Fuel module

US5896846A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Sascha Bauer · Auenwald, DE
• Thomas Butz · Mannheim, DE
• Bertram Uebelhoer · Bad Marienberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 17, 1997
• Grant date: Apr 27, 1999
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01D2201/4084
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A fuel module including a fuel filter located on a valve block 10 and having a replaceable filter insert 14 in a filter housing 11. The fuel module also has a manually-operable feed pump 31, a connection 8, located on the valve block 10, for fuel supply, a connection C for fuel return, two connections A, D for a mechanical feed pump and a connection E to the injector pump, the manually-operable feed pump 31 containing two identically-constructed valves 23, 24.