Fuel tank for automobiles with fuel cell drive

US6604598B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• Basell Polyolefine GmbH · DE
• BASF SE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Rohde · Speyer, DE
• Knut Oppenlander · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Markus Hölzle · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Eckhard Sausen · Welzheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 12, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2015/03348
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A fuel tank for motor vehicles which is connected to a supplementary tank containing a flame-coloring additive, where a data recorder causes, in the event of a fault signal, the flame-coloring additive to be added to the fuel tank from the supplementary tank, and a process for adding a flame-coloring additive to the fuel in a fuel tank.