US 11,891,929 B2
Sump device having a pipe unit
Ralf Franz, Bad Urach (DE); and Marco Saile, Pfullingen (DE)
Assigned to ElringKlinger AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed by ElringKlinger AG, Dettingen (DE)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/088,004.
Application 17/088,004 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/061268, filed on May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018110790.0 (DE), filed on May 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0047950 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Prior Publication US 2021/0372303 A9, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. F01M 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC F01M 11/0004 (2013.01) [F01M 2011/007 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Sump device comprising a sump body, with a pipe unit comprising a pipe body wherein the sump body is an injection moulded part of plastics material, wherein the pipe unit is supported by the sump body with play at an outlet end of the of the pipe unit, and wherein an interior space of the pipe body extends between opposed ends of the pipe body, the interior space of the pipe body defined by the pipe body alone, thereby spaced away and separate from the sump body, and wherein the outlet end of the pipe unit is arranged with play at least partially in the direction of a depth direction of the sump body.