JPH10114288A - Fuel supply port seal device for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a leakage of fuel which is spilled on the inside of a car body cover by attaching a seal material on a top face of a fuel tank and an inner face of the car body cover closely. SOLUTION: A cylindrical oil supply port 58a is integrally attached to a top face of a fuel tank 58. This oil supply port 58a faces a front part of a cargo loading part of a load-carrying platform 68, namely, a front part of a grip part 68c which rises from an opening provided in a flat part 72 of a car body cover 70 from below. A cylindrical seal material 76 is mounted liquid- tightly in the oil supply port 58a in such a manner that it surrounds its circumference. This seal material 76 is made of an oil-resistant resin such as closed cell polystyrene and rubber, a lower end face thereof comes into contact with the fuel tank 58, and an upper end face of the seal material 76 adheres to a lower face of the opening in the flat part 72 of the car body cover 70 closely. That is, a section between the car body cover 70 and the oil supply port 58a is sealed, and the flowing of fuel which is spilled when oil is supplied into the car body cover 70 is prevented because the seal material 76 is nipped between the flat part 72 and the tank 58.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle in which a fuel filler opening integral with a fuel tank faces an opening formed in a vehicle body cover from below, and a fuel cap is attached to and detached from the fuel filler port from outside the vehicle body cover. The present invention relates to a fuel filler opening seal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a vehicle such as a passenger car, a fuel filler port is usually provided integrally with a vehicle body, and the filler port and the fuel tank are connected by a separate flexible tube. However, in this case, it is necessary to secure a certain distance between the fuel filler and the fuel tank, so that when applied to a small vehicle such as a scooter, there is a problem that the capacity of the fuel tank is reduced.

[0003] In a scooter or the like, a fuel filler port provided integrally with a fuel tank is positioned below an operation seat.
A structure has been considered in which the filler port faces an opening formed in the vehicle body cover and a cap is directly attached to and detached from the filler port from the outside.

[0004]

However, in this case, if fuel is spilled from the fuel filler at the time of refueling, fuel flows into the inside of the vehicle body cover, and contaminates parts in and around the luggage storage box.
There was a problem that cleaning was difficult or impossible.

In order to prevent the fuel spilled from the filler port from flowing into the vehicle body cover, it is conceivable to seal around the filler port and the body cover. However, in this case, it is necessary to assemble the sealing material in a liquid-tight manner in both the fuel filler and the opening provided in the vehicle body cover, which causes a problem that the number of assembling steps increases and the structure becomes complicated.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and without reducing the capacity of a fuel tank.
An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel filler opening seal device for a vehicle, which can prevent fuel spilled from a filler opening from leaking into a vehicle body cover, and which is simple and inexpensive to mount and structure.

[0007]

According to the present invention, it is an object of the present invention to make a cylindrical fuel filler provided integrally with a fuel tank face an opening formed in a vehicle body cover from below, and to fill the fuel filler from the outside of the vehicle body cover with the fuel filler. In a vehicle in which a cap is detachable, an oil-resistant sealing material surrounding the outer periphery of the cap is attached to the fuel filler port, and the sealing material is tightly held between the upper surface of the fuel tank and the inner surface of the vehicle body cover. This is achieved by a vehicle fuel filler seal device.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
3 is a partially enlarged cross-sectional view, FIG. 3 is a plan view of the vicinity of the storage box, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the vicinity of a fixing portion at the rear of the storage box, FIG. 5 is a plan view of the vicinity of the fuel cap, and FIG. VI-VI sectional view, FIG. 7 is a sectional view of the fuel cap.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a body frame, which is a main tube 1 extending obliquely downward and rearward from a steering shaft barrel 12.
4 and a pair of left and right rear tubes 16 (see FIG. 4) each having a front end fixed to the main tube 14. The rear tube 16 extends almost horizontally rearward after being bent obliquely upward and rearward in the vicinity of the middle thereof. A horizontal footrest 18 is provided near the connection between the lower part of the main tube 14 and the front part of the rear tube 16. A leg shield 20 that stands upward from the front end of the footrest 18 is formed, and the steering barrel 12 is located in the leg shield 20. A front fork 22 is held by the steering shaft barrel 12, and a steering front wheel 24 is held at a lower end thereof. 26 is a steering handle.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a power unit, which is a forced air cooling type 2
It has a cycle single-cylinder engine 32 and a transmission case 34 extending rearward from one side of the engine 32, and holds a driving rear wheel 36 at the rear end of the transmission case 34. The output of the engine 32 is transmitted to the rear wheels 36 via a V-belt continuously variable transmission accommodated in the transmission case 34. The power unit 30 is configured so that the upper surface of the crankcase of the engine 32 is
While the rear end of the transmission case 34 is elastically supported by the cushion unit 38.

