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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1997
Klaus Dobler, Gerlingen, DE;
Michael Huebel, Gerlingen, DE;
Willi Strohl, Beilstein, DE;
Jochen Rose, Hemmingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The flow pump for supplying a fuel in a motor vehicle includes a pump housing (10) provided with a pump chamber (11) bounded by two radially-extending side walls (12,13) axially spaced from each other and connected with each other by a peripheral wall (14) and a rotatable impeller (24) arranged in the pump chamber (11) coaxial to a pump axis (22). The impeller (24) includes circumferentially spaced radial impeller blades (29) bounding axially open impeller chambers (31) and an outer ring (30) connecting the impeller blades (29) with each other. The two radially-extending side walls (12,13) are provided with respective groove-like side channels (20,21) concentric to the pump axis (22) and open to the pump chamber (11). Each radially-extending side wall (12,13) has an intervening portion (23) between a channel end (212) and a channel beginning (211). The outer ring (30) and the peripheral wall (14) bound a radial space (32,32') between them and the outer ring (30) includes a circumferential radial gap (34) or a plurality of throughgoing passages (37) for providing a fluid flow between a number, advantageously all, of the impeller chambers (31) and the radial space (32,32').