FTS CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150239198 | ATTACHING STRUCTURE OF INSERT MEMBER TO BLOW MOLDED ARTICLE - An attaching structure for attaching an insert member to an outer wall of a blow molded article by embedding the insert member therein, which is readily produced and exhibits a great holding strength against the insert member. In an attaching structure of an insert member for attaching the insert member to an outer wall of a blow molded article by embedding at least one part of the insert member therein, the insert member includes a cylinder part adapted to penetrate the outer wall of the blow molded article, and a flange part protruding from an exterior surface of the cylinder part in a width direction thereof. The flange part is embedded in the outer wall of the blow molded article and includes a plurality of through holes adapted to flow a parison into the plurality of through holes during blow molding, thereby fusion-bonding both surfaces of the flange part with the parison, and after the parison is hardened, a flange cover part is integrally formed with an outer wall of the insert member to hold the flange part. | 08-27-2015 |
20150217635 | AUTOMOBILE FUEL TANK - A fuel tank for an automobile, which is formed by blow molding, in which a built-in part is mounted, and which has an outer wall composed of a synthetic resin, includes a plurality of mounting members adapted to mount the built-in part provided on the built-in part so as to be fusion-bonded to an inner surface of an outer wall of the fuel tank. An abutment portion is formed on each of the mounting members for abutting the inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank, and the abutment portion has an abutment surface and a plurality of abutment pins, each projecting from the abutment surface towards the inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank. A stress-absorbing part is provided in the abutment pins, the abutment surface or the outer wall of the fuel tank. | 08-06-2015 |
20150202819 | BLOW-MOLDING MOLD - A blow-molding mold to be used for forming a tank by blow-molding comprises an outer wall of the tank having two neighboring tank projection portions and a tank recessed portion formed between the two neighboring tank projection portions, the blow-molding mold including a first mold recessed portion formed inside surface side which forms a cavity and forming one of the two neighboring tank projection portions, a second mold recessed portion forming the other of the two neighboring tank projection portions and a mold projection portion provided between the first and the second mold recessed portions and forming the tank recessed portion, wherein a projection surface recessed portion or a projection surface projection portion is formed at an area of an outer surface of the mold projection portion with which a parison is brought into contact. | 07-23-2015 |
20150014897 | BLOW MOLDING DEVICE AND BLOW MOLDING METHOD - A blow molding device and method capable of forming a blow molded article having a built-in part with a good yield rate. The blow molding device has a die core, a blow mold, a parison holding unit and a built-in part holding unit. The parison holding unit has parison expanders and a parison outer holding plate. The built-in part holding unit has an airtight guide tube and a holding rod. After a lower end of a parison is expanded with a plurality of parison expanders, and an upper end of the airtight guide tube is inserted in the lower end of the parison, the lower end of the parison is held between the upper end of the airtight guide tube and the parison outer holding plate, and the pre-blowing is carried out. After the built-in part is positioned in an interior space of the parison, and the parison and built-in part are held between the slide cores, the blow mold is closed and blowing is carried out. | 01-15-2015 |
20140265052 | BLOW MOLDING DEVICE AND BLOW MOLDING METHOD - A blow molding device capable of forming a blow molded article having a built-in part with a good yield rate, and a blow molding method. The blow molding device has a blow mold, a parison holding unit and a built-in part holding unit. The parison holding unit has parison expanders and a parison outer holding plate. The built-in part holding unit has an airtight guide tube and a holding rod. After a lower end of a parison is expanded with a plurality of parison expanders, and an upper end of the airtight guide tube is inserted in the lower end of the parison, the lower end of the parison is held between the upper end of the airtight guide tube and the parison outer holding plate, and the preblowing is carried out. After the built-in part is positioned in an interior space of the parison, and the parison and built-in part are held with the slide cores, the holding rod is removed from the blow mold. | 09-18-2014 |
20140263312 | FUEL THEFT PREVENTION DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE - A fuel theft prevention device for an automobile, which is capable of preventing extraction of fuel from a fuel tank using a fuel extraction hose. In the fuel theft prevention device, a hose intrusion prevention member is attached inside a filler pipe, and the hose intrusion prevention member has an attaching section, an intrusion preventing section and a connecting section. The intrusion preventing section has a plurality of end parts, each being brought into contact with or close to an interior surface of the filler pipe, and a plurality of holding parts adapted to hold the end parts and connect the end parts and an end of the connecting section to each other, and the intrusion preventing section is attached in a prescribed position inside the filler pipe. | 09-18-2014 |
