US20080169033A1 - Fuel Tank With Low Profile Fuel Reservoir - Google Patents

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US20080169033A1
US20080169033A1 US11/908,544 US90854406A US2008169033A1 US 20080169033 A1 US20080169033 A1 US 20080169033A1 US 90854406 A US90854406 A US 90854406A US 2008169033 A1 US2008169033 A1 US 2008169033A1
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Paul Daniel Reuther
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
    • B60K15/00—Arrangement in connection with fuel supply of combustion engines or other fuel consuming energy converters, e.g. fuel cells; Mounting or construction of fuel tanks
    • B60K15/03—Fuel tanks
    • B60K15/06—Fuel tanks characterised by fuel reserve systems
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
    • B60K15/00—Arrangement in connection with fuel supply of combustion engines or other fuel consuming energy converters, e.g. fuel cells; Mounting or construction of fuel tanks
    • B60K15/03—Fuel tanks
    • B60K15/077—Fuel tanks with means modifying or controlling distribution or motion of fuel, e.g. to prevent noise, surge, splash or fuel starvation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M37/00—Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatus; Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M37/04—Feeding by means of driven pumps
    • F02M37/08—Feeding by means of driven pumps electrically driven
    • F02M37/10—Feeding by means of driven pumps electrically driven submerged in fuel, e.g. in reservoir
    • F02M37/103—Mounting pumps on fuel tanks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M37/00—Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatus; Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M37/22—Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines, e.g. arrangements in the feeding system
    • F02M37/32—Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines, e.g. arrangements in the feeding system characterised by filters or filter arrangements
    • F02M37/50—Filters arranged in or on fuel tanks
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M37/00—Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatus; Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M37/04—Feeding by means of driven pumps
    • F02M37/08—Feeding by means of driven pumps electrically driven
    • F02M37/10—Feeding by means of driven pumps electrically driven submerged in fuel, e.g. in reservoir
    • F02M37/106—Feeding by means of driven pumps electrically driven submerged in fuel, e.g. in reservoir the pump being installed in a sub-tank
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/8593—Systems
    • Y10T137/85978—With pump
    • Y10T137/86091—Resiliently mounted pump

