Nifco Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Seiji Yagura

Takeaki Nakajima

Shinya Murabayashi

Hiroaki Watanabe

Kiyofumi Shida

Daisuke Nohara

Kengo Kobayashi

The lid device for vehicle includes a link member supporting a lid to open and close; and a basing member moving the lid from a fully-closed position to a first reference position which is a partly-open position, and moving the lid from a second reference position which is further in the open direction than the first reference position to a fully-open position. The link member includes first and second link members pivotally supported at one end on the rear side of the lid, and pivotally supported at the other end within the housing. The biasing member has a pop-up contact part for switching the lid from the closed position to the first reference position, and a deadlock contact part inner surface for switching between biasing toward the first reference position and biasing toward the fully opening position with the second reference position in between.

Vehicle lid device

A vehicle lid device includes a housing disposing a fueling port or an electrical charging port inside an opening; and a lid turnably connected to a housing side, and opening and closing the opening of the housing. A connection portion between the housing side and the lid side includes a fitting portion for a shaft and a hole, and in a fully open position of the lid, when an external force at a predetermined value or above is applied in an opening direction to further open the lid, fitting of the fitting portion is released.

A wave suppression structure for a fuel tank is provided in which a wave suppression member () disposed in the interior of a tank main body of the fuel tank is formed from a basket-shaped container () and cylindrical porous members (), the basket-shaped container () being formed from two members, first and second half bodies (L,R), two of the porous members () being supported in the interior of each of the first and second half bodies (L,R), wherein the wave supporting member () is supported on a fuel suction pipe () by joining the first and second half bodies (L,R) of the basket-shaped container () so as to sandwich a fuel suction pipe () between a through hole () thereof. This enables attachment of the wave suppression member () to the fuel suction pipe () to be completed without carrying out a cumbersome operation of inserting the fuel suction pipe () through the through hole () of the basket-shaped container () or the interior of the porous member (), thereby greatly improving the ease of attachment.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Seiji Yagura