Fuel tank

US6491180B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K15/03504
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel tank for a motor vehicle comprising a wall composed of two shells arranged one above the other. The outer shell of the wall preferably has an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice. A filter element is arranged in front of the outlet orifice. Scavenging air from the inlet orifice thereby passes first into a gap between the shells and subsequently to a filter element. As a result, fuel vapors can no longer diffuse through the wall and pollute the environment.