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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2002
Paul Gottemoller, Palos Park, IL (US);
Ramesh B. Poola, Naperville, IL (US);
Richard Wayne Tupek, Naperville, IL (US);
Michael Barry Goetzke, Orland Park, IL (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A high pressure fuel pump having a variable fuel injection rate, including a pump body, a pump cylinder formed in the pump body and a piston reciprocable within the pump cylinder, which defines a pressurization chamber. The pump piston has a reduced diameter portion which provides a primary piston. A piston annulus is slidably mounted thereon and provides a secondary piston. An annular actuation chamber adjoins the secondary piston opposite the pressurization chamber. An actuation passage is provided between a return fuel drain and the actuation chamber, which is selectively open or closed passively by pump piston movement and/or dynamically by operation of an actuation solenoid valve. If the actuation chamber passage is open, then during the pressurization stroke the secondary piston will remain stationary relative to the pump body, but if it is closed then the secondary piston must stroke in unison with the primary piston.