Engine Fuel Protector Hooks Firewall Impact
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern vehicle engine systems face damage to fuel components due to collisions and impacts, where engine components contact the vehicle firewall, leading to potential failure.
Innovation Solution
A protector with hooks extending from its outer surface is positioned between fuel components and the firewall, configured to engage or pierce through the firewall during impacts, thereby reducing or preventing damage to fuel components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a protector is positioned between fuel components and the firewall to protect during impacts, then the reliability of fuel components is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the additional protector component with hooks
Solution Approach 1:
A protector is introduced as an intermediary component positioned between the fuel components and the firewall. The protector includes a body with hooks that engage the firewall during impacts, serving as a mediator that absorbs and redirects impact forces away from the fuel components, thereby protecting them without requiring fundamental changes to the existing engine system structure.
2Reliability
If hooks are added to the protector to engage the firewall during impacts, then the protection effectiveness is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The protector is designed with segmented functional elements: a body portion that provides structural support and positioning, and separate hooks that provide firewall engagement. This segmentation allows the hooks to be optimized for their specific engagement function while the body is optimized for structural integrity, enabling modular manufacturing approaches that can simplify production.
Solution Approach 2:
The hooks are positioned at specific locations on the protector body where they can engage the firewall most effectively during impacts. This local placement of engagement features allows the majority of the protector body to be manufactured using standard processes, while only specific localized areas require the additional hook features, minimizing the overall impact on manufacturing complexity.
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AI summary
Vehicle engine systems and protectors for such systems are presented. The protector can include a first end that is operatively connected to an intake manifold of the engine system. The protector can include a second end positioned between a fuel component of the engine system and a vehicle firewall. The protector can include one or more hooks that extend from an outer surface of the protector near the second end. The hooks are configured to engage the vehicle firewall during an impact collision. In one or more arrangements, the hooks can be configured to pierce through the vehicle firewall during the impact collision.