Injection rate controller for fuel injection pump

Claim 1

An injection rate controller for a fuel injection pump comprising a pump housing, a hollow plunger barrel having a high pressure chamber, a plunger being reciprocative and rotatable within the hollow portion of the plunger barrel and having a cut-off port formed therein so as to communicate with the high pressure chamber, a control sleeve slidably attached to the plunger so as to open and close the cut-off port, and a pump house filled with a fuel oil, which injection rate controller comprises: a first valve port formed in the pump housing so as to open to the pump house; a communication aperture formed in the pump housing and adapted to connect said first valve port to the high pressure chamber; a spool valve slidably accommodated within said first valve port so as to be displaceable in response to the pressure of fuel oil within the pump house and adapted to connect said first valve port to the high pressure chamber through said communication aperture only under a specific condition of engine drive, thereby introducing part of high pressure fuel within the high pressure chamber into said first valve port; a second valve port formed in the pump housing so as to open to the pump house; a connection aperture formed in the pump housing for connecting said second valve port to said first valve port; a pressure control valve having its cross section contracted in its axial direction, accommodated within said second valve port so as to reciprocate in synchronism with the reciprocation of the plunger for opening and closing said second valve port; and a spill channel formed in the pump housing so as to connect said second valve port to the pump house for allowing high pressure fuel introduced from said first valve port to said second valve port through said connection aperture flow therethrough into the pump house only under said specific condition of engine drive, the amount of the high pressure fuel flowing from said second valve port into the pump house through said spill channel being variable by the amount of displacement of said pressure control valve.