Fuel tank check valve

• Main Authors: Sakai, Takahiro, Ochiai, Yusuke
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.08.2022
• Subjects: ACTUATING-FLOATS; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; BLASTING; COCKS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL, WITH COMBUSTIBLEMIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF; TAPS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; VALVES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

To provide a fuel tank check valve making it easy to assemble a cap to a valve element housing. This fuel tank check valve has a body tube provided with a valve element housing, a valve element, a cap, and a spring, wherein the valve element housing has a base end side frame, a tip end side frame to which the cap is mounted, and a first coupling frame connecting the both frames, the tip end side frame is provided with a retraction portion having a shape in which a circumferential part is retracted from the tip end surface thereof to the base end side frame side, the cap is formed with a notch whose circumferential part is notched, and the cap is assembled to the valve element housing so that the notch is positioned in the retraction portion.