Canister installation structure
AssigneeMitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Hamada, Kenichi Kunii, Takayuki Sano
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Abstract
A canister is disposed in an underfloor regions α which is surrounded by a muffler arranged under a floor panel at a rear end of a vehicle body, a rear differential gear unit arranged under the floor panel at a location adjacent to the muffler in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and a rear suspension member arranged so as to cover the space between the muffler and the rear differential gear unit from the underside of the vehicle body.
Claims3
A canister installation structure in which a canister for adsorbing an evaporative gas of fuel in a fuel tank is arranged at a rear part of a vehicle body,
- wherein the rear part of the vehicle body includes a muffler arranged under a floor panel at a rear end of the vehicle body, a rear differential gear unit arranged under the floor panel at a location adjacent to the muffler in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and a rear suspension member arranged below a cross member of the vehicle body so as to cover a space between the muffler and the rear differential gear unit from an underside of the vehicle body, and
- wherein the canister is disposed in an underfloor region above the rear suspension member and between the rear differential gear unit and the muffler in the longitudinal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.