Walbro Corporation

Walbro Engine Management, L.l.c.

Brp US Inc.

David D Hacker

Kevin L Israelson

George M Pattullo

Kenneth J Cotton

Eric L King

Roger N Smith

Jeffrey D Hanby

Elton J Fisch

Justin Johnson

Nathan Blank

Paul Westhoff, Jr

Paul J Dow

Travis P Baur

Matthew James Young

David Scott Soderman

A fuel pump for a fuel system includes a nozzle, a venturi, a pump inlet and a flow controller. The nozzle has an orifice through which fuel is ejected and the venturi is downstream of the nozzle and has an inlet through which fuel discharged from the orifice flows, a passage downstream of the venturi inlet through which fuel flows to create a drop in pressure in the area of the venturi, and an outlet through which fuel is discharged from the venturi. Fuel is drawn through the pump inlet by the drop in the pressure created in the area of the venturi and the flow controller is downstream of the outlet and has a chamber in which fuel from the venturi outlet is received. The flow controller causes fuel to fill the venturi to ensure performance of the fuel pump.

Venturi fluid pump with outlet flow controller

A marine outboard engine includes an internal combustion engine including at least one fuel injector; a fuel vapor separator including: a separator body, a fuel reservoir defined by the separator body, and a first fuel pump fluidly connected between the fuel reservoir and the fuel injector; a fuel tank; and a second fuel pump fluidly connected between the fuel tank and the fuel vapor separator. The fuel vapor separator includes a heat exchanger disposed in the separator body. The heat exchanger includes at least one fuel channel defined by the heat exchanger body, the at least one fuel channel including: an inlet adapted for receiving fuel from the engine, and an outlet fluidly communicating with the fuel reservoir; and at least one coolant channel defined by the heat exchanger body, the at least one fuel channel and the at least one coolant channel being in thermal communication.

Fuel vapor separator and heat exchanger for a marine outboard engine

A combustion engine carburetor with a fuel-and-air mixing passage extending through a body and a float bowl engaged sealably to the body. A vacuum actuated acceleration fuel pump is preferably carried by the float bowl and has a hose-less vacuum channel communicating between the fuel-and-air mixing passage downstream of a throttle valve and a vacuum chamber of the acceleration pump. A hose-less fuel discharge channel communicates between a supplemental fuel chamber of the acceleration pump and the fuel-and-air mixing passage between a venturi and a choke valve in the mixing passage. Preferably, the fuel discharge channel has an injecting bore portion defined by the body and being angled to direct fuel in a downstream direction toward the venturi to promote mixing with air.

Carburetor with acceleration fuel pump

In one presently preferred embodiment a stratified scavenging carburetor has a scavenging air passage with an air control valve and a fuel and air mixing passage with a throttle control valve, and a lost motion coupling associated with the valves to delay opening of the closed air valve until the throttle valve has partially opened from its idle position to an off idle position and preferably thereafter to open the air valve in phased relationship with the throttle valve so that the valves become wide open at substantially the same time. Preferably the coupling has reels associated with the valve and connected by a flexible cord.

Stratified scavenging carburetor

Improvement in peanut clip limiter cap holder, wherein the clip spring legs are interconnected by a spring web that flexes to accommodate flexing of the clip legs free ends during insertion of the associated limiter caps into the retaining clip, and prolongs the effective friction grip service life of the clip. Optional detent dimples on the clip spring legs and cooperative limiter cap grooves enhance yieldable retention of the caps in the clip and the clip on the needle valves. When the peanut clip is used to install only a single limiter cap on a single needle valve, a dummy stud is mounted to the carburetor in the vacant needle valve position and the stud head occupies the vacant limiter cap position in the clip. An improved needle valve is made as an assembly of a lathe-turned tip/shank part and a separate precision die cast head part. The head part has the needle spring stop flange, the fluted spline portion, the limiter cap barb retention structure, and a cavity telescopically receiving a shank stem to rotationally drive couple the shank and head parts in assembly. The shank stem is press fit or cast into the head cavity to permanently join the shank and head parts in fixed relationship, or preferably the head cavity cooperates with the shank stem and a cross arm thereof to form a releasable, telescopic, quarter-turn bayonet coupling. The needle valve spring biases the bayonet coupling to fully locked condition. Coupling axial lost motion insures lock-on of cap retention barbs on the head of the 'shorter' needle, and thus final installation lock-on of both limiter caps while being held by the clip. 'Side-play' between head and shank parts isolates the needle shank part from adverse needle bending moments.

Carburetor needle valve and limiter cap installation and adjustment

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Bad Axe, MI, United States of America

David D Hacker