# US 8,783,504 B2 · Pressure vessel for storing a fluid

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- Number: US 8,783,504 B2
- Document ID: US8783504B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/704,979
- Filed: 2011-06-17
- Published: 2013-06-20
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2010-06-17
- Assignees: Xperion GmbH
- Applicants: Michael Kleschinski; Dietmar Müller
- Inventors: Michael Kleschinski; Dietmar Müller
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8783504B2

## CPC

- F17C 1/06: built-up from wound-on bands or filamentary material, e.g. wires
- F17C 1/04: Protecting sheathings
- F17C 1/16: constructed of plastics materials {(shaping of plastics B29C)}
- F17C 13/06: Closures, e.g. cap, breakable member ({for autoclaves B01J3/03}; closures for {large} containers in general B65D {B65D90/54}; {for pressure vessels in general F16J13/00})
- F17C 2201/0109: with exteriorly curved end-piece
- F17C 2201/0123: with variable thickness or diameter
- F17C 2201/056: Small (<1 m3)
- F17C 2203/0604: Liners
- F17C 2203/0619: with two layers
- F17C 2203/0665: radially wound
- F17C 2203/067: helically wound
- F17C 2205/0305: Bosses, e.g. boss collars
- F17C 2209/2154: Winding
- F17C 2209/234: of closing end pieces, e.g. caps
- Y10T 428/1369: Fiber or fibers wound around each other or into a self-sustaining shape [e.g., yarn, braid, fibers shaped around a core, etc.]
- F17C: VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES (storing fluids in natural or artificial cavities or chambers in the earth B65G5/00; construction or assembling of bulk storage containers employing civil-engineering techniques E04H7/00; variable-capacity gas-holders F17B; liquefaction or refrigeration machines, plants, or systems F25)
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A pressure vessel for storing a fluid, comprises an outer jacket applied to a plastic core container, the outer jacket comprising a first fibre-reinforced reinforcing device with one or several wound layers comprising first fibres that are embedded in a first matrix material, a second fibre-reinforced reinforcing device formed on the outside of the first device and with one or several wound layers comprising second fibres that are embedded in a second matrix material, and an impact-absorbing thickening of the outer jacket in a polar cap region of the plastic core container. The thickening is formed in that one or several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region are formed in at least one of the reinforcing devices with a face opening that is larger than a face opening of other non-thickened wound layers in at least one of the reinforcing devices.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A pressure vessel for storing a fluid, comprising a plastic core container and an outer jacket applied to the plastic core container, with the outer jacket comprising:
a first fibre-reinforced reinforcing device with one or several wound layers comprising first fibres that are embedded in a first matrix material;
a second fibre-reinforced reinforcing device formed on the outside of the first reinforcing device and with one or several wound layers comprising second fibres that are embedded in a second matrix material; and
an impact-absorbing thickening of the outer jacket in a polar region at a transition region between a face and a circumference of the plastic core container, wherein the impact-absorbing thickening is formed in that one or several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region and extend over the circumference are formed in at least one of the first and second reinforcing devices with a face opening that is larger than a face opening of other wound layers in at least one of the first and second reinforcing devices, which wound layers are not thickened in the polar region;
wherein the impact-absorbing thickening formed in the polar region becomes less thick with distance toward the circumference and with distance toward the face, and wherein the second fibres in the one or several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region are arranged in the polar region at an angle of between 25° and 65° to a longitudinal axis of the plastic core container.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein in an opening in a neck region of the plastic core container in communicating with an interior space of the plastic core container, a neck piece for closing the interior space is arranged, and the wound layers that are not thickened in the polar region are formed to at least partially overlap with a collar of the neck piece, and the one or several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region are formed to not overlap with the collar of the neck piece.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein the one or several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region are exclusively formed in the second reinforcing device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein the second fibres are arranged at an angle of between 35° and 55° to the longitudinal axis.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The pressure vessel according to claim 3, wherein the first fibres in the wound layers that are not thickened in the polar region are arranged at an angle of between 5° and 25° to a longitudinal axis of the plastic core container.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second reinforcing devices comprises at least one wound circumferential layer along the circumference of the plastic core container.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein the first fibres are carbon fibres, and the second fibres are glass fibres.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein an outer wound layer of the second reinforcing device is a wound layer that is not thickened in the polar region.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein an inner wound layer of the second reinforcing device that closes off the second reinforcing device towards the plastic core container is a wound layer not thickened in the polar region.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The pressure vessel according to claim 1, wherein several wound layers that are thickened in the polar region are formed so as to be lying directly on top of each other.