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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2008
Tomohide Aoki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomohisa Imaeda, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomohide Aoki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomohisa Imaeda, Aichi-ken, JP;
FTS Co., Ltd., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
An automotive fuel tank is provided in which a plurality of mounting members are provided on a built-in part which are fusion bonded to an inner surface of an outer wall of the fuel tank so as to attach the built-in part in place in the fuel tank. An abutment portion is formed on the mounting member which is brought into abutment with an inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank. The abutment portion has formed thereon an abutment surface which is made to tightly stick to the inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank and elongated projections which project from the abutment surface, whose cross section at their distal end portions is of triangular shape and which penetrate into an interior of the outer wall of the fuel tank, and a height of an apex of the elongated projection from the abutment surface is in the range of 30% to 70% of a thickness of the outer wall of the fuel tank.