Resin fuel tank and blow molding mold for molding the same
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaharu Miki
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Abstract
A resin fuel tank includes a peripheral wall portion that is configured to structure a portion of a fuel tank main body portion that is made of resin and in which fuel is stored, the peripheral wall portion having a parting line portion that is visible from an outer side of the fuel tank main body portion, and a projecting portion that is solid, is disposed along the parting line portion, and is configured to project outward, integrally with the peripheral wall portion, from the peripheral wall portion toward the outer side of the fuel tank main body portion.
Claims1
A resin fuel tank, produced by a process comprising the steps of:
- providing a parison, and a blow molding mold having a first molding mold and a second molding mold, the first molding mold having a first cavity portion at which a first molding surface is formed, and the second molding mold having a second cavity portion at which a second molding surface is formed;
- forming a concave portion, that extends along a parting line of the first molding mold and the second molding mold, at the first cavity portion or the second cavity portion of the blow molding mold;
- in a state in which peripheral edge portions of the parison are nipped by the first molding mold and the second molding mold, blowing a blow molding gas into the parison and inflating the parison, such that a portion of the parison, which is inflated at inner sides of the first cavity portion and the second cavity portion, enters into the concave portion;
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- pressing the parison against the first molding surface and the second molding surface, solidifying the parison, and molding the resin fuel tank, wherein:
- in a state in which the first molding mold and the second molding mold are set together, a parting line portion is formed at a portion of the parison that is nipped by the first molding mold and the second molding mold, and
- the portion of the parison that entered into the concave portion projects outward from a peripheral wall portion of a fuel tank main body portion of the resin fuel tank, and becomes a projecting portion that is solid and integral with the peripheral wall portion and that runs along the parting line portion formed at an outer surface of the peripheral wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.