Patent ID: 6138652
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: F02M

Abstract:
A method of making an automotive emission control module comprising:providing an emission control valve body having an internal main flow passage containing a valve for selectively restricting the main flow passage, and an actuator for operating the valve;providing an electric sensor having a sensor body containing a sensing port;providing an electric-operated fluid pressure regulator valve having a regulator valve body;providing an electric connector on one of the sensor body and the regulator valve body comprising plural electric terminals at least one of which is electrically connected to an electric circuit device of the one of the sensor and the fluid pressure regulator valve;providing the electric connector with at least one other electric terminal that extends through the body of the one of the sensor and the regulator valve;providing at least one electric terminal on the other of the sensor and the regulator valve electrically connected to an electric circuit device of the other of the sensor and the fluid pressure regulator valve;associating the sensor and the fluid pressure regulator valve with the emission control valve body and the actuator to communicate the sensing port with the main flow passage and to communicate a port of the regulator valve with the actuator, including the step of mutually associating the one and the other of the sensor and the regulator valve by moving the one and the other of the sensor and the regulator valve relative to each other into final assembly, and bringing the at least one electric terminal on the other of the sensor and the regulator valve into mated relationship with the at least one other electric terminal on the one of the sensor and the regulator valve as the one and the other of the sensor and the regulator valve move into final assembly.