Refueling retainer
AssigneesFutaba Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazunobu Kikuya, Makoto Kato, Masaharu Miki
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Abstract
A refueling retainer comprises a body portion of a tubular shape inserted into and arranged at a fueling-side end portion of an inlet pipe through which fuel is introduced to a fuel tank. The body portion comprises at a leading end portion thereof: a tapered portion, which is an inner peripheral surface of the leading end portion inclined radially inward toward a leading end of the body portion; and a claw portion that projects from the leading end of the body portion in an inwardly bent manner.
Claims4
A refueling retainer comprising a body portion of a tubular shape inserted into and arranged at a fueling-side end portion of an inlet pipe through which fuel is introduced to a fuel tank,
- wherein the body portion comprises a first component positioned on an upstream side and a second component positioned on a downstream side, and is configured such that an upstream end portion of the second component externally covers a downstream end portion of the first component, and
- wherein the second component comprises:
- a tapered portion, which is an inner peripheral surface of the second component inclined radially inward toward a leading end of the second component;
- and
- a claw portion that projects from a downstream-side leading end of the second component in an inwardly bent manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.