Patent ID: 8807369
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: B60K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A fuel-filling aperture open-closing device provided in one end of a filler pipe adapted to be communicated with a fuel tank, comprising: a tube member internally forming a pathway, and connected to one end of the filler pipe in such a way that an axis line thereof has an angle relative to a vertical direction; and a valve body rotatably provided inside the pathway, blocking the pathway by being constantly urged to an outer end side of the pathway by an urging member, and while opening the pathway when rotating to an inner end side of the pathway against an urging force of the urging member by being adapted to be pressed by a fuel-filling nozzle inserted into the pathway from the outer end side, wherein the tube member includes a discharge hole communicating an outer surface with an inner surface of the tube member in a portion in which an outer surface of a lateral circumferential portion thereof faces downward, and corresponding to a portion on the outer end side in a closed position of the valve body in an axis line direction of the tube member, and the valve body includes a plurality of discharge grooves extending toward the discharge hole in a portion on the outer end side.