Patent ID: 9676461
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: B63H,F02M

Claim:
1. A fuel supply device that supplies fuel from an external tank to an engine, the fuel supply device comprising: a fuel injection device configured to inject fuel into the engine; an internal tank configured to store fuel to be delivered to the fuel injection device; a first pipe linked to the internal tank, the first pipe configured to deliver fuel from the external tank to the internal tank; a second pipe linked to the fuel injection device, the second pipe configured to deliver fuel from the internal tank to the fuel injection device; a first pump configured to pump fuel from the internal tank via the second pipe to the fuel injection device; a fuel supply quantity detection device attached to the first pipe upstream of the internal tank, the fuel supply quantity detection device configured to detect a quantity of fuel supplied from the external tank via the first pipe to the internal tank; and a control device configured and programmed to implement at least one of a control operation that causes a decrease in a number of rotations of the engine, a control operation that outputs an alert, and a control operation that displays a warning when the quantity of fuel detected by the fuel supply quantity detection device is below a threshold.