Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated mobile compressed hydrogen fuel source management for mobile power generation applications
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Application No.: US16742218Application Date: 2020-01-14
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Publication No.: US11302941B2Publication Date: 2022-04-12
- Inventor: Raffaello Ardanese , Kristopher A. Thor , Amber T. Vanness , Mark A. Leavitt
- Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: Quinn IP Law
- Main IPC: H01M8/0438
- IPC: H01M8/0438 ; H01M8/04082 ; H01M8/04746 ; F16K21/04 ; F16K37/00 ; G05D7/01

Abstract:
A pressure-based latching switch includes a shuttle valve, a first valve and a second valve. The shuttle valve may switch a fuel through one of a first port and a second port in response to a greater pressure of the fuel at the ports. The first valve may switch a fuel to the first port while a second pressure of the fuel at the second port is less than a second threshold pressure. The second valve may switch the fuel to the second port while a first pressure of the fuel at the first port is less than a first threshold pressure. The pressure-based latching switch may change the fuel supplied to the fuel cell system automatically from a first fuel tank to a second fuel tank in response to the first pressure of the fuel falling below the first threshold pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210218043A1 AUTOMATED MOBILE COMPRESSED HYDROGEN FUEL SOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE POWER GENERATION APPLICATIONS Public/Granted day:2021-07-15
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