Mobile distribution station with guided wave radar fuel level sensors
AssigneeFuel Automation Station, LLC
InventorRicky Dean Shock
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Abstract
A distribution station includes a mobile trailer, a pump on the mobile trailer, a manifold on the mobile trailer and connected with the pump, a plurality of hoses connected with the manifold, a plurality of valves on the mobile trailer, each of the valves situated between the manifold and a respective different one of the hoses, a plurality of guided wave radar level sensors, each of the guided wave radar level sensors being associated with a respective different one of the hoses, and a controller configured to communicate with the guided wave radar level sensors and operate the valves responsive to signals from the guided wave radar level sensors.
Claims20
A distribution station comprising:
- a mobile trailer;
- a pump on the mobile trailer;
- a manifold on the mobile trailer and connected with the pump;
- a plurality of hoses connected with the manifold, each said hose including an elastomeric tube and a fabric sleeve that circumscribes the tube;
- a plurality of valves on the mobile trailer, each of the valves situated between the manifold and a respective different one of the hoses;
- a plurality of guided wave radar level sensors, each of the guided wave radar level sensors being associated with a respective different one of the hoses;
- a plurality of sensor communication lines, each said sensor communication line connected to a different one of the guided wave radar level sensors, and each of the sensor communication lines being routed in a different one of the hoses between the elastomeric tube and the fabric sleeve;
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- a controller configured to communicate with the guided wave radar level sensors and operate the valves responsive to signals from the guided wave radar level sensors.
A mobile distribution station comprising a pump, a manifold, a plurality of hoses, a plurality of detachably connectable caps connected or connectable with the hoses, a plurality of valves, a plurality of guided wave radar level sensors, and a controller that is configured to operate the valves responsive to signals from the guided wave radar level sensors, wherein each of the hoses includes an elastomeric tube and a fabric sleeve circumscribing the elastomeric tube, and wherein the guided wave radar level sensors are hard-wired through the hoses between the elastomeric tubes and the fabric sleeves to the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.