Patent ID: 6415942
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: B60K,Y10T

Abstract:
A fuel tank assembly for an automobile which includes a fuel tank, which is constructed to minimize, if not prevent, splashing or sloshing of fuel out of the tank if the fuel tank should rupture in a collision with another object and which comprises a substantially box-shaped bottom portion having a top peripheral flange; several highly porous, anti-splash, filler packets made from metal foil mesh material received in said tank, each packet being formed from two to ten layers of metal foil mesh material, and some of said packets being folded over, thereby to substantially fill the tank with said highly porous packets to inhibit, if not prevent, fuel from splashing or sloshing out of the tank upon a rupture of the tank, and a top tank cover plate sealed to the top peripheral flange.