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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2009
Michinobu Suzuki, Susono, JP;
Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Anjo, JP;
Michinobu Suzuki, Susono, JP;
Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Anjo, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
A reservoir device is provided, which prevents water from flooding in an accumulation tank and improves on-vehicle installation capability. The reservoir deviceincludes a catch tankconnected to an airspace 'A' formed above an oil surface of working oil accumulated in an accumulation tank, which has a bottom surface formed with an external-air communication aperture. Liquid entering from the external-air communication apertureis allowed, to be accumulated in the catch tankonce, and then is suitably discharged through the external-air communication aperture. This precludes the accumulation tankfrom flooding with water and improves on-vehicle installation capability. The reservoir devicecan be obtained, in which the accumulation tankis prevented from flooding with water, even if the reservoir tankis placed in a place or the like relatively closer to for instance a road surface with an ease of suffering water splashing during a traveling in a rainy weather or a traveling on a submerged road surface or the like.