US 12,434,552 B2
Tank for a work vehicle
Omar Baiddou, Crepy-en-Valois (FR); Toshihide Shimizu, Crepy-en-Valois (FR); and Masatoshi Iwamoto, Crepy-en-Valois (FR)
Filed by KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/227,330.
Claims priority of application No. 23305167 (EP), filed on Feb. 8, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0262188 A1, Aug. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. B60K 15/03 (2006.01); B60K 15/077 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/03 (2013.01) [B60K 15/077 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03144 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03151 (2013.01); B60K 2015/03157 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tank arrangement comprising a fuel tank and a urea tank, wherein the tank arrangement presents a main direction, a width direction and a vertical direction,
the fuel tank comprises a fuel tank body, the tank body comprising a main portion and a secondary portion,
wherein the secondary portion comprises an upper portion and an intermediate portion arranged successively along the vertical direction,
configured so as to define a housing to accommodate the urea tank,
the urea tank can be inserted into an engaged configuration within the housing from a front face of the fuel tank along the width direction,
wherein in the engaged configuration, the urea tank is arranged
under the upper portion of the secondary portion along the vertical direction,
in abutment on the intermediate portion along the transverse-width direction,
in abutment on the main portion along the main direction, the urea tank comprises a urea drain on a lower portion of the urea tank along the vertical direction,
the secondary portion of the fuel tank comprises a groove that extends through the fuel tank along the width direction, adapted to allow ducts to go through the secondary portion of the fuel tank along the width direction to be connected to the urea tank.