JP2012202292A - Fuel supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel supply device capable of rearranging a pump unit without mechanically breaking a resin mold for integrally forming: a housing of a stator portion; and a motor portion.SOLUTION: In the fuel supply device, an airtight member 19 is disposed between the pump unit 30 and the housing 11 of the stator portion 9, the pump unit 30 is attachably/detachably held to the housing 11 by a pump unit holding means 12, and the housing 11 and the pump unit holding means 12 are locked to each other with a snap-fit structure.

Description

  The present invention relates to a fuel supply device that is held in an opening of a fuel tank such as a two-wheeled vehicle to send fuel out of the fuel tank.

  A conventional fuel supply device includes a stator part formed by covering a core made of a magnetic material around which a coil is wound with a resin material, and a coil that is rotatably disposed on the inner peripheral side of the core. Then, the rotor portion that receives the magnetic field formed in the core and rotates, the impeller fixed to the rotating shaft of the rotor, the pump case that rotatably accommodates the impeller, and the pump case is held on the outer peripheral side thereof A pump unit including a housing coupled to the stator unit, and a flange unit for holding the stator unit and fixing the fuel pump to the container by being fixed to the container so as to cover an opening provided in the container And the stator portion includes a bearing holding portion that holds a bearing that is rotatably fitted to and supported by one end of the rotating shaft, and the bearing holding portion is molded. Be more formed, the flange portion is integrally formed with the stator portion during the molding of the stator unit, the suction port of the pump casing so that mounting the suction filter. (For example, see Patent Document 1.)

  Also, there is a pump unit in which the outer periphery of the pump part is covered with a metal housing, and the metal housing is integrally molded by a resin mold covering the outer periphery of the stator core. (For example, see Patent Document 2.)

JP 2009-2222055 A JP 2007-104871 A

The conventional fuel supply device is configured as described above, and the motor part and the pump part are integrally molded by a resin mold or the like. However, the compatibility between the motor part and the pump part is bad, and the pump part needs to be recombined. In some cases, the resin mold must be mechanically broken, and reassembly is difficult.
Further, since the motor part and the pump part are integrated by molding or fitted by press-fitting or the like, there is a problem that it is difficult to ensure the airtightness of the joint part of the motor part and the pump part.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and provides a fuel supply device that can recombine the pump unit without mechanically destroying the resin mold and can ensure airtightness. With the goal.

The fuel supply device according to the present invention includes a stator portion in which a magnetic pole formed in a circumferential direction on the inner peripheral surface of the stator core is switched by controlling a current flowing in a coil wound around the stator core, and an inner portion of the stator core. A motor unit formed by a rotor unit that is rotatably installed on the circumferential side and that forms magnetic poles that are alternately different in the rotation direction on the outer circumferential surface facing the stator core, and a rotating member that engages and rotates with the rotor unit And a pump part that sucks and boosts fuel, and a flange part that holds the pump part and the motor part, and is fixed to the fuel tank so as to cover an opening provided in the fuel tank, In the fuel supply device for sending the fuel in the fuel tank out of the fuel tank via a discharge pipe,
A resin mold is formed, one end of which is connected to the flange portion, accommodates and holds the motor portion, and a housing having a housing portion for the pump portion at a lower portion of the motor portion, is attached to the housing, and the pump portion is A pump unit holding unit that is fitted and held in the housing unit of the housing; and an airtight member that hermetically seals between the housing and the pump unit when the pump unit is fitted into the housing unit of the housing. The housing and the pump portion holding means are provided with an engaging portion that allows the both to be detachably mounted, and the pump portion is detachably held by the pump portion holding means.

  According to the fuel supply device of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a fuel supply device that can reassemble the pump unit without mechanically destroying the resin mold by holding the pump unit detachably on the motor unit. it can.

  The above-described and other objects, features, and effects of the present invention will become more apparent from the detailed description and the drawings in the following embodiments.

It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a principal part enlarged view of FIG. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is an expanded sectional view of the pump part in Embodiment 3 of the present invention. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the fuel supply apparatus in Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a principal part enlarged view of FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, in each figure, the same code | symbol shall show the same or an equivalent part.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a fuel supply apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the fuel supply apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. It is.

  First, the configuration of the fuel supply apparatus 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3, a fuel supply device 100 is suspended in an opening 2 a of a fuel tank 2 that stores fuel 1 in, for example, a motorcycle, and is a pump unit 30 and a drive source of the pump unit 30. The motor part 40 and the flange part 50 which becomes an attachment member to the fuel tank 2 are comprised.

