System unit and method for deicing a spigot of a petrol pump of a filling station device having such a system unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12448274-B2
Application number	US-202218691639-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 11, 2022
Priority date	Sep 17, 2021
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

A system unit ( 100 ) having a tank storage system ( 20 ) that can be filled with fuel, a consumer system ( 101 ), and a cooling circuit ( 10 ), which is connected to the consumer system ( 101 ), for cooling the consumer system ( 101 ). A latent heat store ( 30 ) is arranged in the system unit ( 100 ), which latent heat store ( 30 ) is in the form of a thermal coupling ( 33 ) between the consumer system ( 101 ) and the tank storage system ( 20 ) or between the tank storage system ( 20 ) and the cooling circuit ( 10 ).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system unit ( 100 ) having a tank storage system ( 20 ) configured to receive fuel, a consumer system ( 101 ) and a cooling circuit ( 10 ) connected to the consumer system ( 101 ) for cooling the consumer system ( 101 ), wherein a latent heat store ( 30 ) is arranged in the system unit ( 100 ), the latent heat store ( 30 ) being configured as a thermal coupling ( 33 ) between the consumer system ( 101 ) and the tank storage system ( 20 ) or between the tank storage system ( 20 ) and the cooling circuit ( 10 ), wherein the system unit ( 100 ) includes heat exchanger components ( 110 ), and wherein the latent heat store ( 30 ) is thermally connected to the heat exchanger components ( 110 ) such that the latent heat store ( 30 ) is configured to receive heat from the heat exchanger components ( 110 ).

2. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the consumer system ( 101 ) is configured as a fuel cell system ( 1 ) with at least one fuel cell ( 2 ) or as a hydrogen combustion system ( 1 ′).

3. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the tank storage system ( 20 ) has a tank nozzle ( 21 ) that is thermally connected to the latent heat store ( 30 ).

4. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 3 , wherein the system unit ( 100 ) comprises a filling station device ( 400 ) that has at least one petrol pump ( 401 ) with a spigot ( 40 ) for filling the tank storage system ( 20 ).

5. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 4 , wherein the spigot ( 40 ) is thermally connected to the latent heat store ( 30 ) by the tank nozzle ( 21 ) of the tank storage system ( 20 ).

6. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 5 , wherein the latent heat store ( 30 ) has a phase change material ( 31 ) that has a phase transition, wherein the phase transition is configured to be activated by an actuator ( 32 ) to release thermal energy.

7. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 6 , wherein the phase transition of the latent heat store ( 30 ) is configured to be activated electrically, by pressure or by bending a metal plate by the actuator ( 32 ), and thermal energy is configured to be released.

8. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 6 , wherein the phase transition of the latent heat store ( 30 ) is configured to be activated by opening a tank flap element ( 200 ) of the tank storage system ( 20 ) to release thermal energy.

9. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 6 , wherein the phase change material ( 31 ) or the latent heat store ( 30 ) is arranged on the tank nozzle ( 21 ).

10. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 5 , wherein the latent heat store ( 30 ) is arranged between the tank nozzle ( 21 ) and the consumer system ( 101 ) or the cooling circuit ( 10 ).

11. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 1 , wherein gaseous or liquid fuel is configured to be stored in the tank storage system ( 20 ).

12. A method for deicing a spigot ( 40 ) of a petrol pump ( 401 ) of a filling station device ( 400 ) with the system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
activating a phase transition of the latent heat store ( 30 ) by an actuator ( 32 ) arranged on the latent heat store ( 30 ) by electrical assistance, by pressure or by bending a metal plate to release thermal energy and transfer the thermal energy via a tank nozzle ( 21 ) to a spigot ( 40 ).

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein a phase transition of the latent heat store ( 30 ) is activated by opening a tank flap element ( 200 ) of the tank storage system ( 20 ) to release thermal energy.

14. A hydrogen-powered vehicle ( 90 , 91 ) with the system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 1 .

15. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 7 , wherein the phase transition of the latent heat store ( 30 ) is configured to be activated by opening a tank flap element ( 200 ) of the tank storage system ( 20 ) to release thermal energy.

16. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 11 , wherein the gaseous or liquid fuel is gaseous or liquid hydrogen.

17. The system unit ( 100 ) according to claim 3 , wherein the latent heat store ( 30 ) is spaced from the tank storage system ( 20 ).

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Grote Claus
• Brunner Matthias

Classifications

• F17C2221/012

  Hydrogen · CPC title

• F17C5/007

  for individual gas tanks or containers, e.g. in vehicles (filling with liquid fuel not under pressure, B60S5/02, B67D7/00) · CPC title

• B67D7/78

  Arrangements of storage tanks, reservoirs or pipe-lines · CPC title

• Y02E60/32

  Hydrogen storage · CPC title

• H01M8/2484

  characterised by external manifolds · CPC title