JP2016142228A - Delivery pipe and fuel supply device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a delivery pipe capable of regulating the axial movement of a fuel injection valve.SOLUTION: A delivery pipe 1 is equipped with: a main pipe 30; an abutting surface 34; an extending portion 60; and a receiving portion 70. The main pipe 30 can be connected with an end portion on a fuel inlet 11 side of a fuel injection valve 10. The abutting surface 34 formed at an end portion in an axial direction of the main pipe 30 can abut on an outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10. The extending portion 60 extends from the main pipe 30 toward a jet hole 15 side of the fuel injection valve 10. The receiving portion 70 extending from an end portion on the jet hole 15 side of the extending portion 60 in a circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve 10 can lock an end surface 171 on the jet hole 15 side of a connector 17 provided on an outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10. Therefore, the delivery pipe 1 can regulate the axial movement of the fuel injection valve 10 by the abutting surface 34 and the receiving portion 70.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a delivery pipe and a fuel supply device including the delivery pipe.

Conventionally, a delivery pipe that supplies fuel supplied from a fuel tank of a vehicle to a fuel injection valve is known.
A delivery pipe described in Patent Document 1 is fixed to a throttle body of an internal combustion engine and attached to an end portion on the fuel inlet side of a fuel injection valve, and has a bottomed cylindrical cap portion and extends radially from the cap portion. It has a tubular joint. A pipe through which fuel pumped from the fuel tank flows is connected to the joint portion. The delivery pipe supplies the fuel supplied from the pipe to the joint part to the fuel inlet of the fuel injection valve via the cap part. At this time, the end of the fuel injection valve on the injection hole side is inserted into a hole provided in the outer wall of the throttle body and is exposed to the intake passage inside the throttle body.

JP 2006-266132 A

  However, the delivery pipe described in Patent Document 1 restricts the movement of the fuel injection valve toward the fuel inlet in the axial direction, but does not restrict the movement toward the injection hole. The movement of the fuel injection valve toward the injection hole is restricted by a cushion ring as a seal member provided inside the hole of the throttle body. Therefore, when the cushion ring deteriorates with time, it is conceivable that the distance that the fuel injection valve can reciprocate in the axial direction increases. In this case, when the delivery pipe described in Patent Document 1 supplies fuel to the fuel inlet of the fuel injection valve, the delivery pipe and the fuel injection valve may be separated in the axial direction due to the fuel pressure, and fuel may leak from the gap. There is.

Moreover, the delivery pipe of patent document 1 is not restrict | limiting the movement to the injection hole side of a fuel injection valve. Therefore, there is a concern that the fuel injection valve may drop out of the cap portion or the hole of the throttle body before the cap portion is fixed to the throttle body.
The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a delivery pipe capable of regulating the axial movement of a fuel injection valve and a fuel supply device including the delivery pipe.

1st invention is invention of the delivery pipe which supplies the fuel supplied through a piping from a fuel supply source to a fuel injection valve. The delivery pipe includes a delivery pipe body, a contact surface, an extending portion, and a receiving portion. The delivery pipe body connectable to the fuel injection valve has a fuel passage for supplying fuel supplied from the pipe to a fuel inlet of the fuel injection valve. A contact surface formed at an end portion in the axial direction of the delivery pipe main body can contact the outer wall of the fuel injection valve. The extending portion extends from the delivery pipe body toward the injection hole side of the fuel injection valve. The receiving portion extending in the circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve from the end portion on the injection hole side of the extending portion can lock the end surface on the injection hole side of the protruding portion provided on the outer wall of the fuel injection valve.
Thereby, the delivery pipe can regulate the movement of the fuel injection valve in the axial direction by the contact surface and the receiving portion.

The second invention is an invention of a fuel supply device. The fuel supply device includes the above-described delivery pipe and a fuel injection valve that injects fuel supplied from the delivery pipe.
This fuel supply device has the same effects as the first invention.

