Vehicle tank structure
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsTsuyoshi ITO, Kenichiro ARAKI
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Abstract
A protection measure for a vehicle during a side collision is provided, and an oil feeding pipe is attached to a side face of a tank. A vehicle tank structure has a pair of left and right rear frames extending in the vehicle front-rear direction, a floor panel coupling the rear frames, and a tank provided below the floor panel. A side face part of the tank includes a connection port to which an oil feeding pipe is connected, the side face part being directed toward the vehicle-width-direction outer side. A hit-first face part located on the vehicle-width-direction outer side relative to a distal end of the connection port is located above a mounting face part at which the connection port is provided.
Claims16
A vehicle tank structure comprising a pair of left and right rear frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, a floor panel coupling the rear frames, and a tank disposed below the floor panel, wherein
- a side face part of the tank comprises a connection port to which an oil feeding pipe is connected, the side face part being directed toward a vehicle-width-direction outer side, and
- a mounting face part at which the connection port is provided, and a hit-first face part located on the vehicle-width-direction outer side relative to a distal end of the connection port, at a position corresponding to the mounting face part in the vehicle front-rear direction, are disposed at the side face part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.