US 11,897,326 B2
Fuel tank
Zixun Mei, Tokyo-to (JP); Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Nagoya (JP); and Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Mitaka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,642.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-166470 (JP), filed on Oct. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0115169 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 15/077 (2006.01); B60K 15/07 (2006.01); B60K 15/03 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/077 (2013.01) [B60K 15/07 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03184 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03217 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fuel tank comprising:
a circular column-shaped fuel tank body provided so as to be capable of being detachably attached to a fuel-powered device;
a handle formed on one end side in a length direction of the fuel tank body;
a lock mechanism that is capable of switching between a locked state in which the fuel tank body cannot be removed from the fuel-powered device, and a lock-released state in which the locked state has been released, due to the fuel tank body being rotated in a circumferential direction in a state of being installed to the fuel-powered device; and
a recess indented in the length direction on the one length direction end side of the fuel tank body, the recess is formed in a cover member that is capable of being detachably attached to the fuel tank body,
wherein the handle is provided inside the recess.