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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1993
Orrin A Woodward, Davison, MI (US);
Edward A Hantle, Caro, MI (US);
Christopher J Mahoney, Birch Run, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A modular fuel sender including a reservoir in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle, an electric fuel pump in the reservoir, and a jet pump for aspirating fuel into the reservoir. The electric fuel pump includes a regenerative turbine pump having a pump channel around the periphery of an impeller and a bleed orifice between an inlet and a discharge of the pump channel for bleeding a mixture of fuel and vapor from the pump channel. The bleed orifice is connected a nozzle in the jet pump. The mixture of fuel and vapor bled from the pump channel issues as a jet stream from the jet pump nozzle for aspirating fuel into the reservoir.