Fuel filter assembly
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorYeonnoh BAE
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Abstract
A fuel filter assembly includes a housing connected between a fuel tank and a high-pressure pump supplying fuel to a common rail injecting the fuel pumped from the fuel tank to an engine through a pipeline; a filter incorporated in the housing to filter impurities in the fuel pumped from the fuel tank; and a center pipe disposed in an inner space of the housing in a longitudinal direction of the housing and substantially enclosed by the filter, wherein bottom portion of the center pipe is spaced from bottom portion of the housing, the center pipe discharging filtered fuel collected in the bottom portion of the center pipe by suction of the high-pressure pump.
Claims17
A fuel filter assembly, comprising:
- a housing connected between a fuel tank and a high-pressure pump pumping fuel from the fuel tank and supplying filtered fuel to a common rail injecting the filtered fuel to an engine;
- a filter incorporated in inner circumference of the housing to filter impurities of the fuel pumped from the fuel tank;
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- a center pipe disposed in inner space of the filter in a longitudinal direction of the filter and substantially enclosed by the filter, wherein lower portion of the center pipe is spaced from inner bottom portion of the housing with a predetermined distance, the center pipe discharging the filtered fuel collected in the lower portion of the center pipe by the high-pressure pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.