Patent ID: 7134568

Claim:
A fuel tank system in which a downward-depressed collecting recess for collecting a residual fuel containing impure foreign substances is formed in a portion of a bottom wall of a fuel tank; a strainer chamber is provided in the collecting recess, the strainer chamber includes a wall integral with and extending upward away from the bottom wall of the fuel tank, and an upper surface of the strainer chamber, which is defined by a strainer plate having at least one suction bore defined therein; and a fuel discharge pipe for discharging a fuel within the strainer chamber is connected to a bottom of the strainer chamber, wherein fuel flow passages permitting free flowing of the fuel therethrough are provided in the collecting recess on left and right sides of and outside the strainer chamber, and wherein baffle plates are provided in front and in the rear of and outside the strainer chamber to guide the fuel flowing into the collecting recess during tilting of the fuel tank into the fuel flow passages.