Vehicle and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshio TANAHASHI, Koshi YAMADA
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Abstract
A vehicle which can neutralize static electricity accumulating on a vehicle body, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The vehicle comprises: a vehicle body sustained by tires; a battery; an earth cable electrically connecting a negative terminal of the battery to the vehicle body; a predetermined member connected to the vehicle body while being insulted to the vehicle body; a main self-discharge device that neutralizes the predetermined member; and a conducting member that connects a neutralizing area of the predetermined member that is neutralized by the main self-discharge device to the negative terminal of the battery or the earth cable.
Claims20
A vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle body sustained by tires in such a manner that an electrical resistance between the tire and a road surface is kept to be greater than a first predetermined value;
- a battery that supplies electricity to a predetermined electrical device;
- an earth cable that electrically connects a negative terminal of the battery to the vehicle body;
- a predetermined member that is connected to the vehicle body while keeping an electrical resistance between the predetermined member and the vehicle body greater than a second predetermined value;
- a main self-discharge device that decreases a potential of the predetermined member by causing a self-discharge to produce ions charged to an opposite polarity to a polarity of the predetermined member in an airflow flowing along a surface of the predetermined member according to the potential;
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- a conducting member that connects a neutralizing area of the predetermined member that is neutralized by the main self-discharge device to the negative terminal of the battery or the earth cable while keeping an electrical resistance between the neutralizing area and the negative terminal or the earth cable smaller than a third predetermined value.
A manufacturing method of a vehicle in which a vehicle body is sustained by tires in such a manner that an electrical resistance between the tire and a road surface is kept to be greater than a first predetermined value, and in which a battery is mounted on the vehicle body, comprising:
- connecting a negative terminal of the battery to the vehicle body through an earth cable;
- connecting a predetermined member to the vehicle body while keeping an electrical resistance between the predetermined member and the vehicle body greater than a second predetermined value;
- attaching a main self-discharge device that decreases a potential of the predetermined member by causing a self-discharge to produce ions charged to an opposite polarity to a polarity of the predetermined member in an airflow flowing along a surface of the predetermined member according to the potential, to the predetermined member;
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- connecting a neutralizing area of the predetermined member that is neutralized by the main self-discharge device to the negative terminal of the battery or the earth cable while keeping an electrical resistance between the neutralizing area and the negative terminal or the earth cable smaller than a third predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.