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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2000
Stefan Feichtinger, Anger, AT;
Sandor Palvolgyi, Ungerdorf, AT;
Tesma Motoren-und Getriebetechnik Ges. M.B.H, Preding, AT;
Abstract
Device for preventing the overfilling of a fuel tank ( ) provided with a filler neck and a filling vent line ( ), an operational vent line ( ), which leads to the outside or to a collecting tank, opening into the fuel tank above the opening into the filling vent line, in which operational vent line there is connected a valve device ( ) which is closed during filling of the fuel tank and is open in the remaining time, the valve device having a valve closing member ( ′) which can be engaged with a valve seat ( ′) in the direction leading away from the fuel tank, is preloaded into the open position and is bridged, at least in the blocked state, by a flow-restricting partial-flow path ( ), the valve seat ( ′) for its part being movably mounted, forming a pressure relief valve clearance ( ) with an inner shoulder ( ) of the valve device ( ), and being preloaded into the closed position and in the direction of the valve closing member ( ′).