Fuel tank cap
AssigneesKawasaki Motors, Ltd., Sankyo Kinzoku Co., Ltd.
InventorsDaisuke Takahashi, Daisuke Saeki, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Keiichi Araki
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Abstract
A fuel tank cap includes: a cap body which opens and closes a fuel supply port of a fuel tank; a ring member which is disposed around the fuel supply port and is shaped so as to surround the cap body; and a hinge member which is coupled to the ring member to support the cap body in a turnable manner between a closed position and an open position. A first peripheral part of the ring member, which is opposed to an outer periphery of the cap body, has a larger dimension in a circumferential direction than a dimension of a second peripheral part of the hinge member, which is opposed to the outer periphery of the cap body. The ring member and the hinge member are made of mutually different materials.
Claims7
A fuel tank cap comprising:
- a cap body which opens and closes a fuel supply port of a fuel tank;
- a ring member which is disposed around the fuel supply port and is shaped so as to surround the cap body;
- and
- a hinge member which is coupled to the ring member to support the cap body in a turnable manner between a closed position and an open position,
- wherein a first peripheral part of the ring member, which is opposed to an outer periphery of the cap body, has a larger dimension in a circumferential direction than a dimension of a second peripheral part of the hinge member, which is opposed to the outer periphery of the cap body,
- the first peripheral part of the ring member includes a cut part therein, and has a C-shape in a plan view,
- the second peripheral part is located in the cut part of the first peripheral part, and
- the ring member and the hinge member are made of mutually different materials.
A fuel tank cap comprising:
- a cap body which opens and closes a fuel supply port of a fuel tank;
- a ring member which is disposed around the fuel supply port and is shaped so as to surround the cap body;
- and
- a hinge member which is coupled to the ring member to support the cap body in a turnable manner between a closed position and an open position,
- wherein a first peripheral part of the ring member, which is opposed to an outer periphery of the cap body, has a larger dimension in a circumferential direction than a dimension of a second peripheral part of the hinge member, which is opposed to the outer periphery of the cap body,
- the ring member and the hinge member are made of mutually different materials,
- the hinge member includes an arm part which turns about a rotation axis and an abutment part against which the arm part, at the open position, is abutted, and
- the abutment part is included in the second peripheral part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.