US 10,480,715 B2 · Gas supply device and method for starting operation of gas supply device

Abstract

A gas supply device for supplying a hydrogen gas to a dispenser of a hydrogen station includes: a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant for cooling the gas before being discharged from the dispenser flows; a refrigerator that can cool the refrigerant; a cooling device that can cool the refrigerant by latent heat when liquid hydrogen changes to the hydrogen gas; and a control unit that performs control to activate the refrigerator while stopping the cooling device when a condition set in advance is satisfied after performing control to activate the cooling device in activation of the hydrogen station.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A gas supply device for supplying a gas to a dispenser of a gas station, the gas supply device comprising:

a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant for cooling all of a gas before being discharged from the dispenser flows;
a refrigerator configured to cool the refrigerant in the refrigerant flow path;
a cooling device configured to cool the refrigerant in the refrigerant flow path by latent heat of a liquefied gas;
and
a control unit configured to perform control to activate the cooling device and the refrigerator when the gas station is activated, wherein
the control unit performs control to stop the cooling device when a condition set in advance is satisfied.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/113,983Filed 27 Aug 2018

Priority

JP 2017-17759515 Sep 2017

Published

US 2019/0086031 A121 Mar 2019

Granted

19 Nov 2019

Term ends

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Classification27 codes

F17C 5/007
Automated filling apparatus: for individual gas tanks or containers, e.g. in vehicles
B60K 15/067
Arrangement of tanks: mounting of tanks
B60S 5/02
Servicing, maintaining, repairing, or refitting of vehicles: supplying fuel to vehicles; General disposition of plant in filling stations
F17C 5/06
Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases under pressures: for filling with compressed gases

Gas supply device and method for starting operation of gas supply device

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Gas supply device and method for starting operation of gas supply device

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Abstract

Claims18