Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Randall Lee Dockery

Dale Richard Jones

John Gardner Fischer

Ulf Sawert

David Edward Harris

Bruce Albert Kuehnemund

Timothy F Coha

Dale M Pickelman

William S Zimmerman

Wayne Frederick Harris

Mitchal A Peterson

Grady Donald Jones, Sr

Douglas James Golla

A fuel strainer assembly includes a filtration member and an inlet connector connected to the filtration member for connection to an inlet of a fuel pump. The fuel strainer assembly also includes a locking mechanism operatively supported by the inlet connector to operatively engage a shell of the fuel pump to secure the inlet connector to the fuel pump.

Fuel strainer assembly

A fuel strainer assembly includes a filtration member and an inlet connector connected to the filtration member for connection to an inlet of a fuel pump. The fuel strainer assembly also includes a push pad connected to the filtration member. The fuel strainer assembly further includes a compression retainer operatively supported by the push pad to engage the inlet connector to cause an interference fit between the inlet connector and the inlet of the fuel pump to secure the inlet connector to the fuel pump.

A multiple stage fuel strainer assembly for a fuel tank in a vehicle includes a strainer adapted to be connected to an inlet of a fuel pump disposed in the fuel tank. The multiple stage fuel strainer assembly also includes a valve connected to the strainer to allow fuel to flow through the strainer to the inlet when an external surface of the strainer is restricted with contaminants in the fuel.

Multiple stage fuel strainer assembly

A floated fuel strainer assembly for a fuel tank in a vehicle includes a strainer adapted to be connected to an inlet of either one of a fuel pump and fuel reservoir disposed in the fuel tank. The floated fuel strainer assembly also includes a float connected to the strainer to elevate the strainer off a bottom of the fuel tank as a fuel level rises in the fuel tank.

Floated fuel strainer assembly for a fuel tank

A passively filled reservoir in a motor vehicle fuel tank. The fuel tank has an electric fuel pump suspended therein and a tubular conduit through which surplus fuel is returned to the fuel tank. The passively filled reservoir includes a fuel containment vessel below the fuel pump, a passive fill port in the containment vessel juxtaposed a bottom panel of the fuel tank, a one-way valve in the passive fill port, a primary strainer around the containment vessel, and a secondary strainer inside of the containment vessel. The tubular conduit and a vapor discharge port of the electric fuel pump discharge into the containment vessel outside of the secondary strainer for recirculation to the fuel pump of surplus fuel and liquid fuel expelled from the fuel pump through the vapor discharge port. The primary strainer strains liquid fuel flowing through the passive fill port into the containment vessel. Capillary seal characteristics of the primary and the secondary strainers sustain vacuum at an inlet of the electric fuel pump until both the fuel tank and the containment vessel are substantially fully depleted.

Reservoir for motor vehicle fuel tank

A fuel sender including a container in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle and, in the container, a filter, a fuel pump, a jet pump, and a pressure regulator. An upstream side of the filter and the fuel pump are connected through a first passage in a first end wall of the container. A downstream side of the filter is connected to an interior volume of the container through a convoluted second passage on a second end wall of the container. A pressure regulator on the second end wall of the container maintains fuel pressure at a substantially constant magnitude by variably restricting flow through the second passage. A venturi throat in the second passage aspirates fuel from the fuel tank into the container. The efficiency of the jet pump is maximized by minimizing the length of the convoluted second passage. Vibration isolating seals minimize the transfer of vibrations and pressure pulsations to the container. In a preferred embodiment, the filter has electrically conductive elements which are connected to a ground circuit of the motor vehicle for protection against static discharge.

Fuel sender for motor vehicle

Fuel sender at a remote or terminal end of a suction circuit of a fuel system of a motor vehicle. The fuel sender includes an unsealed reservoir in a fuel tank of the vehicle replenished by return fuel from a return fuel circuit of the fuel system and a junction chamber in the reservoir communicating with the terminal end of the suction circuit and with each of a primary flow channel and a secondary flow channel. The primary flow channel terminates at a primary screen in the fuel tank outside the reservoir. The secondary flow channel terminates at a secondary screen inside the reservoir. The secondary flow channel is restricted relative to the primary flow channel so that vacuum in the suction circuit induces flow in the primary flow channel in preference to flow in the secondary channel. Under low fuel conditions, the primary flow channel is blocked and vacuum in the suction circuit induces flow in the secondary flow channel from the reservoir. The secondary screen is flexible and actuates a differential pressure responsive bypass valve to connect the secondary flow channel directly to the reservoir when both the primary and the secondary screens are blocked.

Fuel sender for motor vehicle fuel system

A mounting for an electric fuel pump on a rigid metal return fuel conduit in a fuel tank of an automobile includes a plastic support having a center body with a stepped bore therein for receiving the lower end of the return fuel conduit and a pair of integral flexible arms extending in opposite directions from the center body. The return fuel conduit has an annular shoulder which engages a shoulder on the center body to limit penetration of the return fuel conduit into the bore. The return fuel conduit also has a plurality of lugs thereon permanently deformed into notches in the center body to capture the center body between the lugs and the shoulder on the return fuel conduit. The flexible arms have wrapped positions around the fuel pump and an annular rubber isolator thereon clamping the fuel pump and the isolator to the center body. A buoyant valve element in a valve chamber in the center body is biased by its buoyancy to a seated position preventing backflow of fuel from the fuel tank into the return fuel conduit.

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Flushing, MI, United States of America

Randall Lee Dockery