Device for the remote-controlled closing of a gasoline vent

• US 4,277,094 A
• Filed: 09/07/1979
• Issued: 07/07/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault
• Original Assignee: Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault
• Inventors: Roue, Yves
• Primary Examiner(s): Pekar, John A.
• Application Number:
  US06/073,292
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 296/1 C, 280/5 A, 220/86 R, 70/280, 70/465, 292/144, 292/DIG. 65, 292/DIG. 43
• US Class Current: 296/97.22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/05 Inlet covers
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/02 Movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means; Adaptation of locks, latches, or parts thereof, for movement of the bolt by electromagnetic means by means in the striker E05B63/248
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/1021 Motor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7113 Projected and retracted electrically

Abstract

The bolt (6), brought into play by a remote-controlled activator (4), goes into a keeper (8) shaped like a blind stirrup made in the same unit as the portal (3) by passing through the cup of the vent through intermediary fixtures for guiding (13) and for preventing the escape of gasoline vapors (14). An emergency manual control button (21) is provided on the connection between the bolt (6) and the activator core (7).

Claims

1. A remote control gasoline vent closing device for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a vent cup;

a vent portal for the vent cup, said vent portal including an interior keeper fixed thereto;

an activator mounted inside the body of said motor vehicle, said activator including a movable core;

a hollow guide means passing through said vent cup;

a bolt having one end fixed to said movable core and having another end inserted in said hollow guide means to lock said interior keeper; and

at least one gasoline vapor retaining means attached between said hollow guide means and said bolt;

wherein said guide means is a perforated plug obstructing an opening of said cup and extended in the direction of said activator by a sleeve surrounding said bolt and wherein said gasoline vapor retaining means is an elastic bellows having a collar at each end, one of said collars fits tightly around the end of said sleeve, said sleeve including a retaining flange, and the second of said collars fits tightly around said one end of said bolt.

2. A remote control gasoline vent closing device for a motor vehicle, comprising:

an activator mounted inside the body of said motor vehicle, said activator including a movable core;

a vent portal including an interior keeper affixed thereto, said interior keeper comprising a stirrup connected to a tapered blind housing having a stud hole thereon; and

a bolt having one end fixed to said movable core and movable by said core from an extended position into a retracted position, and having another end insertable into said stud hole to lock said vent portal, whereby said blind housing encloses said other end of said bolt to prevent tampering therewith and said taper of said blind housing permits the closing of said vent portal when said bolt is in said extended position.

3. The vent closing device of claim 2 including a manual emergency command button attached along the connection between said bolt and said activator, said button being accessible from inside said vehicle.

4. Device according to claim 3 wherein said connection is through a rod hooked at one end through the end of said bolt and connected at the other end to one end of said activator core through said manual command button, one end of which serves as an attachment point.