IP Library Granted Patent US 11,772,483
Granted Patent B2
US 11,772,483 · App. 17/627,809 · Granted Oct 3, 2023

Fuel tank

Inventor: Kazuyoshi Morooka (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
B60K15/03177B29C49/20B29C2049/2013B29L2031/7172
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Patent No.
US 11,772,483
App. No.
17/627,809
Granted
Oct 3, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel tank has a built-in component with a head portion, a neck portion, and a shoulder portion, and has the built-in component anchored to a tank body with a parison wrapped around the neck portion during molding. The fuel tank includes a deformation prevention structure configured to prevent a wrapping parison portion wrapped around the neck portion from being deformed due to pressure acting on the tank body. The deformation prevention structure is configured to include one of a stepped portion provided in the shoulder portion, a convex portion, and a recess.

Claims (14)

1. A fuel tank having a built-in component with a head portion, a neck portion, and a shoulder portion, wherein

the built-in component is exclusively within an interior of a tank body of the fuel tank and anchored to the tank body, with the head portion and the neck portion entirely covered by a part of the tank body,

the shoulder portion is formed with air vent holes,

the fuel tank comprises:

a deformation prevention structure provided on a surface of the shoulder portion, facing the neck portion, and fixing, a wrapping portion of the tank body around the neck portion to the built-in component, with the wrapping portion entered in a gap between the head portion and shoulder portion and air in the gap discharged through the air vent holes, to prevent the wrapping portion from being deformed due to pressure acting on the tank body, and

the deformation prevention structure includes at least one of a stepped portion and a convex portion.

2. The fuel tank according to claim 1 , wherein

the neck portion erects from a surface of the shoulder portion and exhibits a columnar shape.

3. A fuel tank having a built-in component with a head portion, a neck portion, and a shoulder portion, wherein

the built-in component is exclusively within an interior of a tank body of the fuel tank and anchored to the tank body, with the head portion and the neck portion entirely covered by a part of the tank body,

the shoulder portion is formed with air vent holes,

the fuel tank comprises:

a deformation prevention structure provided on a surface of the shoulder portion, facing the neck portion, and fixing a wrapping portion of the tank body around the neck portion to the built-in component, with the wrapping portion entered in a gap between the head portion and shoulder portion and air in the gap discharged through the air vent holes, to prevent said portion from being deformed due to pressure acting on the tank body, and

the deformation prevention structure includes a rigid member integrally molded so as to cover, from outside, the head portion, the neck portion, and the wrapping portion of the tank body around the neck portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 18, 2022
From: MOROOKA, KAZUYOSHI
To: YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058683/0404 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-132621 · Jul 18, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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