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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Nifco Inc., Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takatsugu Hirose, Yokosuka, JP;
Kensuke Ogose, Yokosuka, JP;
NIFCO INC., Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A closing member includes a pair of flap members, and an urging device urging each flap member to be positioned at a closed position closing a near-side pass-through opening for a fuel filling nozzle. Each flap member includes a turning assembly portion which becomes a center of turning, and an abutment portion relative to the other of the flap members. A far-side pass-through opening for the fuel filling nozzle, and a guide slope face for the fuel filling nozzle, which is a slope face having an opening edge of the far-side pass-through opening as a slope lower end and a vicinity of the near-side pass-through opening as a slope upper end and formed on both sides of a directly underneath position including the directly underneath position of the abutment portion of the flap member located at the closed position, are formed on a far side of the closing member.