Device for supplying an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle with fuel

US6250328A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Distelhoff · Frankfurt, DE
• Karl Eck · Frankfurt, DE
• Winfried Fröhlich · Bad Camberg, DE
• Dieter Keller · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Justus Klöker · Neu-Anspach, DE
• Knut Meyer · Wilmington, US
• Ingo Mohr · Bad Marienberg, DE
• Bernd Rumpf · Hockenheim, DE
• Wolfgang Sinz · Hofheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 20, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 26, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/6525
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for supplying an internal combustion engine (1) of a motor vehicle with fuel has a return line (4) which is passed into a fuel tank (2) and has a wall made of a material of high thermal conductivity. The return line (4) is arranged within a ventilation duct (5). Cooling air is conveyed through the ventilation duct (5) to the return line (4). This is a simple means of limiting the maximum temperature of the fuel in the fuel tank (2).