Patent ID: 6928989

Claim:
A fuel pump module for mounting to a fuel tank defining an aperture, the fuel pump module comprising: a modular flange having a top and bottom surface, the modular flange mounted on a top exterior of the fuel tank; a fuel pump reservoir that resides on a bottom interior of the fuel tank, the reservoir having a top flat end surface and a bottom flat end surface and a circular side wall joining the top and bottom end surfaces; a fuel inlet tube that passes through the modular flange and into the fuel pump reservoir; a fuel outlet tube that passes through the modular flange and into the fuel pump reservoir; a first attachment shaft that perpendicularly intersects the modular flange and the fuel pump reservoir and connects the modular flange and the fuel pump reservoir; and at least one accessory component that is mounted to the bottom surface of the modular flange and with the modular flange defines a flange mounting height, wherein a sum of the thickness of the modular flange and an end-to-end height of the fuel pump reservoir is greater than a depth of the fuel tank.