Pressure vessel
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
InventorYasuto Kataoka
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Abstract
A cuboid pressure vessel comprises a top wall, a bottom wall, and an external wall. The external wall comprises a main body including a first side wall having a first opening, and a second side wall having a second opening; a first lid secured to the first side wall so as to occlude the first opening; and a second lid secured to the second side wall so as to occlude the second opening. The bottom wall comprises a main body; and a reinforcement rib provided in an upright manner on the outer surface of the main body. The reinforcement rib is provided in an upright manner on the outer surface of an area, within the main body, which contains a central section of the main body, and which excludes four corner sections, a region adjacent to the first lid and a region adjacent to the second lid.
Claims4
A cuboid pressure vessel, comprising:
- a square-shaped top wall;
- a square-shaped bottom wall which is opposed to the top wall;
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- an external wall which connects the periphery of the top wall to the periphery of the bottom wall, wherein
- the external wall is provided with:
- an external-wall main body which includes a first side wall having a first opening that allows a heat exchanger to be inserted to an area surrounded by the external wall, and a second side wall having a second opening that allows the heat exchanger to be inserted to the area surrounded by the external wall;
- a first lid which is configured to cover the first opening and which is secured to the first side wall so as to occlude the first opening;
- and a second lid which is configured to cover the second opening and which is secured to the second wall so as to occlude the second opening,
- the bottom wall is provided with:
- a bottom-wall main body which is connected to the lower end of the external wall;
- and a bottom-wall reinforcement rib which is provided in an upright manner on the outer surface of the bottom-wall main body, and
- the bottom-wall reinforcement rib is provided in an upright manner on the outer surface of an area, within the bottom-wall main body, which contains a central section of the bottom-wall main body and which excludes four corner sections, a region adjacent to the first lid, and a region adjacent to the second lid of the bottom-wall main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.