Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
Patent
1991-06-27
1993-05-11
Miller, Carl S.
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
123516, F02M 3302
Patent
active
052092100
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is provided for preventing emission of fuel vapor generated in a fuel tank during fuel supply, including a fuel supplying canister for absorbing the fuel vapor and desorbing the absorbed fuel vapor by an intake air flow in the operation of an internal combustion engine. The fuel supplying canister is provided, on one side of its vessel, with a tank port connected to the fuel tank and a purge port connected to an air intake passage of the internal combustion engine, and also provided with an atmospheric air port for introducing air on the other side thereof. The atmospheric air port includes a switching device for controlling the cross-sectional area of an atmospheric air passage in a manner that the switching device is fully opened during fuel supply, and that at other times a predetermined restriction hole is defined therein. Owing to this structure, the intake pipe negative pressure in the internal combustion engine can be efficiently applied into the canister without degrading the fuel supplying efficiency, so that the desorption of the fuel vapor absorbed in the activated carbon of the canister during fuel supply is much improved. Moreover, the residual fuel vapor in the activated carbon becomes less, and consequently, the lowering or degradation of absorption efficiency of the activated carbon because of aged deterioration can be prevented.
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Haruta Kazumi
Ikeda Satoru
Koeda Kenji
Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Miller Carl S.
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