US 12,434,553 B2
Operating medium vessel for a vehicle and vehicle having an operating medium vessel
Andreas Bacherler, Kaufbeuren (DE); Raul Ramos Alonso, Schechen (DE); Benjamin Schimpf, Winkelhaid (DE); Michael Tarara, Vaterstetten (DE); and Batuhan Tugral, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/834,265
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 31, 2023, PCT No. PCT/EP2023/052300
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 30, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/144415, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 3, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 102 166.1 (DE), filed on Jan. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0135874 A1, May 1, 2025
Int. Cl. B60K 15/03 (2006.01); F02M 37/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/03 (2013.01) [B60K 2015/03105 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03111 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03138 (2013.01); B60K 2015/0325 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating medium vessel for a vehicle, wherein the operating medium vessel is provided for storing liquid operating media, the operating medium vessel comprising:
a withdrawal section with a swirl pot arranged therein;
a feed section connected in a fluid-conducting manner to the withdrawal section and adjacent to the withdrawal section; and
an operating medium conveying system with an operating medium reservoir arranged in the feed section, a first conveying device, and a second conveying device, wherein
the first and the second conveying devices are each connected to the operating medium reservoir in a fluid-conducting manner,
the first conveying device is configured to convey operating medium from the feed section from outside the operating medium reservoir into the operating medium reservoir,
the second conveying device is configured to convey operating medium from the operating medium reservoir into the swirl pot,
an internal volume of the feed section is at least twice as great as an internal volume of the withdrawal section,
the feed section is vertically at most half as high in an installed position of the operating medium vessel as the withdrawal section,
the feed section has a ratio of base area in square meters to height in meters of between 5:1 and 20:1,
the withdrawal section has a main direction of extent (m) and a horizontal length (Lz) of the feed section perpendicular to the main direction of extent (m) in the installed position of the operating medium vessel is at least 5 times as great as a vertical height (Hz) of the feed section, and
a total nominal capacity of the operating medium vessel is between 40 and 150 liters.