Patent ID: 6508501
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
A fuel filler assembly for positioning in an aperture in a panel of a motor vehicle to facilitate access to and to support the free end of a filler tube extending from the fuel tank of the vehicle, the assembly including a housing including:a sleeve having a diameter sized to fit in the aperture in the vehicle panel; an annular flange at an axially outer end of the sleeve sized to seat on the vehicle panel in surrounding relation to the aperture; a housing aperture defined at an axially inner end of the sleeve and sized to pass the free end of the filler tube therethrough; and a plurality of circumferentially spaced keys on an outer surface of the sleeve proximate the flange but spaced axially inwardly from the flange by a distance approximating the thickness of the vehicle panel, whereby the housing may be mounted in the vehicle panel by passing the keys inwardly through a plurality of circumferentially spaced keyways provided in the vehicle panel in surrounding relation to the aperture and thereafter rotating the housing to move the keys into coaction with solid portions of the panel intermediate the keyways.