Patent ID: 8337178

Claim:
A high-pressure fuel pump, comprising: a housing; a rotary-driven drive shaft that has at least one drive section extending along the drive shaft; at least one pump piston, which is guided in a sealed fashion in a cylinder bore of a housing part of the pump, and is driven at least indirectly into a stroke motion by the drive section of the drive shaft; and a spring element that acts at least indirectly on the at least one pump piston in a direction toward the drive section of the drive shaft, the spring element, being situated on a side of the drive shaft opposite from the pump piston, engaging the pump piston at least indirectly via a coupling device extending past the drive shaft, wherein the coupling device has two parts, each of which is situated laterally outside respective ends of the drive section, each being adjacent to the drive section of the drive shaft, and each part being connected at least indirectly to the pump piston.