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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1989
Robert C Beer, Flushing, MI (US);
Timothy F Coha, Davison, MI (US);
Samuel G Griffith, McDonald, OH (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A high pressure fuel hose for disposition between a tubular stem on a fluid connector on a canister in a fuel tank and tubular stem on a fluid connector on a cover for the fuel tank spaced from the canister. Each of the tubular stems has a fir-tree barb thereon and the high pressure hose includes a convoluted flexible body and a pair of relatively stiff cylindrical ends each of which has a pair of annular inside beads and three annular outside beads between the convoluted body and the inside beads. When the cylindrical ends are press fitted over the fir-tree barbs with force applied at the outside beads, the inside bead seat behind annular shoulders on the barbs for enhanced retention.