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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Bernd Rumpf, Nidderau-Windecken, DE;
Bernd Rumpf, Nidderau-Windecken, DE;
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A fuel delivery unit for insertion into a fuel tank of a motor vehicle has a swirl pot, a flange for closing an opening in the fuel tank, and a support element arranged between the flange and the swirl pot that prestresses the swirl pot towards a bottom of the fuel tank. A filling level sensor is arranged on the swirl pot. The swirl pot has at least one receptacle. The receptacle extends to a bottom of the swirl pot and completely surrounds the periphery of the support element and has an opening in the bottom region through which fuel from the fuel tank can enter the receptacle. The filling level sensor comprises a transmission and receiving unit for ultrasonic waves arranged in the fuel delivery unit such that the ultrasonic waves run in the receptacle and the support element.