US 11,885,464 B2
Low profile flat bombe for LPG storage and method for manufacturing the same
Seong Cheol Cho, Seoul (KR); Sung Won Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Ju Tae Song, Hwaseong-si (KR); Seung Hyun Yeo, Gimcheon-si (KR); and Duk Hee Park, Pyeongtaek-si (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR); and DAE Hung Precision Ind'l Co., Ltd., Seonsan-si (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR); and DAE HUNG PRECISION IND'L CO., LTD., Seosan-si (KR)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/533,683.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0068155 (KR), filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0381402 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. F17C 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 3/00 (2013.01) [F17C 2201/0171 (2013.01); F17C 2203/013 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0103 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0305 (2013.01); F17C 2209/2181 (2013.01); F17C 2209/221 (2013.01); F17C 2209/232 (2013.01); F17C 2221/033 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0135 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0168 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A low profile flat bombe for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage, the low profile flat bombe comprising:
a flat bombe body including:
an upper plate having a plurality of first piercing holes and a pump installation hole formed through the upper plate;
a lower plate having a plurality of second piercing holes formed through the lower plate at positions vertically corresponding to the plurality of first piercing holes; and
side plates integrally connecting first and second side end portions of the upper plate and the lower plate;
end plates mounted at a front opening and a rear opening of the flat bombe body; and
support pipes, wherein upper end portions of the support pipes are attached to internal circumferential portions of the plurality of first piercing holes and lower end portions thereof are attached to internal circumferential portions of the plurality of second piercing holes to maintain a vertical distance between the upper plate and the lower plate.