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  • the fuel delivery modules require a substantial reservoir capacity to provide enough reserve fuel for low fuel considerations.
  • the fuel could be displaced to one side of the tank to such an extent that the inlet end of the dip tube, which forms part of the fuel-intake tubing, is at least temporarily no longer submerged in the fuel. Under such conditions, the dip tube sucks out air instead of fuel, thereby producing an interruption in the feed fuel flow that impedes the proper operation of the internal-combustion engine.
  • a low profile fuel reservoir i.e. a flat reservoir or a reservoir having a height smaller than its length and width
  • the present invention concerns a fuel tank having a reservoir and a fuel pump sucking fuel out of said reservoir, wherein said reservoir has a low profile and wherein the fuel pump is mounted horizontally or inclined into or onto said low profile reservoir.
  • This low profile reservoir may be:
  • “mounted into” means either that the fuel pump is entirely inside the volume of the reservoir, in which case it generally is mounted horizontally into it (see FIG. 1 ), or that it is partly within the reservoir, at least the fuel inlet port being inside the reservoir.
  • the pump may be mounted inclined i.e. with its axis making an angle of less than 90°, (preferably less than 60° and even, less than 45°) with the tank bottom (see FIG. 3 ).
  • the pump is plugged into or in a fixation point (like a recess of adequate shape for instance) on the reservoir's cover.
  • the pump preferably is mounted horizontally in order to save height (see FIG. 2 ) which implies that the fixation means preferably are deformable so that the pump can be tilted (and put horizontally) after having been plugged in (since generally happens vertically).
  • the fuel tank according to the invention is preferably made of plastic material (and most preferably, the reservoir as well).
  • plastic denotes any material comprising at least one synthetic resin polymer. Particularly suitable plastics come from the thermoplastics category.
  • thermoplastic denotes any thermoplastic polymer, including thermoplastic elastomers, as well as blends thereof.
  • polyolefins, thermoplastic polyesters, polyketones, polyamides and copolymers thereof may be used.
  • a blend of polymers or copolymers may also be used, as may a blend of polymer materials with inorganic, organic and/or natural fillers such as, for example, but non limitingly, carbon, salts and other inorganic derivatives, natural fibres or polymeric fibres. It is also possible to use multilayer structures consisting of stacked layers bonded together comprising at least one of the polymers or copolymers described above.
  • One polymer that is often used is polyethylene. Excellent results have been obtained with high density polyethylene (HDPE).
  • HDPE high density polyethylene
  • the wall of the tank may be made up of a single layer of thermoplastic or of two layers.
  • One or more other possible additional layers may, advantageously, consist of layers of a material that forms a barrier to the liquids and/or gases.
  • the nature and thickness of the barrier layer are chosen in such a way as to limit as far as possible the permeability towards the liquids and gases in contact with the interior surface of the tank.
  • this layer is based on a barrier resin, that is to say on a resin impermeable to the fuel such as EVOH for example (a copolymer of ethylene and partially hydrolysed vinyl acetate).
  • the tank may be subjected to a surface treatment (fluoration or sulphonation) the purpose of which is to render it impermeable to the fuel.
  • Typical reservoir systems for fuel tanks include
  • the low profile reservoir lies on the bottom of the fuel tank i.e. its lower wall is flush with the tank's bottom (floor) and its volume extends inside the fuel tank volume.
  • the pump is preferably mounted horizontally and completely inside said reservoir so that the fuel tank can remain flat.
  • the reservoir is inserted into this flat fuel tank through a side wall thereof which is provided with an opening and a flange.
  • the fuel filter is in line with the reservoir and in the case of a system with pressure regulator, said regulator is also preferably in line with the filter as well.
  • the reservoir is fixed within or integrated to a recess in the bottom of the tank so that its volume extends outside the fuel tank volume.
  • this recess has a depth such that the upper wall of the reservoir is flush with the tank bottom.
  • the low profile reservoir is preferably a closed volume (i.e. is either provided with a cover or included in a closed housing) to reduce fuel slosh/escape during low fuel conditions.
  • the low profile reservoir/filter module described in FIGS. 2 and 3 can be used to provide a much more simple system than the one of FIG. 1 since it is based on an adapted design of the fuel tank floor configuration to receive it. However, it implies that there should be enough space within the vehicle for which it is intended, to receive said recess which extends below the volume of the fuel tank.
  • either the low profile reservoir is fixed in a recess of the fuel tank, or it may in fact be that recess itself. In any case, it preferably is provided with a cover.
  • the above mentioned recess is preferably integrally molded with the fuel tank bottom.
  • One way of performing this in practice is the use of a fixed cavity inside the mold, which has the shape of the recess.
  • the reservoir is preferably not the recess itself unless it is provided with a separate cover in order to prevent fuel egression from the reservoir in the event of excessive movement.
  • the filter element is then preferably directly enclosed into the integrally molded recess so that the recess plays the role both of the low profile reservoir and of a filter housing covers substantially the entire bottom of the reservoir.
  • the filter element preferably covers the entire surface of the reservoir.
  • the enclosure for the filter media enhances the surface tension of the fuel in and around the depth media.
  • the surface tension of the filter depth media allows the pump to draw in fuel through the filter media without sucking air as long as the filter is in contact with fuel at any point along its perimeter.
  • the capillary action of the depth media helps to wick fuel into the media. This also provides a barrier to air (surface tension) by wetting the entire depth if the media so that it becomes easier for the pump to suck fuel instead of air.
  • cover is a separate part provided on the recess
  • use of a perimeter seal between said cover and said recess can be made to enhance the fuel retention during extended “G” force events or long periods of inactivity. That design sealed around the perimeter of the recess in the tank floor and eliminates the need for a separate reservoir component.
  • the simplicity also provides a low cost alternative with substantially reduced failure modes to improve reliability and durability.
  • the reservoir according to the invention preferably is of adequate structural strength in order to mount and retain other components such as:
  • the reservoir of the invention is in fact a flat, low profile module, said components should be mounted therein horizontally and in series, one after the other (as pictured in FIG. 1 , for the case of a flat module lying on the tank bottom).
  • the structure could be designed for a no-tool-assembly on to the floor of the fuel tank to secure its optimum position and accuracy of the fuel level sender signal output.
  • a kind of dove tail attachment can be used for instance, or a mounting flange like in FIG. 1 .
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 which have already been referred to above (because showing some specific embodiments of the present invention).
  • the systems pictured comprise the following elements
  • FIG. 1 shows a complete module intended to lie on the bottom of a flat tank ( 1 ).
  • FIG. 1 ′ and 1 ′′ are respectively a front view and a side view of the complete module illustrated in FIG. 1 . They show that its profile may be shaped to fit the tank opening ( 9 ), and for instance be circular.
  • the way the pressure regulator ( 7 ) creates a side jet ( 8 ) to power the main jet pump ( 4 , the one filling the reservoir) is also detailed in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 2 comprises an elevated view and a cut through a system according to another embodiment of the invention according to which the fuel tank ( 1 ) has a recess into which a prefabricated reservoir ( 2 ) fits.
  • the pump ( 3 ) which is snapped in a fixation recess ( 11 ) molded with the reservoir's cover ( 2 ), is shown before tilting it for its final, horizontal position (shown in dotted lines).
  • FIG. 3 pictures still another embodiment according to which a recess in the fuel tank bottom ( 1 ) plays the role of reservoir so that it is merely provided with a cover ( 2 ′) after having been molded in one piece with the reservoir.
  • a fuel filter ( 6 ) is sandwiched in between the 2-piece reservoir.
  • a fuel supply pump ( 3 ) is mounted inclined and partially inside the reservoir ( 2 ). It sucks fuel through the filter ( 6 ) which covers the entire surface of the tank recess ( 2 ).

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