Thermoplastic fuel tank having a splash baffle

US4526286A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Norbert Jung · Würselen, DE
• Edmund Lindner · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Volker Lohrbaecher · Weinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 1983
• Grant date: Jul 2, 1985
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2015/0777
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel tank made of a thermoplastic, having a splash baffle formed by two ridge-like protrusions (2, 8) molded from mutually opposite tank walls (3, 4), which protrusions touch and are joined to one another at the points of contact (5) (and which tank may or may not possess a device for hindering fuel outflow), wherein the wall of the splash baffle has openings (6) which provide a connection between the tank space and the splash baffle over a threshold (9) which favors retention of fuel within the baffle.