Patent ID: 9085229
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: B29C,B29L,B60K,F02M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fuel tank assembly, comprising: a fuel tank to contain fuel therein and having an upper inside surface and a lower inside surface of spaced-apart polymer walls; and a carrier assembly disposed in the fuel tank and including a plurality of application-specific fuel system products; a common carrier configured for receipt in a plurality of different configurations of fuel tanks, usable in more than one application specific fuel tank configuration, and having at least one elongate and at least partially hollow beam spaced apart from both the upper and lower surfaces of the polymer walls of the fuel tank, the beam carrying a plurality of the application-specific fuel system products; at least one separate common carrier mount having a polymer band clamp connected to the common carrier beam, with the band clamp having a locator projection or recess, interengaged with a complimentary recess or projection of the common carrier beam and restraining at least one of translation or rotation of the common carrier relative to the common carrier mount, and an integral polymer mounting pad as part of and carrying the carrier mount band clamp and permanently fixed to one of the inside wall surfaces of one of the walls of the fuel tank; a plurality of separate product common mounting brackets each having a polymer band clamp connected to at least one beam of the common carrier; and a product holder connected to and carried by the product mounting bracket and carrying one of the plurality of the application specific fuel system products.