Patent ID: 6167978
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B60K,F01M,F02M,Y02T,Y10T

Abstract:
An automotive vehicle comprising: a chassis comprising a powertrain, including a driven member for supporting the chassis on an underlying surface and an engine that has a fuel delivery system for introducing combustible fuel into one or more combustion chambers of the engine for combustion to power the engine and cause the driven member to propel the vehicle on the underlying surface; a walled tank that bounds an interior volume; a partition partitioning the interior volume of the tank into a fuel supply reservoir that is bounded in part by one portion of the tank wall and a second reservoir that is bounded in part by another portion of the tank wall; a supply conduit through which fuel is supplied from the fuel supply reservoir to the engine fuel delivery system; and a circuit for circulating a fluid other than engine fuel from the second reservoir to a portion of the powertrain and back to the second reservoir, the circuit comprising heat exchanger structure disposed within the fuel supply reservoir in heat exchange relationship with fuel in the fuel supply reservoir.