An automotive fuel pump having a body with an inlet, an outlet, and an elongated chamber therebetween. A relief valve, relief valve housing, and check valve are respectively disposed in the chamber between the inlet and the outlet. The relief valve housing has a portion which extends across the chamber so that a first axial end of the relief valve housing forms a valve seat for the check valve while the other axial end forms a valve seat for the relief valve. The check valve permits fluid flow from the body chamber to the outlet while the relief valve exhausts excess fluid pressure at the outlet back into the body chamber.

Methods and systems are provided for a direct injection fuel pump. The methods and system control pressure within a compression chamber so as to improve fuel pump lubrication.

The invention is a volume control valve for controlling and metering a fluid in a motor vehicle, comprising a tappet with an actuating end and a free end, said tappet being received in a bearing bush and mounted along its actuating axis so as to be movable back and forth, and a seat valve which is connected to a fluid channel and arranged relative to the tappet in such a way that the free end of the tappet can engage in the valve seat and close the fluid channel when it is engaged in said valve seat, and further comprising a pressure spring which is arranged along the longitudinal axis of the tappet. According to the invention, a welded plate is fastened and/or welded and/or formed on the tappet with the pressure spring arranged thereon, which is supported on the welded plate and the bearing bush.

A fuel pump includes an intake valve unit which is provided between a low-pressure chamber and a pressurizing chamber. The intake valve unit includes an intake valve configured to move in an axial direction of the intake valve unit and a valve stopper arranged between the intake valve and the pressurizing chamber. A plurality of fuel passages configured to allow fuel to communicate between the low-pressure chamber and the pressurizing chamber are formed on a radially outward of an outer peripheral surface of the valve stopper.

An electromagnetically actuable rate control valve for controlling a delivery rate of a high-pressure pump includes an electromagnet, a valve element, an armature shaft, and at least one strength element. The valve element is movable in an axial direction and is configured to open and to close the electromagnetically actuable rate control valve. The armature shaft transmits a force. The force is produced by the electromagnet and acts on the valve element in the axial direction. The at least one strength element is configured to raise at least the strength of the armature shaft. The armature shaft includes a needle region adjacent to the valve element and an armature region remote from the valve element. The needle region and the armature region are integral with each other.

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.

A valve assembly for a fuel pump and having: a one-way outlet closing valve, which only allows fuel to flow out; a one-way pressure relief valve, which only allows fuel to flow in; a connector, which has a housing on the inside; and a valve disc, which engages the housing of the connector and has a plurality of through outlet holes and a through relief hole. A shutter of the outlet closing valve consists of a flexible sheet, which is fixed to the valve disc and has: a plurality of shutting portions arranged in the area of the outlet holes; a peripheral mounting portion with an annular shape; a plurality of outer connection portions, each connecting the peripheral mounting portion to a corresponding shutting portion; a central mounting portion; and a plurality of inner connection portions, each connecting the central mounting portion to a corresponding shutting portion.

A fuel pump for a direct injection system having: a pumping chamber; a piston, which is mounted in a sliding manner on the inside of the pumping chamber; an intake channel, which originates from a wall of the pumping chamber and has a housing portion; an intake valve, which is inserted into the housing portion of the intake channel; and a locking ring nut with an annular shape, which is threaded and is screwed into the housing portion of the intake channel so as to strike against the intake valve; the housing portion has an annular abutment, which reduces the diameter of the housing portion and against which the intake valve strikes; the locking ring nut is screwed into the housing portion with a tightening force that is sufficient to determine a plastic deformation of the annular abutment against the intake valve.

An inlet valve assembly for a fuel pump comprises a valve assembly inflow path and valve assembly outflow path; a magnetic valve member situated in an intermediate flow path fluidly linking the inflow path and the outflow path; a magnetic pole adjacent the valve member; and a selectively energizable coil for generating a magnetic flux directly magnetically coupling the pole and the valve member; whereby the valve member opens and closes fluid communication between the inflow path and the outflow path in response to the energized state of the coil.

In a fuel system of an internal combustion engine, fuel is delivered by a high-pressure pump into a fuel rail. The quantity of the delivered fuel is influenced by a quantity control valve (30) actuated by an electromagnetic actuating device. A limit-value retaining current is ascertained, at which the quantity control valve still remains in its closed state or is just opening.