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US 8,708,005 B2Granted
Gas filling system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomoyuki Mori
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Abstract
A gas filling system includes a vehicle having a gas tank, and a gas station that supplies the gas tank with gas. The vehicle includes a controller having a filling protocol that specifies a method of control on the gas station side that is used when the gas is filled into the gas tank. The gas station controls filling of the gas into the gas tank according to the filling protocol provided by the controller. A filling protocol specific to the vehicle is used and therefore, it is made possible to perform filling adapted to the gas tank of the vehicle.
Claims10
A gas filling system comprising:
- a vehicle having a gas tank;
- and
- a gas station that supplies the gas tank with gas, wherein:
- the vehicle includes a vehicle-side controller having a filling protocol, specific to, and stored in, the vehicle, that specifies a method of control, performed on the gas station side, that is used to fill the gas into the gas tank;
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- the gas station controls filling of the gas into the gas tank according to the filling protocol provided by the vehicle-side controller;
- the filling protocol includes a filling flow rate table in which one axis indicates tank pressure and the other axis indicates tank temperature,
- the filling flow rate, detected at each time of filling, is based on both a detected tank pressure and a detected tank temperature,
- the filling protocol is determined based on a characteristic of the gas tank, and
- the characteristic of the gas tank is heat dissipation capacity of the gas tank.
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