Patent 7886721 was granted and assigned to Continental Automotive on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a two-piece fuel reservoir (7), one of the components has a container wall (8) and the other component has a container bottom (9). The components are sealed from each other and can also be configured as a single piece with other components, such as for example a pump bracket (5), thereby allowing for the fuel reservoir (7) to be assembled from standardized components.