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US 2014/0174572 A1Published application
Tank system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeMAGNA STEYR Fuel Systems GesmbH
InventorsBernd KAHLER, Wolfgang VOGLMEIER
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Abstract
A tank system for a motor vehicle, the tank system having a tank, a reservoir arranged in the tank, at least one supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the tank, and an extraction unit which is adapted to extract fuel from the reservoir via an engine feed line and deliver the fluid to a drive unit of the motor vehicle.
Claims20
A tank system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a tank;
- a reservoir arranged in the tank, the reservoir having a reservoir valve configured to fluidically connected the tank to the reservoir valve;
- and
- an extraction unit which is fluidically connected to the reservoir and configured to extract a fluid from the reservoir via an engine feed line and supply the fluid to a drive unit of the motor vehicle;
- at least one supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the tank,
- wherein the reservoir valve is operable between a normal operating mode in which the reservoir is in an open state and surrounded by the fluid in the tank, and a residual quantity mode in which the reservoir is in a closed state, not surrounded by the fuel in the tank, and open exclusively at the engine feed line and the at least one supply line.
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A tank system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a tank;
- a reservoir arranged in the tank, the reservoir having a reservoir valve configured to fluidically connected the tank to the reservoir valve;
- an extraction unit which is fluidically connected to the reservoir and configured to extract a fluid from the reservoir via an engine feed line and supply the fluid to a drive unit of the motor vehicle;
- a first supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the tank at a first connection point;
- and
- a second supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the tank at a second connection point;
- wherein the reservoir valve is operable between a normal operating mode in which the reservoir is in an open state and surrounded by the fluid in the tank, and a residual quantity mode in which the reservoir is in a closed state, not surrounded by the fuel in the tank, and open exclusively at the engine feed line and the at least one supply line.
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A tank system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a first tank;
- a second tank fluidically connected to the first tank;
- a reservoir arranged in the first tank, the reservoir having a reservoir valve configured to fluidically connected the first tank to the reservoir valve;
- an extraction unit which is fluidically connected to the reservoir and configured to extract a fluid from the reservoir via an engine feed line and supply the fluid to a drive unit of the motor vehicle;
- and
- a supply line which fluidically connects the reservoir to the first tank,
- wherein the reservoir valve is operable between a normal operating mode in which the reservoir is in an open state and surrounded by the fluid in the tank, and a residual quantity mode in which the reservoir is in a closed state, not surrounded by the fuel in the tank, and open exclusively at the engine feed line and the at least one supply line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.