Pierburg Ag

Henning Garcke

Bernhard Radermacher

Heinz Beier

An electric pump for a liquid has a rotor surrounded by a stator which is disposed in the flow path of the liquid, the rotor being disposed in a rotor compartment, which is sealed from the flow path of the liquid and is predominantly filled with a mixture of air and vaporized liquid. The rotor compartment is in communication with the ambient atmosphere through a vent orifice. A vent system in the form of a labyrinth seal and a liquid-tight, gas-permeable membrane is interposed between the vent orifice and the ambient atmosphere. The rotor bearings are lubricated in one embodiment by leakage liquid and its vaporized product within the rotor compartment. In another embodiment the rotor bearings are disposed in the liquid flow path outside seals between the rotor and the rotor compartment.

Canned pump with dry rotor compartment

A fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine in which a fuel pump pumps fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel distributor and a pressure regulator is connected between the fuel pump and the fuel distributor to respond to pressure of the fuel pumped by the fuel pump, to return fuel back to the fuel tank as a function of the pressure of the pumped fuel, a pressure reducer being disposed between the pressure regulator and the fuel distributor to reduce the pressure of the fuel delivered to the fuel distributor to a value lower than the pressure of the fuel at the pressure regulator.

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Willich, Germany

Henning Garcke