High pressure gas container and method for manufacturing high pressure gas container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10429009-B2
Application number	US-201515558868-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 17, 2015
Priority date	Mar 17, 2015
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

In a high pressure gas container with a container body having a fusible plug valve and a boss portion arranged at a position different from the fusible plug valve, each of the fusible plug valve and the boss portion has a higher heat conductivity than the container body, the fusible plug valve and the boss portion are connected by a heat conductor and the heat conductor is accommodated in the container body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high pressure gas container with a container body having a plurality of layers, and a fusible plug valve and a boss portion arranged at a position different from the fusible plug valve, wherein:
each of the fusible plug valve and the boss portion has a higher heat transfer rate than an outermost layer of the plurality of layers of the container body; and
the fusible plug valve and the boss portion are connected by a heat conductor, the heat conductor having a higher heat transfer rate than the outermost layer of the plurality of layers of the container body and being accommodated in the container body such that the heat conductor forms a heat transfer passage through a space inside of the container body,
wherein the container body has, inside the container body, a gas filling space structured to be filled with high pressure gas,
wherein the container body is structured to house the heat conductor within the gas filling space, and receive, in the gas filling space, gas that flows into the gas filling space in an axial direction of the container through the boss portion,
wherein the heat conductor includes a displacement absorber configured to absorb relative displacement that occurs between the fusible plug valve and the boss portion, and
wherein the displacement absorber is formed by a plurality of wires in a state slackened between the fusible plug valve and the boss portion.

2. The high pressure gas container according to claim 1 , wherein:
a filling flow passage for filling high pressure gas into the container body is provided in a part of the fusible plug valve in the container body; and
the heat conductor is connected to intersect with an inwardly extended line of the filling flow passage inside of the container body.

3. A method for manufacturing the high pressure gas container according to claim 1 , wherein the boss portion is one boss portion of a pair of boss portions, the pair of boss portions respectively provided on both ends of the container body, the method comprising the steps of:
setting the pair of boss portions in a mold with one end of the heat conductor attached to the one of the pair of boss portions and the other end of the heat conductor attached to the other of the pair of boss portions; and
molding an inner layer body of the plurality of layers of the container body by performing blow molding in the mold.

4. The high pressure gas container of claim 1 , wherein the heat conductor is formed of braided wire.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Takemoto Shinichirou

Classifications

• F17C2250/0491

  Parameters measured at or inside the vessel · CPC title

• F17C2201/056

  Small (<1 m3) · CPC title

• F17C2201/0109

  with exteriorly curved end-piece · CPC title

• F17C2223/036

  Very high pressure (>80 bar) · CPC title

• F17C2221/012

  Hydrogen · CPC title