Patent ID: 9592877
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B60L,B62J,B62K,B62M,Y02T

Claim:
1. A saddle-ridden fuel cell vehicle, comprising a body frame; a steerable wheel provided on a front portion of the body frame; a driving wheel provided on a rear portion of the body frame via a swingable arm; a motor provided on the swingable arm to drive the driving wheel; a fuel cell provided on the body frame to supply an electric power to the motor; a fuel tank having a generally cylindrical exterior shape and provided below a middle portion of the body frame in a front and rear direction of the saddle-ridden fuel cell vehicle to store a fuel for the fuel cell; and a tank valve provided behind the fuel tank below the middle portion of the body frame in the front and rear direction to control supplying of the fuel from the fuel tank to the fuel cell, wherein the body frame comprises: wherein a tank placement portion is formed in a region encircled by the pair of upper main frame portions and the pair of lower main frame portions in the middle portion of the body frame in the front and rear direction, and the fuel tank is placed on the tank placement portion so that an axis of the fuel tank extends in the front and rear direction; wherein a guard frame is installed between the up frame portions to traverse a rear of the tank valve in a right and left direction; wherein the guard frame is formed as a member independent of the body frame; wherein guard frame-side attaching portions for removably attaching the guard frame on the pair of up frame portions are provided on end portions of the guard frame; wherein each of the up frame portions is provided with an up frame-side attaching portion, on which the respective guard frame-side attaching portions of the guard frame are to be removably attached; and wherein each of the guard frame-side attaching portions is fixed to the respective up frame-side attaching portion by a fastener member.