Aircraft water tank

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10040624-B2
Application number	US-201415031926-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	Oct 25, 2013
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

A tank port includes a reinforcing sheet, an inner member, and an outer member. The reinforcing sheet is attached around a through-hole on the outer peripheral surface of a cylinder. The inner member includes an inner fitting plate portion attached to the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and an inner cylindrical portion inserted into the through-hole. The outer member includes an outer cylindrical portion attached to the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylindrical portion protruding from an opening and an outer fitting plate portion attached around the opening of the reinforcing sheet. The entire periphery of the through-hole of the cylinder is reinforced by being disposed between the inner fitting plate portion and the reinforcing sheet.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A water tank for an aircraft, comprising:
a tank main body including a cylinder and domes disposed at both ends of the cylinder; and
a tank port disposed on the cylinder;
the cylinder including a cylindrical inner liner, a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin layers disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the inner liner, and a core layer disposed between the fiber-reinforced resin layers;
the cylinder including a through-hole extending through the cylinder; and
the tank port including:
an inner member including an inner cylindrical portion inserted into the through-hole and protruding from an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder and an inner fitting plate portion expanding outward in a radial direction from a base end of the inner cylindrical portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder over an entire periphery of the inner cylindrical portion, the inner fitting plate portion being attached around the through-hole on the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder;
a reinforcing sheet including an opening for inserting the inner cylindrical portion protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, the reinforcing sheet being attached to a region, corresponding to an entire periphery of the through-hole, of the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, the reinforcing sheet reinforcing the region of the outer peripheral surface; and
an outer member including an outer cylindrical portion attached to an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylindrical portion protruding from the opening and an outer fitting plate portion expanding outward in a radial direction from a base end of the outer cylindrical portion over an entire periphery of the outer cylindrical portion, the outer fitting plate portion attached to the reinforcing sheet,
the reinforcing sheet and the inner fitting plate portion having a same contour and a same area capable of withstanding shear stress due to internal pressure of the tank.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Masuda Mitsutaka

Classifications

• B65D85/72 Primary

  for edible or potable liquids, semiliquids, or plastic or pasty materials · CPC title

• B29C53/602

  for tubular articles having closed or nearly closed ends, e.g. vessels, tanks, containers · CPC title

• B65D25/14

  Linings or internal coatings (of containers made by folding or erecting blanks made of paper B65D5/56 {; linings for domestic water storage heaters F24H1/183}) · CPC title

• B29L2031/7172

  Fuel tanks, jerry cans · CPC title

• B29K2655/02

  ABS polymers, i.e. acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene polymers · CPC title