High-pressure gas tank module
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorManabu Fujii
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Abstract
A high-pressure gas tank module may include: a gas tank which stores high-pressure gas, the tank including a cylindrical side wall extending along a center axis of the tank, and an end wall located at an end of the side wall, wherein the end wall is curved outward in a dome-shape; a protector fixed on an outer surface of the end wall; and a boss located on the center axis and fixed on an inner surface of the end wall. The boss includes a joining surface joined to the inner surface, the protector includes a facing surface facing the end wall, wherein the facing surface includes a joining area joined to the outer surface and a non-joining area extending along the outer surface from the joining area toward the side wall, and the joining area faces the joining surface with the end wall interposed therebetween.
Claims10
A high-pressure gas tank module comprising:
- a gas tank configured to store high-pressure gas, the gas tank comprising a cylindrical side wall extending along a center axis of the gas tank, and an end wall located at an end of the cylindrical side wall, wherein the end wall is curved outward in a dome-shape;
- a protector fixed on an outer surface of the end wall of the gas tank;
- and
- a boss located on the center axis and fixed on an inner surface of the end wall of the gas tank,
- wherein
- the boss comprises a joining surface joined to the inner surface of the end wall,
- the protector comprises a facing surface facing the end wall, wherein the facing surface includes a joining area joined to the outer surface of the end wall and a non-joining area not joined to the outer surface of the end wall, the joining area is located along an inner peripheral end of the facing surface, and the non-joining area extends along the outer surface from an outer peripheral end of the joining area to an outer peripheral end of the facing surface,
- the joining area of the protector faces the joining surface of the boss with the end wall interposed between the joining area and the joining surface, and
- any part of the protector is not joined to the outer surface of the end wall in a region located radially outside a boundary between the joining area and the non-joining area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.