EP0347581A1 - Pompe à injection pour moteurs à combustion interne - Google Patents

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EP0347581A1
EP0347581A1 EP19890108890 EP89108890A EP0347581A1 EP 0347581 A1 EP0347581 A1 EP 0347581A1 EP 19890108890 EP19890108890 EP 19890108890 EP 89108890 A EP89108890 A EP 89108890A EP 0347581 A1 EP0347581 A1 EP 0347581A1
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Jaroslaw Dipl.-Ing. Hlousek
Gerhard Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Lehner
Theodor Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Stipek
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M63/00—Other fuel-injection apparatus having pertinent characteristics not provided for in groups F02M39/00 - F02M57/00 or F02M67/00; Details, component parts, or accessories of fuel-injection apparatus, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, the apparatus of groups F02M39/00 - F02M61/00 or F02M67/00; Combination of fuel pump with other devices, e.g. lubricating oil pump
    • F02M63/0012—Valves
    • F02M63/0031—Valves characterized by the type of valves, e.g. special valve member details, valve seat details, valve housing details
    • F02M63/005—Pressure relief valves
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M55/00—Fuel-injection apparatus characterised by their fuel conduits or their venting means; Arrangements of conduits between fuel tank and pump F02M37/00
    • F02M55/001—Pumps with means for preventing erosion on fuel discharge
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M55/00—Fuel-injection apparatus characterised by their fuel conduits or their venting means; Arrangements of conduits between fuel tank and pump F02M37/00
    • F02M55/04—Means for damping vibrations or pressure fluctuations in injection pump inlets or outlets
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M59/00—Pumps specially adapted for fuel-injection and not provided for in groups F02M39/00 -F02M57/00, e.g. rotary cylinder-block type of pumps
    • F02M59/44—Details, components parts, or accessories not provided for in, or of interest apart from, the apparatus of groups F02M59/02 - F02M59/42; Pumps having transducers, e.g. to measure displacement of pump rack or piston
    • F02M59/46—Valves