It is sectional drawing which shows the state which mounted the delivery pipe by 1st Embodiment of this invention in the internal combustion engine. It is a side view of the delivery pipe and fuel injection valve by a 1st embodiment. FIG. 3 is an arrow view in the III direction of FIG. 2. It is sectional drawing of the IV-IV line of FIG. It is an exploded view of a main pipe and a feed pipe It is sectional drawing of the VI-VI line of FIG.3 and FIG.4. It is an exploded view of a delivery pipe and a fuel injection valve It is sectional drawing of the delivery pipe and fuel injection valve by 2nd Embodiment. It is a side view of the delivery pipe and fuel injection valve by 3rd Embodiment.

Hereinafter, a plurality of embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that, in a plurality of embodiments, substantially the same configuration is denoted by the same reference numeral in the drawings, and description thereof is omitted.
(First embodiment)
A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, 6, and 7, the fuel injection valve 10 is indicated by a two-dot chain line in order to explain the delivery pipe 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, the delivery pipe 1 is connected to the fuel injection valve 10 and is fixed to the intake pipe 20 by a bolt (not shown). The delivery pipe 1 supplies the fuel pumped up from the fuel tank 2 of the vehicle by the pump 3 and supplied through the pipe 4 to the fuel inlet 11 (see FIG. 7) of the fuel injection valve 10. The fuel tank 2 of the present embodiment corresponds to an example of a “fuel supply source” recited in the claims.
The fuel injection valve 10 injects the fuel supplied from the fuel inlet 11 from the injection hole 15 based on energization to the connector 17. In the present specification, the assembly of the delivery pipe 1 and the fuel injection valve 10 is referred to as a “fuel injection device”.

  The intake pipe 20 is formed with an intake passage 21 for introducing air taken from an intake duct (not shown) into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. In addition, the intake pipe 20 has a hole 22 for communicating the intake passage 21 and the outside air. The hole 22 includes a small-diameter hole 23 into which the nozzle portion 12 of the fuel injection valve 10 can be inserted, and a large-diameter hole 24 having an inner diameter larger than the small-diameter hole 23 on the outside air side of the small-diameter hole 23. An annular seal member 25 is fitted in the large diameter hole 24. The seal member 25 is in contact with a step 26 formed at a connection portion between the small diameter hole 23 and the large diameter hole 24. The seal member 25 prevents air from leaking between the inner wall of the hole 22 of the intake pipe 20 and the nozzle portion 12 of the fuel injection valve 10.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, the delivery pipe 1 includes a main pipe 30, a feed pipe 40, a pipe connection pipe 50, an extending part 60, a receiving part 70 and the like. In the present embodiment, the main pipe 30 and the feed pipe 40 are separate members, but they may be integrally formed. The feed pipe 40 and the pipe connection pipe 50 are integrally formed.
In the present embodiment, the main pipe 30 and the feed pipe 40 correspond to an example of a “delivery pipe body” recited in the claims.

  The main pipe 30 has a fixing portion 31 extending radially outward from the outer wall thereof. As shown in FIG. 5, the fixing portion 31 is provided with a bolt hole 32 for attaching a bolt (not shown). The main pipe 30 is attached to the intake pipe 20 by screwing a bolt passed through the bolt hole 32 into a screw hole (not shown) provided in the intake pipe 20. As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the fixing portion 31 includes a positioning pin 33 that protrudes in parallel with the bolt hole 32. By inserting the positioning pin 33 into a hole (not shown) provided in the intake pipe 20, the main pipe 30 is prevented from rotating about the bolt passed through the bolt hole 32.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the main pipe 30 is formed in a cylindrical shape and can be connected to the end of the fuel injection valve 10 on the fuel inlet 11 side. A contact surface 34 is formed at the end of the main pipe 30 opposite to the feed pipe 40 in the axial direction. The contact surface 34 is formed perpendicular to the axis of the main pipe 30. When the flange portion 13 provided on the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10 contacts the contact surface 34, the movement of the fuel injection valve 10 toward the feed pipe 40 is restricted.
The main pipe 30 has a first fuel passage 35 that supplies fuel to the fuel inlet 11 of the fuel injection valve 10. The fuel supplied from the first fuel passage 35 to the fuel inlet 11 of the fuel injection valve 10 passes through the inner flow path 14 of the fuel injection valve 10 and is injected from the injection hole 15. The first O-ring 16 provided between the inner wall of the main pipe 30 and the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10 prevents fuel leakage from between the inner wall of the main pipe 30 and the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10. It is out.

