Back to results
US 11,524,447 B2Granted
Pressure vessel and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYojiro Iriyama
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A pressure vessel includes a vessel body including a cylindrical-shaped straight body portion with a spiral-shaped projection portion formed at an outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion, and a covering portion that comprises a fiber bundle wrapped onto the outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion in a spiral pattern running parallel to the projection portion so as to cover the outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion.
Claims13
A pressure vessel, comprising:
- a vessel body that comprises a cylindrical-shaped straight body portion with a spiral-shaped projection portion at an outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion;
- and
- a covering portion that comprises a fiber bundle wrapped onto the outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion, wherein
- the fiber bundle comprises:
- a first layer wrapped onto the outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion in a first spiral pattern running parallel to the projection portion so as to cover the outer peripheral surface of the straight body portion, and
- a second layer above the first layer, the second layer wrapped in a second spiral pattern along a direction that intersects with the projection portion, and
- a height of the projection portion is less than a thickness of the first layer of the fiber bundle.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.