Patent ID: 8167010
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A fuel filler port closing apparatus in which a flapper, which closes an opening of a nozzle guide by being pushed and biased upwardly, is pushed and opened with a fuel filling nozzle inserted through an opening of a filler neck to the opening of the nozzle guide; wherein the fuel filler port closing apparatus is provided with a cover upwardly rotatable with respect to the opening of the filler neck; the cover is configured by a rotation shaft, a cover main body, which is biased upwardly and attached to the rotation shaft so as to be upwardly and downwardly rotatable with respect to the opening of the filler neck, and a slider movably attached to an upper surface of the cover main body and biased towards a peripheral edge of the cover main body; and the slider is arranged with a latch that engages to a latch receiver arranged on the filler neck side, the cover keeps a closed state by an engagement between the latch and the latch receiver, and cancels the closed state and opens upwardly by a disengagement of the latch and the latch receiver, the disengagement is triggered by the biased slider being pushed by the fuel filling nozzle, wherein the cover main body has a pair of outer projections facing each other at a width that does not pass a diesel filling nozzle but passes a gasoline filling nozzle arranged in front of a starting point of the biased slider; and the slider is provided with an inner projection that engages the gasoline filling nozzle passed between the outer projections.