Assembly for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsKlaus Dobler, Michael Huebel
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Abstract
An assembly for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine, with a fuel feed pump which is driven in rotation by an electric drive motor arranged together with the feed pump in a common housing. For the pump-side axial mounting of the rotor of the drive motor, there is provided, between the rotor and an intermediate housing of the feed pump, a hydrodynamic bearing which is formed by recesses in the end faces of the rotor and/or intermediate housing, these end faces being located opposite and essentially parallel to one another so as to form an annular gap.
Claims6
An assembly for feeding fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine, which comprises a feed pump (3), said feed pump is driven in rotation by an electric drive motor (5) arranged together in a common housing (1), said motor is formed from a stator (13) fixed to the housing and from a rotor (17) that rotates within said housing on a rotor shaft (15), an annular gap (29) being formed between a first end face (27) of an intermediate housing (9) forming a housing part of the feed pump (3) and an axial second end face (25) of the rotor (17) of the electric drive motor (5), said first end face (27) being located opposite said second end face (25) with said second end face (25) limiting the annular gap (29), a plurality of recesses are provided in the second end face (25) of the rotor (17) of the electric drive motor (5) and/or recesses are provided in the first end face (27) of the intermediate housing (9) of the feed pump (3), during an operation of the feed assembly said recesses (31) are filled with fuel in such a way that they form a hydraulic wedge, axially stabilizing the rotor (17) of the drive motor (5).
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