Urea filler neck and urea tank for prevention of urea overflow and urea after-treatment system with outside filler neck

• US 9,644,518 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), korea fuel-tech corporation
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), korea fuel-tech corporation
• Inventors: Ham, Chang-Ho, Choi, Pil-Seon, Ryoo, Dong-Myoung, Lim, Young-Jae, Chae, Myung-Keun
• Primary Examiner(s): Maust, Timothy L
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHMID, ANDREW C
• Application Number:
  US14/559,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20160003122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 888 Days
• Field of Search: 141 59, 141198, 141285, 141289, 141290, 141297-300, 141311 R, 141312, 141348-352, 141356, 141363, 141367, 141369, 141370, 141372, 141390, 220 862, 220 864, 220746
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/04 concerning exhaust collecting exhaust gases with central suction systems not forming part of vehicles, e.g. in workshops or tunnels B08B15/002, otherwise along carriageways E01C1/005; extensions for melting snow on roads E01H5/00, E01H6/00; exhaust or silencing apparatus for internal combustion engines per se F01N; pipes, joints or supports therefor F16L
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/03 Fuel tanks chassis frame comprising fluid storage compartment B62D21/16 ; Details of the fuel feeding system related to the fuel tank F02M37/0076
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/0294 Combined with valves
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/362 combined with over-fill preventing means indicating or measuring liquid level G01F23/00; level control G05D9/00
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 7/42 Filling nozzles
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2066 Selective catalytic reduction [SCR]
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2896 Liquid catalyst carrier

Abstract

A urea filler neck for preventing a urea overflow includes a filler housing forming a urea path in which urea flows to a urea tank. An injection gun guide is provided in the filler housing. An end of an injection gun is fixed by the injection gun guide to limit an insertion position of the injection gun inserted into an inlet of the filler housing. An injection gun guide flooding phenomenon is generated, in which urea flowing backward from the urea tank rises to block an air flow in the filler housing being generated in the injection gun guide. A filler housing pressure increasing phenomenon is generated, in which a pressure in the filler housing is increased due to blocking of the air flow by the injection gun guide flooding phenomenon being generated in the injection gun guide.

Claims

1. A urea filler neck for preventing a urea overflow, comprising:

a filler housing forming a urea path in which injected urea flows to a urea tank; and

an injection gun guide provided in the filler housing, an end of an injection gun fixed by the injection gun guide to limit an insertion position of the injection gun inserted into an inlet of the filler housing,

wherein an injection gun guide flooding phenomenon is generated, in which urea flowing backward from the urea tank rises to block an air flow in the filler housing being generated in the injection gun guide,

a filler housing pressure increasing phenomenon is generated, in which a pressure in the filler housing is increased due to blocking of the air flow by the injection gun guide flooding phenomenon being generated in the injection gun guide,

the injection gun is shut-off by detecting the pressure in the filler housing pressure increasing phenomenon in the injection gun guide, and

the area overflow flowing backward is delayed by a back flow buffering phenomenon in which the urea flowing backward is stored in an inner space of the filler housing in the injection gun guide,

wherein the injection gun guide comprises;

a urea buffer portion which comes into contact with an inner peripheral portion of a housing body of the filler housing and is formed with a generation space of the back flow buffering phenomenon; and

a urea injection port spaced apart from a connection section in which a diameter of the housing body is smaller than a diameter of a housing extension portion such that the housing extension portion connected to the housing body has a changing section, so that a generation space of the filler housing pressure increasing phenomenon by the injection gun guide flooding phenomenon is formed in the urea injection port and the end of the injection gun is fixed by the urea injection port, and

wherein the injection gun guide is assembled to be press-fitted into the inner space of the filler housing.

2. The urea filler neck of claim 1, wherein the housing extension portion is connected with a urea injection pipe connected to the urea tank.

3. The urea filler neck of claim 1, wherein a side venting line having a hollow pipe shape is connected to a space formed between an outer peripheral portion of the urea injection port and the inner peripheral portion of the housing body, and the side venting line is connected with a leveling pipe connected to the urea tank.

4. The urea filler neck of claim 1, wherein the housing body further comprises a seal block which contacts the inner peripheral portion of the housing body to pass through the injection gun, and the seal block is disposed above the injection gun guide to seal an inlet of the housing body.

5. The urea filler neck of claim 4, wherein the seal block comprises a magnetic ring and a magnet holder into which the magnetic ring is fitted in the vicinity of the injection gun, and an outer peripheral portion of the magnet holder comes into close contact with the inner peripheral portion of the housing body.

6. The urea filler neck of claim 4, wherein the injection gun passes above the seal block through the urea injection port which is fitted and coupled to the housing body.

7. The urea filler neck of claim 6, wherein the urea injection port is pulled by a magnetic force of a magnetic ring inserted into a magnet holder of the seal block.

8. The urea filler neck of claim 6, wherein the housing body further comprises a mounting flange to which the urea injection port is fitted and coupled, and the mounting flange has a drilled mounting hole.