Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takanori Otsura

Shigeaki Murata

Yasuhiko Ohashi

Hiroya Nakaji

Koki Matsuno

Kazuhiro Higashiyama

Tsutomu Kumazaki

Atsushi Fujimatsu

Itaru Kuwahara

A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel tank module that accommodates a fuel gas, and a rail arranged along a vehicle-width direction of the fuel cell vehicle in a floor part of the fuel cell vehicle, in which the fuel tank module includes a casing that accommodates a fuel tank accommodating the fuel gas, a block unit arranged in a bottom surface of the casing and configured to be attachable to and detachable from the rail and movable along the rail, and a fixation unit that can fix the block unit to the rail and release fixation of the block unit to the rail.

Fuel cell vehicle

A fuel cell vehicle mounted with a fuel gas tank in an underfloor of the vehicle. The fuel cell vehicle includes: a floor that has a projecting portion projecting upward in a height direction of the vehicle and extending along a front and rear direction of the vehicle; a fuel gas tank arranged under the projecting portion in the height direction of the vehicle and fixed to the floor; and an undercover arranged under the fuel gas tank in the height direction of the vehicle. The undercover has a fixation protruded portion that projects upward in the height direction of the vehicle in a side of the fuel gas tank in a width direction of the vehicle, and being fixed to the floor by the fixation protruded portion.

There is provided a fuel cell vehicle equipped with a fuel cell. The fuel cell vehicle comprises a fuel gas supply piping located in floor of the fuel cell vehicle and configured to supply a fuel gas to the fuel cell; an exhaust drainage piping located under the floor and configured to discharge an exhaust gas and water from the fuel cell; a muffler located below the fuel gas supply piping in a direction of gravity and connected with the exhaust drainage piping; and an undercover located below the muffler and provided to cover the floor, the undercover having a gap along a front-rear direction of the fuel cell vehicle formed between a front wheel of the fuel cell vehicle. The muffler is placed on any straight line that passes through the fuel gas supply pipe and that connects any point of a contact area in which the front wheel is in contact with ground surface with the gap in a view of a left-right direction of the fuel cell vehicle.

A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, a tank, a discharge flow path discharging a fluid discharged from the fuel cell stack, a muffler attached to the discharge flow paths, and a vehicle member defining a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber accommodating the fuel cell stack and the second chamber being disposed behind the first chamber and accommodating the tank and the muffler. The second chamber is also provided with a front portion and a rear portion continuous with the front portion, the rear portion being shorter than the front portion in average length in a vehicle width direction. The muffler is disposed between the tank and one of a pair of side wall portions defining side walls of the front portion in the vehicle width direction.

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Toyota, Japan

Takanori Otsura