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US 12,179,575 B1Granted
Valve device
AssigneePiolax, Inc.
InventorKenta Mihara
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Abstract
A valve device includes: a housing including a peripheral wall, a bottom wall, and a partition wall; and a float valve accommodated in a valve chamber to be able to ascend and descend, thereby opening and closing an opening portion. A slit extends continuously over the peripheral wall and the bottom wall, and a deflectable and deformable elastic piece is formed via the slit. The elastic piece has a free end on the bottom wall, and the free end is provided with a float valve support portion configured to support the float valve.
Claims5
A valve device comprising:
- a housing including a peripheral wall, a bottom wall, and a partition wall, in which a valve chamber configured to communicate with an inside of a fuel tank is provided at a lower side and a ventilation chamber configured to communicate with an outside of the fuel tank is provided at an upper side via the partition wall, and an opening portion configured to communicate with the valve chamber and the ventilation chamber is formed in the partition wall;
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- a float valve accommodated in the valve chamber to be able to ascend and descend, thereby opening and closing the opening portion, wherein
- a slit extends continuously over the peripheral wall and the bottom wall, and a deflectable and deformable elastic piece is formed via the slit, and
- the elastic piece has a free end on the bottom wall, and the free end is provided with a float valve support portion configured to support the float valve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.