Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Advics Co., Ltd.

Hideki Sugawa

Akira Sakai

Ryosuke Sakakibara

Akira Omizu

Koji Masuda

Yusuke Sekine

Jun Matsushima

A front structure of a body-on-frame vehicle includes: a pair of left and right side rails extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; cross-members extending in a vehicle width direction and coupling the side rails together; a motor for traveling disposed between the cross-members; and a brake actuator disposed on a vehicle rear side relative to the cross-member and disposed on an inner side in the vehicle width direction relative to the side rail. The front structure is configured such that, when the motor is removed, a worker is able to access the brake actuator from a space between the cross-members.

Front structure of body-on-frame vehicle and method of replacing brake actuator

The reservoir tank includes a reservoir body which reserves a fluid in an inner portion thereof formed to be in a hollow box shape. The reservoir body includes a port extending outward, a reservoir chamber which reserves the fluid and a port chamber which volume is smaller than that of the reservoir chamber and is in fluid communication with the port and a first communication passage positioned at a portion lower than a changeable liquid surface of the fluid reserved in the reservoir chamber in a vertical direction and provided at the first partition portion to allow the fluid communication between the reservoir chamber and the port chamber and wherein the port chamber and the port are kept being a state in which they are filled with the fluid supplied from the reservoir chamber via the first communication passage.

Reservoir tank

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Hideki Sugawa