Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of forming a cover of a fuel intake system of a vehicle. The method may include providing a mold that defines a cover-forming cavity having a main body portion and a grounding strap portion connected to the main body portion, inputting a forming material into the cover-forming cavity to a specified level, allowing the forming material within the cover-forming cavity to cool and harden, separating the mold to expose the cover having an integrally molded and formed grounding strap, and removing the formed cover having the integrally molded and formed grounding strap from the separated mold.

A cover module of a charging port for an electric vehicle includes a panel coupling body comprising a charging housing fixed to an inner panel of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle to form a mounting hole, and a side outer coupled to face the inner panel fixed to the charging housing so that the mounting hole formed by the charging housing and the inner panel is maintained, and a cover main body formed in a shape corresponding to the mounting hole, provided with a plurality of hooks along an edge thereof to cover the mounting hole, and coupled to the panel coupling body by the hooks.

An actuating device for a movable part, in particular a cover of a vehicle body opening, including at least one actuator and at least one electromechanical switching element, wherein the electromechanical switching element can be brought from a first mode into a second mode by means of the actuator, wherein in the first mode the electromechanical switching element senses an actuation by means of the actuator and in the second mode the electromechanical switching element releases the actuator such that the actuator can be moved toward the movable part, wherein the electromechanical switching element has an electroactive polymer and/or a piezoelectric element.

A fuel filler device for filling fuel into a vehicle tank, includes a filler pipe for receiving a fuel filler nozzle, which filler pipe can be connected with the vehicle tank. At least one pivotably mounted closing flap is arranged in the filler pipe. A spring element is provided, which biases the at least one closing flap into a closing position closing a passage through the filler pipe. The at least one closing flap is pivotable from the closing position into an opening position opening a passage through the filler pipe as a result of the fuel filler nozzle inserted into the filler pipe. At least one valve element forms at least one bypass to the at least one closing flap, and from a limit pressure difference, allows a passage of gas out of the filler pipe and/or into the filler pipe.

A mechanism (1) for pivoting a charging or tank flap (2) on a charging or filler neck housing (3), which is accommodated or can be accommodated in a body component of a motor vehicle, wherein the mechanism (1) is configured, by superposing at least two at least temporarily simultaneous circular rotational movements having different rotation radii or at least one at least temporarily simultaneous circular rotational movement and at least one linear movement, to pivot the charging or tank flap (2) reversibly between a first orientation, in particular a closed position of the charging or tank flap (2), and a second orientation, in particular an open position of the charging or tank flap (2).

A door opening and closing apparatus includes: a body defining an opening and an interior space, the opening being open toward the outside of a vehicle body and the interior space defined inside the vehicle body so as to be connected to the opening; a door configured to open and close the opening; a guide part disposed in the interior space and guiding the door such that the door moves in a first direction and a direction opposite to the first direction, the first direction being a direction from the outside of the vehicle body to the inside of the vehicle body; and a transport part disposed in the interior space and that moves the door in a second direction and a direction opposite to the second direction.

A cover module of a charging port for an electric vehicle includes a panel coupling body comprising a charging housing fixed to an inner panel of a vehicle body of the electric vehicle to form a mounting hole, and a side outer coupled to face the inner panel fixed to the charging housing so that the mounting hole formed by the charging housing and the inner panel is maintained, and a cover main body formed in a shape corresponding to the mounting hole, provided with a plurality of hooks along an edge thereof to cover the mounting hole, and coupled to the panel coupling body by the hooks.

A back-and-forth movement device includes a guiding section that regulates an operation between a case-side member and a forward/backward member, and a guided section to be guided by the guiding section. In the back-and-forth movement device, a case partly includes a proximate wall portion that is in proximity to the forward/backward member, the guiding section is provided on a side opposite to the forward/backward member with respect to the proximate wall portion, and an engaging section of a restriction member and an extending portion of the guided section extend substantially parallel to each other on the side opposite to the forward/backward member with respect to the proximate wall portion.

A fuel filler flap module of a motor vehicle includes a carrier, a fuel filler flap which is pivotably mounted on the carrier and is designed to be movable between a closed position and an open position, and a movement mechanism designed to move the fuel filler flap from the closed position into the open position and back into the closed position. The movement mechanism has a mechanical deployment element which is arranged on the carrier and which is designed to exert a deployment force acting into the open position on the fuel filler flap, wherein the movement mechanism has a motor-driven deployment means which is designed to push the fuel filler flap with an auxiliary force from the closed position up to an initial deployment position, which lies between the closed position and the open position, wherein the auxiliary force is greater than the deployment force.

In a sleeve member for a filler pipe, the filler pipe passes through the sleeve member internally and is positioned with an upper end thereof on a fuel supply portion formed on an outside panel forming an outside of an automobile through a through hole formed in an inside panel forming a wheel house of the automobile. The sleeve member includes an attachment portion relative to the outside panel; a main seal portion elastically deformed and pressed against an inner face facing a space formed between the inside panel and the outside panel in such a way so as to surround the through hole by an insertion into the through hole; and an engagement portion which becomes engageable with a hole edge portion of the through hole positioned on an outer-face side of the inside panel by the insertion into the through hole.