A fuel pressure regulator includes a housing defining a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet; a valve seat located between the fuel inlet and the fuel outlet, the valve seat being centered about a valve seat axis; a valve member centered about a valve member axis, the valve member being moveable between 1) a closed position where the valve member engages the valve seat to prevent fuel flow from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet and 2) an open position where the valve member is disengaged from the valve seat to permit fuel flow from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet; and a grounding member grounded to the housing which engages the valve member to cause the valve member axis to tip relative to the valve seat axis when the valve member moves from the closed position to the open position.

A structure for attaching a metal diaphragm damper, includes a housing, a housing cover that cooperates with the housing to define a space, and a pair of diaphragms each formed in a disk shape, the pair of diaphragms having weld portions on an outer periphery side thereof, the weld portions being welded to each other in an annular shape to form the metal diaphragm damper of which inside is filled with gas, the metal diaphragm damper being attached to the housing and the housing cover so as to be disposed in the space between the housing and the housing cover. The pair of diaphragms is provided with outer peripheral portions on the outer peripheral side of the welded portions, and the outer peripheral portions of the pair of diaphragms are held by the housing and the housing cover in a thickness direction of the pair of diaphragms.

A structure for attaching a metal diaphragm damper, includes a housing, a housing cover that cooperates with the housing to define a space, and a pair of diaphragms each formed in a disk shape, the pair of diaphragms having weld portions on an outer periphery side thereof, the weld portions being welded to each other in an annular shape to form the metal diaphragm damper of which inside is filled with gas, the metal diaphragm damper being attached to the housing and the housing cover so as to be disposed in the space between the housing and the housing cover. The pair of diaphragms is provided with outer peripheral portions on the outer peripheral side of the welded portions, and the outer peripheral portions of the pair of diaphragms are held by the housing and the housing cover in a thickness direction of the pair of diaphragms.

The present disclosure relates to the field of motor vehicles. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a self-locking internal damper comprising: a damper body with a closed chamber; each of two ends of the closed chamber in the length direction including a straight plate section projecting therefrom, with a center line of the straight plate section passing through a center point of the closed chamber; two connecting portions located at ends of the two straight plate sections, respectively; and at least one of the two connecting portions including a bent structure formed by extending and bending one of the straight plate sections.

The present disclosure relates to the field of motor vehicles. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a self-locking internal damper comprising: a damper body with a closed chamber; each of two ends of the closed chamber in the length direction including a straight plate section projecting therefrom, with a center line of the straight plate section passing through a center point of the closed chamber; two connecting portions located at ends of the two straight plate sections, respectively; and at least one of the two connecting portions including a bent structure formed by extending and bending one of the straight plate sections.

A discharge valve of a high-pressure pump is placed in a discharge passage and is openable to enable flow of fuel from a pressurizing chamber to a discharge outlet in response to a fuel pressure difference between the pressurizing chamber side and the discharge outlet side. A relief is placed in a relief passage. The relief passage communicates between a branching portion, which is located on a side of the discharge valve where the discharge outlet is placed in the discharge passage, and a return portion, which merges with a damper chamber. The relief valve is openable to enable flow of the fuel from the branching portion to the return portion in response to a fuel pressure difference between the branching portion side and the return portion side. A discharge passage orifice is placed between the discharge valve and the branching portion in the discharge passage and constricts a flow passage cross-sectional area of the discharge passage.

A damper cup houses a pulsation damper of a fuel pump such that the damper cup defines a fuel volume together with a fuel pump housing of the fuel pump. The damper cup includes a sidewall which is annular in shape and which extends along a damper cup axis from a sidewall first end to a sidewall second end. The damper cup also includes an end wall which closes the sidewall second end, wherein the sidewall includes a support shoulder which is transverse to the damper cup axis and which is a segment of an annulus extending uninterrupted about the damper cup axis from a shoulder first end to a shoulder second end such that the shoulder first end and the shoulder second end are separated from each other by a gap which is uninterrupted.

When fuel injections into Otto-engines are carried out, pressure pulsations occur in the entire fuel injection system. These prevent detailed information about the fuel injection to be deduced from the pressure signals measurable in the system. When specially designed dampers for these pressure pulsations are employed, pressure difference signals over the pulsation damper can readily be employed for instantaneous volume flow rate measurements. Furthermore, the inserted pressure pulsation dampers also allow the pressure reduction in the Common-Rail, due to the fuel injections, to be employed to measure the instantaneous fuel injection volume flow rates, in running Otto-engines. The authors' development work in this field is described in this paper and results of verification measurements are presented.

A fuel distributor, which is in particular used as a fuel distribution rail for mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engines, including a base body, at which at least one high-pressure inlet and multiple high-pressure outlets are provided. An insert element is furthermore provided that is situated in an interior of the base body. In the interior, the insert element separates an inflow area, which extends from the high-pressure inlet to the high-pressure outlets, at least essentially from a damping area. The insert element is designed as a thin-walled insert element that forms a divider extending through the interior at least from the high-pressure inlet to the high-pressure outlets.

A fuel distributor, which is in particular used as a fuel distribution rail for mixture-compressing, spark-ignited internal combustion engines, including a base body, at which at least one high-pressure inlet and multiple high-pressure outlets are provided. An insert element is furthermore provided that is situated in an interior of the base body. In the interior, the insert element separates an inflow area, which extends from the high-pressure inlet to the high-pressure outlets, at least essentially from a damping area. The insert element is designed as a thin-walled insert element that forms a divider extending through the interior at least from the high-pressure inlet to the high-pressure outlets.