Patent ID: 7077178
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A nozzle inhibitor apparatus comprising a fill tube adapted to be coupled to a fuel tank of a motor vehicle having a diesel engine and means for preventing insertion of a small-diameter unleaded fuel nozzle into the fill tube while allowing insertion of a large-diameter diesel fuel nozzle into the fill tube, the preventing means including at least one blocking member positioned in the fill tube and movable in a direction generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the fill tube between a first position blocking insertion of the unleaded fuel nozzle into the fill tube past the at least one blocking member and a second position allowing insertion of the diesel fuel nozzle into the fill tube past the at least one blocking member, and at least one activator member positioned in the fill tube and operable to move the at least one blocking member to the second position in response to the insertion of the diesel fuel nozzle, but not the unleaded fuel nozzle, into the fill tube.