Motor vehicles – Power – With fuel supply for internal combustion engine
Patent
1990-04-16
1991-11-26
Kashnikow, Andres
Motor vehicles
Power
With fuel supply for internal combustion engine
29447, 220 413, 220 414, 4034071, B60K 1503
Patent
active
050675753
ABSTRACT:
A heat shield retainer and method is provided for mounting a heat shield onto a polymeric fuel tank. The heat shield retainer comprises a nut and bolt combination and a retainer body. The retainer body has bulbous pegs located on a first side thereof for engaging within corresponding sockets located within a fuel tank to secure the retainer body to the fuel tank. The retainer body further includes a releasable channel located on a second side thereof for releasably connecting the nut and bolt thereto. One or more retainers of the present invention may be employed to mount a heat shield onto a polymeric fuel tank. After a polymeric tank has been formed, and before it has cooled, the respective pegs of each heat shield retainer are inserted into corresponding sockets located within the fuel tank. As the tank cools, the polymeric material of the tank defining the sockets contracts about the pegs. As a result, after the tank cools, the pegs are locked within the sockets, and hence to the fuel tank.
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Bryans Thomas J.
Hyde James P.
Ford Motor Company
Kashnikow Andres
Mar Michael
May Roger L.
Porcari Damian
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