Fuel injection pump

In a fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines including a distributor having a jacket face, a coupling, a pump drive shaft to drive said distributor through said coupling, said distributor having control grooves provided in said jacket face, and an injection quantity regulator means arranged to transmit axial displacement of said distributor to control fuel quantity, said coupling including distributor rotating means for rotating said distributor relative to said drive shaft, the improvement wherein said injection quantity regulator means includes an electric servomotor, and the distributor rotating means includes a rotary magnet having a core and a coil, connecting means connecting said core with the distributor, and said coil being carried on the drive shaft, said connecting means including a coupler element disposed between the core and the distributor, said coupler element comprising a cup having an axially extending wall, an end of the distributor being received in said cup and coupled thereto by a pin and slot connection permitting axial displacement of the distributor by said servomotor, an electronic control device connected to said electric servomotor and said distributor rotating means, said electronic control device including a computer to which engine characteristics are supplied as input, whereby said computer triggers said electric servomotor to effect said axial displacement of the distributor and said distributor rotating means to effect rotation of the distributor relative to said drive shaft.