Patents Assigned to Coavis
  • Patent number: 9109554
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module for a vehicle includes: a flange assembly positioned at a top portion of a fuel tank; a reservoir body assembly positioned at an inner bottom portion of the fuel tank; and a guide rod connecting the flange assembly and the reservoir body assembly to each other, wherein the reservoir body assembly includes: a fuel pump forcibly supplying fuel in the fuel tank to an engine; and a filter having a column shape in which it includes a hollow having the fuel pump positioned therein, installed in a form in which it is inserted into a case forming an appearance of the reservoir body assembly and having the fuel pump installed therein, and installed to allow the fuel before passing through the fuel pump to pass therethrough, thereby filtering foreign materials included in the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Chanheum Yoon, Wokpyeong Bang
  • Patent number: 9080537
    Abstract: Provided is an in-tank filter, which is a component of a fuel pump module positioned in a fuel tank of a vehicle, etc., to supply fuel to an engine. The in-tank filter includes: a filter media filtering foreign materials; an upper container made of a synthetic resin material and having a filter media insertion space therein, the filter media insertion space having a filter media inserted thereinto; a lower container made of a synthetic resin material and coupled to the upper container to block a lower portion of the upper container; and a deformation prevention reinforcing ring having a container insertion hole formed therein so as to be closely adhered to an outer side of the upper container when the upper container is inserted thereinto and preventing the upper container inserted into the container insertion hole from expanding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Youngchol Choi, Hayoung Cho, Jinsik Hwang, Chanheum Yoon, Jongman Lee, Younghoon Kim, Haisung Lee
  • Patent number: 9074607
    Abstract: Provided is an impeller of a fuel pump for a vehicle. More particularly, an impeller of a fuel pump for a vehicle, which can improve delivery pressure and a delivery speed of fuel by modifying a shape of an impeller blade that is provided between an upper casing and a lower casing of a fuel pump and is joined to a rotational shaft of a driving motor to deliver fuel by using rotational force at the time of suctioning fuel from a fuel tank and supplying fuel to an engine of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventor: Hyuntae Lee
  • Patent number: 9021871
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel amount detection device for a vehicle positioned in a fuel tank of the vehicle to detect a remaining fuel amount. In the fuel amount detection device for a vehicle, a resistor pattern and a conductive pattern formed on a resistor substrate and spaced apart from each other are electrically connected to each other by a conductive material coated on a conductive film pressed by a contactor to prevent abrasion of the resistor pattern formed on the resistor substrate, thereby making it possible to improve durability. In addition, since the resistor pattern is sealed by the conductive film, it does not contact fuel, such that corrosion of the resistor pattern is prevented, thereby making it possible to accurately detect a fuel amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: KyungHwan Kim, Jeongsik Kim
  • Patent number: 8979475
    Abstract: Provided is a turbine fuel pump for a vehicle. More particularly, provided is a turbine fuel pump for a vehicle that can improve efficiency of the fuel pump and solve pressure instability caused by collision of fuel by forming a separate independent channel in a lower casing, an impeller, and an upper casing where channels of fuel are formed at the time of suctioning fuel from the fuel tank and supplying fuel to an engine of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventor: Hyuntae Lee
  • Patent number: 8919326
    Abstract: A fuel pump module, in which an in-tank filter and a fuel pump are installed at respective locations and held by a pump retainer, thereby allowing fuel to easily flow in the fuel pump module and realizing smallness and improved filtering performance of the fuel pump module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Jong Keun Lim, In Seok Sohn, Ohk Sung Kim, Joon Seup Kim
  • Publication number: 20140345719
    Abstract: Provided are a strainer and a fuel pump module having the same, and more particularly, a strainer capable of preventing filter paper from stopping since the filter paper contacts each other at a portion at which the strainer is folded, in the strainer connected to an inlet of a fuel pump or a fuel pump module to filter fuel sucked thereinto, and a fuel pump module having the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Jeong Sik KIM, Woo Keun LEE, Du Hyun KIM, Eun Ju LEE
  • Patent number: 8820350
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module in which a portion of fuel transmitted from a fuel pump provided in a reservoir or fuel returned from an engine is supplied to a first jet and a second jet and a portion of the fuel is supplied from a first jet tower to a second jet tower through a connection tube connecting the first jet tower and the second jet tower to each other when the returned fuel passes through the first jet and the second jet and is then jetted to each of the first jet tower and the second jet tower to fill an inner portion of the second jet tower with the fuel, such that the fuel in a second space part of a fuel tank is rapidly transmitted, thereby making it possible to stably supply the fuel to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Joonseup Kim, Wookeun Lee
  • Patent number: 8789515
    Abstract: Provided is a reservoir for a fuel tank not including a pump and capable of allowing fuel to be smoothly transferred by effectively blocking a solidification material when solidification occurs in the fuel in a low temperature environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Kusung Kwon, Chanheum Yoon
  • Patent number: 8764419
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module for a vehicle in which a fuel pump, which is a vibration body, is physically coupled to an intank filter, a primary filter, and the like, which are other components of the fuel pump module, to have increased mass, such that unique harmonic acceleration of the fuel pump is reduced, a unique vibration area of the fuel pump or the fuel pump module is changed, and harmonic vibration of the fuel pump is thus positioned at the unique vibration area of the fuel pump or the fuel pump module, thereby making it possible to remove noise generated in a fuel tank due to abnormal vibration of the fuel pump module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Mun-sik Jeon, Chan-heum Yoon, Hoi-hyun Kim, Hyoung-il Kim, Seung-min Lim
