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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Vinck Rich, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 1/500 ;
Abstract
A tester,suitable for testing fuel system components of an automotive vehicle such as a fuel pump,, a fuel sender,and a pressure transducer,has a housing,that is coupled to a power supply,. Switch SW,is used to selectively power the fuel pump,. A second switch SW,is used to selectively couple power to transducer,. A final test port TP,and a second test port TP,are places where the electrical characteristics of the fuel system components may be measured. For example, the sender resistance and transducer output voltage may be measured.