Patent classifications
B60K2015/03059
INJECTION-MOLDING METHOD AND LIQUID CONTAINER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
An injection-molding method for manufacturing a half-shell of a liquid container for a motor vehicle, comprising the following steps: providing a barrier film in a cavity of an injection-molding tool, the cavity being provided for the purpose of shaping the half-shell; providing a barrier sleeve in the cavity; injecting plasticized injection-molding material into the cavity, wherein plasticized injection-molding material is sprayed onto the barrier film and/or the barrier film is back-injected with plasticized injection-molding material; and wherein the barrier sleeve is back-injected with plasticized injection-molding material and/or overmolded with plasticized injection-molding material to form a connection element of the half-shell.
LIQUID CONTAINER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A LIQUID CONTAINER
A liquid container for a motor vehicle, having a first half-shell and a second half-shell, the half-shells delimiting a storage volume for accommodating liquid, the first half-shell having a first support layerand a first barrier layer, the second half-shell having a second support layerand a second barrier layer, the first barrier being situated on a side of the first support layer facing the storage volume, and the second barrier layer being situated on a side of the second support layer facing the storage volume.
METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH-PRESSURE TANK
A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank, capable of removing bubbles inside a carbon-fiber layer and those on an outer surface thereof without deteriorating a strength of the carbon-fiber layer, preventing a defective appearance, reducing variations in size, and thereby manufacturing a high-pressure tank having an excellent strength is provided. A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank includes an uncured carbon-fiber layer forming step of forming an uncured carbon-fiber layer around a liner, a glass-fiber layer forming step of forming an uncured glass-fiber layer around the uncured carbon-fiber layer, a pin inserting step of inserting a tubular pin disposed therein from an uncured glass-fiber layer side to an interface of the uncured carbon-fiber layer, a gas sucking step of sucking a gas from the pin, and a thermally-curing treatment step of forming a glass-fiber layer and a carbon-fiber layer.
Tank manufacturing method and tank
A tank manufacturing method includes the steps of (a) forming a reinforcing layer before hardening, (b) embedding at least a part of a label into the reinforcing layer before hardening, and (c) winding glass fiber with thermosetting resin before hardening impregnated so as to cover the label to form a surface layer before hardening. The step (a) includes (a1) forming an inner layer before hardening, and (a2) forming an outer layer before hardening having a cover rate lower than the inner layer before hardening and lower than 100%, the outer layer before hardening being arranged on the inner layer before hardening.
VEHICLE FUEL PUMP COVER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD
A cover assembly and method for a vehicle fuel pump includes a cover base secured in a fixed position relative to the vehicle fuel pump and a flexible cover connected to the cover base and positioned by the cover base to inhibit water access to the vehicle fuel pump. The method includes securing the cover base in a fixed position relative to the vehicle fuel pump, connecting the flexible cover to the cover base, and positioning the flexible cover with the cover base to inhibit water access to the vehicle fuel pump.
MOTOR VEHICLE TANK SUBASSEMBLY HAVING A FILTER BODY THAT ENHANCES WITHDRAWAL RELIABILITY, AND SUCH A FILTER BODY
A motor vehicle tank subassembly for storing and discharging an operating liquid, encompassing: a tank shell enclosing a tank interior; a conveying pump; a filter body at least partly accessible from the tank interior; and an intake conduit, the filter body having a body shell that encloses a filter body interior; at least a portion of the body shell encompassing a liquid-permeable filter material through which operating liquid in the tank interior can flow from outside the filter body into the filter body interior; the intake conduit connecting an intake side of the conveying pump to the filter body interior; arranged in the filter body interior, in the region of an intake opening of the intake conduit, is a baffle configuration that is embodied, as compared with an identically constructed filter body having no baffle configuration, to impede a movement of operating liquid away from the intake opening.
VEHICLE FUEL TANK FOR IMPROVED CRASHWORTHINESS
A fuel tank in a vehicle. The fuel tank includes a protective outer shell and an inner shell. The protective outer shell has an inner shell receiving area. The inner shell, which holds fuel, is housed in the inner shell receiving area of the outer shell. The inner shell cooperates with the outer shell to maintain the position of the inner shell relative to the outer shell and relative to the vehicle during normal operation. During an impact to the vehicle, the inner shell moves independent of the outer shell and the vehicle, allowing a portion of the energy or the forces associated with an impact to be absorbed by the outer shell, reducing the energy or force transferred to the inner shell.
Stress relieved welds in positive expulsion fuel tanks with rolling metal diaphragms
A metallic positive expulsion fuel tank with stress free weld seams may include a first hemispherical shell with a first edge; and a hemispherical rolling metal diaphragm with a first edge attached to the first hemispherical shell along matching first edges. A second hemispherical shell with a first edge may be attached to the first edge of the first hemispherical shell by a first weld seam thereby forming two interior chambers separated by the hemispherical rolling metal diaphragm. A pressurized gas inlet may be attached to the first hemispherical dome; and a fuel outlet fixture may be attached to the second hemispherical dome. The first weld seam may have been stress relieved by a localized post-weld heat treatment confined to an immediate vicinity of the first weld seam.
Pressure vessel and vehicle
Provided are a pressure vessel and a vehicle. The pressure vessel includes a casing, a cylinder valve, a valve seat and an inner liner, the casing has a storage space, the casing has a communication channel communicating the storage space with an outside, the cylinder valve is disposed at the communication channel and configured to adjust an opening degree of the communication channel, the valve seat is at least partially supported between the cylinder valve, the inner liner is disposed on an inner wall surface of the casing, the cylinder valve extends out of the inner liner, the inner liner includes a fitting portion adapted to surround and be attached on an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder valve, and a limiting portion is provided on an inner wall surface of the valve seat and adapted to be attached on and stop the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder valve.
FUEL TANK COMPOSITION
The present invention proposes a fuel tank comprising at least two shells weldable together, each of said at least two shells is made of a polymer composition comprising at least 45% by weight of at least one aromatic polyamide and at least 10% by weight of at least one aliphatic polyamide relative to the total weight of the polymer composition.