Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Kentaro Enomoto

Hiroyuki Hagano

Masayuki Nakagawa

Masahide Kobayashi

Eishin Mori

Go Oue

Takuhiro Kumagai

A gas container includes: a tubular container body having an internal space for storing gas; a connector attached to an end portion of the container body in a shaft direction and having a communication passage for allowing the internal space to communicate with an outside of the container body; and a storage member disposed in the internal space to absorb and release gas. The storage member has one of a recess portion and a projection portion which are provided on a radial outer surface thereof and engage with each other. The container body has the other of the recess portion and the projection portion which are provided on a radial inner surface thereof.

Gas container

A fuel tank opening and closing device is equipped with a tank opening forming member equipped with an injection port forming member having an insertion path and a tank side path arranged outside and inside an injection port, an injection port opening and closing mechanism for opening and closing the injection port, an insertion path forming member, and a drainage mechanism having a drainage path that connects the insertion path and the outside, and exhausts to the outside fuel that has accumulated inside the insertion path, and barrier members arranged on the drainage path. The barrier members are arranged with a labyrinth as the drainage path so that the insertion path cannot be seen from outside.

Fuel tank opening and closing device

The gasket is interposed between the seal face and the seal retaining portion of the fuel cap. The gasket has a first lip for pressing against the seal face, a second lip for pressing against the seal retaining portion, and a connecting portion connecting the first lip with the second lip; and is formed with a C-shaped cross section. An assist rib projects from the inside face of the second lip. The assist rib is formed so as to press the distal edge of the first lip towards the seal face.

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