The feed pipe 40 is formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape, and includes a bottom portion 41, an inner cylindrical portion 42 extending in a cylindrical shape from the bottom portion 41, and an outer cylindrical portion 43 extending in a cylindrical shape from the bottom portion 41 outside the inner cylindrical portion 42. And have. A space 44 is provided between the inner cylinder portion 42 and the outer cylinder portion 43. The feed pipe 40 may be integrally formed without providing the space 44 between the inner cylinder part 42 and the outer cylinder part 43.
The inner cylinder portion 42 of the feed pipe 40 can be fitted inside the main pipe 30. The feed pipe 40 has a second fuel passage 45 inside the inner cylinder portion 42. The first fuel passage 35 of the main pipe 30 and the second fuel passage 45 of the feed pipe 40 communicate with each other. The second O-ring 46 provided between the inner wall of the main pipe 30 and the outer wall of the feed pipe 40 is a fuel from between the outer wall of the inner cylindrical portion 42 of the feed pipe 40 and the inner wall of the main pipe 30. Prevents leakage.

  The feed pipe 40 is provided with a plurality of arm portions 47 extending from the end surface of the outer cylinder portion 43 in the axial direction to the main pipe 30 side. At the tips of the plurality of arm portions 47, claw portions 48 projecting inward in the radial direction are provided. The plurality of claw portions 48 are fitted to the step portion 36 provided on the outer wall of the main pipe 30 by snap fitting. The step portion 36 is provided continuously in the circumferential direction of the outer wall of the main pipe 30.

The pipe connection pipe 50 is formed integrally with the feed pipe 40 and extends from the outer wall of the feed pipe 40 in a direction intersecting the axis of the feed pipe 40. The pipe for pipe connection 50 has a third fuel passage 51 inside. The third fuel passage 51 of the pipe connection pipe 50 and the second fuel passage 45 of the feed pipe 40 communicate with each other.
The pipe connection pipe 50 can be connected to the pipe 4 for supplying fuel from the fuel tank 2 described above (see FIG. 1). The fuel supplied from the pipe 4 is supplied to the fuel inlet 11 of the fuel injection valve 10 via the third fuel passage 51, the second fuel passage 45 and the first fuel passage 35.

As shown in FIG. 5, the inner wall of the main pipe 30 is provided with a plurality of recesses 37 that are recessed in the radially outward direction. In the present embodiment, four recesses 37 are illustrated, but it is sufficient that at least two recesses 37 are provided.
On the other hand, the outer wall of the inner cylindrical portion 42 of the feed pipe 40 that faces the main pipe 30 in the radial direction when the main pipe 30 and the feed pipe 40 are fitted with each other is provided with a convex portion 49 that protrudes in the radial direction. It has been. The number of convex portions 49 may be at least one and not more than the number of concave portions 37.

