Fuel charging module and fuel charging method
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorTae Gyeong Koo
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Abstract
A fuel charging module includes a storage tank that stores a fuel, a supply pipeline that supplies the fuel supplied from a charging station, to the storage tank, a flow rate control valve mounted on the supply pipeline and located on an upstream side of the supply pipeline with respect to a flow direction of the fuel, a heat-exchange pad contacting with the storage tank for exchange of heat with the storage tank, and a heat-exchange pipeline connected to the flow rate control valve, and that supplies the fuel to the heat-exchange pad. The flow rate control valve may be configured to determine the flow direction of the fuel supplied through the receptacle as a flow direction of the storage tank or the heat-exchange pad.
Claims12
A fuel charging module comprising:
- a storage tank configured to store a fuel;
- a supply pipeline connected to the storage tank and configured to supply the fuel supplied from a charging station, to the storage tank;
- a flow rate control valve mounted on the supply pipeline;
- a heat-exchange pad contacting with the storage tank for exchange of heat with the storage tank;
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- a heat-exchange pipeline connected to the flow rate control valve and the heat-exchange pad, and configured to supply the fuel to the heat-exchange pad,
- wherein the flow rate control valve is configured to supply the fuel supplied through the charging station, to the storage tank or the heat-exchange pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.