Prismatic pressure tank having lattice structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10429008-B2
Application number	US-201615239159-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2016
Priority date	Apr 25, 2011
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a pressure tank having a lattice structure, including: a tank body that has a high-pressure fluid accommodated therein and is manufactured to have a prismatic shape; and cell structures that are disposed in the prismatic tank body, are manufactured in a lattice form, arrive from one side wall of the tank body to the other side wall thereof facing it, and are orthogonally arranged regularly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pressure tank having a lattice structure, comprising:
a tank body that has a high-pressure fluid accommodated therein and has a prismatic shape; and
cell structures that are disposed in the tank body, have a lattice form, arrive from a first side wall of the tank body to a second side wall thereof facing the first side wall, and are orthogonally arranged,
wherein the cell structures include beam surface structures having flat cell walls that arrive from the first side wall of the tank body to the second side wall thereof facing the first side wall and are orthogonally arranged to intersect with each other and cell beams that are positioned at a point at which the cell walls intersect each other,
wherein the cell beams are branching type cell beams,
wherein the branching type cell beams include beams that extend in a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system (X, Y, and Z) structure, and
wherein the cell beams are circular cell beams each having circular sections, or diamond-shaped cell beams each having diamond-shaped sections and corners of the diamond-shaped cell beams contact the cell walls.

2. The pressure tank of claim 1 , wherein the cell walls are provided with quadrangular cell wall holes comprising corners that are rounded.

3. The pressure tank of claim 2 , further comprising: surface stiffening members that contact top surfaces or bottom surfaces of the cell walls and are orthogonally arranged at boundary surfaces of the cell wall holes to intersect with each other, and
the surface stiffening members have girders with flanges.

4. The pressure tank of claim 1 , wherein the cell beams are circular cell beams each having circular sections.

5. The pressure tank of claim 1 , wherein the cell beams are diamond-shaped cell beams each having diamond-shaped sections and corners of the diamond-shaped cell beams contact the cell walls.

6. A pressure tank having a lattice structure, comprising:
a tank body that has a high-pressure fluid accommodated therein and has a prismatic shape; and
cell structures that are disposed in the tank body, have a lattice form, arrive from a first side wall of the tank body to a second side wall thereof facing the first side wall, and are orthogonally arranged,
wherein the cell structures include cell walls orthogonally arranged to intersect with each other, and
wherein the tank body includes an inner wall contacting the cell structures and an outer wall positioned at a predetermined distance from the inner wall, the outer wall not contacting the cell structures.

7. The pressure tank of claim 6 , wherein at least one of an inner side of the inner wall, an outer side of the inner wall, an inner side of the outer wall, and an outer side of the outer wall is provided with a wall stiffening member having a lattice form,
the wall stiffening member is a girder with flanges and has an upper surface joined to the inner wall or the outer wall.

8. The pressure tank of claim 6 , wherein a plurality of girders with flanges are disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall, the top surfaces of the girders contact an outer side of the inner wall to correspond to a portion at which the cell structures contact the inner wall and flanges of the girders are welded to the outer wall.

9. The pressure tank of claim 6 , further comprising: gas sensors sensing gas between the inner wall and the outer wall.

10. The pressure tank of claim 6 , wherein the pressure tank comprises structures having one wall surface of the inner wall and the outer wall or a combination of a plurality of wall surfaces thereof.

11. The pressure tank of claim 6 , wherein the pressure tank is structurally stiffened and has improved heat insulating performance by filling concrete or heat insulating materials between the inner wall and the outer wall.

12. A pressure tank having a lattice structure, comprising:
a tank body that has a high-pressure fluid accommodated therein and has a prismatic shape; and
cell structures that are disposed in the tank body, have a lattice form, arrive from a first side wall of the tank body to a second side wall thereof facing the first side wall, and are orthogonally arranged,
wherein the tank body includes an inner wall contacting the cell structures and an outer wall positioned at a predetermined distance from the inner wall, and
wherein a plurality of girders having a plate shape are disposed between the inner wall and the outer wall, the girders contacting an outer side of the inner wall to correspond to portions at which the cell structures contact the inner wall and the other sides thereof contacting an inner side of the outer wall.

Assignees

• Korea Advanced Inst Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Chang Dae Jun
• Bergan Pal G

Classifications

• F17C2223/035

  High pressure (>10 bar) · CPC title

• F17C2250/04

  Indicating or measuring of parameters as input values · CPC title

• F17C2201/0166

  divided in several chambers · CPC title

• F17C2260/011

  Improving strength · CPC title

• F17C2270/0105

  Ships · CPC title