Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Takahiko Kato

Shigenori Isomura

Makoto Miwa

Toshihiko Muramatsu

Takeshi Matsuda

Kazuji Minagawa

Kiyokazu Akiyama

Moriyasu Goto

Kazuji Managawa

A jet pump is disclosed through which a liquid flows. The jet pump includes a jet nozzle including an injection port for injecting the liquid. The jet pump also includes a throat pipe including a throat passage that extends linearly. The throat pipe includes a downstream side with an open part, and the liquid injected from the injection port flows into the throat passage. The liquid in the throat passage forms a liquid seal across a cross section of the throat passage to generate negative pressure, which introduces the liquid into the throat passage.

Jet pump

A residual fuel quantity measuring device for automobiles has a fuel flow rate sensor provided in a filler neck of a fuel tank for measuring the flow rate of liquid fuel supplied to a fuel tank. A computer computes the quantity of liquid fuel remaining in the fuel tank from a previously stored residual quantity of liquid fuel, the measured fuel flow rate, the injection rate of fuel from fuel injection valves, and the purge quantity of fuel evaporated in the fuel tank. A fuel meter visually displays the thus computed residual quantity of liquid fuel in the fuel tank.

Apparatus and method for measuring fuel flow rate and residual fuel quantity and for controlling evaporated fuel

An antidissipation apparatus for evaporated fuel vapor for an internal combustion engine. A purge passage connects the intake manifold and the fuel tank. A canister is installed in the purge passage and adsorbs evaporated fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank. A purge pump is installed in the purge passage and delivers the adsorbed evaporated fuel vapor to the intake manifold. Since the purge pump is driven by at least a part of a fuel flow in the fuel passage, the purge pump can change its discharge amount of the adsorbed evaporated fuel vapor to the intake manifold according to an amount of the fuel flow in the fuel passage. Therefore, the evaporated fuel vapor which is adsorbed at the canister can be supplied (purged) to the intake manifold by the purge pump forcibly even if the engine is a lean-burn type which can not employ large negative pressure of the intake manifold.

Antidissipation apparatus for evaporated fuel vapor

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Nagoya, Japan

Takahiko Kato