Fuel supply system

US6276342A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Sinz · Hofheim, DE
• Karl Eck · Frankfurt, DE
• Michael Teichert · Schwalbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 9, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/86131
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel supply system for a motor vehicle has two feed units arranged in a fuel tank. The feed units in each case feed fuel out of baffles to an internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle and to suction jet pumps. This ensures a reliable supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine, even in the case of a very high fuel requirement and in the case of an angled design of the fuel tank.