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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Juergen Treiber, Munich, DE;
Michael Kuehn, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE;
Mathias Rollwage, Ditzingen, DE;
Dietrich Trachte, Leonberg, DE;
Willi Strohl, Beilstein, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A unit for delivering fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine, having a disklike impeller driven to revolve in a pump chamber, on whose circumference a number of blades are disposed, and having at least one supply conduit, disposed in the region of the impeller blades and open toward the impeller, in a chamber wall defining the pump chamber on the face end and axially adjoining the impeller, which supply conduit extends via a split ring around the pivot axis of the impeller from an inlet opening into the pump chamber to an outlet opening from it. In order to assure that sufficient fuel can be aspirated unthrottled in the presence of gas bubbles in the fuel, in particular when the fuel is hot, the supply conduit is embodied in the region of the inlet opening as larger by a factor of 2 than the usual supply conduit cross section; the cross section of the supply conduit then decreases continuously, beginning at the inlet end, forming a compression conduit.