Device equipped with tank
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeisuke Fujita
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Abstract
A device equipped with a tank, includes: the tank to be filled with a fuel gas; a valve mechanism provided in the tank; a receptacle with which a nozzle of a fuel gas filling device is connectable; a first filling path, an upstream end of the first filling path communicating with the receptacle; a second filling path, a downstream end of the second filling path communicating with the tank through the valve mechanism; and a storage container hermetically communicating between a downstream end of the first filling path and an upstream end of the second filling path, and storing foreign matter contained in the fuel gas, wherein the storage container is positioned vertically above the downstream end of the first filling path.
Claims10
A device equipped with a tank, comprising:
- the tank to be filled with a fuel gas;
- a valve mechanism provided in the tank;
- a receptacle with which a nozzle of a fuel gas filling device is connectable;
- a first filling path, an upstream end of the first filling path communicating with the receptacle;
- a second filling path, a downstream end of the second filling path communicating with the tank through the valve mechanism;
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- a storage container hermetically communicating between a downstream end of the first filling path and an upstream end of the second filling path, and storing foreign matter contained in the fuel gas,
- wherein the storage container is positioned vertically above the downstream end of the first filling path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.