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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2003
Norihiro Yamada, Aichi-ken, JP;
Eishin Mori, Aichi-ken, JP;
Keisuke Yoshida, Aichi-ken, JP;
Koji Miwa, Toyota, JP;
Takashi Ishikawa, Okazaki, JP;
Norihiro Yamada, Aichi-ken, JP;
Eishin Mori, Aichi-ken, JP;
Keisuke Yoshida, Aichi-ken, JP;
Koji Miwa, Toyota, JP;
Takashi Ishikawa, Okazaki, JP;
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus is for inhibiting fuels from flowing out of fuel tanks, and includes a housing having an evaporator opening and a fuel opening, a double-floating valve and a cover having a cylinder-shaped liquid receptacle. Alternatively, the apparatus can include a housing having an evaporator opening, a fuel opening and a substantially cylinder-shaped dam, a double-floating valve, and a cover free from the cylinder-shaped liquid receptacle. The apparatus can securely inhibit liquid fuels from flowing into a canister even when liquid fuels spout through the valve hole and the evaporator opening, because liquid fuels collide with the liquid receptacle or the dam to return back into fuel tanks through the evaporator opening.