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US 12,613,009 B2Granted
Tank valve device
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsEiji Okawachi, Yutaka Hotta, Masayoshi Okamoto, Makoto Ninomiya, Masashi Harada, Ryo Miyoshi
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Abstract
A tank valve device has a valve block provided in an opening of a tank, a valve that is attached to the valve block, a nozzle head that extends along an axial line and is attached to the valve block and arranged inside the tank, and a temperature sensor that measures fluid temperature in the tank, and the nozzle head has a filling line that flows fluid to be filled into the tank, and the temperature sensor is inserted through the nozzle head.
Claims8
A tank valve device comprising:
- a valve block provided in an opening of a tank;
- a valve that is attached to the valve block;
- a nozzle head in the shape of a cylinder that extends along an axial line and is attached to the valve block and arranged inside the tank;
- a temperature sensor that measures fluid temperature in the tank, and
- a fastener that fastens the nozzle head to the valve block, wherein
- the nozzle head includes:
- a filling and supplying line that flows fluid to be filled into the tank and is capable of delivering fluid in the tank;
- a sensor insertion hole through which the temperature sensor is inserted;
- and one fastener insertion hole through which the fastener is inserted,
- the filling and supplying line, the sensor insertion hole, and the one fastener insertion hole are formed in a cross section of the cylinder of the nozzle head,
- the nozzle head has a head-side engaging portion,
- the valve block has a block-side engaging portion, and
- the block-side engaging portion prevents the nozzle head from rotating about the fastener by engaging with the head-side engaging portion.
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