Vehicle refueling system and method
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorYe Eun Shin
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Abstract
A vehicle refueling system and a vehicle refueling method are provided. The vehicle refueling system includes a plurality of refueling hoses connected with a plurality of nozzles fastened with a vehicle, a plurality of flow control valves installed in the plurality of refueling hoses, and a refueling controller that controls the plurality of flow control valves. The refueling controller determines any one of a plurality of refueling modes based on characteristic information of the vehicle and available information of the plurality of nozzles, determines a refueling speed and target pressure of a fuel tank of the vehicle based on the determined refueling mode, and adjusts opening rates of the plurality of flow control valves based on the determined refueling speed and the determined target pressure.
Claims16
A vehicle refueling system, comprising:
- a plurality of refueling hoses connected with a plurality of nozzles configured to be fastened to a vehicle;
- a plurality of flow control valves installed in the plurality of refueling hoses;
- and
- a refueling controller configured to control the plurality of flow control valves,
- wherein the refueling controller is configured to
- determine any one of a plurality of refueling modes based on characteristic information of the vehicle and available information of the plurality of nozzles,
- determine a refueling speed and a target pressure of a fuel tank of the vehicle based on the determined refueling mode, and
- adjust opening rates of the plurality of flow control valves based on the determined refueling speed and the determined target pressure, and
- wherein the characteristic information of the vehicle includes:
- a number of receptacles fastened with at least one of the plurality of nozzles;
- and
- a number of refueling modules arranged between the fuel tank of the vehicle and the number of receptacles.
A vehicle refueling method, comprising:
- determining a refueling mode, among a plurality of refueling modes, based on characteristic information of a vehicle and available information of a plurality of nozzles fastened to the vehicle;
- determining a refueling speed and a target pressure of a fuel tank of the vehicle based on the determined refueling mode;
- and
- adjusting opening rates of a plurality of flow control valves installed in a plurality of refueling hoses connected with the plurality of nozzles based on the determined refueling speed and the determined target pressure,
- wherein the characteristic information of the vehicle includes:
- a number of receptacles fastened with at least one of the plurality of nozzles;
- and
- a number of refueling modules arranged between the fuel tank of the vehicle and the number of receptacles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.