Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel pump and control method therefor including control of rotation speed of impeller
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Application No.: US14914388Application Date: 2014-08-21
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Publication No.: US10260465B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Yuuji Hidaka , Masaya Ootake , Kiyoshi Nagata
- Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kariya
- Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kariya
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-179249 20130830
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/004291 WO 20140821
- International Announcement: WO2015/029390 WO 20150305
- Main IPC: F02M37/08
- IPC: F02M37/08 ; F02M37/20 ; F02M37/10 ; F02D33/00 ; F02D41/30 ; F02D41/00 ; F04D3/00 ; F04D13/06 ; F04D15/00 ; F04D29/18 ; F04D29/52

Abstract:
An ECU of a fuel pump executes a feedback control to drive a motor part and sets a rotation speed of an impeller to become a rotation speed corresponding to the target fuel pressure. The ECU detects whether a vapor is generated in a fuel of a pump chamber of the fuel pump, based on a fuel pressure detected by a pressure sensor. When a generation of the vapor is detected, the ECU sets a rotation speed of the impeller to be higher than the rotation speed under a normal control for a predetermined time with a result that the vapor in the pump chamber and a fuel flow channel is discharged into a vapor discharge hole. Thus, the vapor of the pump chamber is discharged from the vapor discharge hole to an outside of the fuel pump.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160208747A1 FUEL PUMP AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2016-07-21
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