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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Matsunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhiko Nakajo, Tokyo, JP;
Taichi Omura, Tokyo, JP;
Yuta Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Takenori Kawana, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Mizumoto, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To enlarge a collapsible flap and store the collapsible flap appropriately. In an amphibious vehicle () in which a flap () which receives lift from water in water navigation is provided to be deployable and storable at a front side in a travel direction of a vehicle body (), the flap () includes a lower flap () which is stored to come close to a front surface () of the vehicle body () and an upper flap () which is stored to come close to an upper surface () of the vehicle body (), and at least one of the lower flap () and the upper flap () includes a first flap member () and a second flap member () and is configured such that a flap length (L) in a direction orthogonal to a vehicle width direction is variable.