Fuel compressor
AssigneePhinia Delphi Luxembourg Sarl
InventorDiego GUERRATO
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Abstract
A fuel compressor for compressing gaseous vehicle fuel, includes: a housing; a piston arranged for reciprocating movement along a piston axis within the housing; a drive arrangement arranged to drive reciprocating movement of the piston along the piston axis a first compression chamber in which gaseous fuel is compressed by movement of the piston in a first direction along the piston axis, in use; and a second compression chamber in which gaseous fuel is compressed by movement of the piston in a second direction along the piston axis in use. The first and second compression chambers are mutually spaced along the piston axis so that the first and second compression chambers are arranged at opposed ends of the piston.
Claims23
A fuel compressor for compressing gaseous vehicle fuel, the fuel compressor comprising:
- a housing;
- a piston arranged for reciprocating movement along a piston axis within the housing;
- a drive arrangement arranged to drive reciprocating movement of the piston along the piston axis;
- a first compression chamber in which gaseous fuel is compressed by movement of the piston in a first direction along the piston axis in use;
- and
- a second compression chamber in which gaseous fuel is compressed by movement of the piston in a second direction along the piston axis in use, the first and second compression chambers being mutually spaced along the piston axis so that the first and second compression chambers are arranged at opposed ends of the piston.
A method of compressing gaseous vehicle fuel, the method comprising:
- moving a piston in a first direction along a piston axis to compress gaseous fuel in a first compression chamber;
- and
- moving the piston in a second direction along the piston axis to compress gaseous fuel in a second compression chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.