Filling device

US6158485A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

• Knut Meyer · Wilmington, US
• Peter Andreas Low · Rosdorf, DE
• Thomas Zapp · Dortmund, DE
• Christian Kochsmeier · Dortmund, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 9, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/479
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In the case of a filling device for a motor vehicle fuel tank, a distributing element extends from a filling nozzle to an anti-surge tower of the motor vehicle. When there is a low volume flow of fuel in the filling nozzle, the distributing element supplies all of the fuel to the anti-surge tower. When there is a large volume flow, the greater part of the fuel passes directly into the fuel tank. It is thereby ensured that during an initial filling or emergency filling with a jerrycan, virtually all of the fuel passes into the anti-surge tower.