Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Seiji Kondo

Yoshihiro Kato

Kazusato Kasuya

A fuel tank structure in an automobile comprising: a fuel tank having a recessed portion and first and second air chambers separated by the recessed portion and having top walls located at different levels; a fuel tube with a breather pipe; a fuel cutoff valve provided on the high-level top wall of the first air chamber and having a casing projecting thereinto, discharge holes for fuel evaporation gas, a valve seat opening formed at the central portion on a top wall of the casing, a float valve movably provided in the casing, and a spring for pressing the float valve toward the valve seat opening; a fuel cutoff valve with a float provided on the low-level top wall of the second air chamber and having a casing projecting thereinto, discharge holes for fuel evaporation gas, a second float valve movably provided in the casing to tightly close a valve seat opening, a spring for pressing the second float valve toward the valve seat opening, a lower casing provided at a bottom of the casing, a float movably accommodated in the lower casing and having a push rod for lifting the second float valve; and a conduit device extending from the fuel cutoff valve and the fuel cutoff valve with the float through a check valve to a canister.

Fuel tank structure

A fuel outflow preventing apparatus of a fuel tank for a vehicle has an object to prevent fuel outflow from the fuel tank when the vehicle is inclined or turned over. Therefore, this apparatus comprises a canister, a float valve provided in an air chamber of the fuel tank, which float valve is closed when the level of fuel in the fuel tank is equal to or higher than a predetermined level and when the vehicle is inclined or turned over, a fuel outflow preventing valve provided in an upper portion of the air chamber of the fuel tank, which fuel outflow preventing valve is closed when the vehicle is inclined or turned over, a first evaporation passage for communicating the float valve with the canister, a second evaporation passage for communicating the fuel outflow preventing valve with the canister, and opened/closed valve device provided in the second evaporation passage.

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Chiryu, Japan

Seiji Kondo