Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jtekt Corporation

Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Tsukuo Ishitoya

Akira Yamashita

Nobuo Kobayashi

Eiji Okawachi

Hiroki Yahashi

Nobuyuki Ogami

Kazushi Numazaki

Hiroaki Suzuki

Toshihiko Shima

Hidetoshi Fujiwara

Takuya Suzuki

Munetoshi Kuroyanagi

Yasuhiro Nonobe

Chihiro Uchimura

Minobu Mizuno

Kiyoshi Yoshizumi

Noritaka Watanabe

Yoshinori Imoto

Kazunori Yanagihara

Koji Koide

Shinpei Miura

Hisanori Kondo

A moving body having a fuel cell includes: an off-gas passage; a vehicle body having a cabin; an opening and closing body including at least one of a door and a window; an opening and closing situation recognition portion configured to recognize an opening and closing situation of the opening and closing body; a stopped state detection portion configured to detect that the moving body moves at a predetermined speed or lower; and a controller configured to, in a case where the moving body moves at the predetermined speed or lower and there is a demand for electric power generation by the fuel cell, when the opening and closing situation recognition portion recognizes a situation in which the opening and closing body is in an open state, execute an intrusion suppression process to make it difficult for a mist discharged from the off-gas passage to enter the cabin.

Moving body having fuel cell

In a gas supply system, a control portion acquires a first temperature and a first pressure of a gas in a fuel tank, and a first output signal value of a pressure sensor corresponding to the first pressure before gas supply, acquires a first amount of the gas in the fuel tank using a fuel tank volume, the first temperature, and the first pressure, acquires a second amount after gas supply, through integration of a measurement value obtained by a flowmeter during gas supply, acquires a second temperature, a second pressure, and a second output signal value corresponding to the second pressure after gas supply, calculates a third pressure using the fuel tank volume, the second amount, and the second temperature, and corrects a relationship between an output signal and the pressure using the first pressure, the first output signal value, the third pressure, and the second output signal value.

Gas supply system and correction method

A vehicle () equipped with gas tanks () has a common channel () and branch channels () that branch from the common channel () to the gas tanks (), as a filling passageway () through which gas is supplied from an external gas station () to the gas tanks (). The gas tank () is better in heat dissipation characteristic than the gas tank (). Only the branch channel () that corresponds to the gas tank () is provided with a shutoff valve () or a flow regulation valve () that is capable of restricting the amount of gas supplied to the gas tank ().

Vehicle

A pressure reducer includes a piston slidably accommodated in a cylinder to define a decompression chamber and a pressure adjusting chamber. A seal member includes an elastic member and a sliding portion. The sliding portion is pressed by the elastic member such that the sliding portion slides on an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. An annular member is located on an outer circumferential surface of the piston and between the seal member and the pressure adjusting surface. The annular member is pressed against the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder with a force that is less than a force with which the sliding portion is pressed against the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder. Thus, the pressure reducer prevents the piston from being moved by an excessive amount with highly accurately adjusting pressure.

Pressure reducer

There is disclosed a high-pressure tank capable of appropriately discharging high-pressure gas. The high-pressure tank is mounted on a mobile body, stores the high-pressure gas, and includes a plurality of gas discharge means for discharging the high-pressure gas from the high-pressure tank. The gas discharge means are disposed at opposite sides of the high-pressure tank in a longitudinal direction. The gas discharge means can each have a path through which the inside of the high-pressure tank communicates with the outside thereof, and a manual valve including a manual operating section for opening and closing the path by a manual operation.

High-pressure tank

A gap amount () between a liner () and a reinforcement layer () before filling gas into a tank () is calculated on the basis of a tank pressure and a tank temperature in the tank (). It is predicted whether a load larger than or equal to an allowable amount acts on the liner () by the gas filling on the basis of the calculated gap amount (). When it is predicted that the load larger than or equal to the allowable amount acts on the liner (), a filling flow rate at which the gas is filled into the tank () is limited in comparison with a case where it is predicted that the load larger than or equal to the allowable amount does not act on the liner ().

Gas filling method, gas filling system, gas station and mobile unit

In order to achieve seal durability and bring about a damping action for a piston-type pressure regulating valve, a pressure regulating valve of the present invention is characterized by a valve moving member moving in such a manner as to cause communication or block communication between a primary chamber and a secondary chamber within a case, wherein a plurality of central members are arranged between the case and the valve moving member and the plurality of central members are taken to be different materials. It is then possible to bring about both a damping action and seal durability using the central members by providing central members of different materials.

