The Rexroth Corporation

Richard K Krause

Eric D Ramseyer

A high pressure plug/port assembly includes a plug having a head portion at one end, a guide portion at the other end and an O-ring portion therebetween. An annular plug seat surface extends radially inward from the head portion to the O-ring portion at the intersection thereof and a chamfered surface extends radially outward from the O-ring portion to the guide portion at the intersection thereof. The port includes a threaded counterbore in threaded engagement with the plug head portion, a smaller bore receiving the plug's guide portion and a frusto conical bore extending from the smaller bore to the counterbore and defining an annular port seat surface extending radially outward from the frusto conical bore to the counterbore. The seat surfaces provide an undistorting, annular sealing area isolating the threaded connection from high-pressure fluid while the frusto conical bore and plug configuration compresses an O-ring seal in the O-ring portion into sealing engagement with high pressure fluid in the smaller bore.

High pressure plug/port assembly

A priming system for a hydraulically actuated, electronically controlled unit injector fuel systems used on diesel engines and the like includes an accumulator charged at low pressure and in fluid communication with the manifold/rail passages leading to the individual fuel injectors, which passages are pressurized upon engine startup by the system's high pressure pump to actuate the injectors. The accumulator is plumbed into the hydraulic system by one way check valves which isolate the accumulator from the high pressure pump to permit the high pressure pump and the priming system to be located at any convenient position within the vehicle's engine compartment irrespective of their position relative to the manifold/rail passages.

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Wooster, OH, United States of America

Richard K Krause