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US 8,627,841 B2Granted
Storage tank system and method of decompressing the storage tank system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuji Hirakata
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Abstract
A tank system includes a high-pressure tank, a detection unit for detecting a temperature increase in at least a portion of the high-pressure tank, a decompression unit for decompressing the high-pressure tank, and a control unit for controlling the decompression unit to decompress the high-pressure tank when a temperature increase in at least a part of the high-pressure tank is detected by the detection unit.
Claims10
A tank system mounted in a vehicle comprising:
- a high-pressure tank;
- a detection device that detects a temperature increase in at least a portion of the high-pressure tank;
- a decompression device that decompresses the high-pressure tank;
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- a control device that controls the decompression device to decompress the high-pressure tank when a temperature increase in the at least a portion of the high-pressure tank is detected by the detection device,
- a temperature sensing device that detects a temperature in at least a part of the vehicle,
- wherein the control device increases detection sensitivity of the detection device when the temperature detected by the temperature sensing device exceeds a predetermined temperature.
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