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US 2006/0185915 A1Published application
Fuel cell vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaaki Kaneko
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Abstract
A fuel cell vehicle is equipped with a power control unit which converts power supplied from the fuel cell and supplies that converted power to a load. High voltage wiring, which connects at least one of the fuel cell and the load to the power control unit, is provided on one side of either the left or the right side of a vehicle, and a fuel line for supplying a fuel gas to the fuel cell is provided on the other side of the vehicle, which is opposite the side on which the high voltage wiring is provided.
Claims16
1-18. (canceled)
A fuel cell vehicle comprising:
- a fuel cell;
- a power storing device
- a fuel supply source;
- a load;
- a power control unit which converts power supplied from the fuel cell and supplies that converted power to the load;
- high voltage wiring, which connects at least one of the fuel cell and the load to the power control unit, the high voltage wiring being provided on one side of either the left or the right side of a vehicle in a longitudinal direction;
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- a fuel line for supplying a fuel gas to the fuel cell, the fuel line being provided on the other side of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction, which is opposite the side on which the high voltage wiring is provided, wherein the high voltage wiring and the fuel line are spaced apart from one another in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and wherein the fuel cell, the power storing device and the fuel supply source are arranged in a row in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
5 more elements
A fuel cell vehicle comprising:
- a fuel cell provided under a floor of a vehicle cabin;
- a power storing device provided under the floor of the vehicle cabin;
- a power control unit provided under the floor of the vehicle cabin, which converts power supplied from the fuel cell and supplies that converted power to a load;
- a fuel supply source provided under the floor of the vehicle cabin, which supplies a fuel gas to the fuel cell;
- a fuel line which connects the fuel cell with the fuel supply source;
- and
- electrical wiring which is provided spaced apart, in the lateral direction of the vehicle, from the fuel line, and which connects the fuel cell with the power control unit,
- wherein the high voltage wiring extends on one side of either left or right side of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, wherein the fuel line extends on the other side of the vehicle in the longitudinal direction, and
- wherein the fuel cell, the power storing device and the fuel supply source are arranged in a row in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.