Misfuelling prevention apparatus for vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9481239-B2
Application number	US-201314104746-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2013
Priority date	Sep 6, 2013
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

A misfuelling prevention apparatus for vehicles can prevent a diesel vehicle from being filled with a wrong fuel. The apparatus for vehicles may include an upper housing at an entrance of a filler neck, an internal housing located at a bottom of the upper housing while being supported by an interior of the filler neck, a stopper and a stopper spring, and a flapper and a flapper spring. The stopper may be at one side of the internal housing to be rotated around a pin by a contact with an oil gun. One end of the flapper may be rotatably installed in a pin structure at an opposite side of the internal housing with respect to the stopper and the other end of the flapper may be caught in a recess of the stopper. The flapper is to be pushed and selectively opened by the oil gun.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A misfuelling prevention apparatus for vehicles, comprising:
an upper housing;
an internal housing located at a bottom of the upper housing, wherein the internal housing is movable respective to the upper housing;
a housing spring disposed between the upper housing and the internal housing, wherein an upper end of the internal housing is inserted into the housing spring supported by an inner bottom of the upper housing and the internal housing is movable respective to the upper housing by the housing spring;
a stopper and a stopper spring, the stopper installed at one side of the internal housing to be rotated around a pin by a contact with an oil gun; and
a flapper and a flapper spring, a first end of the flapper rotatably installed by a pin at an opposite side of the internal housing with respect to the stopper and a second end of the flapper selectively caught in a recess of the stopper, wherein the flapper is to be pushed and selectively opened by the oil gun,
wherein when an external force is applied to the internal housing, the internal housing is slid relative to the upper housing by the housing spring while being resiliently supported by the housing spring,
wherein the housing spring has a lower resiliency than the stopper spring to move the internal housing first when the oil gun is contacted to the stopper.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an upper end of the housing spring and the upper end of the internal housing located within the housing spring have conical shapes with wide upper ends and narrow lower ends.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a resiliency of the housing spring interposed between the upper housing and the internal housing is smaller than a resiliency of the stopper spring.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a rotation prevention guide disposed at one side of the upper housing and behind the stopper for constraining rotation of the stopper.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an inner diameter of the internal housing is set to a maximum of 32 mm, and a separation between a contact boss of the stopper protruding to an inside of the internal housing and a wall surface of the housing is set to 22 mm to 23 mm.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ryu Bu Yeol
• Choi Pil Seon
• Lee Bo Sung

Classifications

• B60K2015/0483

  Means to inhibit the introduction of too small or too big filler nozzles · CPC title

• B60K2015/0461

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

• B60K15/04 Primary

  Tank inlets (B60K15/077 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60K15/05 Primary

  Inlet covers · CPC title