  The convex portion 49 is a size that can be fitted inside the concave portion 37. Moreover, the some convex part 49 is the same shape, and the some recessed part 37 is also the same shape. Both the convex portion 49 and the concave portion 37 extend in the axial direction of the main pipe 30 and the feed pipe 40. Further, the plurality of convex portions 49 and the plurality of concave portions 37 are all provided at equal intervals in the circumferential direction. Therefore, the main pipe 30 and the feed pipe 40 are assembled by changing the relative rotation angle at the angle between the adjacent protrusions 49 and the protrusions 49 or at the angle between the adjacent recesses 37 and the recesses 37 (90 ° in the present embodiment). It is possible. Thereby, the delivery pipe 1 can change the direction in which the pipe for pipe connection 50 extends with respect to the fixed portion 31 of the main pipe 30.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the extending portion 60 extends from the position outside the contact surface 34 of the main pipe 30 toward the injection hole 15 side of the fuel injection valve 10. The extending portion 60 extends along the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10.
A receiving portion 70 extends in the circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve 10 from the end of the extending portion 60 on the injection hole 15 side. An end surface 74 on the main pipe 30 side of the receiving portion 70 engages an end surface 171 on the injection hole 15 side of the connector 17 projecting radially outward from the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10, and the axial injection of the fuel injection valve 10. The movement to the hole 15 side is restricted. The connector 17 according to the present embodiment corresponds to an example of a “projection portion” described in the claims.
The receiving part 70 has a rib 71 extending in the axial direction on the outer wall thereof. The end surface 74 on the main pipe 30 side of the rib 71 abuts on the end surface 171 on the nozzle hole 15 side of the connector 17. Thereby, the receiving part 70 can restrict | limit the movement to the injection hole 15 side of the axial direction of the fuel injection valve 10 reliably.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 have an arc shape in which a cross section perpendicular to the axis O of the main pipe 30 is along the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10. 6, when the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 are combined, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 have an arc shape whose cross section perpendicular to the axis O of the main pipe 30 is larger than a semicircle. It is. Thereby, the extending | stretching part 60 and the receiving part 70 can cover the outer periphery of the fuel injection valve 10 more than a half circumference. Therefore, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 can prevent the axial displacement between the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10 and can suppress the leakage of the operation sound of the fuel injection valve 10.

A stopper surface 61 is formed on the end surface of the extending portion 60 in the circumferential direction on the side where the receiving portion 70 is provided. The stopper surface 61 can contact the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10.
A claw portion 72 that protrudes toward the main pipe 30 is provided at the end of the receiving portion 70 opposite to the stopper surface 61. The claw portion 72 can abut on a portion of the connector 17 opposite to the stopper surface 61.
The interval B between the stopper surface 61 and the claw portion 72 is slightly larger than the width A of the connector 17. Therefore, the stopper surface 61 and the claw portion 72 can restrict the fuel injection valve 10 from rotating about the axis.

The delivery pipe 1 has an insertion path 80 between a surface 62 opposite to the stopper surface 61 of the extending portion 60 and a surface 73 opposite to the stopper surface 61 of the receiving portion 70. The minimum width C of the insertion path 80 is slightly larger than the width A of the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10. As a result, the connector 17 can be easily inserted into the insertion path 80. Further, by reducing the minimum width C of the insertion path 80, it is possible to increase the angle θ of the arc of the cross section perpendicular to the axis extending between the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70.
The insertion path 80 has a shape in which the width is gradually increased from the main pipe 30 side toward the opposite side to the main pipe 30. Therefore, the insertion path 80 can easily pass the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 in the axial direction.

A method of assembling the delivery pipe 1 and the fuel injection valve 10 will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the axis of the fuel injection valve 10 and the axis of the delivery pipe 1 are aligned so that the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 and the insertion path 80 overlap in the axial direction.
Next, as shown by an arrow X in FIG. 7, the fuel injection valve 10 and the delivery pipe 1 are brought closer to the axial direction, the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 is passed through the insertion path 80, and the fuel inlet of the fuel injection valve 10 is The end of the side 11 is inserted into the main pipe 30 from the inside of the extending part 60 and the receiving part 70. Then, the flange portion 13 of the fuel injection valve 10 and the contact surface 34 of the main pipe 30 are contacted.

