A fuel pump, is disclosed, including a power group having a housing, a coil, a pole piece and a movable armature; a valve group including a valve body, a plunger connected to the armature, a bushing in which the plunger is disposed, an inlet chamber, an outlet chamber, a pump chamber, an inlet valve disposed between the inlet chamber and the pump chamber and an outlet valve disposed between the pump chamber and the outlet valve; and an inlet filter coupled to a fluid inlet of the valve group. The inlet filter is disposed relative to the coil such that when the fuel pump is disposed within a fuel tank, a bottom of the inlet filter as oriented in the fuel tank is disposed above a fuel level in the fuel tank and the coil is at least partly submerged in the fuel.

Provided is an engine, including: a cylinder; a piston accommodated in the cylinder; a combustion chamber facing the piston; a sliding portion (large-diameter portion) configured to perform a stroke motion together with the piston; a hydraulic surface of the sliding portion facing a side opposite to the combustion chamber; a hydraulic chamber, which the hydraulic surface faces; and an auxiliary hydraulic chamber, which communicates with the hydraulic chamber, and has a volume changeable in accordance with a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic chamber.

A rotary internal combustion engine (ICE) has: a housing defining a rotor cavity; a rotor received within the rotor cavity to define working chambers of variable volume around the rotor, the rotor having circumferentially spaced peripheral apex seals biased radially outwardly in sliding engagement against a peripheral wall of the housing to separate the working chambers from one another, the housing having a fluid passage defined therethrough and opening into an inner surface of the peripheral wall; and an injector having a lubricant inlet hydraulically connected to a lubricant source, an actuation inlet hydraulically connected to a source of an actuation fluid, and a lubricant outlet, the injector having an open state in which the lubricant outlet is in fluid flow communication with the fluid passage upon the actuation fluid received within the injector and a closed state in which the lubricant outlet is disconnected from the fluid passage.

A valve includes a valve body having a valve plunger barrel formed therein and configured to be mounted to a pump head of a fuel pump, a valve plunger arranged to perform reciprocal motion with respect to the valve plunger barrel, a drive assembly configured to cause the valve plunger to perform reciprocal motion, and a spacer configured to couple to the valve plunger to perform reciprocal motion together with the valve plunger and configured to interface with the pump head. The spacer has a spacer body with first and second opposing spacer surfaces and with a central aperture extending from the first to the second spacer surface and configured to receive the valve plunger therethrough. At least one of the first and second spacer surfaces includes one or more grooves recessed into the spacer body to reduce or inhibit cavitation of the interface of the spacer and pump head.

The forced recirculation mixer (1) consists of a stirring enclosure (5) whose internal cavity forms a recirculation loop (6) in which circulates a homogeneous gas mixture (4) formed by a gas (3) to be mixed and a vaporizable liquid (2) respectively introduced into that loop (6) via a gas inlet duct (7) and a liquid injection nozzle (9), gas drawing-off means (12) being capable of withdrawing a homogeneous gas mixture (4) from the stirring enclosure (5) via a mixture draw-off duct (11) and a stirring turbine (13) driven by a turbine motor (28) forcing the homogeneous gas mixture (4) to circulate in the recirculation loop (6).

A shuttle valve for a control valve coupled to an electronic fuel injector is disclosed. The shuttle valve may include a shuttle valve first end including an armature attachment portion operably coupled to an armature of the control valve and a shuttle valve second end opposite the shuttle valve first end defining a sealing portion of the control valve including an annular sealing surface. A valve guide portion may extend axially along a portion of the shuttle valve between the first and second ends. Furthermore, an engagement surface portion may be defined along the valve guide portion that is slidably engaged with a valve bore. Moreover, the shuttle valve may include a non-engagement surface portion defined along the valve guide portion, wherein the non-engagement surface is a non-continuous surface around a circumference of the valve guide portion and wherein the non-engagement surface is interspersed between portions of the engagement surface.

A dual valve fuel metering system comprising a flow path defined between a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet. The flow path includes a primary flow path and a secondary flow path, wherein the fuel outlet is configured and adapted to be in fluid communication with at least one engine fuel manifold. A primary flow metering valve configured and adapted to meter flow on the primary flow path. A secondary flow metering valve configured and adapted to meter flow on the secondary flow path.

A method of testing a unit pump system performance is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method of testing a unit pump system performance determines if mechanical and/or electrical stability of a control valve of the unit pump system are achieved before measuring an output injection volume variation.

A method is provided for controlling operation of a fueling system including a fuel pump driven by an engine geartrain and a fuel accumulator supplied fuel by the fuel pump, comprising: determining whether an operating parameter of the engine is less than a threshold value; responding to the operating parameter being less than the threshold value by causing an inlet valve of the fuel pump to operate in a 100 percent fill mode, whereby a pumping chamber in the fuel pump is approximately fully filled for at least one pumping cycle; determining whether a fuel pressure in the fuel accumulator is greater than a desired value while the inlet valve is in the 100 percent fill mode; and responding to the fuel pressure being greater than the desired value by activating an outlet valve of the fuel accumulator to drain fuel in the fuel accumulator to a fuel tank.

A valve assembly for a pump includes an electrical actuator having a stator and an armature. The stator includes an annular outer stator portion and an annular inner stator portion, and an annular channel formed radially between the outer stator portion and the inner stator portion. A first radial channel extending through the annular outer stator portion between an outer surface of the outer stator portion and the annular channel, and at least one second opening in the annular outer stator portion results in magnetic symmetry of the stator. Upon activating the electrical actuator, the attraction of the armature towards the stator is uniform thus displacing fluid between the stator and armature in a uniform manner and to avoid high velocity, potentially damaging fluid flow.