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US 2009/0013970 A1Published application
Fuel feed apparatus
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsHajime Danjo, Masashi Otsuka, Akihide Hashi, Kouji Maruyama, Masaaki Konishi
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Abstract
A fuel feed apparatus includes a sub-tank that is received in the fuel tank and a fuel pump that is received in the sub-tank and pumps fuel in the sub-tank toward the outside of the fuel tank. The sub-tank has a bottom wall that has a first passageway extending in the axial direction of the sub-tank, to which a suction jet pump unit to suction fuel in the fuel tank into the sub-tank can be selectively mounted.
Claims23
A fuel feed apparatus that supplies fuel in a fuel tank to an outside of the fuel tank, the fuel feed apparatus comprising:
- a sub-tank that is received in the fuel tank and has a bottom wall;
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- a fuel pump that is received in the sub-tank and pumps fuel in the sub-tank toward the outside of the fuel tank;
- wherein:
- the bottom wall of the sub-tank has a first passageway extending in the axial direction of the sub-tank, to which a suction jet pump unit to suction fuel in the fuel tank into the sub-tank can be selectively mounted.
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