Fuel container for a motor vehicle and method for producing such a fuel container, and reinforcing element for a fuel container
AssigneeKautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsIngo Ley, Frank Quant, Detlef Ankert
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Abstract
Fuel tank for a motor vehicle, —comprising a plastic wall which delimits a storage volume for storing fuel, —comprising one or more reinforcing elements for reinforcing the plastic wall, —with at least one reinforcing element being connected to an outer side of the plastic wall that faces away from the storage volume, characterized in that—a maximum thickness of at least one reinforcing element measured normal to the plastic wall is greater than the wall thickness of the plastic wall.
Claims21
A reinforcing element for fuel tank for a motor vehicle, wherein the reinforcing element has at least one blind hole, which is designed for being gripped with a gripper, wherein the fuel tank comprises a plastic wall that delimits a storage volume for storing fuel, wherein the reinforcement element is configured to be connected to an outer side of the plastic wall that faces away from the storage volume at a connection region, wherein a maximum thickness of the reinforcing element, when measured normal to the plastic wall, exceeds a wall thickness of the plastic wall, and wherein the reinforcing element is arranged in a transition selected from the group consisting of a transition from a side wall to a tank top and a transition in front of a side wall to a tank bottom, wherein the reinforcing element is tapered on two sides starting from a region of the maximum thickness.
A fuel tank for a motor vehicle, the fuel tank comprising
- a plastic wall, which delimits a storage volume for storing fuel, and
- one or more reinforcing elements for reinforcing the plastic wall, the one or more reinforcing elements comprising at least one reinforcing element,
- wherein the at least one reinforcing element is connected to an outer side of the plastic wall that faces away from the storage volume,
- wherein a maximum thickness of the at least one reinforcing element, measured normal to the plastic wall, is greater than a wall thickness of the plastic wall,
- wherein the at least one reinforcing element is arranged in a transition selected from the group consisting of a transition from a side wall to a tank top and a transition in front of a side wall to a tank bottom,
- wherein the reinforcing element is tapered on two sides starting from a region of the maximum thickness, and
- wherein the at least one reinforcing element has a substantially triangular or crescent-shaped basic shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.