Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Fts Co., Ltd.

Katsuya Manabe

Ken Hatta

Masayoshi Takami

Masayoshi Taki

Ryuta Aoe

Yoshinori Miyazaki

Osamu Sekiguchi

A mouthpiece structure for a pressure vessel includes a liner constituting a vessel body and a cylindrical part, a cylindrical mouthpiece mounted closely to an inner periphery of the cylindrical part, a housing part having a housing recess formed by recessing at least one of the inner periphery of cylindrical part and an outer periphery of mouthpiece, a sealing member housed in the housing recess while adhering closely to the inner periphery of cylindrical part and the outer periphery of mouthpiece, the sealing member defining a sealed space facing an interface between the inner periphery of the cylindrical part and the outer periphery of the mouthpiece in the housing recess, and a retainer located opposite the sealed space with the sealing member being interposed between them and preventing the sealing member from being displaced in a direction such that the sealing member increases a capacity of the sealed space.

Mouthpiece structure for pressure vessel

A mouthpiece structure for a pressure vessel includes a liner made of a synthetic resin, and constituting a vessel body and a cylindrical part communicating between an interior and an exterior of the vessel body, a cylindrical mouthpiece mounted closely to an inner periphery of the cylindrical part, a retainer having a covering portion which covers regions of outer surfaces of the cylindrical part and the mouthpiece respectively and a peripheral wall surrounding the cylindrical part, the cylindrical part and the mouthpiece having an interface between an inner periphery of the cylindrical part and an outer periphery of the mouthpiece, the interface having a distal end facing the regions, a first sealing member disposed between the mouthpiece and the covering portion, and a second sealing member disposed between the cylindrical part and the peripheral wall of the retainer.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Katsuya Manabe