Fuel property sensor and fuel tank assembly

Details Fuel property sensor and fuel tank assembly Fuel property sensor and fuel tank assembly

2009-01-22

2011-12-06

Dole, Timothy J (Department: 2858)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Impedance, admittance or other quantities representative of...

Lumped type parameters

C324S686000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08072229

ABSTRACT:
A fuel property sensor, which is installed to a fuel tank of a fuel tank assembly, senses a property of fuel at the fuel tank. First and second electrodes of the fuel property sensor are made of an electrically conductive material and are exposed in a fuel flow passage in a housing of the fuel property sensor such that the first and second electrodes are generally parallel to a flow direction of fuel in the fuel flow passage and are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance. The fuel property sensor determines the property of the fuel based on a capacitance, which is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode.

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Japanese Office Action dated Oct. 6, 2009, issued in corresponding Japanese Application No. 2008-020189, with English translation.

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