Sloping-edge-controlled fuel injection pump for internal combustion-engine

Claim 1

Sloping-edge controlled injection pump for internal combustion engines, comprising: a pump cylinder, a cam-operated pump plunger slidably and rotatably disposed in the pump cylinder to thereby define a pump working chamber together with the pump cylinder, first and second fuel feed bores in the pump cylinder which open to the pump working chamber at diametrically opposite sides of the pump cylinder, an upper control edge on the pump plunger for effecting start of fuel delivery and a lower sloping control edge on the pump plunger for effecting cessation of fuel delivery as the pump plunger moves axially in the pump cylinder, first and second stop grooves disposed at symmetrically arranged opposite diametric sides of the pump plunger, said stop grooves extending between the upper and lower control edges, and fuel delivery interruption groove means for effecting interruption in fuel delivery during a predetermined fuel injection interruption range of the travel path of the pump plunger in the pump cylinder, said fuel delivery interruption groove means including first and second peripheral grooves in the pump plunger and first and second bypass grooves in the pump cylinder which are disposed in rotationally symmetric locations at opposite diametric sides of the plunger, said first peripheral groove and first bypass groove together connecting to the first fuel feed bore and said second peripheral groove and second bypass groove together connecting to the second fuel feed bore to thereby interrupt fuel injection in response to disposition of the plunger and cylinder in said fuel injection interruption range, each of said bypass grooves being disposed in partly axially overlap the feed bores, wherein a top portion of the peripheral grooves is separated from the upper control edge by a piston separation web having an axial web width which is greater than the axial overlap of said bypass grooves with respect to the feed bores, and wherein said axial web width is at most 0.3 mm greater than said axial overlap.