Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel tank structure
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Application No.: US15071922Application Date: 2016-03-16
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Publication No.: US09834089B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Shuichi Aso
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA kABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2015-119045 20150612
- Main IPC: B60K15/03
- IPC: B60K15/03 ; G01N25/00

Abstract:
A fuel tank structure includes: a fuel tank that is installed in an automobile and that accommodates fuel; a bag-shaped member that is fixed to a ceiling portion of an interior of the fuel tank, and whose state of contact with a liquid surface of fuel accommodated in the fuel tank is maintained due to the bag-shaped member inflating or deflating in accordance with a height of the liquid surface; a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of the fuel or evaporated fuel that is within the fuel tank; and a cooling wind introducing section that introduces cooling wind into an interior of the bag-shaped member in a case in which the temperature of the fuel or the evaporated fuel detected by the temperature sensor becomes higher than a predetermined temperature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160361992A1 FUEL TANK STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2016-12-15
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