Fuel tank

US5078169A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Scheurenbrand · Wolfschlugen, DE
• Peter Weymann · Stuttgart, DE
• Aldolf G. Triffterer · Jeffery Road, DE
• Alfons Ziegelbauer · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 8, 1990
• Grant date: Jan 7, 1992
• Expiry date: May 8, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/86212
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel tank having two tank spaces spaced from one another and connected to one another at a distance above their bottom. One tank space is equipped at its bottom with a retaining vessel having a closed shell. To assure that both tank spaces are reliably emptied, each tank space is equipped with a jet pump charged with fuel via a supply line. Both of the jet pumps, which are parallel or series connected to each other, deliver fuel to the retaining vessel.