US 12,449,095 B2
Apparatus and method for fuelling
Paul Joseph Hodgson, Cambridge (GB); Graham Hodgson, Lancaster (GB); Paul Anthony Cook, Poulton-le-Fylde (GB); and Daniel Edward John Stanley, Lancaster (GB)
Assigned to NANOSUN IP LIMITED, Lancaster (GB)
Appl. No. 18/557,773
Filed by NANOSUN IP LIMITED, Lancaster (GB)
PCT Filed Apr. 27, 2022, PCT No. PCT/GB2022/051068
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 27, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/229634, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2105998 (GB), filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0240756 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. F17C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 5/007 (2013.01) [F17C 2205/0335 (2013.01); F17C 2205/035 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2250/03 (2013.01); F17C 2250/043 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for fuelling comprising:
a plurality of vessels for containing a fuel gas, each vessel of the plurality of vessels being selectively fluidly connectable to at least one receiving vessel;
a control means configured to selectively divide the plurality of vessels into a plurality of banks by selecting between allocating one vessel of the plurality of vessels and more than one vessel of the plurality of vessels in each of the plurality of banks;
at least one first restriction arranged to provide a first gas flow rate for gas exiting the plurality of vessels and at least one second restriction arranged to provide a second gas flow rate for gas entering the plurality of vessels;
wherein the control means is further configured to sequentially fluidly connect the plurality of banks to the at least one receiving vessel such that when one of the plurality of banks is fluidly connected to the at least one receiving vessel the one or more of the plurality of vessels within that bank are fluidly connected to the at least one receiving vessel but are fluidly isolated from the one or more of the plurality of vessels of the remaining ones of the plurality of banks; and
wherein the second gas flow rate is different to the first gas flow rate.