Abstract: This invention provides a fuel filler cap that can release an outer cap from an inner cap without influences of direction of the external force when it applied. The fuel filler cap 1 comprises the outer cap 11 constructed by an upper face portion 112, a skirt portion 113 extending from the outer circumference of the upper face portion 112 and a plurality of wedge-shaped projection 111 formed on the inner face of the skirt portion 113, the pressing plate 15, and the inner cap 13 constructed by a supporting plate 14 having annular slants 142 formed downward by chamfering the peripheral edge of its upper face intermittently, a seal ring 12 and a plurality of annular groove 146 defined by the individual annular slants 142 of the supporting plate 14 and by the lower face of the pressing plate 15 laid over the supporting plate 14.

Abstract: A fuel cap comprising a closure unit adapted to be fitted into an opening of a filler neck having ridges formed on its inner side face intermittently in the circumferential direction, so that it may be secured to the filler neck by engaging with the ridges during a turning operation. The closure unit includes a closure body, a seal ring, a turning control sleeve, a sliding sleeve, a base and a coil spring. The amount of the spacing formed between the lower end of the sliding sleeve and the base is set smaller than an amount of the downward sliding of the sliding sleeve, which is caused when the engagement protrusions formed on the outer side face of the sliding sleeve slip into lower face of the ridges formed on the inner side face of the filler neck.

Abstract: A lower sash made of resin comprising a scraper for suppressing or preventing entry of the foreign substances itself as means for suppressing or preventing generation of noise is provided. The lower sash made of resin comprising a substantially channel-structured frame extending along a direction in which a window glass ascends and descends, the frame comprising wings provided upright on both sides of a base, and glass guides provided in opposition to the wings each other, and further comprising a scraper is provided at an upper end of the frame to come into sliding contact with an outer surface of the descending window glass.

Abstract: A vehicular shock-absorbing beam includes a pair of mounting portions disposed at the both ends of a beam body and adapted to be mounted on a vehicle. The shock-absorbing beam is produced by a thermal treatment equipment for the heat treatment of the beam. The thermal treatment equipment comprises a pair of holding means for holding the beam body, a pair of current-applying means for directly applying current to the beam body, and quenching means for quenching the heated beam body. One of the paired holding means or that of the paired current-applying means can be slidable. The quenching means sandwiches the beam body with a lower jig and an upper jig both having corrugated surfaces. The heated beam body is quenched with a coolant sprayed from a plurality of the injection holes formed in the upper and lower corrugated surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention provides a steering column bracket 1 including a receiving main body 12 put to the deck cross member 2 from below and a sling plate 11 straddling the deck cross member 2 from above to be spanned over the receiving main body 2. The receiving main body 12 is formed into a sectionally groove shape by integrally coupling respective lower edges of a symmetric pair of abutting plate portions 122, 122 and a mounting plate portion 121. The mounting plate portion 121 provides a mounting portion for the steering column. Each abutting plate portion 122 is formed in a shape of twin peaks that comprises a notch edge 1221 located between the twin peaks and shaped along a sectional shape of the deck cross member 2, a front inclined edge 1222, a rear inclined edge 1224 aligning with tangents L,L to the deck cross member 2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel cap having a high operability while maintaining the air-tightness thereof at a necessary and sufficient level. The closure includes a closure body having a head portion, a trunk portion and an annular trunk surface having stopper projections; a seal ring; a sleeve; a coiled spring; and an engagement member having engagement projections. The fuel cap is formed by assembling the seal ring around the annular surface of the trunk portion of the closure body and the sleeve with the trunk portion in the mentioned order, interposing the coiled spring between the sleeve and engagement member, and connecting the engagement member to the trunk portion of the closure body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bulkhead that can realize not only manufacture as lightweight and inexpensive as possible but also less the waste produced from material, while keeping sufficient structural strength and rigidity thereof. The bulkhead 1 for raising strength and rigidity of a vehicular frame member 2 comprises: a partition face 11 having an outer shape contoured to a sectional shape of the vehicular frame member 2; connecting wings 12, 13, 13 projected and folded at individual sides of the partition face 11 except an open edge 111, and forming a peripheral wall section 16 having a C-shape by linking vicinities of folded edges 121, 131, 131; and a bead 14 formed on the partition face 11 near the open edge 111 in that it is denting in same direction of the folded connecting wings 12, 13, 13, and extending in parallel to the open edge 111.

Abstract: A fuel feeding pipe having a first feed oil pipe extending from an oil filler port, a second feed oil pipe projecting from a fuel tank, and a tightening belt for connecting and tightening these oil pipes together, comprising an outer fitting pipe provided to the first feed oil pipe, and an inner fitting portion provided to the second feed oil pipe having low-temperature resisting and ozone resisting seal rings fitted therearound. The fuel feeding pipe is formed in one body by fitting the outer pipe around the inner fitting portion having the seal rings, then tightening the tightening belt fitted over at least the engaged region of the outer fitting pipe and the inner fitting portion. The invention achieves the minimization of a fuel permeation, high hermeticity without influences from various environments, the promotion of efficiency of replacement operation, and the vibration and impact resisting connection of the pipes.

Abstract: In response to the recent various requests, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing filler neck to facilitate jointing a mouthpiece and a feeding pipe which were manufactured separately into an integrated filler neck having an excellent hermeticity. The method for manufacturing a filler neck 1 comprises the following steps: jointing an inner face of the circumferential wall portion 16 of a feeding pipe and an outer face of the circumferential wall portion 12 of the mouthpiece, and integrating with the mouthpiece 2 and the feeding pipe 3, wherein the outer of the mouthpiece and the inner face of the feeding pipe are in relation to be fitted in a press-fitted condition, a seam welding is executed to the welding area W provided in a range of the overlapped area S defined by the width of the circumferential wall portions.

