| US 7,540,343 B2 | ||
| Fuel cell vehicle | ||
| Akira Nakashima, Shioya-gun (Japan); Tohru Ono, Kawachi-gun (Japan); and Daisuke Tsurumaki, Utsunomiya (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 05, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/428,698. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-200189 (JP), filed on Jul. 08, 2005; application No. 2005-200190 (JP), filed on Jul. 08, 2005; and application No. 2005-200191 (JP), filed on Jul. 08, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0007054 A1, Jan. 11, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60K 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 180—65.1 [180/65.2; 180/65.3; 180/68.5; 296/193.07] | 17 Claims |
| 1. A fuel cell vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body;
a floor panel provided in the vehicle body that has a floor tunnel, the floor tunnel upwardly extending relative to other
portions of the floor panel and being disposed in substantially a center in a width direction of the vehicle body;
a pair of front seats each having a seating surface and a seat back and disposed on the floor panel laterally outside of the
floor tunnel in the width direction of the vehicle body;
seat rails provided between the front seats and the floor panel and adapted to be able to move the front seats in a longitudinal
direction of the vehicle body; and
a fuel cell stack having a plurality of unit fuel cells stacked in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, the fuel
cell stack being received under the floor tunnel and substantially in the center of the vehicle body width direction so as
to be substantially parallel with the seat rails and relatively between the front seats,
wherein the fuel cell stack is entirely disposed within a movable range of the seat rails in the longitudinal direction of
the vehicle body, so that both a front end and a rear end of the fuel cell stack overlap with the movable range of the seat
rails when viewed from a longitudinal side of the vehicle.
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