Continental Automotive Gmbh

Vitesco Technologies Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Continental Automotive Systems Corporation

Matthias Kadler

Dieter Hagist

Karl Eck

Martin Maasz

Oliver Schönert

Michael Teichert

Hans-Guenter Benner

Paul F Briggs

John Wattai

Klaus Markefka

Robert Peter

Torsten Barz

Martin Jeuk

Alexander Cezanne

A filling level indicator for determining a filling level in a tank, having a resistor network, a contact element, and a magnetic element. The contact element is spaced apart from the resistor network and the magnetic element is movable relative to the resistor network and the contact element. The contact element has a contact region deflectable by the magnetic element. An electrically conductive connection between the contact region and the resistor network is produced by deflection of the contact region. The contact region is formed by a planar tape-shaped element and the contact region has contact portions that are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction. The contact portions are separated from one another by separation regions.

Filling level indicator

A filling level indicator for determining a filling level in a tank, having a resistor network, a contact element, and a magnetic element. The contact element is arranged spaced apart from the resistor network, and the magnetic element can be moved relative to the resistor network and the contact element. An electrically conductive connection can be established between the contact element and the resistor network by deflecting the contact element. A plastic spacer element is arranged between the resistor network and the contact element and is hot-swaged to the resistor network and/or to the contact element.

A filling level indicator for determining a filling level in a tank includes: a resistor network; a contact element arranged spaced apart from the resistor network; and a magnetic element movable relative to the resistor network and the contact element. The contact element has a contact region deflectable by the magnetic element. The contact region is deflectable so as to produce an electrically conductive connection between the contact region and the resistor network. The contact region comprises a planar tape-shaped element that is partially deflectable by a magnetic force of the magnetic element. The contact region has at least two portions that are arranged mutually adjacent to, and mutually spaced apart from, one another.

Passive magnetic position sensor

A ceramic card having a thick film network, with conductive vias formed as part of the card. Each of the vias is in electrical communication with both sides of the thick film network, allowing the pads and the pad senders to be formed on both sides of the card. This configuration maintains the contact when one of the connectors is subjected to bending force or is otherwise displaced, maintaining contact with at least one of the pads, and allowing the system to still function. The double sided thick film network allows for each connector to touch both sides of one of the pads, and still maintain electrical communication with the level sender, thus eliminating the failure mode of intermittent contact with the thick film network resulting from movement of the connector.

Double-side thick film network on ceramic card

A fuel delivery unit of a motor vehicle comprises a prefilter arranged inside a swirl pot, said prefilter having a filter element, and at least one connection piece for connecting a supplementary filter element. The at least one connection piece, in its initial condition, is closed, and is opened when the supplementary filter element is attached. The invention allows the fuel delivery unit to be adapted to projected filter surfaces of the prefilter.

Fuel delivery unit

A device for collecting fuel in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle having a prefilter arranged inside a swirl pot. The prefilter has a section rising from a horizontal plane and a section lying in the horizontal plane. The sections of the prefilter are produced as one piece and are connected to the swirl pot. The prefilter has an especially large surface.

Device for controlling fuel in a fuel tank

A fuel delivery unit for a motor vehicle, wherein a swirl pot has a base formed from an upper part and a lower part, and an outer wall connected to the base, forming a seal. The upper part and the lower part bound fuel-delivering regions of a suction jet pump and of a section of a feed line. This arrangement allows the fuel delivery unit to be produced at particularly low cost.

Fuel delivery unit for a motor vehicle

A delivery unit for delivering fuel in a fuel tank comprises a prefilter and swirl pot which are produced as one piece. The prefilter is produced during die-casting of the swirl pot. The invention allows the delivery unit to be produced in an especially inexpensive manner.

Delivery unit for delivering fuel

A feed unit for feeding fuel has a housing formed integrally with the casing of a swirl pot, the housing comprising a fine filter. The fine filter is configured open toward one side and is closed by a cover. The cover is formed integrally with a base plate sealing the casing of the swirl pot. As a result, the feed unit has a particularly low number of components to be assembled and can be produced in a particularly cost-effective way.

Feed unit for feeding fuel

A device used to retain a fuel pump in a fuel container of a motor vehicle, which includes a pump holder that is made entirely of plastic by injection moulding. Retaining devices, which is used to join the pump holder to the fuel pump and to a baffle pot, are connected to each other by arms that are oriented away from each other. The arms, which are orientated away from each other, form a cardanic frame that dampens vibrations from the fuel pump.

Device for retaining a fuel pump in a fuel container

A feed unit has a surge chamber, a fuel pumpwhich is arranged in the surge chamber, and a pump holder, the fuel pumpbeing arranged in the pump holderand the pump holderbeing fastened in the surge chamber. The pump holderhas at least two rodswhich are fastened in the surge chamber, the rodsbeing connected to a mountfor the fuel pump

Feed unit

In a fuel pump () with an adapter () there are provided latching means () disposed opposite one another and arranged at opposite ends of rocker elements () having a release mechanism () which can be actuated by hand. The rocker elements () are produced integrally with the adapter (). By pressing together the release mechanism () the latching mechanism () are released from the fuel pump (). The adapter () has a non-return valve () and/or a pressure-limiting valve (). The fuel pump () can therefore be adapted to the particular application by simply exchanging the adapter ().

Fuel pump provided for installation inside a fuel container, with an adapter

In a feed unit for feeding fuel from a fuel container of a motor vehicle a surge part () has a base plate () and an adjoining tubular section (). The base plate () is fabricated in one piece with a nozzle () and a mixer pipe () of a suction jet pump () and has receptacles () for a fine filter () and for supporting rods () of a fuel pump (). The feed unit is of particularly simple design as a result of this and can be fabricated in a cost-effective way.

A supporting element () for supporting a fuel feed unit () on the bottom of a fuel tank has a curved element () having a supporting surface (). The curved element () is fastened to the lower side of the fuel feed unit () and is manufactured as a single piece with a coarse filter (). Fuel sucked up through the coarse filter () is guided over the curved element (), so that dirt particles are retained at a tangential edge () of the supporting element ().

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Gross-Gerau, Germany

Matthias Kadler