Abstract: A shock absorber capable of preventing the collapse or deformation of a vehicle body member when a local load applied to a bumper, without being influenced by the arrangement and construction of the vehicle body member. The shock absorber comprises a multi-diameter stepped tube having different diameter tube portions integrally formed by partially reducing or partially enlarging a straight tube that can be plastically deformed through a stepped portion connecting those tube portions under installation of which a smaller-diameter tube portion connecting to the bumper and of which a larger-diameter tube portion connecting to the side member, a mounting part having a quadrilateral shape with a diagonal length of which is longer than the diameter of the larger-diameter tube portion and positioned at a front end of the side member, and load transmission members fixed between an outer side surface of the larger-diameter tube portion and the mounting part.

Abstract: A shock absorber as being of a bumper supporting member and a shock absorber as being of a side member, which retain the sinking motion of a smaller-diameter tube portion into a larger-diameter tube portion even if an impact is applied at a larger angle obliquely of an axial direction, thereby to achieve the absorption of the impact energy by a plastic deformation. A plastically deformable straight tube is partially reduced or partially enlarged to form a smaller-diameter tube portion and a larger-diameter tube portion, which join to each other through a step portion. The step portion is formed by joining a folded-back portion of the smaller-diameter tube portion and a folded-back portion of the larger-diameter tube portion, which have circular arc-shaped sections having arcuate angles more than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A method for producing a bumper reinforcement having a hollow and a substantially rectangular cross sectional shape formed by the steps of providing a straight tubular member and forming a curved bumper reinforcement, continuously; wherein angle portions of the straight tubular member having the radius of curvature established in profiling corner portions of an inner die having the radius established in larger than the radius of the corner portions of the outer die are bulged in a range of relief spaces formed between the corresponding corner portions of the inner die and the outer die to prevent generation of the wrinkles particularly on the angle portions of the straight tubular member while being curved.

Abstract: A bumper reinforcement comprises an outer reinforcement and an inner reinforcement wherein the outer reinforcement of an open section is formed by a front face, an upper face, and a lower face; and the inner reinforcement housed in the outer reinforcement is formed symmetrically from the center in vertical direction by a intermediate portion formed by edge portions of inner skirt plate portions confronting each other, the inner skirt plate portion, a top portion, an outer skirt plate portion, and an outer contact face portion. The outer reinforcement comprises a concave groove portion in the front face, and a pair of ribs in the upper/lower face. Accordingly, the bumper reinforcement of the invention has achieved high rigidity against the impact applied and easy manufacturing with high cost performance and capability of various designing of the vehicles.

Abstract: A shock absorber comprising a first collapsible shock absorbing part and a second shock absorbing part adapted to be compressed in an axial direction thereof inclined outward in the width direction of a vehicle. The first shock absorbing part has a structure of a basin-like truncated conical shape having a bead integrally formed therewith. The direction of the transmission of an impact force F is corrected by utilizing this first shock absorbing part to an axial direction of the second shock absorbing part, and the second shock absorbing part is thereby compressed in the axial direction without inclining the second shock absorbing part.

Abstract: A shock absorber comprising a first collapsible shock absorbing part and a second shock absorbing part adapted to be compressed in an axial direction thereof inclined outward in the width direction of a vehicle. The first shock absorbing part has a structure of a basin-like truncated conical shape having a bead integrally formed therewith. The direction of the transmission of an impact force F is corrected by utilizing this first shock absorbing part to an axial direction of the second shock absorbing part, and the second shock absorbing part is thereby compressed in the axial direction without inclining the second shock absorbing part.

Abstract: A shock absorber capable of preventing the collapse or deformation of a vehicle body member when a local load applied to a bumper, without being influenced by the arrangement and construction of the vehicle body member. The shock absorber comprises a multi-diameter stepped tube having different diameter tube portions integrally formed by partially reducing or partially enlarging a straight tube that can be plastically deformed through a stepped portion connecting those tube portions under installation of which a smaller-diameter tube portion connecting to the bumper and of which a larger-diameter tube portion connecting to the side member, a mounting part having a quadrilateral shape with a diagonal length of which is longer than the diameter of the larger-diameter tube portion and positioned at a front end of the side member, and load transmission members fixed between an outer side surface of the larger-diameter tube portion and the mounting part.

Abstract: There are provided firstly a fuel cap which irrespective of its type has a structure that there is no transpiration of gasoline vapor until the cap is fully open and secondly particularly a bayonet-type fuel cap which has a structure that there is no eruption of fuel under a pressure difference between a internal pressure of the tank and atmospheric pressure. In each case the fuel cap consists of a closure 3 fitting into the opening of a filler neck 4 and a handle 2 integral with the closure 3, and an upper seal ring 10 and a lower seal ring 1 for sealing the filler neck 4 are each fitted individually to the closure 3 positionally apart from the other.

Abstract: A fuel feeding pipe having a first feed oil pipe extending from an oil filler port, a second feed oil pipe projecting from a fuel tank, and a tightening belt for connecting and tightening these oil pipes together, comprising an outer fitting pipe provided to the first feed oil pipe, and an inner fitting portion provided to the second feed oil pipe having low-temperature resisting and ozone resisting seal rings fitted therearound. The fuel feeding pipe is formed in one body by fitting the outer pipe around the inner fitting portion having the seal rings, then tightening the tightening belt fitted over at least the engaged region of the outer fitting pipe and the inner fitting portion. The invention achieves the minimization of a fuel permeation, high hermeticity without influences from various environments, the promotion of efficiency of replacement operation, and the vibration and impact resisting connection of the pipes.