Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for producing high-pressure tank
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Application No.: US16818711Application Date: 2020-03-13
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Publication No.: US11339924B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Naoki Ueda
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-069917 20190401
- Main IPC: B29C70/68
- IPC: B29C70/68 ; B29C70/70 ; F17C1/06 ; F17C1/16 ; B29C53/58

Abstract:
A method for producing a high-pressure tank capable of suppressing break of a surface resin layer due to gas pressure as well as degradation in the tank quality. The method includes winding a thermosetting resin-impregnated fiber bundle around a liner so as to form an uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer thereon, first heating in which the uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer is locally heated at a first temperature so as to leach the thermosetting resin out of the uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer to form the surface resin layer, and the surface resin layer is cured to have cracks generated therein, and second heating in which the tank is entirely heated at a second temperature lower than the first temperature, so that the fiber-reinforced resin layer and surface resin layer are entirely cured, so as to obtain the tank with the surface resin layer locally having cracks generated therein.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200309321A1 METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-PRESSURE TANK Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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