Closure system for a pressurized container system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorHans-Ulrich Stahl
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Abstract
A closure system for a pressurized container system for a motor vehicle includes a fuel filler flap and at least one refueling connection. The refueling connection has a non-return valve and a protective cap. The protective cap is designed to be pluggable onto an end of the refueling connection. The fuel filler flap covers a refueling compartment which is set back from the vehicle body. On the side facing the refueling compartment, the fuel filler flap has such a contour that the fuel filler flap can be closed only if the protective cap is fitted on the refueling connection.
Claims8
A closure system for a pressurized container system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a fuel filler flap;
- and
- a refueling connection, wherein the refueling connection has a non-return valve and a protective cap and wherein the protective cap is pluggable onto the refueling connection;
- wherein the fuel filler flap covers a refueling compartment which is set back from an outer skin of a vehicle body of the motor vehicle;
- wherein the fuel filler flap, on a side facing the refueling compartment, has a contour such that the fuel filler flap can be closed only if the protective cap is plugged onto the refueling connection;
- wherein, in a closed state of the fuel filler flap, the contour projects into the refueling compartment to an extent such that, in the closed state of the fuel filler flap, no free space for the protective cap and/or for a loss-preventing device of the protective cap is available in the refueling compartment, into which free space the protective cap and/or the loss-preventing device is/are disposable in a destruction-free manner, unless the protective ca is mounted onto the refueling connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.