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US 10,106,029 B2Granted
Fuel tank structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuichi Aso
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Abstract
A fuel tank structure includes: a fuel tank that is installed in an automobile and that accommodates fuel; a bag-shaped member that is fixed to a ceiling portion of an interior of the fuel tank, and that can inflate and deflate; and a supporting plate that is provided at the bag-shaped member at a position facing a bottom portion of the fuel tank, the supporting plate having a specific gravity that is lower than a specific gravity of the fuel and causing the bag-shaped member to inflate toward the bottom portion of the fuel tank due to a weight of the supporting plate.
Claims4
A fuel tank assembly comprising:
- a fuel tank configured to store fuel;
- a bag-shaped member fixed, at a first side, to an interior ceiling of the fuel tank, the bag-shaped member containing air and being configured to inflate and deflate;
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- a supporting plate fixed to a second side of the bag-shaped member opposite to the first side of the bag-shaped member, the second side of the bag-shaped member facing an interior bottom of the fuel tank, the supporting plate biasing the second side of the bag-shaped member towards the interior bottom of the fuel tank due to a weight of the supporting plate causing the bag-shaped member to inflate, the supporting plate being configured to move towards the interior bottom of the fuel tank in accordance with a height of the fuel stored in the fuel tank,
- wherein the supporting plate includes bulging portions disposed along a periphery of the supporting plate and extending toward the interior bottom of the fuel tank.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.