Ihi Corporation

Akihiro Shimamura

Naoki Seki

Yasuhiko Yamamoto

Takashi Sato

Kenji Takamiya

Masahiro Tanida

Hirotaka Sugawara

A fuel supply control device () is configured to generate an operation amount used for feedback-controlling rotation of a gear pump () based on a deviation of a detected fuel flow rate with respect to a target flow rate, wherein the fuel supply control device generates the operation amount such that a rotation speed of the gear pump is equal to or greater than a predetermined lower limit rotation speed Nmin so as to protect a bearing of the gear pump.

Fuel supply control device

In an external gear pump, a first bushing of a rotational shaft of a first gear has a second surface facing to a first surface of a pump body. A recess for supplying high-pressure lubricating oil between an inner circumferential surface of the first bushing and an outer circumferential surface of the rotational shaft is opened on the inner circumferential surface within a low pressure range associating with an inlet chamber of fluid. A bushing-side supply passage for supplying the high-pressure lubricating oil to the recess is formed within the first bushing. A bushing-side inlet port of the bushing-side supply passage is opened on the second surface within a high pressure range associating with an outlet chamber of the fluid. A body-side supply passage for supplying the high-pressure lubricating oil to a body-side supply port opened on the first surface is formed within the pump body.

External gear pump

A fuel supply control device is provided in which a parallel flow path of an orifice and a pressurizing valve is used as a complex pressurizing valve for a fuel supply amount, and which controls a fuel supply pump on the basis of a pressure difference before and after the complex pressurizing valve that has been detected by a pressure difference meter. When the rotational speed of the fuel supply pump is below a predetermined threshold value, the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a first fuel measurement amount, and the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a second fuel measurement amount.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akihiro Shimamura