Systems for installing a compressed gas fuel system in a vehicle and methods of using the same
AssigneeNatural Gas Fuel Systems, LLC
InventorsMichael ZIMMERMAN, Herbert Clayton NOELKE, V, Kurt ALLDREDGE, Devraj PATKAR
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Abstract
This disclosure includes a system for installing compressed gas fuel tanks in a vehicle and related methods. Some systems have an installation frame including first and second frame members, and, for each of the first and second frame members, fuel tank mounts configured to be coupled to and along the frame member, each of the fuel tank mounts configured to be simultaneously coupled to the frame member, a compressed gas fuel tank, and a vehicle independently of the frame member such that the fuel tank mount remains coupled to the vehicle when the frame member is decoupled from the fuel tank mount.
Claims32
A system for installing compressed gas fuel tanks in a vehicle, the system comprising:
- an installation frame including first and second frame members;
- and
- for each of the first and second frame members, fuel tank mounts configured to be coupled to and along the frame member, each of the fuel tank mounts configured to be simultaneously coupled to:
- the frame member;
- a neck of a compressed gas fuel tank via a neck passageway of the fuel tank mount;
- and
- a vehicle independently of the frame member such that the fuel tank mount remains coupled to the vehicle when the frame member is decoupled from the fuel tank mount.
A method for installing compressed gas fuel tanks in a vehicle, the method comprising:
- coupling compressed gas fuel tanks to first and second frame members of an installation
- frame at least by coupling fuel tank mounts that are coupled to the compressed gas fuel tanks to the frame members;
- while the compressed gas fuel tanks are coupled to the first and second frame members, coupling the compressed gas fuel tanks to the vehicle via the fuel tank mounts;
- and
- while the compressed gas fuel tanks are coupled to the vehicle, decoupling the first and second frame members from the fuel tank mounts and removing the first and second frame members from the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.