CA2747074A1 - Fuel pump for internal combustion engines - Google Patents

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CA2747074A1
CA2747074A1 CA2747074A CA2747074A CA2747074A1 CA 2747074 A1 CA2747074 A1 CA 2747074A1 CA 2747074 A CA2747074 A CA 2747074A CA 2747074 A CA2747074 A CA 2747074A CA 2747074 A1 CA2747074 A1 CA 2747074A1
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Carsten Rudolph
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Thielert Aircraft Engines Represented By Insolvency Administrat Or Mr Bruno M Kuebler GmbH
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C15/00Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups F04C2/00 - F04C14/00
    • F04C15/0057Driving elements, brakes, couplings, transmission specially adapted for machines or pumps
    • F04C15/0061Means for transmitting movement from the prime mover to driven parts of the pump, e.g. clutches, couplings, transmissions
    • F04C15/0073Couplings between rotors and input or output shafts acting by interengaging or mating parts, i.e. positive coupling of rotor and shaft
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M37/00Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatus; Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M37/04Feeding by means of driven pumps
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C15/00Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups F04C2/00 - F04C14/00
    • F04C15/0057Driving elements, brakes, couplings, transmission specially adapted for machines or pumps
    • F04C15/0076Fixing rotors on shafts, e.g. by clamping together hub and shaft
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/08Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing
    • F04C2/12Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type
    • F04C2/14Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons
    • F04C2/18Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with similar tooth forms
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16DCOUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES
    • F16D1/00Couplings for rigidly connecting two coaxial shafts or other movable machine elements
    • F16D1/10Quick-acting couplings in which the parts are connected by simply bringing them together axially
    • F16D1/101Quick-acting couplings in which the parts are connected by simply bringing them together axially without axial retaining means rotating with the coupling
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2240/00Components
    • F04C2240/20Rotors
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2240/00Components
    • F04C2240/60Shafts
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16DCOUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES
    • F16D1/00Couplings for rigidly connecting two coaxial shafts or other movable machine elements
    • F16D1/10Quick-acting couplings in which the parts are connected by simply bringing them together axially
    • F16D2001/102Quick-acting couplings in which the parts are connected by simply bringing them together axially the torque is transmitted via polygon shaped connections

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Abstract

The invention relates to a fuel pump, especially the prefeed pump for feeding aircraft fuel to the high pressure pump, wherein the form-fit connection between the drive shaft (4) and the driven impeller (2) is produced by a regular, convex, triangular polygonal contour having rounded-off lateral faces and corner faces, the drive shaft and the impeller being provided with said polygonal contour. In this manner, the wear resulting from the poor lubricating power of the kerosene-based aircraft fuel can be reduced and the service life of the fuel pump can be increased.

Description

Fuel pump for internal combustion engines DESCRIPTION
The invention relates to a fuel pump, especially prefeed pump for internal combustion engines comprising a gear pump with a pump impeller driven via a driveshaft, more preferably for diesel engines operated with aircraft fuel.
The fuel feed to the combustion chamber of aircraft engines operated in common-rail technology using aircraft fuel takes place from a tank via a prefeed pump and a high-pressure pump to a common distribution pipe (rail) connected to the individual cylinders, as is well known.
Since a failure of a fuel pump invariably results in engine stoppage, an extremely high reliability is demanded particularly with aircraft engines. The reliability and the maximum operating duration of the fuel pumps are particularly limited in that they are lubricated with the delivered fuel and the bearings and sliding surfaces are under more or less load corresponding to the lubricating power of the fuel. The lifespan of the fuel pumps is thus decisively influenced by the lubricating properties of the respective fuel. Since the diesel engines employed in aircraft are operated with a kerosene-based aircraft fuel with significantly lower lubricating power compared with diesel fuel, the lifespan of the fuel pumps in this case is particularly low.

In the case of a prefeed pump designed as a gear pump the pump gear (drive gear) of said prefeed pump is connected to a drive shaft by way of a splined shaft toothing, whose outer toothing (outer profile) present on a shaft end form-fittingly engages in an internal toothing (inner profile) present on the drive gear of the prefeed pump. The prefeed pump designed in this manner only has a very short lifespan when used for a diesel engine operated with aircraft fuel since the driveshaft and the driven pump gear and consequently also the pump housing are subjected to high wear and the prefeed pump has to be replaced completely even after a short operating time.

DE 100 14 548 Al describes a gear feed pump for diesel fuel with which the form-fit connection between the drive shaft and the one pump gear is established through a flattened circle geometry or via a profiling provided with recesses and protrusions.

The invention is therefore based on the object of designing the prefeed pump connected upstream of the high-pressure pump in such a manner that even when using fuel with reduced lubricating power a long lifespan is guaranteed.
According to the invention, this object is solved with a fuel pump or prefeed pump designed as gear pump according to the features of Patent Claim 1. Practical configurations of the invention are the subject of the subclaims.

