F17C 6/00
Methods and apparatus for filling vessels not under pressure with liquefied or
Official title: Methods and apparatus for filling vessels not under pressure with liquefied or solidified gases
F17C6/00 (Methods and apparatus for filling vessels not under pressure with liquefied or) appears on 258 US grants and 283 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F17C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 283
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Gas storage device18 Aug 2026US 12,710,136 B2Twisted Sun Innovations, Inc.
- Vent system26 May 2026US 12,637,228 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Method for assembling and installing a liquefied gas storage tank12 May 2026US 12,624,797 B2Gaztransport Et Technigaz
- Sealed and thermally insulating tank5 May 2026US 12,618,520 B2Gaztransport Et Technigaz
- Device and method for transferring liquid helium into an application cryostat28 Apr 2026US 12,613,000 B2
- Method and facility for transferring cryogenic liquid27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251268 A1L Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
- Apparatus and method for dispensing a cryogenic liquid13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235261 A1Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- Liquefied hydrogen facility and method for operating same30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218979 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Liquefied hydrogen equipment23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210496 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method and system for filling fluid containers30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117929 A1EDAG Engineering GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus to generate liquid ambulatory oxygen from an oxygen concentrator136US 5,979,440 ASeQual Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Methods and apparatus to generate liquid ambulatory oxygen from an oxygen concentrator133US 6,698,423 B1SeQual Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Apparatus and method for regulating temperature in a cryogenic test chamber118US 4,848,093 AQuantum Design, Inc. · 1989
- Methods and apparatus to generate liquid ambulatory oxygen from an oxygen concentrator101US 6,681,764 B1SeQual Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Method and system for independently filling multiple canisters from cascaded storage stations96US 7,415,995 B2Scott Technologies, Inc. · 2008