Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masao Saito

Masao Fuse

Nobuharu Sakon

Teruhisa Tsukada

Yoshiaki Kasai

Masaharu Yuasa

Masataka Harada

Yasuo Hiraoka

A flame cutoff plate is disposed between an exhaust pipe of an engine and a side wall of the fuel tank to cover a pinch-off portion of the fuel tank without contacting the wall of the fuel tank.

Protecting device for a plastic fuel tank of a motor vehicle

A flame cutoff plate is disposed between an exhaust pipe of an exhaust gas system of an engine and a side wall of the fuel tank, an inside of which becomes free of fuel earlier than other portions of the fuel tank so as to prevent heat transfer from the exhaust pipe to a portion of the tank which has its inside free of fuel when a fire breaks out in the exhaust pipe as a result of overheating or breaking on a rough road.

A fuel-vapor emission control system has a canister having a vacuum operated purge control valve, communicated with a float chamber of a carburetor and a fuel tank for purging fuel-vapor. A vacuum chamber of the vacuum operated purge control valve is communicated with a port provided in the carburetor so as to apply manifold vacuum to the vacuum chamber at partial-throttle operation. Parallel purge lines are provided for communicating the canister with an intake manifold of the engine. A solenoid operated valve is provided in one of the purge lines for controlling the purging of the fuel-vapor. The solenoid operated valve is opened for the purging by a signal from a vehicle or engine speed sensor under such conditions that the engine does not stall.

Growing community of inventors

Ohta, Japan

Masao Saito