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US 2019/0292973 A1Published application
Method and system for operating a gaseous fuel vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsZhen Jiang, Dominique Meroux
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Abstract
Methods and systems for operating a vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine and a gaseous fuel storage tank are presented. In one example, the gaseous fuel storage tank is cooled so that an amount of gaseous fuel that may be stored in the gaseous fuel tank may be increased to extend a vehicle's driving range.
Claims20
A vehicle system, comprising:
- a cooling circuit including a pump or compressor;
- a gaseous fuel storage tank in thermal communication with the cooling circuit;
- and
- a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory to cool the gaseous fuel tank via the cooling circuit in response to filling of the gaseous fuel tank.
1 more element
A vehicle system, comprising:
- a cooling circuit including a pump or compressor;
- a gaseous fuel tank in thermal communication with the cooling circuit;
- and
- a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory to cool the gaseous fuel tank via the cooling circuit below an ambient temperature in response to filling of the gaseous fuel tank when a filling station pressure is less than a rated pressure of the gaseous fuel tank.
1 more element
A vehicle operating method, comprising:
- cooling a gaseous fuel storage tank that is in fluidic communication with an internal combustion engine via a controller and a cooling circuit that is included in a vehicle in response to filling the gaseous fuel tank with fuel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.