Accession Number:

ADD014374

Title:

Bypass Electronic Emergency Fuel System.

Descriptive Note:

Patent application, filed 1 May 89,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Melnik, George
• Amrein, Bruce
• Brucksch, Robert D.
• McCoy, Curtis L.
• Martin, James A.

Report Date:

1989-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

Abstract:

This patent application discloses an emergency bypass mechanism to route fuel around an electronically controlled fuel flow regulator of a combat vehicle when flow through the regulator becomes severely restricted. The mechanism includes electrically actuated valves hydraulically in parallel with the regulator, the valves being partly controlled by signals generated during manually shifting of the vehicles transmission and partly controlled by a system of switches in a control panel. Keywords Tank engines Fuel engines Fuel injection. SDW

Descriptors:

• *FUEL INJECTION
• *PATENT APPLICATIONS
• *TANK ENGINES
• *ELECTROHYDRAULIC VALVES
• *BYPASS VALVES
• COMBAT VEHICLES
• CONTROL
• CONTROL PANELS
• ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
• ENGINES
• FLOW
• FUELS
• MANUAL OPERATION
• REGULATORS
• SHIFTING
• SIGNALS
• SWITCHES
• TRANSMITTANCE

Subject Categories:

• Reciprocating and Rotating Engines
• Combat Vehicles

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE