Fuel pump mounting

Details Fuel pump mounting Fuel pump mounting

1992-02-25

1992-11-24

Bertsch, Richard A.

Pumps

Motor driven

Including means for facilitating assembly or disassembly of...

417363, 4174233, 41742315, F04B 1700

Patent

active

051658674

ABSTRACT:
A mounting for an electric fuel pump on a rigid metal return fuel conduit in a fuel tank of an automobile includes a plastic support having a center body with a stepped bore therein for receiving the lower end of the return fuel conduit and a pair of integral flexible arms extending in opposite directions from the center body. The return fuel conduit has an annular shoulder which engages a shoulder on the center body to limit penetration of the return fuel conduit into the bore. The return fuel conduit also has a plurality of lugs thereon permanently deformed into notches in the center body to capture the center body between the lugs and the shoulder on the return fuel conduit. The flexible arms have wrapped positions around the fuel pump and an annular rubber isolator thereon clamping the fuel pump and the isolator to the center body. A buoyant valve element in a valve chamber in the center body is biased by its buoyancy to a seated position preventing backflow of fuel from the fuel tank into the return fuel conduit.

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patent: 5020978 (1991-06-01), Nashif

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