Fuel tank check valve
AssigneePiolax, Inc.
InventorsTakahiro Sakai, Yusuke Ochiai
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Abstract
To provide a fuel tank check valve making it easy to assemble a cap to a valve element housing. This fuel tank check valve has a body tube provided with a valve element housing, a valve element, a cap, and a spring, wherein the valve element housing has a base end side frame, a tip end side frame to which the cap is mounted, and a first coupling frame connecting the both frames, the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion having a shape in which a circumferential part is retracted from the tip end surface thereof to the base end side frame side, the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched, and the cap is assembled to the valve element housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.
Claims7
A fuel tank check valve provided on a downstream side of a fuel supply pipe for supplying fuel to a fuel tank, the check valve comprising:
- a body tube having a connection portion connected to the fuel supply pipe on a base end side positioned on an upstream side in a fuel supply direction, and provided with a valve element housing having a valve seat on a tip end side positioned on a downstream side in the fuel supply direction;
- a valve element housed in the valve element housing slidably with respect to an axial direction of the body tube, and having a seal coming into contact with and separating from the valve seat;
- a cap assembled on a tip end side of the valve element housing;
- a spring supported by the cap and biasing the valve element in a direction abutting against the valve seat;
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- a locking portion provided between the valve element housing and the cap, wherein
- the valve element housing has an annular base end side frame provided with the valve seat in an inner periphery, an annular tip end side frame arranged on a tip end side relative to the base end side frame and to which the cap is mounted, and a plurality of circumferentially arranged first coupling frame axially coupling the base end side frame and the tip end side frame,
- the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion formed in such a manner that a circumferential part is retracted to the base end side frame side from a tip end surface,
- the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched when the body tube is viewed from the axial tip end side, and
- the cap is assembled in the valve body housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.