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US 6,206,027 B1Granted
Tank for pressurized fluid, in particular for liquefied gas
AssigneeSociete Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation "S.N.E.C.M.A."
InventorsLionel Ponnet, Patrick Jacquier, Jean-Louis Charles
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Abstract
The tank is made up of a plurality of elementary tanks such as tubes (20) connected in parallel to at least one manifold device (30, 32), and it includes closure valves enabling any one of the elementary tanks to be isolated in response to a drop in the pressure contained therein.
Claims10
A tank for a fluid under pressure, comprising:
- a plurality of elementary tanks in the form of at least one bundle of adjacent tubes disposed parallel to one another, each tube having an end connected to a manifold device to which several tubes are connected in parallel, said manifold device being connected to an output of said tank;
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- closure means in the form of respective valves each mounted at said tube end, each valve being responsive to a pressure drop in the corresponding tube relative to the pressure in the manifold device to which said corresponding tube is connected, so as to close said tube end, thereby isolating said corresponding tube from the manifold device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.