Fuel supply device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11506160-B2
Application number	US-202117161965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2021
Priority date	Aug 1, 2018
Publication date	Nov 22, 2022
Grant date	Nov 22, 2022

Abstract

A fuel supply device includes: a sub-tank to be fixed on a bottom of a fuel tank, the sub-tank temporarily storing fuel in the fuel tank, an upper side of the sub-tank having an opening; a bracket attached to an opening side of the sub-tank; an electric pump that pumps up the fuel in the sub-tank and supplies the fuel to outside of the sub-tank; and multiple fitting portions arranged on an outer edge of the bracket and to fix the bracket to the sub-tank by being fitted to a plurality of receiving portions arranged on the opening of the sub-tank.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel supply device to be arranged on a bottom of a fuel tank comprising:
a sub-tank to be fixed on the bottom of the fuel tank, the sub-tank temporarily storing fuel in the fuel tank, an upper side of the sub-tank having an opening;
a bracket attached to an opening side of the sub-tank;
an electric pump that pumps up the fuel in the sub-tank and supplies the fuel to outside of the sub-tank; and
a plurality of fitting portions arranged on an outer edge of the bracket and to fix the bracket to the sub-tank by being fitted to a plurality of receiving portions arranged on the opening of the sub-tank, wherein
the bracket has
a lid covering the opening with a predetermined separation distance from the opening of the sub-tank when the bracket is attached to the opening of the sub-tank,
a fixing portion that fixes the electric pump,
a plurality of damping portions having predetermined damping characteristics, the damping portion being provided between the fixing portion and the fitting portions, and
the plurality of damping portions are set to have damping coefficients, respectively, such that a resonance frequency of a component to fix the electric pump to the bracket is between a third oscillation frequency accompanied by a rotation of the electric pump and an eighth oscillation frequency of the electric pump.

2. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the damping portion is placed between the fixing portion and the lid, and
the plurality of fitting portions are connected to each other through the lid.

3. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the bracket includes a plurality of guide portions guiding the fitting portion when the fitting portion is fitted into the receiving portion, and the guide portions are connected to each other through the lid.

4. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the bracket includes a deformation portion deformed elastically in a same fitting direction in which the fitting portion is fitted when the fitting portion is fitted into the receiving portion,
a connection part including a fuel passage of the electric pump is pressed on a function part stored in the sub-tank to circulate the fuel by an elastic deformation of the deformation portion, such that the fuel passage of the connection part is connected to a fuel passage of the function part, and
a direct connection between the deformation portion and the connection part is released by restoration of the deformation portion which has been deformed elastically.

5. The fuel supply device according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of fitting portion are connected to the lid through the damping portion.

Assignees

• Aisan Ind

Inventors

• Fukuoka Shingo
• Okabe Kenji

Classifications

• B60K15/03

  Fuel tanks · CPC title

• F02M37/10

  submerged in fuel, e.g. in reservoir · CPC title

• B60K2015/03243

  characterised by special pumps, the mounting thereof · CPC title

• F04D13/06

  the pump being electrically driven · CPC title

• F04B53/003

  by damping supports · CPC title