Suction jet pump with sealing of the injection mold installation opening by a metal ball fixed with plastic deformation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11280353-B2
Application number	US-201716315927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2017
Priority date	Jul 14, 2016
Publication date	Mar 22, 2022
Grant date	Mar 22, 2022

Abstract

A method for the production of a suction jet pump delivering fuel into or out of a fuel tank, wherein the suction jet pump has a flow channel and a nozzle, and wherein the flow channel forms a feed line to the nozzle and the flow channel is formed in one piece with the nozzle, the method including, in the following order: placing a mold core into a matrix to produce the suction jet pump by injection molding and form a cavity between the mold core and the matrix; encapsulating the mold core and filling the cavity formed between mold core and matrix with a plastic; removing the mold core through an installation opening, arranged opposite the nozzle, in the flow channel; and closing the installation opening by thermal deformation, in the edge region of the installation opening, of the plastic used for the production of the suction jet pump.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for production of a suction jet pump ( 10 ) for delivering fuel into a fuel tank or out of the fuel tank, wherein the suction jet pump ( 10 ) has a flow channel ( 15 ) and a nozzle, wherein the flow channel ( 15 ) forms a feed line to the nozzle, and the flow channel ( 15 ) is formed in one piece with the nozzle, the method for production comprising, in the following order: placing a linear mold core having a first diameter configured to form the flow channel, a frustoconical transition portion, and a second diameter configured to form an installation opening ( 8 ) that is greater than the first diameter into a matrix to produce the suction jet pump ( 10 ) by injection molding and form a cavity between the mold core and the matrix, wherein the frustoconical transition portion begins at the first diameter configured to form the flow channel and ends at the second diameter configured to form the installation opening; encapsulating the mold core and filling the cavity formed between mold core and matrix with a plastic; removing the mold core through the installation opening, arranged opposite the nozzle, in the flow channel ( 15 ); and dosing the installation opening by thermal deformation, in the edge region of the installation opening, of the plastic used for the production of the suction jet pump ( 10 ); wherein the transition portion is in a wall from which the flow channel ( 15 ) extends in an axial direction.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising, prior to the thermal deformation, closing off the installation opening by inserting a metal ball ( 12 ) in the installation opening.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the inserting of the metal ball ( 12 ) comprises pressing the metal ball ( 12 ) into the installation opening.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the thermal deformation fixes the metal ball ( 12 ) in the installation opening.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the frustoconical transition portion has a constant slope.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the frustoconical transition portion has an uninterrupted radially inward facing circumferential surface.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thermal deformation is performed by hot calking, in which a punch, which is configured to be warmed, acts under pressure on an outer region of the flow channel ( 15 ), and a material fraction of the flow channel ( 15 ) is warmed and deformed.

8. A suction jet pump ( 10 ) for delivering fuel into a fuel tank or out of the fuel tank, wherein the suction jet pump ( 10 ) is produced in accordance with method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the flow channel ( 15 ) is of rectilinear form, and the installation opening is arranged, at that end of the flow channel ( 15 ) that is opposite from the nozzle, in the wall from which the flow channel ( 15 ) extends in the axial direction, wherein the installation opening has a diameter that is larger than a diameter of the flow channel, and wherein the transition portion is frustoconical and begins at the first diameter configured to form the flow channel and ends at the second diameter configured to form the installation opening.

9. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the flow channel ( 15 ) has a diversion ( 13 ) which radially penetrates through an axial wall of the flow channel ( 15 ), wherein the diversion ( 13 ) is arranged directly adjacent to the installation opening.

10. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the flow channel ( 2 , 15 ) and the nozzle share a common central axis.

11. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the installation opening is sealed at least in part by a fixed metal ball.

12. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 8 , wherein a metal ball is at least partially enclosed in the installation opening and a remaining portion of the installation opening is smaller than a diameter of the metal ball.

13. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the installation opening and the flow channel are linearly arranged.

14. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the frustoconical transition portion has a constant slope.

15. The suction jet pump ( 10 ) as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the frustoconical transition portion has an uninterrupted radially inward facing circumferential surface.

Assignees

• Continental Automotive Gmbh
• Vitesco Tech Gmbh

Inventors

• Pauer Bernd
• Lücke Bastian

Classifications

• F04F5/10

  displacing liquids, e.g. containing solids, or liquids and elastic fluids · CPC title

• B60K15/03

  Fuel tanks · CPC title

• B23P19/02

  for connecting objects by press fit or for detaching same (B23P19/10 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B29L2031/7496

  Pumps · CPC title

• B29C67/004

  Closing perforations or small holes, e.g. using additional moulding material · CPC title