  • Patent number: 8763589
    Abstract: A fuel pump module including: a reservoir installed in a fuel tank, the reservoir being charged with a predetermined amount of fuel; a fuel pump installed in the reservoir and pumping the fuel contained in the reservoir to an internal combustion engine; a jet pump injecting a fuel jet into the reservoir to thereby introduce the fuel stored in the fuel tank into the reservoir; a guide tube installed on the jet pump and guiding both the fuel jet and the fuel introduced from the fuel tank along with the fuel jet into the reservoir; and a filter unit partitioning the interior of the reservoir into a fuel suction area, into which the fuel is introduced by the fuel pump, and a fuel charging area, which is charged with the fuel from the fuel tank, thus preventing foreign substances from being introduced from the fuel charging area into the fuel suction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: JongKeun Lim, Inseok Sohn, Kyuseob Shin, Joonseup Kim, Munsik Jeon
  • Publication number: 20140116398
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module capable of preventing the static electricity from being accumulated on a fuel pump module, and thus preventing firing and explosion, by forming lines from a pump mounting portion on which a fuel pump is mounted to a inlet port of a flange assembly with electrically conductive material and connecting them to a connector formed on the flange assembly with a ground lead line, so that the static electricity generated by the friction caused by the flow of the fuel is discharged to the outside of the fuel pump module, i.e., the chassis of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Mun Sik JEON, Jin Sik HWANG, Joon Seup KIM
  • Publication number: 20140076046
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel amount detection device for a vehicle positioned in a fuel tank of the vehicle to detect a remaining fuel amount. In the fuel amount detection device for a vehicle, a resistor pattern and a conductive pattern formed on a resistor substrate and spaced apart from each other are electrically connected to each other by a conductive material coated on a conductive film pressed by a contactor to prevent abrasion of the resistor pattern formed on the resistor substrate, thereby making it possible to improve durability. In addition, since the resistor pattern is sealed by the conductive film, it does not contact fuel, such that corrosion of the resistor pattern is prevented, thereby making it possible to accurately detect a fuel amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: KyungHwan KIM, Jeongsik KIM
  • Patent number: 8672651
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module used for a car, and more particularly, to a fuel pump module with a driver equipped inside a fuel tank capable of solving a problem of space limitation due to the installation of the driver by disposing the driver for controlling a BLDC fuel pump between a flange and a reservoir and mounting it in the fuel tank, minimizing the degradation in performance of the BLDC fuel pump caused by voltage drop and efficiency degradation due to a wire by reducing a length of a wire for electrically connecting the driver with the BLDC fuel pump, and achieving a sufficient heat radiation effect by directly transferring the heat energy generated from electrical devices such as FET, MCU, or the like, mounted in the driver to the fuel in the fuel tank through the case cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Wan-Sung Pae, Hyung-Min Kim, Kyeong-Hwan Kim, Inseok Sohn
  • Patent number: 8663738
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an armature for fuel pumps and a manufacturing method thereof, in which a polymer coating film is formed on an armature core such that the armature has corrosion resistance to an alcohol fuel and to a highly corrosive fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Kisang Moon, Seonghwan Moon
  • Patent number: 8656588
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flange for a fuel pump module, which includes an adhesion enhancing member so that there is no gap between a power supply terminal and a resin material for forming a flange, thus further increasing injection efficiency and sealing performance. A method of manufacturing such a flange is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Ha Young Cho, Jae Won Choi, Jin Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8561597
    Abstract: A flange for a fuel pump module and a manufacturing method thereof, in which the passage communicating a first valve seat with a second valve seat in the flange can be easily and simply formed by inserting a passage forming piece in a mold without requiring an additional process during an injection-molding process of manufacturing the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Jong Keun Lim, In Seok Sohn, Young Chang Kim, Joon Seup Kim, Mun Sik Jeon, Jin Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8561595
    Abstract: Provided is a driver-integrated type BLDC fuel pump module, which is used in a vehicle and in which a driver used for controlling the operation of a BLDC fuel pump is installed in a flange of the BLDC fuel pump module, thus removing the spatial limit caused when the driver is installed and reducing the length of an electric wire electrically connecting the driver to a BLDC fuel pump of the module, thereby solving the problem of the operational performance of the BLDC fuel pump deteriorating as a result of both the voltage drop in the electric wire and a reduction in the operational efficiency of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: Se Dong Baek, Kyoung Hwan Kim, Wan Sung Pae
  • Publication number: 20130221664
    Abstract: The present invention includes an intank filter that is a component of a fuel pump module which is installed within a fuel tank of a motor vehicle to supply fuel into an engine, and more particularly, to a laser welding structure of an intank filter for a motor vehicle, for joining the intank filter through laser welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: COAVIS
  • Patent number: 8511339
    Abstract: A fuel pressure controller used in a fuel supply device of an automobile has an open-close ball insertion groove formed to be protruding from a side of a valve pressing member. The valve pressing member has a predetermined open area in a circumferential direction and in a radial direction to prevent separation of an open-close ball even at the time of an operation, such that pressure may be accurately controlled and noise may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: KyungHwan Kim, Se-Dong Baek, DongHeon Mo, Jeongsik Kim