Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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hawkeye-08 wrote:
Look it up your self, I provided 2 links, you can search for more after you have a read on those. The first link talks about a new Delphi pump that has a patented shoe that certainly appears to fix the problem of the shoe turning and caused issues in the Bosch pump..
I figured if I left it at that, perhaps NewsW would find the patent mentioned in the article and copy it here.
Based on my read of the announcement, there is no reference to Bosch, and nothing to suggest Delphi solved a show stopper problem at Bosch, or the problem at hand here: pump failures with no obvious contamination issue.
Patents are often worthless, or done for no other reason than to make it troublesome for potential competitors.
I did not reproduce the Bosch patent for the connector to the HPFP, which they patented --- solely to make it harder for a competitor to clone the pump.
Nor would I pay attention to the patent for a certain oil filter attachment... used to jack up filter prices by an extra $15 a unit.
Sifting patents through to find the interesting ones vs. the "me too" paper takes reading... the whole document more often than not.
