves 62 constitute in addition the connecting nipples for the fuel supply conduits 107 and the fuel return conduits 108, the latter leading to the tank 99 via a return outlet 109 and a pressure control-valve 152.

The return outlet 109 communicates through a channel 10 of the pump chambers 29 with the fuel inlet 27 Thus the fuel circulates at a high rate through the device 1 so that the fuel is not excessively heated in the device 1 It is therefore possible to mount the device 1 at a fairly hot place, for example, directly on the combustion engine 31 In each of the two pump housings 42 a vent screw 98 common to two pump chambers 29 seals a vent -channel 97, which opens out at the top of the pump housings 42 so that the emerging fuel is collected in a fuel leak 70 collecting space 96 The vent channel 97 communicates with the pump chambers 29 through inclined channels 94 The vent screw 98 is covered by a screw 95.

The displacer bodies 22 are each made 75 of a synthetic resin, preferably a superpolyamide and are each formed by a cup-shaped piston 63, a guide collar 64 engaging the pump chamber 29 and an axially extending, elastically deformable tie member 65, whose 80 end 92 is secured with the interposition of glue 91 in a bore 93 of a guide member 90 of the respective hard steel coupling member Owing to the clearance between the tie member 65 and the bore 93 the piston 63 85 with the guide collar 64 is displaceable in a radial direction with respect to the guide.

member 90 The device 1 comprises two cross-shaped coupling members 20 by which the displacer bodies 22 of each pair of fuel 90 pumps 32 are coupled with one another.

Each coupling member 20 is connected by means of an elastic coupling 66 to a respective armature 18 This elastic coupling 66 comprises an elastic ring 67, accommodated 95 in the coupling member 20 and surrounding a pin 68 of the armature 18 and preferably made of a super-polyamide.

The displaced volume of each fuel pump 32 is determined by the stroke of the coup 100 ling member 20, which is adapted to reciprocate such that a part-spherical arm 79 thereon moves between the wedges 26 and 33 In order to obtain an accurate adjustment of said stroke both the coupling mem 105 ber 20 and the wedges 26 and 33 are made of hard steel, whilst the wedges 26 and 33 accommodated each in a guide groove 89 in one of the pump housings 42 are in engagement with a pump housing 42 with the 110 interposition of a supporting layer 88 of a synthetic resin, preferably polyethene terephthalate as sold under the Registered Trade Mark Arnite In order to avoid excessive wear of these parts the comparatively 115 small overall bulk of the coupling membei and the two displacer bodies 22 connected with the former is separated from the comparatively large bulk of the aramature 18 by using the elastic coupling 66 At each 120 stroke the coupling member 20 butts against a comparatively hard stop, whilst the bulk of the armature 18 continues to move over a small distance and is arrested resiliently.

Two housing blocks 69 comprise each two 125 joined pump housings 42, between which wedges 26 and 33 are arranged to serve as common control-means for each of the pumps 32 The distance t and the coupling members 20 are particularly small since 130 2, 1 i the wedges 26 and 33 are held in guide grooves 89 of the pump housings 42 so that inaccuracies of the fuel displacements due to deformation of coupling members and/or to mounting defects are slight A satisfactory seal of the piston 63 is obtained since the guide member 90 guided in the cylinder 59 absorbs the tilting forces produced when the arm 79 forming a stop member strikes a wedge 26 or 33 located to the side of the axis 85 of the cylinder 59 which is remote from its pivot end In order to ensure a long lifetime of the device 1 each guide member' is coated with a wear-resistant material 87, preferably a polyamide produced by polycondensation of amega-amino-undecanoic acid and sold under the Registered Trade Mark Rilsan, which is applied by dipping and subsequently machined to the prescribed size.

In the unmounted state illustrated in Fig.

9 the sealing rim 86 of the piston 63 projects radially beyond the guide collar 64 The sealing rim 86 is sharp so that in the mounted state it assumes that satisfactorily sealing form shown in Fig 8 and has a long lifetime, particularly if the cylinder 59 is formed by a silver steel sleeve.

The armature 18 engages an adjustable setting member extending at right angles to the direction of movement of said armature 18 and being formed by a set screw 84 The armature 18 is adapted to pivot about the axis 85 of the cylinder 59, the displacer bodies acting as journals for such pivoting.

Thus, during the assembly of the armature 18 the armature is pivoted so that its end 9 enters the open upper end of slot 13 in the bearing element 11 and is received between the set screw 84 and a spring 111 located in a recess 112, the aramture 18 being subsequently urged against the set screw 84, which closes the slot 13 By means of the set screw 84 the angular position of the armature 18 about the axial line 85 is adjusted and hence also the point of' engagement of the arm 79 on the stop faces of the wedges 26 and 33 extending obliquely to the oscillatory movement of the armature 18.

The wedge 26 is driven by a piston 80 of a control-cylinder 73 communicating downstream of an air inlet valve 113 with the air inlet manifold 72 of a combustion engine 31 The control-cylinder 73, the length of which is held at a minimum, is centered with respect to the frame 3 by means of a centering disc 114, which extends into the bore 115 of the controlcylinder 73 and in a centering hole 116 of the frame 3 The control-cylinder 73 is adapted to turn about the centering disc 114 and to be fixed in the desired position by clamping means formed by clamping screws 117 and clamps 119 engaging an external groove 118 of the control-cylinder 73 The top side of the control-cylinder 73 communicates through recesses 121 in the centering disc 114 and recesses 122 in the frame 33 with a fuel leak collecting space 96 so that any leakage can flow viathe outer side 70 of the piston 80 and the c 6 ntrol-cylinder 73 towards the inlet manifold' 72 In order to maintain the cleanness of the controlcylinder 73 a filter of filter gauze is arranged between the centering disc 114 and the' 75 frame 3 Externally of the control-cylinder 73, at the end remote from the wedge 26, an axially displaceable switch 82 is controlled by an extension 124 of the piston 80 for stopping the pumps 32 in the event of a 80 drop beneath a given pressure in the inlet manifold 72 The switch 82 can be readily actuated.

