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US 6,715,626 B2Granted
Fuel container
AssigneeSIG Kautexc GmbH & Co., KG
InventorsMartin Balzer, Karsten Friedrichs, Werner Daubenbuechel, Olaf Welland, Peter Kluesener
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Abstract
The invention concerns a fuel container of plastic material such as a motor vehicle fuel tank, having one or more welded seams as seam locations for the body of the container and/or as connecting or sealing seams between the container wall in the region of openings and closure elements or covers welded thereto. At least some of the welded seams are at least partially penetrated by a duct which extends in the longitudinal direction in the seam and which can be filled with air and vented.
Claims11
A fuel container of plastic material comprising;
- a container body having two sections, each section having a peripheral flange, said flanges being joined by first and second welded seams, wherein said first and second welded seams are separated by a duct, said duct extending in the longitudinal direction of said flanges, and
- means for filling the duct with air and venting same of air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.