The pump unit 30 is configured by housing the impeller 5 as a rotating member in the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 (see FIG. 3), and the pump type in the fuel supply device 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is as follows. This is a so-called turbine pump.
The impeller 5 formed in a disk shape is accommodated so as to be sandwiched from both the front and back sides by the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4, and the center portion engages with a shaft 10 a of the rotor portion 10 described later, and the center portion of the pump cover 4 It is supported by a bearing 6 fixed to the shaft and is formed to be rotatable.

The pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 are covered with an outer peripheral surface by a pump case 7 made of, for example, a cylindrical metal pipe, and the fuel tank 2 is disposed on the fuel tank 2 side (lower side in FIG. 1) of the pump cover 4. A suction port 4a for sucking the fuel 1 is disposed, and a suction filter 8 for filtering dust in the fuel 1 is attached to the suction port 4a.
C-shaped pump flow paths 30 a are formed on the surfaces of the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 facing the impeller 5, respectively. The fuel 1 in the fuel tank 2 is absorbed by a suction filter 8 coupled to the pump cover 4. After being filtered, it flows in from the suction port 4 a, is pressurized while flowing through the pump flow path 30 a by the rotation of the impeller 5, and is pumped to the motor unit 40 side.

The fuel pressure-fed from the pump unit 30 to the motor unit 40 side passes between the stator core unit 9 and the rotor unit 10 which will be described later, and is supplied to the fuel passage 14d through a communication channel 14f formed in the flange unit 50 which will be described later. Is done.
The motor unit 40 employs a brushless motor. The motor unit 40 is fitted in the center with a stator core 9a made of a magnetic material and a stator unit 9 made of a coil 9b wound around the stator core 9a, and a plastic magnet molded into a cylindrical shape. It is comprised by the rotor part 10 which consists of the inserted shaft 10a.

In the stator unit 9, the current flowing in the coil 9b wound around the stator core 9a is controlled, so that the magnetic poles formed in the circumferential direction on the inner peripheral surface of the stator core 9a are switched.
The rotor portion 10 in which the shaft 10a is rotatably supported by the bearing 6 is rotatably installed on the inner periphery of the stator core 9a, and forms different magnetic poles alternately in the rotation direction on the outer peripheral surface facing the stator core 9a. Is magnetized.

  The stator core 9a is formed by affixing a plurality of magnetic steel plates laminated in the axial direction. The stator core 9a is provided with an insulator 9c made of an insulating material so as to cover the surface of the stator core 9a. The coil 9b is wound around, and a three-phase alternating current is supplied to the coil 9b from a control device (not shown), for example, star-connected so as to generate a rotating magnetic field in the circumferential direction, and three load terminals 13a, 13b, which will be described later, 13c.

  Stator core 9a, stator portion 9 including coil 9b, and load terminals 13a, 13b, 13c electrically connected to coil 9b are integrally formed by housing 11 formed of a thermoplastic resin such as polyacetal resin, for example. Inserted and molded, the resin does not directly contact the coil 9b by being filled with a resin material, and the corrosion of the coil 9b can be prevented even when deteriorated fuel or low quality fuel is used.

  The housing 11 is provided with a storage portion 11a in which the pump portion 30 is inserted and stored, and an outer peripheral surface is provided with an engaging convex portion 11b disposed to hold the pump portion 30. After being accommodated in the accommodating portion 11a, the engaging concave portion 12a disposed in the pump holder 12 which is a pump portion holding means formed of a thermoplastic resin such as polyacetal resin is formed in the engaging convex portion 11b of the housing 11. The pump unit 30 is held by the motor unit 40 by fitting (indicated by an arrow in FIG. 2).

The engaging projections 11b are disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the housing 11 of the motor unit 40 at a pitch of approximately 120 degrees, and the engaging recesses 12a are disposed on the inner periphery of the pump holder 12 at a pitch of approximately 120 degrees. This is a so-called snap-fit structure formed so as to be easily attached and detached and securely held.
An O-ring 19 that is an airtight member for maintaining oil tightness is inserted between the housing 11 and the pump portion 30, and the O-ring 19 is a recess formed at the bottom of the housing portion 11 a of the housing 11. Housed in the groove 11a1, the pump part 30 is brought into contact with the O-ring 19 to be airtight.