A control-rod 126 extending axially across a wide bore 125 of the wedge 26 and' 85 being rigidly secured to the piston 80 is ad-:

apted to turn with respect to the wedge 26.

Owing to the clearance between the bore and the control-rod 126 and to the relative rotatability of the wedge 26 and the 90 control-rod 126, the high-frequency vigorous impacts of the armature 18 ' are hardly or not at all transferred to the piston 80.

The wedge 33 is adjustable in accordance with the engine speed A screw rod 127 ex 95 tending across the wedge 33 is adapted to turn with an amount of clearance and to be displaced in a transverse direction with respect to the wedge 33, which is urged by a spring 128 against a shoulder 129 of the 100 screw rod 127 The top end of the screw rod 127 has a screwthread 130 engaging a screwthread piece 131 of a metal bellows barometer 133 After evacuation the bellows 133 is closed by a nipple 132 The top end 105 of the bellows 133 supports a diaphragm 134 of a pressure chamber 135, which communicates through a choke 136 with the inlet manifold 72 The pressure chamber 135 has an air inlet 138 controlled by an air 110 valve 137 The air valve 137 is closed by an electromagnet 139, which is energized in accordance with the speed of the combustion engine 31 The electromagnet 139 is each time energized upon the energization 115 of an electromagnet 2 If the speed of the combustion engine 31 is high, the air valve 137 remains closed so that a high vacuum is produced in the pressure chamber 135, as a result of which the quantity of fuel sup 120 plied is increased Likewise the quantity of supplied fuel increases if the barometric air pressure is high In both cases the wedge 33 is lifted.

The pressure chamber 135 comprises a 125 control-member formed by the diaphragm 134, which is adjustably connected with the wedge 33, since the pressure chamber 135 together with the diaphragm 134 and the barometer bellows 133 is adapted to turn 130 1,575,233 1,575,233 with respect to the screw rod 127 Since the head 140 of the screw rod 127 is prevented from turning in the guide groove 89, the starting position of the wedge 33 can be adjusted in an axial direction After the adjustment the pressure chamber 135 is anchored by means of a safety pin 141 with respect to a holder 142.

Between the pump housings 42 and the hot electromagnets 2 air gaps 144 are provided for heat insulation These gaps 144 are covered by elastic strips 145 to prevent penetration of dirt.

Each electro-magnet 2 is controlled by a circuitry 170 shown schematically in Fig 5.

The transistors TR 1 and TR 2 together with the associated resistors R 1, R 2,, R, R, and R, and with the capacitor C constitute a.

monostable multivibrator The resistor R 1 and the capacitor C determine the time constant The collector output of the transistor TR 2 constitutes via the resistor R, the input of the transistor TRY, which serves as an amplifier for the current to be passed through the coil L, of the electro-magnet 2.

Across the coil L 1 is connected a quench diode D 1 To the input terminals K 1 and K 2 is connected a current source 35, whereas the input K 3 serves for the supply of a control-pulse, which may originate from a pulse generator 34, which is coupled with the engine 31 The pulse generator 34 may be coupled with a cam shaft 163 of the combustion engine 31 and has a rotating contact 155, which alternately comes into contact with one of the four contacts 16 for the energization of the successive electromagnets 2.

Each of these four contacts 16 is connected to an input terminal K 3 of the circuitry 170 In this way the fuel required for each combustion cylinder is injected during each cycle of the combustion engine 31 at the required instant by an atomizer 30 The order of energization of the electromagnets 2 is chosen so that in each cycle each of the wedges 26 and 33 is briefly free of a coupling member 20 so that each of them can be displaced by a slight force The switch 82 is connected between the contact and the source 35 so that with the switch 82 in its off position no control-pulses are given off.

In the variant shown in Fig 10 the set screw 146 is disposed outside of the bearing element 11 on the bottom side of the armature 18, whereas the spring 111 is arranged on the top side.

Claims (6)

WHAT WE CLAIM IS: -

1 A device for supplying fuel to the atomizer of a combustion engine, comprising at least one pump to be connected with the atomizer and having a pump chamber bounded by a displacement member and driving means for causing the displacement member to reciprocate and being coupled through a guide member guided in a bore of the pump with the displacement member, said driving means comprising a pivotally mounted armature energized by at least one electro-magnet and adapted to oscillate between stops, at least one of the stops having an impact surface inclined with respect to the direction of movement of the armature, and wherein the angular position of the.

armature about the bore axis is adjustable by a setting member adjustable at right angles to the direction of movement of the armature.

2 A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a spring urges the armature against the setting member.

3 A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the armature is pivotably fastened in a bearing between the setting member and the spring.

4 A device as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the armature is pivotably fastened in a slot of a bearing, which slot is closed at the top by the setting member.

A device as claimed in anyone of claims 1 to 4, wherein the armature is pivotably arranged in a bearing element of a synthetic resin embedded in a metal bearing block.

6 A device as claimed in claim 1 and substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A A THORNTON & CO, Chartered Patent Agents, Northumberland House, 303/306 High Holborn, London, WC 1 V 7 LE.

Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Burgess & Son (Abingdon), Ltd -1980.

Published at The Patent Office, 25 Southampton Buildings, London, WC 2 A l AY, from which copies may be obtained.

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