Fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines

Claim 1

A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines comprising a housing, a pump piston therein arranged to reciprocate in a cylinder, said pump piston adapted to enclose in said cylinder a pump work chamber which communicates constantly with a relief line that discharges into a relief chamber, an annular slide on said pump piston having a control edge which opens and closes said relief line, said annular slide being adjustable relative to said pump piston and actuatable by means of a shaft having an axis, said shaft further being driven at one end by an electromechanical final control element and at another end said shaft being coupled with said annular slide via an eccentrically disposed connecting element and a counterweight positioned on said shaft, said counterweight comprising a disk-like member positioned proximate to said eccentrically disposed connecting element so as to protrude into said relief chamber of said fuel injection pump, said counterweight further having a center of gravity disposed upon a projection along an eccentricity E of the eccentrically disposed connecting element and said counterweight further comprises a position transducer secured to said shaft relative to said electromechanical final control element, whereby said shaft is protected from being loaded by tilting moments occurring during engine operation.