Fuel system for a motor vehicle

US4285316A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Albert Stolz
• Erich Thiel · Eßlingen, DE
• Volker Bochenek · Köngen, DE
• Roland Stoklassa · Jeffery Road, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 1979
• Grant date: Aug 25, 1981
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02B1/04
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel system for a motor vehicle with a passenger space and driven by an internal combustion engine that includes a fuel tank, a fuel feed pump, a mixture-producing device, a fuel inlet line leading from the fuel tank to the fuel feed pump and a fuel return line leading back to the fuel tank, and a liquid/air heat-exchanger arranged in the fuel system which is traversed on the liquid side by the fuel and on the air side by the ventilating discharge air out of the passenger space.