US 11,913,603 B2
Pressure vessel
Cheol Hwan Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/678,593.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0084943 (KR), filed on Jun. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412509 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. F17C 1/06 (2006.01); F17C 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 1/06 (2013.01) [F17C 13/002 (2013.01); F17C 2201/0109 (2013.01); F17C 2201/019 (2013.01); F17C 2201/056 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0617 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0639 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0665 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0673 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0107 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0126 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0397 (2013.01); F17C 2221/014 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0123 (2013.01); F17C 2223/036 (2013.01); F17C 2260/013 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0554 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pressure vessel comprising:
a plurality of barrel parts, each disposed in a respective predefined square area of a plurality of square areas and having a diameter corresponding to a length of one side of the square area;
wherein, for each barrel part of the plurality of barrel parts, the pressure vessel further comprises:
a first nozzle member disposed at one end of the barrel part;
a second nozzle member disposed at an opposite end of the barrel part; and
clamp rings disposed in the square area, positioned outside the barrel part, and configured to lock the first and second nozzle members to the barrel part;
wherein the plurality of square areas are disposed to one another to define a matrix;
wherein the first nozzle members of barrel parts disposed in neighboring square areas are adjacent to one another and the second nozzle members of barrel parts disposed in the neighboring square areas are adjacent to one another, and
wherein the pressure vessel additionally comprises:
a guide protrusion provided on any one of the adjacent second nozzle members; and
a guide groove provided in other of the adjacent second nozzle members and configured to accommodate the guide protrusion so that the guide protrusion is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the barrel part.