Patent ID: 11919385
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A fuel inlet structure of a vehicle, the fuel inlet structure comprising:
a vehicle body panel, a mounting aperture for inlet box mounting penetrating through the vehicle body panel;
an inlet box attached to the vehicle body panel, the inlet box including:
a box portion, the box portion being formed in a box shape and disposed such that a box opening thereof is oriented toward a cabin outer side, a penetrating hole being formed in a floor wall portion of the box portion, and
a flange portion, the flange portion extending from a whole circumference of a peripheral edge of the box opening and being disposed along a peripheral edge portion of the mounting aperture of the vehicle body panel; and

a seal portion, the seal portion being provided at a distal end side of the flange portion and disposed at the cabin outer side of the vehicle body panel, the seal portion forming a seal between the flange portion and the vehicle body panel along the whole circumference of the flange portion,
wherein the seal portion includes:
an inner seal portion provided in correspondence with the whole circumference of the flange portion, the inner seal portion being in contact with a region at a peripheral edge side of the mounting aperture of the vehicle body panel along the whole circumference of the flange portion;
an outer seal portion provided in correspondence with the whole circumference of the flange portion, the outer seal portion being in contact with the vehicle body panel in a region further from the peripheral edge of the mounting aperture than the inner seal portion, and a drain portion for drainage being formed penetrating through a portion of a region of the outer seal portion that is disposed at a vehicle lower side relative to the inner seal portion; and
a water catching portion, the water catching portion, in a portion of the whole circumference of the seal portion that is a lower portion in a vehicle vertical direction, projecting from a region between a proximal end portion of the inner seal portion and a proximal end portion of the outer seal portion to a region encompassing an area between the drain portion and the inner seal portion, the water catching portion being configured to stop water that passes through the drain portion from a vehicle outer side, wherein:
from a proximal end side of the water catching portion toward the vehicle lower side, the water catching portion is angled to a cabin inner side thereof,
a distal end side of the water catching portion is curved to an opposite side from a side thereof at which the inner seal portion is disposed, and
the distal end side of the water catching portion presses against the vehicle body panel.