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US 4,974,743 AGranted
Fuel tank with noise suppressing arrangement
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichiaki Sasaki, Kinya Omura, Norio Sasaki
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Abstract
A fuel tank comprises a container having a chamber adapted to receive a body of liquid fuel and wall means defining said chamber, and a structure with a number of voids, said structure being so constructed and arranged within said chamber as to provide an arrangement wherein when said structure is exposed to the body of liquid fuel, said number of voids work to dissipate energy of waves created on the surface portion of the body of liquid fuel.
Claims32
A fuel tank, comprising:
- a container having a chamber adapted to receive a body of liquid fuel and wall means defining said chamber;
- and
- a structure with a number of voids, said structure being so constructed and arranged within said chamber as to provide an arrangement wherein when said structure is exposed to a surface of the body of liquid fuel, waves created on the surface of the body of liquid fuel within the container entrap air in the adjacent voids of said number of voids and compress the air therein, thus dissipating wave energy.
A fuel tank, comprising:
- a container having a chamber adapted to receive a body of liquid fuel and wall means defining said chamber;
- and
- a structure with a number of voids, said structure being so constructed and arranged within said chamber as to provide an arrangement wherein when said structure is exposed to the body of liquid fuel, said number of voids work to dissipate energy of the waves created on the surface portion of the body of liquid fuel, wherein said structure has a baffle that is formed from a sheet made of a number of synthetic resin fibers intermingled, said sheet being curved to form a tubular shape.
A fuel tank, comprising:
- a container having a chamber adapted to receive a body of liquid fuel and wall means defining said chamber;
- and
- a structure with a number of voids, said structure being so constructed and arranged within said chamber as to provide an arrangement wherein when said structure is exposed to the body of liquid fuel, said number of voids work to dissipate energy of the waves created on the surface portion of the body of liquid fuel, wherein said structure has a plurality of looped elastic bands, and a baffle that is formed from a sheet made of a number of synthetic resin fibers intermingled, said sheet encircling said plurality of looped elastic bands to form a tubular shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.