Patent ID: 7640954
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A head for a fuel filler pipe of a vehicle, provided with an obturating assembly comprising: a hollow body adapted to receive a fuel supply spout having a predetermined outer diameter; an obturator support which is a tube having an aperture for passage of said spout; and an obturator movable with respect to said body and defining an obturating position in which the obturator conceals said aperture and a freeing position in which the obturator does not conceal said aperture, said obturator flapping rearwardly and outwardly between said obturating position and said freeing position, said obturator being elastically urged towards said obturating position, said obturator being adapted to be driven by said spout from the obturating position to the freeing position when said spout meets the obturator during a thrusting movement of the spout into the head, wherein said aperture is provided in a plane oblique to a transverse orientation of the tube, with an angular offset between an orientation of said obturator in the obturating position and the transverse orientation being at least 20°, wherein said obturator support has said oblique aperture at a top end and an opening in a side wall of said tube, said obturator partially protrudes through said opening in the freeing position when the spout is fully inserted in said head.