US 12,240,317 B2
Fuel pump module for a vehicle
Seung Hoon Choi, Seoul (KR); Gil Eon Kang, Suwon-si (KR); Chang Han Kim, Gwangju (KR); and Seung Yup Oh, Incheon (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/196,267.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0152163 (KR), filed on Nov. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0157784 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. B60K 15/077 (2006.01); B60K 15/03 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/077 (2013.01) [B60K 2015/03243 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03256 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fuel pump module for a vehicle, the fuel pump module comprising:
a pump positioned in a reservoir cup in a tank and configured to suction and discharge fuel from the reservoir cup;
a mount plate mounted in an opening of the tank;
a return valve installed on the mount plate and configured to pass return fuel, which is returned from an engine, into the tank;
a shaft bracket connecting the mount plate and the pump to each other in the tank and configured to fix the pump to the mount plate;
a guide wall disposed on the shaft bracket to guide return fuel flowing in the tank through the return valve; and
a channel disposed at the shaft bracket so that return fuel guided by the guide wall flows down and configured to discharge the return fuel, which flows down, into the reservoir cup,
wherein the guide wall has a structure that is open in a forward facing direction relative to a vehicle forward acceleration direction and that is closed in an opposite rear facing direction relative to the vehicle forward acceleration direction.