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US 2015/0306951 A1Published application
Fuel tank structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinji SHIMOKAWA
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Abstract
A flow inhibiting member that inhibits a flow of vapor is provided, between a full-tank regulating valve and a sealing valve, at a communication pipe that communicates a canister and a full-tank regulating valve of a fuel tank.
Claims4
A fuel tank structure, comprising:
- a fuel tank that can accommodate fuel internally;
- a canister that adsorbs, by means of an adsorbent, evaporated fuel inside the fuel tank, and that, after adsorption of the evaporated fuel, releases vapor to the atmosphere;
- a full-tank regulating valve that is provided within the fuel tank, and that closes as a result of a float floating in the fuel when a fuel liquid surface within the fuel tank reaches a full-tank liquid level that is set in advance;
- a communication pipe that communicates the fuel tank with the canister via the full-tank regulating valve;
- a sealing valve that is provided at the communication pipe and that can open and close the communication pipe by control thereof;
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- a flow inhibiting member that is provided at the communication pipe and that inhibits flow of vapor at the communication pipe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.