Pressure regulating valve

A safety valve includes a cylinder having an open end and a plug for closing the open end with a hermetic seal. The interior of the cylinder communicates with a high-pressure gas passage. The cylinder is deformed as a function of gas pressure in the high-pressure gas passage to widen the open end. This allows gas in the high-pressure gas passage to escape and thus prevents the gas pressure from increasing beyond an acceptable level.

Safety valve and electromagnetic valve

A fuel leakage detection system comprises: a communication part for acquiring data relating to fuel filling of an onboard fuel tank from the vehicle side when a fuel supply part is connected to a filler port; a fuel flow rate measurement part, provided on the upstream of the fuel supply part 18, for measuring the flow rate of fuel flowing to the fuel supply part; a fuel flow-out permission part for permitting/stopping the outflow of fuel to the fuel supply part; and a control unit for controlling the fuel flow-out permission part. The control unit further comprises a fuel leakage detection part for detecting fuel leakage when filling fuel to a vehicle based on the fuel flow rate acquired by the fuel flow rate measurement part and on data relating to fuel filling acquired from the vehicle side via the communication part, and the fuel flow out permission part stops outflow of fuel to the fuel supply part when occurrence of fuel leakage is detected by the fuel detection part.

Fuel leakage detection system and detection method

A damage detection system includes an electromagnetic valve that is provided at a first end of a pressure vessel and operated by supplied electric power, a harness that is disposed so as to at least partially extend along at least a part of a bottom surface of the pressure vessel and that serves to supply electric power to the electromagnetic valve, and a damage detector for detecting damage of the pressure vessel based on an input of a pressing force from the bottom surface side of the pressure vessel.

Damage detection system and vehicle

A high-pressure fluid supply apparatus that avoids gas leakage due to a reduction in the performance of a seal member provided inside piping is provided. A high-pressure fluid supply apparatus is provided, the apparatus including: piping that supplies a fluid from a high-pressure fluid supply source to a fluid utilizing device via a first valve device and a second valve device; a seal member that is arranged at a pipe part between the first and second valve devices in order to maintain sealing property of the pipe part, the seal member being made of an elastic material; and a control unit that controls closing and opening of the first and second valve devices to be able to adjust a pressure variation rate of the fluid in the pipe part, wherein the control unit adjusts the pressure variation rate in accordance with a temperature of the seal member.

High-pressure fluid supply apparatus

A valve system includes a fusible plug valve that functions as a fusible plug valve and as a manual valve. When functioning as a fusible plug valve, the fusible plug valve opens at a high temperature to release gas from a high pressure tank to outside. When functioning as a manual valve, the fusible plug valve is opened manually to release the gas from the high pressure tank to the outside.

Valve system of high pressure tank for vehicle

An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell system configured to be able to suppress loads imposed on a liner caused by gas filling, as well as a method for supplying fuel gas in the fuel cell system, and a mobile body. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a tank which includes a liner and a reinforcement layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the liner and in which fuel gas is stored, an adjustment device configured to adjust a supply amount of fuel gas to be fed from the tank to the fuel cell, an information acquisition section configured to acquire information on a pressure and a temperature in the tank, a calculation section configured to calculate a gap amount between the liner and the reinforcement layer based on information acquired by the information acquisition section during operation of the fuel cell system, and a decision section configured to decide whether or not to limit the supply amount based on the calculated gap amount.

Fuel cell system with fuel tank liner, method for supplying fuel gas, and mobile body

A check valve (fluid on-off valve device) capable of attaining high sealability in either case where a differential pressure is high or low, comprises a valve body assembly (valve body) contacting and separating from a valve seat portion for communicating and blocking a fluid passage. The valve body assembly comprises a valve body, a low-pressure seal portion constituted out of soft material and a high-pressure seal portion constituted out of harder material than the low-pressure seal portion. In blocking a fluid passage, when a differential pressure between an upstream path and a downstream path in the fluid passage is relatively low, the low-pressure seal portion comes into close contact with a protrusion to block the fluid passage, while when the differential pressure is relatively high, the low-pressure seal portion is compressively deformed by the differential pressure and the high-pressure seal portion comes into close contact with the valve seat body, thus blocking the fluid passage.

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Tsukuo Ishitoya