High-pressure container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10900609-B2
Application number	US-201715850270-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2017
Priority date	Jan 6, 2017
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

A high-pressure container has a body part, and a cap inserted in the body part, and the body part has a cylindrical liner, and a reinforcement layer provided on an outer circumferential surface of the liner for reinforcing the liner. The cap has a contact portion that contacts with an inner circumferential surface of the liner, a through-hole that communicates the inside of the body part with the outside, and a projecting portion that is pressed outward in radial directions of the body part, and bites into the reinforcement layer, so as to inhibit the cap from moving in the axial direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A high-pressure container comprising:
a body part having
a liner that is cylindrical, and
a reinforcement layer on an outer circumferential surface of the liner and that reinforces the liner; and

a cap inserted in the body part, the cap having
a contact portion in abutting contact with an inner circumferential surface of the liner,
a fastener that is threaded into the contact portion and including a communicating portion that communicates an inside of the body part with an outside of the body part, and
a projection holding part that includes a projecting portion that faces the reinforcement layer, and a first tapered portion and a second tapered portion that face away from the reinforcement layer, wherein the projecting portion is pressed outward in radial directions of the body part due to threading the fastener into the contact portion, and bites into the reinforcement layer, the first tapered portion tapering radially inward toward the second tapered portion, and the second tapered portion tapering radially inward toward the first tapered portion.

2. The high-pressure container according claim 1 , wherein the projecting portion of the cap includes a plurality of saw teeth that projects outward in radial directions of the body part and bites into the reinforcement layer, each of the saw teeth having a reaction face that faces outward in an axial direction of the body part, the reaction face being formed to be generally orthogonal to the axial direction of the body part.

3. The high-pressure container according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcement layer of the body part comprises a fiber reinforced resin containing carbon fibers, and the carbon fibers are arranged in a circumferential direction of the body part, on an inner circumferential surface side of the reinforcement layer.

4. The high-pressure container according to claim 1 , wherein the projecting portion of the cap is configured to be displaced outward generally in the radial directions of the body part, under a pressure received from the inside of the body part.

5. The high-pressure container according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first tapered portion and the second tapered portion are on one side remote from the reinforcement layer; and
the cap includes a pressing part that is in abutting contact with the first tapered portion and the second tapered portion, the pressing part being configured to press the projecting portion against the reinforcement layer, such that the projecting portion bites into the reinforcement layer.

6. The high-pressure container according to claim 1 , wherein the liner of the body part comprises aluminum alloy or nylon resin.

7. The high-pressure container according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first tapered portion and the second tapered portion provide a surface that slides axially with respect to a surface of the contact portion due to threading the fastener into the contact portion.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sawai Osamu

Classifications

• F17C1/00 Primary

  Pressure vessels, e.g. gas cylinder, gas tank, replaceable cartridge (pressurised apparatus for purposes other than storage, see the relevant subclasses such as A62C, B05B; associated with vehicles, see the appropriate subclass of classes B60 - B64; pressure vessels in general F16J12/00 {; autoclaves B01J3/04; tank vehicles B60P3/22; railway tank wagons for carrying fluent materials B61D5/00; accumulators for supplying fluid under pressure F15B1/04; liquefied gas stoves F24C3/00}) · CPC title

• F17C2205/0146

  with details of the manifold · CPC title

• F17C2201/056

  Small (<1 m3) · CPC title

• F17C2203/066

  Plastics · CPC title

• Y02E60/32

  Hydrogen storage · CPC title