Cap for fuel tank

• US 4,051,975 A
• Filed: 03/18/1977
• Issued: 10/04/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nihon Radiator Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nihon Radiator Company Limited
• Inventors: Sakai, Yoshiharu, Kawai, Hiroyuki, Ohgida, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hall, George T.
• Application Number:
  US05/778,849
• Time in Patent Office: 200 Days
• Field of Search: 220/203, 220/209, 220/303, 220/367, 220/DIG. 32, 220/DIG. 33, 137/43, 137/533.11, 137/533.15, 137/493, 137/493.6, 137/526
• US Class Current: 220/203.18
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/0406 Filler caps for fuel tanks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/33 Gasoline tank cap

Abstract

A cap of a fuel tank comprising a lid member constructed of upper and lower plates to form a passage communicated with the air between both plates, a seating plate underlying said lid member and provided with a plurality of bores circularly arranged in the peripheral portion of the central flat field thereof, a diaphragm of a flexible material underlying said seating plate and provided with a perforation in the central portion thereof and an annular ridge surrounding the perforation on the upside thereof, a valve plate underlying said diaphragm and provided with a perforation in register with the perforation of said diaphragm, a casing disposed at the lowest position in the cap and provided with a perforation in the bottom thereof, the peripheral portion of said diaphragm being fixedly interposed between the peripheral portion or said lower plate with intermediation of said seating plate and the flange portion of said casing, and a coil spring held in said casing and adapted to urge said valve plate upwardly.

Claims

1. A cap of a fuel tank comprising a lid member constructed of upper and lower plates to form a passage communicated with the air between both plates, a seating plate underlying said lid member and provided with a plurality of bores circularly arranged in the peripheral portion of the central flat field thereof, a diaphragm of a flexible material underlying said seating plate and provided with a perforation in the central portion thereof and an annular ridge surrounding the perforation on the upside thereof, a valve plate underlying said diaphragm and provided with a perforation in register with the perforation of said diaphragm, a casing disposed at the lowest position in the cap and provided with a perforation in the bottom thereof, the peripheral portion of said diaphragm being fixedly interposed between the peripheral portion of said lower plate with intermediation of said seating plate and the flange portion of said casing, and a coil spring held in said casing and adapted to urge said valve plate upwardly.

2. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said casing has a flange and a skirt extending from the flange, and the skirt of said casing is fixedly secured with calks to the skirt of said lower plate of said lid member in engagement with the inner face of the latter skirt so that the peripheral edges of the seating plate and the diaphragm are firmly clamped between said casing and said lower plate.

3. A cap according to claim 1, wherein in the surroundings of the central portion of said lid member at which said upper and lower plates are fixedly secured to each other, an annular packing and an annular spring urging downwardly the packing are interposed between both plates.

4. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said seating plate is provided in the surroundings of the central flat field thereof with an annular recess.

5. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said diaphragm is provided in surroundings of said annular ridge thereof with an annular recess.

6. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said diaphragm is made of rubber.

7. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said casing is cup-shaped.

8. A cap according to claim 1, wherein said valve plate has a peripheral skirt for grasping said spring.