US 12,187,531 B2
Wet particle storage tank
Shugo Daikuhara, Nisshin (JP); Takenori Ikeda, Owariasahi (JP); Satoshi Moriyama, Nagoya (JP); Yuta Kawamoto, Kariya (JP); Keigo Oyaizu, Kariya (JP); and Suguru Nomimura, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/601,377.
Application 18/601,377 is a continuation of application No. 17/901,207, filed on Sep. 1, 2022, granted, now 11,952,208.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-177350 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0217729 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B65D 88/66 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 88/66 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wet particle storage tank comprising a tank body configured to store wet particles containing particles and a solvent, wherein the tank body includes:
an upper storage section having a supply port through which the wet particles are supplied;
a lower storage section located below the upper storage section and having a discharge port through which the wet particles are discharged; and
a bridge forming section that connects the upper storage section to the lower storage section, the bridge forming section being configured to facilitate formation of a bridge by the wet particles to block falling of the wet particles from the upper storage section to the lower storage section, wherein
a surface roughness of an inner surface of the bridge forming section is smaller than the surface roughness of an inner surface of the upper storage section.