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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 3/00 (2006.01); B65D 47/02 (2006.01); B60K 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 15/0409 (2013.01); B60K 15/0406 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device prevents fuel mixing, for example, a different kind of fuel from being pumped into a gasoline vehicle or a diesel vehicle by mistake. The device can prevent unsuitable fuel from being pumped into a vehicle and can preclude a loss of fuel or a fire due to poor operation of a gas pump by a person who fuels the vehicle, by implementing a new type of mechanism for preventing fuel mixing which includes a lock that is disposed at the fuel-tank door of a vehicle and turned on/off in accordance with the inner diameter of a nozzle and a cap that can close the nozzle when a nozzle for an unsuitable kind of fuel is inserted.