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US 2011/0209789 A1Published application
Fuel tank
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinya Murabayashi, Takeaki Nakajima
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Abstract
A fuel tank is provided with: a fuel pump; a main tank section which has the fuel pump arranged therein and stores a fuel; a sub-tank section wherein the fuel is stored; and a siphon tube which is arranged over the main tank section and the sub-tank section, and sucks the fuel by means of the fuel pump. The open end of the siphon tube on the main tank section side is arranged outside a jet pump for suction.
Claims7
A fuel tank comprising:
- a fuel pump;
- a first reservoir portion in which the fuel pump is arranged and in which a fuel is retained;
- a second reservoir portion in which the fuel is retained;
- and
- a siphon tube disposed across the first reservoir portion and the second reservoir portion,
- wherein an open end of the siphon tube, which opens into the first reservoir portion, is disposed more toward an outer side than the fuel pump.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.