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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1994
Kurt Frank, Schorndorf, DE;
Juergen Treiber, Munich, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An aggregate for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle has a fluid pump having an impeller with a plurality of vanes distributed over its periphery on its both end surfaces, elements forming a pump chamber in which the impeller is rotated and including two wall parts limiting the pump chamber in direction of a rotary axis of the impeller at both sides and a housing part limiting the pump chamber in a radial direction, each of the wall parts having an end surface facing the impeller and being provided with a substantially ring-shaped feeding passage, at least one of the feeding passages having a connection with a suction side of the flow pump and at least the other of the feeding passages has a connection with a pressure side of the flow pump. The impeller and the housing part are arranged so that a radial gap between an outer surface of the impeller and an inner surface of the housing part at least in a peripheral region of the housing part in which the connection of the one feeding passage with the suction side is provided has such a size that a suction passage is formed through which the other feeding passage is also connected with the suction side of the flow pump. For limiting the suction passage in a peripheral direction near the suction passage, peripheral regions are arranged in which the radial gap is smaller.