Vehicle fuel supplying apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Yoshioka
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Abstract
A fuel supplying apparatus for a vehicle for supplying fuel including an in-tank type fuel pump 7 provided in a sub-tank 5 inside a main tank 1 and a tubular fuel holding case 21 surrounding a suction filter portion 20 of this fuel pump 7 and having an opening portion 21B which is open in an opposite direction to a forwardly moving direction of the vehicle, so as to supply fuel 2 to outside the main tank 1 through a delivery pipe 16 by means of the fuel pump 7. The fuel 2 can be supplied to an engine even during the quick braking of the vehicle when the amount of fuel 2 is small without increasing the number of component parts of the apparatus.
Claims10
A fuel supplying apparatus for a vehicle for supplying fuel, by means of an in-tank type fuel pump provided in a fuel tank, to outside said fuel tank through a pipe connected to said fuel pump, comprising:
- fuel holding means having an opening portion which is open in an opposite direction to a forwardly moving direction of the vehicle and formed so as to hold a predetermined amount of fuel in a vicinity of a fuel inlet portion of said fuel pump during the quick braking of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.