US 11,913,605 B2
Filling gas storage tanks
Georg W. Mair, Großbeeren (DE); André Schoppa, Schönefeld (DE); and Mariusz Szczepaniak, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, VERTRETEN DURCH DIE BUNDESMINISTERIN FÜR WIRTSCHAFT UND ENERGIE, Berlin (DE)
Appl. No. 16/970,107
Filed by Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch die Bundesministerin für Wirtschaft und Energie, Berlin (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 5, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/052747
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/158395, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2018 100 884.6 (DE), filed on Feb. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0364132 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. F17C 13/08 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 13/084 (2013.01) [F17C 2201/0109 (2013.01); F17C 2201/035 (2013.01); F17C 2201/056 (2013.01); F17C 2201/058 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0107 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0111 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0126 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0153 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0188 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0314 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0326 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0332 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2221/033 (2013.01); F17C 2265/063 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for filling gas storage tanks, comprising:
a frame and/or a housing;
a gas buffer storage tank for a gas, the gas buffer storage tank being rotatably arranged with respect to the frame and/or with respect to the housing;
a first valve, comprising an inlet connected to the gas buffer storage tank, and an outlet for connection to a gas storage tank to be filled; and
a weighing device connected to the gas buffer storage tank for weighing the gas buffer storage tank, wherein the gas buffer storage tank is mounted to and/or is arranged within the frame and/or the housing, wherein the gas buffer storage tank is mounted rotatably about an at least substantially horizontally oriented first axis, and/or wherein the gas buffer storage tank is mounted in such a way that a movement of the gas buffer storage tank, during filling of the gas storage tank, is at least substantially limited to a rotational movement about the first axis.