Patent ID: 6405744
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: B60K,F02D,F02M,Y02T,Y10T

Abstract:
In a fuel supply system for providing fuel to an engine, including a main fuel tank for containing a supply of fuel, a main fill neck for filling said main fuel tank, a main fuel pump for transferring fuel from said main fuel tank to said engine, a main emission control system for control of fuel vapors within said main fuel tank, a sending unit for measuring the amount of fuel within said main fuel tank and for sending data corresponding to said main fuel measurements to main computational and display devices, and one or more auxiliary fuel tanks containing additional supplies of fuel, comprising:auxiliary fill necks for filling additional fuel in said auxiliary fuel tanks; auxiliary sending units for measurement of the amount of fuel within said auxiliary fuel tanks, and for sending data corresponding to the measurement of fuel in said auxiliary tanks to auxiliary computational and display devices; auxiliary fuel pumps for transferring fuel from said auxiliary fuel tanks to said main fuel tank; an auxiliary emission control system for control of fuel vapors generated within said auxiliary fuel tanks; pressure sensors for measuring fuel pressure within said auxiliary tanks; and an auxiliary computer for command and control of both auxiliary and main fuel supply systems in accordance with a selected sequencing program, said auxiliary computer having memories for storing both main and auxiliary fuel and test data on a storage medium, processors for processing said data in said memories, and initialization programs for setting the initial conditions for memory and for processing data from all said fuel storage systems.