Japanese Inventors Develop Improved Snowmobile Fuel Tank Structure

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 20, 2008 ;     294 words ......developed a snowmobile with improved fuel tank structure. According to the abstract...engine and an air cleaner, and an elongate fuel tank below the seat. The height of the ceiling of the fuel tank at a location corresponding to the rider...

Connecticut Inventors Develop Fuel Tank Assembly

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2007 ;     310 words ......West Hartford, Conn., have developed a fuel tank assembly. An abstract of the invention...This invention provides a low profile fuel tank assembly having an elongated fuel delivery module mounted horizontally within the fuel tank and independent from a flange which covers...

Test casts doubt on jet fuel tank

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 3, 1996 ;     389 words ......indicates that an explosion of the center fuel tank alone would not have been powerful enough...previously have determined that the center fuel tank exploded. But a critical question has...simulate pressure within a 747's center fuel tank, Boeing engineers estimated that 30 to...

Tests bolster bomb theory // Explosion of center fuel tank unlikely to...

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 3, 1996 ;     432 words ......indicates an explosion of the center fuel tank would not have been powerful enough to...previously had determined that the center fuel tank exploded. But a critical question has...simulate pressure within a 747's center fuel tank, Boeing engineers estimated that 30 to...

FAA issues fuel tank safety rule.

M2 Presswire;  May 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-8 May 2001-US FAA: FAA issues fuel tank safety rule (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...The FAA rule, the most comprehensive fuel tank safety initiative ever put forward, includes...that it's time for a new approach to fuel tank safety, said FAA Administrator Jane F...

Phyre Technologies develops system to prevent fuel tank explosions.(Brief...

Airline Industry Information;  July 18, 2007 ;     255 words ......successfully tested a system designed to prevent fuel tank explosions such as that on Trans World...FAA ruling which will require improved fuel tank safety systems on commercial passenger...there have been 17 worldwide aircraft fuel tank explosions since 1960, and of these three...

TI develops 'ship-in-a-bottle' fuel tank

Automotive Industries;  August 1, 2002 ;     205 words ...TI Automotive has developed a fuel tank that will help automakers cut emissions in order...our activities." TI 'ship-in-a-bottle' (SI BS fuel tank uses a plastic, blow mold-- ed fuel tank to encompass fuel pumps, level sensors and other...

Airlines Must Install Fuel Tank Safety Devices

The Washington Post;  February 18, 2004 ;     694 words ......device on thousands of planes to prevent fuel tank explosions such as the one believed to...virtually eliminate the possibility of fuel tank explosions," Federal Aviation Administrator...was believed to have been caused by a fuel tank fire on the Boeing 747 jet. The crash...

FUEL TANK PROBLEMS FOUND IN 747S FAA, BOEING SEEK FIXES TO PREVENT...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  November 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ......necessary, fix what it said are potential fuel tank ignition sources on some Boeing 747 jumbo...plans to ask airlines to replace center fuel tank measuring probes on the oldest 747-100s...jumbo jet did not have one of these early fuel tank probes when it was shipped from its ...

Japanese Inventors Develop General-Purpose Engine Fuel Tank Fuel Vapor...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 30, 2008 ;     302 words ......have developed a general-purpose engine fuel tank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A general-purpose engine fuel tank fuel vapor treatment system includes...peripheral part of a fuel filler opening of a fuel tank mounted on a general-purpose engine...

Japanese Inventors Develop Motorcycle Transparent Fuel Tank

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 29, 2008 ;     219 words ......Japan, have developed a transparent fuel tank for motorcycle. According to the...Trademark Office: "A transparent fuel tank for a motorcycle in which the state of wiring and piping under the fuel tank can be inspected. The transparent...

Japanese Inventor Develops Fuel Tank Unit

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 19, 2007 ;     234 words ......Masaharu Hayakawa of Obu, Japan, has developed a fuel tank unit that includes a fuel tank, a fuel pump and a pad. According to the U.S...attached to the bottom of the inside of the fuel tank, and the pad is preferably positioned between...

Ruptured fuel tank at centre of inquiry into inferno that engulfed...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 7, 1999 ;     279 words ...A RUPTURED fuel tank from one of the crashed trains was last...through the debris it is believed its fuel tank - slung under the 70-ton locomotive...locomotive, still dragging the ruptured fuel tank below, ploughed on for another 75 yards...

Thieves take wartime fuel tank

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 25, 2007 ;     140 words ......investigating the theft of a Second World War fuel tank from a Westcountry yard. The crime marks...South Molton within weeks. An antique fuel tank cover was also stolen, but was returned...asking for public help in retrieving the fuel tank, which was taken from a yard in South...

FAA ORDERS FUEL TANK UPGRADES

United Press International;  February 17, 2004 ;     221 words ......Press International 02-17-2004 FAA orders fuel tank upgrades WASHINGTON, Feb 17, 2004 (United...airlines to install a new system to reduce fuel tank flammability. The FAA ordered airlines to use devices that will help prevent fuel tank explosions. Such an explosion was blamed...