Fuel pump unit and an electrical connector therefor

Details Fuel pump unit and an electrical connector therefor Fuel pump unit and an electrical connector therefor

1995-08-10

1997-09-23

Gluck, Richard E.

Pumps

Combined

417422, 439556, H01R 1352

Patent

active

056697635

ABSTRACT:
A fuel pump unit comprises a pump supporting flange for closing an opening in a fuel tank. The supporting flange has a wet side from which projects a fuel pump and an opposite dry side from which projects a lip defining a through opening in the supporting flange. An electrical connector has a mating portion for mating with a further connector connected to the power supply for the pump. There depends from the mating portion an insulating block into which have been moulded electrical tabs each having one end projecting into the mating portion and the other end projecting below the insulating block. Leads are connected to these lower portions of the tab terminals by means of electrical clips. The connector is inserted through the opening in the supporting flange from the wet side thereof so that a resilient skirt surrounding the insulating block is force fitted to the inner surface of the lip and a sealing ring is compressed by a flange at the bottom of the skirt, against the wet side of the supporting flange. The leads are then also connected to contacts of the pump.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3022484 (1962-02-01), Thompson
patent: 4588247 (1986-05-01), Grappe et al.
patent: 4653835 (1987-03-01), Schulte et al.
patent: 4822294 (1989-04-01), McClearn
patent: 4961018 (1990-10-01), Akhter
patent: 5207562 (1993-05-01), Neilbrook et al.

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