Gas filling ystem
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroaki NISHIUMI
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Abstract
To provide a gas filling system capable of optimizing filling of a gas tank depending on the cooling capability of a gas station. A gas filling system comprises: a vehicle having a gas tank; a gas station having a cooling device that cools a gas from a gas supply source, the gas station discharging the gas cooled by the cooling device to fill the gas tank with the gas, and a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the gas cooled by the cooling device on the upstream side of the gas tank. The vehicle has a first controller that determines the filling flow rate of the gas to the gas tank based on the gas temperature detected by the temperature sensor.
Claims11
A gas filling system comprising a vehicle having a gas tank;
- and a gas station having a cooling device that cools a gas from a gas supply source, the gas station discharging the gas cooled by the cooling device to fill said gas tank with the gas, the gas filling system further comprising:
- a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the gas cooled by said cooling device on the upstream side of said gas tank;
- and
- a first controller that is provided in said vehicle and determines the filling flow rate of the gas to said gas tank based on the gas temperature detected by said temperature sensor;
- wherein said vehicle has a first communication device connected to said first controller, and
- said gas station has:
- a flow rate controlling device;
- a second communication device that receives information about said determined filling flow rate from said first communication device;
- and
- a second controller that controls said flow rate controlling device to achieve the filling flow rate received by said second communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.