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US 7,607,450 B2Granted
Cut valve
AssigneeKia Motors Corporation
InventorChun Kyu Park
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Abstract
A cut valve preventing fuel overflow from a fuel tank to a fuel gas passage includes a float moving upward and downward corresponding to a surface of the fuel, a cone formed to an upper surface of the floater to move with the float, at least one link formed to an upper surface of the float to move with the float, and a cap disposed to intercept a fuel gas passage by a movement of the cone when the surface of the fuel moves upward and comprising at least one rod inserted to the at least one link.
Claims1
A cut valve for preventing fuel overflow from a fuel tank to a fuel vapor passage, comprising:
- a float moving upward and downward corresponding to a surface of the fuel;
- a cone formed on an upper surface of the float to move with the float;
- at least one link formed on an upper surface of the float to move with the float;
- a cap having a dented portion wherein the cone is selectively received in the dented portion of the cap to intercept the fuel vapor passage by a movement of the cone in a case that the surface of the fuel moves upward and comprising at least one rod inserted to the at least one link, and
- a lower plate slidably receiving and guiding the float,
- wherein the at least one link comprises a first link formed to pull the at least one rod when that the float moves downward;
- and a second link opened at one side thereof;
- and
- wherein a height of the first link differs from a height of the second link.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.