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US 11,691,501 B2Granted
In-tank fastening device
AssigneeKautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsGerd Wolter, Markus Janich, Udo Wichartz, Sabine Schneider, Axel Frohwein
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Abstract
A device for fastening tank insert parts, wherein the device has a holding element for holding the tank insert part and at least one elastically deformable clamping device which is connected to the holding element and by means of which a fastening structure can be received. Furthermore, a plastic tank having a fastening structure which is arranged in the interior thereof, and having a device according to the invention which is arranged thereon for fastening tank insert parts.
Claims22
A fastening device, comprising:
- the device being configured to fasten at least one tank installation component by way of an internal side of a tank wall of a plastics-material tank, without the device extending through the tank wall of the plastics-material tank;
- a holding element to hold the tank installation component;
- at least one clamping installation connected to the holding element;
- the clamping installation has two clamping legs, provided by a first clamping leg and a second clamping leg, which are mutually opposite;
- at least one of the two clamping legs is elastically deformable;
- a spacing area between the two clamping legs configured to receive a fastening structure formed by an inverted feature of the tank wall of the plastics-material tank which protrudes towards an interior space of the plastics-material tank;
- the clamping installation configured to elastically deform when the fastening structure is disposed in the spacing area;
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- the device is formed of injection molded plastics-material.
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A plastics-material tank, the tank comprising:
- a tank wall having at least one fastening structure disposed at a side of the tank wall which faces an interior space of the plastics-material tank, the fastening structure formed by an inverted feature of the tank wall which protrudes towards the interior space of the plastics-material tank;
- a device to fasten at least one tank installation component to the tank wall, wherein the device has
- a holding element to hold the tank installation component;
- at least one clamping installation connected to the holding element, wherein the clamping installation has two clamping legs, provided by a first clamping leg and a second clamping leg, which are mutually opposite, and at least one of the two clamping legs is elastically deformable;
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- a spacing area between the two clamping legs configured to receive the fastening structure;
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- wherein the fastening structure of the plastics-material tank is disposed in the spacing area between the two clamping legs of the clamping installation and at least one of the legs of the clamping installation is elastically deformed by the fastening structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.