Reference numeral 40 denotes a luggage storage box, which is made of a synthetic resin such as polypropylene so as to have sufficient strength. The storage box 40 is formed so that the helmet 42 can be stored from above with the top part down, and a storage part 44 such as a tool is integrally formed on the inside of the bottom, and a battery storage part 46 is integrally formed on the outside of the bottom. (FIG. 2). The storage box 40 is rigidly fixed to the body frame 10 at the bottom near the front and at the opening edge at the rear. That is, the storage box 40
Is in contact with a cross member 48 spanned between the left and right rear tubes 16 and is screwed from the inside of the storage box 40 at two places on the left and right. At the rear of the storage box 40, a substantially horizontal sheet load receiving portion 50 is integrally formed.
A generally gate-shaped tower 52 is welded to the rear tube 16 when viewed from behind, and the load receiving portion 50 is
Is fixed to the tower 52 by two long bolts 56, 56 (see FIG. 4).

Numeral 58 denotes a fuel tank. The front of the fuel tank 58 passes through the inside of the tower 52 and bulges along the arc-shaped rear wall of the storage box 40 as shown in FIG.
The capacity has been increased. The fuel tank 58 is formed by joining a pair of front and rear halves made of a sheet metal press, and a mating surface 60 is inclined as shown in FIG. Can be die-cut. The upper part of the mating surface 60 is fixed to a mounting part 62 formed on the tower 52 with two bolts, and the lower part of the mating surface 60 is a cross member 64 connecting the rear ends of the left and right rear tubes 16.
Is fixed with two left and right bolts.

Reference numeral 66 denotes an upright plate fixed to the cross member 64. A lower mounting portion 68a of the loading platform 68 is fixed to the upper end of the upright plate 66. As shown in FIG. 4, the pair of left and right upper mounting portions 68b of the loading platform 68 are fixed together with the long bolts 56, 56 together with the load receiving portion 50 of the storage box 40.
As shown in FIG. 5, the loading platform 68 is made by welding metal rods, and a member which crosses the center in the front-rear direction projects upward at the center as shown in FIG. The grip 68c is used by the user to hold his hands when he stands on a stand, and the rear of the grip 68c is a cargo loading portion.

Reference numeral 70 denotes a vehicle body cover. The vehicle body cover 70 is integrally formed of synthetic resin so as to surround the periphery of the storage box 40, and its front portion is smoothly continuous with the footrest 18, while its rear portion is substantially horizontal below the front portion of the loading platform 68. It is a part 72.

A cylindrical filler port 58a is integrally mounted on the upper surface of the fuel tank 58. This filler port 58a
Is an opening provided in the flat part 72 of the vehicle body cover 70,
8, that is, from below, in front of the upright grip portion 68c. A cylindrical sealing member 76 is liquid-tightly mounted on the fuel filler port 58a so as to surround the periphery thereof. The sealing member 76 is made of oil-resistant resin or rubber such as closed-cell polyethylene, and has a lower end face formed of the fuel tank 5.
8, the upper end surface of the seal member 76 is in close contact with the lower surface of the opening of the flat portion 72 of the vehicle body cover 70. That is, since the seal member 76 is sandwiched between the flat portion 72 and the tank 58, the space between the vehicle body cover 70 and the fuel supply port 58a is sealed, and the fuel spilled during refueling is prevented from flowing into the vehicle body cover 70. .