The flange portion 50 houses a discharge pipe 14a for sending pressurized fuel to an engine (not shown) via a fuel pipe (not shown), and power supply terminals 17a, 17b, and 17c to be described later for supplying power to the coil 9b. The connector portion 14b, which is a power supply means, is composed of, for example, a flange 14 integrally molded from a thermoplastic resin material such as PPS resin or POM resin. 1 is formed in a flat plate shape orthogonal to the vertical direction), and is fitted into the circular opening 2a of the fuel tank 2, and the packing 17 is sandwiched between the flat plate portion and the outer surface of the fuel tank 2. In a state of being brought into close contact with each other, it is fixed to the fuel tank 2 by fastening with a fixing bracket (not shown) or the like.
A communication passage 14f is formed in the center of the flange 14 to allow fuel filtered by a discharge filter 18 described later to communicate with the fuel passage 14d.

  A check valve 15 is disposed in the middle of the fuel passage 14d. The check valve 15 includes a valve body 15a, a valve seat 15b, and a valve spring 15c. A coil spring is used for the spring 15c, and when the check valve 15 is attached, the check valve 15 is in a compressed state. Yes. The valve body 15a is in contact with the valve seat 15b by the elastic force of the spring 15c, and during operation of the fuel supply device 100, a fuel passage 14d that acts on the valve body 15a by the fuel pressure discharged from the pump unit 30. The force in the direction toward the downstream side (the left side in FIG. 1) overcomes the elastic force of the spring 15c, the valve body 15a is separated from the valve seat 15b, and the fuel flows to the discharge pipe 14a.

On the other hand, when the fuel supply device 100 is stopped, the fuel passage 14d is blocked by the check valve 15 because the valve body 15a is in contact with the valve seat 15b by the elastic force of the spring 15c. Therefore, the fuel in the fuel passage 14d on the downstream side of the check valve 15a and the fuel pipe (not shown) connected to the discharge pipe 14a does not return to the fuel tank 2 via the fuel supply device 100 and remains there. And the pressurized fuel pressure is also maintained.
Therefore, at the next engine start, the fuel is immediately supplied to the engine so that the engine can be started quickly.

Further, in the middle of the fuel passage 14d on the downstream side of the check valve 15, a pressure regulating valve 16 is disposed in the direction of the fuel tank 2 (downward in FIG. 1).
The pressure regulating valve 16 includes a valve body 16a, a valve seat 16b, and a spring 16c. In this case, a coil spring is used as the spring 16c, and the spring 16c is in a compressed state when the pressure regulating valve 16 is attached. The pressure regulating valve 16 adjusts the fuel pressure delivered from the fuel supply device 100 to a desired pressure. Here, the desired pressure is the fuel pressure required from the engine side. In the pressure regulating valve 16, the contact / separation state between the valve body 16a and the valve seat 16b is determined based on the magnitude relationship between the force acting on the valve body 16a by the fuel pressure and the elastic force of the spring 16c.

  That is, when the fuel pressure in the fuel passage 14d is equal to or lower than the desired pressure, the valve body 16a contacts the valve seat 16b, and the pressure regulating valve 16 is closed. When the fuel pressure in the fuel passage 14d exceeds the desired pressure, the valve body 16a is separated from the valve seat 16b, the pressure regulating valve 16 is opened, and a part of the fuel in the fuel passage 14d is passed through the pressure regulating valve 16. Returning to the inside of the fuel tank 2, that is, the low pressure region, the fuel pressure in the fuel passage 14d is maintained at a desired pressure. The housing on the fuel tank 2 side of the pressure regulating valve 16 is provided with a through hole 14e at a position corresponding to the pressure regulating valve 16, and the fuel discharged from the pressure regulating valve 16 passes through the through hole 14e which is the return port. And returned to the fuel tank 2.

Further, the flange 14 of the flange portion 50 is connected to the housing-side coupling portion 11c of the housing 11.
The flange side coupling portion 14g formed so as to be connectable is extended. After the end surfaces of the flange side coupling portion 14g and the housing side coupling portion 11c are heated by a heated hot plate, the housing 11 and the flange 14 are moved. It is welded and bonded by pressing in the vertical direction of FIG.
In addition, power supply terminals 17a, 17b, and 17c that are electrically connected to the load terminals 13a, 13b, and 13c when the flange-side connection part 14g is connected to the housing-side connection part 11c are arranged on the outer periphery of the flange-side connection part 14g. It is installed.

