Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryutaro Shinohara

Hideo Watanabe

Yutaka Kanaguchi

Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Shoji Uhara

Ryuji Fujino

Tooru Wako

Shinya Murabayashi

A fuel tank disposed on a lower face of a floor panel beneath a driver's seat and a passenger's seat. A protruding portion of the fuel tank that protrudes rearward is housed within floor tunnels formed in the floor panel. A fuel supply pipe is connected to the rear end of the protruding portion. This not only enables the capacity of the fuel tank to be increased by utilizing an inner space of the floor tunnels, but also enables the resistance against fuel fed to the fuel tank to be reduced by shortening the fuel supply pipe.

Fuel tank arrangement in vehicle

A fuel cylinder attaching structure in a motorcar can cope with a large expansive deformation of the fuel cylinder and fixedly support the fuel cylinder surely. The structure comprises a pair of front and rear supporting frame members fixed on a car-body; a fixing band fixed to the front and rear supporting frame members, wound round the fuel cylinder; and both ends of the fixing band connected to each other with a spring interposed, positioned on a vertical bisection of a line segment extending between the front and rear attach-supporting sections.

Fuel cylinder attaching structure in motorcar

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Wako, Japan

Ryutaro Shinohara