20140197175 | AUTOMOBILE FUEL TANK - {Problem} To provide a fuel tank with excellent blow moldability, high deformation-suppressing properties and high heat resistance. | 07-17-2014 |
20130264347 | THERMAL INSULATING STRUCTURE OF FUEL TANK FOR MOTOR VEHICLE - A thermal insulating structure of a fuel tank for a motor vehicle, which is readily produced and attached without using any protector for a thermal insulating member. In the thermal insulating structure of the fuel tank mounted under a floor panel of the motor vehicle, at least an entire side surface and an entire bottom surface of the fuel tank are covered with a thermal insulating member that is formed previously. The thermal insulating member includes a foamed layer on an interior side thereof, and an outer layer made of a solid material. The thermal insulating member is attached to the floor panel along with the fuel tank by means of a tank attaching member. | 10-10-2013 |
20120217740 | CONNECTION-STRUCTURE OF A FLEXIBLE TUBE - A connection-structure of a flexible tube, in which the flexible tube is fitted to an end portion of a metal pipe, comprises an annular projection, a first radially enlarged portion, a seal ring and a second radially enlarged portion. The annular projection is formed on an outer surface of the end portion of the metal pipe. The first radially enlarged portion is formed on the tip side of the metal pipe relative to the projection, defining a first annular groove with the projection. The seal ring is fitted into the annular groove. The second enlarged portion is formed on the base side of the metal pipe relative to the projection, defining a second annular groove with the projection. The tip portion of the flexible tube is positioned close to the maximum diameter portion of the second enlarged portion. | 08-30-2012 |
20120217249 | FUEL TANK - This invention provides a fuel tank of a simple structure without any special device but having space of a predetermined ratio after the fuel tank has been filled with liquefied fuel. The fuel tank is of a form in which a number of cylindrical or spherical containers are arranged in parallel and are coupled together in a manner that the cylindrical or spherical containers neighboring each other share partitioning walls, respectively. Each of the partitioning walls has a passage through which the neighboring cylindrical or spherical containers are communicated with each other, and the upper ends of the passages are formed leaving partly the inner partitioning walls so that the liquid will not enter into the upper parts of the cylindrical or spherical containers. | 08-30-2012 |
20110226777 | Fuel tank for motor vehicle - A fuel tank capable of strongly fusion-bonding a built-in part to an inner surface of an outer wall thereof while protecting the outer wall even when an impact, etc. are applied thereto. In the fuel tank for a motor vehicle, which is formed by blow molding, in which the built-in part is mounted, and which has the outer wall composed of a synthetic resin, a plurality of mounting members adapted to mount the built-in part to the fuel tank are provided on the built-in part so as to be fusion-bonded to the inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank. An abutment portion is formed on each of the mounting members for contacting the inner surface of the outer wall of the fuel tank, and an abutment surface and a plurality of abutment pins, each projecting from the abutment surface, are formed in the abutment portion. The abutment pin is formed into a columnar or frustum-shaped configuration, each having a circular or elliptical cross-section, and a diameter or a main axis of a projecting end of the abutment pin along with the height of the abutment pin from the abutment surface are formed less than the thickness of the outer wall of the fuel tank. | 09-22-2011 |
20100092600 | Blow molding device - A blow molding device capable of securely holding a built-in part in a prescribed position in an interior of a blow molded article with a compact equipment. The blow molding device includes a blow mold and a built-in part holding unit. The built-in part holding unit includes a holding rod adapted to hold the built-in part and arranged to freely advance and retreat to be removed from the blow mold. The blow mold includes a slide core in each of two mold members so as to freely advance and retreat relative to a cavity of the blow mold, and a drive control pin in each of mating faces of split two mold members, and the drive control pin and the slide core are linked with a linking member. The slide core is driven with the drive control pin such that when the blow mold is closed, the slide core retreats from an interior of the cavity to a molding surface defining the same at the same speed as the closing speed of the blow mold. | 04-15-2010 |
20100092593 | Blow molding device - A blow molding device capable of securely closing a lower end of a parison to prevent the parison from being crushed. The blow molding device includes a blow mold and a parison holding unit. The parison holding unit includes an inner holding plate adapted to be inserted in an interior of the lower end of the parison, and an outer holding plate adapted to hold an outer surface of the lower end of the parison, and the outer holding plate has a recess conforming to a configuration of the inner holding plate and is split into a plurality of holding plate members such that each of the split holding plate members is capable of sliding to hold the lower end of the parison. | 04-15-2010 |
