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US 8,616,609 B2Granted
Fuel lid structure
AssigneesToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasahiro Ogata, Shinjiro Tomida, Tomohiro Shirai, Masayuki Suzuki, Masayuki Noda, Masahiro Nakazato
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Abstract
The present invention prevents a lock pin from coming out of a lock hole even if a fuel lid locked in a bolted manner by intrusion of the lock pin into the lock hole is pushed toward a vehicle body. A second lock hole is formed in an inner peripheral wall of the lock hole and a protruding portion formed on the lock pin is engaged in the second lock hole when the fuel lid is pushed toward the vehicle body.
Claims5
A fuel lid structure comprising:
- a fuel lid coupled by a hinge to a recessed fuel filler box provided to an outer panel of a vehicle body around a filler opening and configured to be in a closed position for closing the fuel filler box and an open position for opening the fuel filler box;
- a lock portion formed on a back face side of the fuel lid and having a lock hole;
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- a lock pin intruding into the lock hole in the closed position to lock the fuel lid into a closed state,
- wherein, when the fuel lid is further pushed toward the vehicle body in the closed position, a first engaging portion formed at the lock portion and a second engaging portion formed at the lock pin are engaged with each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.