Robert Boschgmbh

Francois Agrain

Francois Rossignol

A fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines, having a pump piston, which is guided in a cylinder bore and driven to reciprocate by a cam drive. The pump piston defines a pump work chamber with its face end. The pump work chamber communicates with an injection valve via a pressure conduit and is supplied with fuel and relieved via a fuel line. The cam drive acts upon the pump piston via a rocker bolt, a tappet bolt, and a tappet insert, and the connections from the tappet bolt to both the rocker bolt and the tappet insert are embodied in the manner of ball joints. For simple installation of the tappet bolt, it is axially secured in relation to the rocker and to a tappet sleeve, which receives the tappet insert, via securing elements having elastic stretching properties, which expand to the size of the outer diameter of the ball head when a certain force is exerted, so that the tappet bolt can be installed and removed without disassembling the whole pump.

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St. Pierre de Chandieu, France

Francois Agrain