Attachment for fuel inlet of vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki Naganuma
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Abstract
A vehicle may include: a fuel tank; a first fuel inlet connected to the fuel tank and configured to connect to a fuel supply nozzle; and a second fuel inlet connected to the fuel tank and configured to connect to the fuel supply nozzle. An inner diameter of the second fuel inlet may be smaller than an inner diameter of the first fuel inlet.
Claims1
An attachment having a tubular shape and configured to be detachably connected to a fuel inlet of a vehicle, the vehicle having an inlet-side communication device adjacent to the fuel inlet, the inlet-side communication device being configured to communicate with a nozzle-side communication device of a first fuel supply nozzle when the first fuel supply nozzle is connected to the fuel inlet, and the attachment comprising:
- a first opening at one end of the tubular shape with a first diameter connectable to the fuel inlet;
- a second opening at an opposite end of the tubular shape with a second diameter connectable to a second fuel supply nozzle, wherein a nozzle opening size of the second fuel supply nozzle is different from a nozzle opening size of the first fuel supply nozzle;
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- a relay configured to relay a communication signal between the inlet-side communication device and a nozzle-side communication device of the second fuel supply nozzle when the attachment is connected between the fuel inlet and the second fuel supply nozzle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.