Vehicle and manufacturing method of vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoji KATANO, Akihiko OHBA
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a tank having a cylindrical tank main unit, and a neck provided at a first end in an axial direction of the tank main unit, a bracket that fixes the tank main unit to a vehicle body of the vehicle by neck mounting, using the neck, and a fixing device. The fixing device has a covering portion that grips and holds, at a second end in the axial direction of the tank main unit, the tank main unit so as to surround an outer circumferential face of the tank main unit, and a fixing portion that is integrally provided with the covering portion and that is fixed to the vehicle body.
Claims7
A vehicle, comprising:
- a tank including a cylindrical tank main unit, and a neck provided at a first end in an axial direction of the tank main unit;
- a bracket configured to fix the tank main unit to a vehicle body of the vehicle by neck mounting, using the neck;
- and
- a fixing device, wherein the fixing device includes a covering portion configured to grip and hold, at a second end in the axial direction of the tank main unit, the tank main unit so as to surround an outer circumferential face of the tank main unit, and a fixing portion that is integrally provided with the covering portion and that is configured to be fixed to the vehicle body.
A manufacturing method of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- attaching, to a second end in an axial direction of a cylindrical tank main unit to which a neck is provided at a first end, a fixing device that includes a covering portion configured to grip and hold the tank main unit so as to surround an outer circumferential face of the tank main unit, and a fixing portion that is integrally provided with the covering portion and that is configured to be fixed to a vehicle body of the vehicle;
- and
- fixing the fixing device to an attaching portion of the vehicle body set in advance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.