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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Joshua D. Carlson, Peoria, IL (US);
Stephen Robert Lewis, Chillicothe, IL (US);
Kenneth Carroll Adams, Dunlap, IL (US);
Daniel Richard Ibrahim, East Peoria, IL (US);
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Abstract
A fuel flow limiter assembly includes a limiter body forming a central bore, and including a shutoff piston within the central bore having a closing hydraulic surface exposed to a fluid pressure of the fuel inlet, and being movable from an open position, to a closed position based on a fuel pressure drop from a fuel inlet to a fuel outlet in the limiter assembly. A fuel filter is resident in the limiter assembly and supported in a connector coupled to the limiter body. The fuel filter is elongate and projects from the connector into a fuel flow path from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet.