Safety joint housing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12247702-B2
Application number	US-202318200927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 23, 2023
Priority date	May 31, 2022
Publication date	Mar 11, 2025
Grant date	Mar 11, 2025

Abstract

To provide a safety joint housing device for preventing a plug or a filling hose from being locked in a lower opening of a casing when the safety joint is separated, thereby preventing a filling device from falling over and being damaged.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A safety joint housing device for housing a safety joint including a plug connected to a filling hose and a socket provided in a filling device, said safety joint separating when a tensile load exceeding a predetermined level is applied, said safety joint housing device comprising:
a casing for housing the plug and the socket in a connected state;
a front roller disposed on a front side of the casing at a lower opening from which the filling hose is led out from the casing so as to be rotatable about a horizontal axis; and
two side rollers adjacent to the front roller and rotatably arranged about horizontal axes orthogonal to the axis of the front roller;
wherein the filling hose passes through the casing side of a U-shaped portion formed by the front roller and the two side rollers.

2. The safety joint housing device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a central shaft of the front roller and central shafts of the side rollers are connected; a hollow rotating body of the front roller is arranged rotatably around the central shaft without being connected thereto;
and hollow rotating bodies of the side rollers are arranged rotatably around the central shafts without being connected thereto.

3. The safety joint housing device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a mounting frame having side plates extending parallel to the side rollers, a front plate extending parallel to the front roller, and a filling device side plate extending parallel to the front plate,
wherein a protruding portion protruding toward the front roller is formed on an end portion, on the front roller side, of each side plate;
a central shaft of the front roller is rotatably supported by the protruding portions of the side plates; and
central shafts of the two side rollers are rotatably supported on both longitudinal ends of the front plate and on both longitudinal ends of the filling device side plate.

4. The safety joint housing device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a non-rotating part with a central shaft supporting portion is interposed between an end of the front roller and an end of the side roller adjacent to the front roller side; another non-rotating part with a central shaft supporting portion is interposed between the other end of the front roller and an end of the other side roller adjacent to the front roller side; the non-rotating parts rotatably support the central shafts of the rollers on which they are provided; and the central shaft supporting portions rotatably support the central shafts of the rollers on which they are provided.

Assignees

• Tatsuno Corp

Inventors

• Takezawa Masahiro
• Tsugumi Yoshitaka
• Oto Yoshimi
• Ouchi Toshihiko

Classifications

• F17C2270/0139

  Fuel stations · CPC title

• F17C2221/012

  Hydrogen · CPC title

• F17C13/04

  Arrangement or mounting of valves (valves per se F16K {; snap-coupling of nipples F16L37/00}) · CPC title

• F17C2270/0178

  Cars · CPC title

• F17C2265/065

  for refuelling vehicle fuel tanks · CPC title