Patent ID: 6719539
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: F02M

Abstract:
A fuel supply apparatus for supplying a fuel to an engine comprising:a fuel tank; a cylindrical fuel pump disposed in said fuel tank for raising a pressure of the fuel sucked from an intake port thereof and discharging the fuel from a discharge port thereof; an intake filter having a filter connecting portion for filtering the fuel in said fuel tank and supplying the fuel to the intake port of said fuel pump; a pressure regulator for regulating a pressure of the fuel discharged from the discharge port of said fuel pump; a holding case covering at least the intake port side of said fuel pump and accommodating and holding said fuel pump; and a rubber member disposed in said holding case and interposed between the intake port side of said fuel pump and an inner surface of said holding case, wherein said holding case is integrally formed with a case connecting portion in which the filter connecting portion of said intake filter is hermetically connected and said holding case substantially and hermetically covers the intake port side of said fuel pump with the exception of the case connecting portion, said intake filter covers the case connecting portion of said holding case, and said rubber member forms at least a part of passage communicating the intake port of said fuel pump to the case connecting portion of said holding case.