Amphibious vehicle
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsYoshito Ando, Satoru Ishikawa, Tadashi Sugimura, Takashi Matsunaga, Shinichi Sato, Tetsuya Miyamoto
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Abstract
This amphibious vehicle is provided with a body (11), a traveling device (12) that causes the body (11) to travel on land, a sailing device (13) that causes the body (11) to sail on water, a front flap (31) of which the distal end is inclined upward and the proximal end is rotatably supported by a horizontal shaft (34) on the front end of the body (11), a hydraulic damper (32) serving as a damping member that damps displacement of the front flap (31) relative to the body (11), and a compression coil spring (33) serving as a restoring member that restores the position of the front flap (31) relative to the body (11).
Claims19
An amphibious vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a traveling device which causes the vehicle body to travel on land;
- a front flap of which a distal end portion is inclined upward and a proximal end portion is rotatably supported by a front end portion of the vehicle body via a horizontal shaft;
- a damping member which dampens displacement of the front flap with respect to the vehicle body;
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- a restoring member which restores a position of the front flap with respect to the vehicle body.
An amphibious vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a traveling device which causes the vehicle body to travel on land;
- a front flap of which a distal end portion is inclined upward and a proximal end portion is rotatably supported by a front end portion of the vehicle body via a horizontal shaft,
- wherein the front flap includes a first flap plate, a second flap, and a shock absorbing material which is disposed between the first flap plate and the second flap, and
- the shock absorbing material is disposed so as to fill, without gaps, a portion between the first flap plate and the second flap in a plate thickness direction of both the first flap plate and the second flap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.