公开(公告)号：JPH10100852A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-21

申请号：JP25471797

申请日：1997-09-19

Applicant: AUTOLIV ASP INC

Inventor： MILLER HARRY W II ,  RINK KARL K ,  MOORE WALTER A ,  JENSEN DON T

IPC: B60R21/26 ,  B60R21/272 ,  B67D7/00 ,  B67D5/01

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To safely and accurately fill a storage chamber, that is, a fuel storage container, by supplying fuel through a capillary tube for discharging most of fuel in the lower side of a fuel liquid surface raised in the fuel storage container. SOLUTION: In a second station 54, a filling head 64 is disposed on the top part of a container 112. A needle is lowered into the container 112 so as to reach a position within a distance 1/10 of the container 112 from the bottom part. Liquid fuel is supplied via the needle. Only after a sufficient amount of fuel liquid to be mixed with fuel in the container 112 is discharged from the needle, the retreating of needle from the container 112 is started. That is, by surely supplying most of liquid fuel filling the container 112 based on fuel discharging from the needle in the lower side of the fuel level in the container 112, the possibility of gas or vapor entering the flowing-in liquid is eliminated and the formation of bubbles or other air bubbles in the supplied liquid is prevented.