Patent ID: 7017557
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: B60K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A feed device for a motor vehicle having a surge chamber which is provided for arrangement in a fuel tank, having a filling device for the surge chamber, having a sucking jet pump which is arranged outside the surge chamber and is intended for feeding fuel via a feed line into the surge chamber or into an intermediate tank connected to the surge chamber, and having a section of the feed line which is guided vertically downward into the intermediate tank or the surge chamber, wherein the feed device comprises a ventilation element ( 10 ) is arranged in the region of the highest point of the feed line ( 7 ) that extends between the sucking jet pump and the surge chamber, and wherein the ventilation element has an upwardly open pipe ( 19 ), and in that the pipe ( 19 ) is longer than a column of fuel which can be produced by the pressure of the sucking jet pump ( 6 ) when the fuel tank ( 1 ) is virtually empty.