Subsequently, as shown by an arrow Y in FIG. 7, the fuel injection valve 10 is rotated around the axis. At this time, the nail | claw part 72 and the receiving part 70 are pressed by the end surface 171 by the side of the nozzle hole 15 of the connector 17, and are pushed down to the nozzle hole 15 side of an axial direction. When the fuel injection valve 10 rotates about the axis and the connector 17 moves over the claw 72 and moves toward the stopper surface 61, the claw 72 and the receiving part 70 return to their original positions. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3, the flange portion 13 abuts on the abutment surface 34 and the connector 17 abuts on the receiving portion 70, whereby the fuel injection valve 10 is restricted from moving in the axial direction. Further, the movement of the connector 17 in the circumferential direction is restricted by the stopper surface 61 and the claw portion 72, so that the rotation of the fuel injection valve 10 around the axis is restricted.
The fuel injection device is configured by assembling the delivery pipe 1 and the fuel injection valve 10.
In this state, as shown in FIG. 1, the nozzle portion 12 of the fuel injection valve 10 is inserted into the hole 22 of the intake pipe 20, and the fixing portion 31 extending from the main pipe 30 is bolted to the intake pipe 20. Thereby, the fuel injection device is fixed to the intake pipe 20.

The first embodiment described above has the following operational effects.
(1) In the delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment, the contact surface 34 formed at the end of the main pipe 30 in the axial direction and the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10 can contact. The extending portion 60 extends from the main pipe 30 toward the injection hole 15 side of the fuel injection valve 10, and the receiving portion 70 extends from the end portion of the extending portion 60 on the injection hole 15 side in the circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve 10. The end surface 74 on the main pipe 30 side of the receiving portion 70 can lock the end surface 171 on the injection hole 15 side of the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10.
Thereby, the movement of the fuel injection valve 10 toward the fuel inlet 11 in the axial direction is restricted by the contact between the contact surface 34 of the delivery pipe 1 and the flange portion 13 of the fuel injection valve 10. Further, the contact of the receiving portion 70 of the delivery pipe 1 and the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 restricts the movement of the fuel injection valve 10 toward the injection hole 15 in the axial direction. Therefore, when the fuel is supplied from the main pipe 30 of the delivery pipe 1 to the fuel inlet 11 of the fuel injection valve 10, the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10 are prevented from being separated in the axial direction by the fuel pressure. Therefore, the delivery pipe 1 can reliably prevent fuel leakage from between the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10.
Further, it is possible to prevent the fuel injection valve 10 from dropping from the delivery pipe 1 in a state before the fuel injection device in which the delivery pipe 1 and the fuel injection valve 10 are assembled is attached to the intake pipe 20 of the internal combustion engine.

(2) The delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment has a stopper surface 61 formed on the end surface in the circumferential direction of the extending portion 60 and a main pipe 30 side from the end portion of the receiving portion 70 opposite to the stopper surface 61. And a projecting claw portion 72. The stopper surface 61 can contact the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10. The claw portion 72 can abut on a portion of the connector 17 opposite to the stopper surface 61.
Accordingly, the rotation of the fuel injection valve 10 around the axis is restricted by the contact between the stopper surface 61 and the connector 17 and the contact between the claw portion 72 and the connector 17. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 from interfering with the auxiliary machinery of the internal combustion engine.
The necessity of restricting the rotation of the fuel injection valve 10 about the axis is due to the following reasons in addition to preventing interference between the connector 17 and the auxiliary machinery of the internal combustion engine.
The fuel spray injected by the fuel injection valve 10 may be set asymmetrically depending on the characteristics of the engine. Therefore, since the spray is accurately aimed at the engine, the rotation direction must be regulated.
That is, the delivery pipe 1 according to the first embodiment injects fuel to the internal combustion engine without causing the fuel injection valve 10 to shift in the rotational direction, and enables the internal combustion engine to form a spray as intended. .

