Patent ID: 8596486
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. A washing fluid reservoir for a motor vehicle, the reservoir comprising: a vertical extension partition that divides the reservoir into a first chamber that comprises at least one fluid fill orifice in an upper part thereof and a second chamber that comprises at least one pumping orifice in a lower part thereof, said second chamber having a wall that is common with a heating element, said second chamber extending at least partially around said heating element so as to ensure heating of the fluid that is contained in said second chamber, said first and second chambers communicating with one another via a communicating orifice in the lower part of said partition so as to allow filling of said second chamber from said first chamber, wherein the second chamber has a smaller volume than that of the first chamber, and said first and second chambers communicate with one another via an air passage that is provided in the upper part of said second chamber so as to allow the exhaust of air from the second chamber to said first chamber during the filling of the reservoir.