Vehicle fuel cell stack frame and protruding portions
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomoki Tambo, Hirofumi Kanazawa, Tadashi Akiyama
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Abstract
There is provided a fuel cell vehicle, including a high voltage system disposed in a front compartment of the vehicle, and a first protruding portion that protrudes in a left-right direction of the vehicle toward a vehicle body of the vehicle further than a portion of the high voltage system that is closest to the vehicle body, and is fixed to the high voltage system, in which, when the vehicle is placed on a horizontal plane, the first protruding portion is arranged such that a position of a first most-protruded portion of the first protruding portion that protrudes most toward the vehicle body in a height direction is located at the same position or higher than a center of gravity of the high voltage system.
Claims7
A vehicle comprising:
- a high voltage system disposed in a front compartment of the vehicle, the high voltage system including a fuel cell;
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- a first protruding portion that is fixed to the high voltage system and that protrudes in a left-right direction of the vehicle toward a vehicle body of the vehicle further than a portion of the high voltage system that is closest to the vehicle body, wherein
- the first protruding portion includes a protruded segment that is a portion of the first protruding portion situated in closest proximity to the vehicle body in the left-right direction,
- when the vehicle is placed on a horizontal plane, the protruded segment of the first protruding portion is located at the same position or higher than a center of gravity of the high voltage system in a height direction of the vehicle, and
- the protruded segment of the first protruding portion is configured to be spaced apart from the vehicle body;
- wherein the high voltage system additionally includes a stack case that houses the fuel cell, the first protruding portion being fixed to the stack case, and
- when the vehicle is placed on the horizontal plane, a center of gravity of the fuel cell is located above the center of gravity of the high voltage system in the height direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.