Fuel container

US5941279A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Frank · Schorndorf, DE
• Guenter-Paul Ballier · Oberriexingen, DE
• Rolf Fischerkeller · White Lake, US
• Gerhard Jauch · Markgröningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 12, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 24, 1999
• Expiry date: Dec 12, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/86228
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel container for a motor vehicle has at least two supply chambers and a withdrawal chamber, a fuel pump feeding fuel from the withdrawal chamber, a pump circulating device operating in accordance with the principle of a suction jet and circulating fuel from at least one of the supply chambers into the withdrawal chamber, the pump circulating device including a single nozzle through which at least a part of a fuel stream fed by the fuel pump passes through it, and at least two suction pipes arranged one after the other in alignment with one another in a fuel jet produced by the nozzle and having suction inlets which communicate with a respective one of the supply chambers, a last one of the suction pipes having an outlet which faces away from the nozzle and is connected with the withdrawal chamber.