A one-push mounting type fuel cap 74 is attached to the fuel supply port 58a. Fuel cap 74
Has the structure shown in FIG. In this figure, the body 74
is rotated by inserting a key (not shown) and rotating the cylinder key 74b. The rotation causes the pair of locks 74c to retreat from the position shown in the figure toward the center, and the key is moved by a spring. Lock 7 if automatically restored by
4c is returned to the projected position in the figure by the spring 74d. Therefore, if the fuel cap 74 is pushed into the fuel supply port 58a,
The lock 74c retracts once into the main body 74a while compressing the spring 74d, and then returns, and engages with the engaging portion provided in the fuel supply port 58a by a one-push operation. The cap 74 is provided with a seal ring 74f whose downward return correction is made by a spring 74e. When the cap 74 is mounted, the seal ring 74f abuts on an opening edge (not shown) in the oil supply opening 58a. Touch and seal.

Reference numeral 84 denotes an operation seat, and 86 denotes a seat bottom plate 86 of the operation seat 84. The lower surface of the front end of the seat bottom plate 86 is connected to the front end of the storage box 40 by a shaft 88. At the rear of the seat bottom plate 86, a pair of left and right seating portions 90 (only one is shown in FIG. 2) which are in contact with the seat load receiving portion 50 of the storage box 40 are integrally formed. The seating position of the seating section 90 is indicated by an imaginary line 90a in FIG. A U-shaped hook 9 is provided between the seating portions 90 of the seat bottom plate 86.
2 hang down, and the hook 92 is attached to the load receiving portion 5 of the storage box 40.
The seat lock 54 is disengaged from the seat lock 54 through a window provided in the seat 0. A rib 94 facing the upper left and right edges and the rear upper edge of the vehicle body cover 70 projects downward from the seat bottom plate 86, and a rubber band-shaped sealing material 96 is attached to the rib 94.

Therefore, when the operation seat 84 is in the closed position shown in FIG. 2, the sealing member 96 is pressed from above against the opening edge of the side cover 70 to prevent infiltration of rainwater or the like into the storage box 40, and the hook 92 is It is locked by the seat lock 54. As a result, the storage box 40 is closed by the operation seat 84.
When the hook 92 is released from the seat lock 54 by a key, the driving seat 84 is pivoted upward, and the storage box 40 is opened so that luggage can be taken in and out of the helmet 92 and the like. The seal member 96 has its elasticity and automatically pushes the operation seat 84 upward when the lock 54 of the operation seat 84 is released, so that the key of the lock 54 can be opened with one hand.

According to this embodiment, when the key is inserted into the fuel cap 74 and rotated, the lock 74 of the cap 74 is rotated.
When the cap 74 is removed from the filler port 58a and the spring 74e compressed when the cap 74 is mounted returns the seal ring 74f, the cap 74 protrudes from the filler port 58a.
Therefore, the cap 74 can be easily taken out. Even if fuel is spilled from the filler port 58a during refueling, the upper surface of the seal member 76 mounted in a liquid-tight manner on the filler port 58a is pressed from below by the opening edge formed in the flat portion 72 of the vehicle body cover 70, and the seal member 76 Is pressed against the upper surface of the fuel tank 58, the spilled fuel does not leak inside the vehicle body cover 70. After refueling, the cap 74 is connected to the refueling port 5.
The cap 74 can be easily attached by pushing the cap 74 into the cap 8a.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, the fuel filler provided integrally with the fuel tank faces the opening formed in the vehicle body cover from below, and the oil-resistant sealing material surrounding the outer periphery of the fuel filler is mounted. Since this sealing material is sandwiched between the upper surface of the fuel tank and the lower surface of the vehicle body cover and closely attached, the space between the fuel tank and the vehicle body cover is reduced to secure a large fuel tank capacity. The space can be reliably sealed. Also, since the sealing material is sealed by being sandwiched between the vehicle body cover and the fuel tank, the assembly is simple and the structure is also simple.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged sectional view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view near a storage box.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the vicinity of a fixing portion at the rear of the storage box.

FIG. 5 is a plan view near a fuel cap.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line VI-VI in FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a fuel cap.

[Explanation of symbols]

 36 Rear wheel 58 Fuel tank 58a Filler port 70 Body cover 74 Fuel cap 76 Sealing material

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vehicle in which a tubular fuel filler provided integrally with a fuel tank faces an opening formed in a vehicle body cover from below, and a fuel cap is detachably attached to the fuel filler from outside the vehicle body cover. A fuel filler seal device for a vehicle, wherein an oil-resistant sealing material surrounding the outer periphery of the fuel filler is attached to the fuel filler, and the seal is tightly held between an upper surface of a fuel tank and an inner surface of a vehicle body cover.