Fuel door opener assembly
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Pyeong Hwa Automotive Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeong-Muk Lee, Kyoung-Hoon Park
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Abstract
A fuel door opener assembly is configured to lock or unlock a fuel door of a vehicle and includes: an opener housing in which a space is formed; a locking block slidably installed inside the opener housing, elastically supported in a direction to be drawn out from the opener housing, and configured to lock and unlock the fuel door; a locking pin configured to be moved along a heart-shaped cam formed on the locking block to restrict a location of the locking block in accordance with a position thereof on a profile of the heart-shaped cam; and an elastic member disposed in the opener housing and elastically supporting the locking pin to allow the locking pin to be positioned on the profile of the heart-shaped cam.
Claims7
A fuel door opener assembly configured to lock or unlock a fuel door of a vehicle, the fuel door opener assembly comprising:
- an opener housing in which a space is formed;
- a locking block slidably installed inside the opener housing, elastically supported in a direction to be drawn out from the opener housing, and configured to lock and unlock the fuel door;
- a locking pin configured to be moved along a heart-shaped cam formed on the locking block to restrict a location of the locking block in accordance with a position of the locking pin in a profile of the heart-shaped cam;
- an elastic member disposed in the opener housing and elastically supporting the locking pin to allow the locking pin to be positioned in the profile of the heart-shaped cam;
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- a pin plate provided on an inner surface of the opener housing to couple the locking pin to the opener housing,
- wherein the elastic member and the pin plate are fixed to the locking pin by at least a portion of the locking pin extending through the elastic member and the pin plate and the at least a portion of the locking pin gripping
- an upper surface of the elastic member and a lower surface of the pin plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.