Patent ID: 6874643
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: B01D,F02M

Abstract:
1. A suction filter to be attached to a fuel inlet pipe disposed in a fuel tank, comprising: an upper filtering fabric having an upper peripheral portion; a lower filtering fabric having a lower peripheral portion, said upper and lower peripheral portions being bonded together to form a filtering fabric bag; a spring provided in the filtering fabric bag to prevent the filtering fabric bag from being crushed to become flat and having two end portions; a synthetic resin upper plate to be connected to the fuel inlet pipe, said synthetic resin upper plate being integrally molded with the upper filtering fabric; and a synthetic resin lower plate integrally molded with the lower filtering fabric, said lower plate having an upper projecting portion partly projecting from an upper surface of the lower filtering fabric inside the filtering fabric bag and a lower projecting portion partly projecting from a lower surface of the lower filtering fabric so that the lower projecting portion abuts against an inner wall surface of the fuel tank, said two end portions of the spring being fixed to the upper and lower plates, respectively.