Fuel-injector manifold assembly
AssigneeBenteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
InventorsVolker Wenke, Lars Sonntag
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Abstract
A fuel-supply manifold assembly has a thin-wall tube extending along a tube axis and formed with a plurality of radially throughgoing ports and respective saddle fittings each formed with a face complementary to and fitting with an outer surface of the tube at a respective one of the ports and with a throughgoing passage having an inner end aligned with the respective port. Respective tubular alignment nipples each have a throughgoing passage and each further have an inner end seated in a respective one of the ports and an outer end seated in the inner end of the respective fitting.
Claims5
A fuel-supply manifold assembly comprising:
- a thin-wall tube extending along a tube axis and formed with a plurality of radially throughgoing ports;
- respective saddle fittings each formed with a face complementary to and fitting with an outer surface of the tube at a respective one of the ports and with a throughgoing passage having an inner end aligned with the respective port;
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- respective tubular alignment nipples each having a throughgoing passage and each having an inner end seated in a respective one of the ports and an outer end seated in the inner end of the respective fitting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.