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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2010
James Edward Thompson, Novi, MI (US);
David Hill, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Bjorn Criel, Sint-Martens-Lennik, BE;
Vincent Cuvelier, Brussels, BE;
Jules-joseph Van Schaftingen, Wavre, BE;
James Edward Thompson, Novi, MI (US);
David Hill, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Bjorn Criel, Sint-Martens-Lennik, BE;
Vincent Cuvelier, Brussels, BE;
Jules-Joseph Van Schaftingen, Wavre, BE;
INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Société Anonyme), Bruxelles, BE;
Abstract
Process for reinforcing a plastic fuel tank comprising a wall defining an internal closed volume, according to which a structural member is fixed to the wall of the tank outside the closed volume, in at least two points being located in two different portions of said wall where a deflection induced when the tank is filled with fuel, is low; and said structure having at least one contact point with the tank wall in a portion of said wall where the deflection is high.