US 12,139,008 B2
Fuel tank cap
Daisuke Takahashi, Kobe (JP); Daisuke Saeki, Kobe (JP); Kazuhiro Suzuki, Nagoya (JP); and Keiichi Araki, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Kawasaki Motors, Ltd., (JP); and Sankyo Kinzoku Co., Ltd., (JP)
Filed by KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD., Hyogo (JP); and SANKYO KINZOKU CO., LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/527,879.
Application 17/527,879 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/024123, filed on Jun. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-116522 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025478 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 15/05 (2006.01); B62J 35/00 (2006.01); B65D 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 15/05 (2013.01) [B62J 35/00 (2013.01); B65D 43/163 (2013.01); B60K 2015/053 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fuel tank cap comprising:
a cap body which opens and closes a fuel supply port of a fuel tank;
a ring member which is disposed around the fuel supply port and is shaped so as to surround the cap body; and
a hinge member which is coupled to the ring member to support the cap body in a turnable manner between a closed position and an open position,
wherein a first peripheral part of the ring member, which is opposed to an outer periphery of the cap body, has a larger dimension in a circumferential direction than a dimension of a second peripheral part of the hinge member, which is opposed to the outer periphery of the cap body,
the first peripheral part of the ring member includes a cut part therein, and has a C-shape in a plan view,
the second peripheral part is located in the cut part of the first peripheral part, and
the ring member and the hinge member are made of mutually different materials.