Diesel exhaust fluid tank for an off-road vehicle

US9638085B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CNH Industrial America LLC · US

Inventors

• Timothy Ralph Hertsgaard · Fargo, US
• Jason Keith Novacek · West Fargo, US
• David Donald Blomberg · Dent, US
• John T. Rasset · Barnesville, US
• Erik Andrew Larson · Destin, US
• Paul E. Wibbels · West Fargo, US
• Daniel LaRoy Hinz · Fargo, US
• Jay M. Larson · Marshall, US
• David Larry Tveito · West Fargo, US
• David E. Susag · Fargo, US
• Russell Victor Stoltman · Frankfort, US
• Chad Alry Bautz · Fargo, US
• Nathaniel James Keller · Harwood, US
• David Sheldon Booth · Fargo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 18, 2013
• Grant date: May 2, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) tank for an off-road vehicle including a first conduit channel molded into an exterior surface of the DEF tank, at a first depth, in which the first conduit channel is configured to guide a first conduit along the exterior surface of the DEF tank. The DEF tank further including a second conduit channel molded into the exterior surface of the DEF tank at a second depth, different than the first depth, in which the second conduit channel is configured to guide a second conduit, and the first depth and the second depth are selected to create a vertical gap between the first conduit and the second conduit at an intersection of the conduits.