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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001

Filed:

Jun. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tetsu Wada, Wako, JP;

Sadafumi Shidara, Wako, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 3/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 3/304 ;
Abstract

An intake manifold,having integrally a surge tank,, a plurality of intake pipes,to,and a mounting flange,is provided at the mounting flange,with a plurality of fuel injection valves,A subsidiary tank,provided therein with a high pressure fuel tank,and provided outside thereof with a high pressure filter,for temporarily storing a fuel to be supplied to the fuel injection valves,is secured to intake pipes,by means of two bolts,and secured to a cylinder block,by means of two bolts,The high pressure fuel tank,the high pressure filter,and the subsidiary tank,are beforehand assembled to the intake manifold,to make a subassembly and the subassembly is collectively assembled to an engine to thereby reduce the number of assembling steps.


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