Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sample tube structure for automotive fuel tank leak detection
- Patent Title (中): 用于汽车油箱泄漏检测的样品管结构
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Application No.: US13310295Application Date: 2011-12-02
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Publication No.: US08746215B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Paul D. Perry , Adrian O. Crisan
- Applicant: Paul D. Perry , Adrian O. Crisan
- Applicant Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Main IPC: F02M33/02
- IPC: F02M33/02 ; F02M33/04

Abstract:
A vapor management system (10) includes a sense tube (47) disposed in a fuel tank (12). A differential pressure sensor (17) has one side connected to the sense tube and another side connected to a vapor cavity so that the pressure sensor can measure a differential pressure (DP) between a volume of the vapor cavity and a volume of the sense tube containing liquid fuel. A temperature sensor (26) is in the vapor cavity. A processor 1) receives DP and T measurements at certain time intervals to determine the temperature at time zero (T0), the differential pressure at time zero (DP0), the temperature at a certain time (Tt), and the differential pressure at a certain time (DPt), and 2) when (Tt−T0) is greater than a certain value, compares DPt to a certain differential pressure value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130139792A1 SAMPLE TUBE STRUCTURE FOR AUTOMOTIVE FUEL TANK LEAK DETECTION Public/Granted day:2013-06-06
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