Fuel filling device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10759271-B2
Application number	US-201615766577-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2016
Priority date	Oct 9, 2015
Publication date	Sep 1, 2020
Grant date	Sep 1, 2020

Abstract

A closing member includes a pair of flap members, and an urging device urging each flap member to be positioned at a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening for a fuel filling nozzle. Each flap member includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other of the flap members. A far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening as a slope upper end and formed on both sides of a directly underneath position including the directly underneath position of the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, are formed on a far side of the closing member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fuel filling aperture device, comprising:
a closing member turned to an open position by an insertion of a fuel filling nozzle to open a fuel filling aperture, and
a guide member disposed under the closing member,
wherein the closing member includes a pair of flap members, and urging devices urging each of the pair of flap members to be positioned to a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening of the fuel filling nozzle,
each of the pair of flap members includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to another of the flap members, and
the guide member includes, a peripheral wall, an inner portion extending inwardly from the peripheral wall, a far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle formed in the inner portion on a far side, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face formed on the inner portion and having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a slope upper end at a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening, the slope face being formed on two sides of a directly underneath position including the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, and
wherein the guide slope face includes a slope, as approaching the slope upper end, gradually increasing a distance from a virtual center axis of the far-side pass-through opening, the slope having a width gradually reducing in a direction orthogonal to the virtual center axis, the guide slope face forming a space outside the guide slope face, allowing the flap member located at the closed position to move to the open position.

2. The fuel filling aperture device according to claim 1 , wherein the fuel filling aperture device is installed in such a way so as to obliquely intersect the virtual center axis of the far-side pass-through opening relative to a vertical line, and the guide slope face is formed at a portion positioned on an upper side of the virtual center axis.

3. The fuel filling apparatus device according to claim 1 , wherein the guide slope face is located at one side of the far-side pass-through opening inside the peripheral wall of the guide member so that the guide face extends from the opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening laterally and upwardly to the slope upper end at the outer periphery of the guide member.

4. The fuel filling apparatus device according to claim 3 , wherein the far-side pass-through opening is located to deviate from a center of the peripheral wall of the guide member.

5. The fuel filling apparatus device according to claim 4 , further comprising a seal member having a pass-through opening, the guide member being disposed in the seal member.

Assignees

• Nifco Inc

Inventors

• Hirose Takatsugu
• Ogose Kensuke

Classifications

• B60K2015/0538

  with open or close mechanism automatically actuated · CPC title

• B60K2015/0429

  actuated by the nozzle · CPC title

• F02M37/00

  Apparatus or systems for feeding liquid fuel from storage containers to carburettors or fuel-injection apparatus; Arrangements for purifying liquid fuel specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines · CPC title

• B60K2015/049

  Means for determining the position of the filler nozzle in the filler pipe · CPC title

• B60K2015/0461

  comprising a filler pipe shutter, e.g. trap, door or flap for fuel inlet · CPC title