US 12,240,525 B2
Modular air tank cross member
Ganesh Gulab Kale, Pune (IN); Jaideep Pradeep Gurav, Pune (IN); Kaustubha Vishweshwar Bhinge, Pune (IN); Raviraj Dattatray Hase, Pune (IN); Erik Ostergaard, Roanoke, VA (US); and Adolfo Suarez Maxwell, Roanoke, VA (US)
Assigned to METALSA INDIA PVT LTD., New Delhi (IN)
Appl. No. 18/566,017
Filed by Metalsa India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (IN)
PCT Filed Jun. 20, 2022, PCT No. PCT/IN2022/050561
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/269629, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202111027773 (IN), filed on Jun. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0359745 A1, Oct. 31, 2024
Int. Cl. B62D 21/16 (2006.01); B62D 21/03 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/16 (2013.01) [B62D 21/03 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An improved air tank cross member (ATCM) deployable in a vehicle chassis, the ATCM comprising:
one or more structural elements comprising:
a tube forming an enclosure for holding a compressed fluid and having mounting extensions on an outer surface of the tube for mounting auxiliary components;
two or more brackets connected to the mounting extensions of the tube, wherein the brackets are designed with one perpendicular face mounted on a bottom face of the tube with respect to another perpendicular face to bolt the ATCM to side-rails of the vehicle chassis;
a pair of end caps disposed at opposite ends of the tube for forming the enclosure, wherein the brackets are attached to the end caps by a fastening means to form a unified mounting geometry, and wherein the arrangement and construction of the structural elements of the ATCM provides for space-saving and weight-saving and increases stiffness value of one or more stiffness parameters of the vehicle chassis.