Reservoir unit
AssigneeAisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshihide Oku, Nobuo Suzuki
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Abstract
In order to provide a simply-structured fuel filter which permits soaking at least part of a filter unit all the time in fuel in a reservoir, a reservoir unit is configured of a resin-built cylindrical reservoir having a bottom arranged on the bottom of a fuel tank, a primary filter installed near the inner bottom of that reservoir and a fuel pump sucking fuel in the reservoir through the primary filter, wherein projections protruding upward from the inner bottom of the reservoir are integrally molded and engaging holes to engage with those projections are bored in the circumference of the primary filter.
Claims4
A reservoir unit comprising:
- a cylindrical reservoir having a bottom arranged on the bottom of a fuel tank,
- a filter installed near the inner bottom of that reservoir, and
- a fuel pump for sucking fuel in the reservoir through the filter, wherein:
- projections protruding upward from the inner bottom of the reservoir are integrally molded, and engaging holes to engage with the projections are bored in the circumference of the filter, the projections and the holds constituting engaging means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.