Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular liquid containment system and method for verifying integrity of same
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Application No.: US15301648Application Date: 2015-04-01
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Publication No.: US10443529B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: David Hill
- 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: EP14169163 20140520
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/057180 WO 20150401
- International Announcement: WO2015/150455 WO 20151008
- Main IPC: F02D41/22
- IPC: F02D41/22 ; G01M3/00 ; G01M3/32 ; F02M37/00 ; F02D33/00 ; G01F23/24 ; G08B21/18

Abstract:
A vehicular liquid containment system including a tank, a pressure sensor arranged to detect a pressure in a vapor dome inside the tank, at least two thermistors configured to detect temperatures at a plurality of levels of the tank, and leak detection logic operatively connected to the pressure sensor and the thermistors. The leak detection logic is configured to: use a first thermistor of the thermistors to perform a first measurement indicative of a temperature in the vapor dome in the tank; estimate an expected pressure evolution in function of at least the first temperature measurement; monitor pressure sensed by the pressure sensor, determine whether the monitored pressure deviates from the expected pressure evolution, and generate a leak condition signal conditional on the determining.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170022920A1 VEHICULAR LIQUID CONTAINMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING INTEGRITY OF SAME Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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