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US 2006/0130801 A1Published application
Oil pan structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshinori Suzuki, Koichiro Komatsu, Hisayoshi Kato
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Abstract
An oil pan structure includes a tubular level-gauge guide into which an oil level-gauge that measures the amount of oil stored in the oil pan is inserted. The oil pan structure further includes a nozzle guide that guides the end of a nozzle of an oil changer, which is inserted into the level-gauge-guide when the oil in the oil pan is replaced with new oil, to a position near the deepest portion of the reservoir portion.
Claims10
An oil pan structure, comprising:
- an oil pan with a reservoir portion in which oil is stored;
- a tubular member that provides communication between the reservoir portion and an outside of the oil pan, and is arranged such that one end of the tubular member opens into the reservoir portion;
- a nozzle guide that guides an end of a nozzle of an oil changer, which is inserted into the tubular member and which replaces oil in the reservoir portion with new oil, to a position near a deepest portion of the reservoir portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.