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US 9,067,487 B2Granted
Collapsible fuel door housing for a vehicle
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorAsif Zia
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Abstract
A collapsible fuel-door housing is provided and may include a first housing and a second housing slidably attached to the first housing and moveable from a first state overlapping the first housing to a second state adjacent to the first housing. The fuel-door housing may also include a locking mechanism moveable between an unlocked state permitting movement of the second housing into the second state and a locked state restricting relative movement between the first housing and the second housing to maintain the second housing in the second state.
Claims20
A fuel-door housing comprising:
- a first housing and a second housing that cooperate to define an outer perimeter of the fuel-door housing, the first and second housings slidably attached to each other and moveable away from each other from an overlapped state to an expanded state with the outer perimeter of the fuel-door housing expanded when the first and second housings have been moved to the expanded state;
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- a locking mechanism operable between an unlocked state permitting movement of said second housing into said second state and a locked state restricting relative movement between said first housing and said second housing to maintain said second housing in said second state.
A fuel-door housing comprising:
- a first housing and a second housing that cooperate to define an outer perimeter of the fuel-door housing, the first and second housings-slidably attached to each other and moveable away from each other from an overlapped state to an expanded state with the outer perimeter of the fuel-door housing expanded when the first and second housings have been moved to the expanded state;
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- a locking mechanism permitting relative movement between said first housing and said second housing in an unlocked state and restricting relative movement between said first housing and said second housing when at least one of said first housing and said second housing is moved away from the other of said first housing and said second housing a predetermined distance to fix a relative position between said first housing and said second housing in a locked state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.