FUEL NOZZLE

• US 20140048173A1
• Filed: 07/12/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elaflex Hiby Tanktechnik GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Elaflex Hiby Tanktechnik GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Fedde, Matthias, Meyer, Heinz-Ulrich
• Application Number:
  US13/941,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20140048173A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 141/311.A
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/02 for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/344 by checking a correct coupling or coded information
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/42 Filling nozzles
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/54 with means for preventing escape of liquid or vapour or for recovering escaped liquid or vapour B67D7/44 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a filling nozzle for dispensing liquid into a tank of a motor vehicle, having an actuating lever for a valve device and having a safety device moveable from a blocking position into an enabling position, wherein, in the blocking position, the valve device is closed regardless of the position of the actuating lever, and in the enabling position, the valve device can be opened by means of the actuating lever. The operative connection between the safety device and valve device is realized without external energy. The invention makes it possible to realize a misfilling inhibitor without external electrical energy, for example, and thus to fit a filling nozzle for urea solution, for example, in the explosion-protected region of a conventional fuel filling pump.

Claims

1. A filling nozzle for dispensing a liquid into a tank of a motor vehicle, said filling nozzle having an actuating lever (4) for a valve device and having a safety device (7, 10) arranged downstream of the valve device, wherein the safety device (7, 10) can be moved from a blocking position into an enabling position,

wherein in the blocking position, the valve device is closed regardless of the position of the actuating lever (4), and in the enabling position, the valve device can be opened by means of the actuating lever (4), and wherein the operative connection between the safety device (7, 10) and valve device is realized without external energy.

2. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein the operative connection between the safety device (7, 10) and valve device is realized mechanically and/or pneumatically.

3. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein the safety device (7, 10) is designed to interact with a tank filler neck (6), and can be moved from the blocking position into the enabling position as a result of or after the insertion of the filling nozzle into a tank filler neck (6) designed for it.

4. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein said filling nozzle has a sensor line (5, 13) for detecting a liquid surface reaching the outlet end of the filling nozzle, and in that the safety device (7, 10) closes the sensor line in the blocking position and opens the sensor line in the enabling position.

5. The filling nozzle of claim 4, wherein the safety device (7, 10) has a sensor line valve (10) for closing the sensor line (5) in the region of the outlet of the filling nozzle.

6. The filling nozzle of claim 5, wherein the sensor line valve (10) is magnetically actuable.

7. The filling nozzle of claim 6, wherein said filling nozzle has, in the region of the outlet, an axially displaceable sliding sleeve (7), wherein on the sliding sleeve (7) there is arranged an operative magnet (9) which interacts with the magnetically actuable sensor line valve (10).

8. The filling nozzle of claim 7, wherein the sliding sleeve (7) can be displaced from a blocking position into an enabling position as a result of the insertion of the filling nozzle into a tank filler neck (6) designed for it.

9. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein the closing force of the drip prevention valve (14) can be varied by magnetic interaction with the safety device (7, 10).

10. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein said filling nozzle additionally has a gas extraction device (21).

11. The filling nozzle of claim 1, wherein said filling nozzle is designed for dispensing urea solution.

12. A filling pump for the combined dispensing of fuels and urea solution, said filling pump having at least one filling nozzle for dispensing fuel,

wherein said filling pump has at least one filling nozzle according to claim 11 for dispensing urea solution.