Full charge notification device of urea water tank for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11512997-B2
Application number	US-201916593029-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2019
Priority date	Feb 25, 2019
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

A full charge notification device of a urea water tank for a vehicle is provided. The device is configured to generate a predetermined sound when urea water is normally injected into the urea water tank before a full state, to provide a notification to a user of a full state of the urea water tank through non-generation of the sound.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A full charge notification device of a urea water tank for a vehicle, comprising:
a urea water tank including a urea water injection pipe for injecting urea water into the urea water tank;
a leveling pipe disposed at an upper part of the urea water tank to discharge air inside the urea water tank to an outside of the urea water tank when urea water is injected into the urea water tank through the urea water injection pipe; and
a sound generator disposed in the leveling pipe and configured to generate sound by a flow of air passing through the leveling pipe;
wherein the sound generator includes:
a hollow sound plate housing disposed in the leveling pipe;
a sound plate supporter having an open aperture formed in a center thereof, through which air can flow, and disposed in the sound plate housing; and
a pair of sound plates mounted on the sound plate supporter and vibrating against each other repeatedly by the flow of air passing through the open aperture,

wherein the pair of sound plates includes:
a first sound plate having a first contact part; and
a second sound plate having a second contact part disposed to be in contact with the first contact part,

wherein the first sound plate includes a first joint fixed to the sound plate supporter and a first elastic deformation part disposed between the first join and the first contact part,
wherein the second sound plate includes a second joint fixed to the sound plate supporter and a second elastic deformation part disposed between the second joint and the second contact part,
wherein when the first contact part and the second contact part are separated from each other by air passing through the open aperture, the first elastic deformation part and the second elastic deformation part are elastically bent; and
wherein, when the first contact part and the second contact part are in contact with each other, a gap is formed between the first elastic deformation part, the second elastic deformation part, and the sound plate supporter to allow air to pass therethrough.

2. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein the sound generator is configured to generate no sound when urea water filling up the urea water tank blocks a lower end of leveling pipe provided in the urea water tank.

3. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein an outer circumferential surface of the sound plate housing is in abutting contact with an inner circumferential surface of the leveling pipe, and the sound plate supporter is configured to block the flow of air passing through an inside of the sound plate housing except the open aperture.

4. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein the sound plate housing has an inner diameter less than an inner diameter of the leveling pipe by at least a predetermined value.

5. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein, when load caused by a flow rate of air passing through the open aperture is equal to or less than elastic restoring force of the first sound plate and the second sound plate, the first contact part and the second contact part are restored to original positions and vibrate against each other.

6. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein the sound generator is disposed at an upper part of the leveling pipe.

7. The full charge notification device of claim 1 , wherein an upper limit height of urea water filling up the urea water tank is a height of a lower end of the leveling pipe disposed in the urea water tank.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Choi Seung Hoon
• Park June Young
• Lim Jun Sik
• Lee Tae Yoon
• Lee Sung Won

Classifications

• B60K2015/03368

  for preventing overfilling of tanks · CPC title

• Y02A50/20

  Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters · CPC title

• B60K15/035

  characterised by venting means · CPC title

• B60K2015/03576

  Venting during filling the reservoir · CPC title

• B60Y2400/90

  Driver alarms · CPC title