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  • the invention relates to an injection pump for internal combustion engines, with a pump piston sleeve and a pump piston guided therein with control edges for controlling the beginning and end of an injection process, which interact with control holes provided in the wall of the pump piston sleeve, which open into a collecting space surrounding the pump piston sleeve. into which fuel can be supplied under pressure and from which excess fuel or fuel that overflows at the end of an injection process can be derived, a suction valve opening to the collecting space being connected to the collecting space for the fuel supply and an organ influencing the flow being connected to the collecting space for fuel discharge is.
  • the invention now aims to achieve the control of the injection pressure at the end of delivery against the highest possible pressure without complex design measures.
  • the invention essentially consists in the collecting space being designed as a storage space with a pressure-maintaining valve opening away from the storage space. Because the collecting space or suction space is now not open to the inlet as in the known measures, but is designed as a storage space closed by valves and a check valve is arranged as a pressure-maintaining valve, a predetermined and relatively high pressure can be ensured as the control pressure. The pressure in the working chamber of the piston then drops further and only when the pressure has dropped to a pressure level sufficient that the pump pressure can be used to refill the working chamber, is the filling again carried out with the much lower pump pressure.
  • the training is so made that the storage space concentric with a suction space Control holes of the pump piston liner is connected, which results in a particularly simple design.
  • the training can be carried out in such a way that the pressure-maintaining valve opening away from the storage space and the suction valve opening toward the storage space are jointly connected on the side facing away from the storage space to the suction space supplied with fuel and are formed by check valves.
  • the suction valve which is designed as a non-return valve and opens to the storage chamber, causes fuel to be sucked in again when the pressure in the pump chamber drops below the set pressure of the suction valve.
  • the low pressure suction frame i.e. the space under pre-pump pressure, fuel sucked in to fill the injection pump.
  • the design can advantageously be such that the pressure-maintaining valve opening away from the storage space is connected to the storage space via a throttle point known per se.
  • the pressure to be maintained in the storage space is hereby defined by the check valve and kept at an exactly predetermined level, such additional throttle bores allowing short-term peak pressures to be reduced.
  • the pressure level remains constant after the predetermined pressure level has been reached and that the corresponding pressure level can be ensured in a simple manner by dimensioning or adjusting the pressure control valve.
  • the arrangement is such that the axes of the mouths of the check valves on the storage space side are arranged offset with respect to the axes of the control bores.
  • impact protection devices In known injection pump designs, it is known to reduce the excessive wear during the control process by installing impact protection devices in the outflow openings.
  • Such impact protection rings are not suitable to prevent cavitation phenomena, but only serve to provide materials that are particularly wear-resistant in the place of particularly high wear and tear and to create an easily replaceable wear part that can be replaced in the event of excessive wear .
  • Impact protection devices of the usual type in particular, can in no way counteract cavitation phenomena on the outer wall of the pump piston.
  • the design within the scope of the present invention can advantageously be made such that the mouth on the storage space side At least one impact valve is arranged axially with a control bore check valve.
  • the design is such that a baffle plate that closes the bore is arranged in front of an axial bore of the check valve, on the rear side of which a transverse bore that cuts the axial bore of the check valve is provided with open ends, which in turn flushes away or flushes away of any bubbles that may arise.
  • the baffle plate can be formed in one piece with the housing of the check valve, which considerably simplifies the installation of the check valve.
  • a known design of such an impact protection body is that it is frustoconical in cross-section and is rounded on the side facing the bore.
  • Such designs of impact protection bodies are characterized by particularly high wear resistance, and with such a design the arrangement of the check valve or pressure control valve opening to the storage space is advantageously made such that the control bore has a section that is frustoconically enlarged to the storage space such that the housing of the opening to the storage space
  • Non-return valve has a conical end part with a rounded tip that projects into the frustoconically widened section, leaving a gap, and that the outlet channel of the non-return valve opens off-center in the region of the conical jacket of the end part. The flow path resulting in this way in turn leads to a flushing out of particularly critical points.
  • FIG. 1 shows a partial section through the upper part of an injection pump for large diesel engines
  • 2 shows a development of a detail of the injection pump according to FIG. 1
  • 3 shows a diagram of the course of pump chamber pressure and storage chamber pressure over the cam angle
  • FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 in a representation similar to that of FIG Training of an impact protection.
  • a pump piston 2 is moved up and down in a pump piston liner 1 by a cam drive, not shown.
  • the pump piston liner 1 is supported in a housing 3 which has a suction space 4, into which fuel is supplied via a pipe screw connection 5 or from which excess fuel is derived.
  • When going up the pump piston 2 closes with its upper edge 6 control bores 7.
  • a throttle 13 can be installed in the inlet of the pressure-maintaining valve 11, which causes a quantity-dependent increase in the storage space pressure, so that a further reduction in the risk of cavity formation in the fuel is achieved with larger delivery rates and / or higher speeds or piston speeds.
  • the suction valve 10 and the pressure holding valve 11 are accommodated in a sleeve 14 which also contains the storage space 9.
  • a pressure seal of the storage space 9 and the suction space 4 is carried out by means of sealing rings 15, 16 and 17 down between pump piston 2 and pump piston liner 1, returned to the storage space 9.
  • valves 10, 11 or their flow openings are arranged in a sectional plane with the control bores 7 in the pump cylinder, but rather to arrange them rotated, for example, by 90 °.
  • two or more pressure-maintaining or suction valves can also be arranged in the sleeve 14 if required.
  • FIG. 3 shows the curves of pump chamber pressure p P and storage chamber pressure p S over the cam angle, the start of delivery of the injection pump being designated FB and the end of delivery being FE. From the diagram it can be seen that the pressure p S in the storage space 9 already reaches the holding value of the valve 11 at the start of delivery and that a short-term dynamic pressure increase in the storage space 9 occurs immediately after the end of the delivery due to the fired fuel emerging from the control bores 7, after which the Filling the pump chamber 8, the pressure initially drops to the delivery pressure of the backing pump, and then increases again after the upward gear of the pump piston 2 begins.
  • a throttle bore in front of the pressure-maintaining valve can also achieve a dependency of the storage space pressure on the delivery volume and the speed of the pump, different diameters of the throttle 13 resulting in different pressure profiles in the region of the pressure increase, as indicated in FIG. 3.
  • the axes of the bores towards the valves 10 and 11 are offset relative to the control bores 7, so that any cavities formed in the fuel can be quickly washed away by the jet emerging from the control bore 7 and any corrosion that may occur is kept away from hazardous areas.
  • feed 19 and discharge line 20 of the fuel lie coaxially with the control bores 7, but the bore of each of the valves 10, 11 facing the control bore 7 is connected upstream of a baffle plate 21 or 22, each of which with the Armature of the associated valve is integrally formed.
  • the suction valve 10 is installed on both sides in an impact protection which has a conical shape and projects far into the control bore 7.
  • the fuel is conveyed through a bore 23 coming from the suction valve 10 into the gap between the cone 24 of the impact protection and the conical extension 25 of the control bore.
  • the bore 23 is positioned such that it allows the fuel to emerge at the highest part of the gap, so that the cavities in the fuel are hit directly by the flushing stream and conveyed into the storage space 9.
  • a pressure control valve not shown, ensures the maintenance of an increased standing pressure in the storage space 9 after the end of the control process until it is sucked in again.
  • the fuel is advantageously supplied at a pressure of 5 to 20 bar, in order to achieve a sufficient flushing effect in the control bores 7.
  • a pressure accumulator in the fuel line between the feed pump and suction valve 10 appears expedient to equalize the inlet pressure.

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EP1921305A3 (fr) * 2006-11-06 2008-06-18 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Pompe à injection de carburant équipé d'un déflecteur rotatif
EP3054144A1 (fr) * 2015-02-03 2016-08-10 Robert Bosch Gmbh Vanne de decharge de pompe haute pression, en particulier pompe enfichable et pompe haute pression comprenant une telle vanne de decharge

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