Patent ID: 7278402

Claim:
In a device for delivering fuel from a tank to an internal combustion engine, equipped with a pressure control valve that has a first chamber and a second chamber, which is separated from the first chamber by means of a valve member; the valve member cooperates with a valve seat; and a first connecting conduit for connection to a fuel pressure line situated in the vicinity of the valve seat feeds into the first chamber when the pressure control valve is open, with a fuel pressure line delivering fuel to the internal combustion engine, the pressure line comprising two parallel pressure line segments, wherein the first segment comprises a check valve and the other segment comprises the pressure control valve, wherein the first connecting conduit of the pressure control valve is connected with the pressure line upstream of the check valve and a second connecting conduit of the pressure control valve is connected with the pressure line downstream of the check valve the improvement wherein the valve member ( 29 ) comprises a through conduit ( 48 ) connecting the first connecting conduit ( 23 ) to the second chamber ( 32 ) when the pressure control valve ( 22 ) is closed.