# US 12,005,279 B2 · Protective barrier for industrial equipment > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,005,279 B2 - Document ID: US12005279B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/715,312 - Filed: 2022-04-07 - Published: 2022-10-13 - Granted: 2024-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2022-04-07 - Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude - Applicants: L'Air Liquide Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude - Inventors: Arnaud Favre; Remy Kurtz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12005279B2 ## CPC - A62C 2/06: Physical fire-barriers - E04H 5/02: Buildings or groups of buildings for industrial purposes, e.g. for power-plants or factories (buildings forming part of cooling plants E04H5/10) - A62C 3/06: of highly inflammable material, e.g. light metals, petroleum products - E04D 13/17: Ventilation of roof coverings not otherwise provided for (ventilation of rooms or spaces F24F) - E04H 9/10: Independent shelters; Arrangement of independent splinter-proof walls - A62C: FIRE-FIGHTING (fire-extinguishing compositions, use of chemical substances in extinguishing fires A62D1/00; spraying, applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; alarm arrangements G08B, e.g. fire alarms actuated by smoke or gases G08B17/10) - E04H: BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) - E04D: ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F13/00) ## Abstract Protective barrier for an item of industrial equipment that is traversed by and/or processes a combustible fluid or oxygen, having four vertical walls forming four sides of a parallelepiped, these walls being attached to a base so as to define a rectangular-section space that is intended to contain the industrial equipment arranged on the base, the four vertical walls having a height of at least 2.4 m and having at least one partial roof attached to at least one of the vertical walls, having a surface parallel to the base and extending over the space, the surface area of the partial roof or the surface area of each of the partial roofs being equal to at most 50% of the surface area corresponding to the rectangular section. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A protective barrier for an item of industrial equipment that is traversed by and/or processes a combustible fluid or oxygen, comprising four vertical walls forming four sides of a parallelepiped, the four vertical walls being attached to a base so as to define a rectangular-section space that is configured to contain the industrial equipment arranged on the base, the four vertical walls having a height of at least 2.4 m and comprising at least two partial roofs attached to at least two of the four vertical walls, having a surface parallel to the base and extending over the space, the surface area of the at least two partial roofs being equal to at most 50% of a surface area corresponding to the rectangular section space, wherein a first wall of the four vertical walls is attached to a first partial roof of the at least two partial roofs, and a second wall of the four vertical walls is attached to a second partial roof of the at least two partial roofs, and the height of the second wall is greater than that of the first wall, the second wall being parallel to the first wall, wherein the first partial roof of the at least two partial roofs and the second partial roof of the at least two partial roofs do not overlap. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, comprising the industrial equipment arranged with at least in part a footprint below the at least two partial roofs. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The protective barrier according to claim 2, wherein the industrial equipment is entirely beneath at least one of the two partial roofs. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, comprising the industrial equipment contained in the rectangular section space, and wherein the industrial equipment is beneath only one of the at least two partial roofs. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, wherein at least 50% of the rectangular section space is uncovered. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, wherein the width of an open space of the protective barrier is greater than 0.75H, where H is the height of at least three walls of the four vertical walls. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, wherein the first and second partial roofs being above the rectangular section space formed by the four vertical walls. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The protective barrier according to claim 7, where the first partial roof is positioned at a lower height than the second partial roof. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The protective barrier according to claim 1, comprising the industrial equipment contained in the rectangular section space, where the industrial equipment is a compressor, a pump, a valve, a duct or a storage unit. ### Claim 10 An installation comprising at least two protective barriers for an item of industrial equipment that is traversed by and/or processes a combustible fluid or oxygen, each comprising four vertical walls forming four sides of a parallelepiped, the four vertical walls being attached to a base so as to define a rectangular-section space that is configured a height of at least 2.4 m and comprising at least two partial roofs attached to at least one of the four vertical walls, having a surface area parallel to the base and extending over the rectangular section space, the surface area of the at least two partial roofs or the surface area of each of the at least two partial roofs being equal to at most 50% of the surface area corresponding to the rectangular section space, the at least two protective barriers having a common wall, each protective barrier being configured to contain an item of industrial equipment that is traversed by and/or processes the combustible gas or oxygen, the common wall being parallel to a wall of the four vertical walls of each of the at least two protective barriers and being higher than the wall to which it is parallel. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The installation according to claim 10, comprising two partial roofs attached to the common wall. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The installation according to claim 11, wherein the two partial roofs are at the same height. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The installation according to claim 10, comprising two items of industrial equipment, each in the rectangular section space of one of the two protective barriers.