Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tank with internal connecting member and method for assembling such a tank
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Application No.: US14912708Application Date: 2014-09-05
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Publication No.: US10343347B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Pierre De Keyzer , Laurent Duez , Jules-Joseph Van Schaftingen
- Applicant: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research
- Applicant Address: BE Brussels
- Assignee: PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATION AND RESEARCH
- Current Assignee: PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATION AND RESEARCH
- Current Assignee Address: BE Brussels
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: EP13183419 20130906
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/068996 WO 20140905
- International Announcement: WO2015/032924 WO 20150312
- Main IPC: B29C65/00
- IPC: B29C65/00 ; B60K15/03

Abstract:
A method for assembling a tank, including: providing a plastic first shell, a plastic second shell with an opening, and at least one connecting member with a plastic end part configured to be arranged in or around the opening, the first and second shell delimiting an internal volume of the tank, and the connecting member being dimensioned for connecting the first and second shell in the internal volume of the tank; welding a circumference of the first shell to a circumference of the second shell; arranging the end part in or around the opening; and connecting the end part of the connecting member to a wall part of the second shell by heating an external area of the second shell surrounding the opening and/or by heating the end part of the connecting member.
Public/Granted literature
- US10399278B2 Tank with internal connecting member and method for assembling such a tank Public/Granted day:2019-09-03
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