Patents Assigned to Coavis
  • Publication number: 20130161249
    Abstract: Provided is an in-tank filter for a fuel pump module. The in-tank filter for a fuel pump module includes: a filter media filtering foreign materials; a container having the filter media received therein and having a hose connector to which a hose for supplying fuel passing through the filter media is connected; and a retainer having the container rotatably coupled thereto to allow a direction toward which the hose connector is directed or a position of the hose connector to be adjustable and allowing the container to be installed in a reservoir body assembly. With the in-tank filter for a fuel pump module, a routing operation of connecting the hose for supplying fuel to the hose connector may be easily and rapidly performed. In addition, since each of the molds meeting a specification of the fuel pump module needs not to be provided, economical efficiency is excellent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: COAVIS
  • Publication number: 20130098339
    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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: COAVIS
  • Publication number: 20130089452
    Abstract: Provided is a gerotor pump including an inner rotor connected to a driving axis of a motor to transfer rotation force, an outer rotor formed at an outer side of the inner rotor, and a casing receiving the inner and outer rotors therein and provided with an inlet and an outlet, the inner and outer rotors forming several closed chambers while eccentrically rotating, having a predetermined clearance therebetween, to transfer a fluid, wherein a pressure chamber is formed in the casing in a direction in which force acts on the outer rotor by pressure of the fluid to offset the force, such that frictional force between the outer rotor and the casing decreases, thereby making it possible to improve performance and efficiency of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: COAVIS
  • Publication number: 20130061960
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module for supplying diesel fuel. The fuel pump module in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention is configured to include a flange assembly fixed to an inlet of a fuel tank and a reservoir body assembly disposed in the fuel tank, wherein the reservoir body assembly includes: a filter that removes foreign objects included in the diesel fuel; a fuel pump that forcibly circulates the diesel fuel passing through the filter to a diesel engine; and a pump connection return passage that supplies fuel toward a diesel engine through a supply line of fuel but supplies the diesel fuel that is returned without being consumed by the diesel engine between the filter and the fuel pump to supply the fuel to the fuel pump without passing through the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Munsik JEON, Chanheum YOON, Dong-Heon MO
  • Publication number: 20130048119
    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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Joonseup Kim, Wookeun Lee
  • Publication number: 20130000608
    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: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Kusung KWON, Chanheum YOON
  • Patent number: 8291946
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for sensing a fuel level in a fuel tank for sensing an amount of fuel remaining in the fuel tank mounted in a vehicle. The apparatus for sensing a fuel level according to the present invention senses a residual amount of fuel in a fuel tank by contacting a resistance substrate with a wiper, the apparatus including: a case that forms a sealable filling solution filling space and has a filling solution inlet formed on a top thereof; a stopper that blocks the filling solution inlet formed in the case to seal the filling solution filling space; and a filling solution that is filled in the filling solution filling space to perform an anti-rusting and lubricating function, wherein the resistance substrate and the wiper are disposed in the filling solution filling space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: JongKeun Lim, Youngchang Kim, Inseok Sohn, Kyuseob Shin, Joonseup Kim, Munsik Jeon
  • Publication number: 20120257980
    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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: Hyuntae LEE
  • Publication number: 20120257956
    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: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventor: Hyuntae LEE
  • Publication number: 20120168006
    Abstract: Provided is a reservoir for a fuel tank capable of being easily maintained by effectively preventing foreign materials in fuel from being introduced into a pump of a fuel transferring pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Moon SUHWAN, Chanheum YOON
  • Publication number: 20120100016
    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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Mun-sik JEON, Chan-heum YOON, Hoi-hyun KIM, Hyoung-il KIM, Seung-min LIM
  • Publication number: 20120060974
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for sensing a fuel level in a fuel tank for sensing an amount of fuel remaining in the fuel tank mounted in a vehicle. The apparatus for sensing a fuel level according to the present invention senses a residual amount of fuel in a fuel tank by contacting a resistance substrate with a wiper, the apparatus including: a case that forms a sealable filling solution filling space and has a filling solution inlet formed on a top thereof; a stopper that blocks the filling solution inlet formed in the case to seal the filling solution filling space; and a filling solution that is filled in the filling solution filling space to perform an anti-rusting and lubricating function, wherein the resistance substrate and the wiper are disposed in the filling solution filling space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: JongKeun LIM, Youngchang KIM, Inseok SOHN, Kyuseob SHIN, Joonseup KIM, Munsik JEON
  • Publication number: 20120000556
    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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Se Dong Baek, Kyoung Hwan Kim, Wan Sung Pae
  • Publication number: 20110315242
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pressure controller used in a fuel supply device of an automobile, and more particularly, is a fuel pressure controller in which an open-close ball insertion groove is formed to be protruded in one side direction within a valve pressing member formed to be opened by a predetermined 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 of a valve of the fuel pressure controller, such that pressure may be accurately controlled and noise may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: KyungHwan KIM, SE-DONG BAEK, DongHeon MO, Jeongsik KIM
  • Publication number: 20110314904
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel amount measuring device for a vehicle positioned in a fuel tank of the vehicle to thereby measure an amount of remaining fuel. The fuel amount measuring device is implemented as a mechanical fuel amount measuring device including a base body, a resistive substrate, a retainer, and a contactor contacting the resistive substrate, wherein the resistive substrate and the contactor include a conductive film positioned therebetween and coated with a conductive material, such that the contactor and the resistive substrate are connected to each other by the conductive film. With the fuel amount measuring device, abrasion of the resistive substrate is prevented, thereby making it possible to improve durability of the fuel amount measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: KyungHwan KIM, Jeongsik Kim
  • Publication number: 20110250079
    Abstract: Provided is a dual jet system mounted at a bottom end of a reservoir in a fuel pump module, and more particularly, to a fuel pump module mounted with a dual jet system capable of preventing a phenomenon that fuel is not smoothly filled in a reservoir due to fuel inclined to one side caused by an inclination of a fuel tank when a vehicle travels a steep slope section by mounting two jet pumps at both edges of a bottom end of a reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: KyungHwan Kim, Jeongsik Kim, Hoihyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20110233122
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Youngchol Choi, Hayoung Cho, Jinsik Hwang, Chanheum Yoon, Jongman Lee, Younghoon Kim, Haisung Lee
  • Patent number: 8015871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sender unit for sensing the level of remaining fuel in a fuel tank utilizing a non-contacting sensor. The sender unit for sensing the level of remaining fuel in a fuel tank of a vehicle is fixed in the fuel tank to sense the level of the remaining fuel by detecting the position of a float that floats depending on the level of the liquid surface of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Coavis
    Inventors: In-Seok Sohn, Kyeong-Hwan Kim, Mun-Sik Jeon, Hyung-Min Kim
  • Publication number: 20110206543
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Wan-Sung Pae, Hyung-Min Kim, Kyeong-Hwan Kim, Inseok Sohn
  • Publication number: 20110204625
    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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: COAVIS
    Inventors: Ha Young Cho, Jae Won Choi, Jin Seok Kim