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US 10,578,247 B2Granted
Fluid container
AssigneeH2Safe, LLC
InventorAndrew Harlan Weisberg
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Abstract
A container that provides for control of fluid flow in the event of a failure of the container is disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a container is presented that includes a container wall; and one or more flow impeding structures coupled to the container wall, wherein at least one of the one or more flow impeding structures is a multi-sheet layer that deforms to impede flow in a failure of the container wall. In some embodiments, the multi-sheet layer includes cavities formed between individual sheets.
Claims24
A container, comprising
- a container wall;
- one or more layers arranged adjacent to the container wall, each of the one or more layers having at least one sheet and at least one of the one or more layers being a multisheet layer having a plurality of sheets, wherein the plurality of sheets have the same spatial boundaries;
- wherein at least an innermost layer of the at least one or more layers deforms in response to a failure in the container wall to impede flow through the container wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.