The essence of the invention in other words consists in that the form-fit connection between the driveshaft and the driven pump gear is established through a convex polygonal contour designed on the driveshaft and on the pump gear.

In a further embodiment of the invention the driveshaft comprises a coupling disc in the shape of a polygon shaped as triangle with lateral faces curved outwardly at a certain radius and corner regions rounded towards the outside, while in the driven pump gear a recess corresponding in shape and size to the coupling disc is formed, so that the coupling disc engages in the recess as an accurate fit.

Surprisingly it was discovered that the connection between driveshaft and pump gear established via two polygons form-fittingly engaging into each other guarantees a secure power transmission and results in a significant reduction of the wear on the form-fit connection point and thus the driveshaft, the pump gears and the pump housing and thus the lifespan of the fuel pump provided for delivering fuel with low lubricating power is increased and its especially for aviation indispensable reliability is improved. In a further configuration of the inventions the convexly curved polygonal contours form-fittingly engaging into each other can also be embodied as polygon, for example as tetragon.
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail by means of the drawing. It shows:

Fig. 1 a perspective representation of a prefeed pump designed as gear pump in a disassembled state;
Fig. 2 a front view of the driveshaft designed with a coupling disc designed as polygon; and Fig. 3 a front view of the drive gear of the prefeed pump with an inner profile designed as polygon.
The prefeed pump shown in a disassembled state in Fig. 1 is designed as gear pump and comprises a pump housing 1, in which a driven first pump gear 2 and a second pump gear 3 are mounted. In addition, a driven driveshaft 4 is mounted in the pump housing 1. A coupling disc 5 moulded onto the driveshaft 4 has the shape of a convex, regular, in this case, triangular polygon, i.e. of a triangle with three curved lateral faces of the same length and the same size internal angles. The coupling disc 5 engages in a recess 6 formed in the driven pump gear 2 whose contour shaped as polygon corresponds to the contour of the coupling disc 5.
Subject to the intermediate connection of a sealing ring 8 the pump housing 1 is closed-off through a housing cover 9 which is fastened by means of cheese-head screws.
The polygonal outer contour of the coupling disc 5 and the recess 6 provided in the driven pump gear 2 is shown in more detail in the Figures 2 and 3. The regular triangular polygon of the coupling disc 5 and of the recess 6 has a circumcircle with the diameter du and an incircle with the diameter dI. However, the polygon has no straight lateral edges (lateral faces) but is convexly shaped, i.e. with crowned lateral faces curved outwardly in the radius RS and within the radius RE rounded corner regions of the polygon of the coupling disc 5 and of the recess 6. The maximum width of the polygon of the recess 6 or of the coupling disc 5 is designated W in the drawing.

With the form-fit between the driveshaft 6 and the driven pump gear embodied as convex polygonal connection the wear of the first and also of the second pump gear as well as of the driveshaft and of the housing can be significantly lowered and the lifespan of the prefeed pump designed as gear pump can be increased by up to three times even when using a fuel with low lubricating power.

The invention is not restricted to the exemplary embodiment described before. For example, the form-fit connection can also be formed through regular convex polygons with more than three corners such as a tetragon or pentagon and also be employed with other fuel pumps with rotating pump wheels.
List of reference characters 1. Pump housing 2. First, driven pump gear 3. Second pump gear 4. Driveshaft 5. Coupling disc, triangular convex polygon 6. Recess, triangular convex polygon 7. Cheese-head screws 8. Sealing ring 9. Housing cover Du Circumcircle of polygon DI Incircle of polygon W Maximum width of the polygon Rs Radius of the lateral faces of the polygon RE Radius of the corner faces of the polygon

Claims (4)

1. A fuel pump, particularly prefeed pump for internal combustion engines comprising a gear pump with a pump gear driven via a driveshaft, more preferably for diesel engines operated with aircraft fuel, characterized by a form-fit connection embodied as regular convex polygon having lateral faces and corner regions curved to the outside between the driven pump gear (2) and the driveshaft (4).
2. The fuel pump according to Claim 1, characterized in that the form-fit polygon connection comprises a coupling disc (5) provided on the driveshaft (4) and a recess (6) moulded into the driven pump gear (2) with corresponding polygonal contour.
3. The fuel pump according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the convex polygonal contour is triangular and in the radius Rs comprises lateral faces curved to the outside and in the radius R E corner regions curved to the outside.
4. The fuel pump according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the regular convex polygonal contour is designed as tetragon or pentagon.
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PCT/EP2009/065180 WO2010057838A2 (en) 2008-11-21 2009-11-13 Fuel pump for internal combustion engines

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