  A discharge filter 18 for filtering the fuel 1 delivered to the outside of the fuel tank 2 is disposed inside the flange side coupling portion 14g. The discharge filter 18 is a filter medium formed in a chrysanthemum tube shape or a roll shape, and is disposed concentrically with respect to the cylindrical shape of the rotor portion 10, and the fuel flowing between the stator core 9 a and the rotor portion 10 is Although the fuel flows in the direction of arrow A, arrow B, arrow C, and arrow D with respect to the discharge filter 18, the fuel flows uniformly in the circumferential direction of the discharge filter 18.

  In addition, a communication passage 14f is disposed substantially at the center of the discharge filter 18, and since the rotor portion 10, the discharge filter 18, and the communication passage 14f are formed in a straight line, the fuel passes smoothly. Loss is small, and a non-woven fabric is used as the filter medium, and the filtration performance is superior to a mesh filter or the like.

Next, the operation of the fuel supply apparatus 100 configured as described above will be described.
A drive current is supplied from a control circuit (not shown) to the coil 9b via the power supply terminals 17a, 17b, 17c and the load terminals 13a, 13b, 13c from the connector part 14b, and a rotating magnetic field is applied to the opposing surface facing the rotor part 10 of the stator part 9. Is generated.

  The rotor unit 10 rotates following the rotating magnetic field of the stator unit 9, the impeller 5 engaged with the shaft 10a of the rotor unit 10 also rotates, and a swirling flow is generated in the C-shaped pump flow path 30a. The fuel 1 in the fuel tank 2 flows in from the suction port 4a provided in the pump cover 4 via the suction filter 8, and is boosted while flowing in the pump flow path 30a by the rotation of the impeller 5, and the motor unit 40 side (FIG. 1 is pumped to the upper part of the pump unit 30.

The fuel 1 pumped to the motor portion 40 side passes between the stator core 9a and the rotor portion 10 and flows into the communication passage 14f formed in the flange portion 50 via the fuel filter 18, and further, the fuel passage 14d. To be supplied. The fuel that has flowed into the fuel passage 14d is regulated to a desired pressure by the pressure regulating valve 16, and is discharged from the discharge pipe 14a to an internal combustion engine such as a vehicle engine (not shown).
While the fuel supply device 100 is stopped, the fuel in the fuel passage 14d on the downstream side and the fuel pipe (not shown) connected to the discharge pipe 14a is held at a pressurized fuel pressure by the action of the check valve 15. The

As described above, according to the fuel supply device of the first embodiment of the present invention, the housing part 11a in which the pump part 30 is housed is disposed in the housing 11, and the pump holder 12 serving as the pump part holding means is used to Since the part 30 is held by the motor part 40 and the housing 11 and the pump holder 12 are locked by a detachable snap fit structure, the resin mold can be mechanically destroyed without breaking the pump part 30. Recombination work can be done.
In addition, since it has a snap-fit structure, it is easy to attach and detach, and the engaging convex portion 11b and the engaging concave portion 12a, which are engaging means, are arranged on the inner circumference at a pitch of approximately 120 degrees and are formed to fit. Therefore, the pump unit 30 is securely held by the motor unit 40.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
A configuration of a fuel supply apparatus 200 according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described.
4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the fuel supply device according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the fuel supply device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
In FIGS. 4 and 5, only parts different from those in FIGS. 1 and 2 are shown with reference numerals, and other configurations are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  4 and 5, the fuel supply device according to the second embodiment of the present invention is configured such that a suction filter for filtering the fuel sucked from the fuel tank is formed integrally with the pump holder to form a pump holder portion 70. It is.

  According to the fuel supply device of the second embodiment, by integrating the suction filter and the pump holder, the assembling property is improved and the cost is reduced as compared with the case where the suction filter and the pump holder are separately mounted. There is a reduction effect.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the pump portion of the fuel supply device according to the third embodiment of the present invention. Parts different from those in FIG. The configuration is the same as in the first embodiment.

In the fuel supply device according to the first embodiment described above, the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 are covered and fixed by the pump case 7 made of, for example, a cylindrical metal pipe. In the third embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, with the pump base 21 and the pump cover 22 being sandwiched, a tapping screw or a blind rivet 23 as a fastening means is fitted and fixed integrally. It is.
Note that a female screw may be tapped on the pump base 21 or the pump cover 22, and the pump base 21 and the pump cover 22 may be integrally fixed using a pan screw.

