US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 23 for "Vehicle fuel system and vehicle fuel system malfunction detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,630, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle fuel system and vehicle fuel system malfunction detection method" was invented by Akihiro Takemura (Tokyo) and Kazuya Okazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle fuel system according to the invention includes a fuel filler flap that blocks an opening of a fuel filler space to be openable and closable, a locking mechanism that regulates opening and closing operation of the fuel filler flap, and a detector that detects the opening and closing operation of the fuel filler flap. A controller is able to determine an operational state of the fuel filler f...