Patent ID: 7717090

Claim:
A fuel-feeding device, comprising: a reservoir cup disposed in a fuel tank that contains liquid fuel therein; a fuel pump capable of feeding the liquid fuel contained in the reservoir cup to an engine; a pressure regulator capable of controlling a fuel pressure of the liquid fuel fed to the engine from the fuel pump; a jet pump arranged and constructed to receive a part of the pressurized liquid fuel pumped from the fuel pump via a fuel jet path, so as to introduce liquid fuel outside the reservoir cup into to the reservoir cup with the aid of flow of the pressurized liquid fuel; and a flow rate control valve disposed in the fuel jet path, wherein the flow rate control valve is arranged and constructed to control a flow rate of the pressurized liquid fuel fed to the jet pump depending upon a pumping rate of the pressurized liquid fuel pumped from the fuel pump, the fuel jet path is branched from a fuel feeder path between a pump portion of the fuel pump and the pressure regulator via a branching portion, and wherein the fuel feeder path is provided with a fuel feeder path squeezing portion that is positioned downstream of the branching portion.