- Patent Title: Fuel tank, main wing, aircraft fuselage, aircraft, and mobile body
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Application No.: US14382961Application Date: 2013-03-15
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Publication No.: US10011366B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Nobuyuki Kamihara , Masayuki Yamashita , Toshio Abe , Yuichiro Kamino
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-069375 20120326
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/057348 WO 20130315
- International Announcement: WO2013/146335 WO 20131003
- Main IPC: B64D37/04
- IPC: B64D37/04 ; B64C3/34 ; B64D37/08 ; B60K15/03

Abstract:
A fuel tank in which it is possible to reduce working hours or cost in a manufacturing process and prevent an increase in weight in, a main wing, an aircraft fuselage, an aircraft, and a mobile body. The fuel tank is provided with a structural member using carbon fiber reinforced plastic in which a reinforcing material includes carbon fibers and a matrix includes plastic, wherein the matrix has electrical conductivity applied thereto. Furthermore, a cut surface of the structural member, which is formed by cutting the structural member, may be exposed to the inside in which fuel is accommodated, of a fuel tank.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150041592A1 FUEL TANK, MAIN WING, AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE, AIRCRAFT, AND MOBILE BODY Public/Granted day:2015-02-12
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