摘要 |
<p>The provision of an electric fuel pump in which the rotational frictional resistance between the pump casing and the impeller is made small to prevent the decrease of the motor rotational number and the increase of the current consumption and in which the discharge efficiency is improved. In a pump casing 17 supporting the impeller 1 by the sliding surface 3a of the pump base 3 and the sliding surface 16a of the pump cover 16 and at the inner circumference side of the pump chamber 4 in the vicinity of the side 6a opposing to the pump chamber outlet 6 of the sliding surface 16a of the pump cover 16, the provision is made of an abutment relief portion 16b having a gap larger than said small gap, and a stepped side wall 16c defined at an end portion 19 downstream of the side of said abutment relief portion 16b opposing to said pump chamber outlet 6. <IMAGE></p> |