IP Library Granted Patent US 10,926,628
Granted Patent B2
US 10,926,628 · App. 15/899,046 · Granted Feb 23, 2021

Fuel cell vehicle

Inventors: Takanori Otsura (Toyota, JP); Shigeaki Murata (Nisshin, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,926,628
App. No.
15/899,046
Granted
Feb 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel cell vehicle mounted with a fuel gas tank in an underfloor of the vehicle. The fuel cell vehicle includes: a floor that has a projecting portion projecting upward in a height direction of the vehicle and extending along a front and rear direction of the vehicle; a fuel gas tank arranged under the projecting portion in the height direction of the vehicle and fixed to the floor; and an undercover arranged under the fuel gas tank in the height direction of the vehicle. The undercover has a fixation protruded portion that projects upward in the height direction of the vehicle in a side of the fuel gas tank in a width direction of the vehicle, and being fixed to the floor by the fixation protruded portion.

Claims (12)

1. A fuel cell vehicle mounted with a fuel gas tank in an underfloor of the vehicle, the fuel cell vehicle comprising:

a vehicle body comprising a floor that has a projecting portion projecting upward in a height direction of the vehicle and extending along a front and rear direction of the vehicle, wherein said vehicle body is a frame of the fuel cell vehicle;

a fuel gas tank arranged under the projecting portion in the height direction of the vehicle and fixed to the floor;

an undercover arranged under the fuel gas tank in the height direction of the vehicle,

the undercover having two fixation protruded portions that project upward in the height direction of the vehicle on opposite sides of the fuel gas tank in a width direction of the vehicle, and being fixed to the floor by the fixation protruded portion;

a belt member that covers the fuel gas tank along a circumferential direction of the fuel gas tank,

wherein the undercover has the fixation protruded portion under the belt member and in the side of the fuel gas tank in the width direction of the vehicle, and is fixed to the floor via the fuel gas tank by being fixed to the belt member in the fixation protruded portion; and

further comprising first fixation members fixing the fixation protruded portion to the belt member, and second fixation members between the first fixation members and the fuel gas tank.

2. The fuel cell vehicle in accordance with claim 1 , wherein

the fuel cell vehicle has a muffler included in an exhaust device arranged in a side of the fuel gas tank in the width direction of the vehicle, and fixed to the floor, and

the undercover has the fixation protruded portion under the muffler, and is fixed to the floor via the muffler by being fixed to the muffler in the fixation protruded portion.

3. The fuel cell vehicle in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the fixation protruded portion is provided in a closer position to the fuel gas tank in the width direction of the vehicle than one or more components fixed to the floor under the floor in the height direction of the vehicle.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 19, 2018
From: OTSURA, TAKANORI; MURATA, SHIGEAKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044967/0234 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-055728 · Mar 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180272863A1 · Sep 27, 2018
Cited By (2)
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