  Further, in the first embodiment, the airtightness between the housing 11 and the pump unit 30 is such that the O-ring 19 is housed in the concave groove 11a1 formed in the bottom of the housing portion 11a of the housing 11. 3, the O-ring 19 that is an airtight member is housed in the concave groove 11 a 2 formed in the opening of the housing 11, and the peripheral portion 22 a of the pump cover 22 is brought into contact with the O-ring 19 for airtightness.

  As described above, according to the configuration of the third embodiment of the present invention, the pump base 21 and the pump cover 22 are integrally fixed together by a general-purpose tightening means. Since the O-ring 19 that is a member is disposed in the concave groove 11a2 formed in the opening of the housing 11, the O-ring 19 is reliably accommodated in the concave groove 11a2, so that the reliability is high and the assembling property is high. Has the effect of being good.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
A configuration of the fuel supply apparatus 300 according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention will be described.
7 is a longitudinal sectional view of the fuel supply device according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 8 is an exploded perspective view of the fuel supply device according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. is there.

  As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, in the fuel supply device according to the fourth embodiment, the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 are surrounded by a pump case 700 which is a pump portion holding means made of, for example, a cylindrical metal pipe. The fitting part of the pump case 700 is fitted into the housing 110, and the engaging concave part 700a provided in the pump case 700 is engaged with the engaging convex part 110b protruding from the housing 110. Thus, the pump base 3 and the pump cover 4 are configured to be held by the motor unit 40.

  According to the fuel supply device of the fourth embodiment configured as described above, the pump case 700 is made of metal, so that the dimensional accuracy is better than the pump holder made of resin in the first embodiment, and the pump case 3. There is an effect that the pump cover 4 can be held more reliably.

1 fuel, 2 fuel tank, 2a opening, 3, 21 pump base,
4, 22 Pump cover, 7 Pump case, 8 Suction filter,
9 Stator part, 9a Stator core, 9b Coil, 10 Rotor part,
11, 110 housing, 11a storage part, 11b, 110b engagement convex part,
12 pump holder (pump part holding means), 12a engaging recess,
14 flange, 14a discharge pipe, 19 airtight member (O-ring),
23 Tightening member, 30 Pump part, 40 Motor part, 50 Flange part,
70 Pump holder part 100, 200, 300 Fuel supply device,
700 Pump case (pump part holding means), 700a Engaging recess.

Claims (6)

A stator portion where a magnetic pole formed in the circumferential direction on the inner peripheral surface of the stator core is switched by controlling a current flowing in a coil wound around the stator core, and is rotatably installed on the inner peripheral side of the stator core. A motor part formed from a rotor part that forms magnetic poles alternately different in the rotation direction on the outer peripheral surface facing the stator core;
A pump part that sucks and pressurizes the fuel by a rotating member that rotates and engages with the rotor part, and holds the pump part and the motor part and covers the opening provided in the fuel tank. A fuel supply device configured to send a fuel in the fuel tank to the outside of the fuel tank via a discharge pipe.
A housing having one end connected to the flange portion, housing and holding the motor portion, and having a housing portion for the pump portion at a lower portion of the motor portion;
A pump part holding means that is mounted on the housing and holds the pump part fitted in the housing part of the housing, and the housing and the pump part when the pump part is fitted in the housing part of the housing The housing and the pump part holding means are provided with an engaging part that allows them to be detachably attached, and the pump part can be attached and detached by the pump part holding means. A fuel supply device that is held.   2. The fuel supply device according to claim 1, wherein the airtight member is housed in a concave groove formed in a housing portion of the housing, and the pump portion is brought into contact with the airtight member to be airtight.   The said engaging part was comprised by the engagement convex part formed in the said housing, and the engagement recessed part formed in the said pump part holding means, and the said engagement convex part is inserted. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 2.   The engaging projections are arranged at a pitch of approximately 120 degrees on the outer peripheral surface of the stator portion of the housing, and the engaging recesses are arranged at a pitch of approximately 120 degrees on the inner periphery of the pump unit holding means. The fuel supply device according to claim 3, wherein:   5. The fuel supply device according to claim 1, wherein a suction filter that filters fuel sucked from the fuel tank is integrally formed in the pump unit holding unit. .   2. The fuel supply apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a pump base and a pump cover constituting the pump unit are fixed by fastening means.

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