Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
Patent
1996-12-09
1998-02-17
Moulis, Thomas N.
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Having fuel vapor recovery and storage system
553853, F02M 3302
Patent
active
057182094
ABSTRACT:
A fuel vapor storage canister having a leak-proof screen assembly between a mass of carbon granules in the storage canister and a purge port of the storage canister. The fuel vapor storage canister includes a cup-shaped plastic body, an integral partition which divides the canister body into a pair of relatively deep carbon bed chambers, and a plenum in the canister body at an end of one of the carbon bed chambers which is connected to the purge port and which is covered by the leak-proof screen assembly. The leak-proof screen assembly includes a plastic frame ultrasonically welded to the canister body and a flat fabric screen having a peripheral edge insert molded to the plastic frame.
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Buckner Susan
Labine Susan Scott
Meiller Thomas Charles
Scardino Eileen Alanna
Zaso Robert Augustine
General Motors Corporation
Moulis Thomas N.
Schwartz Saul
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