Fuel tank having built-in component with pillars
AssigneeYachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazunari Nakaya, Masaki Aono
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Abstract
Provided is a fuel tank having a built-in component placeable with high accuracy. The fuel tank has a built-in component, and the built-in component includes: a carrier as a rigid body having fittings; and pillars having fitted portions to be respectively fitted into the fittings of the carrier; wherein the fittings include at least one slidable fitting having one of the fitted portions of the pillars slidably fitted thereinto due to post-molding shrinkage of the fuel tank, and a fixed fitting having another one of the fitted portions of the pillars fitted thereinto so as not to be slidable, wherein a slidable direction of the at least one slidable fitting is directed toward the fixed fitting.
Claims8
A fuel tank having a built-in component, the built-in component comprising:
- a carrier as a rigid body having fittings;
- and
- pillars having fitted portions respectively fitted into the fittings of the carrier and each pillar having upper and lower surfaces configured to, respectively, contact inner walls of the fuel tank,
- wherein the fittings include:
- at least one slidable fitting having one of the fitted portions of the pillars slidably fitted thereinto due to post-molding shrinkage of the fuel tank, and
- a fixed fitting having another one of the fitted portions of the pillars fitted thereinto so as not to be slidable,
- wherein the at least one slidable fitting is slidable by the pillar fitted thereinto toward the fixed fitting, in a direction parallel with the inner walls, due to post-molding shrinkage of the fuel tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.