(3) In the delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 have a circular cross section perpendicular to the axis O of the main pipe 30.
Thereby, it can suppress that the operating sound of the fuel injection valve 10 leaks outside.

(4) In the delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment, when the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 are viewed together, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 have a cross section perpendicular to the axis O of the main pipe 30 from a semicircle. Is also a large arc.
Thereby, the extending | stretching part 60 and the receiving part 70 can cover the outer periphery of the fuel injection valve 10 more than a half circumference. Therefore, the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70 can reliably prevent the axial displacement between the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10 and can suppress the sound leakage of the operation sound of the fuel injection valve 10.

(5) The delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment is formed between the surface 62 of the extending portion 60 opposite to the stopper surface 61 and the surface 73 of the receiving portion 70 opposite to the stopper surface 61. The minimum width C of the insertion path 80 is slightly larger than the width A of the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10.
As a result, the connector 17 can be easily inserted into the insertion path 80.
Furthermore, the distance in the circumferential direction of the extending portion 60 can be increased. Therefore, the effect of suppressing the sound leakage of the operating sound of the fuel injection valve 10 can be enhanced, and the axial displacement between the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10 can be reliably prevented.

(6) The insertion path 80 formed in the delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment has a shape in which the width is gradually increased from the main pipe 30 side toward the opposite side of the main pipe 30.
Thereby, the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 can be easily inserted into the insertion path 80.

(7) The delivery pipe 1 of the first embodiment locks the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 by the receiving portion 70.
Thereby, the delivery pipe 1 prevents the structure of the fuel injection valve 10 from becoming complicated by using the connector 17 that the fuel injection valve 10 originally has in order to restrict the movement of the fuel injection valve 10 in the axial direction. be able to.

(8) The fuel supply device of the first embodiment includes a fuel injection valve 10 and a delivery pipe 1.
This fuel supply device prevents the main pipe 30 and the fuel injection valve 10 from being separated in the axial direction by the fuel pressure when supplying fuel from the main pipe 30 of the delivery pipe 1 to the fuel inlet 11 of the fuel injection valve 10. Can do. Further, this fuel injection device can prevent the fuel injection valve 10 from dropping from the delivery pipe 1 in a state before being attached to the intake pipe 20 of the internal combustion engine.

(Second Embodiment)
A second embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. In the second embodiment, the delivery pipe 1 has a main pipe, a feed pipe, and a pipe connection pipe 50 integrally formed. In the second embodiment, a configuration in which a main pipe and a feed pipe are integrally formed is referred to as a delivery pipe main body 38. The delivery pipe body 38 is formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape and has a fuel passage 39 inside.
The contact surface 34, the extending portion 60, and the receiving portion 70 included in the delivery pipe 1 of the second embodiment have the same configuration as that of the first embodiment. Therefore, the second embodiment can achieve the same operational effects as the first embodiment.

(Third embodiment)
A third embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. In the third embodiment, a plurality of main pipes 301 and 302 are connected by a connecting pipe 90. The connecting pipe 90 has a communication passage 91 that communicates the first fuel passage 35 of one main pipe 301 with the first fuel passage 35 of the other main pipe 302.
In the third embodiment, the feed pipe 40 is fitted to one main pipe 301. One main pipe 301 and the feed pipe 40 can be assembled at different relative rotation angles.
The other main pipe 302 is formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape. Therefore, the first fuel passage 35 is closed on the side opposite to the fuel injection valve 10. The fuel supplied to the pipe connection pipe 50 includes a third fuel passage 51 included in the pipe connection pipe 50, a second fuel passage 45 included in the feed pipe 40, and a first fuel path 35 included in one main pipe 301. And is supplied to the fuel inlet 11 of one of the fuel injection valves 10. The fuel in the first fuel passage 35 of one main pipe 301 is supplied to the fuel inlet 11 of the other fuel injection valve 10 from the first fuel passage 35 of the other main pipe 302 via the communication passage 91. Is done.
The delivery pipe 1 of the third embodiment can be applied to a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine.

