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US 12,618,516 B2Granted
Tank and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKei Kato
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Abstract
To provide a tank capable of reducing a fiber bundle amount while ensuring strength. A tank having a tank body portion capable of filling a gas therein, the tank body portion comprising: a liner having a hollow cylindrical shape; and a fiber bundle layer covering an outer surface of the liner, wherein the fiber bundle layer has an inner layer, an outer layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer, the end portion of the intermediate layer being located axially inwardly than the end portion of the fiber bundle layer.
Claims2
A tank comprising:
- a tank body part, an inside of the tank body part being able to be filled with a gas, the tank body part comprising a liner having a hollow cylindrical shape, and a fiber bundle layer covering an outer surface of the liner, wherein
- the fiber bundle layer has an inner layer, an outer layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer,
- an end portion of the intermediate layer is located on an inner side than an end portion of the fiber bundle layer in an axial direction of the tank;
- and
- a mouthpiece disposed at an outer circumference of a smaller diameter end portion of the tank body part, wherein
- the end portion of the intermediate layer is located on an inner side than the mouthpiece in the axial direction
- wherein the inner layer is an innermost layer of the fiber bundle layer, which directly covers the entire outer surface of the liner;
- the smaller diameter end portion of the tank body part comprises a liner small diameter end and a fiber bundle layer small diameter end portion, and the fiber bundle layer small diameter end portion comprises the inner layer and the outer layer;
- and
- the liner includes an insert ring proximate the liner small diameter end, and the end of the intermediate layer is disposed in an area overlapping with the insert ring.
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