20100051621 | Structure of opening section of fuel tank - A structure of an opening section of a fuel tank, which is capable of detaching a tank cap without damaging positioning projections provided in the tank cap. The opening section has a cylindrical portion extending outwardly from a tank main body, and a metallic annular tank cap engaging member having a plurality of engaging holes is attached to the cylindrical portion. A plurality of engaging claw parts of a metallic annular attaching member are engaged in the engaging holes of the tank cap engaging member to hold the tank cap with the attaching member and the tank cap engaging member. The tank cap has tank cap positioning projections, and the tank cap engaging member has positioning holes for insertion of the tank cap positioning projections, and at least one engaging claw part and at least one engaging hole are respectively made longer in a circumferential direction than remaining engaging claw parts and remaining engaging holes. | 03-04-2010 |
20090230133 | Fuel tank for motor vehicle - A fuel tank capable of attaching functional parts and tubes in an interior thereof. In a fuel tank for a motor vehicle, which is formed by blow molding for attachment of a built-in part in an interior thereof, and of which an outer wall composed of a synthetic resin has an opening, a functional part adapted to discharge fluid from the interior of the fuel tank or feed fluid therein is attached to the built-in part, a tube adapted to discharge fluid from the interior of the fuel tank or feed fluid therein is connected to the functional part, and a tube connector is attached to an end of the tube. A temporal holding connector is formed integrally with the built-in part, the tube connector is attached to the temporal holding connector, and after blow molding, the tube connector is detached from the temporal holding connector and is attached to a tank cap adapted to close the opening of the fuel tank. | 09-17-2009 |
20090162472 | Automotive fuel tank fabrication apparatus - An automotive fuel tank fabrication apparatus is provided. The automotive fuel tank has a blow mold and a built-in part holding unit. The built-in part holding unit includes a plurality of holding rods for holding a built-in part. The holding rods are made to freely advance and retreat in such a manner as to hold the built-in part in a position where the built-in part confronts cavities when the blow mold is opened and to retreat from the blow mold when the blow mold is closed with the built-in part left positioned in an interior of a parison. The holding rods are formed in such a manner that their diameters are reduced as they extend towards distal ends thereof and are inserted into insertion holes formed in the built-in part so as to hold the built-in part. | 06-25-2009 |
20090139994 | Automotive fuel tank - 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. | 06-04-2009 |
20090000686 | Fuel tank for automobile - The fuel tank for automobiles has the following structure. A main body of a fuel tank has an entire thickness of 3 to 8 mm and is formed of a surface layer, an outer main body layer, an outer adhesive layer, a barrier layer, an inner adhesive layer, and an inner main body layer that are formed in this order from-exterior. The surface layer and the inner main body-layer are formed from high density polyethylene. The outer main body layer is formed by using as a main material a recycled material of high density polyethylene, contains an inorganic filler having a particle diameter of 10 μm or less in an amount of 10 to 35 wt % with respect to a total weight of the outer main body layer, and has an thickness of 25% to 50% of the entire thickness of the main body. The outer adhesive layer and the inner adhesive layer is formed from a synthetic resin having an adhesion property for both of high density polyethylene and the barrier layer, and the barrier layer is formed from a synthetic resin hardly or never allow fuel permeation. | 01-01-2009 |
20080210692 | Opening structure of fuel tank and fabricating method thereof - There are provided a structure of an opening portion for integrally forming an opening portion to a fuel tank main body made of a thermoplastic synthetic resin having at least an outer layer, an inner layer and a middle layer therebetween and its fabricating method. The opening portion is constituted by a cylindrical portion and a folded portion folded in a hairpin shape. At least a portion of the folded portion includes a compression portion compressed from a direction orthogonal to an opening face and more thin-walled than other portion. An outer layer of the cylindrical portion is integrally embedded with a portion of a lid lock member made of a metal in a ring-like shape having a plurality of lock holes, an engaging claw portion of an attaching member made of a metal in a ring-like shape having the engaging claw portion engaged with the lock hole of the lid lock member is engaged with the lock hole, and a lid member for closing the opening portion is clamped by the opening portion and the attaching member. | 09-04-2008 |