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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, JP;
Atsushi Tsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Minoru Takata, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Kubo, Tokyo, JP;
Hideto Arai, Shizuoka, JP;
Hisashi Machida, Shizuoka, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Coporation, Tokyo, JP;
YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A fuel supply apparatus mounted in a fuel tank has a fuel pump portion for sucking a fuel stored in the fuel tank and then discharging the fuel to the outside. The fuel supply apparatus includes a harness that is connected with an external power source; a power-sending connector portion a power-sending connector portion that is provided in a harness and has power-sending terminals having respective spring portions, a power-receiving connector portion that is provided in a fuel pump portion and has power-receiving terminals to be connected with the power-sending terminals, respectively, when contact pressure based on elastic force of the spring portions, as elastic portions, is provided thereto, and an insulator that covers at least base portions of the power-receiving terminals and at least parts of the spring portions of the power-sending terminals when the power-receiving terminals are connected with the power-sending terminals.