US 12,252,009 B2
Device for filling a fuel tank with fuel
Krishna Kashyap A V, Bangalore Karnataka (IN); Arul Murugan Selvakumar, Bengaluru Karnataka (IN); and Saravana Subramanian, Bangalore Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to Volvo Truck Corporation, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed by Volvo Truck Corporation, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/337,665.
Claims priority of application No. 22181132 (EP), filed on Jun. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0415566 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 15/04 (2006.01); B60K 15/077 (2006.01); B60K 15/03 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/077 (2013.01) [B60K 15/04 (2013.01); B60K 15/0403 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03434 (2013.01); B60K 2015/0477 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for filling a fuel tank with fuel, comprising:
a tube formed member comprising an opening at a top end thereof for receiving fuel from a fuel nozzle, the tube formed member extending in a longitudinal direction of the device, and
a fuel distribution member arranged to be provided inside the fuel tank and being connected to the tube formed member at a bottom end thereof,
wherein the fuel distribution member comprises first and second plate elements which are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction and extend from the tube formed member in a radial direction thereof so that a space for fuel is formed between the first and the second plate elements,
wherein at least one of the first and the second plate elements comprises perforations located in an area radially outside of the tube formed member for allowing fuel to enter the fuel tank and wherein a surface of the device defining a bottom of the tube formed member is free from perforations so as to prevent unauthorized removal of fuel from the fuel tank during use, and,
wherein the space for fuel is closed off by a peripheral wall between the first and the second plate elements.