(Other embodiments)
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the delivery pipe 1 that supplies fuel to the fuel injection valve 10 attached to the intake pipe 20 has been described. On the other hand, in another embodiment, the fuel injection valve to which the delivery pipe 1 supplies fuel may be attached to, for example, a throttle body, an intake manifold, an exhaust pipe, a cylinder head, or a cylinder body.

(2) In the embodiment described above, the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10 is locked by the receiving portion 70. On the other hand, in another embodiment, it is good also as a structure which provides the projection part different from the connector 17 in the outer wall of the fuel injection valve 10, and latches the projection part by the receiving part 70. FIG.

(3) In the embodiment described above, the minimum width C of the insertion path 80 is slightly larger than the width A of the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10. On the other hand, in other embodiments, the minimum width C of the insertion path 80 may be slightly smaller than the width A of the connector 17 of the fuel injection valve 10. Even in this case, the connector 17 can be inserted into the insertion path 80 by elastic deformation of the extending portion 60 and the receiving portion 70.
As described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. In addition to combining the above-described plurality of embodiments, the present invention can be implemented in various forms without departing from the spirit of the invention. .

30, 301, 302 ... main pipe (delivery pipe body)
34 ... Abutment surface 35 ... First fuel passage (fuel passage)
38 ... Delivery pipe body 39 ... Fuel passage 40 ... Feed pipe (Delivery pipe body)
45 ... Second fuel passage (fuel passage)
51 ... Third fuel passage (fuel passage)
60 ... Extension part 70 ... Reception part

Claims (8)

A delivery pipe for supplying fuel supplied from a fuel supply source (2) through a pipe (4) to a fuel injection valve (10),
A delivery pipe body (30), which is connectable to the fuel injection valve and has a fuel passage (35, 39, 45, 51) for supplying fuel supplied from the pipe to a fuel inlet (11) of the fuel injection valve. 38, 40, 301, 302),
An abutting surface (34) formed at an axial end of the delivery pipe body and capable of abutting against an outer wall of the fuel injection valve;
An extending portion (60) extending from the delivery pipe body toward the injection hole (15) side of the fuel injection valve;
Extending in the circumferential direction of the fuel injection valve from the end portion on the injection hole side of the extending portion, the end surface (171) on the injection hole side of the projection portion (17) provided on the outer wall of the fuel injection valve is locked. A delivery pipe, characterized in that it comprises a possible receiving part (70). A stopper surface (61) formed on the circumferential end surface of the extending portion and capable of contacting the protruding portion of the fuel injection valve;
A claw portion (72) that protrudes from the end portion of the receiving portion opposite to the stopper surface to the delivery pipe main body side and can abut on a portion of the protruding portion opposite to the stopper surface. The delivery pipe according to claim 1.   The minimum width (80) of the insertion path (80) formed between the surface (62) opposite to the stopper surface of the extending portion and the surface (73) opposite to the stopper surface of the receiving portion ( The delivery pipe according to claim 2, wherein C) is slightly larger than a width (A) of the protruding portion of the fuel injection valve.   The delivery pipe according to claim 3, wherein the insertion path has a shape in which the width is gradually increased from the delivery pipe main body side toward the opposite side of the delivery pipe main body.   The delivery pipe according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the extending part and the receiving part have an arcuate cross section perpendicular to the axis of the delivery pipe body.   2. The extension part and the receiving part have an arc shape whose cross section perpendicular to the axis of the delivery pipe body is larger than a semicircle when the extension part and the receiving part are viewed together. The delivery pipe according to any one of 5 to 5. The delivery pipe (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
And a fuel injection valve that injects fuel supplied from the fuel passage of the delivery pipe to the fuel inlet through the injection hole.   The fuel supply device according to claim 7, wherein the protruding portion of the fuel injection valve is a connector for supplying electric power to the fuel injection valve.

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