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US 2014/0197176 A1Published application
Fuel tank wave catcher
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorRussell Randall Pearce
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Abstract
A fuel tank for a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. In one example approach, a fuel tank for a vehicle comprises a wave catcher extending through an interior of the fuel tank and coupled to a front wall and a first side wall of the fuel tank.
Claims20
A fuel tank for a vehicle comprising:
- an undulating wave catcher formed as a vertically-positioned wall and extending through an interior of the fuel tank and coupled to a front wall and a first side wall of the fuel tank;
- a first space between the vertically-positioned wall and an inner surface of a fuel tank top;
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- a second space between the vertically-positioned wall and an inner surface of a fuel tank bottom.
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A fuel tank for a hybrid electric vehicle comprising:
- an internal wavecatcher in the form of an undulating vertical wall positioned in a deeper region of the fuel tank and oblique to longitudinal waves flowing in the tank from a shelf region of the fuel tank, the wall coupled to long and short vertical walls of the fuel tank, the undulations being wave-shaped, the deeper region toward a front of the vehicle.
A fuel tank for a hybrid electric vehicle comprising:
- a wave catcher formed as a vertically-positioned wall and coupled to a first side wall of the fuel tank and a front wall of the fuel tank adjacent a corner of the fuel tank formed by the front wall and a second side wall opposing the first side wall and
- a first gap between a top portion of the wave catcher and an interior wall of the fuel tank at a top side of the fuel tank and a second gap between a bottom portion of the wave catcher and an interior wall of the fuel tank at a bottom side of the fuel tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.