US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 21 for "In-vehicle liquid hydrogen tank and a method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,094, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"In-vehicle liquid hydrogen tank and a method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Naoaki Ito (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle liquid hydrogen tank includes: an inner tank that stores liquid hydrogen; an outer tank that accommodates the inner tank; and a heat-insulation material that is arranged in a heat-insulation clearance as a clearance between the inner tank and the outer tank and holds the inner tank to be separated from an inner surface of the outer tank. The heat-insulation clearance has: a vacuum area that is not...